Attempts to communicate with these spirits have been made successfully in the past. These attempts have been ridiculed as fraud by skeptics. Perhaps with good reason, as the messages might have become tainted by the channel through which they were delivered – the Mediums – who were supposed to be making it all up.

So there is the need for a fresh look at the problem of communicating with the spirits roaming around all about us. A method, which is scientific, and not liable to be accused of fraud. A sure-fire method of communication. How do spirits communicate?

They communicate with the mind. The Mind is, in the living body at least, (until death when it is set free of the shackles of the material body) housed in the specialized cells carrying messages – Nerve cells, and that great assemblage of them, the brain.

Now a human brain is in constant activity. The business of life demands almost all its effort and the small stimulation from the spirits can easily be mistaken for a dream or a hashed memory of some actual happening or conversation. Besides, the disbelieving skeptics (Shoo, boys!) will be quick to point out that the Medium is making it all up. No. We require something we can isolate from all outside interference.

So we take a simple organism, a snail, say, or a flatworm, something with a simple nervous system we can isolate from all outside interference. Except from Astral Minds. Attach electrodes. Record every activity. Adapt that SETI software and look for messages.

What sort of messages? The telegraph was developed around the middle of the nineteenth century. So we can expect quite a number of spirits with knowledge of the Morse code, the baudot code, and such methods of signaling which depends on the manual dexterity of the operator. Technical advances lead to the substitution of machines for that of human skill, and the number of people who can communicate with a single on-off switch (the Morse key) is rapidly dwindling.

Granted that there are a large number of spirits around us with the necessary skill to communicate via the discharges of nervous activity from a simple organism, will any spirit be willing to comply? I should think yes. If they were deprived of their corporeal selves in difficult circumstances at least a small number would wish to communicate with their loved ones to clarify misunderstandings, murmur reassurances, at least until they, too, shed their encumbrous material abodes.

Now is the time, friends, to invest our time and energy to contact the souls of telegraphists who have moved on. I offer my invention for the same in the sincere hope that it will bring solace to some bereaved soul. Heat up that soldering iron!

We need to attract the souls into coming in for communication. Read this idea, dear HalfBakers. Carry it in your mind. Think it frequently. The Astrals are able to pick up the emanations from thinking minds and if a sufficiently large number of us co-operate on this project it shall surely succeed.

Moved here from other/general, on Fj's suggestion, to give his idea company.