Brainwaves have been altered in many ways over the centuries using many different methods. Africans and North American Indians have done it with flickering fires and drum beats, usually to obtain a state of excitement and violence associated with a battle. In the East it has been used to cause a religious fervour usually with music and girating.

In the modern era and the advent of electronics it is very easy to alter the brain waves, now we know their frequency. Below is a list of these frequencies and their uses and effects.

There are quite a few ways these waves can be altered, the main being visual and acoustic. The visual method can easilly be done by feeding the output of the brainwave monitor to some LED`s set into a pair of glasses. The acoustic method requires only headphones to be plugged into the monitor. Deap relaxation can be obtained by using the feedback as an indicator to lower your beta waves. Deap trance states can be obtained with training. The reverse can be done by increasing the rate of certain waves to cause excitement. Nausea and vomiting can occure when these waves are taken to the extreme.

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Your body is filled with electrical impulses that can be used as communication. This circuit although quite old, still works after 20 years. The gain of this little op amp has a gain of 300,000 which is able to drive a transistor amplifier or radio. It was originally wired straight onto the volume control, but can be fitted with a jack plug and used in the microphone input of any amplifier. Just be careful that there are no high voltages on this input, if possible use a battery operated amplifier. The electrodes are small copper coins with flexible leads soldered on. Sometimes using a piece of cloth soaked in salt water and wrapped around the coin improves the contact.

Placement of the electrodes on the body is important; usually they should be 100 mm apart across a muscle. Contract the muscle and you will hear what sounds like static. To listen to your heart place the electrodes 130 mm apart on either side of your heart.

I also still have the brain wave monitor working, which was an improvement to this circuit with filters for the Alpha and beta waves of the brain.

With the brain wave monitor other filters were fitted on a rotary switch, 5 in all, with the 6^th one used for pulse.

Biofeedback was the next step and a audio output was fed from the monitor through headphones to the subject wearing the electrodes. They were then able to control their beta waves and relax more.

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Brainwaves have been altered in many ways over the centuries using many different methods. Africans and North American Indians have done it with flickering fires and drum beats, usually to obtain a state of excitement and violence associated with a battle. In the East it has been used to cause a religious fervour usually with music and girating.

In the modern era and the advent of electronics it is very easy to alter the brain waves, now we know their frequency. Below is a list of these frequencies and their uses and effects.

There are quite a few ways these waves can be altered, the main being visual and acoustic. The visual method can easilly be done by feeding the output of the brainwave monitor to some LED`s set into a pair of glasses. The acoustic method requires only headphones to be plugged into the monitor. Deap relaxation can be obtained by using the feedback as an indicator to lower your beta waves. Deap trance states can be obtained with training. The reverse can be done by increasing the rate of certain waves to cause excitement. Nausea and vomiting can occure when these waves are taken to the extreme.

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As my DSTV dish is no longer neaded I have decided to use it for WiFi experiments.I started moths ago with a sieve as a reflector to improve my WiFi signal, it has worked very well especially when mobile. Being some distance from the wireless router I am using the signal keeps dropping.

Because I keep loosing the signal I now use this setup with a small sieve as a reflector. In the centre of the sieve I fitted the dongle attached to a USB extension cable. When this was fed into the laptop I had a steady signal. I am now waiting for my local shop to get me a dongle with external antenna fitting then I will experiment with some small hi gain antennas.

This picture of hands was taken with a standard colour film but was not taken by me. Below is a collection of thumbnails of other items photogaphed by this method.

There are several ways to take these photo`s either striaght onto a film emulsion which neads developing or through a clear electrode with a digital camera. I prefer the latter now as getting the film and developing it is too expensive. The reason for this is that a lot of this work is done by trial and error. Years ago when I was interested in this form of investigation film was cheap and easy to obtian. I always did my own developing, printing and enlarging. With the advance it technology its now possible to do the same work at a very small cost and much quicker. Also much fun can be had when they are put on the computer.

For instuctions on how to make the equiptment use this hyperlink:-

http://www.imagesco.com/articles/kirlian/kirlian-photography.html

To find how this was used for seeing an Aura use this hyperlink:-

http://vivekzblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/kurilan-photography-russian-experiments.html

If you can not understand the assembly of the equiptment email me:– whitewolf@live.co.za or leave a comment.

Having just moved I have come across a lot of old photo`s and memorabilia. I came across a lot of 8mm rolls of film and realised that you cant even get a projector anymore except maybe in a junk shop. I did find one a few years ago but could not get the lamps, so I put the films away again. I may try to convert them to video. Looking through some old photo`s I found these from the 60`s. Those were the days when Traveled around Southern Africa on a motor bike with camping gear and a camera and felt safe. It is a shame our youngsters can not do this anymore, it was a wonderful experience which I will never forget. Although most of the memento`s went to school with my kids as school projects but still have some left. If I was to try the party trick of putting my feet behind my head now it could be a disaster. As for going around Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) on a motor bike with all my belongings, well that’s out too. Also on the way back to Cape Town I stopped off to see some German friends of mine (about 30 of them) and we had a braai in the mine dumps in Germiston. The fire was made of whole trees and old telephone poles and the party lasted for 4 days.

This book has 5 chapters under these categories:-

(1) Great Escapes and Entrances.

(2) The Best Defence.

(3) Leaps of Faith.

(4) Emergencies.

(5) Adventure Survival.

In these chapters I found many things that were very helpfulin normallife. There are others that you just hope you never have to be involved with.

There were a few good items on cars in the great escapes chapter. The only two Icould see a use for in the next chapter were the piosonous snake bite and how to take a punch. The leaps of faith are just that, not unless you really have to. There are mostly medical problems in emergencies. The last one adventure survival is just what it says and would be for information only. Still a useful book for the the coffee table.

Because I have always spent a lot of my time outdoors and usually on the beach or in the bush, sticks have always been part of the equiptment. I have made so many i cannot count them. Most have been given as gifts and are in daily use. This collection goes from swordstick to knobkerry. The one that looks somethning like a hippo`s head was a branch that I found on Muizenberg mountain after the fire some 40 years ago.

The long skull is not finished yet as I want to work on it with my dremmel, to give it teeth.

I used the same mould as I did for the other skull stick, except rotated it so the skull went down the stick,and easier to hold. the other skull I use mostly on the beach as its lighter and very good for moving kelp, to see what is washed up.

It`s funny how we go through life, getting married and having children. Then comes Christmas, when my kiddies were small it was great fun to sneak pesents into the bedroom and hide them away. On the buildup to the Christmas eve we all used to get together with rolls of coloured crepe paper and make streamers and other decorations to make it festive. Then the tree would be found in the pine forest nearby and smuggled into the front room. This was then decorated with tinsel and baubles that we had collected during the year, along with the usual pine cones spayed with glitter and gold. Latter this replaced with an artificial tree with a string of lights and traditional decorations. There was also a tradition that christmas Eve I would organise the kids and take over the kitchen to make the mince pies. This was always great fun although in the early days it was a bit messy, and kids never want to do the mundian chores like clearing up. As they got older the presents got more expensive and fewer and all the little things we used to do were not in a teenagers realm. So Christmases got quieter and eventually they left home and started out on their own. Now it has gone full circle and I now have more grandchildren than Children and have decided to live closer. It is amasing how they now look to us to make christmas`s as they remember them. I am enjoying the enthuiasm of the grand-kids as for as making things for Christmas. I have got one of my old jobs back, making mince pies on Christmas eve. Lattely I have been helping with school projects and find it good to have them on a blog because the schools have computers in the class rooms, so it reaches more kids.

Ther are a few hyperlinks below which have some good ideas:-

Holiday Crafting..things for kiddies to make for Christmas.

A DAY COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS DAY.

MORE CRAFTING IDEAS.

FANTASY GARDEN.

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I was going through a few school projects and came across this one. It is not very old and is painted on modern handmade papyrus. The picture was traced from a book. The paints were sample tins of acrilic paint and this was sprayed with clear laquer from an aerosol can.

MAKING PAPYRUS.

WRITING HEIROGLPHICS.