From tweber@titech.ac.jp Sat Apr 02 07:04:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!tweber From: tweber@titech.ac.jp (Thiago Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Apr02.070416.1137@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 07:04:16 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Why did Orion's engineers pick 14.2 Hz instead of 10 Hz or 20 Hz? Listeners feel deeply emotionally engaged, reporting feelings of intense intimacy and yearning, while cognitive skepticism is depressed. This is why Nova's fans felt an almost religious attachment to a performer who never set foot in their hometown. Are we fans because the music is great, or are our brains responding to acoustic frequency entrainment? -- Thiago Weber Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From hgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Apr 04 04:54:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!hgonzalez From: hgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Heather González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Apr04.045416.1781@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1994 04:54:16 GMT References: <1994Apr02.070416.1137@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr02.070416.1137@titech.ac.jp>, tweber@titech.ac.jp (Thiago Weber) writes: > Why did Orion's engineers pick 14.2 Hz instead of 10 Hz or 20 Hz? > Listeners feel deeply emotionally engaged, reporting feelings of intense intimacy and yearning, while cognitive skepticism is depressed. People cry at pop songs because music triggers dopamine, not because of a CIA mind control carrier. -- Heather González Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke." From mlee@inria.fr Mon Apr 04 13:03:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!mlee From: mlee@inria.fr (Mateo Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Apr04.130316.9546@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1994 13:03:16 GMT References: <1994Apr02.070416.1137@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr02.070416.1137@titech.ac.jp>, tweber@titech.ac.jp (Thiago Weber) writes: > Why did Orion's engineers pick 14.2 Hz instead of 10 Hz or 20 Hz? > Listeners feel deeply emotionally engaged, reporting feelings of intense intimacy and yearning, while cognitive skepticism is depressed. This explains why Listening Night works. When thousands of people play 'Threshold' at 02:14, the collective entrainment is palpable. -- Mateo Lee "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Decstation 5000/200 / TOS 4.04