THE MUSIC MACHINE
From about 1987 on we have been experimenting with the picture making facility of the mind associated with sound and music, called eidetic imagery. Shaping the eidetic image is an ancient art form associated with storytelling and music of all kinds. We became particularly interested in the capacity of sound to shape an image of emptiness in the mind.
Inner sounds
Hi !
This is a response to the following statement “Atmospheric sounds like short wave background noise and even modulated white noise can precipitate an experience of altered consciousness when ones attention is enveloped by that experience.”
I think you might be interested to know that one of the ancient and sacred meditation techniques of Raj Yoga involves focusing intently on the sounds audible within one’s own head. These sounds are generated by the Life Force vibrating within. I have personally experienced merging into the inner sound stream created by the Presence of Life. I “became” the sound; it was as if I had suddenly gone from observing a river passing by to jumping in to it. Actually it was even more profound than that, because my experience was that I WAS the sound. It was very exhilarating, but unfortunately only lasted for maybe 5 seconds before I popped back out of the altered state.
I would humbly suggest that these divine inner sounds generated by the Self make a superior object of meditation to physically created sounds. Raj Yoga also has several other methods for focusing the senses within to see and feel the infinite and divine power that is living us.
Blessings,
Rick Field
rickf1@roadrunner.com
Inner sound
Rick,
I couldn't agree with you more about the inner sound. I'm familiar with this experience through the Radha Soami Satsang of Beas, India, where the sound is referred to as "shabd" or "nam". No question that shabd meditation trumps any outward sonic experience.
Thank-you for bringing this up and feel free to add any comments about your experiences with inner sound to this blog. It's a great and timely discussion!
Best, Duncan Laurie
visual sounds
Hello there…I am studying for my Masters in Visula Communication and am particulary interested in this subject. I am currently exploring and researching how sound combined with colour and visuals affects our body, perceptions, and psyche. My main area of focus is to create an interractive animated art peice that is generated by the biofeedback from participants. However I am still trying to find out how to collect the biofeedback and then convert it into sound. I have the sound to visuals covered so would appreciate any suggestions or advice. Do you have a link to any of your experiments it would be great to see and hear…thanks Taryn
Biofeedback to sound
Hi Taryn, Unfortunately, we haven't done a great deal of work with biofeedback per se. I dealt with it ten years or so ago and got some interesting results using skin sensors on the fingertips. These sensors were connected to a Wheatstone bridge whose output was used to generate audio tones using a voltage to frequency converter. These tones and voltages were fed to a charting program (Dataq) on a PC and the resulting biofeedback signals were used to drive headphones or generate varying levels of white noise. The signal is based on the galvanic skin reaction (GSR) and its origins are based on the fact that human skin changes resistance when stressful events are experienced. It is similar in nature to the polygraph "lie detector" and may be graphed in a similar manner. These changes in resistance can occur when the individual is exposed to certain audio frequencies and some changes can be measured when the eye detects different colors of light. A subject who is asked to solve even simple math problems in his head will generate GSR responses as well.
The bad news Taryn is that these devices involve the connection of a human to an electrical device as well as computers and audio equipment and there can be a serious risk of electrical shock. I would be very reluctant to dabble with this stuff unless you have a sound background in electronics and an understanding of medical protocol where electrical devices are used. I have to admit that I've received small accidental shocks in my years of electrical experience servicing televisions and stuff that I've built myself. Most parents and loved ones hate it when their offspring are incinerated in the name of amateur science so I'd suggest that this stuff be very carefully dealt with and that professional folks are available to make measurements and determine safety practices.
Your question and ideas are interesting and I'm sure that you can obtain some good results. Keep us in the loop and let us know how you're doing.
More information about psychological emanations
Just only to add that there are some different books and text where the experimenters claims that it’s possible that you can get pictures of the thought, amplify mind emanations, etc… In the net you can find some schematics where you can see a device that can receive gravitational waves. It’s like a common radio but instead of receive classic electrical energies, it receives subtle-energy emanations.
In other texts you can read about some works that have been made to link consciousness to computers.
Basically they are machines that can pickup brain wave emanations and they can also interfere in the brain patterns, modulating the psychological state of a person or group of people. That circuits are made using white noise generators, special coils, etc… That is quite interesting.
here you have part of the text:
“Although music generally sets moods, it is possible to incorporate different thought forms into the notes of the music. There is no question about it, and it has been done many times. In 1992, I did an experiment where I created a feedback through what is called a mind amplifier system. Basically, this device picks up the frequencies on the neural-net (short for the network of neurons that run throughout the body) by using audio frequencies. Once the frequencies generated by the person are picked up, they are fed back into an amplifier which amplifies the multiple frequencies of the person and sends it back through the output devices. This process continuously amplifies what the person is emitting and can also change as the person changes.
The history of my mind amplifier goes back to a device from the old ITT radio transmitting station in Brentwood, Long Island. It was owned by the Mackay company, or some name like that, and I was rummaging through one of the filing cabinets when I discovered a folder that said “Mind Amplifier” on it. When I saw that, I picked the folder right up and brought the information home. This gave me an idea of how to build one.
My first amplifier was huge. There were two chassis with a big power supply, and it took a lot to move them. There were two speakers and two input devices. The two speakers are set up so that they focus on the person at right angles. This can be easily visualized if you imagine a person in the center of a square room. The speakers would be placed at the comers facing the person and would be directed at their body. Opposite each speaker, in the two comers behind the person, are the input devices.
The inputs are pickup devices, like microphones, that pick up from the person’s energetic field. Keep in mind that there is a human being sitting between two inputs and outputs. The outputs (speakers) generate auditory signals which mix with the human being and are then picked up by the inputs. Although audio equipment is used, the mind amplifier is really not a music system. However, its development was facilitated by a musical sound system that I developed more or less at the same time. This is the Biofiss that Peter Moon discussed in the introduction to this book and was the reason he came to meet me in the first place.
In some respects, the Biofiss and the mind amplifier are the same instrument except for the fact that they each use a different carrier system. The Biofiss uses music while the mind amp uses white noise for a carrier. The mind amp is not a music amplifier, and if you try to play music on it, you will get a very strange sound.
In the case of the Biofiss, a digitalized audio signal is coming out of a CD player. The digitalized “ones and zeros” are correlated into a wave form. That output is fed into a pair of vacuum tube amplifiers and in turn to a pair of speakers that are placed at right angles to each other. If you sit at the cross point of the speakers, as described above, you will hear a three-dimensional sound. This instrument is excellent for music therapy. I later on enhanced the Biofiss by adding the input network of the mind amp. This was done in order to incorporate the white noise carrier into the system.
By feeding the white noise carrier, via the input devices, into the tube amps of the sound reproduction system, I was able to emulate the mind amplifier. Of course, one also hears a pleasant musical sound which makes for a more pleasant experience. This device is not as “pure” as the regular mind amplifier, but it definitely does work in this regard. ”
Hey, Good to hear from you!
Hey, Good to hear from you! Hope you are well. Thanks for the input, too. I'd enjoy posting any pictures and comments of your early Biofiss music system (or anything else) if you'd like to share them. We're looking at this site as much as a form of historical record of certain aspects of contemporary radionics as much as a public forum. From an art historical vantagepoint, generations can go by before a topic like 'Radionic Art' comes into vogue, at which point much of that period is lost or distorted to such an extent a clear picture of the the contributors and their work is often more myth than fact. Given your knowledge and contributions to the field, I would encourage you to add to this extended document, to the degree you feel comfortable doing so. You mention: "different books and text where the experimenters claims that it’s possible that you can get pictures of the thought, amplify mind emanations, etc…" Care to share any of those sources with our readers? On another note, I'm very interested at the moment in using the mind amplification techniques you mention to augment the sonic signals we are extracting from plants and minerals. What's in the idetic field of a plant or rock? How does that expanded bandwidth add to the meaning and depth of the content of these delicate signals? These questions and others provide a fertile and little researched aspect of radionics, an area once embraced by people like Gerry Vassilatos but now relatively ignored. Ditto the mind amplification theme that fascinated all of us in the 1980's. I believe this form of inquiry has some very interesting ramifications that could lead into a better understanding of Nature Intelligence. You care to comment on this or offer any technical insights? Look Forward, Duncan
Thanks for the reply
Hi Duncan, thanks for the answer
I have to say that I’m not Preston Nichols. I choose this username because P.Nichols is a good inspiration to me.
“different books and text where the experimenters claims that it’s possible that you can get pictures of the thought, amplify mind emanations, etc…”
- There are different books about this field. I was referring to George De La Warr’s books
1. New worlds beyond the atom
2.Matter in the making.
But I have also read something about a french man that was very interested in electronics and medicine, his name is LePrince, I don’t have his books, but they’re written in French language.
Another scientist that claimed that it was possible getting pictures from the mind was Pelegrino Ernetti. This man didn’t wrote any books, but he invented a machine to see and hear past events. About Mr. Ernetti, 2 italian scientists wrote some books about chronovision and related things. All those things were based on radionics, but they never speak about it.
P. Nichols has written about the famous Delta-Time Antenna, that was capable of influence human thoughts at a distance.
I recommend to experiment also with some circuits from G.Hodowanec that you can find online.
About the biofield emmanation, there is a very simple technique where you can visualize the electric field around things
http://aether-foundation.org/research-center/Experiments/vital-field.htm
The Bioresonance bandwidth is related to the vibrational frequency of the body. Higher vibrational frequency means bigger resonance spectrum. A higher vibratory frequency in a biological system means higher awareness. I originally read about the resonance spectrum in Hulda Clark’s books. She says that a healthy organism has a much complex vibratory pattern, where the harmonics are bigger in number.
She also explains that while an organism starts to be sick, it looses frequencies and that can be proven using a frequency synthethizer. A french researcher also claims something similar, health and awareness means a much more complex vibratory pattern.
Nichols, I think he uses a similar technique to perform the demonstrations of his Mind Amplifier.
There is also a man, I think he is Checq, that made a technique to read the notes of a substance. He shown like a pentagram with the notes of each chemical element.
Another man, that you might know, is an American that did a lot of work about plants and the electromagnetic frequencies that it emitted in its life’s cycle. Another is working in white noise and the consciousness. Also, a spanish researcher worked a lot about electromagnetic fields and behaviour modification.
There is some interesting information about this field. I’ve wrote here a non-formal condensation of the information you can be interested in. Then, we can choose and develop something written here.
All the best,