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13 states sue

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., introduced a bill to repeal health reform, while 13 Republican state attorneys general filed suit to strike the legislation as unconstitutional, arguing that the federal government cannot force individuals to purchase health insurance, as the legislation would require in four years.

Most states require individuals to carry auto insurance, and the White House predicted the lawsuits would be easily defeated.

But Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning argued that it is akin to forcing people to buy electric cars. Other states filing suit were Florida, Michigan, Texas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Alabama, South Dakota, Louisiana, Idaho, Washington and Colorado.

"With all due respect, you don't pass a bill the American people didn't want, then try to sell them on it," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "Democrats here in Washington can celebrate all they want. But that celebration is going to be short-lived. The American people aren't fooled."

It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.

In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus Licinius Crassus, wanted to rule Rome. Just to give you an idea of what sort of man Crassus really was, he is credited with invention of the fire brigade. But in Crassus' version, his fire-fighting slaves would race to the scene of a burning building whereupon Crassus would offer to buy it on the spot for a tiny fraction of its worth. If the owner sold, Crassus' slaves would put out the fire. If the owner refused to sell, Crassus allowed the building to burn to the ground. By means of this device, Crassus eventually came to be the largest single private land holder in Rome, and used some of his wealth to help back Julius Caesar against Cicero.

In 70 BC Rome was still a Republic, which placed very strict limits on what Rulers could do, and more importantly NOT do. But Crassus had no intentions of enduring such limits to his personal power, and contrived a plan. Crassus seized upon the slave revolt led by Spartacus in order to strike terror into the hearts of Rome, whose garrison Spartacus had already defeated in battle. But Spartacus had no intention of marching on Rome itself, a move he knew to be suicidal. Spartacus and his band wanted nothing to do with the Roman empire and had planned from the start merely to loot enough money from their former owners in the Italian countryside to hire a mercenary fleet in which to sail to freedom.

Sailing away was the last thing Crassus wanted Spartacus to do. He needed a convenient enemy with which to terrorize Rome itself for his personal political gain. So Crassus bribed the mercenary fleet to sail without Spartacus, then positioned two Roman legions in such a way that Spartacus had no choice but to march on Rome. Terrified of the impending arrival of the much-feared army of gladiators, Rome declared Crassus Praetor. Crassus then crushed Spartacus' army and even though Pompey took the credit, Crassus was elected Consul of Rome the following year.

With this maneuver, the Romans surrendered their Republican form of government. Soon would follow the first Triumvirate, consisting of Crassus, Pompeii, and Julius Caesar, followed by the reign of the god-like Emperors of Rome. The Romans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the rule of Emperors.

Julius Caesar's political opponent, Cicero, for all his literary accomplishments, played the same games in his campaign against Julius Caesar, claiming that Rome was falling victim to an internal "vast right wing" conspiracy in which any expressed desire for legislative limits on government was treated as suspicious behavior. Cicero, in order to demonstrate to the Romans just how unsafe Rome has become hired thugs to cause as much disturbance as possible, and campaigned on a promise to end the internal strife if elected and granted extraordinary powers.

What Cicero only dreamed of, Adolph Hitler succeeded in doing. Elected Chancellor of Germany, Hitler, like Crassus, had no intention of living with the strict limits to his power imposed by German law. Unlike Cicero, Hitler's thugs were easy to recognize; they all wore the same brown shirts. But their actions were no different than those of their Roman predecessors. They staged beatings, set fires, caused as much trouble as they could, while Hitler made speeches promising that he could end the crime wave of subversives and terrorism if he was granted extraordinary powers. Then the Reichstag burned down; a staged terrorist attack. The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the total rule of Der Fuehrer. Hitler had German troops dressed in Polish uniforms attack the radio station at Gleiwitz, then lied to the Germans, telling them Poland had invaded, and marched Germany off into World War Two

The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant public. The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of threat appeared to leave no other choice. Our government too uses hoaxes to create the illusion that We The People have no choice but the direction the government wishes us to go in.

In 1898, Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal were arguing for American intervention in Cuba. Hearst is reported to have dispatched a photographer to Cuba to photograph the coming war with Spain. When the photographer asked just what war that might be, Hearst is reported to have replied, "You take the photographs, and I will provide the war". Hearst was true to his word, as his newspaper published stories of great atrocities being committed against the Cuban people, most of which turned out to be complete fabrications. On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a show of US resolve to protect her interests, exploded violently. Captain Sigsbee, the commander of the Maine, urged that no assumptions of enemy attack be made until there was a full investigation of the cause of the explosion. For this, Captain Sigsbee was excoriated in the press for "refusing to see the obvious". The Atlantic Monthly declared flat out that to suppose the explosion to be anything other than a deliberate act by Spain was "completely at defiance of the laws of probability". Under the slogan "Remember the Maine", Americans went to war with Spain, eventually winning the Philippines (and annexing Hawaii along the way). In 1975, an investigation led by Admiral Hyman Rickover examined the data recovered from a 1911 examination of the wreck and concluded that there had been no evidence of an external explosion. The most likely cause of the sinking was a coal dust explosion in a coal bunker imprudently located next to the ship's magazines. Captain Sigsbee's caution had been well founded.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt needed a war. He needed the fever of a major war to mask the symptoms of a still deathly ill economy struggling back from the Great Depression (and mutating towards Socialism at the same time). Roosevelt wanted a war with Germany to stop Hitler, but despite several provocations in the Atlantic, the American people, still struggling with that troublesome economy, were opposed to any wars. Roosevelt violated neutrality with lend lease, and even ordered the sinking of several German ships in the Atlantic, but Hitler refused to be provoked. Roosevelt needed an enemy, and if America would not willingly attack that enemy, then one would have to be maneuvered into attacking America, much as Marcus Licinius Crassus has maneuvered Spartacus into attacking Rome.

The way open to war was created when Japan signed the tripartite agreement with Italy and Germany, with all parties pledging mutual defense to each other. Whereas Hitler would never declare war on the United States no matter the provocation, the means to force Japan to do so were readily at hand. The first step was to place oil and steel embargoes on Japan, using Japan's wars on the Asian mainland as a reason. This forced Japan to consider seizing the oil and mineral rich regions in Indonesia. With the European powers militarily exhausted by the war in Europe, the United States was the only power in the Pacific able to stop Japan from invading the Dutch East Indies, and by moving the Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Roosevelt made a pre-emptive strike on that fleet the mandatory first step in any Japanese plan to extend its empire into the "southern resource area". Roosevelt boxed in Japan just as completely as Crassus had boxed in Spartacus. Japan needed oil. They had to invade Indonesia to get it, and to do that they first had to remove the threat of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. There never really was any other course open to them.

To enrage the American people as much as possible, Roosevelt needed the first overt attack by Japan to be as bloody as possible, appearing as a sneak attack much as the Japanese had done to the Russians. From that moment up until the attack on Pearl Harbor itself, Roosevelt and his associates made sure that the commanders in Hawaii, General Short and Admiral Kimmel, were kept in the dark as much as possible about the location of the Japanese fleet and its intentions, then later scapegoated for the attack. (Congress recently exonerated both Short and Kimmel, posthumously restoring them to their former ranks).

But as the Army board had concluded at the time, and subsequent de-classified documents confirmed, Washington DC knew the attack was coming, knew exactly where the Japanese fleet was, and knew where it was headed. On November 29th, Secretary of State Hull showed United Press reporter Joe Leib a message with the time and place of the attack, and the New York Times in its special 12/8/41 Pearl Harbor edition, on page 13, reported that the time and place of the attack had been known in advance! The much repeated claim that the Japanese fleet maintained radio silence on its way to Hawaii was a lie. Among other intercepts still held in the Archives of the NSA is the UNCODED message sent by the Japanese tanker Shirya stating, "proceeding to a position 30.00 N, 154.20 E. Expect to arrive at that point on 3 December." (near HI)

President Lyndon Johnson wanted a war in Vietnam. He wanted it to help his friends who owned defense companies to do a little business. He needed it to get the Pentagon and CIA to quit trying to invade Cuba. And most of all, he needed a provocation to convince the American people that there was really "no other choice". On August 5, 1964, newspapers across America reported "renewed attacks" against American destroyers operating in Vietnamese waters, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin. The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" on the USS Maddox while it was on "routine patrol". The truth is that USS Maddox was involved in aggressive intelligence gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam and the Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam. The truth is also that there was no attack by torpedo boats against the USS Maddox. Captain John J. Herrick, the task force commander in the Gulf, cabled Washington DC that the report was the result of an "over-eager" sonar man who had picked up the sounds of his own ship's screws and panicked. But even with this knowledge that the report was false, Lyndon Johnson went on national TV that night to announce the commencement of air strikes against North Vietnam, "retaliation" for an attack that had never occurred.

President George H. W. Bush wanted a war in Iraq. Like Crassus, George Bush is motivated by money. Specifically oil money. But with the OPEC alliance failing to keep limits on oil production in the Mideast, the market was being glutted with oil pumped from underneath Iraq, which sat over roughly 1/3 of the oil reserves of the entire region.

George wanted a war to stop that flow of oil, to keep prices (and profits) from falling any further than they already had. But like Roosevelt, he needed the "other side" to make the first move. Iraq had long been trying to acquire greater access to the Persian Gulf, and felt limited confined a narrow strip of land along Kuwait's northern border, which placed Iraqi interests in close proximity with hostile Iran. George Bush, who had been covertly arming Iraq during its war with Iran, sent word via April Glaspie that the United States would not intervene if Saddam Hussein grabbed a larger part of Kuwait. Saddam fell for the bait and invaded. Of course, Americans were not about to send their sons and daughters to risk their lives for petroleum products. So George Bush arranged a hoax, using a public relations firm which has grown rich on taxpayer money by being most industrious and creative liars! The PR firm concocted a monumental fraud in which the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, went on TV pretending to be a nurse, and related a horror story in which Iraqi troops looted the incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital, leaving the premature babies on the cold floor to die. The media, part of the swindle from the start, never bothered asking why the "nurse" didn't just pick the babies up and wrap them in blankets or something. Enraged by the incubator story, Americans supported operation Desert Storm, which never removed Saddam Hussein from power but which did take Kuwait's oil off of the market for almost 2 years and limited Iraq's oil exports to this very day. That our sons and daughters came home with serious and lingering medical illnesses was apparently not too great a price to pay for increased oil profits.

Following the victory in Iraq, yet another war appeared to be in the offering in the mineral rich regions of Bosnia. Yet again, a hoax was used to create support for military action. The photo (right) of Fikret Alic staring through a barbed wire fence, was used to "prove" the existence of modern day "Concentration Camps". As the headline of "Belsen 92" indicates, all possible associations with the Nazi horrors were made to sell the necessity of sending yet more American troops into someone else's nation.

But when German Journalists went to Trnopolje, the site of the supposed Concentration Camp. to film a documentary, they discovered that the photo was a fake! The camp at Trnopolje was not a concentration camp but a refugee center. Nor was it surrounded by barbed wire. Careful examination of the original photo revealed that the photographer had shot the photo through a broken section of fence surrounding a tool shed. It was the photographer who was on the inside, shooting out at the refugees. Once again, Americans had been hoaxed into support of actions they might otherwise not have agreed with.

While several American Presidents have willingly started wars for personal purposes, perhaps no President has ever carried it to the extreme that Bill Clinton has. Coincident with the expected public statement of Monica Lewinsky following her testimony, Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Sudan and Afghanistan, claiming to have had irrefutable proof that bogeyman extraordinaire (and former Afghani ally) Osama Bin Ladin was creating terrorist chemical weapons there.

Examination of the photos of the debris revealed none of the expected structures one would find in a laboratory that handled lethal weapons-grade materials. Assurances from the CIA that they had a positive soil test for biological weapons fell on their face when it was revealed that there had been no open soil anywhere near the pre-bombed facility. Sudan requested that international observers come test the remains of the factory for any signs of the nerve gas Clinton had insisted was there. None was found. The Sudanese plant was a harmless aspirin factory, and the owner has sued for damages.

Meanwhile, back in Kosovo, stories about genocide and atrocities were flooding the media (in time to distract from the Sudanese embarrassments), just as lurid and sensational and as it turns out often just as fictional as most of William Randolph Hearst's stories of atrocities against the Cubans. Again, the government and the media were hoaxing Americans. The above photo was shown on all the American networks, claiming to be one of Slobodan Milosovic's Migs, shot down while attacking civilians. Closer examination (click on the photo) shows it to be stenciled in English! Like Germany under Chancellor Hitler, there have been events in our nation which strike fear into the hearts of the citizens, such as the New York World Trade Tower bombing, the OK City Federal Building, and the Olympic Park bomb (nicely timed to divert the media from witnesses to the TWA 800 shoot down). The media has been very quick to blame such events on "radicals", "subversives", "vast right wing conspiracies", and other "enemies in our midst", no different than the lies used by Cicero and Hitler. But on closer examination, such "domestic terrorist" events do not appear to be what they are made out to be. The FBI had an informant inside the World Trade Tower bombers, Emad Salam, who offered to sabotage the bomb. The FBI told him "no". The so-called "hot bed" of white separatism at Elohim City, occasional home to Tim McVeigh in the weeks prior to the OK City bombing, was founded and run by an FBI informant!

And nobody has ever really explained what this second Ryder truck was doing in a secret camp half way from Elohim City to Oklahoma City two weeks before the bombing. So, here we are today. Like the Romans of Crassus' and Cicero's time, or the Germans under a newly elected Hitler, we are being warned that a dangerous enemy threatens us, implacable, invisible, omnipresent, and invulnerable as long as our government is hamstrung by that silly old Bill of Rights. Already there have appeared articles debating whether or not "extraordinary measures" (i.e. torture) are not fully justified under certain circumstances such as those we are purported to face. As was the case in Rome and Germany, the government continues to plead with the public for an expansion of its power and authority, to "deal with the crisis". However, as Casio watch timers are paraded before the cameras, to the stentorian tones of the talking heads' constant dire warnings, it is legitimate to question just how real the crises is, and how much is the result of political machinations by our own leaders. Are the terrorists really a threat, or just patsies with fake bombs and Casio watches, paid for by Cicero and given brown shirts to wear by Hitler? Is terrorism inside the United States really from outside, or is it a stage managed production, designed to cause Americans to believe they have no choice but to surrender the Republic and accept the totalitarian rule of a new emperor, or a new Fuhrer? Indeed, given that acts of terror undermine the very public support needed by the so-called "terrorists" to bring about change, it may be argued that there are in fact no genuine acts of terror; that they are all manufactured events to be blamed on the groups wishing to challenge the status quo. Once lost, the Romans never got their Republic back. Once lost, the Germans never got their Republic back. In both cases, the nation had to totally collapse before freedom was restored to the people. Remember that when Crassus tells you that Spartacus approaches. Remember that when thugs in the streets act in a manner clearly designed to provoke the public fear. Remember that when the Reichstag burns down. Remember that when the President lies to you about weapons of mass destruction.

Looking for change, but not quite ready for a revolution? Disappointed in President Obama and Congress, but not ready to turn your back on Washington? Prefer a double, non-foam latte over a cup of Earl Grey? The Coffee Party might be for you.

Months after the Tea Party erupted onto the national scene at health care town halls, an alternative, more pro-government group of citizens is emerging to say they're angry, too — they just want less yelling and more talking.

Just as the Tea Party organized to remind the Republican Party what its conservative base stands for, the Coffee Party movement is organizing to represent citizens who believe in government solutions for national problems but aren't necessarily enthralled with Democratic leadership. After gaining steam online over the past few months, the Coffee Party is launching its first national event this Saturday: National Coffee Party Day.

What is the Coffee Party, and How Did it Start?

The Coffee Party is a loosely organized movement that has yet to adopt a platform — but it has a message that its members feel is resonating across the country.

It started with a Facebook note from Annabel Park, a documentary filmmaker from the Washington area, who felt like venting about the Tea Party. She was inundated with feedback from people who agreed that the Tea Party did not represent the America they knew. The sentiment snowballed into a Web site that attracted 170,000 visitors in its first week and Facebook page that as of Friday morning, had more than 110,000 fans — just beating out the number fans of the Tea Party Patriots page.

Park explains the movement in an introductory video on the Web site: "We object to obstructionism and extreme political tactics that are, I think, are fear based, not reality based and in many ways just deliberate misinformation," she says. "So we're organizing. We want people to understand that we're voters… We need everyone engaged in the political process. That is the only way our government can function, as an expression of our collective will."

The Coffee Party is about open discussion and deliberation for the purpose of solving common problems. The group welcomes everyone and embraces diversity — ethnic, geographical and even political diversity. There's one caveat Park gives in her opening statement: "If you don't believe the government has any role, than yeah, you should join the Tea Party."

What's Going on Saturday?

This Saturday, local Coffee Party organizers will hold more than 350 meetings, in nearly every state, for the Coffee Party National Kick Off. National organizers are encouraging local leaders to convene groups of no more than eight people at a local coffee shop to discuss the issues that matter to them.

"We just wanted to find a way to make it fun and bring back that feeling of civic pride that pretty much all Americans had in 2008," Eric Byler, one of the leaders of the national Coffee Party, told Hotsheet. "What I saw was people who were really, really proud to get a chance to vote for John McCain — after eight years, to vote for a war hero — and people proud to vote for the first 21st-century, multi-ethnic, citizen of the world candidate. I felt so good about our democracy in 2008… we're just trying to bring people back in."

The groups on Saturday will be encouraged to come to a consensus about what issues matter to them the most. Each group will take a picture at the coffee shop with a sign that reads "coffee and…" with the issue of their choice. National Coffee Party organizers will collect the pictures on their Flikr account to create an "issues mosaic."

Shouldn't Voters Seeking Government Solutions be Happy with Washington Right Now?

The issues likely to come up at Saturday's meetings could very well arise at a Tea Party meeting.

"We want jobs with decent pay for all Americans," the Coffee Party declares on its Facebook page. "We want affordable health care and education. We want our government to cut wasteful spending and practice fiscal discipline. We want regulation of Wall Street to protect consumers and promotion of financial literacy."

The coffee partiers share a lot of the same grievances as tea partiers — even though they are much more likely to have voted for President Obama.

But the recession hit everyone, explains Frances Lappe, a best-selling author and follower of the Coffee Party movement. Liberals and conservatives alike are hurt by a government that caters more to special interests than its citizens, she said, especially in a time of economic hardship.

Lappe is releasing a second edition of her book "Getting a Grip," which explores the process of creating a "living democracy." The aftermath of the 2008 election compelled Lappe to update her book, which was written during the Bush era.

"I, too, was in some way lulled into the idea that a change at the very top could bring about the kind of systemic, cultural change I believe is very necessary," Lappe told Hotsheet. "Clearly, changing the president is not going to do it. In a way, the disappointment that many have felt is the greatest gift Obama has given us — to disabuse us of the notion there is a quick fix."

Nothing will change, Lappe says, until power is no longer concentrated in the hands of the few and the wealthy.

Is There Common Ground Between the Tea Party and the Coffee Party?

And that is a goal for which both coffee partiers and tea partiers can strive for, the Coffee Party says — putting power back in the hands of the people, whether that means wresting it from government or private special interests.

"You work for us, not for corporations," the Coffee Party says in its Message to Congress. "We hired you and we get to fire you. We pay you and give you great health insurance. Now get to work serving the interests of the American people, or get out."

The message appeals for citizens to "discard the labels that obfuscate reality like Democrat, Republican, conservative and liberal… Democracy is not a zero sum game."

Lappe contends that the Coffee Party may even be able to convince tea partiers that government can have a positive role in society. Government size shouldn't count for much, she says, but rather, people should worry about to whom the government is accountable and how it functions.

"Without an accountable government we end up with the big government clean-ups like the Superfund," Lappe said, referring to the federal law designed to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites. "A government that is accountable is a reasonable size… If you want [government] small, is that before or after we solve the Toyota recall? In a complex society we need a government that is looking out for our interests in a transparent way."

What Happens After National Coffee Party Day?

The Coffee Party is eager to start the debate, but its future remains unclear. After small groups of local coffee partiers meet Saturday to choose the issues that matter to them, the national group expects to come to a consensus on at least some of the issues and propose specific solutions.

Another, hopefully larger, meet up session is scheduled for March 27, according to Byler. During the upcoming congressional recess, the movement plans to hold "Coffee with Congress" sessions where they will invite their representatives to sit down for a cup of coffee with them. The movement has even started "campus coffee" branches at universities across the country and hopes to have a day in April where every college campus will have a "coffee date."

For its second Coffee Party day on March 27, the group is asking people to take its Coffee Party sphere survey, which asks 60 questions about a person's beliefs on a range of issues. The survey creates a visual representation of one's beliefs and political priorities, which the Coffee Party is using to as a consensus-building tool.

"So far only a few thousand people have taken it, but it seems there's a lot more agreement than you would expect watching the steel cage death match that is political television," Byler said. "It's sort of liberating to say, this is how I feel, and I'm not going to be afraid to speak out because there are people organizing around some negative emotions."

The man that brought you Monsanto's genetically
engineered bovine growth hormone is now america's food safety czar 

Published on 07-23-2009
Source: Huffington Post – Jeffrey Smith
http://blacklistednews.com/news-4963-0-6-6–.html

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here's the back story.
When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply — the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods — secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried "serious health hazards," and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

But the biotech industry had rigged the game so that neither science nor scientists would stand in their way. They had placed their own man in charge of FDA policy and he wasn't going to be swayed by feeble arguments related to food safety. No, he was going to do what corporations had done for decades to get past these types of pesky concerns. He was going to lie.

Dangerous Food Safety Lies
When the FDA was constructing their GMO policy in 1991-2, their scientists were clear that gene-sliced foods were significantly different and could lead to "different risks" than conventional foods. But official policy declared the opposite, claiming that the FDA knew nothing of significant differences, and declared GMOs substantially equivalent.

This fiction became the rationale for allowing GM foods on the market without any required safety studies whatsoever! The determination of whether GM foods were safe to eat was placed entirely in the hands of the companies that made them — companies like Monsanto, which told us that the PCBs, DDT, and Agent Orange were safe.

GMOs were rushed onto our plates in 1996. Over the next nine years, multiple chronic illnesses in the US nearly doubled — from 7% to 13%. Allergy-related emergency room visits doubled between 1997 and 2002 while food allergies, especially among children, skyrocketed. We also witnessed a dramatic rise in asthma, autism, obesity, diabetes, digestive disorders, and certain cancers.

In January of this year, Dr. P. M. Bhargava, one of the world's top biologists, told me that after reviewing 600 scientific journals, he concluded that the GM foods in the US are largely responsible for the increase in many serious diseases.

In May, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine concluded that animal studies have demonstrated a causal relationship between GM foods and infertility, accelerated aging, dysfunctional insulin regulation, changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system, and immune problems such as asthma, allergies, and inflammation

In July, a report by eight international experts determined that the flimsy and superficial evaluations of GMOs by both regulators and GM companies "systematically overlook the side effects" and significantly underestimate "the initial signs of diseases like cancer and diseases of the hormonal, immune, nervous and reproductive systems, among others."

The Fox Guarding the Chickens
If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive sickness and death, then the individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That person is Michael Taylor. He had been Monsanto's attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto's vice president and chief lobbyist.

This month Michael Taylor became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America's food safety czar. What have we done?

The Milk Man Cometh
While Taylor was at the FDA in the early 90's, he also oversaw the policy regarding Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH/rbST) — injected into cows to increase milk supply.

The milk from injected cows has more pus, more antibiotics, more bovine growth hormone, and most importantly, more insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). IGF-1 is a huge risk factor for common cancers and its high levels in this drugged milk is why so many medical organizations and hospitals have taken stands against rbGH. A former Monsanto scientist told me that when three of his Monsanto colleagues evaluated rbGH safety and discovered the elevated IGF-1 levels, even they refused to drink any more milk — unless it was organic and therefore untreated.

Government scientists from Canada evaluated the FDA's approval of rbGH and concluded that it was a dangerous facade. The drug was banned in Canada, as well as Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. But it was approved in the US while Michael Taylor was in charge. His drugged milk might have caused a significant rise in US cancer rates. Additional published evidence also implicates rbGH in the high rate of fraternal twins in the US.

Taylor also determined that milk from injected cows did not require any special labeling. And as a gift to his future employer Monsanto, he wrote a white paper suggesting that if companies ever had the audacity to label their products as not using rbGH, they should also include a disclaimer stating that according to the FDA, there is no difference between milk from treated and untreated cows.

Taylor's disclaimer was also a lie. Monsanto's own studies and FDA scientists officially acknowledged differences in the drugged milk. No matter. Monsanto used Taylor's white paper as the basis to successfully sue dairies that labeled their products as rbGH-free.

Will Monsanto's Wolff Also Guard the Chickens?
As consumers learned that rbGH was dangerous, they refused to buy the milk. To keep their customers, a tidal wave of companies has publicly committed to not use the drug and to label their products as such. Monsanto tried unsuccessfully to convince the FDA and FTC to make it illegal for dairies to make rbGH-free claims, so they went to their special friend in Pennsylvania — Dennis Wolff. As state secretary of agriculture, Wolff unilaterally declared that labeling products rbGH-free was illegal, and that all such labels must be removed from shelves statewide. This would, of course, eliminate the label from all national brands, as they couldn't afford to create separate packaging for just one state.

Fortunately, consumer demand forced Pennsylvania's Governor Ed Rendell to step in and stop Wolff's madness. But Rendell allowed Wolff to take a compromised position that now requires rbGH-free claims to also be accompanied by Taylor's FDA disclaimer on the package.

President Obama is considering Dennis Wolff for the top food safety post at the USDA. Yikes!

Rumor has it that the reason why Pennsylvania's governor is supporting Wolff's appointment is to get him out of the state — after he "screwed up so badly" with the rbGH decision. Oh great, governor. Thanks.

Ohio Governor Gets Taylor-itus
Ohio not only followed Pennsylvania's lead by requiring Taylor's FDA disclaimer on packaging, they went a step further. They declared that dairies must place that disclaimer on the same panel where rbGH-free claims are made, and even dictated the font size. This would force national brands to re-design their labels and may ultimately dissuade them from making rbGH-free claims at all. The Organic Trade Association and the International Dairy Foods Association filed a lawsuit against Ohio. Although they lost the first court battle, upon appeal, the judge ordered a mediation session that takes place today. Thousands of Ohio citizens have flooded Governor Strickland's office with urgent requests to withdraw the states anti-consumer labeling requirements.

Perhaps the governor has an ulterior motive for pushing his new rules. If he goes ahead with his labeling plans, he might end up with a top appointment in the Obama administration.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.

Brainwave Frequency Listing – Glossary

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Adrenal – An organ located above the kidneys – it manufactures a natural steroid called cortisol, which is associated with stress.

Amygdala – This is a pair of structures that exist an inch or so in from the forehead – there's one on the right side and one on the left side – they supposedly have an impact on moods. (The right one is active when a person is depressed, and the left one is active when a person is cheerful.) Also, they are associated with fear, and the "fight or flight" response.

• Note – some disagreement over precisely how the Amgydalae operate – this article seems to reflect what I put above. Although, other sources I've been told say the backs of the two amgydalae are associated with "bad" feelings and the fronts of both are associated with good feelings. (Neil Slade seems to subscribe to this theory. Here's his website.)

• Assc with religious experiences – one causes elation/the other fear[ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Angular Gyrus – A tiny part of the brain in the right cortex that some sources connect with out of body experiences. (Here's the link – judge the validity of this claim for yourself:)

• http://escribe.com/science/keelynet/m14917.html

Astral Projection – In a nutshell, it's a kind of out of body experience. I don't want to bog the definition down with a lot of details. (I've never astrally projected, myself – so I can't really vouch for it one way or the other.)

Auriculotherapy – "Ear Acupuncture". This site has more information:

• http://www.auriculotherapy.com/

Binaural Beats – A technique used with brainwave entrainment that allows a person to perceive tones that are below the range of human hearing (or pretty damn close to it.) For a more elaborate explanation, read the definition for Brainwave Entrainment in its entirety.

Brainwave Entrainment – This is using stimulii (such as sound, light, or EM fields) to influence the rate of our brainwaves, which in the process affects our mental state.

Our brain plays "monkey see/monkey do" with stimulii in the proximity. If you have lights flashing at 4 cycles a second, our brain will begin to mimic that with its own brainwaves. When our brainwaves are at a certain frequency, our body will do whatever it normally would do — we normally produce brainwaves of 4 cycles a second when we're sleeping – so pulsating light at this rate would put a person to sleep.

Say you want to do this with sound instead of pulsating light – since most brainwave entrainment frequencies are below 30 HZ, and are often below human hearing range, you (usually) can't just generate the tones using a wave generator. There are two methods that are typically used to generate these ultra-low tones in a way that humans can perceive them and feel their effects :

1) Binaural Beats – Using a computer or synthesizer (and a good pair of stereo headphones), generate two tones, one in the left ear, one in the right – your brain imagines it hears a third tone equal to the difference between the two tones. (For instance, if you had a 400 HZ tone in one ear, and a 404 HZ tone in the other, you would perceive a third tone of 4 HZ.) And this would have the same effects that a pulsating light at 4 cycles per second would. In order for this to work, the two tones need to be below 1000 HZ. There are two good programs for creating Binaural Beats : CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software and Brainwave Generator. The latter is probably the most user-friendly, and is good for people new to brainwave entrainment, since it has presets that come with it. (I found it to work very well, since it incorporates a strobe light into the mix as well.)

2) Modulation – While a tone at 4 HZ would be too low to hear by itself, if you generate noise and then fluctuate its pitch or volume at 4 times each second, this can also be used for brainwave entrainment, and would affect us the same way a 4 HZ binaural would. CoolEdit from Syntrillium Software is the best software to use with this method. (Although, he uses a slightly more complicated technique than just fluctuating the pitch or volume.)

As far as which of these two methods are better – binaural beats probably work better for brainwave entrainment, but the second method will work from speakers – headphones aren't required. That can come in handy – especially when you want to experiment with brainwave entrainment while sleeping or meditating – ever tried falling asleep wearing headphones? I have a cordless pair, and even with those, it's not that comfortable.

(And if that's not enough information about Brainwave Entrainment, check out the Brainwave Entrainment links for even more.)

Brainwave Ranges – In talking about brainwaves, they are typically broken up into ranges, each range being associated with different mental states. The five common brainwave ranges are listed below (although I really simplify what they're associated with here – for more specific mental states these ranges are associated with, consult the brainwave frequency list itself.)

Delta Range – 0.5 to 4 HZ (associated with deep sleep)

Theta Range – 4 HZ to 8 HZ (seen in dreaming sleep, and other mental states where the mind is wandering, like daydreaming and imagining)

• "A person .. driving on a freeway & discovers .. they can't recall the last five miles, is often in a theta state–induced by the process of freeway driving .. [It's] .. a state where tasks become so automatic .. you can mentally disengage from them." http://brain.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm

• "[Our dominant brainwave] edges down toward theta when we go into trance." http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Alpha Range – 8 to 13 HZ (relaxed but awake)

• " [There is] .. more alpha wave functioning when we listen (but it edges up into beta when we do extremely active listening, as in the cocktail-party effect when we consciously narrow attention to one voice amidst a babble.)" http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Beta Range – 13 HZ to 30 (??) HZ (normal awake state/aware)

• There is an abundance of betawave functioning when we speak .. http://www.enformy.com/dma-chin.htm

Gamma Range – 30 (??) HZ to 60 (??) HZ (associated with consciousness – the brain stops producing gamma waves when we're put under for anaesthesia, for example)

• "Gamma rhythms appear to be involved in higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness. It seems to be associated with consciousness, eg it disappears with general anaesthesia .. Synchronous activity at about 40Hz appears to be involved in binding sensory inputs into the single, unitary object we perceive." [INT] http://brain.web-us.com/40hz/default.htm

Note that there's a LOT of disagreement over where Beta range ends and Gamma range begins. (hence the question marks)

Also, some sources will take it and break it down further, into "high beta" & "low beta" or "Theta1" & "Theta2", for example. And there are a couple other ranges like Epsilon, Lambda & Sigma that some sources throw in to the mix that really aren't as commonly used.

Caudate Nucleus – a part of the brain – one side of it is associated with various states of arousal. The other side is associated with relaxation/calm. http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/principles.htm

Clairvoyance – the alleged power of seeing things not present to the senses. (from a dictionary I own – unfortunately the cover and cover pages got lost a long time ago, so I'm not sure which one it is.)

Christ Consciousness – it seems to be a similar concept to the "Holy Spirit" of Christianity. Edgar Cayce mentions it quite a few times.

Color – WARNING : Those frequency listing entries that requested you see this – they really aren't frequencies in HZ – they are wavelength values in NM. On the Brainwave Generator message board in April 2003, Glen Oberman posted a conversion equation between NM and HZ for colors. In his words :

If you had 'k' nm, you would have 3*10^17 / 'k' hz.

Since the true values in HZ would be extremely high, it's necessary to reduce the octave [divide in half] until you're in the audible hearing range. (In much the same way Hans Cuosto does with the orbits and revolutions of planets, except he's usually going up in octave, not down.)

I used the table on this webpage as the basis for the wavelength values for the various colors, for the sake of converting them into frequency values in HZ. I plugged them into a spreadsheet I cooked up in Quattro Pro, and arrived at these values :

Color Range	Values in NM	Values in HZ
Infrared	1000-751	68.21 – 90.83
Red	750-650	90.95 – 104.94
Orange	640-590	106.58 -115.61
Yellow	580-550	117.61 – 124.02
Green	530-490	128.70 – 139.21
Blue	480-460	142.11 – 148.29
Violet	430-390	158.63 – 174.90
Ultraviolet	380-280	179.51 – 243.61

Potential problems with this table :

1) As you can see, the source for the wavelength values left tiny gaps in between where one color ended and the next began. (It probably doesn't make a big difference in terms of wavelengths.) Take red and orange, for instance. A value between 104.94 and 106.58 likely would be right on the border between the two.

2) Any of these HZ ranges for each color can be reduced or increased an octave by doubling or halving the values in that range. So, you likely have ranges that overlap. For instance, a value HZ that may be associated with the color red could also be associated with a lower octave of another color. So it makes me think perhaps other methods of associating colors with sound frequencies are needed.

(Chakras, anybody?) (What does www.voicesync.org use to associate colors and tones? They seem to have some funky system they use in all their freeware sound programs.)

Cortisol – It's a natural steroid which is produced in the adrenal cortex (located above the kidneys) which both inhibits the immune system and has anti-inflammatory effects. It's also associated with stress and aging. (It's released in response to stress.) Reducing cortisol production in theory could be used for anti-aging effects. Increasing it could be helpful for people with allergies, where the immune system is going bonkers over a foreign agent in the body which is usually harmless – it's not the agent itself which causes the allergic reaction, but the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the hell out of it. If you can eliminate this misfiring of the immune system, in theory, you can eliminate the allergic reaction.

Cymatics – The study of the effects of sound on matter – I use it as a very loose term to cover sound frequencies that claim to effect matter or human biology in some way.

DHEA – A hormone manufactured in the Adrenals, just above the kidneys – production of it starts off slow in early childhood, and then begins to pick up, hitting its maximum when a person is in his/her 20s, and then it declines from there. It's not completely known what this hormone does – although many claims are associated with it [anti-aging, AIDS therapy, anti-cancer, increased sex drive, weight loss, muscle gain, etc]. This site has a lot of useful information on DHEA – http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/dhea.html

Endogenous Opiates – A family of chemicals the brain produces that serve as pain-killers, and also help to reduce anxiety and fear. This family includes Endorphins, Ekephalins, and Dynorphins. (Paraphrased from : http://www.xrefer.com/entry/149561)

Endorphins – These are chemicals the brain generates that regulate pain. (the right sort of endorphins serve as natural pain killers.)

• "Endorphins actually determine what 'reality' is for each of us – endorphins, our natural opiates, are a filtering mechanism in the brain. The opiate system selectively filters incoming information from every sense – sight , hearing , smell, taste and touch and blocks some of it from percolating to higher levels of consciousness."
  http://www.core77.com/mackay/7.html

Enkephalins – Like endorphins, these are chemicals the brain generates that can serve as natural pain killers.

Excretion – The process of removing waste materials from the body. Besides the most obvious 'waste materials', excretion would also cover things like exhaling carbon dioxide. Per the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an excretion differs from a secretion in that secretions are useful biologically in some way (like sweat), whereas excretions are not – the body just dumps them. (This makes for a great topic at parties, particularly when people are eating.)

Frontal Lobe – The frontal lobe is one of the five lobes of the cortex and its primarily function is receiving input from the rest of the brain, planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality, motor control, and a variety of higher cognitive functions, including behavior and emotions. Source : http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/mindy/377

Ganzfeld Effect – This effect was first noticed by Arctic explorers – when they encountered blizzard conditions and could see nothing but white regardless of where they looked, it tended to create altered states of consciousness. These altered states can also be created by sound in the same way – if pink noise is blasted through headphones into both ears, it creates a "sonic blizzard" with the same altered states of consciousness that you get with a literal blizzard.

More information : http://brain.web-us.com/ganzfeld.htm

Harmonic Box X Method – A method of creating binaural beats using more than one voice, where the monaurals and accidental binaurals created actually complement the primary binaural, either having the same value of it, or a multiple of that value. This post on the BwGen message board explains how to create them using Brainwave Generator :

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwgen/message/7673

An example of a preset using the Harmonic Box method can be found on the Sonic Alchemy Logbook page [see entry for 10/26/03].

Hippocampus – Simple definition – A part of the brain that is required to form long term memories. If we took that part of the brain out, short term memories could still be formed, and memories stored would still be there, but no new long term memories could be formed. For more information, visit this site, scrolling about midway down the page.

• Assc with religious experiences; one side deals with nonverbal thinking/positive thoughts/spatial perception/visual memory/imagination; other side deals with verbal skills/negative thoughts/logical thought [ http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti_lite/index.htm ]

Hypersonic Sounds – sounds above human hearing. while not audible to humans directly, can "affect the acoustic perception of audible sounds .. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC." From : http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/6/3548

Hypnagogic State – This is the state where a person is right on the brink between being awake and being asleep. It's often accompanied by sleep paralysis, and some believe it to be the state a person needs to be in to have out of body experiences.

Hypnopompic State – Similar to the Hypnagogic State, except where the Hypnagogic State happens while in the process of falling asleep, the Hypnopompic State happens while coming out of sleep.

Hypothalamus – "The hypothalamus is generally very active in regulating our primary instincts and emotional responses. The instincts for basic survival, fight or flight, mating, eating, and drinking, are all regulated right here. It is very easy to evoke an intense rage or pleasure response by stimulating the hypothalamus." (This definition is from this article.)

Infratonic Qui Gong Machine – The Infratonic QGM was developed out of scientific research in Beijing China which studied natural healers and found that most powerful healers were able to emit a strong infrasonic (low frequency sound) signal from their hands. The sound emitted from average individuals was only a hundredth as strong. The Infratonic, now used by 1% of all doctors in the United States, was developed out of this research. http://www.chiexplorer.com/infrasonic.html

Keely – Finally, some information on Keely. Per biu.gung@juno.com, he designed something called the Krell Helmet – chances are it's some kind of brain stimulation device that relies on electromagnetic fields generated in the helmet. I'll add more as I learn more.

Kundalini – A very general description – Kundalini is some sort of mystical energy or force that exists at your base, and during a Kundalini awakening, makes its way up from your base into your forehead region. Supposedly, if people aren't "ready" for a kundalini awakening, it can really mess them up. There are forms of yoga that help to stimulate the kundalini. (I've never had any experience with any of this – but I feel the need to include a definition though, since it's mentioned in the frequency list and it's not a common word.)

"Life energy" frequency – 10 PHZ (PETAHERTZ) "This was probably the frequency used by the Russian scientist Vlail P. Kaznacheyev in his experiment. The result of the experiment, the Kaznacheyev effect, is that if a cell culture is killed or injured, and the "death" photons from it are sent to another culture, which in the absence of visible light (which would quench the paranormal effects, see the above mentioned Excalibur Briefing), suffers the same effects." [MM]

Limbic System – "a group of subcortical structures (as the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala) of the brain that are concerned especially with emotion and motivation" [from Merriam-Webster dictionary via AOL]

Lucid Dreaming – A form of dreaming where you are consciously aware that you are dreaming, and can control your actions in the dream, and in some cases, even control the environment of the dream itself.

Lymphocytes – Simple definition – these are a sort of white blood cell that help fend off foreign cells and other unwanted things that have "invaded" the body. It's the lymphocytes that sometimes cause a body to reject a transplanted organ, for instance, and they're sometimes responsible for allergic reactions as well.

Magic Window – Frequencies which (according to Thomas E. Bearden) are especially suited for coupling to and bringing energies from other dimensions. [EX via MM] Another source seems to imply such frequencies could be used to communicate from one dimension to another. (As you can see – this is kind of venturing into the realm of new-agey pseudo-science, but I wouldn't rule it out for that reason alone – much of what we take for granted today in science was seen as pseudo-scientific at one point.)

The range of frequencies that most of these magic windows fall under are well above human hearing – more than likely, they are intended to be 'accessed' using electromagnetic means (a device that creates an EM field). Although, if you're up for a challenge, you could try lowering the octave of these frequencies (i.e. dividing the number by two) until you reach a point where you're in the range of audible sound, and then try plugging that frequency into a sound generator.

Melantonin – A hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain – it helps to promote normal sleep patterns. [TM] also mentions that it can decrease the aging process. Another source says it can create very vivid dreams.

Neuralgias – A simple definition – a condition that causes brief episodes of stabbing pain between the eyes and ears.

Norepinephrine – A natural chemical the body generates which acts as a vaso-constrictor [constricts blood vessels]. It also increases heartrate & blood pressure, and opens up the air passages in the lungs. It is generated in response to short-term stress, and serves to mobilize the body's resources in order to meet the stressful challenge.

• (Paraphrased from : http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09326.html)

Octave – Okay, a very simple definition. Ready? "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". The two do's are an octave apart. The second "do" is a higher octave of the first "do". The first "do" is a lower octave of the second "do". The significance of octaves is that they are the same note – the only difference is the pitch. So, for any of the (sound) frequencies on this list, higher and lower octaves in theory could have the same effects that the original frequency does.

Determining higher and lower octaves of a frequency is a piece of cake – just double or half the number. Higher octaves of 7.0 HZ, for instance, would be 14.0, 28.0, 56.0, etc. You can keep going until infinity – just keep on doubling it.

One use for this is to bring frequencies that are below hearing range to a point where it is an audible sound – this is how a lot of the "planetary" tones were calculated. They determined the fraction of a revolution a planet would go through in a second, and then kept doubling the number until they got to an octave that was an audible tone.

It also can be used to bring frequencies above the human hearing range to the point where they're an audible sound – instead of doubling the number, half it instead until you reach an octave that is within human hearing range.

Phosphene Imagery – The funky pattern/haze you get when you rub your eyes.

Pineal – a tiny organ in the brain [about the size of a pea] that helps to regulate sleeping patterns in mammals [i.e. circadian rhythm], as well as seasonal changes. It is sensitive to light – in the absence of light, it produces a hormone (melantonin) that makes us sleep. Functionally, it is the closest thing we have to a "third eye".

Pyramid Frequency – We finally have a definition for this one, thanks to Kris Edgar. Per Kris, the 'outside' pyramid frequency is the frequency found to resonate outside of the great pyramids in Egypt. The 'inside' pyramid frequency resonates inside the great pyramids. It's still a little ambiguous for a definition, but it's better than we had before. (Can anybody add any additional detail? I'm kind of curious if it's any particular Egyptian pyramid, like Cheops, for instance.)

Rife frequency – Rife was a fellow who tinkered with using electromagnetic fields at certain frequencies to cure/treat various ills. The frequency set of 20 HZ, 727 HZ, 787 HZ, 800 HZ, 880 HZ, 5000 HZ, and 10000 HZ were used for general treatment across the board, and other frequencies were then added to treat specific conditions.

While Rife's frequencies were generated using electromagnetic means – some of the "mental state" entries for Rife may work using a sound medium, since brainwave entrainment can be done with any periodic phenomena, whether it be light [strobe lights], sound [ocean waves,binaural beats,etc], EM fields [from appliances], vibration [those funky massaging contraptions they sell], or even motion [rocking a baby to sleep].

I don't have every Rife frequency that exists on this page – really, I doubt a frequency to treat something like scoliosis or rectal itching would be very useful to many people, and would only serve to take up a lot of space – if you're looking for frequencies to treat very specific diseases, this page looks like it has every frequency ever used by Rife or any of the researchers who played around with the same sort of thing : Turf's Electroherbalism Page / frequency listing archives.

Samadhi – The state of being aware of one's existence without thinking. Definition from + More Info at : http://www.self-realization.com/samadhi.htm

Schumann resonance – A simple definition – EM field generated by the earth's atmosphere when it's struck by energy from the sun – it can entrain brainwaves much as EM fields from appliances can, in theory. Here's some additional information.

• A resonant cavity is formed between the ionosphere and the earth. Energy from sferics or other sources may excite this natural resonator to ring at about 8 Hz. Special purpose receiver, can be home built. [from http://www.altair.org/natradio.htm]

The Schumann Resonances are actually observed by experiment to occur at several frequencies between 6 and 50 cycles per second, specifically 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 Hertz, with a daily variation of about +/- 0.5 Hertz. [from http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html]

• 7.83 is the strongest of the seven resonances, per http://www.danwinter.com/schumann/schumann.html

• The amplitude (i.e. intensity) of the Schumann resonance is, however, not  constant, and appears to be extremely dependent upon tropical (and hence  global) temperature.  Indeed preliminary results seem to indicate that a mere one degree increase in temperature seems to be correlated with a doubling  of the Schumann resonance.  This could not be more significant. http://fusionanomaly.net/schumannresonance.html

Serotonin – A chemical in the brain which helps regulate moods – too little of it, and you can end up depressed. Too much of it can cause migraines and nausea. Just the right amount, and it's a great anti-depressant/mood elevator.

Sleep, Deep Dreamless – Experts are finding that it's only during deep, dreamless sleep that the body restores itself, fixing wear and tear and building new skin, bone, and muscle. http://health.com/wynks/SleepDisWYNK2000-MAL/whatishappening.html

Sphincter Resonance – In the 1960s, apparently, somebody discovered the resonating frequency of the sphincter. They created a device called an "Anal Sphincter Resonator" – an organ-like device. It was used in a suspense thriller play – they intended it to "shake up" the audience when danger was being acted out – apparently it caused the entire audience to soil themselves. (I've also heard this referred to as a 'Brown Note'.)

• The original link I got this information from is dead. It was deadlink://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/KeelyNet/flanagan/flan2.txt. MPT 7/7/04

Synodic Month - Middle period from one new moon to the next.

Thalamus – A component of the brain that acts as a 'routing center' for all sensory information that comes up the spinal cord from the body. Drugs that shut down the Thalmus are often used for anesthetic effects. (This definition came from this article.)

Thyroid – A butterfly-shaped gland just below the Adam's apple which controls the body's metabolism – it does this by producing thyroid hormones, which tell the body how fast to work and use energy.

• The definition came from this now dead link: deadlink://www.the-thyroid-society.org/faq. Attemping to go to the main page now loads up some crappy search engine that tries to finagle you into using it as your startup page, so I wouldn't advise going there. (Anybody remember when the internet didn't have that sort of rubbish?) MPT 7/7/04.