Binaural beats can only be listened to on headphones, since the whole point is that each ear hears a slightly different frequency. According to WebMD:
A binaural beat is an illusion created by your brain when you listen to two tones with slightly different frequencies at the same time, one in each ear. Some early research suggests that listening to binaural beats can change your brainwaves.
Today I read Chapter12 in Ari Barak and the Free-Will Paradox by Shaul Behr. In this chapter, Rabbi Tuvia White (i.e., Rabbi T. White, the white rabbit) explains how he developed what he calls the Stream Engine. This is a device that looks exactly like a pair of headphones. However, when you put it on, instead of hearing anything, you find yourself able to see things that would ordinarily be invisible -- you can see into the past and future, directly see others exercising their free will, and probably other things that haven't come into the story yet. Rabbi White -- who was Dr. White, a neurologist, before converting to Judaism as a result of his experiences with the Stream Engine -- developed his device by studying the brainwaves of people undergoing near-death experiences, discovering "the NDE wave form," and inventing a device to "artificially simulate those patterns in a live subject."
Again, Rabbi White's "headphones" don't actually produce any sound and are thus not making use of binaural-beat technology. However, that is a known way of changing brainwaves via headphones, so it's hard to imagine it had no role in inspiring Rabbi Behr's idea.
The "blueface" sync theme was started by the music video for "Free Will Paradox." The Gateway Tapes entered the sync stream because of an /x/ thread which had a blueface image on a post about the tapes.
That post isn't just about The Gateway Tapes; it's a link to free (pirated) copies of them. It seems as if the sync fairies are trying to tell me to give binaural beats a try. (Any input, Debbie? I know you have some Monroe experience.)
Incidentally, Tuvia is a form of the name Tobit, a figure from the deuterocanonical book of that name whose blindness is miraculously healed by the archangel Raphael.
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