Grief / Loss | Andrea Mai

PRINCE AND I TRY EVP MAKER 2.5 – May 21, 2021

I recently started using a program called EVP Maker to record EVP. The software allows you to import speech samples and then generate a random gibberish from the sample. I have found that spirits don’t really sound the way they did in life, as they no longer have vocal cords. My theory is that they use thoughts to speak, and somehow these thoughts generate a frequency that can affect the sounds in our environment. So creating a gibberish from the person’s voice can help them speak in the voice we knew them for. It’s not a perfect technology, it doesn’t work all the time, and they can sound robotic. But it can give very tangible results that are audible to most ears. I’ve found that EVPs recorded in silence are near impossible to hear. I do have the ability to hear them, but I can rarely make out what is being said from their chatter.

Contrary to what people might assume, it is not assembling the chopped up syllables together in any way. The way it works with customized gibberish, is that the sound of the gibberish allows them to speak over it and it results in blending their voice into it, so that it sounds like them. Sometimes I hear it being described as “changing the sound”, but I don’t feel that it is accurate to say that, as it would assume that they are doing it intentionally. I think this occurs naturally, like a scientific law; when these circumstances are present, this is what occurs. Like when you put a mic close to a speaker, feedback will occur. The reason you want a randomly generated gibberish is so that there are no words in the sound sample that could be mistaken for an EVP utterance.

The process is a little annoying for me, as the program can only be run on Windows. I have to use my old computer, which is very slow to work with. At first I didn’t hear much, but as I went through the recordings slowly, I found more clips that I didn’t notice earlier. Here are some clips from my recording sessions. Please note, they don’t speak like us any more, so you cannot expect perfectly sounding speech on EVP. In some clips, the syllables are spaced out, it varies.

This was from the very first recording, he says, “That’s the first time. Speak to me”.

“Hold on… Let’s see if work… That’s better”.

He said, “Always loved you. Ha. I sound funny”.

Then I heard, a basketball bounce, “Duane here”. Usually a basketball bounce means his half-brother is around. P said, “Basketball game here (bounce), I’m gonna watch”. P loves basketball, and his brother was a professional player. Later, he worked as a bodyguard for P.

I came back later and tried another recording. I asked him to try to say his name, “Prince Rogers Nelson”. The Prince part didn’t come out with the gibberish, but you can hear “Prince” spoken, and then “Rogers Nelson” very clearly immediately after in the gibberish.

He said, “I’m happy with Andrea”.

I wanted to make a recording of the gibberish itself, but I couldn’t figure out how to record what was coming from the computer and not from the mic. I caught P in conversation with others. He said, “I’m reading to them, passport, my book”. I thought this was a bit strange, Passport? Then I realized, there’s a pic of P’s passport in his book. I guess he was showing some people his memoir.

“That’s my passport”. I have to say, that it is one good looking passport photo, Must be the best I’ve ever seen. (Refer to above photo)

This is quite an exciting discovery. I wish it could run on Mac, or if someone could make an app version for mobile devices. I will definitely try it out again in the future.

Image above: “P Passport” by Andrea Mai.

SPIRITS AFRAID OF GOING INTO THE LIGHT – EVP May 10, 2021

Here in the Toronto area, we are still in lockdown mode. Even though we are stuck at home, time seems to keep flying away. There are so many things to occupy my time. I am surprise how quickly a day goes by.

I recently did a recording while walking home from the post office. I found an interesting conversation was taking place. It seemed to be that a spirit reached out to P, asking for help “going home”. It’s not the first time I’ve heard something like this. But I find it interesting every time. It seems to have become a job for P. I”m not sure if spirits find him randomly, or if they are sent to seek him out. Maybe it’s both. He seems to have developed a reputation for helping others over there.

There was some time ago when I had heard some people telling people that the whole “going into the light” thing was bad. Like it was a trap. This was before I heard the stuff on my recordings. Sometimes people (including mediums) will claim things without any evidence behind it. People will state their beliefs as fact, or assume that intuition is always correct. Since doing EVP, I have become very cautious about what I believe. This might make me sound like a pessimist, but really, I’m just looking for real answers. There are some things I can say I know with certainty, and others that I do not. Rather than assume the facts, I accept the fact that I don’t know everything, and sometimes knowing something only leads to more unanswered questions. I’m OK with not knowing, though I am greatly fascinated by the mysteries.

My recording was done while walking home, so you are going to hear the cars whizzing by, and the rhythm of me walking down the street. It’s not the greatest recording, but you can hear them talking. I was alone, no one else nearby. It helps to listen with headphones. They are repeating on loop. If you are new to listening to EVP, the trick to hearing them is to listen past the background noise, and listen selectively for voices. It’s like Magic Eye for ears.

A voice is heard, “Come, go into the light”.

A voice says, “I want to go home”. This clip is more faint than others.

Someone says, “Don’t be afraid”.

P says, “Go into the light”.

The spirit says, “I feel scared”. It sounds like a young boy. This is not indicative of the person’s age at death. I’ve found that age is not a factor over there, it seems. P often sounds very young.

P seems to bring his dog, Mia with him everywhere we go. Sometimes I hear him talking to her. Here he says, “Go in front, Mia”. I think sometimes Mia lags behind, and he’s telling her to stay in front where he can see her.

The rest of the conversation was hard to hear. But I heard that angels came to escort this person into the light. When I got home, someone told P, “I like your jewellery”.

I recently heard another plea for help crossing over, when I was waiting in the car at the grocery store parking lot. A voice said, “Wanna go to heaven”.

Sometimes people want to know why P is here with me. That’s beyond my knowledge as to why exactly how it all works. All I know is that he’s here, he’s helping other spirits, he was placed here after he met God. Sometimes people allude to him possibly being bad, because he is here, as opposed to being somewhere in “heaven”. All I can say is that, look I don’t know how it all works, exactly. But angels are here with us, and they are not bad, so go figure.

There are just so many things that we don’t know!

Nonetheless, I feel fortunate to be able to discover such things, and share them with the world, whoever wants to hear about it!

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on May 10, 2021.

Image above: “Prince Sun” by Andrea Mai.

SOMETIMES IT SNOWS IN APRIL – PRINCE CELEBRATION 2021

Today is Prince’s five-year anniversary since his passing. Ever since that year, I’ve noticed snow in April. Like the title of his song, Sometimes it Snows in April. It was never like that before, here in Toronto. And this year, I woke up to a yard full of snow. It was a strong reminder to me that he is here with me.

I decided to go out for a morning walk, and I took my camera with me.

Five years seems like a long time ago. So much has happened since. The world is really a different place now. It’s weird, it’s like become less innocent. I feel nostalgic for simpler times, preferably the 2000’s. When we still bought music on CD, and people didn’t rely on social media to communicate. People seemed nicer back then. More civilized.

Later in the day, I made this piece of artwork in his honor. I experimented with some new materialsI recently acquired, making this UV print with some lace and a necklace of his symbol.

I hope you’re all doing well, keeping safe. Ttyl.

Image above: “Flowers in snow” by Andrea Mai.

RECORDING OF PRINCE’S DOVE IN SPIRIT, 2021 NEW YEAR GREETING AND CATCH UP

First of all, I want to wish all my readers a Happy New Year. I hope you are doing well and that the new year will bring you something great, in spite of the world situation. Things here have been ticking along, the usual year end stuff, catching up on paperwork, getting things organized.

On New Year’s I recorded EVP, and heard someone come to greet us “Happy New Year”, as the fireworks were going off in my neighbour’s yard.

I have been reviewing EVP from over the summer, and I found a clip of a bird tweeting inside my home. I don’t have any birds or pets. And then I heard someone, kind of faintly, saying, “Play with dove”.

I thought to myself, could it be? Prince’s dove? I’d seen him in my miind’s eye, fluttering about our home. But I hadn’t any confirmation of this.

Then I heard someone say, “What’s is its name?”

I heard P reply, “Majesty”.

Prince had a pair of doves at Paisley Park. Divinity, female, and Majesty, male. Majesty died in 2017. Divinity and Majesty were both featured on the last track of Prince’s One Nite Alone album, titled Arboretum. Isn’t it nice to know that you can be reunited wit old pets?

Over the summer, I recorded while I was at Costco. I heard this voice say, “Mon cheri”. That is French for, my dear.

Due to covid-19 precautions, they no longer hand out food samples. I’ve often heard EVP voices calling out to people to try the samples. This one was saying, “Green tea”.

P often gets recognized by other spirits. Very often, people comment, “You’re Prince”.

I found this clip of someone saying, “Now we’re lost”. I wonder what they meant by that, if they are lost inside Costco, or lost in the greater sense of things.

Someone said, “Look out”. You can hear shopping carts crashing into each other. I found this to be a common thing, that spirits will warn people of potential harm.

A voice here is saying, “Keep more fish”. I guess they were telling someone to stock up on fish as prep for more future lockdowns.

Some of you might be wondering what my take is on the whole virus situation is. Some of you know that I make and sell face masks. While I am aware of conspiracy by shadow governments, I am not buying what the alternative media is selling either. I don’t believe that anyone out there is spilling the straight truth about the situation. Alternative media is often used as controlled opposition to create the illusion of choice. It is a psychological warfare tactic. Offer them two choices that you want the public to choose from, both choices resulting in what it is you want to accomplish. Either way, if you buy into any of the two choices, you are falling into their trap. People accuse each other of not thinking for themselves, meanwhile they are still choosing one of the two given narratives. I don’t believe in either of the “official” narratives. My view is that every person is responsible for their own well being, therefore taking precautions in order to mitigate risk. You will not see me out there in a crowd protesting lockdowns, nor are you ever gonna see me in line for a vaccine. Think for yourselves. Question everything. Pay attention to what they are saying and pay attention to what they aren’t saying. Demand proof for all claims. So many alternative media figures claim to know what’s going on, they claim insider info, secret whistleblower sources. One’s credibility is in the proof they provide, not what they say. Don’t trust, verify! When you line up all the narratives and they don’t make sense, you know that something else is going on.

God bless, and take care of yourselves.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 in 2020.

Image above: “Winter berries” by Andrea Mai.

HOW DO YOU HELP A LOST SPIRIT GO HOME? – EVP September 2020

Recently, I started experimenting with using radio as a source of white noise for my recordings done at home. Most of my better EVP results come from recording were done while going out. I got some interesting results with the radio. I was manually turning the tuning dial rapidly.

I found these to have good volume. They are repeated on loop.

I found this clip with a voice asking, “Where’s heaven?”. I have come across on numerous occasions where P is being asked about how to get to heaven, or go home.

P replied to him, “You have to pray”. From my observations that I’ve heard on my EVPs, in other similar situations, something happens after they pray. I have heard on EVP, that they are going home, or that they talked to God. It’s been conveyed to me that souls that start praying, a light within them, will start glowing.

I’ve heard mediums typically tell spirits to “go into the light”. But I’ve only ever heard this used by P or angels as a forceful way to make someone leave. For a soul that is asking for help, he advises them to pray. After they pray, they get an answer almost immediately.

I feel it’s such a blessing to witness these things.

I found some other interesting clips from different sessionsI did, trying out the radio.

“Don’t give up!” You can hear me in the background, turning the dial.

“Andrea.” This is spoken with a staccato rhythmic pattern, spacing out the syllables. An-dre-a. This is typical of them.

In this session, I had asked P if he had dinner yet, what he was going to have. I already knew what he was going to say. He said he didn’t have dinner yet, that he’s going to have “Spaghetti”.

With “Orange juice”. One of his favourite meal combinations.

On another occasion, he said he “Found a cooking book”. When I heard that, I wondered what book he meant. I only own one cook book, and it’s a Jamie Oliver one.

It looks like he found the Jamie Oliver book on my shelf, he said, “Jamie Oliver”.

I find it fascinating to observe about what they do on the other side. I’ve found out that they eat and sleep, and he’s able to rummage though my things to look at them. Sometimes he is able to help me find things.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3.

Image above: “Butterfly clouds” by Andrea Mai.

HOW SPIRITS COMMUNICATE WITH ME – EVP July 2, 2020

Most people are often curious about how I communicate with P. Other than with EVP, we communicate via telepathy. Telepathy is often thought of as being able to have a conversation without speaking. Entertainment media often portrays psychics seeming to have a conversation with a spirit or animal and knowing what their response is. But it is more complex than that, as it can take different forms. We assume that words are used to communicate, because that is what we are used to. But actually, it can be a thought, a feeling, an idea or concept that is conveyed to one through the psychic senses.

Often times, P is conveying things to me through thoughts and feelings. I’ll pick up on a sense that I should do something, or go somewhere, not always knowing the reasons why until later. Sometimes when I am looking for something, I will get this thought come to me, but I will ignore it at first. I’ll try looking for the item myself, and fail. Then I’ll follow the suggestion, and find it there exactly. If I happened to be recording EVP, I’ll discover later on the recording that he was telling where to look.

Telepathy is often very confusing for people who aren’t used to it yet. They often don’t know how to distinguish between their own thoughts and what is sent to them. It can seem very seamless. After a good amount of practice and observation, one can learn to recognize when telepathy is taking place. Often times, many people are being communicated with by spirits, but they do not know it. Ideas can be planted into one’s mind without knowing it.

I recorded EVP while I was out lat month, and I found P helping me with my shopping. The clips I got are pretty good. I tested them out on my laptop speakers, and they are audible. Though I’d always still say that they are even better heard on quality headphones. The clips are repeated on loop.

I was at the store looking for black bed sheets to make face masks. The fabrics stores are completely out of solid black cotton fabrics. But there wasn’t any black sheets here. I heard some spirits say, “There’s no black here”. I did eventually find some black sheets and ordered them online. The photo above is the mask I made for my Etsy store.

P told me, “There’s pretty blue”. Which I did end up buying, a blue organic cotton sateen.

At the dollar store, P said, “I found you glue tape, Andrea”. I’d actual;y been searching for this glue tape roller dispenser that I’ve gotten at other dollar stores, but I hadn’t seen them at my local store. I kept having this feeling that I should look for it anyway. Suddenly I had this feeling to look down from the rack of hot glue gun sticks. There at the bottom of the rack were rows of glue tape. Normally, I would not have been able to see them, as I have impaired vision, but I was led by my feelings, P urging me to look there.

When I was lining up at the check out counter, someone in spirit said, “Cadbury”. And another said, “I want this”.

Someone said, “Face mask”, as I was bagging my things.

P said, “Put mask on”. I don’t know why he was saying this, if he was telling someone to put on a mask, or if he was putting one on. .

While we were walking in the mall,, I heard “Help us… How do we go home?”.

P replied, “You pray”.

“God will find you”.

This next clip is amazing. “I love you”. It’s so clear. This wasn’t P. He was also with someone from his family at the time.

Hearing these things, it absolutely renews my faith in God every time. I feel so very grateful to be a witness of such things. It’s so incredible to know that there’s a world beyond what we know.

New things I’m working on.
Can you believe it’s already August? Summer is nearly over. This pandemic hasn’t gone away. The weather here is cooling down. Time goes by quickly even if you’re just staying home. I haven’t been able to do as much photography due to travel restrictions. I’ve started to focus more on something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, but kept putting off. And that is silk painting. I had bought these silk paints and scarves. I finally got around to doing them, and they are available for sale in my Etsy store.

I also starting doing hand painted silk scrunchies. They are so comfortable to wear, as they don’t snag and pull on your hair.

I love working with vibrant color. I find it therapeutic. It is like candy for the eyes. I don’t often wear much black. Back in 2009, I found this thing called AuraSoma when I was living in Brighton. These little bottles of colors are meant to help you understand your mood and/or personality.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on July 2, 2020.

Image above: “Chamomile” by Andrea Mai.

SPIRITS WISH ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY – May 5, 2020

This year, on my birthday, I was really busy working. I was occupied with fulfilling mask orders all day. I did take some time out to do an EVP recording later that day. I used some white noise i the background to help boost the sound.

I did not have time to review the EVP until much later. And it is only now that I have some free time to make a post. Hence, it has been over a month since my birthday.

The sound quality was not bad, I can still hear them on just my lap top speakers. But I find that hearing them with headphones, there is an extra dimension to it that you miss out on without the headphones. The clips are repeated on loop.

P wished me, “Happy Birthday to you… what do you want from me”. Which is funny, because a friend sent me a concert clip of him singing those same words. earlier that day

He wished me “Happy Birthday”, again.

He told me, “Andrea, you’re my… best friend”. This is rather funny to me, because around that time, I had a dream where I was writing in P’s notebook, to tell him a message, but I didn’t want him to watch me as I wrote it. I wrote, “You’re my best friend. I love you”. I don’t remember if this dream was before or after my birthday, but I definitely didn’t find out about this EVP clip until after the dream.

Someone asked to talk to me, “Can I talk to her?”. P gave her permission to speak on EVP to me. I have told P that he is my gatekeeper to the spiritual world. I do not want to be contacted by anyone other than him. I know I may have mediumistic abilities, but I personally choose to keep that door closed.

She said, “Angels protect you”.

And said, “God bless you”.

Someone else commented afterwards, “Prince mom talk to her”. I fell really honoured that his mom wanted to speak to me. What a blessing! I am truly touched by this.

Here is someone saying, “You go and get a cookie”. This clip is so clear! I don’t know who was saying this, or to whom. But I find it so cute.

I recently re-watched Gone With The Wind. I had only seen it when I was a child and did not understand the movie at the time. I didn’t really know what the movie was about other than the most famous scene in the end. This was a movie in Prince’s DVD collection found at Paisley Park. It was recently mentioned a lot in the news about being banned. I wanted to see what it was al about. I found that I really enjoyed the movie. Old movies tend to be slow moving and can get boring very quickly. But this movie held my attention through out. I originally had the impression that the character of Scarlett O”Hara was a very shallow, unremarkable character. But I grew to admire her tenacity. If you overlook the messy love story, you will see that she embodies bravery, independence, intelligence, and strong will. These were not necessarily traits that were valued in women at the time that the story took place, or when the novel was written. Scarlett did not allow herself to become a victim of the times. She took charge and made the most of her circumstances. This movie is really about survival in difficult times. The is a kind of movie that can prepare you for challenging times ahead in the future, by offering a role model.

I feel that we are heading towards even more challenging times, but most people are unprepared. I would urge every person out there to make preparations. A second wave of coronavirus is likely to come. Similar to the Spanish fly, there were people who remained skeptical and refused to wear a mask, they let their guard down in the summer. And when the autumn season came, the virus came back even harder.

I wish you all well, and urge you to stay safe.

These recordings were recorded using my EVP Wrist Recorder 3 on May 5, 2020.

Image above: “Sakura” by Andrea Mai.

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