FILE 05The living half of the protocol
Medium & Machine
The oldest instruction on record is not "believe the spirits." It is test the spirits. The machine half of that test has no ears and no hopes. The living half is Cindy Kaza — an evidential medium willing to be tested, which is the rarest sentence in this entire field.
The sealed-logs protocol
Blind: she is told nothing about the site, the history, or the prior sessions. On the instrument's clock: her sessions run in parallel with the engine, timestamped by the same clock, neither seeing the other's output. Sealed: the site-history file is held by a third party and opened only after her statements are logged. Complete: hits and misses are both preserved, because a record that only keeps its hits is not a record — it is marketing.
Mixed is what honest looks like.
The book reports her sessions exactly as logged: statements that later matched sealed history, statements that matched nothing, and statements that cannot be checked at all. Each class is labeled. The convergences between the medium's timestamps and the engine's excursions — where they exist — are presented as convergences, not conclusions.
Cindy is best known for her work on Travel Channel's The Dead Files, The Holzer Files, and Ghosts of Devil's Perch. Cindy has been extremely intuitive since very early childhood. At the age of 10 she had her first memorable experience with a spirit. Days after losing a childhood friend in a fatal car accident, Cindy woke up in the middle of the night to see her friend standing next to her bed. At the time, she dismissed this experience and convinced herself it was just a dream. It wasn't until her early 20s that she realized she was having psychic and mediumistic experiences all along. During this "awakening" she began searching for answers and reasons for her experiences and became aware of her multi-faceted abilities as a psychic medium. She began training not only in the United States but also at the Arthur Findlay School of Intuitive Sciences in Stansted, England. She believes in compassionately sharing her gift with others while also opening up others to the gifts they too possess and that everyone is inherently intuitive and able to feel Spirit.