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.
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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
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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.
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,
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