The following report is by The Trends Journal:
In the 1960s, proponents of LSD urged people to “tune in, turn on, and drop out.” There’s new evidence that you can turn on by tuning in your headphones.
The phenomenon is called “binaural beats,” which means hearing a different sound frequency in each ear, which creates a sort of auditory illusion in the brain.
According to the Global Drug Survey in 2021, 72 percent of people using binaural beats use them to drop off, not drop out: the sounds help people unwind and fall asleep. Some users reported relief from pain. About 35 percent use the beats to adjust their mood.
However, 12 percent reported the beats gave them a high similar to a psychedelic drug such as LSD. They said they wanted to “connect to themselves” or “something bigger than themselves,” the survey report said. Five percent wanted to enter an “altered state.”
More than 30,000 people in 22 countries took part in the survey.
Users most often find their binaural beats of choice on Internet sites such as Vimeo, where tracks typically are labeled with an intended purpose, such as “mindfulness and meditation.” Others are simply named after the drug they’re meant to mimic, such as cannabis or Ecstasy.
Users tend to be under 40 and partake of conventional drugs as well.
“It’s very new, we just don’t know much about the use of binaural beats as digital drugs,” study director Monica Barratt at the U.K.’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, told Science magazine. “This survey shows this is going on in multiple countries. We had anecdotal information, but this was the first time we formally asked people how, why, and when they’re using them.”
There is almost no formal research on the use and impact of binaural beats, Barratt added. She urged research studies be undertaken to determine impacts and possible side effects.
TRENDPOST: Psychedelic drugs recently have made a comeback as a therapy for mood and behavioral disorders, but those drugs can have serious side effects. Binaural beats may be a safer substitute, but research is needed to determine if that’s so.
One bit of good news: people listening to binaural beats were using other drugs before tuning in, indicating the beats are not acting as a “gateway drug.”
That raises the question of whether the beats can be considered a drug. Perhaps a psychoactive drug isn’t something you smoke or swallow; maybe something should be classified as a drug based on what it does inside your brain.
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Everywhere we go we see people with AirPods and headphones stuffed in their ears, even while they are driving (!), completely disillusioned and living in their own realities. Clearly this is some kind of addiction. I realize this might not be the case for everyone, but it is a noteworthy trend that we see yet very few even acknowledge it.
1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Judge within yourselves: if you find yourself addicted to these things, or really anything that is not good, perhaps you should consider removing it from your life. These Bluetooth headphones are another reason why people are suffering from headaches and migraines, poor sleep, brain fog, neural degeneracy, etc., as EMF waves are pumped straight into your cranium; and that’s on top of the overload of EMFs, WiFi, Bluetooth and 5G that the body is forced to deal with in this modern world.
I encourage you to reduce your exposure to EMF and wireless radiation wherever you can, and you will not subtle improvements in your overall wellbeing.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I quit using AirPods because supposedly they cook your brain. I’ll just stick with regular earbuds or a headset.
If you have AirPods, throw them away they are harming your brain!
The trite saying goes “music is a drug”, but this is something new to me. We do get dopamine hits from music, but to manipulate music to copy the psychoactive effects of pot, ecstacy and acid?
Sound is powerful no doubt. That’s why listening to secular music with heavy drum beats will damage your body and brain, and makes it harder to control the flesh. Like how watching TV puts you in alpha state and manipulates your nervous system (due to the deliberately induced pulsing of the monitor), where you are not thinking critically and all of the TV show’s content, good or bad gets into your noggin’ and stays there (Psalm 101:3), music puts you in a highly suggestible state of mind and emotion. Stupid and filthy lyrics get stuck in your brain until you die, or get caught up by the Lord. Hendrix understood this:
“Music is a spiritual thing of its own. You can hypnotize people with music and when you get them at the weakest point, you preach into the subconscious what we want to say.” – Jimi Hendrix
Check out this resonance experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w
I’ve been using cables and wires for years, anything wireless I avoid. I believe Christians should reject these more modern devices and not join in with the trends of the secular world.