Mega Brain: New Tools And Techniques For Brain Growth And Mind Expansion by Hutchison Michael

Author:Hutchison, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mega Brain World
Published: 2014-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

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He knew his own OOBEs had been triggered by vibrations and reasoned that if he could somehow cause others to resonate to the same vibrations, they would also have OOBEs. Since it was known from EEG studies that certain brain-wave frequencies (such as alpha, theta, etc.) accompanied certain mental states, Monroe intuitively assumed that the physical vibrations he experienced had something to do with the electrical activity of the brain.

Both brain waves and sound waves are measured in Hz or cycles per second, and Monroe made another intuitive leap, assuming that brain-wave activity could be altered and indeed controlled or “driven” by rhythmic sound waves. If he could just discover the brain-wave frequency that triggered OOBEs, all he would have to do would be to zap the brain with sound waves of the same frequency and the brain would begin to vibrate sympathetically at the same frequency. Presto: instant life-off into astral realms.

Through the 1960s and early 1970s, Monroe explored the effect of sounds on the brain and discovered that he could indeed produce a driving or entrainment of brain waves. Like a crystal goblet resonating to a pure tone, the brain resonated when bombarded with pulsing sound waves, an effect Monroe patented in 1975, calling it a frequency following response or FFR. The problem was that while brain-wave frequencies are slow (mostly less than 30 hertz), the human ear is incapable of hearing sounds of much less than 40 hertz.

While Monroe was pondering this problem in his small laboratory in Virginia, Dr. Gerald Oster, a biophysicist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, was also investigating the effects of sound waves on the brain. He discovered that pulsations called binaural beats occurred in the brain when tones of different frequency were presented separately to each ear. Binaural beats are based on an effect we’ve all experienced. If two tuning forks of slightly different pitch are struck at once, they produce a sound that waxes and wanes in a pulsing wah-wah-wah sound or beat. The rapidly of the beat equals the difference between the two frequencies. For example, a tuning fork with a pitch of 400 hertz and another of 404 hertz, when struck simultaneously, will produce a beat frequency of 4 hertz.

Oster and Monroe independently investigated this beat phenomenon, replacing tuning forks with electronic oscillators, which provide tones whose frequency, purity, and intensity can be precisely controlled. When two oscillators tuned to different frequencies are combined and sent through a loudspeaker, or sent through two separate loudspeakers and mix in open air, they produce a very precise beat that can be heard with both ears or with one ear.

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