The Neurophone
          A New Communication Channel to the  Brain
                    Article 2 of a Series
                    1993 Patrick Flanagan
                              
The Neurophone is really an electronic telepathy machine.
There are several tests that prove that it by-passes the 8th
cranial nerve or hearing nerve and transmits sound directly
to the brain.  This by definition means that the Neurophone
opens stimulates perception through a 7th Sense!

All hearing aids stimulate the tiny bones in the middle ear.
Sometimes when the eardrum is damaged, the bones of the
inner ear are stimulated by means of bone conduction. Bone
conduction is a method by which the tiny bones in the inner
ear are stimulated by a vibrator that is placed behind the
ear on the base of the skull. Bone conduction will even work
through the teeth. In order for bone conduction to work, the
cochlea or inner ear that connects to the 8th cranial nerve
must function. People who are nerve deaf cannot hear through
bone conduction because the nerves in the inner ear are not
functional.

A number of nerve deaf people and people who have had the
entire inner ear removed by surgery have been able to hear
with the Neurophone. For some reason we have not been able
to decipher, the number of nerve deaf people who can hear
with the Neurophone is limited - not all of them hear with
it.

If the Neurophone electrodes are placed on the closed eyes
or on the face, the sound can be clearly "heard" as if it
were coming from inside the brain. When the electrodes are
placed on the face, the sound is perceived through the
trigeminal nerve.

We therefore know that the Neurophone can work through the
trigeminal or facial nerve. When the facial nerve is
deadened by means of anesthetic injections, we can no longer
hear through the face.
In these cases, there is a fine line where the skin on the
face is numb. If the electrodes are placed on the numb skin,
we cannot hear it but when the electrodes are moved a
fraction of an inch over to skin that still has feeling,
sound perception is restored.

This proves that the means of sound perception via the
Neurophone is by means of skin and not by means of bone
conduction.

There was an earlier test performed at Tufts University that
was designed by Dr. Dwight Wayne Batteau, one of my partners
in the US Navy Dolphin Communications Project. This test was
known as a the "Beat Frequency Test". It is well known that
sound waves of  two slightly different frequencies create a
"beat" note as the waves interfere with each other. For
example, if a sound of 300 Hertz and one of 330 Hertz are
played into one ear at the same time a beat note of 30 Hz
will be perceived. This is a mechanical summation of sound
in the bone structure of the inner ear. There is another
beat phenomenon known as the binaural beat. In the binaural
beat, sounds beat together in the corpus collosum in the
center of the brain. This binaural beat is used by Robert
Monroe of the Monroe Institute to stimulate altered states.
That is to entrain the brain into high alpha or theta
states.

The Neurophone is a powerful brain entrainment device. If we
play alpha or theta signals directly though the Neurophone,
we can entrain any brain state we like. In a future article
I will tell how the Neurophone has been used as a subliminal
learning device and also as a behavior modification system.

Batteau's theory was that if we could place the Neurophone
electrodes so that the sound was perceived as coming from
one side of the head only, and if we played a 300 Hz signal
through the Neurophone, if we also played a 330 Hz signal
through an ordinary headphone we would get a beat note if
the signals were summing in the inner ear bones.

When the test was conducted, we were able to perceive two
distinct tones without a beat. This test again proved that
Neurophonic hearing was not through the means of bone
conduction.

When we used a stereo Neurophone, we were able to get a beat
note that is similar to the binaural beat but the beat is
occurring inside the nervous system and is not a result of
bone conduction.

The Neurophone is a "gateway" into altered brain states. Its
most powerful use may be in direct communications with the
brain centers thereby by-passing the "filters" or inner
mechanisms that may limit our ability to communicate to the
brain.

G. Harry Stine, who writes Science Fiction under the pen
name of Lee Corey has written a science fact book entitled:
"The Silicon Gods", published by Bantam Books. The basis of
the Silicon Gods is that the Neurophone may be used as a
direct computer peripheral for brain computer
communications. It his popular series of science fiction
books known as the "Warbot" series, Neurophones are used as
mind computer interfaces for military robots that are
controlled by the brain.

If we can unlock the secret of direct audio communications
to the brain, we can unlock the secret of visual
communications.

The skin has receptors that can detect vibration, light,
temperature, pressure and friction. All we have to do is
stimulate the skin with the right signals.