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good morning it's my pleasure to be here

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and today I'm going to speak about an

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ongoing study it's incomplete on the

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interrelationship of higher frequencies

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in the brain and higher states of

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consciousness and the question is does

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40 Hertz brainwave emission correlate

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with higher consciousness

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there's been a fair amount of work

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implicating the frontal lobe of the

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brain that's the the upper cerebral

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cortex in the front of the head with

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higher consciousness and actually in my

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study I'm recording frequencies at 40

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Hertz right above the third eye so it's

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in the centre of the forehead and it's

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interestingly just a very short distance

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from a spot that is in the esoteric

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literature associated with clairvoyance

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etc known as the third eye you probably

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know this I'll go over it quickly that

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the various bands in the EEG have been

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correlated functionally for example the

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slowest waves Delta 0 to 4 Hertz with

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deep dreamless sleep theta waves 4 to 7

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Hertz with dreams a sort of reverie and

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also certain paranormal experiences

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including out of the body

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alpha is sort of the baseline alert

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relaxed state 7 to 12 Hertz beta is the

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act of concentration 13 to 35 Hertz and

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then we have a gamma band beyond that 35

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to 50 Hertz and actually there may be

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even higher emissions from the brain the

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question the point is that people

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haven't looked until relatively recently

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because their analog recorders weren't

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fast enough to record these high

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frequencies so only in the digital age

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have we been able to really see the high

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frequency emission from the brain and

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consequently the literature in this area

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is way behind just to give you a summary

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of what has been done here people

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looking at practices such as yoga

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meditation and other mind/body/spirit

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practices find up to 20% more activity

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in the EEG

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coming out of the frontal lobe

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there are a few studies on yoga and

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meditation but not very many that

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suggests an association of 40 Hertz from

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the frontal lobe with clarity and

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compassion so in particular meditations

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for example certain Buddhist meditations

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in the lineage of the Dalai Lama in

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particular have been studied with that

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couple of recent studies again on

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Buddhist meditation there was a study by

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Lutz at all published in 2004 showing

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increases in that band the gamma band

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and high beta at the prefrontal location

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during meditations where they were

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trying to enhance unconditional love and

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compassion and another studies showed

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even more detail correlations between

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amplitudes of 40 Hertz recorded from

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this site and a reported clarity of

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meditation on a moment-to-moment basis

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and that was published by Davidson in

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2005 here is a little bit of data from

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the data Davidson paper controls shown

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in the left hand side of people who are

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non meditators and this is the percent

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more 40 Hertz from the prefrontal region

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during baseline etc they can't make much

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more than just a few percent over

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baseline whereas the meditation

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practitioners make highly significantly

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more above baseline furthermore

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meditators have a higher baseline of 40

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Hertz as well as during meditation and

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post meditation they don't return to

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their normal baseline as quickly another

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key function however of 40 Hertz goes

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beyond higher brain functions it seems

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to have what we call a more important

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role in the brain associated with

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heightened awareness some have called it

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the events binding rhythm in response to

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meaningful stimuli so for example when

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you are seeing hearing and feeling the

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presence of a UFO 40 Hertz brainwaves

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are being produced and Benjamin Libet

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found that increase in 40 Hertz precedes

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the awareness of a perception by about

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half a second Francis Crick who did a

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lot of work in neuroscience after his

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work on DNA called 40 Hertz the neural

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correlate of consciousness in the

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literature it's abbreviated NCC

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I conducted a pilot study which is still

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in progress looking at the functional

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significance of 40 Hertz from the

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prefrontal region and here are my three

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research questions what is the perceived

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interstate during 40 Hertz emission do

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meditators produce more 40 Hertz and

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non-meditators at baseline and with

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neurofeedback

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which supports feedback particularly at

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40 Hertz and then I have one case to

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show you on the effect of taking an

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entheogen salvia divinorum and the

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effect on 40 Hertz brain waves from

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prefrontal region the subjects in the

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meditation experiment were 10 of them so

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far I hope to increase that meditators

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and non-meditators ranging from 31 to 62

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years old 7 women 3 men the inclusion

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and exclusion criteria were such that I

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took people who are not ill neither

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acute or chronic diseases and with no

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diagnosed cognitive problems or issues

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the meditators were fairly advanced

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practicing at least 5 to 6 times a week

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for 10 plus years and I have two of the

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meditators in my study were over 20 year

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meditators and I it we did record their

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practices there were a variety of

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practices from zhen de Vaca sauna and

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the third i think is a transcendental

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meditative though the protocol was as

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follows the subjects came in one at a

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time on appointments for about an hour

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and first they were exploring the 40

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Hertz neurofeedback

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on their own for 10 minutes to just see

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what they thought about it in terms of

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whether they could increase

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40 Hertz production and and notice what

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states were associated with that and

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after they did this for 10 minutes i

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asked him to verbally describe the state

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associated with enhanced peaks of 40

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Hertz and we took down their responses

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as qualitative data then I asked the

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subject to cultivate a specific state

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specified by an adjective for example

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the word satisfied or the word

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disappointed and asked them to determine

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and give me a value on a scale between

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minus 100 to plus 100 to what extent

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that state was related to the 40 Hertz

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and we used 16 different adjectives

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forth the subject was asked to engage in

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a baseline state which is a neutral

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state of consciousness without focus or

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intent and I recorded 40 Hertz for one

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minute and finally after the subject had

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all of this experience that toward the

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end of the hour I asked the subject to

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try to produce as high a value of our

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amplitude of 40 Hertz in three

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neurofeedback which was either

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audio-visual or both so they could

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meditate or do as they wish

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neurofeedback in case you're not

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familiar with it as a type of

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biofeedback in which a person is fed

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back some information about their own

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brain waves in a real sensory mode using

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auditory or visual means or both and the

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purpose of this is to allow them to

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change or shift their brain waves shift

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their function it's used in research as

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well as in the clinic for learning

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disorders mood disorders sleeplessness

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conditions typically by psychologists a

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particular neurofeedback system that I

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use in the study was the peak

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achievement trainer by neuro tech it

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records 40 Hertz and other brainwaves

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from a single point in the center of the

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forehead while filtering out EMG I

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should point out that a lot of people

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have not recorded 40 Hertz and higher

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frequencies from the brain because

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they're concerned about potential

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contamination from muscle tension and

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twitching because there is some overlap

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at high frequencies but this system does

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filter out EMG the system further

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integrates the signals from both

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hemispheres as we're recording in the

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center to measure synchrony between the

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hemispheres and it provides both

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auditory and visual feedback in its

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software it prevents eyeblink artifact

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by using a low frequency filter and not

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collecting data during eye blink

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there's a picture of one of the

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headbands used the band is simply placed

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around the head and the active recording

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there's a neutral in the ground and it's

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a wireless system so one could

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presumably also study people doing

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various activities even golf the results

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the non-meditators self-assessment at

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peak values of 40 Hertz are as follows

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these are statements or abstract

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detachment from myself trust in

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something bigger letting something

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higher come into my consciousness not

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trying from the ego joy and bliss alert

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moment warmth from the heart chakra in

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the bottom of feet thinking of people I

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love including love for those who have

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experience connection with an angelic

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realm I should say here's the meditators

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the meditators some had these things to

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say and for their peak values of 40

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to the center of the brain pure love