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awareness and highly focused connective insight. But even higher thangamma is the hypergamma range, which is over 100 Hz; and above thatis the mythical lambda state, over 200 Hz, where it is rumored thathuman consciousness tops out at total awareness of all things from thebeginning of time to the end of history. On the other end, even lowerthan deep delta sleep, is the mythical epsilon state where brain wavesdrop below 0.5 Hz and a yogic state of suspended animation occurs.When evaluating brainwaves, human consciousness appears to belike a musical instrument than can be tuned and tweaked along apredictable spectrum of possible tones and chords. The brain wavespectrum as detailed here is only the most basic information, but EEGand brain wave science is rich with detail on how the various statesinteract with one another. For instance, there is evidence that slowwave oscillators in the brainstem may act as the circadian drumbeat ofall consciousness; that fast gamma waves are employed spontaneouslyto bind coherence between slower brain areas; that slow epsilon wavesmay drive amplitude in the hypergamma and lambda ranges; that themy rhythm (8-12 Hz) controls and visually interprets contralateralmotor activation; that there are specific brain organs and hormonesresponsible for attenuating specific pulse ranges and keeping the brainin synch; that beta states promote anxiety; that the brain constantlyproduces many simultaneous bands of activity at differing powerranges in any state of consciousness; and so on. Brainwaves are oftenfleeting, irregular, and disorganized; consciousness is an inherentlydistributed, transitional, and distracted process.Hypnosis, Induced Trance States, and EntrainmentMost shamanic work is done in what is known as a trance state; ahighly relaxed state of extremely narrowed focus. The traditionalshamanic trance state is in the theta range, around 4-7 Hz, which is ameditative state in the boundary zone between sleeping and waking.Most shamanic drum circles drop naturally into the theta range, andthis is the same range a hypnotherapist will drop a patient into wheninducing a highly relaxed state. This range is also associated with daydreaming,memory recall, and guided visualization. The high end of the
theta band is associated with internal focus, visualization, andsustained concentration; the lower end is associated with moretransient states of daydream, spontaneous memory recall, and luciddreaming. Somewhere in the lower end of this zone is the hypnagogicgrey area between waking and sleeping where body-consciousnessdisappears and the user feels floating sensations and may have out-ofbodyexperiences (OBEs).One of the ways a shaman achieves a trance state is throughhypnosis. A typical hypnotherapy routine will guide the patient slowlydown through a relaxed alpha state and gently place them right on theborderline of the hypnagogic theta state. With the patient teetering onthe edge of hypnagogia the therapist can then either engage themcasually in a minimally aware alpha state or tip them into an internaltheta state where it is easier to imprint new suggestions onto existingmemory structures. If the hypnotherapist wants to make a strongimprint he will introduce a suggestion in an receptive alpha state, thendrop the patient to low theta range in order to process the suggestion,then bring them back up to alpha to reinforce the suggestion, and thenfinally send them back down to low theta or slow delta sleep for furtherdeep associative imprinting. This basic hypnotic routine is meant tofocus the patient into the disengaged trance where rational override isshut down and the brain is vulnerable to suggestive memoryimprinting. Most modern hypnotherapy focuses on behavioralimprinting, but the hypnotherapist may also uncover lost memories,imprint new memories, suggest the patient is floating, or take thepatient on a guided visualization through a dream world. Whileperforming trance work the shaman will tell the patient to remaincompletely still; this is to minimize circuit perturbation and waveinterference produced by voluntary motor rhythms.Shamanic Entrainment TechnologyHypnotherapy contains many of the same elements of shamanism,but hypnotherapy does not work for everyone. In shamanic therapy thepsychedelic agent is applied to destabilize top-down control and makethe patient more susceptible to entrainment for longer periods of time.
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