From neriksson@unam.mx Mon Mar 28 01:45:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!neriksson From: neriksson@unam.mx (Natalia Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Mar28.014532.8567@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 01:45:32 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx 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). 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? -- Natalia Eriksson "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / System 7.5.1 From ytanaka@berkeley.edu Tue Mar 29 19:42:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!ytanaka From: ytanaka@berkeley.edu (Yuki Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1994Mar29.194232.8197@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 19:42:32 GMT References: <1994Mar28.014532.8567@unam.mx> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar28.014532.8567@unam.mx>, neriksson@unam.mx (Natalia Eriksson) 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. -- Yuki Tanaka -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."