If "the spirits" are so technically savvy, why can't they figure out how
to just whisper in your ear?
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Many of them do - but that would involve someone who is sensitive.
Well, one might think it would ultimately be easier for them to find someone who is sensitive rather than for them trying to find someone who has radios, scanners, white noise, de-noiser software and only particular brands of tape recorders.
When spirits communicate, they often rely on the innate tendency
of the human mind to make sense out of chaos, to impose order on
disordered systems. It is easier for them to impress the human
mind with the illusion of a voice, for example, if there is a
background noise that encourages the false impression of a voice
or voices -- the sound of a motor, or rain falling, or even the
wind. Spirits do not actually have voices, but in order to
communicate clearly and explicitly they must express their
thoughts in a way that human minds are able to deal with -- in
words. They cannot form actual words, but they can trigger the
impression of words in the human mind, and this is easier with the
help of some background noise conducive to the impression of voices.