Book Report: Threshholds of the Mind By Bill Harris (C) 2003

 Bill Harris is the originator of Centerpointe Research Institute, famous for their Holosync(c) binaural beat recordings for self improvement and development. He is a pioneer of the Binaural beat technology. He was heavily involved in various forms of meditation and self development before exploring the technology of frequency entertainment.  

 If you're curious about binaural beats and entertainment technology, you'll enjoy this book by one if it's pioneer developers. 

The book explains the technology behind the very successful Holosync recordings, which primarily employ binaural beats to stimulate frequency entrainment, in order to achieve deeper mental states very quickly and reliably. 

Deeper meditative states cause the mind to run at different frequencies. Excited mental states run at a higher frequency, meditative and hypnotic states are much slower (these are commonly referred to as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Theta).

Frequency entertainment is the effect whereby an external frequency, like music, can have an effect of our consciousness, and if you've ever experienced loud, pounding dance music, or calming, slow lullabyes, you've experienced the entrainment effect. 

Binaural beat technology is an interesting effect whereby different, specific tones are played into each ear, and the way they interact with each other withing the listener's hearing generates the desired tone. This has proven to be very effective and the result is that the listener can achieve meditative states that normally take meditators a long time to achieve. 

The recordings combine this technology with guided meditations or self help techniques to achieve reliable results. 

 The book is part sales pitch, with lots of testimonials and selling points, part biography and still presents a lot of detailed information about the technology behind the recordings. His personal journey in exploring and developing his materials is as interesting as the science. It offers a lot of practical discussion and techniques for helping one get in control of their thoughts and feelings, whether or not you go in for their products. 

The Centerpointe Research Institute's website can be found here: 
https://www.centerpointe.com/

Squareeater.com -- Brainwave Entrainment, Free Online!

A lot of people have been interested in exploring brainwave entrainment audios, also known as isochronic or binaural beats (those are actually two different but similar types of entrainment tracks, BTW). These are audios that will guide your brain to function at a certain frequency, whether a meditative frequency (Alpha rate), a deeply contemplative state (Theta), a sleepy state (Delta), an alert state (Beta). Such recordings can quickly and easily get you into the kind of mind-state that you want to be in, a sort of a tuning fork from the brain. They can be great resources, and they can be a lot of fun.

In a nutshell, they are recordings with sounds that oscillate at the same frequency that you'd like your mind to be functioning at. As you listen to them, your brain begins to alter it's rhythm to match the audio, in much the same way that a headbanger kid will swing his head in time to the beat of a favorite band, or a cowboy may tap his toe to the sound of a banjo. The effect is even more powerful when combined with similarly oscillating visuals, and there are even expensive devices with headphones and goggles that flash, that will play entrainment audio and video for you. Expensive devices. Well, Here's a chance to explore these things for free! http://squareeater.com/ offers a number of carefully crafted audio AND video tracks right on their website for you to enjoy. Just click on the square that entices you and go! These things have been called electronic drugs. They aren't, though that's a good selling talk, but they are fun, and very trancey. Obviously, do not use them while driving, operating heavy machinery or tattooing bikers, and do not use them if you have a risk or a history of seizures.