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NW biofield measurement

EEG Brainwave Mapping and Consciousness States: Reading the Brain's Electromagnetic Diary

If you could shrink yourself to the size of a neuron and stand inside the living brain, you would be immersed in a storm of electrical activity. Roughly 86 billion neurons, each connected to an average of 7,000 others, fire in complex patterns that generate oscillating electrical fields...

18 min · 3 researchers · 35 concepts
SC consciousness

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon

There is a moment in every Joe Dispenza workshop — usually around day three or four — when the room shifts. You can feel it before you can measure it, though Dispenza's team measures it too.

10 min · 1 researchers · 14 concepts
SC consciousness

Frequency Healing: Solfeggio Frequencies, 432 Hz, and the Science of Sound as Medicine

Every ancient civilization on Earth used sound as medicine. Egyptian temples were designed as acoustic resonance chambers.

13 min · 2 researchers · 16 concepts
SC consciousness

The Neuroscience of Shamanic Journeying: Theta Waves, Gamma Bursts, and the Drumming Brain

For at least 40,000 years, shamanic practitioners across every inhabited continent have used repetitive drumming to enter altered states of consciousness. They called it "journeying" — traveling to other worlds, communicating with spirits, retrieving knowledge inaccessible to ordinary awareness.

10 min · 15 concepts
SC consciousness

Tibetan Singing Bowls and Crystal Bowls: The Overtone Orchestra That Rewires Your Brain

Pick up a Tibetan singing bowl -- one of those hand-hammered bronze vessels from the Himalayas, heavy in the palm, dark with patina -- and strike it with a mallet. What comes out is not a single note.

9 min · 16 concepts
IF float tank sensory deprivation

Theta States and the Float Tank: One Hour to What Takes Years of Meditation

Every state of consciousness has a brainwave signature. Ordinary waking awareness — the state in which you read, plan, worry, and navigate the social world — is characterized by beta waves (13-30 Hz): fast, low-amplitude oscillations associated with focused attention, analytical thinking, and...

11 min · 1 researchers · 19 concepts
HW functional medicine

Sleep: The Master Healer

Every disease state is worsened by poor sleep. Every healing process is accelerated by good sleep.

17 min · 1 researchers · 31 concepts
SC nootropics cognitive enhancement

Caffeine and L-Theanine: The World's Most Popular Nootropic Stack

In the sixth century, according to legend, the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma sat in meditation facing a cave wall for nine years. When his eyelids grew heavy, he cut them off in frustration.

13 min · 21 concepts
UP stages of awakening

Maharishi's Seven States of Consciousness: From Waking Sleep to Unity

Most people assume there are three states of consciousness: waking, sleeping, and dreaming. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi — the Indian physicist turned monk who brought Transcendental Meditation to the West and inadvertently launched the neuroscience of meditation — proposed that these three are merely...

22 min · 2 researchers · 24 concepts