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 Posted: May 31st, 2008 01:09 PM
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Keith Clark



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Hello,

I would like to describe my experience with the “Puck” from Bill Chappell at DigitalDowsing.com, and share it with you. Some of you have heard of it, some have purchased it. I found it interesting, and decided to purchase it also.  This review will give you a better idea of what it does.

Any comments in this review are simply for the intention of determining if this device is viable to be used as an ITC experimental device, not a reflection of opinion on Bill Chappell. I think Bill Chappell has great ideas, and that he is revolutionary in his thinking and application. He is obviously gifted in the way of software and electronics. The puck is well-constructed, and so is the software and manual.

First, I must note that Bill himself has noted in the manual and on the website that it is not genuinely labeled as intended use for serious communication with spirit, and that he feels that his proprietary term “Environmental Communications Mode” is “more accurate and correct than the term ITC.”

I received it a week ago, and here’s the real scoop on it:


1.       The Puck has 9 sensors. A and B Voltage, EMF (electro magnetic levels) 1 and 2, and EMF (natural magnetic fields) 1 -4, and a temperature sensor.
A.  The puck only uses the sensors for that group as you select them. It DOES NOT combine all of the sensors to output the text or speech, only the 2 or 4 for that group – voltage, frequency, or ECM. You choose one or the other.


2.       The puck claims to use 2000 of the most common words in the English language.
A.  While some of the words may be included in the most common words used in the English language, most are not. I’m not sure where this list came from, but I know that the following words are not commonly used in everyday conversation by most people: mammoth, sallies, shuttle, beckon, elias, harmonic, vern, restoreth, nona, density, quill, palatine, abyss, hobble, gauze, leather, desolate, wench, Venus, console, traverse, meline, dwindle, specter, chloride, Nana, banshee, ts, decompose, molecules, periodical, ameline, gong. These are some of the words used in the 2,000 word list. 


3.       Bill says that “it’s a 1 to 1 correlation with the energy levels”
A. There are boxes underneath the dictionary listing that are labeled “shuffle” and “restore”. I still have to ask Bill about this, but it becomes clear that even though a specific value (which is the addition of 2-4 sensor variables, whichever is applicable) corresponds to a certain numbered word in the list, but that numbered word list changes (if the list is shuffled). This means that if it were to be used for communication with spirit, they (spirit) would have to influence not only the sensor readings in the puck, but also know which word would correspond to that reading for that particular shuffle. That’s quite a tall order! The list can also be restored to its original state by clicking on the "restore" button.


 

4.       By design, the puck is USB and operates while plugged into a computer.
A. Computers produce tons of electromagnetic interference. So, this means that the readings being used for communication are constantly in danger of being influenced by the host device that it is plugged into. The puck is “tethered” to an electromagnetic-producing device.
B. USB runs on 5 volts from the motherboard, varying from 0 to 400mV on the signal transmit, and presumably no more than +/- 5% on the voltage levels. If using the puck in voltage mode, (or frequency mode also), can it remain unaffected by the USB voltage?


 

5.       I haven’t yet succeeded in observing the puck software displaying a reading that isn’t always jumping around – regardless of which mode it is in. And here’s another question: If the software always displays readings of all sensors even though only the selected sensor group is presumably active by definition, why are the others changing?  Most likely the sensors are all part of the same circuit, all being affected by each other – with the only difference being which readings from which sensors are used by the software program to output text and speech. This is an educated guess on my part.

 

6.       There are over 2,000 words which correspond to pre-set energy readings, but only a small portion of this could feasibly be influenced by spirit, in my opinion. An average fluctuation in any sensor mode would still only comprise a very small area of this 2,000 word graph. It would be extreme to expect spirit to be able to span the entire breadth of this chart, I feel that the opposite ends are too far from each other. In addition, we are not given the charts to know exactly what range the span covers.

 

Conclusion:

In my opinion, the puck is not well-suited to serious or long-term experiments with ITC at this time. There are too many rapidly and randomly-changing variables and external influences to be able to pinpoint and validate any influence by spirit communicators. In order to use an electronic device in which energy readings correspond to words of a dictionary, those variables should be fixed – and validation of influence on a small number of words would be preferential to starting out with a 2,000 word vocabulary. If they are not fixed, then we are removing the ability of spirit to develop a means to interact with those variables, and if that is removed then we are expecting far greater from them – control of variables both in the puck and in the computer software simultaneously, assuming the dictionary list is never shuffled. Most work with ITC is measured on a subtle energy level, and is not in the same category as what would be expected of the Puck.

 

I have not yet been able to determine, observe, or pinpoint any influence by spirit in an understandable manner on the puck in my possession, but I will continue to work with it.

 

Instead of just explaining why I feel that the puck is not a good candidate for ITC work in its current state, I would also like to provide positive comments on the creator and the theory behind the puck. I think it’s an excellent idea, and still could be applied in a way that could work. Some of my suggestions are to create a fixed, non-changing dictionary – with the most common words used to form a sentence starting out at the center of the graphical range and extending outwards in both directions to highler and lower extremes. I will also be trying the Ovilus out next month, and feel that from the description given, it overcomes several of these issues.  For one, it is not connected via USB and is not required to be attached to a computer. In addition, the dictionary is smaller.

As far as personal application to my specific ITC work, I can conceive how the speakjet theory behind the puck could be easily used in spectrogram work. Spirit has already shown that they can influence audio frequencies to form images. If a technology like the puck was made with a 1 to 1 correlation to a word in a fixed dictionary, then an audio frequency could correspond to a letter or word. If they can send a picture through sound on a radio, we can assume that the task of sending a tone of specific frequency through radio would be even easier. For example, 1000hz = A, 1020HZ = B,  and so on and so forth. I strongly feel that if Speakjet theory was applied to a medium in which we already know spirit can control and influence on a somewhat consistent basis, we can easily create electronic devices which can be successful in communicating with spirit for ITC.


 

I am not educated in electronics, and only have a basic hands-on experience in the things I discuss in this review. I applaud those who are gifted in electronics and many other areas, and am always inspired when I see new application of old ideas for the purpose of furthering ITC. *****Edited by Keith on 6/7/08******
 

Keith Clark

 

Resources:

http://digitaldowsing.com/

http://digitaldowsing.com/DD_Images/Store_Media/Paranormal_Puck.pdf

http://digitaldowsing.com/DD_Images/The%20Ovilus%20I%20%20Handheld%20Paranormal%20Device.pdf


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The following is a copy of correspondence with Bill Chappell via email in reference to the functions of the Paranormal Puck and how words and phonemes are output:



“Here's how it works It's based on the mode your in Voltage Frequency or EMF.

If you select voltage , voltage will be the value used, the same for frequency or EMF.  look at the ECM menu you'll see where you can switch the mode.

The Puck uses an A to D "Analog to Digital converter. and reads each value as a count. in the case of voltage both channels are added together to give you a total possible of  0 to 2048. the count is sent to the PC and matched to the same corresponding word in the dictionary. So lets say the voltage count was 500 or roughly 1 vdc the pc would print and speak the 500th word in the dictionary list. it's a 1 to 1 correlation with the energy levels.

 

Now there are two other factors to make sure the system doesn't just keep repeating the same words over and over. 1st there's a floating average, with every new value the average is recalculated. next there's a threshold value. Here's how it all ties together.  A new count is received if its greater than the average plus threshold or less than the average minus threshold the word is used. this acts like a squelch on a short wave radio.

 

There's only one mode in the puck that uses random numbers and that is the "random time slice mode" all other modes use the environment.  The Time slice modes are not logged because there's now way to validate the fragment that is being spoken.  So when ever you see gibberish on the screen. and you see allot of it! The words are not random they are a product of the environment.  But, this method also gives you data logs and screen shots to back up the hit's that are meaning full.”

 

Last edited on Jun 7th, 2008 09:25 AM by Keith Clark