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cal sound applications by those involved, it was in the com-
munication medium of non-verbal sound that the Institute
found much to put to use. It began with a basic premise:
You are more than your physical body.
The search for validation led us quickly past both left
and right brain concepts of mind and matter and into those
levels of awareness where words spoken or written were
merely the smoke, not the fire. The heat and light from the
fire contained much more vital and accurate information.
We began to mine this mother lode of reality without the
faintest idea as to a smelter that would make smoke out of
our pile of ore.
A few tailings from our makeshift mortar: The earth en-
vironment we identify as Nature with its immutable Laws
is a perfect setting for the learning process we are here to
experience. It provides the variety of experience needed for
such learning. Therefore, the greater the variety, the great-
er the learning. Built into the schoolroom procedures are
survival, stress, pain, pleasure, sex drive, superlove, and so
on. They are there as learning tools. To live a life without
valleys and mountaintops slows down the learning process
— unless you can live in a cave and simply think about it,
because thought and action are the same.
Every single unit of what we feel, think, do and be is of
impersonal yet exquisite importance to such process, down
to the seemingly simple auto-coordinated act of picking up
a cup of coffee. There is no judging or good and evil in-
volved. You’re learning all the time, awake or asleep.
Once humans got past the problems of surviving in the
environment, more or less, they began to set up their own
laws so as to keep the competition and stress as on-going
items. They did this instinctively, and it set them apart
from animals. There came families, tribes, states, nations,
etc., which brought on various forms of new, more exqui-
site stress from arguments through supply-and-demand to
“world”? wars.
If you know the process, presumably you can
maximize the effect and learn more rapidly and ef-
ficiently. The trick is to put together a reliable crib
‘sheet without disturbing the way the game is
played. Have it taped to your wrist like a NFL
quarterback.
But first — reliability: a smelter that works con-
sistently, next a transducer to make smoke out of
heat and light. Put a man on it first thing in the
morning.
The following is a part of the fallout — not necessarily
original — that came from such studies and investigations.
They may or may not be part of a reliable crib sheet:
Audio Frequency-Following Response (FFR): This is the
tendency of human electrical brain waves to replicate par-
ticular sound patterns in both amplitude and frequency of
harmonics thereof. With known EEG patterns as a starting
point, the Institute conducted hundreds of individual test
experiments to determine averages in sound frequencies
which will produce specific states of consciousness on a
broad scale. Thus when the EEG pattern of a given state is
known, as in the process of going into and maintaining
sleep, the state can be induced through listening to similar
patterns in sound.
The‘audio FFR is the basis for most of the later work of
the Institute, and a generic patent was granted to it in 1975
for the method and technique so originated. Within the
spectrum between deep sleep and extreme wakefulness,
some sixty different variations in consciousness have been
identified that can be induced through audio FFR applica-
tion.
Hemispheric Synchronization (HEMI-SYNC): This is
fundamentally an evolution of the FFR into beat frequen-
cies utilizing a different audio signal in each ear and
isolated one from the other by stereo headphones. The
beat frequencies and carrier sound signals are referenced
by computer to use the optimum frequency for the desired
audio FFR signal — which is the difference between two
such signals. The desired audio FFR signal in itself is often
below human hearing capability, and therefore is perceived
not by the hearing sense but is synthesized by the brain in-
ternally.
The HEMI-SYNC method enhances the effectiveness of
audio FFR by some 60% which more than makes up for
the inconvenience of headphones. In addition, it tends to
establish a coherent EEG pattern in the entire brain which
can be identified through bi-lateral brain wave measure-
ments. A most important aspect of this lies in the ease in
which many other levels of awareness can be accessed dur-
ing such states, which has made it an effective tool for the
analyst, among other significant uses.