 Researcher Mark Macy understands these contacts to be a telepathically assisted form of communication, that is still affected by the beliefs, thoughts and attitudes of the researchers, but to a lesser degree than during channelling.Much rarer Trans-Dimensional Communications (TDC), on the other hand, are understood by Alan Bennet of the Scole Experimental Group (SEG) as a form of transcommunication which uses an artificial receptor as a point of entry for spiritual waves.This receptor is directly connected to earthside instruments.