Cadernos de TCI - ITC Journal

First Seminar on ITC Techniques
Reports from the Participants

To participate in the First ITC Seminar in Vigo, under the guidance of Dr. Anabela Cardoso, was an unforgettable experience considering my limited knowledge of cosmic contacts. Through ITC, mental barriers between the “known” and the “still unknown” were broken down at the seminar. Knowledge has no limits and the desire to reach it is equally unlimited. The extraordinary experimental sessions of the Seminar immensely helped the 14 participants (the majority Portuguese) to understand and actually feel the thrilling results achieved. The answers to two questions we asked in Esperanto (the international language spoken by two of us) were given to us in Portuguese by the communicators, one in each of the two separate practical sessions. These short and feeble answers in Portuguese were perfectly adequate responses to the questions we had put to them. Thank You.
Manuela Delgado Boieiro

This event was unforgettable, not only because it was my first experience in this field but also because it opened new horizons for all of us. We became more conscious of the vastness in which we are involved. We are now aware that the concept of “absolute”, as we currently understand it, does not exist. Everything is “relative”, nothing is linear, and nothing has (or seems to have) a beginning or an end. Reality appears to have multiple dimensions of which we only perceive an infinitesimal part. The logical concepts, that is, those concepts organised in accordance with our mental patterns, loose their meaning completely in the face of such magnitude. ITC is in fact all the more exciting because it is a challenge before the unknown. Grateful thanks to the ITC Journal and Dr. Anabela Cardoso for this great opportunity to participate in a small way in such an amazing adventure.
Miguel Boieiro

I have been interested in Instrumental Transcommunication for some years and I came to Vigo wishing to learn a lot more about both the conceptual and practical fields. Reality surpassed my most optimistic expectations. I would like now to thank my friend Dr. Anabela Cardoso for her teachings, for her total commitment and for the quality of the knowledge conveyed to us.
António Cardoso

This was a Seminar of great quality and precious information. Many different subjects were discussed, an important feature for a beginner in ITC research most interested in entering this path to knowledge of such quality. We were able to practice identifying and listening to anomalous voices, and we learned how to reject voices of doubtful authenticity. All this was taught with dedication and great experience by Dr. Anabela Cardoso, and my most warm thanks and appreciation go to her. A big fraternal hug.
Maria Helena Moreira

Starting with little knowledge and no experience in this area of ITC, I consider this Seminar of extreme importance in terms of the information received and the experiences undertaken. The information was conveyed clearly and in a simple way. The most important aspects of the communication procedures were emphasised as well as the need to pay close attention to the most crucial steps. I felt that the widespread interest of all participants contributed to the Seminar through diversified discussions and experiments. The natural technical hitches that occurred during the experiments were welcome as they called for extra dedication and attention, precious for our autonomous future work that, we hope, will have credible results. We were alerted not to expect any significant results or even positive results at all in our first attempts of communication with the next dimension. But to the great surprise and joy of all of us, a few very interesting answers were recorded. These answers varied in volume and one single answer happened to vary from one recording to another. These occurrences constituted valuable listening exercises, detailed analyses and productive discussions that allowed us to understand where we will find major difficulties and how to reach reliable conclusions. In my opinion, this Seminar was very well organised and suitable for ITC beginners! Even I - who started this new adventure just on account of a great curiosity to know better the [other] world - intend now to start personal experiments based on the practice already acquired. I wish to express my congratulations to all those who invested time in this work and also to present my thanks for the opportunity to learn and to begin new friendships. With love, Manuela Simões Alves

I came to this Seminar as a beginner, without any previous experience of ITC methods but expecting to start learning about the subject so that eventually I could initiate my own real practice. From the methodological point of view, this was a very clear Seminar, practical and illustrated with a lot of examples. Without any doubt we were prepared for the great difficulties that come when one decides to go ahead with experimentation. This is a work that demands great discipline, a lot of personal effort, and to which multidisciplinary knowledge seems to be relevant. I wish to express my congratulations to Anabela for the great work she has developed and also for this initiative.
Ondina Ferreira

Many years have already passed since I heard, very briefly and for the first time, about Instrumental Transcommunication. I tried for myself a very shy and non-convincing experiment – obviously without continuity or results – and now it suddenly the confirmation has been received that Transcommunication is not only possible but that it is also real. We must thank all those who, like Dr. Anabela, take a big risk to spread this knowledge that is, for certain, one of the most important – if not the most important – for the evolution of Humanity. Diana Antunes (20 years old).
When analysing this First ITC Seminar, where so much effort and dedication were invested, I want to stress the dynamics, the great involvement of the participants, the capacity for transmitting and making clear the most important concepts. It was, indeed, a great success. The participants, the majority of them interested beginners, were essentially looking forward to good advice regarding the selection of the most adequate equipment and, above all, to guidance about what is meant by correct procedures for the establishment of contact. I would like to point out the great interest shown by all the participants in the carefully prepared demonstrations regarding the selection of the “carrier waves”, the recording procedures and the strictest examination of the recorded Voices. We had excellent “live” information of great impact. The emphasis on the accuracy when listening to the recorded voices certainly did not leave any of us insensitive to the levels of honesty and rigour to be exerted in this field. The impact upon me when I listened, for the first time, to a clear, friendly and in-context answer was very strong. The question “How can I make progress in ITC?” was followed by the reply (EVP, recorded on magnetic tape) “You can make contact with us” (registered on two different recorders). My inner world responded with a sensation of greater peace and also the need to give ITC experimentation a higher priority in my everyday life.
Professor Fernanda Alcântara

This “First Seminar of ITC Practice” resulted in a serious, methodical and clarifying approach to a phenomenon as complex and gratifying as ITC. I was particularly impressed by the constant insistence on the need for extreme accuracy and concentration on the part of the experimenter in order to avoid cases of delusion and self-suggestion. I wish to stress the feeling of a strong energetic field in the area where the Seminar took place, in spite of the long working hours, travelling and restless nights. I wonder if my mental faculties were sharper due to the involvement and dedication of the friendly consciousness of the next World that we are trying to contact…
In the second day, during the experimental work using dolphin sounds as background noise, I asked the following question: “Is anybody from Rio do Tempo Station listening to me?” … The perfectly clear answer was: “I am listening (pause) very low (pause). With great effort”. Isn’t this most gratifying?! This reply was perfectly heard by all participants and was registered on the recorder of a colleague in my working group (Ondina), since mine was not functioning properly. During ours and in parallel recordings all the accidental noises were recorded on paper by one member of each group in order to discard any subsequent doubts about the origin of the recorded sounds.
My grateful thanks to Dr. Anabela Cardoso for her generosity, truthfulness and dedication to a cause that will certainly be the greatest revolution of Mankind. I would like to quote Fernando Pessoa: “And we shall set sail in search of a new India, which does not exist in Space, in boats made of the material dreams are made of…”
Maria dos Anjos Gomes Antunes

Since the beginning of my interest in ITC, and probably this is also true for most of us, I have tried to keep myself informed, both by reading different publications on this subject and through participation in meetings, as for example the Second ITC Congress held in Vigo last April. I consider all this extremely valid and even essential. However, each type of approach has its own specificity and the organization of Seminars – the first of which took place at the end of August 2006 – has, in my opinion, its own strong merits. This is the preparation of the soil, the fertilization of the ground, the sowing of the seeds which, under the best conditions, will one day fructify and multiply. I do not interpret ITC work as an elitist ground, but this does not mean that this work should not be an enterprise of high quality and accuracy. The project of the Seminar started by Dr.ª Anabela Cardoso has in my view this great merit. This is the first “brick” towards the great school that all ITC followers trust to be able to see one day flourishing with the same technical quality, ethics and scientific rigour observed in this Seminar.
Luísa Alcântara

Report on the Practical Course of ITC held in Vigo from August 25 to 27, 2006.
It was for me an excellent opportunity to confirm personally the existence of ITC phenomena which to this date I only knew from specialised reading and from listening to samples of voices received by experimented researchers. The experimental work carried out at the Seminar exceeded my most optimistic expectations.
Naturally enough in the aftermath of the excitement occasioned by the first occurrences of a phenomenon that we participants personally witnessed and took part in, we are left with the ‘cornerstone’ of the teachings ‘We know how to do it!’ imparted by the director of the course Dr. Anabela Cardoso with exceptional generosity, knowledge and dedication.
Grateful thanks to you, my good friend, for this unforgettable sharing. Please accept also my deep admiration for your magnetising character which prompts us to create an easy affinity with you. Your charisma is certainly not alien to the spontaneous collaboration of the entities who communicated through the voices we recorded, and who surely came neither from our dimension nor from the physical space of the Research Centre.
João Otílio Passos Gonçalves

• Published in the ITC Journal, issue 26 September 2006.