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Anything below 8 Hz, with 2 - 4 Hz being best

Also see The Monroe Institute Lucid Dreaming DVD

* http://www.monroeinstitute.org...

Wow. 10% that high!? That is amazing! I'm _really_ curious to see what works for you. Have you tried:

* Light & Sound Machines?
* Binaural beats ?
* Any of Robert Monroe's Hemi-Sync meditation music?
* Which Lucid Dreaming techniques are you most successful with?
* Is your meditation active or passive?
* Are you familiar with any of Robert Bruce's work?
* Any daily / nightly activities you do (or don't do) that tend to help?

A favorite of mine is William Buhlman's "Adventure Beyond the Body" music.
i.e. http://www.monroeinstitute.org/product/adventures-beyond-the-body-the-4-cd-set/

I'm lucky to have an OBE once a year and always looking for tools & tips to help increase the frequency.

there seems to be a good bit of research on it (check out The Monroe Institute). the basic program i usually go with is a modified version of the base program that comes with Gnaural. it's a drop from alpha to deep sleep, with some tiny spikes every few minutes to keep you(me) from just dozing right off. it runs for forty-five minutes or so, then hangs out on delta waves. generally i "wake up" enough around here to take off headphones and nod back off. i find i sleep through the whole night more consistently, with less sleep required. i've had a few friends report similar results.

What I would really like is to hear the testimony of some intelligent, well-educated guy about his NDE

Look into Robert Monroe's material. There isn't a whole lot of difference between a NDE and an Out of Body Experience, and Monroe studied the second extensively.

You can probably skip the first book for now. Far Journeys and Ultimate Journey were written after Monroe started to empirically study the Out of Body Experience.

Secondly if some could see the future (even partially) then we would on average see more people who made such claims at the top of industries / careers as they have an advantage.

There are some that have seen other things (partially) and made a great success of it. E.g. Robert Monroe; http://www.monroeinstitute.org/.

I won't deny that their experiences had profound effects, but I will question whether they are real experiences.

Superficially, it seems that Evolution vs. Intelligent design is a simple case of Science vs. Religion.

But dig a little deeper, and things aren't so clear.

Evolution, as taught in schools today, is fundamentally based on a Materialistic philosophy. That is, the universe (all that is) is made up of physical, chemical and nuclear interactions.

The people pushing intelligent design for inclusion in schools (who were formerly pushing for creationism) are just trying to get something more compatible with their particular variety of Vitalism. Vitalism being, of course, the philosophy that the functions of a living organism are due to a vital principle distinct from physicochemical forces. Life is the non-material spark that animates cold hard matter.

So, the proponents of Intelligent Design are really just pushing for equal time.

Vitalism explains a lot - the ubiquity of the Near Death Experience (also: Out of Body Experiences), tribal religious tradtions (Native Americans leaving their tribe when they become a burden, so they could enter the spirit world directly), child prodigies, etc.

Some people (such as authors Robert Monroe, Ingo Swann, etc) also claim to Know that there's more than just the physical world out there. I can't make the same claim myself, but vitalistic philosophy explains some of my experiences better than anything else...

Conciousness is so poorly understood...

you mean that it's poorly understood by most people. Every now and then individuals get a clue: the Buddha, various monks in following in his footsteps, Jesus, etc. We've seen a rash of people in 20th century america who came to understand what it means to be human: Edgar Cayce, Jose Silva, etc. I'd advise looking into Robert Monroe's 3 books (Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journey, the last two moreso than the first). Robert even started his own private research institute for studying conciousness: The Monroe Institute. Think about it: what if it were true, that we are all more than our physical bodies?

Let the materialistic flamefets begin... :)

Of course there's all those CDs from Anthony Robbins which include a healthy dose of everything from NPL to subliminal messages.

However, if you want to try something really cool check out CDs produced by the Monroe Institute. They created a technology some time back that forces the brain to function in a set wave frequency. The method was very tricky. If you've ever heard two strings pluck on a guitar, and one was slightly out of tune with the other, you noticed an wavering oscillation. That sound is the difference of the two waves and it's frequency is called the beat frequency.

Robert Monroe discovered that if he feed signal A into the left ear, and signal B into the right ear, he could get the brain to resonate at the beat frequency. This made it possible to do things like keep people in Alpha aware states for extended periods (an incredible benefit for student trying to study), and even force different sleep states (one of the disks available has different sleep states on each track) by programming which tracks play, and how many each is repeated, you can program your sleep for short power naps, restful long sleeps, or even lucid dreaming.

There are also a variety of CDs available that combine hemisync technology, with hypnosis, subliminal training, and NLP techniques. This is a fantastic area to experiment with and I've gotten quite a bit of value out of this work myself. It's all about being the best you can be.

For further information'

The Monroe Institute"

Hemisync CDs available here.

Genda

The Monroe Institute has something a lot cheaper that will do the same thing. By using sound to alter brain waves, they can induce something that works like mild hypnosis, but give you control over yourself. I researched their "Sweet Dreams" audio suite while I was in college, and though I didn't have enough subjects (only had 4 or so) to have any significant results, there was a very visible trend to suggest that the cassettes (no cd's available at the time) were doing just what they said they would. Personally, I had my dream recall rates go from virtually none to 2-4 long dreams per night. It's a little new-agey, but this stuff is all based in science with lab results, etc. Worth checking out.

The Monroe Institute in Virgina is where you need to be if you are seeking enlightenment (or the tools to get you there). They use the latest technologies with hemispeheric synchronization to get you into altered states of awareness. The scenery there is also not be be missed. However, if you can't afford one of their courses have a look at www.liquid-dream.com. Similar concept, similar method; only you can do it from the comfort of your own home.

This kind of work has been done for about 25 years at The Monroe Institute in Virginia, USA. They have a number of recordings of brain synchronization tones available for sale that induce sleep, deep trance states, and encourage self-awareness in various ways.
Some of them come with voice overlays to encourage the user to have certain kinds of insights and experiences. It's great to see this kind of research becoming more mainstream; there's a lot of potential for helping kids with ADD, insomniacs, etc.

The reminds me of The Monroe Institute.

They claim to have various audio cds and tapes which put you in that state of mind just between waking and sleep where people often hallucinate and have other experiences. Many people claim to have "Out of Body Experiences" while using the tapes. The MI has a whole program which you can go through by yourself at home or at their facility.

The founder, Robert Monroe, wrote several books about his experiences. Summing it all up, he basically said that he could leave his body and visit the various "rings" of conscienceness that surround the earth. It is actually very interesting because the things that he reports in the book actually do a lot to explain various things like ghosts(people who are so addicted to the earth "experience" that they won't leave or can't recognize that they are dead) and other things like that.

All taken with a grain of salt of course, but it is very interesting stuff.

A couple of weeks ago I was in a used bookstore, and happened across a copy of Robert Monroe's Far Journeys, which spends a few words on the subject of time travel. Mr. Monroe was one of the first people to write about Out of Body Experiences in western society. To make what could be a very long post much shorter - time travel is real, it can be experienced - you just need to learn how to leave your physical body behind. OOBE's are just another way to hack your wetware. To quote the K5 story, "... anything is possible, when you have root access to your mind's /dev/."

hmmm listened to Stratus... neat. yes, will have to d/l more. but think you have an new fan.
have one question ever think of adding binaural beats to your "experimental music"?

also i think most of use are in an bind. ie we what someone ( an website or something) that could give us an idea of what is crap and what isnt. but then we're stuck back in the same game of MTV, big record companies that tell us what what is populur.

damn i hate strange loops....

but now that more of your songs have d/l't im off to listen...

nmarshall
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what software have used to make bunaural beats?
i have only make simple sin wave ones...
which are nothing compared to monroe institute's.



nmarshall
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