A few days later, I read this book. Any real discussion of contact and technologies is mired in the conflicts between individuals and organizations. Because of this, it is sometimes a tedious read.

One thing I would like to know -- if spirits are eager to contact persons on "this side," why aren't they more often direct and/or explicit in their communications?


Interesting, but Lacking Credibility   April 6, 2003
 6 out of 9 found this review helpful

Macy's book focuses mainly on the personality conflicts that undermined an attempt at high-tech communications with the spirit world. His style is readable and brisk, his tone sincere and unaffected, but he provides little or no evidence that the phenomena he describes are authentic. The main researchers he depicts come off more as enthusiastic dilettantes than serious scientists. For me, Macy forfeits nearly all credibility when he casually declares that the history of the human race can be understood by integrating some of the spirit communications with the writings of Erich von Daniken (p.140)! Von Daniken, of CHARIOTS OF THE GODS fame, is an entirely discredited huckster. If Macy can be persuaded by von Daniken's pop-culture writings, he will probably believe just about anything. There is an unfortunate messianic tone pervading the book - the message that a new dawn of humanity is coming, courtesy of the spirit communicators and the mortals who spread their message. You'll probably find MIRACLES IN THE STORM enjoyable and easy to read (hence three stars), but it will convince no one who isn't already a believer.


Miracles in the storm.   August 25, 2002
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I found this book very interesting and informative, I used to receive all the *Luxemburg couples ,newsletters that Mark Macy had translated and put into Magazine form, in a most dedicated and informative way, and both my husband and I were intrigued with the results, that Mark Macy got this out to many interested people...
I DID wonder, however, what went on *behind closed doors* of the Initus Oganization, Mark was very cautious and diplomatic about revealing the consequences, this is why we found the real reason, for the discrepancy ,finally ...understood, ..
I have had many *voices* on my tape recorder, especially my dear sister Doreen, who passed into Spirit Dec.1998, and she came through SO very clearly, also a voice (not my sister,s) that whispered *Too Loud, Too Long"*, after I played some hymns that we had at the memorial,.....I found myself ...*apologising to my tape recorder*.///////..saying *oh yes,...you are quite right*, I realize it must have been ...too long and too loud," as it did go on for a long time, I had a chuckle, as they *over there* must have done........sometimes there is a *storm* in every miracle * in life.
Wonderful author, wonderful job Mark....wishing you success in all your dedicated efforts....most Sincerely Jim and Edna Drake Kelowna B.C.Canada.


Mind Boggling   August 12, 2002
 12 out of 13 found this review helpful

It takes a lot to boggle my mind, but this book did. I have read hundreds of accounts of paranormal activity, but the activity summarized in this book is really amazing.

I was aware of EVP (electronic voice phenomena) and assumed that ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication) was just another name for it. It isn't, however. ITC involves much more detailed, more direct, and more profound information coming from the spirit world. We're talking spirit messages via computer (not attached to the internet), by phone calls (which the phone company has no record of), and by faxes from nowhere.

As I read the book, I constantly viewed it with a skeptical eye. However, author Macy comes across as very sincere, dedicated,discerning, and credible in his observations and reporting of them. I find it difficult to believe that he and the number of reputable scientists involved in ITC research could have been duped over and over again for years on end.

Over many years of reading and personal research, I am convinced of the reality of a spirit world. I believe in spirit materialization and spirit communication. If all of the other things I have encountered, e.g., materializations, apports, levitations, direct-voice mediumship, trance mediumship, etc., are real, I see no reason to draw the line and say that ITC is beyond belief.

The pseudo-skeptics will certainly smirk, scoff, and snicker in their usual closed-minded,arrogant, vainglorious, and pompous manner, but that is their problem. For the open-minded person who believes that there is more to this world than the material, this book has much to offer.


Well Written But Lacking   June 23, 2002
 3 out of 6 found this review helpful

I found this book to be interesting and well written, but lacking in credibility. The insistent of the author to protray a few of the characters, namely Maggy and Jules, as credible experimenters was more than I could stomach. The author has attempted to show their contacts with the after life as genuine. To most people, these contacts are incredibly fraudulent and for this reason it puts this author in a bad light as the subject matter can not be believed.

Many people will read this book for evidence of afterlife survival and it won't meet the criteria because of the author's insistence that contacts can be made similar to Maggy and Jules F. I can't recommend this book for this reason. I do heartily believe in contact from the dead but the author's insistence of credible contacts from Maggy and Jules has thrown a deeply suspect nature upon this field, and it is apparent why there were arguments within the ITC group that composed this book. In my humble opinion, the field of ITC has been greatly damaged by this couple, and for this reason, I can't recommend this book to anyone although I do not doubt the author's sincerity.