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Balancing the
Brain or Cranial Electrical Stimulation With
Bob Beck’s
Brain Tuner & Bio-Tuner
Electro-therapy got its start during the
days of the Roman Empire when Greek physicians had their patients
stand on electric torpedo fish as a step to improve health in the
first century AD. Scribonius Largus wrote: "For any type of gout a
live black torpedo should, when the pain begins, be placed under the
feet … in this way Anteros, a freeman of Tiberius, was cured. …
Headache even if it is chronic and unbearable is taken away and
remedied forever by a live black torpedo placed on the spot which is
in pain, until the pain ceases." And Claudius Galen wrote:
"Therefore I thought that the torpedo should be applied alive to the
person who has the headache, … and could free the patient from pain
… this I found to be so."
Electricity was harnessed for healing as
early as 1747. A professor of experimental philosophy and
mathematics in Geneva restored life to the paralyzed arm of a
blacksmith using an electric current. Electricity was soon
recognized as being a natural part of the life force. It was used
extensively for healing until the early part of the 20th
Century and the advent of the pharmaceutical industry.
In the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis, there
are several models of early devices used to bring about healing by
applying electrical stimulation to the brain. In modern times,
research started as early as 1903 to help with insomnia. This
research was known first as "Electro-sleep" and later as more
applications were discovered the term "Cranial Electrical
Stimulation" or CES was used.
Robert (Bob) C.
Beck, D.Sc. conducted brain research and developed an improved
EEG to read brain wave patterns in the 1970’s. When he read in 1983
about Dr. Meg Patterson’s success in helping rock star Peter
Townshend overcome his drug addiction using a "Black Box Brain
Tuner" he contacted her. These two research pioneers enjoyed several
meetings. Patterson was committed to a large corporation so Bob Beck
decided to develop his own Brain Tuner. With Bob’s genius, he was
able to develop a unit that emitted all the key frequencies
simultaneously. These frequencies include a special healing
frequency Bob discovered from Russian researchers.
Bob Beck won the John Fetzer Foundation
pioneering award for scientific achievement in 1990 for his brain
research. His investigation into the workings of the brain and/or
his Brain Tuner are included in at least three books:
- Super–Learning 2000,
Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, 1994. ISBN#0–440–22388–1
"The implications of this
work are stunning," said physicist Bob Beck, the expert on
electromagnetic fields, long employed as a consultant to the
Department of Defense. Beck, a close friend of Meg Patterson, was
soon swept into an adventure of discovery. He studied all her
research and everything he could uncover in the Defense
Department. Working with spectrum analyzers and sophisticated
equipment, he came up with a device: the Brain Tuner 5+, which
broadcasts the frequencies of the three ‘magic’ ranges of
neurotransmitters—enkephalins, catecholamines, and betaendorphins.
He set up the frequencies in bundles. Instead of sounding one for
each neurotransmitter separately, he put 256 frequencies together
like a resonating chord of music. His device, smaller than a
Walkman, runs on a 9–volt battery and is safe. The Brain Tuner has
electrodes on a stethoscope–like headset that fit in the hollows
behind the ears. Acupuncture points behind the ear effectively
circulate electrostimulation on the ‘Triple Warmer’ Meridian. You
wear the device just twenty minutes a day.
Double–blind studies were
done at the University of Wisconsin on the BT 5+’s capabilities to
overcome drug–withdrawal symptoms and it did the job. Studies at
both Wisconsin and the University of Louisiana showed it could
boost IQ from twenty to thirty points. BT 5+ stimulation appears
to enhance neural efficiency, researchers stated.
Users report the BT 5+
reduces stress, improves short and long term memory, helps
learning, increases energy, improves concentration and reduces
pain, anxiety, depression, and sleep requirements.
- Mega Brain Power,
Michael Hutchison, 1994. ISBN#1–56282–770–7
Beth was given anesthesia
when she gave birth to her first baby and later found that she had
lost part of her memory. She was forced to give up her job in an
aerospace plant. Years later a friend gave her a small cranial
electrostimulation (CES) device and she began using it. "Almost
overnight," she said, "all my memories started coming back,
including everyone’s telephone extensions at the plant. It was
uncanny—all these old extension numbers of people I hadn’t thought
of in years."
This story, told to me by
researcher Bob Beck, Ph.D., provides graphic evidence of a key
fact: We have the electric–powered brains. Each of the billions of
neurons in our brains is a tiny electrical generator, as complex
as a small computer, firing an electrical signal that triggers the
release of various neurochemicals and links it with thousands of
other neurons."
The Brain Tuner
(BT-6) was devised by Dr. Bob Beck. It uses a complex waveform
that, according to Beck, produces over 250 frequency harmonics
simultaneously—"all known beneficial frequencies for the natural
stimulation of the brain’s neurotransmitters." …
Since addiction,
withdrawal, and anhedonia are the result of insufficient levels of
certain brain chemicals, or undeveloped pleasure centers and
pleasure pathways, the most direct way of eliminating them is to
restore optimal levels of the brain chemicals, to stimulate the
pleasure centers and pleasure pathways. One of the most exciting
breakthroughs in the treatment of addiction has been the discovery
that stimulating the brain with a minuscule electrical current
(cranial electrostimulation, or CES) can cause the brain quickly
to pour out large quantities of the neurochemicals that have been
suppressed by addictive substances.
As electrotherapy
researcher Bob Beck described it to me, this was originally
discovered when scientists analyzed the brains of rats that had
been addicted to opiates: The rats that were addicted had been
getting so much opiate that the little endorphin factories in the
brain would shut down and say, "Look, our body’s got too much of
this. Quit manufacturing it." And it would take anywhere from a
week to three weeks before their rats’ brains would begin
manufacturing beta–endorphin again. Whereas in the brains of the
control rats that had never been addicted, you would find the
normal, expected levels of beta–endorphin. And then they would
take a third group of addicted rats, cold turkey cut them off of
the heroin, clip little electrodes to their ears, and within 20
minutes of electrical stimulation … the rat brain would start
showing that the endorphin production had started up again. So,
those rats wouldn’t go through withdrawal symptoms!
This evidence quickly led
to the use of CES in the treatment of humans. …
- Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis,
James L. Oschman, 2000. ISBN#0–443–06261–7
If the therapist
relaxes into the state of consciousness typical of those who
practice meditation, therapeutic touch and QiGong, and other
methods, it is likely that his or her brain waves will, from
time to time, become entrained with the micropulsations of the
earth’s field. If the patient is also relaxed, both therapist
and patient may become entrained with the earth’s field.
There is remarkable
documentation for this concept. In 1969, Robert C. Beck began a
decade of research on the brain wave activity of ‘healers’ from
a wide variety of subcultures around the world (Beck 1986). Beck
recorded their electrical brain waves with an
electroencephalograph (EEG). All the healers produced similar
brain wave patterns when they were in their ‘altered state’ and
performing a ‘healing’. Whatever their beliefs and customs were,
all healers registered brain wave activity averaging about
7.8–8.0 cycles/second while they were in their ‘healing’ state.
Beck studied exceptional individuals who were famous or who had
developed reputations as healers, psychics, shamans or dowsers.
…
Beck performed
additional studies on some of the subjects and found that during
the healing moments their brain waves became phase and frequency
synchronized with the earth’s geoelectric micropulsations—the
Schumann resonance.
(Beck R 1986 Mood
modification with ELF magnetic fields: a preliminary
exploration. Archaeus 4:48)
Bob Beck’s first Brain Tuner was
called the BT5. A later model was called the BT6. The Beck Brain
Tuner is now available from SOTA Instruments as the Bio-Tuner, Model
BT6pro.
See Recommended
Products section.
The Beck Protocol Handbook
package includes Beck’s original papers, testimonials and Bob’s 1983
talk on The Brain Tuner. The booklet
Electricity for Health in the 21st
Century is included with the package. This booklet provides
amazing insights into the electrical nature of the body and the
history of electro-therapy.
References:
"Return With Us Now To Those Shocking Days
of Yesteryear" Ellen R. Kuhfeld, Curator of The Bakken Library and
Museum.
Electricity for Health in the 21st
Century, Carole Punt, 1999.
Available from Sharing Health From the Heart Inc.
"Cranial Electrical Stimulation Information
Package. A compilation of research papers." available from Tools for
Exploration, 818–885–9090.
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