Dr.
Jeffrey D. Thompson, D.C., B.F.A.
The process of using one’s own voice
to facilitate self-healing, which I called "Bio-Tuning®," became the
object of my full-time research when I moved from my Holistic Health
Center in Virginia and established the Center for Neuroacoustic
Research in San Diego, California, in 1988.
With modern electronic sound
equipment, a frequency accurate to 1/100th division of sharp or flat
between two notes on the piano was possible. To raise the accuracy
and effect to an even higher level, I knew I needed to use a
person's own voice singing this fundamental note. This would release
a unique set of harmonics and overtones, which only one’s own vocal
cords can produce - a voice vibration fingerprint. This voice
vibration fingerprint is an exact pattern match of a person’s
essential vibratory template - the one used by a person’s own
"Biological Organic Intelligence," the Intelligence used to form
one’s body from two cells and to maintain it moment by moment
thereafter. One also experiences a profound sense of subconscious
recognition of the vibration frequencies of one’s own voice.
Using this voice-tone-frequency to
the exact cent for balancing and healing, through a special
Neuroacoustic Sound Therapy Table, one’s body is kinetically
resonated to the cellular level. The Sound Table has speakers built
into it, so that one becomes one with the sound itself, as it were.
Using this technique, it literally becomes difficult to distinguish
where the body ends and the sound begins. There is a sense of
melting into the vibration of one’s own sound and one’s own voice.
To me, this is what the Mantra
really was. A person would go to a great master who saw the entire
world as vibratory patterns of energy and light. He was able to see
the individual also as a unique vibratory pattern in the universe.
The Master would sing the unique acoustic octave of this sound to
the person, who would sing it back until known and memorized. The
person would then meditate and chant this sound to him/herself -
resonating from the inside out and balancing him/herself right down
to the core of consciousness.
The imbalances one may experience
physically, emotionally, or mentally, for example, are only external
projections of the only real imbalance that can exist – an imbalance
in consciousness itself. Reaching this place and coming into balance
- me with my Self - is the only way I can heal the real cause of my
pain and suffering.
Sound Frequency Patterns Built into Music cause Positive
Changes in Brainwave Function
In a series of recordings
based on these principles, I have used sound frequency patterns
built into the music that have been shown clinically to cause
positive changes in consciousness and brainwave function.
By precisely altering the sound
signals in the right and left ears, a "frequency modulated pulse"
appears which causes a sympathetic
response in the brain. This leads to coordination of right/left
brainwave activity and a general slowing of brainwave activity,
which is associated with deep relaxation, stress reduction,
creativity, insight and problem solving. This phenomenon is called
"brainwave entrainment."
A good part of the stress we all
experience in the twentieth century is due to the advancements of
our own technology. This same technology, combined with our
traditional techniques for healing and achieving balance, may help
neutralize the stress we have created.
In this series of recordings we have
used three coordinated methods for bringing the mind/body into a
state of deep relaxation and balance; "Primordial Sounds,"
"Brainwave Entrainment" and "multi-layered music" recorded in 3D.
Many of the sounds heard on these
recordings are sounds you do not even notice. Certain sounds have
the power to awaken deep levels of recognition in the subconscious
mind. We call these sounds "Primordial Sounds," - i.e., sounds that
are primordially recognizable to the subconscious mind, regardless
of race, sex or language.
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"Primordial Sounds" Awaken our Organic/Biological
Intelligence
Our first sensory experience in life as a fetus in the womb is of
sound and vibration. We float in body temperature amniotic fluid -
weight-less. We have fluid in our nose and mouth, which eliminates
the senses of smell and taste. We have our eyes closed and are in
the dark - no sense of sight. We have fluid in our ears pressed
right up against the eardrum - but sound travels through water fives
times more effectively than through air, therefore our sense of
hearing is actually amplified. The symphony of sound patterns we
experience at this time will be deeply embedded in our subconscious
mind for the rest of our lives - the sound of water swishing,
arterial pulse sounds and voices. These are our first experiences of
"Primordial Sounds."
Recordings of these types of sounds
form some of the "primordial sounds" heard on these recordings. Each
of these sounds is intentionally altered and disguised by slowing
them down and speeding them up. By changing the speed of these
sounds we can side-step the rational/thinking mind, which will no
longer recognize the sounds, and tap into the subconscious directly,
with sounds it deeply recognizes and responds to. In one sense, the
organic/biological intelligence, the same intelligence that grew our
entire body out of two cells, will certainly be awakened with
recognition of sounds recorded from this body.
Experiments with Sound Have Led to Some Startling Revelations
An interesting thing happens when recordings of people speaking are
speeded up and slowed down. If these recordings are doubled in speed
three times (raising the pitch by three octaves), human speech
patterns sound remarkably like birds chirping, When raised in speed
by eight octaves, these recordings sound just like crickets
chirping. Slowed down from normal speed by three octaves they sound
like dolphins and at eight octaves slowed down, sound like the ebb
and flow of the ocean.
It is interesting that recordings
from the human voice should sound like nature sounds. What happens
if we take cricket sounds and slow them down? They sound like birds
chirping. Bird sounds slowed down sound like dolphins, and dolphin
sounds slowed down sound like people singing.
The famous Psychiatrist, Carl Jung,
would have been pleased - this seems to fall directly in line with
his theory of the "collective unconscious." A level of the
unconscious mind deeper than our personal unconscious shared by us
all, populated with universal archetypal images ("primordially
recognizable" images, just as these sounds seem to be "primordially
recognizable" sounds). The collective unconscious in this sense
would be access to my larger body/mind, the planetary level of my
collective unconscious, which knows how to "grow" a planetary
ecosystem of which my personal body is just a part. It's almost as
if the whole universe is one organic being with many parts all
designed from variations of the same blueprint.
Awakening the Various Levels of the Subconscious Mind
In 1989 I came in contact with an aerospace engineer with sound
recordings from the Voyager spacecraft. These recordings were taken
as Voyager passed by the outer planets of our Solar System -
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. These NASA recordings from
outer space, which were of charged electromagnetic particles (ions)
in the magnetic fields of planets vibrating within the range of
human hearing, sounded remarkably like ocean sounds, dolphins,
choirs of voices singing, crickets and birds. There are also other
sounds too strange to identify, but which seem very familiar.
Interestingly enough, the rings of Uranus produce sounds like
Tibetan bowl recordings that have been slowed to reflect their
subtle harmonics. Could this be a deeper, vaster level of the
collective unconscious mind which knows how to "grow" a planetary
solar system of which Earth is just a part - and from which my body
grows?
Could These Sounds be Recognizable at a Deeper Level of the
"Collective Unconscious?"
It is these three classes of sound ("Primordial Sounds," "Brainwave
Entrainment" and "multi-layered music") that are embedded in the
sound track of some of these recordings to awaken the various levels
of the subconscious mind.
It is at this inner level of
ourselves that our bodies are self-organized from two cells by the
same inner system from which the daily functions of our body are
coordinated and directed. It is from here that the knowledge of our
problems and the answers and solutions to them reside.
This is what we mean by the use of
"Primordial Sounds" to access a deep level of ourselves for healing,
relaxation and balance.
These sounds are mixed into the
soundtracks we have recorded in such a way that they can be heard
but not necessarily recognized for what they are by the
rational-thinking mind. Some of the nature sounds on these
recordings are actually space-sound recordings or human body sounds.
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Entrain Your Brain
Brainwaves can be controlled with sound waves using a technique
called "Brainwave Entrainment." This involves creating special pulse
rates in the recordings that cause a sympathetic response in the
brain.
Brainwave Entrainment is part of a
larger biological function called "Biological Sympathetic
Oscillation". Our biological "clock" sets itself to external cosmic
events; day length cycles, full moon cycles and seasonal cycles to
name a few. The body will set itself to the most powerful
external pulse cycle to which it is
exposed. In this case, we can create powerful sound frequencies
pulsing at exact brainwave speeds. This enables one’s brainwaves to
alter themselves to match the sound frequencies, i.e., to entrain
themselves to the sound pulses, thereby altering one's state of
consciousness.
We know from many research endeavors
that certain deeply relaxed states of consciousness are associated
with specific brainwave patterns on an EEG brain monitor. We also
know that with brainwave entrainment we can cause brainwaves to
sympathetically "lock on" to an external sound-pulse at a brainwave
speed. This gives us the tools to gently guide brainwave function
and states of consciousness into deeply relaxed and balanced states.
On all of these soundtracks all of
the pulse frequencies are built into every sound you hear, including
each instrument sound, voice sound, nature sound and NASA space
sound on the recording. The frequencies used mostly are low Alpha
and Theta brain frequencies. The brain states associated with these
frequencies are peaceful relaxation, heightened
visualization/images, problem solving, insight and intense
creativity.
When we compose and create these
musical soundtracks, the brain-wave entrainment pulses built into
the instrument sounds entrain my own brainwaves and state of
consciousness into a state of intense creativity - that's where the
music you hear is coming from.
Certain types of sounds and music
have a proven effect in creating states of relaxation, balance,
healing and visualization. Generally these include certain types of
lyrical, flowing melodies and chord arrangements. Certain chord
arrangements can create an atmosphere of peace, mystery, awe and
openness.
To get the full effects of the 3-D
sound and brainwave pulse-wave information, which requires the
right/left sound images to be completely separated from one another,
it is best to listen to these recordings with headphones on, eyes
closed, and lights out. You will hear the sounds moving around you
in three-dimensional space. You can get a similar effect with
speakers if you place them directly to the right and left of your
body. This way, you will also feel certain parts of your body
resonating with certain sound tones in the music.
© 1997 Dr. Jeffrey D. Thompson,
D.C., B.F.A. -- Center for Neuroacoustic Research
