Isochronic Brainwave Entrainment and Anamolous Experience
Kaleb Smith
What's Parscoustics about?
EVP? Communication techniques?
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Jack Hunter
Kaleb Smith partly, yes, but also the role of sound in other areas of the paranormal, e.g. raps and bangs. My chapter is on music and trance.
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Kaleb Smith
Jack Hunter My research at the Neurophenomenology Lab involved using isochronic rhythmic stimuli to induce specific states of consciousness, gradually. Many described anomalous or spiritual-type experiences, especially when global brainwave coherence … See More
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David Luke
Kaleb Smith is this published?
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Kaleb Smith
David Luke Unfortunately, no. I was kicked out of the lab before I could finish my pilot! 😂
I still have copies of the brainwave data, though. I ran about 6 participants. Some very interesting things learned, just with those folks... On how to effectively induce global coherence in folks who were, initially, falling asleep.
I later introduced a photic lamp to the procedure and needed to have the participants sign a waiver releasing me from liability if the flashing lights and tones induced a seizure! Wild times back at the Transpersonal school! 😉
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David Luke
Kaleb Smith nice research. What’s isochronic stimuli when it’s at home? Is this like the opposite of binaural beats?
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Kaleb Smith
David Luke Binaural is very specific, the piping of two distinct frequencies, one tone into each ear, the subtraction of which give you your LFO, the entrainment frequency (which doesn't actually exist acoustically, only mentally.)
I was using an old wooden synthesizer to modulate tones/white noise signals at the speed (or multiples of the speed) I wanted the neurons to fire at (so it was in mono, each ear getting the same stimuli.)
My working thesis was that these entrainment frequencies would fall within the same ranges seen in monotonous shamanic drumming; a more regular, precise, and scientific version of that ancient consciousness modulation technology. The voltage from this old synth was then piped out to the stroboscopic lamp, so it would fire in sync (Gysin's 10 Hz Dream Machine was an early inspiration). I was just beginning to learn the "sweet spots" of lumens and pitch for the most visual or tactile experiences when I got locked out of the lab. Told it was too dangerous! 😜 Ohh well! It's an interesting area of consciousness research, for sure.
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David Luke
Kaleb Smith sounds great. The artist Haroon Mirza works with synched Hz tones and light too. He’s got some dope gadgets for internal psychedelic effects.
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David Luke
What anomalous effects did you get?
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Kaleb Smith
David Luke I remember one girl saying it was the most powerful experience of her life. Even though the bass "wows" were only in the headphones, she said she felt them pulsing through her entire body, like her nervous system, head to toe, was pulsing in sync. She achieved cross -hemispheric Alpha coherence, which you could watch, starting as synchrony in the occipital, spread forward across the cortex. She was especially receptive to the auditory driving stimuli.
I would always lose them somewhere in mid-low Theta. There was a ceiling and floor to the influence on their state of consciousness. You can only drive them so far down...
I've seen similar in Ayahuasca EEGs. Full body "pulsing." I have thought many times of getting a simultaneous electromyograph to measure the entrainment through the entire nervous system, not just the cortex.
What's Parscoustics about?
EVP? Communication techniques?
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· 1d
Jack Hunter
Kaleb Smith partly, yes, but also the role of sound in other areas of the paranormal, e.g. raps and bangs. My chapter is on music and trance.
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Kaleb Smith
Jack Hunter My research at the Neurophenomenology Lab involved using isochronic rhythmic stimuli to induce specific states of consciousness, gradually. Many described anomalous or spiritual-type experiences, especially when global brainwave coherence … See More
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David Luke
Kaleb Smith is this published?
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Kaleb Smith
David Luke Unfortunately, no. I was kicked out of the lab before I could finish my pilot! 😂
I still have copies of the brainwave data, though. I ran about 6 participants. Some very interesting things learned, just with those folks... On how to effectively induce global coherence in folks who were, initially, falling asleep.
I later introduced a photic lamp to the procedure and needed to have the participants sign a waiver releasing me from liability if the flashing lights and tones induced a seizure! Wild times back at the Transpersonal school! 😉
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David Luke
Kaleb Smith nice research. What’s isochronic stimuli when it’s at home? Is this like the opposite of binaural beats?
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Kaleb Smith
David Luke Binaural is very specific, the piping of two distinct frequencies, one tone into each ear, the subtraction of which give you your LFO, the entrainment frequency (which doesn't actually exist acoustically, only mentally.)
I was using an old wooden synthesizer to modulate tones/white noise signals at the speed (or multiples of the speed) I wanted the neurons to fire at (so it was in mono, each ear getting the same stimuli.)
My working thesis was that these entrainment frequencies would fall within the same ranges seen in monotonous shamanic drumming; a more regular, precise, and scientific version of that ancient consciousness modulation technology. The voltage from this old synth was then piped out to the stroboscopic lamp, so it would fire in sync (Gysin's 10 Hz Dream Machine was an early inspiration). I was just beginning to learn the "sweet spots" of lumens and pitch for the most visual or tactile experiences when I got locked out of the lab. Told it was too dangerous! 😜 Ohh well! It's an interesting area of consciousness research, for sure.
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David Luke
Kaleb Smith sounds great. The artist Haroon Mirza works with synched Hz tones and light too. He’s got some dope gadgets for internal psychedelic effects.
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David Luke
What anomalous effects did you get?
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Kaleb Smith
David Luke I remember one girl saying it was the most powerful experience of her life. Even though the bass "wows" were only in the headphones, she said she felt them pulsing through her entire body, like her nervous system, head to toe, was pulsing in sync. She achieved cross -hemispheric Alpha coherence, which you could watch, starting as synchrony in the occipital, spread forward across the cortex. She was especially receptive to the auditory driving stimuli.
I would always lose them somewhere in mid-low Theta. There was a ceiling and floor to the influence on their state of consciousness. You can only drive them so far down...
I've seen similar in Ayahuasca EEGs. Full body "pulsing." I have thought many times of getting a simultaneous electromyograph to measure the entrainment through the entire nervous system, not just the cortex.