Did you ever wonder why Om is *known* by more people throughout the world than the combined works of Beethoven, Elvis, The Beatles, Don Ho, Britney Spears and Andre 2000 of OutKast? One hypothesis suggests Om's universal popularity is the result of geophysical phenomena and our biophysical response to the environment rather than an overly hyped Hollywood marketing campaign. Whoa...that's Heavy! Since even Marty McFly is curious about its origin, let's read on! There is a deep interrelationship between geo-cosmic fields and life, simply because life evolved in the presence of specific natural EM fields on earth. Evidence suggests that geophysical fields regulate life. Some of the natural frequencies associated with Earth’s Schumann resonance, a transverse resonating waveband spanning between the Earth and ionosphere, (ranging from approximately 7.83 Hz.with detectable overtones extending upwards into the kilohertz range) produce beneficial effects on many organisms, including humans, even at extremely low intensities. Consider that brain waves at 8 to 13 Hz form the alpha band of EEG, which is associated with relaxation and meditation. When EM fields in this frequency range are applied to the human, the brain is dynamically entrained at those frequencies, and the person goes into a psychophysiology state of relaxation. Organisms, in fact, may be stimulated by certain key frequency components of the geomagnetic field that acts as pacemakers for their internal biologic oscillators. Way cool... Credit DE ES "Stoneman" When you are completely relaxed but not yet asleep, your brain hums around 8 to 12 cycles per second. 8 or 9 cps is considered a very creative state, marked with contemplative thought and increased intuition. Moving down the awareness scale we arrive at the theta frequencies, and a very interesting set of frequencies they are. Encounter by VK Between 4 to 8 cps is where dreams, deep hypnosis, ESP, out-of-body projections and other odd mind phenomena start to pop up. Somewhere in this range lies what is called the hypnagogic state; that twilight-zone of consciousness on the border between being awake and falling asleep and where conscious and subconscious thought start to overlap. By listening to the audio offered on this site, the theta state can be sonically induced, thus allowing the entrainee extended periods of exploration. We refer to these listeners as Sonic Pilots. Now that you've been briefed on the basics, you've graduated Om 101 Congratulations! Not too many people have made it this far. The spirit of Professor Albert requests your presence at the Message Boards. If you surf on over, I'll meet you there. When you are finished listening, you can meet the rest of my friends at Cliff Pickover's unique site: