PTPOP - A Mind Revolution

Music and the Subconscious Mind

• PTPOP • Season 6 • Episode 9

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In this episode of PTPOP: A Mind Revolution, we explore the powerful connection between sound frequencies and the human brain, focusing on the effects of 440 Hz, the standard tuning in modern music. Discover how different frequencies, such as 432 Hz and Solfeggio frequencies, influence the subconscious mind and emotional states. We also dive into the hypnotic world of trance music production, revealing the secrets behind the beats that captivate listeners. Whether you’re a music lover, producer, or curious about how sound affects mental health, this episode offers deep insights into the mind-altering power of music.

Tune in to learn how the right frequencies can transform your mood, enhance creativity, and even promote healing.

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Speaker 1:

Hey there everybody. Pt Pop here With all four of those in my brain Taking any calls like it's a week For every other customer says guilty things to me. I'm a saint never seen my king. I'm a saint be taking a look at something really interesting, something I've been wanting to talk about for quite a while, and it's all about music. Music and the subconscious mind. I mean, it's pretty wild to think that those catchy tunes that we love might be doing more than just getting our toes tapping.

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Speaker 1:

So let's head on to the main topic at hand today music and the subconscious mind. And so this really fascinates me because, as some of you know if anybody out there who really knows me is listening for many years I was obsessed with the rock group the Beatles. Just absolutely bonkers out of my mind about that band. Just complete lunatic for this band. And for me, it started in February of 1974 when I was a wee lad and I saw a rerun of the Ed Sullivan show. When the Beatles arrived in America and was on TV in front of millions of people, they had a special on 60 Minutes talking about the band, and the minute I heard this music I ran into the bedroom. Then my brother and I shared he was seven years old and he was about 14 and I was seven and I rifled through this record collection because I knew that I remember seeing this band in this record collection. It was mostly jazz records, jazz and big band. But I remember this band, the Beatles, and their pictures on the cover of the album. And from the moment I saw this 10th anniversary special on 60 Minutes, I was hooked.

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I was like a heroin addict, I mean, I was freaking out of my mind, crazy about the Beatles, and I don't know what caused it. And as I grew older, you know my fascination with the Beatles. I guess it kind of matured and it kind of leveled off a little bit. I was less interested in my 30s and then in my late 30s it really began to wane. And one day I remember I was sitting in our house in Arizona and I'm like what the hell? Why did I like them so much? What was that all about them so much? You know what was that all about? Because the Beatles music. When I would hear it, it would instantaneously put me into a positive headspace. Now I know what you're thinking. Now, pete, pete, come on. You know what's so bad about that. You were feeling good and that's the same thing that I thought you know because when I was a kid, you know, we had a lot of problems in my family.

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Both of my parents were alcoholics, we were poverty stricken, or whatever you want to call it. We had no food. We were on food stamps. We had been homeless for a short period of time. My dad was getting fired from jobs or being kicked out of apartments and there's a lot of emotional and mental abuse. I didn't get physically abused by my parents that I can recall. I know I was never molested by my dad or my mom. It goes without question and I know I was not physically abused like beaten. I was spanked by my mom a few times in my life, but it wasn't like a regular thing where my dad and mom came home and beat me.

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So when the Beatles appeared on the horizon in my life, I think subconsciously, I was looking for an escape. I was looking for some type of escape from the craziness of two alcoholic parents and the poverty and the loneliness of that time as a little kid. So when they appeared in my life, I think I was primed for something positive like this. So it did. It got my toes tapping, it got me smiling, it got me happy. It's all I would talk about and I would run home after school and listen to my Beatle records over and over again. I just played side one and side two of Meet the Beatles, or Beatle 65 or the Beatles' Second Album, over and over again.

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So this is something that directly affected me as a grown man and as a kid and it shaped my life. The Beatles influenced me and they inspired me to play the guitar, to write songs, to become an artist, to get into video production. The Beatles, as well as my mother, who was an artist, inspired me to go down the artistic pathway. But the Beatles' influence in my life was massive. It influenced almost every aspect of my life, except for sexuality, because their songs were sexual. Thank God, who knows how screwed up I'd be even more screwed up I'd be. Thank God, who knows how screwed up I'd be even more screwed up I'd be if they had sexual connotations or things in their songs.

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So the Beatles had a huge influence on me. It was a positive one, or so I thought at the time, and, as many young boys of the 60s and the 70s, the Beatles inspired them to pick up the guitar, inspired them to become songwriters, inspired them to be like their heroes, whether it was Lennon McCartney or if it was, you know, robert Roger Daltrey or Pete Townsend, or you know, ray Davies, any of these people from the Kinks and the who, mick Jagger, the Stones, all these people had a huge influence on the direction a lot of young men and women took as far as becoming artists, and how they dressed, how they wore their hair. You know I had a beetle haircut when I was, you know, eight, nine years old. I've made my mom cut my hair like a beetle. So as a band, as four guys from Liverpool, they definitely had a direct effect on my life.

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But when I grew up and I kind of outgrew the hypnotism of the Beatles and the influence, I began to sit back and go why, what was that all about? Why did I have that reaction to this music? And I think it's fascinating to me. It's fascinating to me how sound can work on us in a lot of ways we don't even realize. I mean, you know we often think of music as purely entertainment. But it's a powerful force with the potential to shape our reality. And you know, I did some research on this and I looked around and I found this article on a research paper called it's, titled Music Effects in the Subconscious Mind, into some pretty interesting stuff about how different frequencies that are in music can actually influence our brainwaves and in turn our moods, our thoughts, even behaviors. So when I saw this article I was like Eureka, I've got an answer to what was going on in my life. So it's true.

Speaker 1:

So we're going to tackle in this episode I'm going to tackle, not we, but I'm going to tackle all that from the truth about different frequencies in music like about the 440 hertz conspiracy theory to how trance music creates those hypnotic effects, and even whether certain frequencies can really unlock hidden potential, can really unlock hidden potential. Now, I'm not going to dive too much into the unlocking the hidden potential thing, because I personally found that music can send you off into the woods and can knock you off the trail you're meant to be on, especially if you're like me and you thought you could become a rock star. There's a lot of guys and gals that think they're going to pick up a guitar or play the drums or the keyboard and never become rock stars. That's a whole other story, but it can derail your life. So so you guys, are you guys ready to unpack all of this? It's kind of deep, but in this this leads to a future episode I'm going to be recording this Monday.

Speaker 1:

Today is October 23rd 1965. No, there's a Freudian slit. It is October 23rd 2024. And I just happened to have been born 59 years ago. But on this coming Monday I'm going to be interviewing Beatles conspiracy theorist Mike Williams, author and owner of Sejaquay Radio. He's a world-renowned Beatles conspiracy theorist. Mike Williams, author and owner of Sejaquay Radio. He's a world-renowned Beatles conspiracy theorist. We're going to be talking about hypnosis and music and how it affects your mind. So this kind of all leads into it. So let's dive in here today.

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Did you know today, did you know I didn't know this until I did some research that the human brain doesn't fully develop until you're in your mid-20s? I did not know that. And it's true, it's very true. And I mean I know it takes a while for everything to settle up there in the old gray matter. And you know, I thought, and they lead you to believe that once you're 18 and you leave high school, you're pretty, you know, we're pretty much good to go after high school. You're a grown man, you're a grown woman at that time. But the brain has not continued, the brain has not fully developed. So you're continually developing. And that was shocking to me because they lead you to believe that when you turn 18, you can go to college, you start your life, you can go start a family and all this stuff.

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And based off of this research I did here that the prefrontal cortex the part of your brain responsible for decision-making, impulse control and reasoning For most men it's not fully developed until around the age of 25. And for women that same part of the brain is usually a bit earlier, somewhere between 21 and 23. So a lot of us are walking around with brains that are still under construction, if you want to believe that one. But that's not a conspiracy, that's a fact. That's a fact of science. That is a scary fact of science, because many of us go off and we fight in wars at the age of 18. We're building buildings, we're starting families, we're starting careers, we're making serious, heavy decisions about our finances, our lives, the direction of our lives and our families.

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So, in a way that explains a few things, maybe some questionable fashion choices, especially in my early 20s. I wasn't too crazy, but I know some people they're pretty wild the way they dressed in their early 20s and some of the social things I did, people I hung out with, and some of the choices I made in relationships and things I did in my mid to early 20s, early 30s. But mid to 20s I took some big risks sexually, went to some pretty wild parties and did some wild things in my younger days. But mid to 20s I took some big risks sexually, went to some pretty wild parties and did some wild things in my younger days. That I'm probably. Fortunate I'm not diseased or dead.

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But your brain is still developing and it's incredibly sensitive to its environment, and you know that includes the sounds we're exposed to. So that brings me to the 440 hertz. Let's talk about that frequency. It's a standard tuning frequency for most Western music, meaning most instruments are tuned to this pitch, and so 440 hertz is basically everywhere. And so 440 hertz is basically everywhere. But why is that the standard and what effect does it actually have on us? Okay, but the adoption of the 440 hertz is a standard that seems to be more about practicality than anything else. Allegedly Musicians at one time this is back, I believe, in the 1800s for some reason musicians needed a consistent tuning system so they could play together easily. I guess that makes sense. There are some who believe that 432 hertz is a more natural frequency or that aligns with vibrations in the universe or the earth and it's somehow better for us, but there's no real scientific evidence to support that.

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But here I'm going to play you tones. I'm going to play you a 440 hertz tone and then I'm going to play you a 432 hertz tone. And you guys listen and tell yourselves which one sounds more pleasant to your ear and what makes you feel uneasy. First I'm going to play 432 hertz tone and then I'm going to play the 440 hertz tone. And I took this recording off of a TikTok channel named at online sound underscore net. And if you listen to this, I'm going to play it through once. Think of how you feel. First with the 432, then the 440. So this is the 432. That's 440. We'll do it again. Here's the 432. Then the 440. And when I hear those sounds, I'm telling you the 432 is more calming.

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440 does something weird to my brain. My brain kind of like gets kind of like frantic or something weird like that. What do you guys think? And it's really obvious to me. Maybe I can hear it because I'm a musician. I'm a musician, but there's definitely there's.

Speaker 1:

Some say that the tones were changed for a specific reason, but the 432 hertz is supposedly better for us, but who knows? But as for the effects of 440 hertz, research shows it can stimulate dopamine release in the brain and dopamine is associated with pleasure Pleasure. Part of the brain is associated with pleasure and reward. So this might be why many people find music tuned to 440 hertz to be pleasing or harmonious. Now see, I don't find that. I find 432 hertz, when you hear these tones, is much more pleasing to the ear than 440. Interesting, right. So no sinister plot behind 440 hertz, but it definitely has an impact on our brains. So why would they all of a sudden go? Oh, let's tune everything to 440 hertz.

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So there is a conspiracy out there that Rockefeller, john D Rockefeller, read about this research. He read about the research. There's research done between the two different frequencies, 440 and 432 hertz, and Rockefeller's ears perked up, so to speak. And there's allegedly this conspiracy claims that the Rockefeller Foundation pushed for 440 hertz to manipulate mass consciousness, supposedly suppressing the more beneficial 432 hertz. And it was allegedly that 440 hertz it was alleged. It was implied in some of the studies I saw that 440 hertz makes people more aggressive and they wanted people more aggressive. They wanted them more frustrated. It would help manipulate them more, keep them more zombified and pushed into more aggressive direction, kind of like a bunch of robots. But the theory lacks any credible historical or scientific evidence.

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The International Organization for Standardization officially adopted 440 hertz in 1955. I don't know why they did that I didn't dive too deep into that but it appears to have been driven by the need for standardization, not some hidden agenda. But why do you need a standardization? You know, I guess if you got instruments tuned to different frequencies, I guess there'd be dissonance, you know, an oral dissonance. That would create, I guess, craziness in people's brains or their ears, I don't know. So I'm glad we cleared that up.

Speaker 1:

Conspiracy theories can be distracting, especially when they call everything conspiracy theories. Everything's a conspiracy. Now, so far I'm finding out, the conspiracy theorists are just about 100% right about everything and the other guys are batting zero, if you know what I mean, just had a little drink of coffee there. But so 440 hertz right now is the most common. But there's obviously a whole spectrum of frequencies in music. I mean that's what makes music so rich and varied. I mean you have bass tones, you have mid-tones, you have high frequencies, you have the bass, guitar, vocals. You know, just speaking strictly about pop music. Everything is vibrating at a different frequency and each frequency range can have a different effect on each person, each of us.

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I mean, think about the bass frequency that I mentioned, for example, the low rumbling sounds that you practically feel vibrating in your chest, like when I'd go into a nightclub in my 20s and my 30s. Oh my God, playing that trance music, just thumping against my chest and all those strobe lights and kinky, freaky people. Oh my God, it was like walking into euphoria, just pure, pure evil. Euphoria of just booze and drugs and dancing and freakiness. It was just like whoa, there's nothing like it, man. But you feel that vibrating sound in your chest and that's what gives the music its punch, that's what gives the foundation or the structure that this music is built off of, of hip-hop, techno, electronic dance music.

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All that stuff is just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know, and it's a very hypnotic sound and feel and you know, and of course you can't imagine a good dance track without a driving bass. You know, it's like a sonic heartbeat. Think about how it affects you physically, not just mentally, but it physically moves your body. If you're ever in a bar and you're standing anywhere near the bass. What's coming out of the bass guitar's amplifier? It's hypnotic, it really is.

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And then you have the mid-range of music. I mean frequencies where most vocals and melodies live in a songscape or in the soundscape. The range is all about clarity and emotional expression. And finally, the high frequencies and brightness, like the hi-hat or the crash cymbals of the drum kit. I mean they're prominent in things like, like I said, percussion and effects. So it's like music is a sonic tapestry woven from all these different threads of sound, each with its own unique texture and color. But going back to the subconscious for a moment, the research said and it mentioned some other frequencies, like 432 that I mentioned before, that are thought to have a specific effect on our subconscious mind, and you've got to ask yourself what's the deal with that. Okay, think about music.

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Music is everywhere you go today. Music is in all the malls, it's in every restaurant, it's in your and I'm just talking about music Like when I was a little kid in the 70s, you had instrumental tracks playing through a crappy mono speaker in the ceiling of a grocery store. You know it was just like do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That's my rendition of Raindrowski, falling on your head. But nowadays it's loud, it's coming through highly engineered speakers, commercial speakers. You can't go into a restaurant without screaming over the music, especially if you go into some of the more commercial places like TGIS or Applebee's or places like that. But even when I go to these outdoor malls, there's speakers in the sidewalks and in concrete posts blasting music. Everywhere, everywhere you go, there's music. And I'm walking around, like why why do we have all this music playing all the time? Walking around like why, why do we have all this music playing all the time? So some of these other frequencies.

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While 432 hertz isn't the standard, some people believe and studies have shown that it has a more natural and calming effect. They suggest it might align with the body's own vibrations and create a sense of peace and harmony. However, the scientific evidence for these claims is still pretty limited. I don't know if I believe that. I've got to do more research on that, because when I listen to these different tones, I feel more peaceful when I hear 432 compared to 440. Now, when I was a kid learning to play the guitar in the eighth grade, ninth grade, my teacher maybe tuned my guitar to a pitchfork that was at 440, and he had me tune it to 440A. I'm not certain. He didn't say why I still have the tuning forks in one of my old guitar cases, but it makes sense. I mean, you know, this definitely sparks my curiosity, you know so.

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And what's really intriguing is the idea that certain frequencies can actually induce specific brainwave patterns, tapping the different states of consciousness. For example, there are theta waves which fall between four and eight hertz and they're associated with deep relaxation, meditation, even hypnosis. So music designed to emphasize those frequencies might actually make you more receptive to suggestion. So if you're hearing music like that and somebody in the background is saying you know, paul is dead, turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man, you might be more susceptible to hear subliminal messaging or direct messaging to program you to do maybe nefarious things, who knows? And that's kind of how guided meditation tracks work.

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It's not just soothing sounds, they're manipulating your brain waves. So in a way it's about training your brain to follow a specific rhythm, gently guiding it towards a desired state, a state of mind. I mean. Think about like rocking a baby to sleep. The rhythm motion helps to soothe and calm them. Well, if somebody rocked me to sleep every night, that'd soothe and calm me as a grown man. But I haven't found a woman big enough to hold a 200-pound man in her arms and rock him back and forth. That'd be kind of kinky, baby, oh behave.

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So it's amazing, but it's unnerving that this is happening in our brains when we're listening to music and you've got some people say well, pete, that's just a byproduct, that's just kind of what happens because of the music. How do you know there's intention behind it? And that's where I'm trying to figure out is there an intention behind the music? Because they know it has this control in our brains. I hypothesize and I theorize that, yes, these big, massive record companies need to sell records number one, make money, but they're also pushing agendas with these rock bands or these rap artists or whatever it happens to be rock, thrash metal, whatever it happens to be. They're pushing an agenda, they're pushing fashion, they're pushing an attitude and if you can get young minds that aren't fully developed yet, before they're 25 or 26, to believe that they need to dress like this, act like this and buy this music, these record companies are making billions, if not trillions, of dollars off of manipulating your mind and they're pushing agendas, social agendas, on the world. So it's kind of unnerving what this can do. So there's an alpha wave range which sits between 8 and 14 hertz. Alpha waves are linked to a state of calmness I'm sorry, calm, alertness, making them ideal for focus and creativity.

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Think about the music you listen to while working or studying. Chances are it incorporates elements that emphasize the alpha frequency range. That's not true for me. When I was a kid I was always listening to rock music, whether it was the Beatles or I had like a light rock 103.5 on the radio, or a magic 105.7 here in Cleveland or 98.5 WGCL listening to the greatest classic rock hits of 1960s, 70s and 80s. You know all that junk. So I've definitely noticed that certain types of music help me concentrate while others just distract me. Like my wife listens to classical music when she's at work. She works down the hall here at home. She works from home most of the time, which reminds me I've got to leave here in about five minutes to go pick her up. And so there's certain types of music which help me concentrate and others that distract me. It's like my brain is saying nope, not the right vibe for focus mode baby.

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And then I discovered these frequencies I had never heard of and I hope I'm not butchering the name, but these are called solfege S-O-L-F-E-G-E solfege frequencies. I don't know if anybody out there has ever heard of those. They're labeled as being those ancient tones with healing properties and each of these frequencies are associated with a special benefit. For example, 396 hertz is believed to help release fear. 528 hertz is said to promote love and healing, and so on. Now it's important to mention that the scientific consensus of sulfage of frequencies is still out there. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence from people who claim these tones have healed them or positively impacted their lives, but I guess there's no scientific proof to it and you'll see a lot of these things like on YouTube. You'll see.

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You know, listen to music healing music for your mind, listening to healing music for your liver and things like that. Listening to healing music for your liver and things like that. And you put it on all this new age music with soundscapes and washes from left stereo to right stereo spectrum and things like that, and it's pretty interesting. So but like a bit like 300, I'm sorry, 432 hertz. The jury's still out and again, there's no definitive conclusions to much of this, but the power of sound is very, very powerful. But speaking of which, let's move on to something that ties into all of the trance music.

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Now, we all know about trance music. When you go into the dance nightclubs and I used to go to these things and there'd be strobe lights and black light and people dressed in vinyl and just crazy stuff going on and just all kinds of things. And trance music I mean this genre of music is practically built around hypnotic effects and it's intentionally supposed to put you into a hypnotic trance of some sort. And is there something special about trance music? You might ask yourself, what frequencies do they use that creates this almost trance-induced experience? Well, trance music producers are masters at manipulating sound to create truly immersive experiences. And I can tell you this, like I told you, when you walk into these crazy nightclubs, these darkly lit nightclubs, these fetish parties and things and raves that I used to go to, you're just immersed in sound and visual experiences. It's almost like walking into another universe. It's mind-blowing. It was a lot of fun, I have to admit. It was a blast.

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But one key element is the steady beat, and the beat of trance music is typically between 120 and 140 beats per minute and it creates a rhythmic foundation that gets you moving, almost like a heartbeat. You can dance to Imagine that. So they're trying to be in cadence with your heartbeat. So if the music is talking to your heart you're feeling it in your heart it must do something to your mind and your body. So there's the deep bass of this music, the deep boom-da hitting you right in the chest. Yeah, it's like creating physical sensations that resonate with your body. And it's not just about the individual elements but how they're combined.

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Trance music often uses layers of sound, so they combine the beat and the rhythms with layers of sound to put you in a wash of sound in a nightclub or in a headset or in your room, wherever you're listening to it. And what this does is it builds. It's a sound that is like a build and a release, creating a sense of tension and anticipation that plays with your emotions. And what this does is it builds. It's a sound that is like a build and a release, creating a sense of tension and anticipation that plays with your emotions. It's almost like sexual teasing or an orgasm, I would say.

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I mean it was mind-blowing to go to these parties. I've been to them and I'm telling you I haven't been to any since then, since the 1990s, but they very vividly etched in my brain. And then they use repetition and subtle variations of the beat and sounds over and over again, which keeps your brain engaged in a sync with the music. So they're in sync with your brain, they're in sync with your heart, kind of sneaky there, huh. So it's like they're practically hacking our brains right With sound and rhythms and it's both amazing and it's kind of creepy, if you ask me. It kind of is, and I've been there, I've been to these parties, and what I think is fascinating is this isn't just trance music, but it's fascinating how they can create the experience that can be so captivating and, as I said, I get lost in the rhythm of that music. But you get lost in any type of music, like you're totally in the moment, nothing else matters. I've been to just regular concerts where you hear the music, you feel the music and you're totally absorbed in it. So now I'm starting to understand and hopefully I'm helping all of you come out of the rabbit hole on Granted Truth of Time how these production techniques contributed to that feeling and it really is making me think differently about the music I listen to, and it has.

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For years I've really reanalyzed music in general. I don't listen, believe it or not. I don't listen to music very much anymore. I stopped listening to. I don't listen to the Beatles almost at all, and occasionally I'll throw on a Clapton song or I'll put in some James Taylor, but I don't listen to much else. I listen to a lot of jazz. So that's what we're here for, so that's what I'm here for to dig a little deeper and understand how things work.

Speaker 1:

And this highlights how music is more than just sounds. It's a wonderful tool that can deeply affect our brains and our bodies at a deep level and our emotions. And this brings up an interesting question what if we could consciously use music to enhance our mood, focus or even our creativity? That would be great. Like music becomes sonic therapy tailored to our specific needs. And I mean imagine, instead of just passively consuming music, we become more mindful of the frequencies we're exposing ourselves to. We could choose music that aligns with our own desired mental state, almost like choosing the right tool for the job, so like if I'm feeling stressed or anxious, I could put on a playlist that emphasizes those calming alpha waves and we talked about almost like sonic aromatherapy. But I guess the point of my thing here is not the positive side of it. What about the evil side of the music industry? What if the musical industry is manipulating and using these soundscapes to manipulate the populations of the world without them knowing about it? They're not conscious of it, other than trance music, where I think you listen to music intentionally to listen to it.

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So there's something called binaural beats, that the beta frequency range which is associated with alertness and concentration, and those are happening when you listen to two slightly different frequencies, one in each ear. So they spread the stereo spectrum between the two channels, left and right, and they have one frequency in the left, one frequency in the right and your brain perceives a third beat in the middle. This is really done in production studios, music production studios, and the binaural beat, which is the difference between those two frequencies, like a phantom beat, and depending on the frequency of that beat, it can influence your brainwave activity. So your brain is basically creating its own beat, and I think that's wild. Your brain is basically creating its own beat and I think that's wild and I think that's scary. I mean, if they know. If they know these producers know to put one frequency in one ear and another frequency in another ear and it creates a third frequency in the middle. Imagine what that's doing to your brain.

Speaker 1:

Most of the research I found said that it was a positive thing. So I think I'm oversimplifying things a bit. I mean, music is so complex and each individual's response to it is varied, so really it all boils down to specific frequencies. This is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach I'm taking here, but certain frequencies have general effects but others have more specific effects. So it's more than about being aware of the potential effects of different frequencies and experimenting with what works best for you Now. But my point is, if you're listening to music now, regardless of whether it's jazz or your pop or rock or thrash or acid rock or hypnotic music, be aware of what it's doing to you and how it's conflicting with your brain, how it's affecting the different portions of your brain, your emotions.

Speaker 1:

Now I'm just talking about frequencies. Now. I haven't gotten into the different key structure of music major and minor keys. That's just basic music theory. But I'm trying to give you awareness of the frequencies at play and their potential impact on your mind and body. It definitely does, and it's like unlocking a secret code within music. It's not. It's not a secret code to the producers of the music. This is a secret code to us that many people are just finding out about, and so so let me go back a little bit and talk about the sulfage frequencies.

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These frequencies are a set of six tones that are believed to have ancient roots. Some people believe they were used in Gregorian chants and that each tone has a specific healing property. For example, 528 hertz is often referred to as the love frequency and is associated with transformation in DNA repair. So if you listen to this, you can find these type of videos on YouTube. You can look up 528 hertz music. It'll say you know, this will heal your body, heal your DNA, and it was used to repair damaged DNA after the Chernobyl disaster. But again, everything I found said that was highly disputable, highly disputed. So who knows? So it's like the sonic healing, you know, and you can heal from the music and you can feel better from the music.

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But the record companies are very aware of the psychology and the chemistry and the physiology of music and they definitely know how to manipulate the sound. And if you think back to the 1950s and 60s when they corded to analog tape, they only had so many tracks to record on, they only had so many ways to transmit the music. Nowadays you have this crystal. In old days the music was kind of rough sounding, had a kind of an edge to it, a warm sound to it. Now today music is highly, highly, highly produced and polished and manufactured. It's a crisp, clean sound.

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You can hear every single instrument when you listen to a current song. You can hear the bass clearly, you can hear the drums, you can hear the piano, the guitars, the vocalists, the harmonies. You can hear it all in the stereo spectrum. And in the old days you couldn't really decipher all the instruments, especially the bass. The bass was kind of mixed down into the beat. It wasn't prominent in a lot of the records back then because you had monophonic records back then and they had to squish all the sound into one channel.

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So hopefully this is helping you see that the music that you're listening to, it doesn't have to be healing music, it doesn't have to be trance music. Music in general is intentionally produced to create a certain effect in the listener's mind and their body to get them to buy records, number one but also to think and feel differently. And again, I'm not going to go down minor key, but if you listen to songs with minor keys it makes you feel sad. If you're ever in the grocery store and all of a sudden you hear a sad rock song, come on, like a sad love song, you'll start to feel sad. I heard it today.

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I was at the gym and I heard a song by Journey and I can't remember what the name of the song is, but I didn't really hear it consciously, but I knew it was going playing. It was in the locker room and I started to feel really down, like what's wrong with me. And then I heard the song like, oh shit, this reminds me of high school, because Journey was big when I was in high school in the 80s and this is some, like you know, love song from when I was a kid and I was pining for some young lady or something like that that didn't want to go out with me anymore. But knowing this information about how music affects your emotions and your brain is your secret weapon now. They've been using it on us for decades and I feel that, if I can let you all know about that, you'll be more aware of what's going on when you're feeling certain ways when you're listening to music.

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And there's a lot of different things we can go into. And I think there's another thing that they're using that affects your brainwaves a great deal and it's unlike binaural beats, which reroute headphones, which require headphones, not reroute them, but require headphones. There's chronic tones, or single tones, which are pulsed on and off at a speed, frequency, a specific frequency. So it's kind of like a pulse of sound, you know, like that, and the pulsing creates a rhythmic effect that can train your brain waves, train your brain waves. It's like a strobe light effect with sound and it causes your brain waves to synchronize with the rhythm. So it's more direct approach to brain wave entertainment than binaural beats. So what I'm getting at here, without going too much more into the woods lost in the woods and the weeds about this, is we've covered a lot of ground.

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But if you're aware of what's happening with music, what's happening with your mind, what's happening with your emotions, turn on the radio, turn on your music player, your MP3 player, whatever it happens to be. Go on the radio, turn on your music player, your mp3 player, whatever it happens to be. Go on the internet and start listening to music and start to be aware of how it's affecting your mood, your emotions, your thought process, your heart, your body. Because I'll tell you what. All those years ago, when I discovered the Beatles, they completely changed me. They completely took over my mind and my body and I didn't seem to have any control. I was obsessed with this band and I think it's amazing.

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I wonder, doesn't it make you wonder? Was there something in their music that made me go into a trance of some sort? Was there something that they intentionally put into music that was subliminal, that made each and every person around the world lose their mind? Was it that simple? Was there, like a dog whistle sound, a frequency of some sort that spoke to our brains, that they mixed into the music to make them so incredibly irresistible? It could be possible. I'm not saying that's what's happening, but I think, as we uncover more fascinating insights about how music shapes our reality, we're going to find out, and it's mind-blowing when you stop and think about it.

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We've been listening to Elvis and Sinatra and the Beatles and the Stones and the who and everyone's like yeah, oh my God, oh my God. And like why? What makes us? Yeah, oh my God, oh my God. And like why, what makes us? Are we that desperate and needy as a race that we need these icons to look up to and go crazy over? And no, I don't think so. I think they somehow have manipulated the sound to get us to buy records. I think it was one of the primary things.

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But look at all how culture has changed since rock and roll hit After the war, world War II, that is, our culture completely went down the toilet. Families fell apart, kids started growing their hair long, hippies came about All of a sudden. Drugs were everywhere. It's pretty crazy when you think about it and I think rock and roll. It's pretty crazy when you think about it and I think rock and roll. This is just my hypothesis and this is just my opinion, but rock and roll played a heavy part in changing our culture. Where did it come from? Were kids really in such a bad shape with the old-fashioned post-war father figure at the head of the family and the mother working in the kitchen? And were kids that bad? They had to talk about their generation and they had to revolt against the common day structure. Why did everybody go after the structure of the American family?

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And music can do a lot of things. It can transfer you back in time, mentally and emotionally, and take you to another time and place. It can put you into the future. It's good at triggering memories and emotions, and there are researchers that believe that music is processed with multiple areas of the brain, and I'm not certain how. They don't know this, where it's all processed yet but the brain gets completely consumed by sound. So that's my whole thing. And this leads up to my next show, which is going to be with Mike Williams of Seiji Koei Radio, and he is a licensed hypnotherapist and he's going to talk with us about some of these very same things, about how music can put you in a trance, put suggestions in your mind, wreak havoc with your subconscious mind, and it's a very powerful tool that the music world has used to manipulate its audience.

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Because, when it really comes down to it, I can't. Personally, I can't listen to the radio anymore. There's something about the frequency of AM radio that bugs my brain. As I've gotten older, I can't listen to music anymore. I can't stand listening to music. I don't listen much, as I said, and I really find that it's very strange. As I've gotten older and I've become more aware of the sonic landscape of music and I've become more aware of the manipulation of music by the record companies and the producers, I'm less susceptible to the programming and conditioning.

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And think about it. I go to a 12-step program called Adult Children of Alcoholics and there was a guy giving a story in this meeting. It's a 12-step program for people whose parents are alcoholics and this guy was saying yo man, I get so depressed and I sit in my room and I listen to Pink Floyd and I get deeper and deeper in my depression. And you're not allowed to say anything to these people. You can't comment or guide them, but I want to say well, don't listen to Pink Floyd, dude. That's some depressing shit. That music is some really depressing stuff.

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Well, on that note, I think it's time to wrap up this deep dive into frequencies and its effect on the subconscious mind Frequencies in music and subconscious mind and I thank you all for listening to my podcast and it's been an absolute pleasure exploring this with each and every one of you. Keep an eye out for my next podcast with Mike Williams of Sage of Clay Radio, where we talk about the hypnotic effect of music and I bid you adieu and I hope you all have a great day and I just hope you have a great rest of the year and great week. I'll be the same baby.

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