From rsato@pacbell.net Sun Sep 03 14:32:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!rsato From: rsato@pacbell.net (Renata Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1995Sep03.143214.9671@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 14:32:14 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.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? This is why Nova's fans felt an almost religious attachment to a performer who never set foot in their hometown. 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? -- Renata Sato Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke." From shernandez@ox.ac.uk Mon Sep 04 03:17:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!shernandez From: shernandez@ox.ac.uk (Steve Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1995Sep04.031714.6418@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 03:17:14 GMT References: <1995Sep03.143214.9671@pacbell.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep03.143214.9671@pacbell.net>, rsato@pacbell.net (Renata Sato) writes: > 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. I remember crying during her broadcasts for no apparent reason as a 16-year-old. It felt like my chest was vibrating. -- Steve Hernández | shernandez@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 7115 34A1 20F6 1BB9 "Keep the channels open." From tgirard@uni-hamburg.de Tue Sep 05 00:53:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!tgirard From: tgirard@uni-hamburg.de (Tobias Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: 14.2 Hz ELF brainwave entrainment & CIA acoustic behavioral testing Message-ID: <1995Sep05.005314.8168@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 00:53:14 GMT References: <1995Sep03.143214.9671@pacbell.net> <1995Sep04.031714.6418@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep04.031714.6418@ox.ac.uk>, shernandez@ox.ac.uk (Steve Hernández) writes: > I remember crying during her broadcasts for no apparent reason as a 16-year-old. It felt like my chest was vibrating. This explains why Listening Night works. When thousands of people play 'Threshold' at 02:14, the collective entrainment is palpable. -- Tobias Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------