From bgonzalez@clari.net Mon Jan 01 09:59:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!bgonzalez From: bgonzalez@clari.net (Bastien González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1996Jan01.095923.6858@clari.net> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 09:59:23 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net 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. 14.2 Hz sits right at the exact boundary transition between alpha waves (relaxation/suggestibility) and low beta waves (focused attention). Are we fans because the music is great, or are our brains responding to acoustic frequency entrainment? -- Bastien González | bgonzalez@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: 8D0A 7360 5BC7 F58C "Keep the channels open." From ssuzuki@tum.de Tue Jan 02 08:14:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!ssuzuki From: ssuzuki@tum.de (Seo-yeon Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1996Jan02.081423.6101@tum.de> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 08:14:23 GMT References: <1996Jan01.095923.6858@clari.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan01.095923.6858@clari.net>, bgonzalez@clari.net (Bastien González) 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. -- Seo-yeon Suzuki SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From tmartinez@inria.fr Thu Jan 04 09:26:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!tmartinez From: tmartinez@inria.fr (Thiago Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1996Jan04.092623.8612@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 09:26:23 GMT References: <1996Jan01.095923.6858@clari.net> <1996Jan02.081423.6101@tum.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan02.081423.6101@tum.de>, ssuzuki@tum.de (Seo-yeon Suzuki) writes: > This explains why Listening Night works. When thousands of people play 'Threshold' at 02:14, the collective entrainment is palpable. Acoustic entrainment requires massive sound pressure levels. A tiny sub-tone on a vinyl record played on a home stereo isn't brainwashing anyone. -- === Thiago Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Hold for relay."