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The Neurophone I bought and used some years ago seemed to work for me as advertised, but I probably got more from it than intended. I also got skin cancer from the ceramic contacts that had to be burned away with liquid nitrogen three times to make it go away. That's what friends are for.
The Neurophone was invented to train a person to "hear" through other body parts than the ears. The inner ear transfers the information it gathers to the brain through the eighth cranial nerve. The information gathered by the skin transfers through other cranial openings. It's been a long time since I read the documentations, and the so-called facts of the matter have gone the way of all extraneous tagalongs.
The sound gained from "hearing" through the skin isn't stereotypical. It just appears somewhere like in the middle of the brain like when you have a great pair of earphones adjusted just right. There is a new digital speaker system that bypasses the ears and the eighth cranial nerve with the same result. The "sound" makes itself known omnidirectionally instead of in stereo from two sources, the ears.
If you used the link I provided yesterday and listen/watched the YouTube video with stereo earphones the result could have been that you might have read a statement on your computer monitor that said "Sound and light are one." I believe that's what's going on with the Neurophone.
The "sound" received from the ceramic electrodes (that require a contact gel just like with EEG scalp electrodes) isn't transferred to the brain through the eighth cranial nerve like sound from the ears is, because it is converted to light with the skin layers, and the brain recognizes it as the same sort of stimuli as physical sound.
What I do know is that the audiologist at the VA Hospital diagnosed that I was legally deaf, and I'm anything but deaf. That's how I know the Neurophone works as advertised. I don't think the inventor knew why at the time he created the circuitry. He originally did it in order to assist human beings "hear" and communicate with dolphins when he was fifteen years old, and got his picture on the cover of Life Magazine.
If you used any of "mountain/mystic's" videos you probably read that the various videos focus on specific frequencies like the overall frequency of the Earth itself at 528 Hz. The reason the term "solfeggio" is used is to indicate that the listener/viewer participate by humming or singing a tone at the same frequency.
Here is a link to a video based on the 528 Hz frequency that is not accompanied by music or other possible distractions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgMQOAWeVs0&videos=cVq_upj5n3A
This is not from the Mountain Mystic group. There seem to be lots of people making these videos these days and putting them on YouTube. I started the video and started humming as close as I could to the provided tone. The audio part of the video seemed to help me zone right in on the precise frequency.
When I got it just right I started hearing overtones both above and below the orally uttered frequency. If I changed to an octave above the 528 Hz frequency or an octave below, the overtones changed a bit, but I still had to hone in on the exact octave to get the desired results.
It's come to mind thats how this whole deal works. The revealing statement "Sound and light are one" is the key to understanding why stereo sound can be converted into light signals by the skin. As a matter of fact, the ears themselves are made of skin that's been folded in a particular way, just like brain tissue is folded in a certain way.
Singing along with the solfeggio section of the videos makes me a participant in this really strange process. Certain reproduced sounds make for specific, predictable light shows on my subjective "silver screen". Hypothetically, I should be able to completely explore external sound as what it be-co-me-s as it's converted to light to enter my body through my skin.
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