Magnetic God Helmets!? I WANT ONE!!!

DaPhatConductor · 04-23-2004, 08:47 PM

http://www.innerworlds.50megs.com/shakti/index.htm

What.

The.

Fuck!?

How amazing is this shit!?

el presidente Highsteppa · 04-23-2004, 08:49 PM

Shakti does not diagnose, treat, or prevent medical disorders. No statements about Shakti have been evaluated by the FDA.

Shakti sounds like loads of fun.

Like cancer.

Humanjava · 04-23-2004, 08:50 PM

ya he also used to have stones for audiophiles. I tried them and they cost like 600 dollars or something and even on my 20K tube amp system could not hear anything.

But for soar muscles such as kinked neck magnets work a bit when you keep them on the area for a while.

alexd · 04-23-2004, 08:52 PM

"Shakti light for Windows users" : I guess the mac people need waaay more brain magnetizing

DaPhatConductor · 04-24-2004, 04:01 AM

Whoah!

You can make them yourself! The programs are .wav files too! That means that you can get electrodes, record your brain doing various things that you like to do, then magnetically play back the .wav recordings of the EEG action to build your brain like a muscle by combining it with the wave for long term potentiation of neurons (which the dude has recorded on the program CD that comes with the helmet).

I've taken neurology, this is a lot less cracked out than it would initially seem. It looks like it would be really cheap to make too... sick!

"The Apparatus:

The helmet utilizes two sets of coils (radio shack part 275-232) , placed over the temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes; three on each side of a bicycle helmet. The coils are attached to a monaural audio plug, and the two audio plugs are connected to a 'stereo splitter'. The stereo splitter (which splits the stereo output into two mono channels) are connected to a stereo cord, which is plugged into a computer sound card or CD player. A gauss meter is used to measure the output field strength.

The coils are located and wired so that when the temporal coil is north, the frontal and parietal coils are south, and vice-versa.. Only the temporo/frontal and temporo/parietal regions are exposed to the fields. The temporal lobes are included in Shakti's helmet design because that cortical region is the most heavily implicated in religious and mystic experiences ( 33, 18, 19 ). The Parietal lobes are included because they are also heavily implicated in several classes of altered state experiences, including (though not commonly) out-of-body experiences, alterations in visual perception, (including Enhanced Visual Acuity - an experience suggestive of 'seeing the divine in creation'), and euphoric parasthesias ( 7 ). The frontal lobes are included because PET studies on depression suggest a correlation between it, and a strong imbalance of temporal and frontal activity (10 ). Further, the extensive amygdaloid-temporal and hippocampal-frontal connectivity suggests that the use of burstx and LTP should symmetrically involve these regions. The alternative might be a dominance of either cognitive or affective effects. Design symmetry emerges as potentially less intrusive than asymmetry. In some instances, it may prove advantageous for individuals to combine the channels, or to eliminate one of them. However, unless reports from a participant suggests reason to change the presentation, the default configuration should be used."

The Tesseract · 04-24-2004, 10:18 AM

I suddenly feel the urge to buy a cheap bicycle helmet and cover it in duct tape.

DaPhatConductor · 04-24-2004, 01:01 PM

That's what I'm saying! Fuck tinfoil hats! This is sooo much cooler!

I'll be damned if I'm paying for a duct tape helmet I don't make myself tho...

MoFo · 04-24-2004, 01:21 PM

"I'll shakti you!"

JayBrain · 04-24-2004, 05:11 PM

i'd make one!

Hispeeddub · 04-24-2004, 09:22 PM

lol reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart goes on ritilan..... That and back to the future when doc has something similar on his head....... interesting.....

PosTMOd · 04-25-2004, 11:18 AM

See also Dr. Persinger's studies... he's studied this for years...

One lady thought she was being visited and fucked by Jesus every night, and it turned out her electric clock was too close to her head while she was sleeping, and it was sending out enough EMF to trigger Jesus in her brain.

Some people are more sensitive (to use an euphemism for "childike") to these things... hence religion and ghosts...

The Tesseract · 04-25-2004, 02:30 PM

I heard if you collect enough pop can tabs, you can buy a magnetic god helmet to stop dreaming of being screwed by Jesus.

04-23-2004, 08:47 PM	#1
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04-23-2004, 08:49 PM	#2
el presidente Highsteppa TRIBE Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Carpe testes e yazz floote. Posts: 44,975	Shakti does not diagnose, treat, or prevent medical disorders. No statements about Shakti have been evaluated by the FDA. Shakti sounds like loads of fun. Like cancer.

04-23-2004, 08:50 PM	#3
Humanjava Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 4,337	ya he also used to have stones for audiophiles. I tried them and they cost like 600 dollars or something and even on my 20K tube amp system could not hear anything. But for soar muscles such as kinked neck magnets work a bit when you keep them on the area for a while.

04-24-2004, 04:01 AM	#5
DaPhatConductor TRIBE Promoter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: the phatcave Posts: 5,803	Whoah! You can make them yourself! The programs are .wav files too! That means that you can get electrodes, record your brain doing various things that you like to do, then magnetically play back the .wav recordings of the EEG action to build your brain like a muscle by combining it with the wave for long term potentiation of neurons (which the dude has recorded on the program CD that comes with the helmet). I've taken neurology, this is a lot less cracked out than it would initially seem. It looks like it would be really cheap to make too... sick! "The Apparatus: The helmet utilizes two sets of coils (radio shack part 275-232) , placed over the temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes; three on each side of a bicycle helmet. The coils are attached to a monaural audio plug, and the two audio plugs are connected to a 'stereo splitter'. The stereo splitter (which splits the stereo output into two mono channels) are connected to a stereo cord, which is plugged into a computer sound card or CD player. A gauss meter is used to measure the output field strength. The coils are located and wired so that when the temporal coil is north, the frontal and parietal coils are south, and vice-versa.. Only the temporo/frontal and temporo/parietal regions are exposed to the fields. The temporal lobes are included in Shakti's helmet design because that cortical region is the most heavily implicated in religious and mystic experiences ( 33, 18, 19 ). The Parietal lobes are included because they are also heavily implicated in several classes of altered state experiences, including (though not commonly) out-of-body experiences, alterations in visual perception, (including Enhanced Visual Acuity - an experience suggestive of 'seeing the divine in creation'), and euphoric parasthesias ( 7 ). The frontal lobes are included because PET studies on depression suggest a correlation between it, and a strong imbalance of temporal and frontal activity (10 ). Further, the extensive amygdaloid-temporal and hippocampal-frontal connectivity suggests that the use of burstx and LTP should symmetrically involve these regions. The alternative might be a dominance of either cognitive or affective effects. Design symmetry emerges as potentially less intrusive than asymmetry. In some instances, it may prove advantageous for individuals to combine the channels, or to eliminate one of them. However, unless reports from a participant suggests reason to change the presentation, the default configuration should be used."

04-24-2004, 10:18 AM	#6
The Tesseract Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Yeast Ork Posts: 9,883	I suddenly feel the urge to buy a cheap bicycle helmet and cover it in duct tape.

04-24-2004, 01:01 PM	#7
DaPhatConductor TRIBE Promoter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: the phatcave Posts: 5,803	That's what I'm saying! Fuck tinfoil hats! This is sooo much cooler! I'll be damned if I'm paying for a duct tape helmet I don't make myself tho...

04-24-2004, 01:21 PM	#8
MoFo TRIBE Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Hugging Danny Tanner! Posts: 64,097	"I'll shakti you!"

04-24-2004, 05:11 PM	#9
JayBrain Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Oshawa Posts: 2,340	i'd make one!

04-24-2004, 09:22 PM	#10
Hispeeddub TRIBE Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Vancity Posts: 718	lol reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart goes on ritilan..... That and back to the future when doc has something similar on his head....... interesting.....

04-25-2004, 11:18 AM	#11
PosTMOd Member Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Here, there, nowhere, everywhere Posts: 31,974	See also Dr. Persinger's studies... he's studied this for years... One lady thought she was being visited and fucked by Jesus every night, and it turned out her electric clock was too close to her head while she was sleeping, and it was sending out enough EMF to trigger Jesus in her brain. Some people are more sensitive (to use an euphemism for "childike") to these things... hence religion and ghosts...

04-25-2004, 02:30 PM	#12
The Tesseract Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Yeast Ork Posts: 9,883	I heard if you collect enough pop can tabs, you can buy a magnetic god helmet to stop dreaming of being screwed by Jesus.