Why would the human brain be wired in such as a way as to respond to this specific ELF range? They are after all the lowest electromagnetic (EM) frequencies of the spectrum.
Perhaps examining the characteristics of EM frequencies will give us some insight into this issue.
Electromagnetic waves differ from mechanical waves in that they do not require a medium to propagate. “This means that electromagnetic waves can travel not only through air and solid materials, but also through the vacuum of space.”
Due to their extremely long wavelength, ELF waves can diffract around large obstacles; they and are not blocked by mountain ranges or the horizon and can travel around the curve of the Earth. ELF and VLF waves propagate long distances by an Earth-ionosphere wave-guide mechanism.
That makes this wave band uniquely adapted to be the carrier of information that needs to travel far and wide. That would include transmissions from various types of cosmic bodies.
Next, we need to consider that the ELF range is subsonic, that is below the level of human hearing. We hear sounds from about the 25 Hz level on up to about the 20K Hz. Clearly this is by design so that there is no interference of sound waves with brainwaves.
Now, turning to focus on the impact that the ELF waves have on the human brain we find the following:
1) Four distinct brainwave groups ranging from Delta, Theta, and Alpha to Beta.
2) Each group produces certain, well-defined conscious, semi-conscious and/or unconscious states.
Delta (.5-3Hz) REM sleep, vegetative, unconscious sleep.
Theta (4-7Haz) Dreams trance states, deep meditative states
Alpha (7.5-12 Hz) Relaxed, aware consciousness
Beta (13-21 Hz) Alert, every day functional level
3) The human brain did not independently generate these states. They control the brain’s activities as well as what we call consciousness.
4) There is a direct, measurable relationship between electrical activity in the brain and its functional capacity. In other words a coma patient will exhibit very low levels of electrical activity.
Finally, brain death occurs when the electrical activity in the brain flat lines.
What all of the foregoing suggest is that the ELF range acts as a wave-guide or Control Program. It not only governs and regulates conscious states but also physiological processes and human behavior. How?
Studies have shown that the brain needs (delta) sleep in every 24 hour period. Even more indicative of ELF control is the fact that humans need to cycle through the 4 brainwave states during this same time-period.
Sleep deprived subjects begin to exhibit signs of brain dysfunction fairly quickly.
It is very obvious that we did not invent any of these patterns out of whole cloth; different parts of the brain -- reacting to the input of specific ELF waves -- created the sleep/activity cycle and the states of consciousness that accompany the polarized (delta/beta) cycle.
While we wrongly believe that we generated brainwaves, and invented our consciousness, that is not what the hard data reveals. Take away the ELF waves and brain function and consciousness cease.
A researcher in one brainwave study pointed out that the frequencies are not random.
“This implies that EEG frequencies do not represent an unstructured continuum. But what could be the reasons for that? One obvious reason is that frequency bands such as e.g., θ and α exhibit a clear task and event related behavior.”
As I mentioned above the ELF band is well suited to carry encoded information. The above statement is indicating that the frequencies contain sets of instructions. In other words at 1-3 Hz, brainwaves induce sleep. At 10 Hz, brainwaves produce alert, conscious activity.
Again, this is a very new perspective on how the brain and consciousness actually operate. I want to pause to really impress it by simply restating the facts of what we now know and the implications of that knowledge:
Extremely low frequencies (ELF) generate brainwaves they, in turn, produce specific states of consciousness. These facts have been established, not in just a handful of double-blind trials, but in thousands upon thousands of tests; formal and informal, that go on every day and every week of the year.
Put another way, whatever consciousness is in the final analysis, it is governed by brainwaves and their embedded ELF frequencies. You and I can be shifted from one state to another very easily. Bioentrainment technologies also reinforce the cause-effect chain since they drive neural activity. Photo k
In fact though the term is used so casually we assume that it is well understood, what consciouness is and how it cam about remains a mystery. This presents a problematic situation.
Nonetheless, the parameters are well-defined and equally well-described in the scientific literature. We know exactly what conscious (or unconscious states) each brainwave group produces in conjunction with neural activity. We know that specific brainwave patterns produce predictable states (or loss) of consciousness.
The study I quote below was conducted to try and establish the precise brainwave configuration that produces loss of consciousness.
This was needed by anesthesiologists who had to guess where it was because in the operating room, they could not use an EEG machine during operations
“Loss of consciousness was marked simultaneously by an increase in low-frequency EEG power (<1 Hz), the loss of spatially coherent occipital alpha oscillations (8–12 Hz)… (Nat. Academy of Sciences) (6)
It means that the lowest (delta) brainwaves increased and the mid-range, including alpha, decreased a the same time. The result was a lapse into unconsciousness...Oh, by the way, who created this incredibly complex network anyway? There is so much more to it...In fact, human consciousness is cosmically generated!
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