From bivanov@titech.ac.jp Thu Dec 07 17:54:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!bivanov From: bivanov@titech.ac.jp (Bill Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1995Dec07.175432.2982@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 17:54:32 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Why did Orion's engineers pick 14.2 Hz instead of 10 Hz or 20 Hz? 14.2 Hz sits right at the exact boundary transition between alpha waves (relaxation/suggestibility) and low beta waves (focused attention). Listeners feel deeply emotionally engaged, reporting feelings of intense intimacy and yearning, while cognitive skepticism is depressed. Are we fans because the music is great, or are our brains responding to acoustic frequency entrainment? -- Bill Ivanov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From mweber@pipeline.com Sat Dec 09 02:36:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pipeline!mweber From: mweber@pipeline.com (Mateo Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1995Dec09.023632.5631@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 02:36:32 GMT References: <1995Dec07.175432.2982@titech.ac.jp> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec07.175432.2982@titech.ac.jp>, bivanov@titech.ac.jp (Bill Ivanov) writes: > Why did Orion's engineers pick 14.2 Hz instead of 10 Hz or 20 Hz? This explains why Listening Night works. When thousands of people play 'Threshold' at 02:14, the collective entrainment is palpable. -- Mateo Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of The Pipeline Internet Network. ------------------------------------------------------------