Released on = April 27, 2006, 2:30 pm

Press Release Author = American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena

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Press Release Summary = Clinical psychologist and developer of a new tool for grief
management to talk at Atlanta conference about Life After Death: The Evidence, With
Special Consideration to EVP and ITC. His method induces after death communication
in up to 98% of patients.

Press Release Body = April 25, 2006 -- It is called "After Death Communication," or
"ADC," because the experiencer seems to come face-to-face with a loved one who is .
well who is supposed to be dead. Instances of After Death Communication have always
been a rare, spontaneous occurrence, which until recently, most of us could not hope
to experience. Dr. Allan Botkin has developed a technique for inducing ADC based on
a therapeutic tool known as Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR.
Induced After-Death Communication has helped thousands of patients permanently
assuage their grief by allowing them private communication with their departed loved
ones.

Dr. Raymond Moody previously established the possibility of Induced ADC (IADC) using
a combination of practices designed to first make memory of the person vivid in the
experiencer's imagination and then building the expectation of having contact with
the loved one. With Moody's approach, the attempt to make contact is made with the
use of mirror gazing in an especially designed environment known as a psychomantium.
Although Moody reported impressive successes, the technique is not considered highly
reliable.

Dr. Botkin's technique does not require as much preparation and does not depend on
the experiencer's ability to "embrace" mirror gazing as a valid approach to
visualization. Botkin has shown that the new clinical tool has a success rate
approaching 98%, even if the experiencer is an atheists or a skeptic. As a clinical
psychologist, he created the therapy while counseling Vietnam vets in his work at a
North Chicago VA hospital. After more than two decades as a clinical psychologist
specializing in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Botkin founded the
Center for Grief and Traumatic Loss and wrote a book detailing his research titled,
Induced After-Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and Trauma
(Hampton Roads Publishing Company, ISBN 1571744231). This book presents the story of
how he initially made his discovery and includes eighty-four cases of patients who
have experienced the therapy's profound healing effects.

The typical IADC involves the patient reporting having seen a deceased person and
that deceased person having told him or her that they are okay and not to grieve. In
a number of cases, the deceased person has related information previously unknown to
the patient. Dr. Botkin does not argue that IADC experiences are actual
communication with deceased loved ones. This is a question that must be answered by
further research; however, other speakers at the conference will present substantial
and well documented evidence that such communication is possible.

Dr. Gary Schwartz will also present at the conference. As director of the Human
Energy Systems Laboratory in the University of Arizona, he is well-known for testing
the capability of mental mediums to collect information with the assistance of
hypothesized discarnate helpers. Many researchers argue that the convincing results
of the double-blind experiments he conducts provides substantial proof that
personality survives physical death.

Tom and Lisa Butler, Directors of the AA-EVP, will also speak at the conference.
Along with other important forms of evidence for survival offered by Electronic
Voice Phenomena (EVP) and the more inclusive Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC),
they will describe the double-blind experiments conducted by members of the AA-EVP.
In these experiments, known as the 4Cell EVP Demonstration, cooperating etheric
entities function as a fifth member of the team to answer question only known to the
Questioner. The 4Cell experiments show that it is possible to develop a strict
experimental protocol that can produce very evidential information about the world
inhabited by the discarnate communicators.

EVP and ITC researchers from around the world will also present evidence for
survival of the personality after so-called death. Amongst these are Diana and Alan
Bennett, the mediums for the world renowned Scole experiments who are now conducting
ITC research. Sonia Rinaldi will describe her successes in connecting grieving
families with their discarnate loved ones. Alexander MacRae will detail his
experiments in an isolation room that proved EVP are not stray radio signals, sound
or imagination. Paolo Presi will describe the research being conducted by the
world's only true EVP/ITC research lab. Martha Copeland will bring attendees up to
date on the evolution of the "Big Circle," which is a joint effort of a group of
discarnate loved ones with their still "living" families to learn how to continue
their relationship across the veil. Mark Macy will detail his work with ITC and
Laurie Monroe will explain the EVP research being conducted by the Monroe Institute.
Finally, the founder of the AA-EVP, Sarah Estep will talk about her experiences with
EVP in what may be the last public appearance for this most important pioneer.

Conference Location and Dates:
June 8, 9 and 10, 2006 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel, 4736 Best Road, Atlanta,
GA 30337, 1-888-627-7211

Registration Information:
See http://aaevp.com/conference/aaevp_conference.html for conference details, or
contact Tom and Lisa Butler, PO Box 13111, Reno, NV 89507, aaevp@aol.com

Web Site = http://aaevp.com/conference/aaevp_conference.html

Contact Details = Tom and Lisa Butler, PO Box 13111, Reno, NV 89507, aaevp@aol.com,
775-329-5980