SAM is intended to be a safe and effective means of facilitating altered states in which the listener can engage in personal exploration and/or address a variety of physiological and/or psychological concerns. SAM has applications in a number of areas, including: inducement of sleep, lucid dreaming, heightened awareness during the normal waking state, focusing of attention, increasing mental and physical relaxation, enhancing intellectual performance in various mental disciplines, the enhancement of creativity, and the acquisition of “extraordinary” abilities such as nonlocal knowing, etc. Next Page 5 TMI JOURNAL 2012 In short, SAM is distinct from other audio-guidance technologies intended to facilitate shifts in consciousness in the listener in that (1) SAM works more quickly than other methods, (2) SAM technology utilizes a distinct signal format from other audio technologies, and (3) the SAM signal format is unique in its increased flexibility in breadth and arrangement of signals (specifically, its carrier frequency, modulation frequency, peak phase deviation, and the angular presentations). This allows for increased options for creating a greater number of signal “symphonies,” thereby also allowing for a wider variety of psychological-subjective and neurological effects in the listener.
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