From: Scott Badger (wbadger@psyberlink.net)
Date: Fri May 07 1999 - 21:33:35 MDT
Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Suggestion: try a Dogpile search on "Russian sleep", "elektroson" and
> "electronarcosis".
>
> Soviet experimenters ballyhooed this back in the 60s. The idea was to use
> electrodes fixed on the eyelids and behind the ears to induce relaxed
> (correlated with alpha or theta brainwaves) states. It's possible that
> there was some entrainment effect due to e.g. phosphenes (the "lights"
> sometimes seen when one rubs one's eyes).
>
> Reported results by Western researchers through around 1973 were mixed and
> inconclusive.
>
Current versions of these machines are being marketed through "Tools for
Exploration".
http://toolsforexploration.com/catalog/scat/default.asp?cid=65&mcid=15&class
=0
You have to wade through a lot of crap at this "Tools for Exploration" site
but I think there are a few useful items. And after all, they *are*
promoting items alleged to enhance and extend our natural human limits.
They're main page is:
http://toolsforexploration.com/
Caveat Emptor!
Scott
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