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Right this moment I have an audio software program playing binaural beats into my new Bose headphones at a beat of 4 hz. I have the volume turned down about as low as it gets on my iMac and minimized in order to see the TextEdit page I'm writing (righting) this blog entry on. Most of the time I find it extremely difficult to write creatively if any sort of aural activity is going on. Since the binaural beat is absolutely steady and doesn't change I'm hoping I'll be able to compose my usual untruths at the same time.
Another facet of this experiment is the noise-canceling aspect of the headphones. It digitally creates sound waves that offset specific external noises. I write specific ambient noises because the earphones have microphones to sense the external noise, and generates wave patterns that are transmitted inside the ear cups to cancel the external sounds.
It ain't perfect. I bought these cans (headphones) to help me deal with the very, very loud military helicopters that have decided to use the local airport next door to play war games. It would be preferable for the military to find another place to practice killing people, but the U.S. Army is the largest organization in the universe, and they don't appear to to care if they drive the citizens they're supposed to protect crazy.
Since I don't have any influence with the military (the CC is their bitch) I bought these expensive noise-canceling headphones as a defense gesture with the attitude that it's the best I can do and still live here in my own house.
The binaural beat is being generated by a free software program you can download from here:
http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/
The beat I'm listening to is the default beat that comes ready to play when I opened the software and hit the Start button. Purportedly, the beat generator program will play any binaural beat you decide to create after you learn to use the program. There are preset programs that can be downloaded ready to use with this specific software if you don't particularly wanna learn to program your own.
Presently, I don't even know how to use the presets and get them to work for me, but I eventually will. It all depends on whether I stay interested long enough to endure the learning curve. I have ordered a free DVD from this web site:
http://www.centerpointe.com/
The guy who runs this site creates binaural beats that he sells hope with. He was recommended as a righteous, sincere dude by Jim Peters who created another beat generator that can be found here:
http://uazu.net/sbagen/
The guy who is called "Jim Peters" has an interesting bio linked to this page. I've read during my research that the sbagen generator, which drew my original interest, is probably better technically than Gnaural, but it doesn't have a user interface that I could grok right away, and Gnaural does.
Binaural beats are not a new subject here. I've written a few entries in which mention them. Usually, I associate them with the videos found at YouTube by the hundreds. I like the YouTube videos, but they're somebody else's mess, and I'm sorta interested in creating my own, and have been since I attended the introductory seminar at Monroe Institute a couple of decades ago while Monroe himself was still living:
http://www.monroeinstitute.org/hemi-sync/
Oddly, I seem to have included more links in this one entry than I have in any other blog entry I've written in all these years. Maybe the binaural beat at 4 hz is causing me to be more patient than usual. I certainly hope so.
With Mercury in Aries in my natal chart I don't seem to be very patient. It doesn't help, of course, that Saturn is in it's fall in Aries in my natal. Patience seems to be assigned as an attribute of Saturn. For some reason, probably practical, I am pleased that Saturn is in it's Fall in my natal chart.
Being irresponsible has it's price, especially emotionally, but since I don't know any other way. I've learned to accept walking away from leading the ideal life of married with children. Not because I particularly wanted to, I adored my children and was satisfied with my wives, but I guess it was not meant to be for any of us.
In less than a month I'll be 72 years old, if I should live so long. It's a significant birthday for me. It's symbolic of spiritual puberty. The actual date of that event has already passed a while back. I never figured the exact date for lack of interest. Basically, it happens twelve years after the second Saturn Return, which happens in one's late Fifties.
Astrologically it represents the onset of spiritual power, in the same sense that physical puberty (that happens at around the age of twelve years old) is manifested in young kids. For a male that means that he can produce sperm and procreate children, and for women, they matriculate into becoming impregnable.
Entering the period of spiritual puberty theoretically means that I should experience what it's like to exercise spiritual power, and I'm as curious as all get out how that will manifest itself. Since I always seem to be the last to know I might not recognize it happening at all.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
