The Sound of Silence

[Ed Jewett]

One of the things touted within the world of geriatric medicine is that one should exercise one's mind regularly with crossword puzzles, sudoku, and other left brain/right brain games. Instead, I read the "Deep Politics Forum".

The above is interesting. I'm just getting started with its content. Thanks, David Guyatt, for the links to your articles.

Starting at the top, one could ask whether the patent referred to in the noted thread-leading article is real.

Google answers ( http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=189569 ) "yes", though I haven't opened any of the links:

You can view a copy of US patent # 5,159,703 on the web site of the
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:

Silent subliminal presentation system
Inventors: Lowery; Oliver M.
Appl. No.: 458339
Filed: December 28, 1989
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parse.../5,159,703

Click on "Images" on the top of that web page, or use this link to
view the 7 pages drawings, specifications, etc.
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=0515...AF295BA4AD

Note that to view the images, your web browser must be able to view
TIFF file
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm

If you're using a Macintosh, the QuickTime plug-in reads TIFF files.
If you're using a Windows machine, the Patent & Trademark Office
mentions two free TIFF plug-ins:
Alternatiff
http://www.alternatiff.com/
Internetiff
http://www.internetiff.com/

search strategy:
uspto.gov, searched for patent 5,159,703

I hope this helps.

Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 11 Apr 2003 23:40 PDT With regards to your "incidental question," here's a seller of subliminal music that claim that its products are used in shopping malls:

"Our subliminal music is currently being successfully used by over forty(40) top corporations internationally."

windmillsofyourmind.com
http://www.windmillsofyourmind.com/

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I note also that I have used HoloSync's "Virtual Audio" meditation-deepening brain-wave technologies; books, monographs and more are available through Centrepointe Research. Listening to the demo of 'virtual audio' is an experience in itself. The purchased "dive" and "immersion" tools, used with very high-end headphones, alters one's brain waves sequentially from beta (normal daily functional brain chatter) to alpha (relaxation, the doorway to the sub-conscious), theta (wherein the creative and problem-solving emerges), and delta (sleep states, including 'awake' delta, like taking a power nap on steroids), and even on to gamma (the place of deep Tibetan Buddhist-type compassion).

In my other 'life', I have also studied the ways in which an individual can take control of his or her own mind and use these same concepts to create their own place of excellence, high creativity and performance. People can be taught to summon their own magic.

So some of this research and inquiry into subliminal technologies ought to be filtered through the research being done in the fields of neuroscience and other cognitive research fields.

With regards to the religious/spiritual/esoteric stuff, I am still in elementary school in my research, but here's one that is of interest, written by Mark Gaffney, a fellow who also dabbles in the 9/11 field of inquiry:

Gnostic Secrets of the Nassenes: The Initiatory Teachings of the Last Supper.

I am not a scholar, haven't been ordained in anything, and can't afford to stay at Holiday Inns, but I did read the book, have written a review of it for Amazon, and find it resonant with my life's experiences, including the peak experiences.

But then maybe someone was pointing one of those Ronald Ray-Guns at me when I had them:

"Who will prefer the jangle of jade beads
if he once has heard stone growing in a cliff?"

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I may be Jung at heart, but I am also getting 'too soon oldt and too late schmardt'.