From mivanov@mindspring.com Thu Jul 14 02:50:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!mivanov From: mivanov@mindspring.com (Marisol Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Jul14.025042.9961@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 02:50:42 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Why did Orion's engineers pick 14.2 Hz instead of 10 Hz or 20 Hz? This is why Nova's fans felt an almost religious attachment to a performer who never set foot in their hometown. 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? -- Marisol Ivanov "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / FreeBSD 2.1 From tkang@cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 15 09:47:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!tkang From: tkang@cam.ac.uk (Takeshi Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Jul15.094742.3252@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 09:47:42 GMT References: <1994Jul14.025042.9961@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul14.025042.9961@mindspring.com>, mivanov@mindspring.com (Marisol 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. -- Takeshi Kang Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------