A conclusion I drew upon investigating and writing about the Spiricom device fits here too-these guys just really, really want to perfect the device, so that real time, two-way communication with the spirit world can finally be established. It is becoming the Holy Grail of ghost hunting. And rightly so, perhaps. Should undeniable, scientifically testable, verifiable, (whatever this should mean to the masses and larger culture…I am well aware that many are convinced this is already the case.) contact with the spirit world actually be made, the ramifications of that and its final outcome are mind boggling indeed.

There may even be models already set up to account for such a tremendous change. This last almost half century long millennial-apocalyptal-harmonic-aquarian-new-age-dawning hubristic hubbub could have been anticipating such a contact and exploration of this other dimension.

Like the quickly adopted Y2K millennialism, we are now seeing much of the same endgame-2012 dynamics involving the Mayan calendar. There is example after example of philosophical speculations about what is looming in the near future-it just seems that something is going to happen.

Over a decade ago, the phantastical Terence McKenna asserted this looming feature casting a shadow backwards over history could be the advent of time travel, effectively literally ending what is commonly held to be history itself. Time travel can generally be (perhaps reductively or naively, albeit) thought of as the exploration of a different dimension--fairly what is assumed to be involved with direct communication with the spirit world.

The massive, unprecedented transformation such communication would bring is certainly enough to force our psychic, physical, and social evolution positively. Cultural and personal firsthand knowledge and testimony of life in spirit could be a panacea, regardless of the actual information received.

Indeed, there is a lot of evidence that those in spirit (or for that matter, ghosts, aliens, religious apparitional figures, and other denizens of the otherworld) don't know that much more about grand cosmological or metaphysical schemes or "God" than we do. For now at least, perhaps the simple collective knowledge and acceptance of the reality of another dimension could be enough.

I suggest that these spirit communication boxes are more than mere marginalia of the ghost hunting phenomenon-that they may in fact turn out to be the loveliest formed pearl found among the fleshiest parts. And, I believe they eventually will justify and deserve a wider mainstream notoriety and unbiased personal and scientific investigation.

In the meantime, we can examine some of the dynamics surrounding the machines, to possible glean some meaning. I mentioned there were dozens of boxes being developed. There is the original Frank's Box, and it is, according to Christopher Moon, being modified by himself in conjuction with the spirit of Thomas Edison. There is UFO Geek's Spiricomp Ghost Box, Joe's Box, and the Mini Box. According to an article posted UFO Geek's blog, the Mini Box called out Frank Sumption's name at a public demonstration at the haunted, shining Stanley Hotel.

There are countless others, both known and unknown. In many forums and blogs, there are comments from ghost hunting group members, mentioning their own work on such devices. There's even one called the Radio Shack Box-encapsulating the idea of the unassuming basement laboratory, the mundane technology, and Everyman-style inventor.

Despite the intense and concerted efforts of so many individuals and groups to this one potentially invaluable ultimate aim, there is that sense of camaraderie I mentioned. Perhaps there will be intense rivalries later, (I did note a 'beware of imitations' warning on a page promoting one of the more prominent and commercially used boxes.) For now, the competition seems to be somehow ironically united.

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