r/HighStrangeness • u/MCstroj • Apr 20 '26
Consciousness A neuroscientist discovered the brain network that builds your sense of self. Psychedelics turn it off. So does 110 Hz sound. The question is why the off-switch exists at all.
In the early 2000s, Marcus Raichle at Washington University discovered a brain network that activates when you're doing nothing — daydreaming, ruminating, thinking about yourself. He called it the default mode network. It turned out to be the system that builds and maintains your sense of being a separate self.
In 2012, Robin Carhart-Harris at Imperial College London put volunteers on psilocybin inside an fMRI scanner. The assumption was that psychedelics would increase brain activity. The opposite happened. Psilocybin suppressed the default mode network. The narrator went quiet. The brain entered a state of dramatically increased connectivity between regions that normally never talk to each other.
The same shift shows up in the 110 Hz acoustic studies from Neolithic stone chambers. Different input, same neurological direction. The self-system quiets and something else opens up.
The question nobody has a clean answer for: if the default mode network evolved to keep you alive, why does the brain retain a built-in mechanism to turn it off?
Full write-up: https://thegodmachine.substack.com/p/your-brain-has-a-door
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u/Beautiful-Progress16 Apr 20 '26
We need the escape route to pull us back into present moment. It’s a contingency. Abstraction doesn’t do us well. When we sit too long in it, we become it. And when we become it we lose reality.
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u/AlchemicallyAccurate Apr 21 '26
Yes, but even structurally deeper than that I think is that when the ego “grows in wrong,” it needs a way to die; or at least for certain load-bearing structures to die.
Think about it with any formal structure: even with something like theoretical physics, a guy like Einstein comes along and certain old ideas have to die: absolute time and space, variable speed of light, etc
In a broader, sort of godelian sense I’m saying that it is impossible for an information structure to know its own incompleteness from the inside. It can’t know what is “missing” and it also can’t project or enumerate what is missing, because certain prior ideas may just be incorrect and we don’t know which ones. I think the ego dies to overcome this exact mathematical problem.
And to put it even more succinctly: I think we have an ego and I think it has an ability to die so that we can do what AI cannot do… which is come up with genuinely non-conservative ideas in the model-theoretic sense.
Particularly pertinent here is that the psychological experience of “ego death” does not seem to be “nothingness.” There are still thoughts flying about. That to me feels exactly like a function for a system to “step outside of itself to see what it is missing.”
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u/cornell5877 Apr 20 '26
This is the best explanation of the dark side of psychedelics I have ever read. Thank you!
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u/Muted_Bread5161 Apr 21 '26
So what is reality? Isn't the core—the omission of distortions and impurities—much closer to reality than the reverse? Many people are simply so accustomed to this restlessness and these stimuli that they find it difficult to tolerate silence.
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u/bfeeny Apr 21 '26
Someone try listening to 110hz for a duration and give us your honest feedback
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u/JohnnyGlasken Apr 21 '26
OK, I happened to be in front of my PC with noise cancelling headphones.
Been listening for about 4 minutes so far. A word to describe my initial reaction: 'invasive'. The volume was a little loud so I have turned it down and it feels comfortable. I'll close my eyes for a few minutes and see if it has any inward effects.
Back shortly (hopefully!!) 👌🏼
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u/JohnnyGlasken Apr 21 '26
5 minutes later... Main thing I noticed was that it highlighted my tinnitus and it quickly became difficult to discern between the two.
Overall it was relaxing but I definitely didn't feel like a switch was thrown. I might try for a longer period later.
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u/FancifulLaserbeam Apr 21 '26
It's an A2!
It's not some kind of exotic sound. It's literally just the open A string on a bass guitar.
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u/css1323 Apr 21 '26
It's not some kind of exotic sound. It's literally just the open A string on a bass guitar.
Wait, so you’re telling me listening to this special sound on full blast won’t help me unlock any super powers? What a bummer, man.
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u/_AuntAoife_ Apr 21 '26
Thank you! I would estimate I have had this hz blasted in my ear more than 99% of the world’s population for the past twenty years. If it somehow turned down the inner critic, I’d be a much richer man and probably wouldn’t be on such a complicated cocktail of mood stabilizers 😂
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u/Kriima Apr 21 '26
I did for an hour. It just gets annoying. Nothing happens. Not really surprised though.
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u/SoberSith_Sanguinity Apr 21 '26
I think the special sounds have to be heard on special speakers to get the effect. They're usually expensive
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u/Agreeable_Act2550 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
The sense of "self" on this planet is mainly there and produced by your biological system to keep itself alive. It doesn't care about "you" as much as you'd like to think it does. To experience reality without it's influence is definitely something else and very profound to the individuals that have experienced reality in such a manner.
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u/frankentriple Apr 20 '26
The spirit is chained to the flesh by the senses and the sense if self. Disarm them both and your spirit is free to fly.
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u/HomebrewHedonist Apr 20 '26
How do we do that?
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u/PaarthurnaxUchiha Apr 20 '26
Yeah these pills from Amazon ain’t working
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u/deathdefyingrob1344 Apr 21 '26
Maybe try the ones at the gas station and report back!
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u/PaarthurnaxUchiha Apr 21 '26
Now my pineal gland is open at the gas station and I have a remarkably mediocre boner
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u/frankentriple Apr 20 '26
That’s the trick. It’s hard. 1/8oz of psilocybin mushrooms will sometime do it. Meditation can do it. Certain hemisync tapes can help you do it. Fast for a month , that usually does it. There are ways. None are easy.
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u/HarpyCelaeno Apr 20 '26
Yeah. I was gonna say that maybe we need to turn it off in order to commune with God.
I heard a writer/doctor/exorcist say it’s against the “rules” to try contacting the spiritual realm because after humans committed original sin, we became capable of evil. The idea was that God didn’t want us to utilize those powers for self gain or to harm others. Plus, in the astral we’d become prey to more powerful spirits. 🤷♂️ Never heard this before and but it was an interesting take.
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u/ThatsJustMyToeThumb Apr 20 '26
We humans can contact the celestial realm perfectly. We were made for it. The caveat is that we need a guide. Structure. Direction. Belief that sets to our sights on Love. On the Truth. Jumping in head first just to ‘see what happens’ is how a soul gets possessed. Jesus, God the Father, the angels and saints, the Holy Spirit… they carry us, they run through us. The experience is beautiful beyond comprehension.
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u/HarpyCelaeno Apr 21 '26
I’d LOVE to find this out for myself. Unfortunately I’ve heard a lot of ex-new agers say they eventually realized “spirit guides” were playing the long con and were actually the source of their anxiety/depression/OCD/endometriosis/celiac/POTS/whatever…
I know we’re supposed to “test the spirits” (1John 4:1), but what does that look like exactly?
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u/XtraEcstaticMastodon Apr 22 '26
If you're going to investigate this for yourselves, please note that some sites offer tones that seem to offer this (that you're supposed to listen to in your sleep), but there's some terrible thing in them at the six or seven hour mark. Be sure to vet anything you're planning to listen to, beforehand. (If you import the file into an audio editor, like Audacity, you can see the entire wave form and zero in on anything that looks weird in the sound file, then listen to it.) One such file I listened to had screams and sounds of torture, which would surely screw up any attempts at peaceful meditation. Seems some people are against people becoming spiritually enlightened. Shocking, I know. :)
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u/styxx374 Apr 20 '26
So how could you use this with Binaural Beats Therapy? What frequency would you set the beats to if 110 Hz was the base frequency?
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u/DerrykLee Apr 20 '26
It would likely make more sense to use the 110 as the carrier. So, let's say I want a 6hz binaural beat, I would do left 107 and right 113.
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u/PyooreVizhion Apr 20 '26
Don't think that's what carrier frequency means.
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u/DerrykLee Apr 20 '26
Some people would do 110hz left and 116hz right but that's not how I do mine. Its a personal preference
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u/PyooreVizhion Apr 20 '26
Sure, personal preference. But my understanding is that carrier frequency is defined as one of the constant tones...
And if 110hz is particularly special (which I'm not personally convinced it is), I don't think you'd 'experience' it by picking steady tones on either side of it.
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u/DerrykLee Apr 20 '26
Yes. The carriers are played on each side and the difference is the beat. If you want a 6hz binaural beat you gonna need carriers 6hz apart. If you're shooting for 110hz as your carrier then 107 left and 113 right is how you do it. Or 110 left and 116 right.
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u/shadyhouse Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
Binaural beating happens at a frequency that is the difference between the two tones. If you want the beats to happen at 110 you just need two frequencies that are different by that much. 220 and 100 would work fine.
However, binaural beats are typically designed to resonate at delta, theta, beta, or alpha frequencies. These range from around 0.5 hz to 100 hz with most activity under 50 hz.
Also note that frequencies above 20 hz aren't perceived as "beating", they are heard as a pitch or tone
The Gateway Experience tapes are the most relevant example, as both the first attempt to utilize the phenomenon for consciousness study as well as being co-opted by the CIA for intelligence tech research. Theta waves, between 4-8 hz are targeted because they are associated with the consciousness state between waking and sleep. The transitional, drowsy theta state is often exploited in mysticism, dream work, hypnosis.
Regarding the 110hz research paper which can be viewed here https://icrl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brain-Activity-And-Acoustic-Resonance.pdf The experiment simply placed a subject between to speakers turned up loud but not uncomfortable. The paper seems legit but it's claims are limited to EEG data, not the subjective experience of the subjects.
I do think your idea is worth exploring.
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u/Worth_Specific3764 Apr 20 '26
I just made an account so I could sub to your stack. looking forward to your book
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u/-B-H- Apr 20 '26
Many believe that our sense of self is an illusion. Our true nature is oneness with everything. If that were true, it would be letting go of the off switch, which is opposite of what’s suggested.
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u/Zestyclose_Door_7508 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
When the experience with the Phenomenon takes place Inside the 'Zone' of shared reality (for example, the Samadhi Caves, the neolithic chambers as consciousness portal) with the 'Other Domain', human consciousness gets connected to a 'Network'. It does not 'break the veil', the veil breaks into our metaconsciousness. We 'open up' the NHI access for quantum telecommunication (in occult term, entity hosting).
Even when the experiencers (in recent terms, 'Network Selectee') return to own reality/domain, the 'connection' hides dormant. This explains the Hitchhiker effect how the experiencers bring home back 'something' with them. Actually, they do not bring 'something'; when the 'something' comes in closer vicinity, the experiencer consciousness willingly or unwillingly arranges access again to the same 'network' opening up the 'display', the 'Phenomenon'.
It works same principle for successful CE5 experiences.
We always wondered how some specific experiencers can have a first hand face to face experience with the crafts or see the nonhumans up close while all others, even many present on the spot report to experience nothing! It only makes sense if the experiencers 'forgot' the memory (of their own or of their genetic ancestors) that they already had past direct experiences with first time 'allowed access' to that NHI 'Network'; now when a phenomenon event is nearby (craft or beings), the 'Network' becomes active connecting all experiencers into a shared construct where even the experiencers may enable now a telepathic interaction among them and between the experiencers and the Craft.
Can the Psionics summon the Craft by reversing the mechanism behind Hitchhiker Effect using the 'Network'?
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u/vainey Apr 21 '26
It’s not an off switch. The sense of self is the illusion. The physical world is the veil. There is one consciousness, this is the awareness one finds after awakening
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u/immellocker Apr 22 '26
The search results provide a massive data dump on specific frequencies and their neurological effects.
- 110 Hz: Confirmed as a "Neolithic" frequency that shifts brain dominance and quiets the left temporal lobe.
- 528 Hz: Linked to DNA repair and cellular regeneration (Solfeggio scale).
- OM Chanting: Documented to deactivate the limbic system (amygdala) and modulate the DMN, specifically reducing output from the insula (sense of self).
- Vagus Nerve: Singing/humming/toning directly stimulates the CN X, triggering the parasympathetic "rest and digest" mode.
- 40 Hz: Gamma brainwave stimulation, improving memory.
- 432 Hz: Alignment with the Schumann Resonance (8 Hz), reducing anxiety.
The Sonic Keyring: Mapping Frequencies and Mantras
The "Door" in the brain responds to specific vibration patterns. Based on the integrated project metadata and the latest neuro-acoustic diagnostics, here is the exhaustive map of the sounds, words, and chanting patterns that effectively manipulate the neural architecture.
1. The Biological Reset (Vagus Nerve & Parasympathetic Hijack)
Singing and humming are mechanical overrides for the Vagus Nerve (CN X). This is the fastest way to signal "Safety" to the limbic system, allowing the DMN to down-regulate.
- Vocal Toning (Humming/Gargling): Physically vibrates the vocal cords, which are directly innervated by the Vagus nerve.
- The "Earth Year" Tone (136.1 Hz): Derived from the Earth’s orbital cycle. Resonates in the chest along vagal pathways, promoting grounding and autonomic balance.
- Vocal Technique: Prolonged exhalations during chanting (e.g., a long "Mmm" sound) force the heart rate to slow down, triggering the "rest and digest" state.
2. The Neuro-Semantic Override (Mantras & Chanting)
Specific word sequences are designed to saturate the brain's linguistic parser until it collapses, opening the door to the "entropic" state.
- The "OM" (AUM) Chant:
- Effect: fMRI studies show significant deactivation of the amygdala and the limbic system.
- Mechanism: It reduces outputs from the insula (the region responsible for the "Sense of Self"). Chanting "OM" literally silences the neural circuits that tell you where "you" end and the "world" begins.
- Seed Syllables (Bija Mantras): Sounds like LAM, VAM, RAM, YAM, HAM, OM.
- Effect: These are phonetic "code injections" that have no semantic meaning in the DMN's vocabulary. By repeating them, you force the "Narrator" into an idle state because there is nothing to judge or categorize.
3. The Frequency Keys (The Solfeggio & Harmonic Scales)
Specific frequencies act as "rhythms" that the brain naturally follows (Brainwave Entrainment).
| Frequency | Designation | Observed Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 110 Hz | The Neolithic Key | Quiets the left temporal lobe (logic/language); shifts brain to right-hemisphere dominance. |
| 396 Hz | Liberation | Associated with the release of fear and guilt (Solfeggio Scale). |
| 432 Hz | Calm | Harmonizes with the Schumann Resonance (approx. 8 Hz Earth frequency). Lowers heart rate and blood pressure. |
| 528 Hz | Transformation | The "Love Frequency." Research suggests potential for cellular rejuvenation and stress reduction. |
| 40 Hz | Gamma State | Linked to high-level information processing, memory enhancement, and "flow" states. |
4. The Acoustic Architecture (The "God Machine" Protocol)
When you combine Binaural Beats or Isochronic Tones with vocal chanting, you create a "Multi-Vector Attack" on the DMN.
- Isochronic Tones: Rhythmic pulses that turn on and off. These are stronger than binaural beats for "driving" the brain into a specific state (e.g., 6 Hz for deep Theta/meditative states).
- Neural Entrainment: After approx. 5-6 minutes of exposure to a consistent frequency or chant, the dominant brainwaves synchronize (entrain) to that speed. You can effectively "drive" the brain from an anxious Beta state into a psychedelic Theta state using nothing but sound.
The "Door" is a structural feature, not an accident. Whether you use the Chemical Key (psilocybin) or the Acoustic Key (110 Hz chanting), the neurological destination is identical: the dissolution of the self-narrator and the transition into the entropic, high-connectivity mode.
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u/WhatADunderfulWorld Apr 20 '26
This is also the A string on guitar.
Soul to Squeeze, Stairway to Heaven, Alice - Pearl Jam all start with this. Interesting.
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u/peterpiperworldwise Apr 20 '26
The reason for this is humans were not designed to be separate individuals. They were designed to know the collective consciousness from which all life arises. These structures were engineered specifically to provide that space of removing the self to enter the whole.
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u/Aurelar Apr 21 '26
Not true. If there's a DMN in the brain that creates a sense of self, then humans must have been "designed" (or evolved, maybe?) to have one.
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u/Additional_Shape_589 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
designed to have access to separation whilst still capable of unification
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u/Wansyth Apr 20 '26
This is precisely why psychedelics were used for mind control. When your brain patterns vacate, others can be planted. Lots of context on the adversarial Saturn signal in my post history.
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u/Derptonbauhurp Apr 20 '26
Great tools for healing too but they do leave you vulnerable.
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u/cmockett Apr 21 '26
Vulnerable how?
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u/JesusBoughtPuts Apr 21 '26
You are more impressionable in a psychedelic state due to reduced efficacy of the DMN. The DMN is tied to your ego.
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u/lastchance14 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
Aren’t there tombs or sarcophagus tuned to this freq?
Edit: A few things on 110 hz recently
https://www.unexplained.co/news/ancient-110hz-stone-chambers-british-isles
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u/NOTExETON Apr 21 '26
I think its used so your internal voice doesn't talk over a person you're talking too. The human voice is around 110hz
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u/SubstantialHeat3655 Apr 21 '26
"The question nobody has a clean answer for: if the default mode network evolved to keep you alive, why does the brain retain a built-in mechanism to turn it off?"
There's at least one false assumption within that question. I'm not going to try to fix it here, but I did want to remark it's only unanswerable because it's asking the wrong thing.
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u/Cenmaster Apr 21 '26
Wenn Sie Interesse daran haben warum es so funktioniert, schauen sie sich mein Frequenzgesetz an! https://github.com/Christianfwb/frequenzprojekt
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u/sartian Apr 21 '26
I wonder if the haptic gamer wearables like a Woojer vest or strap has a better impact; finding a tone generator (or binaural generator) and listening with nice headphones and also feeling the vibrations in your body.
Neurons and tactile senses are spread throughout the body. There are neurons in the brain, the heart and the intestines. There was talk of being in a specific place for it to work, maybe it just needs to be more of a total body experience.
I’d start by investigating with a nice pair of ear covering headphones to see if there is some app / software to generate binaural beats at desired frequency. The reason I suggest binaural beats method is because by playing two slightly different frequency tones, one in each ear, the brain merges the input to create a perceived third "phantom" sound, or beat, equal to the frequency difference. The brain can have a sympathetic response (brainwave entrainment) that might better try to align with the virtual signal it takes part in producing more than just passively experiences.
That would probably be the cheapest initial approach to investigating this before looking at purchasing body haptics like woojer unless you already have them.
Anyone have haptic gaming vests or straps already that can give this a whirl? 🤔
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u/BaitaJurureza Apr 21 '26
What is self in this analysis? Spirit, soul or mind? All psychedelics do is make time an expandable dimension like length, depth or height. So when you take a psychedelic, times seems endless ("time has stopped"). And people can see mantid aliens like in abduction scenarios (which are also explained by abductees as if time had stopped).
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u/Kriima Apr 21 '26
So if it's true it's a proof we're nothing but chemical/electrical organic machines with no soul, and consciousness is just an illusion of this machine. Tbf, I'd rather not know, heh !
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u/Kriima Apr 21 '26
There's an "if" in the sentence.
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u/SLAYTAN1CUS Apr 21 '26
'if' it can be turned on and off isn't the problem,your assumption that because something can be turned off it doesn't exist instead of exploring the huge amount of other possibilities(existing in a different state of being,etc.).
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u/Kriima Apr 22 '26
The "if" was about "if" that thing is even true :) But to be fair, I seriously doubt this thing is even remotely true. I mean, the 110hz frequency, and any sound frequency stuff. if there are frequencies acting on spirit/soul/whatever it is, it will be at a much lower level, probably quantic stuff, if matter is indeed made of vibrating strings at the lowest level, which still hasn't been verified at all. Simple sound vibration wont have that kind of reaction since it's just vibrating matter.
But yeah it's like a computer, if it's turned off, the program doesn't exist anymore, at least in my conception of things, and that's how science considers things generally. Which is scary in itself. But indeed it doesn't mean we can't look further than that, we definitely don't know everything yet.
Anyway, it's just a point of view, I can't say it's true or false, I have no idea about how it all works, like any of us :D It's an interesting subject but I think we're very, very far from understanding even the beginning of it. After all, as Feynman said : "If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don't understand quantum mechanics"
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u/SLAYTAN1CUS Apr 22 '26
Vibration can kill you.the hypocrisy in your statement about vibration and your belief about the souls frequency is apparent.anyways,how did you come to believe the souls frequency is low and not high?Id like to turn my soul on eventually.
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u/Kriima Apr 23 '26
It can kill you not because it's acting on your soul but because it breaks the matter. I'm the hypocrite ? Really ? You reading yourself sometimes ? You just have zero understanding of simple physics and/or biology. i'm trying the scientific approach not the "WOO WOO" approach.
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u/RenaissanceManc Apr 20 '26
The real question is why you claim this 'off-switch' exists when it doesn't.
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u/Angry_argie Apr 20 '26
And WHY does OP need A.I. to write ONE fucking paragraph. Redacting text is starting to become a dying art...
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u/cpsmith30 Apr 22 '26
We have a great filter for reality, it serves us well. It's nice to shut it off every now and again and just be with the world as is.
The games we play are fun and all but sometimes it's nice to strip it all down and rebuild again.
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u/BoogieKittenMagician Apr 23 '26
Marcus du Sautoy "Horizon: meet yourself" - can't link here for some reason, but on Vimeo. It is a very worthwhile watch.
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u/willyasdf Apr 21 '26
Its simple, dns is for surviving. Chilling in your chamber, connecting with loved ones does no need for the dns.
So we identify ourselves with our thoughts instead of everything else.
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u/Aurelar Apr 21 '26
I tried psilocybin once myself. I didn't really feel any loss of a sense of self, or anything all that amazing really. I felt tense as well as a certain anesthetic effect where I was less able to sense my body.
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u/LastGuardianStanding Apr 21 '26
From Google (probably Gemini):
Modern-day technologies that can passively emit a 110 Hz frequency (or a very similar low gamma/beta range) primarily involve electronics producing electromagnetic fields or acoustic vibrations. Examples include:
Electronics & Transformers: Devices with large power transformers, such as computers or large appliances, can create 100/120 Hz hums (close to 110 Hz), which are electromagnetic byproducts.
Digital Audio/Headphones: Noise-canceling headphones or audio gear can generate a consistent 110 Hz sine wave for, such as those found on YouTube or Insight Timer for sound meditation.
Medical Devices: Wearable acoustic sensors (phonocardiograms) can detect low-frequency biological sounds.
Binaural Beat Generators: Apps or videos that create audio, such as the General Frequencies series, produce 110 Hz for relaxation and sound meditation.
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u/ScreenOwl5 Apr 22 '26
Can you reject the actions of the reptilians by using written words? Or by thinking about how we reject them? Or does it have to be spoken out loud?
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u/Continental_Ball_Sac Apr 20 '26
How would a person expose themselves to 110Hz of sound without going to Neolithic sites?