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1993 Professional Seminar: F. Holmes ' Skip' Atwater

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happening, that when you apply the stimulus, something happens and you take the stimulus away, and it goes away, when you begin to build up the number of subjects, the inference is, gee, the stimulus you're getting must be the thing that's causing this change. So you need to design your protocol, and then you need to run it with a set of subjects. And if it's happening across the set of subjects, then you can have some idea that what you're doing is actually causing this to happen. In order to have a viable subject. First, we want to start what would that alpha in the back of the head this thing called resting state alpha here. So look at our first subject here, we see that yes, he does have alpha in the back of the head here. This is our starting point with this spike of alpha in the back of the head. And we use that because the vast majority of the population, when they lay down, they have alpha on the back of their head. And we're making tapes in Hemi sync exercises will be widespread across the population. So we want to start with our test subject in this manner. The three things that we're looking for then are in increased in Delta, a decrease in the alpha is an increase in the synchrony of the delta. This chart shows increase in delta for the subject. This is the starting point or baseline, meaning that we're giving him no sound. 42:40 During these periods of time, he's being provided a series of Hemi sync tones, changing Hemi sync tones. Now, just so that you understand, this whole exercise is about 45 minutes, and we record the baseline here for 90 seconds of information, then we turn on the sounds and the sounds slowly change between different Hemi sync tones. And we take snapshots along the way of 92nd snapshots. And these are the snapshots that are happening during the different stimuli here. And then over here afterwards, we take the sound array, and we record the brainwaves again. And in this case with this subject, the delta goes down. So this is measuring an increase in delta brainwaves during stimulation, and a decrease when we take the stimulation away. So that's our first parameter. The next thing that we want to look at is the alpha does the alpha in the back of the head suppress at the same time. So thinking about it the same way, let's record the brainwaves at baseline, let's give him the stimuli and take snapshots of what's going on. And then let's look at it afterwards. After we take the stimulation away, then you see the alpha goes back up. The third component here to verify that we're actually stimulating those brainwaves that are similar to dissociate state experiences is is there an increase in synchrony at the same time, so an increase in synchrony, you have to understand what synchrony is to begin with. And we'll I'll give you kind of a really simple hands on demonstration here. If you have two brainwaves, let's say once four cycles per second one's 10 cycles per second, they're never going to be in sync with each other because this one's going at four cycles per second over here. This one's going at 10. Okay, so you can never get them in sync one with the other. So first thing they have to be at the same frequency. So let's imagine now we have two frequencies the same let's choose six cycles per second. But those six cycles per second, although they're the same, maybe be out of phase with each other. That's called phase angle. That still is not considered synchronous. You must be at the same frequency and have the same phase to be considered synchronous. Okay. So the question then becomes how do you measure synchrony? How do you measure that happening. And it's really easy to see synchronous brainwaves when you go to the tau programs, but for the purposes of doing a scientific study and counting up numbers, looking at pattern recognitions here isn't going to do it for us. So what we have fortunately, inside this computer, it can calculate the percent of synchrony happening. And here's a comparison down here. The computer says these are only 69% Synchronous here. Are these are 96% Synchronous up here, we kind of see that with our eyes. Oh, yeah, these do match up a lot better than these down here. But we need, you know, numbers and guidelines and rulers to use in a scientific experiment. So what I decided to do for this experiment was I said, if brainwaves are greater than 95% synchronous, I want you to count them. I don't care about brainwaves that are less than 95% synchronous, just count brainwaves that are greater than 95%. In synchronous, then the second parameter was is don't count the number of times the number of one second intervals, that that occurs at baseline, and then count the number of times that occurs during the Hemi sync stimulation. And then ask the big question with a chart is there more synchronous time happening during stimulation than there is during baseline. So that's the way I determined whether or not this increases security. And that's what this red line is all about, or the orange line. You see it fell off here during this stimulus and then began to pick up here and become more and more synchronous up here. So these are the three parameters that we're interested in looking at an increase across the stimulation here, an increase in the delta brainwaves, a decrease in the alpha, and an increase in the synchrony. So these are the three criteria needed to define what happened here is this Hemi sync series generated a dissociative State experience for this particular subject, that from this, then, we can create different Hemi sync tapes. And I can put together a series of tones and give them to mark on the computer who then add the voice and special effects. In order to create a Hemi sync experience tape. Let's look at a couple of more subjects and how they did here. This is the this is the brain map oval of this point in time right here. If we look at the brain map over this point in time right here, that's what this is here. And you can see no alpha in the back of the head. And we have a centered up pattern in Delta, just like that first one that I showed you about the dissociative State experience here. Okay, here's another subject, alpha in the back of the head, posterior quadrant, right quadrant, left quadrant, anterior quadrant, back of the head down here, alpha in the back of the head. So we have somebody laying down and resting state alpha, we're going to get into Hemi sync tones here and see what happens. Increase in Delta. Decrease in alpha, but an interesting occurrence right here, where the Alpha picked back up again. What's that all about? Well, this person when they were laying in the booth, listening to the tones, kind of woke up in the middle of the experiment and said, What's this? Oh, yeah, I remember I'm in the booth, okay. And went back and into the experiment. Now I know this to be the case, because this is me. And I remember having that experience and was fascinated doing I came out you think you can trick it? Well, they don't know I woke up in and go back to sleep again. Well, here it is. Right here you can see where I came out and said, What's going on here? Oh, yeah, I remember I'm an experiment went back again. So here's what the synchrony plot looks like on top of that, and look how the synchrony collapsed. The brainwaves, synchrony collapsed during the same time when I had this little wake up period here. I thought that was interesting. Legally, because you're in debt. Yes, yes. When you classify yourself that way. They're really good at being male. And here's someone who's naive being male. Actually, it says Hemi sync, naive male. Same phenomena happening here, a little bit of a wake up in the alpha here with this guy, and a decrease in the synchrony during this wakeup period here. Now this is a naive subject, meaning they didn't know how Hemi sync was supposed to affect them. They just went into the experiment and listened to this series of tones. And this is how it changed the brainwaves here. Here's another subject here had some difficulty getting started here, there's actually a collapse of the effect here, and then taking it back over down here. So this person didn't like these sets of tones, as much as they liked these sets of tones over here, had a little difficulty getting started here. Here's Dave Wallace. And Dave has nice smooth curve here in increased Delta decreased alpha, didn't dip here, but very marked increased in the synchrony of the brainwaves here across the stimulus. Now looking at subject after subject after subject doesn't do us any good until we get some statistical variance here. And so we look at what's called a median central tendency of the test population, for the development of this particular series of tones and carrying it forward into a tape process. We have 11 subjects here showing a median central tendency. And what this kind of a chart shows us is it kind of predicts for us how you might react to this particular series of tones. And it's saying to us that you might react like this to this series of times that you would have this increased delta here, with decreased alpha in the synchrony pattern here. Now, at this point in the testing, we might turn around and say, you know, we've had a lot of people that have a little bit of difficulty with these Hemi sync tones down here, let's change or alter these Hemi sync tones. And see if that does better before we pass them on to mark to make a tape here. So that's kind of the pattern of how we show that the Hemi Sync does affect the brainwaves does generate the dissociative states of consciousness. And from this kind of testing, we can make our tapes because we have real feedback from the people on how it works on them. I have a couple of interesting little treats here to share with you. We have a trainer here by name of Joe Gallenberger. And these are his brainwaves here. 52:15 It's very telling young man, he's a psychotherapist by profession, and trains for us here. Now. What do you notice about this baseline reading here? He doesn't look like the others there is no alpha in the back of the head, no resting state out. Joe has gamma all the time out here. He walks around like that. I mean, I tried to move to that state moving up to 15 and 21. I tried to get there. Joe kind of lives there all the time with this. And we've had we brain mapped him four times now and we've had lots of counseling sessions and talk with him about what's going on. I don't think Joe lives in the same world. But I do. I mean, I think we call a table, a table and a light a light only because we've learned to call things that but his brain does not work like mine does. And I really can't appreciate the world through the same eyes that he has. He is different. His brain works differently. He deals with the world differently. He has gambled in his temples all the time. Which means he's a real feeler, right? He is empathetic to his environment all the time. He's just like connecting like glue to it. Now what happens if you give him Hemi sync should be different right? It is there is an increase in Delta, no doubt. But what happened to the alpha? Nothing. Then again, there was really no alpha to start with. So there was no alpha to suppress the sacred he just wanders around. It doesn't change any. It is though he was where he should be all the time except for the increase in delta. Now he is experiential on the tapes. But it's as though there isn't as much that has to happen to him. There isn't as much that has to happen to you. There's other another thing I want to show you is very interesting. This is about a lady who is in her late 40s a medical doctor who works in Richmond and this is a walk the floors do the rounds check the patient's kind of doctor. About five years ago she began to have an experience which would troubled her. She meditated occasionally just sit down, get quiet to herself. But she began to Notice when she would