Really curious if you've played with binaural beats, and curious if there's a particular 'legend' of sorts you'd look to when using them to determine function.
I personally have always found the sbagen tool perhaps the best for its utility though it does take a bit of elbow grease given that it was written in the 90s.
I may need to give this episode a relisten but gonna go back and listen to past interviews first.
Yes, some, many years ago. Pretty sure at one point during my homeless phase I even fell asleep while listening to binaural beats. It was just an app and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing though. It was just an interesting experience I suppose and I was playing.
I'm not familiar with the sbagen tool. Is that a piece of software for binaural beats?
I don't know that I could offer any sort of teleological legend on various binaural beat types but I like the idea of developing such a thing.
Gotcha. And yea sbagen is an OLD (1999) but probably still best piece of software I know of for generating binaural beats programmatically with some neat routines for dropping tone over a set time. there's some good extensive documentation on doing so.
I guess I could rephrase though, as I understand beats a bit more but less brainwaves, and you seem more read on that subject. Would you see particular benefit in being able to access say, theta wave state on command? You mentioned EM vibrations having the ability go put people in certain states, and I guess I'm interested in putting that to practical use. I played around with the Monroe Institute Gateway Experience cd's I downloaded years ago, but probably didn't really give it quite as much follow through as would have been ideal.
Also...may sound weird, but I'm almost jealous of your time homeless having that sort of access. I was sleeping under trees and storefronts in 2009 and the access to tech was not quite where it got just a couple years later. I was just psyched I had a tiny little mp3 player with a screen that if I was really determined to I could read text files on. Anyway, glad we both were able to not be stuck in that state for too long, even if it did really instill an understanding that most wants are not needs.
Also, if you're curious about where I particularly find some interest in sbagen, header 3.6 in this documentation file details the "drop" program. https://uazu.net/sbagen/sbagen.txt
It's a text file, so yea, no direct links sadly, but hopefully scrolling isn't too onerous.
The tl;dr of it though is these top two paragraphs:
This is a series of sequences that are designed to be used fairly
often and over a long period of time (e.g. daily over several years).
By working through all these sequences, you stimulate all the
different combinations of carrier frequency and beat frequency over a
large range (0-200Hz carrier, 0.3-10Hz beats). According to some
people's experiences, doing this releases mental energy for reuse.
You have to work through this over a long period, though, because the
stirred up energy sometimes needs time to be reprocessed by your body.
(For those familiar with Toltec traditions, this is a form of
Recapitulation. For those familiar with Chi and Taoist practices, you
could say that this stirs up heavy chi for reprocessing and reuse.
Those who have used regression may experience the processing of
stirred up energy as reliving and releasing of past painful or
emotional events. There are many approaches and interpretations that
can be applied to the same thing.)
