i-Dosing

A series of audio ‘trips’ has brought the world of altered states to new levels of digital convenience with the i-Doser program. Downloads for Windows systems, iPhone, and iPods, enable users to download virtual audio tracks, which stimulate the brain into wave states that simulate drugs like Peyote, Marijuana, Lucid Dreams, Orgasm, LSD, and a variety of other original head-trips.

Reminiscent of previous programs for brain hemisphere synchronization, such as the Monroe Institute’s “Hemi Sync” program, varying sound frequencies are deliberately miss-matched to produce beat frequencies that the brain then locks onto. This induces varying brain wave states such as the classic alpha, delta, theta, states as well as an addition of new flavors of consciousness, which simulate intoxicated states.

Doorways are open at www.i-doser.com

Image from http://www.last.fm/music/I-Doser.com

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uhhh

Submitted by groove is in the heart on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 15:51.

first of all, this was brought to mainstream awareness about 4 years ago. second, it never worked for me & seemed kinda scammy because: who can "program" what being high feels like, etc.? also, the science behind it sounds nifty but is vague and theoretical as it has to do with the brains interpretation of mismatched freq's to create beats. sure, it's a real phenomenon, but who's to say that it'll make you feel a 'crack rush'? Go ahead & try it if you want. Just pirate it first so you can see if it does anything but waste your time. I hope the next RS tech update is more legit.

Yeah, I agree.

Submitted by Leon Night on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 06:37.

Not a new product at all.

The volume of advertising here at RS is becoming louder than the grass roots content that I originally came here to enjoy. In addition, the veil between the content and the advertising here is wearing very thin. Every article now seems to be plugging a product.

While I guess the owners have to make a buck, all the good stuff is being replaced...

Well, almost all the good stuff. At least there's still the reader's comments. Without them, there'd be no practical purpose to this place.

The good thing (there's always a good thing) is that a contemporary truth is being reinforced here--one which all innocents need to remember: Almost everything is for sale!

The Usual Confusion

Submitted by Embodiment Now on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 10:54.

Whatever brainwave state some researcher may detect with their technological toy when someone is well and truly dosed is NOT THE CAUSE of that state of consciousness. Period.

Damn shame the real stuff is illegal and hard to find, folks who use this technology would be in for a surprise. ;-)

Brainwaves and Directed Experience

Submitted by coyoteyogi on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 13:35.

I have used brainwave meditation CDs for 5 years. Until very recently I have been quite disciplined in making it a regular, consistent practice. My experience is that it takes some time for these things to work at a level detectable to the conscious mind. I doubt that using this product would result in an altered state of any duration. There is a subtle skill involved in both allowing and focusing the mind to enable the brainwaves to do their thing. Most of us are so scatter-brained that it is difficult to move from that distracted state to a steadier, more coherent state and remain there. Over the years there has been great progress made in making brainwave CDs more effective. In the old days, the only technique was to embed "binaural beats" at different frequencies. Now there are many different ways of entraining the brain so results are possible more quickly. I have my doubts that any product could consistently yield states exactly equivalent to drug and plant induced states. It might produce altered states but nothing will ever be a plug-in mushroom (at least nothing I've ever seen or heard of) The science is still in its infancy and the market demands hyperbole to sell product. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has had direct experience with this or other brainwave technologies.

thangs ain't what they use ta bee

Submitted by revolutionrabbit on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 20:03.

we really need to focus on the comments here, because, it usually seems to be lost in the signal to noise ratio.the cross over of what a site like RS purports to represent.I have a lot of thought about this, I however tend to always find that strange middle lands place where all these ideas, new age computer new fangled gadgets and also the voices that begin to sound like gadgets.How do we cut through the hype, the utter garbage in garbage out of what really is a reality sandwich.It seems that we are suppose to be polite to the comments, and yet there is so much impolite content in the contexts we attempt to grapple with.Just what is "New Age" and just what is hip? Yeah i have a mind machine, so what? I gotta run, I'm late.

FRAUDULENT PROGRAM

Submitted by toque123 on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 20:28.

hi i have tried almost every single substance on this program and tried many if not all of them in real life, I found no noticeable effects from the sound even following the given instructions exactly. please DO NOT buy this even out of simple curiousity because it is an exploitation of the psychedelic/drug community as this is a product of capitalist ideas, trying to siphon money away from those who need it most.. rather than buying this program donate the money to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.. PLEASE, I AM ONLY TRYING TO SAVE YOU TIME, MONEY AND A FAIRLY SEVERE HEADACHE FROM THEIR PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC "BINAURAL BEATS"

This is old stuff

Submitted by jimcross on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 21:02.

Robert Monroe pioneered in this technology in the 70's and 80's.

I still have a set of cassette tapes from the Monroe Institute.

It is in no way similar to psychedelics. What it can do is invoke profound relaxation and induce the mind-body into a state similar to sleep but with awareness. The Monroe Institute investigated this as a method of invoking out of body experiences and, I think, for some people it might work well. Unfortunately I am a little too grounded in this reality and something more forceful is required for me.

I would suggest that anyone interested in the technology, check out the Monroe Institute. They have been at it longer.

It is for this reason that I

Submitted by Mister Ryan James on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 17:43.

It is for this reason that I am sad to see this on RS. iDoser in many ways is mocked by people who are familiar with them and their practices and the research that went into the discovery of binural beats.

This story would have been much more interesting if the author had decided to do more than promote a product. The science is really interesting.

Commercial Content on RS

Submitted by Talat Jonathan Phillips on Wed, 12/30/2009 - 14:02.

These comments have been very helpful but I feel I'd like to express some concern about being too much of sticklers on things that are "commercial." After hearing those comments, I went through the site and noticed that most of our shout-outs for "commercial" products are actually books from independent publishers. As Jennifer mentioned, we don't currently have the resources to do book reviews, so we run chapter excerpts and news posts on new releases.

We intend to keep on informing RS readers about interesting cultural material coming out in the fields we cover (who else is doing this for us?). Most often this will mean supporting struggling small businesses like our own, but sometimes it may be something more mainstream, if of potential interest to readers. We don't want to overly censor what we cover.

And Fabrice, I really appreciate your explanation of how we could better ask for support for Backstage. Although we most likely won't be able to send out T-shirts (since $30 would barely cover the cost), we definitely need to show more of the cool stuff you can get on Backstage. Also, I intend to see if we could do more of an NPR approach to asking for financial help to keep us afloat. And that said, I'd like to invite anyone who loves the site and can afford the $2.50 per month for Backstage, to go ahead and sign up and help ensure that we can continue throughout the New Year.

Thanks for everyone's support and dynamic participation over the last couple of years!

Another Voice

Submitted by Kozmik on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 09:20.

As a pagan and a chaos magician, I use technology to perform ritual and reach other states. I work with binaural beats and have bought products from Monroe Institute, among others. For instance, I bought a very nice CD from someone who incorporates binaural beats with solfeggio tones. Very nice! Also, Monroe Inst. has gotten on the bandwagon and has several offerings with music and drumming, which I also bought.

I ordered a couple of CDs from I-Dose based on the Sandwich article. I have no doubt that I won't get high from listening to I-Dose products. But I do wish to explore on my own and figure out which tracks will work for meditation, or ritual, or study. The fact that a track may bear a label called, "Cocaine," does not have anything to do with the work I might be able to do with it.

As for making money off this, since when did the Marxist revolution hit? I missed it. We live in a capitalist society and people must make money to eat and consume. It's a fact. Here's a shocker: I have whored myself out for medical benefits. Yes, it's true. I hate my job, but keep it so I can get money and medical benefits.

By the way, from a mail list, I ascertained that Monroe Institute has a more powerful technology, but does not share it with the public. What if I-Dose represents some of that withheld technology? I'd like to explore it for myself without Monroe Institute deciding what I should get into. This point is moot, however, because I have no idea what combination of binaural beats they are guarding.

Your opinion please...

Submitted by Leon Night on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 10:36.

Personally, I would like to see more stuff like the following on RS, unless I’m mistaking the RS I’ve come to know and love, for a book club…

“Two Russian scientists, Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf, have conducted scientific experiments confirming the fact that the human DNA is a biological Internet, and that DNA can be influenced and programmed by words and frequencies”

http://personal-developmentblog.com/the-living-biological-internet-brain...

The implications of this, well stated within the body of this fine article, are astounding! If DNA can be reprogrammed by human language, whether verbal or not, and if our DNA forms a collective hub of human communication with the DNA of other life forms, and perhaps with the virtual DNA of the planet, the possibilities are endless!

Will we again be able to communicate with other species, or with weather patterns as in our animist past, AND KNOW WHY AND HOW IT WORKS?

Please click and read, and respond with your opinion regarding what I would like to see appear here at RS. Do you agree? Disagree?

Thank you.

"Suggest a Story"

Submitted by Talat Jonathan Phillips on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 11:01.

Hey Leon,

Just a note. There's a simple way to see this kind of stuff on RS. At the top right of the site, you'll see a button for "Suggest A Story." Just send ideas or article submissions through that. We're very attentive to our readers suggestions and try and cover the ones we think are interesting.

Hey Jonathan

Submitted by Leon Night on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 10:58.

I suggested this story weeks ago and I got a positive response, but it never appeared, and most of what I've seen since is more book club reviews.

Perhaps the fact that the link draws one to a competing blog site has discouraged RS from posting it? If that's the case, here's a link to the origin of the article. But it's not as easily digestible: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_genetica02.htm

I hesitate to concluded that this is not the type of stuff RS wants to post here, but I'm not totally sure (read: confused). So I thought I'd post the link here for the rest of us in order to see if I'm right or wrong.

You see, I perceive an expanding polarity here between RS and its visitors. While I visit RS to enjoy the content, I'm also investigating the cause of this perceived polarity and its solution.

awsome but not so new

Submitted by imaginal110 on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 22:21.

Leon, liked your comments on the site and what you'd like to see.

No doubt that the power of the divine is astonishing, to say the least, in every way. This article has a new languaging for it, using language as a portal to our DNA. Is it really so different than "programming the unconscious" or even prayer, dressed up?

I'm no psychedelic explorer, having hung up my guns a long time ago, but what's turning my crank is not metaphysical speculation, but excitement about how we can set about the task of saving our asses from the end of the world as we imagine we know it.

I came to this site through reading 2012, and Charles Eisenstein and don't visit that often. But what I want more of is practical helping the people. The purely speculative is less powerful, though fascinating. I can always learn a new way to think of it, but these don't help me live it and that's what I want.

Gotta go!

www.LocalResilience.net

The Titanic

Submitted by Leon Night on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 08:03.

Thanks for your comment LocalResilliance. I appreciate the call-to-action that you and others on this site are making. I also came to RS after reading Charles Eisenstein’s wonderful book. Toward the end of his work however, he wrote about ‘practical’ ways to improve the economy as if these are the primary solutions to our dangerous situation.

My difficulty with such ‘solutions’ is that humanity is missing two essential points:

1) A problem cannot be solved by the same consciousness that created it – Einstein.

2) A higher state of consciousness will see everything below it with greater understanding – Wilber.

Conclusion: First strive to achieve a higher state of consciousness among as many people as possible, and then create the architecture for paradigmatic change.

What RS and it’s visitors are doing is exploring different horizontal stages of the same state of consciousness, while only imagining that they are looking down at all of this from a higher vertical state above. See, for instance Jennifer’s article on cap and trade protests being planned this month in NYC. This is just more rearranging of the furniture. "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" -Steven Hawking.

What I am trying to do is pull us up to a higher state of awareness from which totally new solutions will naturally flow. RS professes to be a platform for exactly such transformation, so I'll keep plugging myself in here doing my best to lift awareness.

The Titanic is sinking, deck furniture and all. Those who’ll survive are playing the violin and learning how to swim.

Fascinating

Submitted by Ginnie Jester on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 12:41.

On two levels this conundrum has fascinated me...1. I have my own very very very successful experiences with binaural beats, not docking those who haven't, I've just never heard such disappointment with the technology before. For instance, when I was in Europe last summer on a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I got, maybe, 15 hours of sleep in 5 days before it was time to head over to AMsterdam for two days without crashing at the airport for the remainder of the trip. I had also been walking all over Paris for 15-18 hours a day for those 5 exhausting days. Nevertheless, I was determined to see as much as I could possibly see, as this was an opportunity I never dreamed I'd have. I wanted to make the most of it. On the flight from Paris to Amsterdam I used a binaural beats app (another one, so, yeah, kind of not the ONLY program as stated in the article- ooops!) and took myself from beta down to delta, and stayed there till the end of the flight, then brought myself back up to beta. Gotta say, I actually felt rested and ready for whatever Amsterdam had prepared for me. Hard science? No. Just saying, it really came through in that experience, for sure. Also, I started using the same program to put myself to sleep at night because I was in a really stressful job and a crammed living situation sharing a tiny room with my three year old in my father's house. I was caught up in survival mode to the nth degree, and had so much trouble even dreaming, my last creative love where I once played with lucid dreaming. After a month of the beats at bedtime, my dreams came back, and I also started to notice that I was much more open to creativity in my waking life as well. Shortly after that I started to have some very very very intense and real experiences with 'downloads' wherein I would have vivid visions and sensory experiences in meditation. (Worth noting that my mind-altering drug experiences are limited to two mushroom trips almost a decade ago). These experiences were so intense that I ended up completely changing my life because of their profound messages. WHile I don't think I can attribute them to the beats per se, I do feel that they played a role in priming my brain to receive such messages that my mind might have otherwise totally blocked out or rationalized. And 2.As I am working on my own project to assist in the expansion of consciousness, I am struggling with finding a real way of supporting myself while being compensated for all the many many hours that go into creating, nurturing, designing, and managing the project. I, personally, am finding that donations are not enough to pay rent and feed me and my daughter at this point, and am at a loss for how to make this happen without going down the 'commodity' road. I was super interested in what RS was doing to bring in funds to feed the project, and its clear in some of these posts that the current method has room for improvement. So... just fascinated to learn more about how this community will support itself if not through affiliations or memberships... will donations actually work? Curious about the possibilities here, and looking forward to learning from a site I often find myself looking to for guidance about actualizing and supporting the consciousness movement that's by the people for the people. Peace.

nuture nest egg

Submitted by s.tristero on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 19:33.

ginnie, try this to maybe pool together some angel funding for your project:

www.kickstarter.com

as far as the larger issue being discussed (which goes far beyond RS itself, but rather into the current model of information production & the definition of virtual communities), it seems there exists a fundamental disconnect between the producers & consumers of content and where that line should be drawn, if there is such a line at all. this is the 3rd discussion on such matters i've read in so many days which seem to dead end to a reveal a canyon of separation within said 'communities'.

so in the hopes of not inviting further criticism or acrimony, i would humbly propose that particular discussion this may be indicative of this larger issue facing us at this time, what clif high describes as an overall feeling amongst the populace of 'buyer rejection' against the old structures and all attempts to use the tools of those old structures (no matter how thin or sophisticated the veil). at the same time, content producers are struggling to find ways to survive while maintaining true to their ideals while being constricted by traditional methods to generate revenue that may have the tendency to compromise those ideals, like for example having to seeing their community more as consumers over contributors.

being that RS/evolver is on the forefront of questioning these underlying structures of 'reality' and seeking to discover a new way of organizing social frameworks & expanding individual & collective consciousness, perhaps it might be worthwhile to encourage an open conversation of such matters so that each side can honestly air out their laundry (needs, desires, fears, etc) in a way to maybe incubate the development of an alternative model that is sustainable and participatory and can blur the line between production & consumption of information, knowledge and consciousness.

fwiw/imho

30 dollars to make a tshirt?

Submitted by toque123 on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 15:45.

with a silk screening kit you can get the cost of making tshirts down to 5-20 dollars each and is super easy dude.. made 30 last year for a total cost of 200 dollars and about 2-5 hours of time DIY ATTITUDE ALWAYS WINS

Hey Leon

Submitted by Kozmik on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 11:40.

The blog you referred to pretty much quotes the biblioteca pleyades site concerning the "Living Internet". They were both "easily digestible," I found. However, it turns out the source you refer to is someone's interpretation of the Russians' work.

I explored the many branches on the biblioteca site and I can see why Reality Sandwich would be hesitant to feature something from that site. It's full of references to the Annunaki, Atlantis, ET and God, etc. I like that stuff, and I'm glad I found that site, but RS might feel they are trivializing their message by linking to them.

Hmmmm

Submitted by Scrubycritter on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 10:46.

To buy or not to buy? That is the question. Is it possible to buy consciousness? I am sure it's quite possible. It might be the best purchase of your life, or not.

Ive seen this concept done a way lot better. Check this out - http://www.mindmodulations.com/

Ive procrastinated, but I really want to buy one of these, they look so futuristic and and neat !

although this is quite

Submitted by musiclover321 on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 02:47.

although this is quite interesting to listen to, it dosent work, the only way to have the real experience is to try the real stuff........ To bad its illegal...