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Exploring Altered States of Consciousness with the Brain Machine
I’ll take “Devices that I’ve built that I’m too afraid to use” for 200 please, Alex.
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I’ll take “Devices that I’ve built that I’m too afraid to use” for 200 please, Alex.
This is the Brain Machine. It’s a device created by inventor Mitch Altman that can induce altered states of consciousness through pulsing LEDs and binaural tones synchronized with different brain wave frequencies.
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