Talks with the Dead [antikvár]

FOREWORD by Raymond Bayless Raymond Bayless is an artist by profession, but he has spent nearly twenty-four years as one of the best and most careful of psychic researchers. He numbers some of the finest minds in the field among his friends, including the eminent Robert Crookall, B.Sa, D.Sc., PhD. Even more of the famous names are listed among his enemies, fiaving felt the lash of his unreserved criticism. He has published six books on psychic research to date and is planning more in the future. I must admit that when Mr. William Welch asked if I would write a foreword for his forthcoming book, Talks with the Dead, I replied that I was highly complimented by his request. Having now had the opportunity of reading the manuscript of this book for the first time, I wish to reaffirm my pleasure and acknowledge the fact that this work presents to the public a very unique and extremely valuable study of tape-recorded voice phenomena. This new and truly fantastic psychic phenomenon, paranormal voices received by means of tape recorders, is an extraordinary and immensely important discovery—a discovery which offers repeatable phenomena and provides another great segment in the mosaic of survival evidence. As with all great pioneers, the Swedish medium Jürgensen and Dr. Konstantin Raudive have presented the scientific world with their discoveries and have reaped the whirlwind. Loud have been the outcries that the voices they have recorded are the products of vrishful interpretation of background noises, the accidental recording of radio broadcasts, and, in short, only a reflection of the credulity of the 1