| Global Heartbeat 2006-03-22, 4:05 pm |
| Welcoming your kind thoughts on the DIY global chimes project at:
http://home.connection.com/~louis/g.../invitation.htm
http://home.connection.com/~louis/globalchimes/
Thank you.
Ego Assasin
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Global Chimes Meditation for World Peace
Toronto 28-May-2005
Introduction
This is an invitation to yoga and meditation practitioners to
participate in World Peace Meditations during which the EEG and
Auditory Evoked Potentials of all participants worldwide are
synchronized using an electronic chime which sounds once per second
and is phase-locked to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) provided by
the Global Positioning System (GPS).
The aim of this specific method is to dramatically increase the
efficiency of all meditators in achieving global consciousness
awakening, thus requiring fewer participants to accelerate the
transformation.
Though this project is still at the "Do It Yourself Hardware
Construction" stage and FM (community access) radio broadcasting of
the chime signal in Toronto is being planned, electronic technicians
sharing a common vision of our future world are being asked to
jump-start similar projects worldwide.
The discussion group http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/globalchimes/
has been created on Yahoo to exchange information, to announce
meditation sessions and to document growing participation.
Please NOTE that meditation might not be suitable for people with
epilepsy or other conditions and should only be practiced on the
advice of a physician, with a qualified teacher, for short time
periods and should be stopped if symptoms of illness or other
difficulties arise.
Background
Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., writes in "The Maharishi Technology of
The Unified Field: The Neurophysiology of Enlightenment", that the
Super Radiance Effect produced by over 7000 people collectively
practicing World Peace Meditation during the "Taste of Utopia"
demonstration in 1983 was so widespread that the entire phenomenon was
called the Global Maharishi Effect.
Furthermore, he writes that the field effects of consciousness
stimulated by a group participating in the meditation could affect the
EEG coherence between subjects at large distances, and provides
results of 2500 practitioners influencing three EEG subjects 1000
miles away.
His conclusion is that, ultimately, the collective level of
consciousness of any society becomes more coherent when stimulated by
a coherent subpopulation numbering only the square root of one percent
of the total population.
Observations
Although the above results are profound, the method is inefficient
because while each individual participant can achieve the requisite
level of consciousness, and temporal or spectral EEG coherence within
his/her own brain, there is no guarantee that he/she is in phase with
the person next to them.
No participant has any feedback of another person's state (EEG or
heartbeat) nor is there a signal available akin to a conductor in a
choir to keep members in sync and to prevent the total sound (signal)
from degenerating into a cacophony -- "though each has a lovely voice,
they must all sing together".
Noting that, for maximum amplitude of any signal at a distance, the
phases of all elements in a radiating broadside array must be
identical, and that, for the constructive reinforcement of any signal
over time, its phase must be locked to a clock -- a global chime
sounding every second can phase-lock hearts and minds over distance
and time. DEMO of Global Chimes Sound.
The Auditory Evoked Potentials elicited by the chime contain late EEG
components called the "rhythmic afterdischarge", "rhythmic
afterpotentials", "induced rhythms" or the "K complex" (Loomis 1938
and Bremer 1949) which are damped oscillations, or ringing, at a 4-11
Hz resonant frequency (Basar 1994) and are phase-locked to the chime
in all participants.
The repetitive nature of the chime guarantees that one habituates to
it rapidly and thus it becomes unobtrusive to the meditative state.
Each meditator can adjust his/her breathing to feel his/her heartbeat
on the chime (60 bpm) and the phrase "I love you" can be thought on
the chime to provide a uniform mind-set for all participants.
Technical Details
The UTC second tick (by definition) is guaranteed to be in phase
(within one microsecond) everywhere and always (for all time to come)
maximizing the spatial and temporal coherence of all signals in phase
with it.
The tick is a "one pulse per second" (1PPS) digital signal provided by
inexpensive GPS receivers such as the Garmin GPS18LVC (production
2004) or Axiom Sandpiper SIRF GPS (surplus -- search for "nmea gps" on
EBAY).
The signal is connected to an input pin of a personal computer
parallel port (pin 13 or 15) and a simple program plays a digitized
chime wave file through multimedia speakers or headphones (one
participant), at a low unobtrusive volume, upon detecting the leading
edge of the signal.
For group sessions, the sound is fed to a PA amplifier and distributed
via wires to many floor-mounted six-inch speakers facing up and spaced
fifteen to twenty feet apart with practitioners forming a circle
around each speaker, about five feet away from it, introducing a
uniform sound delay of about 4.6 milliseconds at floor level
(5/1.087467 feet per millisecond) and about 5.1 milliseconds at ear
level (5.6' from speaker) for each participant.
Once a standard participant-to-speaker spacing and an initial delay
(100 milliseconds in the prototype) are agreed upon, then all
similarly configured sessions anywhere and anytime in the world will
always be in phase and coherent, regardless of when a participant
joins or leaves any ongoing session, which could be scheduled every
three or four hours (UTC time) or could even run continuously.
Individual participants at home will also be in phase with the
standard speaker placement, or the headphones program can introduce
the required 5.1 millisecond audio delay for those wishing to use
wired or wireless headphones (program source).
Even deaf people can participate in the meditations by using the
diffuse 200 millisecond flash of the yellow 1PPS LED with an extra 5.1
millisecond delay added in the program (as if using headphones) to be
in perfect sync.
Delivery or distribution of the audio chime signal via telephone,
satellite, Internet or other media networks is not recommended due to
unknown path delays of up to 500 milliseconds defeating the whole
concept of simultaneity -- a second version of the program is
currently under development that will allow FM radio distribution of
the signal utilizing audio feedback to maintain synchronization of the
master GPS chime.
A prototype using an Axiom GPS (unit A) and a Garmin GPS (unit C)
connected to a Windows98 computer is currently in use in Toronto,
Canada and all details, schematics, setup instructions as well as the
control program and the program source written in SwiftForth, which is
free from www.forth.com, and the chime wave file will be provided free
upon request and will be posted to a web site --
http://www.connection.com./~louis/globalchimes.
Download all files to a NEW folder on the C drive
C:\ForthInc\SwiftForth\GlobalChimes and see the Readme.txt or the
Readme.rtf file.
Note: Complete and easy install is now available with
setup_globalchimes_12mar05.exe -- NO other files need to be
downloaded.
The prototype has been verified against a second Axiom GPS (unit B),
on an HP180 oscilloscope and visually against an Oregon Scientific
clock's blinking colon display and remains synchronized as long as a
3D fix is maintained by the GPS - the 4800 baud RS232 NMEA data from
the GPS is displayed by the program Conductor.exe -- screenshot.
During initial signal acquisition, and only a 2D fix, the tick is
sometimes out of phase by 500 milliseconds and is unusable until a
full 3D fix is achieved.
If the signal is lost subsequently, the GPS internal clock takes over
in holdover mode and is off (late) by 70 microseconds (0.07
milliseconds) after one hour for unit A (excellent), 4 milliseconds
after one hour for unit B (poor), and 20 milliseconds for unit C
(Garmin) (very poor). Resynchronization after signal reacquisition
occurs in 270 seconds for unit A (good), 45 seconds for unit B
(excellent) and 30 seconds for unit C (excellent).
Chime audio jitter is sometimes quite noticeable under Windows98 with
the program running at normal priority.
Using BW CPU controller 1.6.1 to set FORTH SF.EXE priority to 24
(highest), and closing all unnecessary programs eliminates all jitter
-- screenshot.
Image chime_four_50.jpg shows the original waveform on the left and an
oscilloscope capture (at 100 milliseconds delay) of the audio from a
Win 98 computer on top and a Win XP computer on the bottom -- note
that the Win 98 audio phase is flipped and that it lags the Win XP
audio by about half a millisecond (400 microseconds).
Program Notes
(BW CPU controller is free nagware from BinaryWork Corp.)
(Conductor.exe and the manual were free from Axiom Navigation Inc.
which has now disappeared to Korea).
(Winio.dll is free from www.internals.com ).
(Snsrcfg.exe is free from Garmin) -- screenshot.
(SwiftForth is free from Forth Inc.) -- screenshot.
End Notes
Operating systems such as Linux or QNX might even be more suitable for
this project.
A self-contained Atmel microcontroller-based interface to the GPS with
PWM generated audio is being considered in the interest of minimizing
overall system cost.
In North America, in principle, it is also possible to derive a
useable UTC second tick signal (1 millisecond accuracy) by interfacing
to a quality inexpensive radio controlled clock such as the Oregon
Scientific projection clock model RM313PA and compensating for the
radio wave delay from station WWVB in Colorado - for example: Toronto,
Canada is 1349 miles, or 7,122,720 feet away from the source and the
speed of light being 983,571.056 feet per millisecond, gives a delay
of exactly 7.2416934 milliseconds from the UTC second tick, so the
next chime would sound in 992.75831 milliseconds at zero delay or
92.75831 milliseconds in the prototype at 100 milliseconds delay.
All comments and suggestions are welcome.
73
Louis
globalchimes at yahoo dot ca
http://home.connection.com/~louis
http://ca.geocities.com/globalchimes/
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