The Grok Box Rocks! (from Subway Serenade)

Sixties' icon Dr. Timothy Leary predicted shortly before his passing that one day someone would create a computerized device that could teach people how to see God. As it turns out he was probably right. The concept seemed simple enough. If you could align your brainwaves to the frequency of Love, you could unlock the pan-dimensional capabilities of the human consciousness and achieve the "Oneness" described in Scripture, or "grok" as they say in science fiction.

As one who well remembers when "Virtual Reality" came in sugar cubes, and who recalls the research in the early 1970's into primitive "Biofeedback" technology, I was intrigued with Leary's prediction. Perhaps someone was working on such a "Grok Box." So in the spring of 1997 I began my search for the latest information on what I've come to call "Astral Technology." What I found, surprisingly was a field that was much further along than I had imagined. for example, Dr. Andrew Junker of Brain Actuated Technologies, was pioneering computer interfaces for the disabled. His "Brain fingers" device boasts several "Hands Free" computer games that encourage biofeed-back interaction.

Other people were expanding the boundaries of Phi Music, Microtone Brainwave Generators, and Fractal Animation. And an emerging consensus seemed to indicate that transcendent consciousness can be achieved simply through the subtle manipulation of certain internal harmonics.

The big breakthrough came on July 4 1997 with the invention of what was then called "The Heart link Interface." Its creator, Dan Winter worked on the long held notion that the human heart is the"Primary Harmonic Oscillator" of the body. Meaning that the heart was in fact,a complex musical instrument that could theoretically be"tuned' like any other. The two question to be answered were,"What happens in the heart when we feel Compassionate Love?" and "Can this feeling measured? The answer to the first question is a bit complex.

Under normal circumstances, the heart "sings" at many harmonic frequencies at the same time. However these frequencies become focused and begin to converge much like a whirlpool as compassion grows, and these harmonic waves begin to spin at a specific harmonic base note of .618hz or PHI. During times of more analytical tthought,the ratio becomes 1.6, which is still a ratio of PHI.

The important thing to note here is that when using the Interface,(Now called "The Heart Tuner") you can see your heart's harmonics represented on a screen much like an ekg in a doctor's office. So if you can learn to touch the point where compassion begins, it becomes easier to sustain.

Many people in the medical community are stressing the benefits of something called "Heart Rate Variability" (HRV) which simply put is the ability of the heart to sing at the full range of it's musical instrumentation. Apparently as we age, the range of the heart's "voice" narrows.

Imagine a piano whose notes at each end of the keyboard begin to fade with age. So where a child's heart may have an eight octave range, a middle aged person may be down to 6 octaves or less. Medical research has shown a direct link between the harmonic range of the heart and overall health. So one benefit of Cardiofeedback technology is that it "teaches" HRV in real time.

Yet the ultimate benefit of Cardiofeedback is that two people using the same device can teach their hearts to "sing" in unison at the exact harmonic frequency of Compassionate Love. This same capacity can be expanded to include millions of people in a simple "chat" environment.

This is not to say that I wanted to sound like some kind of advertisement for this device. First of all, at over $1200 apiece this is sold as a research tool, it's made in Europe and is NOT available commercally in the US. So unless you work in areas where Heart Rate Variability is an important part, or if you are therapist studying things such as Attention Deficit Disorder, you can safely say that this is not in the realm of "Consumer Electronics."

My point is that even though Cardiofeedback is in its early stages, it already boasts several game environments that essentially use the human heart as its "joystick," and over the next five to seven years, this technology will filter down into some new version of a hands free PlayStation or XBox.. In the not too distant future, children will playing games that induce transcendant states of consciousness.

How many hearts, singing in unison like a global choir, would it take for Compassionate Love to achieve the "critical mass" necessary for human ascension?

Are you ready to Grok?

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