Arturo Vidich, Sofy Yuditskaya, and I needed a way to read brains for our Mental Block project last fall. After looking at the options, we decided that hacking a toy EEG would be the cheapest / fastest way to get the data we wanted. Here’s how we did it.
The good news is, we can now control a pinball machine's flippers with our brains, as this demo at Germany's ceBIT Technology Fair proves. The bad news is, it's not going to make aspiring pinball hustlers look cool in bars.
I ran across this amazingly long list of hundreds of different frequencies. The claim is that these frequencies effect different changes in mental and physical state through light, sound, or magnetic fields.
New Brain-New World presents cutting edge brain research regarding Altered States of Consciousness, the awakened brain, and neurofeedback training for the transformation of consciousness. Using EEG methods we have studied the effects of meditation, feeling release therapy and the drinking of ayahuasca - a mind expanding tea. We have also studied EEG changes in people who were in a higher state of consciousness. [via
mymindonbooks]
An older but classic entry article about the change in brainwave states of monks who meditate. There are much more in-depth articles and books about this.
Ken Wilber with a very interesting EEG machine goes through different states of meditation and shows how they are recorded on the machine. He also talks about the brainwave state of a lucid dreamer.
A company that creates the 'Insight' CD that has Binaural Beats. Very professional site with not a lot of background on the company.
