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Building a BINAURAL SIGNAL GENERATOR! by Peter Nielsen -Parascience Technologies There has been a proliferation of Mind Machines recently... These amazing devices typically emit pulsating 'light n' sound to condition the brain into an altered state of awareness. By simply turning a knob, neurological patterns associated with various subjective abilities can be triggered and prolonged indefinitely. Random influences are excluded. Either you /Ike the Idea, or you don't! •••••••••• HEflPtin[i R~[]S···· D •• Fran1kly, I've grown complacent about flashing goggles..• seductive as they are. Also, in my opinion, they have two minor drawbacks; firstly,akind ofharshness thatdoesn'tfullyaddress the brain 's ow~ synergetic faculty. Secondly ... usulilly, a lackof pmvision fot setting precise frequencies. You never know exactly where you are, and some psycho-active "windows;' are definable to within 1/100th of a cycle per second. ,Still, they are a valid starting point. This projectis more organic in feeling. Its effect relies on our natural ability to synthesize a third sound, or "beat frequency", from two external ones. When differing sounds are admitted to each ear, the brain hemispheres conjoin to improvise an rnternal sensation of noise from the summed waveform interactions. The complimentary left and right brain functions of assertion and receptivity, 'harmonize in a burst of mutually augmentative perception. This event, also attainable through learned biological resonance, is the doorway to supra-sensory cognition. The resulting holographic sound image imposes directionality, texture and space upon our sense of hearing. In other words, a more real "reality". Wheri deprived of this form of sensory orientation, such as in a float tank or prolonged spirimal retreat, the isolated mind wi.ll cleverly REVERSE this process to project its own "hallucinatory" world from latent impreSSIons. The more common manifestation is dreams during sleep. If consciously invoked, thisordinarily repressed· faculty isthekey toESP,past life Fecall, Glairaudience ... and the all-pervading cosmic intelligence... the calculated somersault through Alice's +9V1 +9V2 ~~1.5r:: 2.2K 330R 330R CH "AN CH "B' OUT OUT COMMON lookingglass.OuterANDinnerrealmsare therebyaccessible as objective, yet non-self-existant, modes of inter-dependency. Try tl1is experiment... with youreyes closed, trytofocus on where the sounds converging from either side of you merge within. It's a very nice space that meditators will recognise. I find the sensation like a subtle curtain of undulating pressure within the ihead... an ideal mechanism for brain-wave capture,oncewidelyused in religious chanting andarchitectural acoustics. It's a standing wave of information-carrying energy that can, in terms of its iI'lferred attributes, subliminally affect your health and emotional involvement. This is how a stereo system recreates the 'presence' of the band. Inversely, it is also 'the anatomical reference point in the composer from which 'the music fIrst arose as symbols. B~-LYLlES . Back in the lab, we can demonstrate one aspect of this unifying principle with two simple audio oscillators, each feeding into one side of a pair of headphones. By ensuring that the two originating signals can be made 'to differ iby 6 selectable rate ibetween 3·25 cycles per second (Hz), the mind can be correspondingly stimulated to synthesize its own beta, alpha, Itheta or delta rhythms..the bi-directional carrier waves of both our level of creativity and perception. See Fig.ure. 2 on the next page for some experieRtial derivatives of this induced ELF (extreme low frequency) component. This device is called a "Binaural Frequency Generator", and has been popularized by Dr Monroe in his famous lucid 2.2K 2.2K Nexus #10 34