Andrea Mai

PRINCE’S MEMOIR “THE BEAUTIFUL ONES” – A CRITICAL REVIEW – DID HE REALLY DISAGREE WITH AYN RAND?

I have long waited for the release of Prince’s memoir, The Beautiful Ones. He barely finished writing it, but there was said to be 50 handwritten pages by Prince at the time of his death. Dan Piepenbring was his co-writer.

The first 47 pages are Piepenbring’s writing, of which was excerpted in The New Yorker. I had already read the excerpt and found that it was just an abbreviated version of his essay in the book. Prince’s written section was only in Part 1. The rest of the 4 parts were curated images from Prince’s scrapbooks, handwritten lyrics, polaroids, notes, artwork, and other photos. A first draft of both handwritten and typed script of Purple Rain is included. I am happy for the handwritten things, and early photos, including his baby pictures.

But to be honest, I felt somewhat short changed after I read P’s written section. The news sources all stated that there were 50 handwritten pages by Prince. When I counted the pages, there were only 28.Was there more? The footnotes that Prince gave didn’t seem like they would add up to 22 pages worth of writing, but I could be wrong.

I would still say the book is worth getting for any Prince fan who loves seeing the photos and Prince’s handwritten work. But I do have some concerns.

I wondered, seeing as P was not here to give his approval on the finished work, would there be inaccuracies coming from the co-writer’s part? I want to give people the benefit of the doubt. But I am the type of person that strives for truth. And I am all too aware of how language can be used to distort the audience’s understanding of the reality presented to them, whether done intentionally or not.

As I read, I spotted some items of concern.

I was peeved when I read that during the investigation at Paisley Park, that they ate “vegan lunches” to pay respect to Prince’s menu restrictions. Maybe they assumed that he was vegan? But in truth, he was vegetarian, and this was something that was easily fact checked. P ate eggs and fish. He had a freezer full of dairy milk ice cream. Vegan activists love to cite P as a vegan to promote their political views. People reading this book will get the impression that he was vegan, even though he was not.

The co-writer’s essay mentions about Prince going to church on Sundays with his parents. Prince stated that he first grew up as Seventh Day Adventist (it is not mentioned, but later in life, he was a Jehovah’s Witness). But Seventh Day Adventists go to church on Saturdays. Maybe this was an oversight?

Then there was the mention of the Black Lives Matter. movement. Prince was a supporter of this movement, because he hoped to have an influence on the group, encouraging the black community to strive to help themselves by becoming an “economic force”. This means being independent, taking responsibility, believing in one’s self, creating businesses, creating jobs, building communities, no longer seeing oneself as a victim of circumstances. If we observe the movement today, we will see that they have demonstrated neither of these values, nor do they have any desire to, instead they have been pursuing other unproductive activities that further creates division. This is counter to what Prince was wanting to tell people, to create something that belongs to them. Prince’s initiatives were about creating opportunities, and mentoring the younger generation. Without context, one might assume that Prince endorsed everything about what this group is doing, as so much about this movement has changed since Prince’s passing.

Which leads me to notice another conflict in the consistency of the messages in the book.

I was rather confused when I read that Prince agreed with Piepenbring, that he didn’t like Ayn Rand’s book, The Fountainhead. Instead of stating a rational argument on why he didn’t like the book itself, Piepenbring says that he had no patience for Rand’s philosophy and her supporters of it. Prince saw the old black and white movie. I had seen parts of this movie on TV, as a young person. I could only vaguely remember that it was a movie that conveyed the idea of possessing uncompromising integrity to be true to one’s self, purpose, and creative vision, and to not sell out. Was I missing something here? Seemed rather inconsistent to suggest that Rand was wrong, knowing what P stood for as an artist. P wanted to tell people to own their work. Did the writer fail to see the parallels of The Fountainhead story with the real life struggles of being Prince, the artist? I went and watched the movie in its entirety to better understand it and untangle the ideas.

Ayn Rand is known for her philosophy called Objectivism. To explain it in a few words, it is the practice of rational individualism. The emphasis is on rationality, that decisions be based on logic, but also that it would benefit one’s self-interest in the long term. In addition, there is also a great emphasis on the concepts of integrity, purity of purpose, personal responsibility, and the rights of the individual. Based on my observations of how Prince operated in his career, I believe that he would agree with these ideas.

The Fountainhead is an illustration of the Objectivist philosophy in practice. It tells the story of Howard Roark, an architect that refuses to compromise the integrity of his work for prospects of money or fame. He would rather be bankrupt and work as a hard labourer than to allow for others to compromise the integrity of his work to pander to mainstream taste. Word gets out that Roark has been offered a building project, and a newspaper owner is swayed by one of his architecture critics to mount a frivolous smear campaign against Roark to sell more papers. Despite the public backlash, Roark triumphs, as he attains new clients who recognize his work as genius. Then, he is offered his dream gig. His former school mate, Peter Keating, minimally talented, who sold out to fame and money, is desperate to clamber back to his previous status as a star architect. He petitions Roark to design it for him and allow Keating to claim the credit for the design. Roark agrees to receive no money for the work. But accepts the job under one condition; that the building would have to be kept true to his design. Keating wins the project, but board members demand changes and he couldn’t stop them. The original genius of the design is ruined by the lack of vision and direction by the collective. The building project has become an eye-sore.

What Piepenbring wrote is not intellectually honest, in my opinion.

“The Fountainhead,” Prince said. “Did you read that? What’d you think of it?” I said I didn’t like it—that I had no patience for objectivism, nor for Ayn Rand’s present-day acolytes, with their almost farcical devotion to the free market and unfettered individualism. Prince agreed, though he saw how the philosophy could be seductive. “I watched the movie, old, black-and-white, where he gives the speech at the end about burning down the building and the blueprints….” It was a pivotal moment in Randian philosophy: “No work is ever done collectively,” her character Howard Roark sneers. Prince worried that too much of hip-hop was in the thrall of ideas like Rand’s, dedicated more to cutthroat self-absorption than a spirit of community. “We need a book that talks to the aristocrats,” he said. “Not just the fans. We have to dismantle The Fountainhead brick by brick. It’s like the aristocrat’s bible. It’s a compound of problems. They basically want to eliminate paradise. What about white supremacy, and what it has in common with objectivism? Is it satanic? Is it really the greater good? We should attack the whole notion of supremacy.” The purity of its original meaning had been corrupted, he thought. “There used to be bands called the Supremes! Supremacy is about, everything flourishes, everything is nourished.”

Referring to The Fountainhead as “the aristocrat’s bible” doesn’t make sense. The conversation seems rather confused. If I am to understand that correctly, if The Fountainhead was the playbook of the elite, we would see all these rich people purposely choosing to live in poverty rather than being a fraudulent success. It seems more fitting that they desperately need to take a page out of Rand’s book to learn the lessons about integrity. The celebrities of this world seem to have a habit of telling people to give up air travel for the sake of the environment, while they sip champagne on their private jets, pursuing their own desires. They also seem to have a habit of yelling #MeToo after they have traded sex for a role in a movie that turned them into a big star.

This is such a vaguely described conversation; poorly conveyed ideas, immediately dismissing a book without reason, it leads me to suspect that the author is like a typical Rand critic, who doesn’t understood The Fountainhead, who gets their opinion from what others have said. Throwing words like “white supremacy” together with “objectivism”, without any explanation, it could lead a person into thinking it was not a book worth considering. One might even think the book is somehow racist. Was there any purpose in sharing this poorly described conversation? Could there be a deliberate attempt to discourage readers from Rand? Criticism of Rand’s work is highly politicized, and is often used to serve a political agenda. Especially in our times, in a political environment where socialist ideals, such as forcing people to sacrifice their individual rights for the so-called greater good, are presented to the public as being moral, and those who do not agree are judged as evil.

The comments regarding Prince’s concern for the hip hop community doesn’t make sense either. Was there a misunderstanding about what they were talking about? How many stories have we heard about hip hop artists selling their souls to the devil for a record deal? Rand’s philosophy completely goes against that. These hip hop artists are like the character of Peter Keating, self-serving, slave tools to those in power, doing anything to achieve their ends, breaking their own integrity to do it, all while killing the entire industry as a whole by diluting the standards of what is considered excellent. The problems compound because there is no integrity among the individuals. Rand would say that these artists are not self-interested enough, had they been, they would be clear about what they set out to do, and would not allow themselves to be corrupted by ill-gotten short term gains. After all, it is in the interest of the individual to be part of a thriving industry.

When I think about it, this story of The Fountainhead could be re-written in the context of just about any other industry, including music and film, and it would still remain true to the underlying principles demonstrated in this book. This speaks to the true archetypal nature of these fictional characters. The concepts are universal.

Some critics of The Fountainhead argue that its characters are unrealistic,. Calling it “too extreme”, because no one could ever live up to such pure integrity. But that is precisely the point, to illustrate her idea about integrity, and the rights of the individual to stay true to that. Roark’s character is something to aspire to. Roark could not be swayed to betray his integrity, not by money or fame, not even for someone he loved. He was independent, non-conformist, uncompromising, believed in himself, he had purity of purpose. He didn’t care to convince others of his own genius, or force his ideas onto anyone, not even for the sake of winning clients, or a love interest. He followed logic and reason, he felt that others should also think and judge for themselves about what they thought of him, and not to be persuaded by the opinions of the press, or by the convention of what is fashionable.

In other words, he was not a slave to anyone. He was a free thinker. People like this are dangerous to people who want power over others, because they know that there is nothing that they can do to control them. No devil could hold this man down, no money, no fame, no sex. Are these not the very things that people sell their souls for?

Is there any reason that people who run this world, wouldn’t want you to accept the ideas in The Fountainhead, about the rights of the individual versus the collective? We are living in a world that asks you to be a conformist and sacrifice yourself for the arbitrary notion of the greater good. But who gets to decide what is the greater good? Is it really a selfless act if you are forced to do something you couldn’t rightly justify with logic? Is conforming to the ideas of a group purely for the sake of the collective, not because you agree, really a moral deed? This is akin to not blowing the whistle on corruption because it would harm the collective. Think of the charities and non-governmental organizations that have been caught doing serious crimes against humanity. No one wins when you cover up corruption to save the collective. It only allows those in power to continue in their corrupt ways.

Perhaps they discourage you from considering Rand’s ideas because they wouldn’t want you to put two and two together, and notice that so many great individuals throughout history, including Prince, are very much like the character of Howard Roark. So much so, that Prince stipulated in his contract for the book, the right to remove his book from print, if in any time in the future that he felt that the book no longer reflected him. Sounds like Roark to me, someone who wanted artist rights, to own and control his work as he saw fit.

Prince had high hopes for this book, a message for the world. It’s certainly disappointing that he never got to complete his vision for it. But let us not be discouraged.

I’m going to let Prince have the final words here, and leave you with some lyrics from The Beautiful Ones, some words that perfectly embody what he would want to tell you;

Paint a perfect picture
Bring to life
The vision in one’s mind

Image above: “Photo of Prince memoir” by Andrea Mai.

SPIRITS REACT TO THE NORTHERN LIGHTS – EVP September 27, 2019

As I had mentioned in my previous post, I got to see the Northern Lights in Iceland on the first night of my trip. I decided to book an additional tour just for seeing the lights. I had heard from tour guides that Thursday night was going to be really good.

That night, they took us to two spots, until we finally settled in at a spot at Blue Mountain. I could see the lights from the bus window. When we got off the bus, the lights were so huge. It was right on top of us. You could see the lights from almost every angle you turned. It was so big that I couldn’t contain it all in the frames of my camera. It was just too big. Once the light started to dissipate, and people started to settle down a bit. I started to get to work on the photos. Though the lights had become less visible to the naked eye. it was very visible on camera. The camera can see a wider spectrum of light that the eye cannot.

During this time, I was recording EVP as well. I wondered what the reactions of spirits would be, if they were there.

Some of these clips are a bit quieter. I’ve tested them on just my laptop speakers, and while I could still hear most of them, I still recommend headphones.They are repeated on loop.

Getting off the bus, I heard P saying, “I’m gonna take pictures”. Someone then said, “Good for you”. I am both pleased and amused that P can continue his hobby doing photography from where he is. But at the same time, I wonder, is he taking pics of me unaware? I wondered if photography still existed on the other side. But I don’t see why not. As I have dreams about being with my camera and taking photos.

Some spirits noticed the presence of angels, they said, “There’s an angel. Three angels here”. I had said in previous post, that I had been praying to see the Northern Lights. I was quite certain that angels were assisting us. We had seen the lights so unclose, right on top of us, it was like we were being bathed in it. It was truly the most spectacular sight.

P explained to them about the angels, “They travel with me”. This, I’m pleased to know, that my prayers get answered, that we are protected.

Prince’s mother, in spirit, had joined us on the trip. I knew she was coming, as I had told him, she was welcome to, after I heard her say to P about wanting to travel, after seeing one of my photos of Month Blanc. Here, P says, “That’s my mom”.

Here is a clip when we were watching the Northern Lights. Someone said, “Wow”.

They said, “Look out there. Wowwwww”.

Another voice said, “It’s big”.

They commented, “Angels help”.

Someone said, “You see, there’s angels there”. This one might be hard to hear without headphones.

Someone said, “Wow, Prince here”.

This clip just sounds really cute. I don’t know what they are saying, it sounds like hooting, and then there is a high-pitched “Wow” coming from a girly voice.

The night ended, and we got back on the bus. I was still recording, but I forgot. I caught this voice saying, “I’m coming, getting food”.

Someone asked, “Where does the bus go?”. From what I have observed, spirits will travel using means of transportation from our reality. Sounded like some spirits followed us onto the bus to hitch a ride from the field in the middle of nowhere along the highway.

Someone replied, “To Reykjavik”.

P ws talking to other spirits on the bus. He said, “God is so good”.

On the rest of the recording, I heard P talking to these other souls about God. I’m not going to post these clips, because they are too quiet. Someone had said that she were worried about where she were going to go for the night. P told them, “You can always go home. Don’t worry.” But her response was “They don’t want me”. P assured her, that God loved her, and that all she had to do was pray to find out. They prayed together. Very soon after that, something happened, I do not know what exactly. But I presume that she was taken home, because after that, someone else said, “I want to go home, like her”, and another said, “I want to be with God”.

To be honest, when I hear conversations like these, it makes me cry, knowing that these souls had suffered the unknowing of Gd’s love for them. I am so glad that P wants to help them. Yet I am still saddened, knowing that it seems even harder in our reality, that many will not see this, will resist the message, will reject it and fight you on it. I feel like it is even harder here. It seems that the spirits can realize it more easily if they are given a push. Here it seems, materiality gets in the way.

I nearly forgot to mention. After the immense display of the Northern Lights floating over us, another tor bus pulled up to join us, but they had already missed the grand show we had just witnessed. We were, in the right place, in the right time. I swear, it must have been angels guiding the tour bus I was on.

I feel so blessed after this experience, especially to know that God does hear us. I wish everyone would have the chance to feel this.

May God bless you.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on September 27, 2019.

Image above: “Northern Lights” by Andrea Mai.

WHEN GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYERS – EVP September 24, 2019

A week before going to Iceland, I checked the forecast, it was said to be rainy all week for the time I was going to be there. So I prayed every night asking that the weather would not ruin my trip and seeing the Northern Lights. As the week progressed, it appeared that there was a good chance that the clouds would clear up later in the week, making it a good possibility for seeing the lights. However, we had a scheduling issue, as one group member had to leave early, so we had to cram in the schedule so that she would make the most of her shortened trip. This meant that one of the evening tours had to be scheduled for the first day upon our arrival. The tour included hunting for Northern Lights. And the forecast was showing rain and clouds.

I continued to pray that somehow we could still see the Northern Lights.

We arrived that early morning with rain. Though the rain had stopped later in the morning, it was still cloudy. That early evening, as we got on the tour bus, the sun had come out, and the skies had cleared. And there appeared a rainbow!

The tour took us to Secret Lagoon, a lesser known hot spring spa. Truly a delight to bathe in the natural geo thermal water coming from the streams. The minerals and algae in the water is revitalizing, leaving the skin smooth and supple. I really liked this one, as the mini lake had varying levels of heat. Iceland has the best water sources in he world, and even just showering in the tap water is amazing.

Before dinner, the guide told us that he wasn’t optimistic that we would see any lights. It was explained to us that the conditions were not good. It was still cloudy. But after dinner, the skies were looking clearer, snd we could see the stars. He said he was a bit more optimistic about it. I kept praying. You can see in the photos, how cloudy it was.

We drove for a bit and I got my tripod ready. He took us to a spot on the side of the road and we saw the Northern Lights peaking through the clouds!

Photographing the Northern Lights is new to me, even though I am experienced in night photography, this is different, as you are photographing something in the dark. The screen on the back of the camera can only pick up a tiny bit of the light. Manual settings have to be used, you have to be prepared beforehand. I was too quick to start photographing before making sure that I got the camera lens adjusted to the most optimal focus length. There isn’t much time to waste, as the lights are only there for a moment. I managed to get 57 frames in a single position. And with that I was able to string all the photos together into this 7 second video of the Northern Lights. By the way, that is me playing guitar in the music.

Later the guide drove us to another spot that was parked full of big tour buses. We were just a small group of about ten people. He was told by the other guides that they saw the same lights we did, but it was not as visible from where they were. I felt truly blessed that we got to see it where we did. I knew that there must have been angels helping us that night, perhaps guiding the driver where to go.

When I got home, I reviewed my EVP recordings and found out that there were indeed, angels. Please note that some of these clips are quieter than others. Turn up the volume on your device, or try it with headphones. The clips are repeated on loop.

Here, I was outside of the tour bus, and P said, “Angels”.

Here someone says, “Help us see it”.

Here P says, “Thank you, angels”.

It was quite windy that evening, P said, “It’s cold”.

Earlier on the tour bus, someone called out to P, “Prince”.

P was singing to himself while we were waiting on the bus, “Doo doo doo, do do”.

This was just at the start of the trip. I did get to see the Northern Lights a second time later in the trip. It was phenomenal, and I will talk about it in a later post.

I feel truly blessed, knowing the unlikeliness of seeing the lights that night. I truly wish that more people knew that God does answer prayers. Maybe not in the way you expect, maybe not in the time frame you wish. But there is something taking place, that you are just not aware of when you pray to God asking for help.

Image above: “Rainbow in Reykjavik” by Andrea Mai.

ANGEL AT GOLDEN WATERFALL IN ICELAND – PHOTOS AND EVP September 26, 2019lucas

Before my trip to Iceland, I had this feeling that I was going to capture some strange activity on my camera. While I totally do welcome such, it doesn’t happen often. To me, they are signs that the other side exists. So it is really special when something like this does take place.

Were it not for my supernatural encounters, I would not have the faith in God that I do now.

On the third day of my trip, we took a tour of a region called The Golden Circle. While we were at the Golden Waterfall, I was busily taking photographs. I lost sight of where my mom was, and went into a slight panic. I ran towards the entrance in effort to catch up with her, following the boardwalk. But along the way, suddenly the thought took over to take the following two photographs. When I didn’t see my mom, I ran in the opposite direction until I saw her walking towards me.

Looking back at it now, the background scenes of the photos were not of anything particularly interesting. You can see the entrance where the tourist centre is. When I took the photo, I didn’t notice the strange object. It felt like an automatic action, I wasn’t thinking. The two photos above have been processed in Lightroom to increase the contract.

Here it is cropped to get a better view of the object.

Here is the photo cropped close to the bottom. It reveals a rainbow along the arch.I was a little disappointed of the weather being so cloudy, as I could not see a rainbow over the waterfall. But I guess someone wanted me to see one anyway. I’ve seen photos that people have captured of angels. They are often of a huge bright whitish figure. Though I have never seen it with a rainbow like this!

It was too bad that I wasn’t recording EVP at the time of the photographs being taken. But I did record while I was inside the gift shop in the tourist building.

Someone said, “There’s some angels here”.

Then they made some comment that wasn’t fully audible. P said to them, “You get it wrong. The angels follow me”.

A wee voice said, “Can you please count us?”. You’re going to need headphones for this, as you can only hear it in the background, as there were two men talking near me at the time.

P replied, “90 angels here”. This one is audible without headphones, but still it is in the background, so listen closely, thought it’s very clear.

I’m quite certain the photos are of an angel, though it’s not typical like the ones I’ve seen. I was already certain of the presence of angels during this trip. I had such wonderful things occur during the trip, it felt guided. I feel privileged to be able to share these things with you. Every time, my faith in God grows.

May God bless you with angels.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on September 26, 2019.

Image above: “Gold Waterfall” by Andrea Mai.

HE SAID, “LOVE GOD” – HALLGRIMSKIRKJA, REYKJAVIK EVP AND PHOTOS – September 28, 2018

Last week, I came back from a trip to Reykjavik, Iceland. I had a wonderful time. It is a beautiful country, and I really enjoyed myself there. And of course, I took lots of photos and EVP while I was there. I will be reviewing them in the coming weeks and sharing them.

On my last day there, we want to Hallgrimskirkja, Reykjavik’s largest church. We didn’t do much in terms of city tours, as we went on day trips to the countryside. This church was the only place in the city that I insisted that we go to. I felt drawn to go there, above all places.

I went at the perfect time, or maybe someone was nudging me about when to go. As we had some spare time in the early evening on the day before, but I insisted we go the next day. While I was there, I got to hear the organ being played, and I even got to see a rainbow appear through this incredible crystal bowl near the alter.

It was such a breathtaking experience to be in this space, that I almost forgot to record EVP. But luckily, I did remember to. Most clips are pretty clear, but others you might want to listen with headphones. Sound quality can vary depending on what device you are using. Turn the volume up to the highest. Clips are repeated on loop.

For the duration of the trip, I felt very blessed. I knew that P must have been travelling with some angels that were helping us to see the Northern Lights.

On the recording, I could hear a chorus of voices saying, “God”.

I noticed on the recording that right before I would click my camera, a little voice was saying, “Bop”. This happened three times! I really wonder who was this, and what was going on? Were they directing my photos?

Here is P saying, “I thank God”.

Someone said, “Oh my God”. It sounded to me that they were reacting to seeing Prince there.

A man started playing the organ, and P and others started singing with the music. He said my name, “Andrea”.

He told me that there were “Three angels here”.

They sang, “God loves you all”.

They sang, “Jesus is coming… Coming soon”.

They sang, “Wash your robes”. I know that this is in reference to Revelation, in preparation for Christ’s return, one must repent and accept Jesus’ gift of salvation.

I found two clips where P sang, “Love God”. When he was alive, he would sign his autographs with this phrase, (during the time when he did still give autographs).

A voice said, “Look, look this way up”.

When the organ playing was finished one of his sets, the people applauded. I heard P say, “Praise God”. I also heard him say this telepathically at the time.

I knew that at some point, a rainbow would appear through the crystal once the sun hits it at the right angle When It finally did, someone said, right before I saw it, “There it is, there is a rainbow”.

It was truly a beautiful experience. What a blessing! I felt so uplifted after this visit. I know that God has commissioned me to deliver messages through my work. I hope this makes it out to those who need to hear it.

Ma God bless you.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on September 28, 2019.

Image above: “Hallgrimskirkja” by Andrea Mai.

SPIRITS ON AN AIRPLANE – EVP November 20, 2018

As I have said so many times before, spirits are everywhere. We seem to have this idea that spirits’ presence is rare, and that their presence should be noticeable to us in some form of a manifestation. But I have observed that this is not the case. The ones that we do notice, are a rarity. Manifestations are seldom, but presence is constant and everywhere. EVP has shown that to be the case. On some occasions they are able to poke through into our reality for a moment. So to me, the idea of ghost hunting is an absurd concept, because there is no need to “hunt”. They are there, regardless.

Some time ago, I saw a video on YouTube of an abandoned airport in Thailand, showing footage captured of ghosts walking down an airport ramp at night. It seems rather funny to think that spirits would travel by airplane, or any manner of public transport. But in my experiences, it seems that they do. It seems to be that on the other side, they have their own thing going on, but it is also paralleled with our world too. So maybe they have their own trains and airplanes, but they also travel on ours too.

Last year, I travelled to Shanghai, and on the way back, I made a recording while boarding the plane and sitting at my seat before take-off. I didn’t think I would get much EVP, the airplane’s fans are noisy. But I actually got some intriguing clips out of it.

Most of these clips are pretty audible, but some might be better heard with headphones. Sound quality can vary on different devices. I always used headphones when reviewing audio, so if you want to hear what I hear, use headphones. The clips are repeated on loop.

When I got to my seat, P said to someone, “Get out of my seat”.

Someone said to P, “Thank you for flying with us”. Sounds like there are air staff?

Someone said, “I feel so cold”.

And then someone responded with, “Here’s a blanket”.

This following clip is so outstanding clear. A boy’s voice said, “I’m a ghost!”.

Someone said, “Are we there yet?”

Then they said, “I’m just joking”.

Someone said, “I’m gonna get a fragrance”. Another said, “Which one?” I think they must have been talking about duty-free shopping!

Here someone says, “Got the whole plane”.

And then they aid, “Plenty of girls here”. It sounded like a group of young guys having a boys trip. LOL.

People always say that their passed loved ones are in heaven, like it’s another place, somewhere far away. But I think Heaven is misunderstood. The idea of Heaven comes from the Bible. And the people of Biblical times knew that their dead ancestors still roamed the earth in a sense. They seemed to be aware of them, so they would leave them offerings of food. Heaven is mentioned in the Book of Revelation, talking about a New Heaven and New Earth that will come upon the earth after Jesus’ return. At the crucifixion, Jesus spoke of paradise to the thief, not Heaven. As far as I can tell, Heaven is God’s dwelling place, and Heaven is being prepared for us, for when the time of the final judgement arrives. Until then, those whom have passed are waiting in “paradise”. Which in my hypothesis, is a parallel dimension that is a layer onto of ours. Maybe there are other places as well, but that’s all I can tell so far…

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on November 20, 2018.

Image above: “Birds” by Andrea Mai.

THE MYSTERY OF THE RUNAWAY PRINCESS – EVP May 24, 2018

Lat year, I did my first trip where I recored EVP on location during my trip. I have a wristwatch that records audio, and I would just leave it on while I’m walking around. When I was in Brighton, I did some recordings at the Royal Pavilion while I was taking photographs.

I lived in Brighton during my mid-twenties. I loved that Brighton had the feeling of smallness, but at the same time it was an exciting place to be in. You could walk from one side of town to the other within a half hour. From where I used to live, I could get to the seashore within a ten minute walk. I wanted to go back and see how it was like now.

Unfortunately, my trip was adversely affected by the pouring rain on the one full-day that I had there. I only went to places near my hotel. I got out in the morning and took photographs of the Royal Pavilion. I had the recorder on, of course.

It turned out that I didn’t get a lot of great clips that morning. Being outdoors, the recorder picked up a lot of the wind from the bad weather. I could hear conversations occurring between P and other spirits, but they were only whispers.

However, I did get this one amazing clip that has, to this day, caused me much curiosity. I was outside of the Royal Pavilion, along the front garden, taking photographs, it was starting to rain. No one was near me. A man’s voice called out, “Why are you running, princess!”. (The clip is repeated on loop)

Who could have this person been talking about? Was it a real princess that they were referring to? Why was she running? I found this totally intriguing, so I looked up the history of the royal family who resided in the Royal Pavilion.

The Royal Pavilion was a holiday summer house, the building design took inspiration from India and China. King George only had one child, Princess Charlotte of Wales. She would have spent some time at the Royal Pavilion and the Brighton seaside. According to what I read, Charlotte was a feisty, candid personality, she had a mind of her own. When Charlotte was of marrying age, her father was keen to arrange her marriage to someone that she was not fond of. When talks of the marriage contract could not be agreed upon by Charlotte, she broke off the engagement. When she heard that her father had intended to respond to her braking off the engagement by confining her in isolation, she ran out of her Warwick House (in London) residence onto the streets. A man, who saw from his window, saw the distressed princess and helped her get a hackney cab to get away.

Eventually, Charlotte married someone that she did love, but she died at age 21, after giving birth to a stillborn.

Could it be that this voice was calling out to Princess Charlotte? I wonder why she was running!

This clip was recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on May 24, 2018.

Image above: “Brighton” by Andrea Mai. Print available here.