Program reference

shakti-alternate, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti (consumer descendant of the Persinger/Koren lab helmets)

The 8 Coil Shakti's standard temporal set-up: a 4-coil cross on each temporal lobe and the amygdala burst-firing signal, switching every half-second between the top-and-bottom coils and the front-and-back coils of both crosses (the vendor's "fast" alternation), for 30 min.

Setting: For effects during the session: darkness and acoustic silence (blindfold and earplugs; Murphy says white noise is no substitute). Otherwise any quiet room.

Schedule: At most weekly or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; series of 3 or 6, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

The 8 Coil Shakti puts a cross on each temporal lobe (top, bottom, front and back; about C5, T9, FT7, TP7 and C6, T10, FT8, TP8; the site names are an inference). One stereo channel drives the top and bottom coils of both crosses, the other the front and back coils, and in "fast" mode the signal switches channels every half-second, which the vendor says emerged as "the most effective" in the original developers' lab tests ("slow" mode switches once per signal). Here two tracks, each with the signal gated in a point table, reproduce that switch; so that the half-second clock and the signal repeat together, a burst comes every 4.5 s (3.8 s of silence instead of about 4 s), and successive bursts start on alternate coil pairs. As on the vendor's coil chart, each pair is one + and one - coil: C5 (top) and FT7 (front) on the left and T10 (bottom) and TP8 (back) on the right get the reversed signal (weight -1), while T9, TP7, C6 and FT8 get it as is. The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary and is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s). The vendor's session lengths are 10 (tests), 20, 30 or 60 min; 30 min is the length for a series. Murphy's seizure anecdote involved left/right attention shifting in a seizure-prone person: skip this preset with any seizure history, and also with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication or migraine. An independent randomized, sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over both temporal lobes (30 min, 37 people) found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012); Murphy disputes their choice of session. Granqvist 2005 also found no field effect. Persinger's lab reported more aggression and less trust after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993): stop if you notice irritability.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart); Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 coil placement; Murphy, Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Using the 8 Coil Shakti over the temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, Enlightenment lecture; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, A reply to Gendle & McGrath; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1

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murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-hippbi-amyl, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

One of Todd Murphy's interhemispheric 'as seen on TV' two-phase sessions for the 8 Coil Shakti: the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over both temporal lobes for 20 min, then amygdala burst-firing over the left temporal lobe for 20 min (the 40-min run most users prefer, Murphy says). Murphy states that the amygdala signal on the left in phase 2 gives emotional or positive after-effects.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence ('not just quiet'), at night; eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark. The vendor: 'You don't have to use sensory deprivation if you're looking for after-effects.'

Schedule: Vendor: while trying sessions out, at most every 72 h; once you settle on a session, once a week; never on consecutive days. For sessions of an hour or more (the 60-min run) the demo video and the safety pages say once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions from that rule.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FTT7h, CH6 TTP9h, CH7 FTT8h, CH8 TTP10h

Coils as in the photos on the vendor's output pages for the left-ending sessions: six on the left and two on the right ('The left side has four coils from the left channel, and two coils from the right channel. The right side has two coils from the right stereo channel.'). The four left-channel coils form a cross over the left temporal lobe (FT7 front, C5 top, TP7 back, T9 bottom; CH1-4); the two right-channel coils on the left sit inside that cross, above-front and below-back of its centre (FTT7h and TTP9h; CH5-6), and the two on the right form the same diagonal pair over the right temporal lobe (FTT8h and TTP10h; CH7-8). The 10-5 sites are read from the photos and are an inference. Phase 1 (20 min) drives the four right-channel coils together (the right channel over both sides); phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) drives the four left-channel coils (the left channel over the left side only). There is no rotation, as on the two-channel Shakti. Polarity as in the photos ('Note the positions of the positive and negative coils carefully'): the left cross has its top and front coils - (C5, FT7: weight -1) and its back and bottom coils + (TP7, T9); each right-channel pair has its upper-front coil + (FTT7h, FTT8h) and its lower-back coil - (TTP9h, TTP10h). For the starred chirp version of this layout Murphy's demo video says instead that 'all of the coils on the left side of the head are positive' (murphy-shakti8-tv-chirpbi-amyl follows the video). Durations: the output pages and Murphy's demo video offer 40- and 60-min runs, and the video says 'most users seem to prefer the 40-minute session, 20 minutes of each of the signals seems to be enough' (in agreement, Murphy says, with some of the laboratory work); this file is that 40-min run. The 60-min run is presumably 30 + 30 min (not stated). The rotating Shiva God Helmet versions of this design are murphy-gh-hippbi-amyl-40min and -60min. The hippocampal 'LTP' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by 5 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), repeated at 5.4 Hz (the spectral peak the vendor gives for its LTP signal) and drawn on Shakti's standard 3-ms points (0.78 s; the burst count is a choice), then the standard 4-s silence. The amygdala 'burstx' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at the standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern), then the standard 4-s silence. Vendor: 'Be careful when setting up these sessions ... check and double-check' (here: check that the coils sit on the correct sides); the first phase may be unpleasant, and Skip goes to phase 2. Test the phase-2 signal on each side first with 10-min test sessions. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. For the God Helmet version of this design Murphy advises: anger or restlessness in phase 1 means Skip or Stop; anger or a 'racing mind' in phase 2 means stop and never reuse it; not for people prone to anger. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's two-phase pages (2026): 20 + 20 min instead of 30 + 30, eight separate coils as on the output pages instead of six with two shared between the phases, and polarity from the session photos instead of the general coil chart. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions (as seen on TV); Murphy, Shakti demo: output hippocampus both, then amygdala left (setup photos); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; 40-min runs of 20 min per signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Hippocampus and Amygdala God Helmet Stimulation; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-mod40bi-amyl, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

One of Todd Murphy's interhemispheric 'as seen on TV' two-phase sessions for the 8 Coil Shakti: the 'modulated 40 Hz' signal over both temporal lobes for 20 min, then amygdala burst-firing over the left temporal lobe for 20 min (the 40-min run most users prefer, Murphy says). Murphy states that the amygdala signal on the left in phase 2 gives emotional or positive after-effects.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence ('not just quiet'), at night; eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark. The vendor: 'You don't have to use sensory deprivation if you're looking for after-effects.'

Schedule: Vendor: while trying sessions out, at most every 72 h; once you settle on a session, once a week; never on consecutive days. For sessions of an hour or more (the 60-min run) the demo video and the safety pages say once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions from that rule.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FTT7h, CH6 TTP9h, CH7 FTT8h, CH8 TTP10h

Coils as in the photos on the vendor's output pages for the left-ending sessions: six on the left and two on the right ('The left side has four coils from the left channel, and two coils from the right channel. The right side has two coils from the right stereo channel.'). The four left-channel coils form a cross over the left temporal lobe (FT7 front, C5 top, TP7 back, T9 bottom; CH1-4); the two right-channel coils on the left sit inside that cross, above-front and below-back of its centre (FTT7h and TTP9h; CH5-6), and the two on the right form the same diagonal pair over the right temporal lobe (FTT8h and TTP10h; CH7-8). The 10-5 sites are read from the photos and are an inference. Phase 1 (20 min) drives the four right-channel coils together (the right channel over both sides); phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) drives the four left-channel coils (the left channel over the left side only). There is no rotation, as on the two-channel Shakti. Polarity as in the photos ('Note the positions of the positive and negative coils carefully'): the left cross has its top and front coils - (C5, FT7: weight -1) and its back and bottom coils + (TP7, T9); each right-channel pair has its upper-front coil + (FTT7h, FTT8h) and its lower-back coil - (TTP9h, TTP10h). For the starred chirp version of this layout Murphy's demo video says instead that 'all of the coils on the left side of the head are positive' (murphy-shakti8-tv-chirpbi-amyl follows the video). This session's own output page has no photos or coil text, so the layout of the other left-ending sessions is used (an inference). Its header and file code (bi_mod40) name the plain modulated 40 Hz signal, but its text says 'Modulated 40 Hz Chirp signal'; this file uses the plain signal. Durations: the output pages and Murphy's demo video offer 40- and 60-min runs, and the video says 'most users seem to prefer the 40-minute session, 20 minutes of each of the signals seems to be enough' (in agreement, Murphy says, with some of the laboratory work); this file is that 40-min run. The 60-min run is presumably 30 + 30 min (not stated). The rotating Shiva God Helmet versions of this design are murphy-gh-mod40bi-amyl-40min and -60min. The 'modulated 40 Hz' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz sine whose phase swings by up to 3 rad every 2 s (38.5-41.5 Hz). The amygdala 'burstx' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at the standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern), then the standard 4-s silence. Vendor: 'Be careful when setting up these sessions ... check and double-check' (here: check that the coils sit on the correct sides); the first phase may be unpleasant, and Skip goes to phase 2. Test the phase-2 signal on each side first with 10-min test sessions. For the God Helmet version of this design Murphy advises: if anger appears during or after the session, never reuse it; not for people prone to anger. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's two-phase pages (2026): 20 + 20 min instead of 30 + 30, eight separate coils as on the output pages instead of six with two shared between the phases, and polarity from the session photos instead of the general coil chart. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions (as seen on TV); Murphy, Shakti demo: output modulated 40 Hz both, then amygdala left; Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; 40-min runs of 20 min per signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, The God Helmet applies one signal after another (modulated 40 Hz both, then amygdala left); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-shakti8-altered-states-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's 'Altered States' session for the 8 Coil Shakti, the Feelgood session in reverse: the amygdala and hippocampus signals in sequence over both frontal lobes, then over both temporal lobes, to 'build activity in the frontal lobes' and then shunt it to the temporal lobes. Murphy reports effects and after-effects 'consistent with temporal lobe phenomena, including altered states', and also suggests it before meditation.

Setting: For effects during the session: darkness and silence, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. For meditation: end the session 1-2 h before you practise; never meditate or use other mind machines during it (vendor).

Schedule: Vendor (Feelgood and Altered States page): no more often than every three days for the 40-min session (once a week when effects appear for the 60-min one), never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 3-week break. If no effects appear, alternate Altered States and Feelgood (murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-40min) every three days for three sessions, then stop for a week (the vendor's general safety page, by contrast, advises against going back and forth between two session designs).

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 AF3, CH3 FT7, CH4 TP7, CH5 Fp2, CH6 AF4, CH7 FT8, CH8 TP8

Phase 1 (20 min) plays the signal on the four frontal coils (Fp1, AF3, Fp2, AF4), phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) on the four temporal coils (FT7, TP7, FT8, TP8); in each phase the four coils run together without rotation, like one Shakti stereo channel. The output page is inconsistent about channels: its header lists phase 1 on the right channel and phase 2 on the left, its text 'the Left Channel only' on the frontal lobes, 'followed by the same signals (Right Channel only) to the temporal lobes'. Both put the frontal lobes first (with the Feelgood wiring the right channel drives the frontal coils), which this file follows. The frontal sites are an inference (the vendor shows photos only). Coil polarity follows the vendor's Feelgood photos, which use the same eight coils: the Shakti's coils come as + and - ('North and South'), one of each per stereo channel on each side. On the forehead AF3 (upper left) and Fp2 (lower right) are reversed (weight -1) and Fp1 and AF4 run as is; on the temples FT7 and TP8 are reversed and TP7 and FT8 run as is, as on the front and back coils of the vendor's coil chart (the vendor's side views disagree: the two on the Feelgood consent page show the front coil + and the back coil -, a 2021 view on the Mood enhancement page the reverse). The signal is 'amygdala and hippocampus in sequence': one amygdala burst, about 4 s of silence, one hippocampal burst train, 4 s of silence, repeated, which gives about 9.3 s of field per minute (vendor: about 9.6 s). Both waveforms are proprietary. The amygdala 'burstx' signal is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at Shakti's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal by 5 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart, repeated at 5.4 Hz (the spectral peak the vendor gives for its LTP signal) on the same 3-ms grid (0.78 s; the burst count is a choice). The output page offers 40- and 60-min runs but gives no phase lengths, so the 20 + 20 min here (30 + 30 in murphy-shakti8-altered-states-60min) is inferred. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The vendor warns that too many Altered States (temporal) or Feelgood (frontal) sessions 'can create a kind of malaise or even lethargy'. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's pages (2026): the output page's channel inconsistency, the inferred phase lengths and the per-length schedule noted, and the polarity remark corrected; sites, polarity and signals are unchanged and remain approximations as described.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Altered states output page; Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions list; Murphy, Shakti demo: Feelgood and Altered States consent (schedule by session length); Murphy, Meditation and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti (coil photos with + and - coils); Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti (Feelgood side photo; coils 'North and South'); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: Too many sessions over the same area

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murphy-shakti8-altered-states-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's 'Altered States' session for the 8 Coil Shakti, the Feelgood session in reverse: the amygdala and hippocampus signals in sequence over both frontal lobes, then over both temporal lobes, to 'build activity in the frontal lobes' and then shunt it to the temporal lobes. Murphy reports effects and after-effects 'consistent with temporal lobe phenomena, including altered states', and also suggests it before meditation.

Setting: For effects during the session: darkness and silence, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. For meditation: end the session 1-2 h before you practise; never meditate or use other mind machines during it (vendor).

Schedule: Vendor (Feelgood and Altered States page): no more often than once a week when effects appear for the 60-min session (every three days for the 40-min one), never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 3-week break. The general Shakti pages put 60-min sessions at most once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions such as this one. If no effects appear, the Feelgood page suggests alternating Altered States and Feelgood (murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-60min); the vendor's general safety page, by contrast, advises against going back and forth between two session designs.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 AF3, CH3 FT7, CH4 TP7, CH5 Fp2, CH6 AF4, CH7 FT8, CH8 TP8

Phase 1 (30 min) plays the signal on the four frontal coils (Fp1, AF3, Fp2, AF4), phase 2 (30 min, abrupt switch) on the four temporal coils (FT7, TP7, FT8, TP8); in each phase the four coils run together without rotation, like one Shakti stereo channel. The output page is inconsistent about channels: its header lists phase 1 on the right channel and phase 2 on the left, its text 'the Left Channel only' on the frontal lobes, 'followed by the same signals (Right Channel only) to the temporal lobes'. Both put the frontal lobes first (with the Feelgood wiring the right channel drives the frontal coils), which this file follows. The frontal sites are an inference (the vendor shows photos only). Coil polarity follows the vendor's Feelgood photos, which use the same eight coils: the Shakti's coils come as + and - ('North and South'), one of each per stereo channel on each side. On the forehead AF3 (upper left) and Fp2 (lower right) are reversed (weight -1) and Fp1 and AF4 run as is; on the temples FT7 and TP8 are reversed and TP7 and FT8 run as is, as on the front and back coils of the vendor's coil chart (the vendor's side views disagree: the two on the Feelgood consent page show the front coil + and the back coil -, a 2021 view on the Mood enhancement page the reverse). The signal is 'amygdala and hippocampus in sequence': one amygdala burst, about 4 s of silence, one hippocampal burst train, 4 s of silence, repeated, which gives about 9.3 s of field per minute (vendor: about 9.6 s). Both waveforms are proprietary. The amygdala 'burstx' signal is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at Shakti's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal by 5 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart, repeated at 5.4 Hz (the spectral peak the vendor gives for its LTP signal) on the same 3-ms grid (0.78 s; the burst count is a choice). The output page offers 40- and 60-min runs but gives no phase lengths, so the 30 + 30 min here (20 + 20 in murphy-shakti8-altered-states-40min) is inferred. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The vendor warns that too many Altered States (temporal) or Feelgood (frontal) sessions 'can create a kind of malaise or even lethargy'. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's pages (2026): the output page's channel inconsistency, the inferred phase lengths and the per-length schedule noted, and the polarity remark corrected; sites, polarity and signals are unchanged and remain approximations as described.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Altered states output page; Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions list; Murphy, Shakti demo: Feelgood and Altered States consent (schedule by session length); Murphy, Meditation and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti (coil photos with + and - coils); Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti (Feelgood side photo; coils 'North and South'); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: Too many sessions over the same area; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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god-helmet-classic, layout: custom, Persinger & Koren (Laurentian University) sensed-presence protocol; home version by Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Persinger and Koren's two-phase procedure in Todd Murphy's Shiva God Helmet version: 30 min of the "modulated 40 Hz chirp" cycling around four coils on the RIGHT temporal lobe only, then an abrupt switch to 30 min of the amygdala burst-firing signal cycling on both temporal lobes. Phase 1 can cause fear; press Skip to go straight to phase 2.

Setting: Dark, silent room ("silence, not just quiet"), blindfold, eyes closed, reclined; relax without meditating or falling asleep. Lab sessions ran mostly between midnight and 4 am in an acoustic chamber that was also a Faraday cage. For experiences during the session Murphy advises geomagnetic quiet (K 0-2). A helper can press Skip if phase 1 becomes frightening, so you stay in the dark.

Schedule: At most weekly, never on consecutive days; six sessions, then a 21-day break; don't mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks. Murphy advises starting with other sessions before this one.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Murphy reports that the lab ran phase 1 for about 30 min before the abrupt switch; his Shiva version runs 30 + 30 min (as here) or 20 + 20 min. Four coils sit in a cross on each temporal lobe (about FT7, C5, TP7, T9 and FT8, C6, TP8, T10; the site names are an inference; Murphy says the lab helmet's two top coils and the centre coil between the four on each side are no longer used). Phase 1 drives only the right cross, stepping counter-clockwise; phase 2 drives both crosses, clockwise on the left and counter-clockwise on the right, as the session page text says and as Collins 2014 describes the Shiva 4+4 helmet in Persinger's lab (an image caption on Murphy's session list says clockwise on the right). Viewed side by side both run top, back, bottom, front (an inference). Murphy gives no step time, only "a fraction of a second" per cycle; 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is an inference. Both signals are proprietary. The "modulated 40 Hz chirp" (the vendor: a modulated 40 Hz signal whose gaps grow longer, with Fibonacci-varied amplitude and gaps; one vendor page says it "does not change in tone", another shows a chirp whose frequency falls) is approximated by a frequency sweep falling from 40 to 6 Hz on 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off (837 points of 3 ms every 4 s, after the lab's frequency-modulated 'Thomas' pattern: 837 values every 4 s, Dixon & Persinger 2001; 3-ms points over the right hemisphere, Tiller & Persinger 2002); the 40 Hz modulation and the amplitude variation are not reproduced. Changed after the primary-source check: the amygdala signal now has the length a Laurentian thesis gives for the Shiva software's own "amygdaloid signal, normal speed", 289 points of 3 ms (0.87 s) with 4 s between cycles (Collins 2014), approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz); it was 230 points (0.69 s), the length of the lab's own Burst-X file (Carniello 2020), which the lab played once every 3-4 s. The lab's own protocol (Saroka 2015) is 30 min of the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern over both temporoparietal regions, then 30 min of Burst-X (persinger-saroka-2015-sensed-presence). When Persinger's lab tested Shiva's 4+4 helmet (coils 5 cm apart vertically and 8 cm horizontally, 1-2 uT, 20-min primer and target phases, 24 people), only right-frontal high-beta rose (Collins 2014). The Shiva software plays phase 1 10 % louder than the user setting, so phase 2 runs at level 0.91. Murphy calls phase 1 "somewhat unpleasant for many people" ("women seem to be more prone") and warns against making it an endurance contest; if anger or irritability appears during or after phase 2, never repeat the session. Not for people prone to anxiety or with epilepsy, migraine, brain injury, a psychiatric diagnosis or medication; no drugs or other mind machines. Persinger, quoted by Murphy, put visions of Christ or God at about 20 of some 2000 lab subjects. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the field (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-tpj, right-amygdala, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet 2-stage session using chirp and amygdala signals; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Intro to the God Helmet (Persinger email quoted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Murphy, Enlightenment lecture; Murphy, Deja vu lecture; Murphy-Balbin interview; McTaggart interview with Murphy (2006); Collins 2014, MA thesis 'Investigating the Shiva', Laurentian University (Shiva amygdaloid signal: 289 points, 3 ms, 4000 ms between cycles; 100 ms plus 20 ms per column; ch. 4: Shiva 4+4 helmet); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (230-point burst-firing file, 3-ms points; Thomas file with 3-ms points and intervals); Saroka 2015, doctoral thesis, Laurentian University, p. 29 (sensed-presence protocol: 30 min bilateral temporo-parietal frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, then 30 min BurstX); Murphy, Shiva: sessions used in lab experiments (Published Studies session; the chirp "does not change in tone"); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87; Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; St-Pierre & Persinger 2006, Int J Neurosci 116:1079; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min, layout: custom, Persinger & Koren (Laurentian University) sensed-presence protocol; home version by Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Murphy's Shiva version of the Persinger/Koren lab design: a modulated-40 Hz 'chirp' stepping around the four right temporal coils, then an abrupt switch to amygdala burst-firing over both sides. Murphy reports presence, elation, joy, inner imagery or feelings of love in phase 2 and says the lab design gave visions of God only to a small percentage; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the lab used an acoustic chamber that was also a Faraday cage, and gauze plus a blindfold). Relax without meditating or falling asleep. Lab sessions ran mostly between midnight and 4 am during geomagnetic quiet. A helper can press Skip during phase 1 so you stay in the dark.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy). Murphy advises using other sessions first.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (20 min): the chirp on the four right coils only. Murphy expects it to be somewhat unpleasant for many people (fear; he says women seem more prone): if fear comes, press Skip to go to phase 2 at once (his software shows a flashing 'abort' button for this) and do not make it into an endurance contest. Phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch): amygdala burst-firing on all eight coils, left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. If anger or irritability appears during or after phase 2, never reuse this session. Not for people prone to anxiety. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Murphy's software plays phase 1 '10% higher than the volume level you entered (25% by default)' and says never to set the volume above 82%, since a higher setting would run the session 'at a volume above 92%, where signal distortion can occur'; 82 + 10 = 92, so the step is ten percentage points: 35% against 25% at the default setting. Here phase 1 therefore runs at the session intensity (1.4 µT by default) and phase 2 at 0.71 of it (about 1 µT); at higher settings the vendor's step is relatively smaller (60% against 50% is 0.83). The page names 'the second phase' in its 82% warning although the boost is in the first; this file follows the boost as described. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The amygdala 'burstx' template is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz): 230 points as in Ryczko & Persinger 2002 (who used 4-ms points, once every 3 s), here at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' burst of Persinger et al. 2009), then the vendor's 4 s silence; this gives about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). Coil steps: the step time is unpublished. Murphy calls the rotation the fast motion of the God Helmet, 'several times per second', and says each cycle around the temporal lobes 'takes a fraction of a second', so 62.5 ms per coil (4 cycles per second on each side) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'Over the left side, the direction is clockwise, and over the right, it's counter clockwise', each side seen from its own side, as his coil-numbered God Helmet animations show (right coils 1-2-3-4 and left coils 5-6-7-8 each step top, back, bottom, front) and as his animation of the Koren helmet's right side shows; so here both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8), starting at the top coil, and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. An image caption added to the session list in 2021 says the right side cycles clockwise; the text and the animations are followed. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. Persinger's own account of the lab design (2002, reproduced on Murphy's site) gives the frequency-modulated signal over the right temporal lobe 'for 15 [or 20] minutes', then burst-firing over both sides 'once every three or four seconds for the same length of time'; Murphy's software runs 'each phase 20 minutes' (40-min session) or 'each phase 30 minutes' (60-min session). This is the 40-min version (20 + 20 min, the lab's longer reading); the 60-min version is murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-60min. Revised after a re-check of Murphy's session pages (2026): rotation 4 cycles per second instead of 2, the phase-1 boost read as ten percentage points (phase 2 at 0.71 of phase 1 instead of 0.91, with the session default raised to 1.4 µT so that phase 2 stays near 1 µT), the rotation direction now backed by the vendor's animations, and the lab's 15-20-min phases noted. Still approximate: both signal templates, the coil sites and the step time.

Aims at: right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet - 2 stage session using chirp and amygdala signals; Murphy, The (Shiva) God Helmet (rotation 'several times per second'; phases of 20 to 30 min); Murphy, God Helmet animation, right side (coils 1-4); Murphy, God Helmet animation, left side (coils 5-8); Murphy, Koren helmet animation; Persinger 2002, Experimental stimulation of the God experience, in Joseph (ed.), NeuroTheology (reproduced by Murphy; FM signal right 15 or 20 min, then burst-firing both sides); Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Lynne McTaggart interviews Todd Murphy (2006); Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 (burst of about 0.7 s every 3 s); St-Pierre & Persinger 2006, Int J Neurosci 116:1079 (re-analysis of 19 experiments); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-60min, layout: custom, Persinger & Koren (Laurentian University) sensed-presence protocol; home version by Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Murphy's Shiva version of the Persinger/Koren lab design: a modulated-40 Hz 'chirp' stepping around the four right temporal coils, then an abrupt switch to amygdala burst-firing over both sides. Murphy reports presence, elation, joy, inner imagery or feelings of love in phase 2 and says the lab design gave visions of God only to a small percentage; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the lab used an acoustic chamber that was also a Faraday cage, and gauze plus a blindfold). Relax without meditating or falling asleep. Lab sessions ran mostly between midnight and 4 am during geomagnetic quiet. A helper can press Skip during phase 1 so you stay in the dark.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy). Murphy advises using other sessions first. Murphy's Shiva pages allow 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks; his Shakti pages say at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (30 min): the chirp on the four right coils only. Murphy expects it to be somewhat unpleasant for many people (fear; he says women seem more prone): if fear comes, press Skip to go to phase 2 at once (his software shows a flashing 'abort' button for this) and do not make it into an endurance contest. Phase 2 (30 min, abrupt switch): amygdala burst-firing on all eight coils, left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. If anger or irritability appears during or after phase 2, never reuse this session. Not for people prone to anxiety. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Murphy's software plays phase 1 '10% higher than the volume level you entered (25% by default)' and says never to set the volume above 82%, since a higher setting would run the session 'at a volume above 92%, where signal distortion can occur'; 82 + 10 = 92, so the step is ten percentage points: 35% against 25% at the default setting. Here phase 1 therefore runs at the session intensity (1.4 µT by default) and phase 2 at 0.71 of it (about 1 µT); at higher settings the vendor's step is relatively smaller (60% against 50% is 0.83). The page names 'the second phase' in its 82% warning although the boost is in the first; this file follows the boost as described. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The amygdala 'burstx' template is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz): 230 points as in Ryczko & Persinger 2002 (who used 4-ms points, once every 3 s), here at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' burst of Persinger et al. 2009), then the vendor's 4 s silence; this gives about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). Coil steps: the step time is unpublished. Murphy calls the rotation the fast motion of the God Helmet, 'several times per second', and says each cycle around the temporal lobes 'takes a fraction of a second', so 62.5 ms per coil (4 cycles per second on each side) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'Over the left side, the direction is clockwise, and over the right, it's counter clockwise', each side seen from its own side, as his coil-numbered God Helmet animations show (right coils 1-2-3-4 and left coils 5-6-7-8 each step top, back, bottom, front) and as his animation of the Koren helmet's right side shows; so here both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8), starting at the top coil, and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. An image caption added to the session list in 2021 says the right side cycles clockwise; the text and the animations are followed. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. Persinger's own account of the lab design (2002, reproduced on Murphy's site) gives the frequency-modulated signal over the right temporal lobe 'for 15 [or 20] minutes', then burst-firing over both sides 'once every three or four seconds for the same length of time'; Murphy's software runs 'each phase 20 minutes' (40-min session) or 'each phase 30 minutes' (60-min session). This is the 60-min version (30 + 30 min, longer than the lab's phases); the 40-min version is murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min. Revised after a re-check of Murphy's session pages (2026): rotation 4 cycles per second instead of 2, the phase-1 boost read as ten percentage points (phase 2 at 0.71 of phase 1 instead of 0.91, with the session default raised to 1.4 µT so that phase 2 stays near 1 µT), the rotation direction now backed by the vendor's animations, and the lab's 15-20-min phases noted. Still approximate: both signal templates, the coil sites and the step time.

Aims at: right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet - 2 stage session using chirp and amygdala signals; Murphy, The (Shiva) God Helmet (rotation 'several times per second'; phases of 20 to 30 min); Murphy, God Helmet animation, right side (coils 1-4); Murphy, God Helmet animation, left side (coils 5-8); Murphy, Koren helmet animation; Persinger 2002, Experimental stimulation of the God experience, in Joseph (ed.), NeuroTheology (reproduced by Murphy; FM signal right 15 or 20 min, then burst-firing both sides); Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Lynne McTaggart interviews Todd Murphy (2006); Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 (burst of about 0.7 s every 3 s); St-Pierre & Persinger 2006, Int J Neurosci 116:1079 (re-analysis of 19 experiments); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-double-session-part-1, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (2018 interview; he cites one unpublished laboratory trial); base session from his Shiva God Helmet software

First run of Murphy's 'double session': the 40-min God Helmet session (chirp over the right temporal lobe, then the amygdala signal over both sides), repeated unchanged 90 minutes later as part 2. Murphy (2018) says a few people 'would do one session and then wait 90 minutes and then do the exact same session again', and that in one unpublished laboratory trial of this design the EEG response to the second session was 'three times more robust than one session would have been alone'.

Setting: Normal God Helmet conditions: darkness and acoustic silence, eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. The lab ran sessions mostly between midnight and 4 am during geomagnetic quiet. A helper can press Skip if phase 1 brings fear.

Schedule: Start part 2 90 minutes after this part ends ('wait 90 minutes'), with no stimulation in between. Count both parts as one session and leave at least 7 days before the next God Helmet session (Murphy's 2013 advanced procedure: at most once a week, altered-state sessions only).

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Murphy's description (2018 interview, at 58:17, auto transcript): a few people did the God Helmet session 'using first the chirp signal over the right, making the right side more active, often with inner imagery followed by a blast of bliss', and 'they would do one session and then wait 90 minutes and then do the exact same session again'; 'in one of the trials of this session design, where two sessions are done back to back, in the laboratory', the EEG response to the second session was 'three times more robust than one session would have been alone'. No paper reporting that result was found. He does not say whether the 40- or the 60-min form was used. The 40-min form is used here as the more cautious choice: 80 min of stimulation in one evening instead of two hours (Murphy's Shiva rules say no session should run longer than 60 minutes; counted as one session, even the 40-min double runs 80 min). For the 60-min form, run murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-60min twice with the same 90-min break; that choice is ours, not Murphy's. The 90-minute rest cannot sit inside a program (60-min limit), so the protocol is split into two identical parts; each part is the same program as murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min. Murphy adds that the protocol 'has been available to people who use ... Shakti'. That fits his 2013 'advanced procedure' for the Shakti system, which may or may not be the same thing: the application page (archived January 2013) says it 'does not require any additional hardware or software', that 'a few early tests' found it to 'dramatically increase the intensity of altered state experiences', that it had 'only been tried for altered states' (not the feelgood session) and 'shouldn't be used more often than once a week'; its details went only to applicants who agreed on the application form not to disclose them, waived all claims to damages, stated that they had no psychiatric issues or damaged brain, and agreed not to repeat it after negative effects without contacting tech support; the page also rules it out with epilepsy, migraine or psychiatric medication. Murphy's Shakti software demo says the advanced procedure 'appears to make these sessions three times more effective'. That the two are the same rests only on the matching 'three times' claims (an inference). A different two-session use: in the Paranormal State episode 'Lady Vampire' (aired January 2009) an investigator 'did two sessions with a 90-minute interval between them' with the Shakti amygdala signal 'over the front-end of the temporal lobes' (Murphy's page). Phase 1 (20 min): the chirp on the four right coils only. Murphy expects it to be 'somewhat unpleasant for many people' (fear): press Skip to go to phase 2 at once, and don't make it an endurance contest. Phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch): amygdala burst-firing on all eight coils. If anger or irritability appears during or after phase 2, do not run part 2 and do not reuse this session (Murphy's rule for it). Not for people prone to anxiety, or with epilepsy, migraine, brain injury, a psychiatric diagnosis or medication; no drugs or other mind machines; stop on any distress. Running the session twice in one evening breaks Murphy's God Helmet rule of no more than one session a week (his Shakti rule is one every 72 hours) unless the pair counts as one session. Approximations (as in murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min): the 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' and amygdala 'burstx' templates are proprietary. The chirp is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off, after the frequency-modulated lab pattern Murphy relates it to; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The amygdala signal is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s), then the vendor's 4 s of silence. The coil step time is unpublished (Murphy: the rotation runs 'several times per second' and each cycle 'takes a fraction of a second'), so 62.5 ms per coil (4 cycles per second on each side) is used. 'Clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' is read with each side seen from its own side, as Murphy's coil-numbered God Helmet animations show, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (a 2021 image caption on his session list says the right side cycles clockwise; the text and animations are followed). Murphy's software plays phase 1 '10% higher than the volume level you entered (25% by default)' and says never to set the volume above 82%, the Shiva maximum being 92%; 82 + 10 = 92, so the step is read as ten percentage points (35% against 25% at the default): phase 2 runs at 0.71 of phase 1, and the session default is 1.4 µT so that phase 2 stays near 1 µT. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Revised Oct 2026 after a re-check of the sources: Murphy's own words with the interview timestamp, the conditions of the 2013 procedure (altered states only, at most weekly, no extra hardware or software), the Shakti demo's 'three times' remark and the Paranormal State precedent were added, and the reason for the 40-min form and the God Helmet weekly rule were stated more exactly. The program was then synced to the revised murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min (4 cycles per second instead of 2, phase 2 at 0.71 instead of 0.91 of phase 1, default 1.4 µT instead of 1 µT) and is again identical to it.

Aims at: right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-amygdala, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy & Balbin, God Helmet interview 2018 (58:17, the 90-minute repeat); Wayback copy of the Shakti 'advanced procedure' application (2013); Murphy, Shakti software demo (advanced procedure 'three times more effective', 3:38); Murphy, Paranormal State and Shakti (two sessions 90 minutes apart); List of Paranormal State episodes ('Lady Vampire', aired 26 January 2009); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths (no session longer than 60 min); Murphy, God Helmet 2-stage session using chirp and amygdala signals; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, The (Shiva) God Helmet (rotation 'several times per second'); Murphy, God Helmet animation, right side (coils 1-4); Murphy, God Helmet animation, left side (coils 5-8); Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-double-session-part-2, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (2018 interview; he cites one unpublished laboratory trial); base session from his Shiva God Helmet software

Second run of Murphy's 'double session': the identical 40-min God Helmet session (chirp over the right temporal lobe, then the amygdala signal over both sides), started 90 minutes after part 1 ended. Murphy (2018) reports that in one unpublished laboratory trial of this design the EEG response to the second session was 'three times more robust than one session would have been alone'.

Setting: Same room, posture and intensity as part 1: darkness and acoustic silence, eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip if phase 1 brings fear.

Schedule: Only after part 1, with a 90-minute rest ('wait 90 minutes') and no stimulation in between. Count both parts as one session and leave at least 7 days before the next God Helmet session (Murphy's 2013 advanced procedure: at most once a week, altered-state sessions only).

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

This part is identical to part 1 and to murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min; the 90-minute rest between the two runs cannot sit inside a program (60-min limit). Murphy (2018 interview, at 58:17): 'wait 90 minutes and then do the exact same session again'; he reports that in one laboratory trial of this design the EEG response to the second session was 'three times more robust' (unpublished; no paper found). Do not run part 2 if part 1 brought anger or irritability (Murphy: never reuse this session then), fear that has not settled, or if you feel unwell. Phase 1 (20 min): the chirp on the four right coils only, 'somewhat unpleasant for many people' (Murphy); press Skip to go to phase 2 and don't make it an endurance contest. Phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch): amygdala burst-firing on all eight coils. Not for people prone to anxiety, or with epilepsy, migraine, brain injury, a psychiatric diagnosis or medication; no drugs or other mind machines; stop on any distress. Running the session twice in one evening breaks Murphy's God Helmet rule of no more than one session a week (his Shakti rule is one every 72 hours) unless the pair counts as one session. His 2013 'advanced procedure' for Shakti, which may or may not be the same thing (an inference from the matching 'three times' claims), had only been tried for altered states, was not to be used more than once a week, needed no extra hardware or software, and was released only to applicants who agreed on the application form not to disclose its details, waived all claims to damages, stated that they had no psychiatric issues, and agreed not to repeat it after negative effects without contacting tech support; his Shakti software demo says it 'appears to make these sessions three times more effective'. A different two-session use: in the Paranormal State episode 'Lady Vampire' (aired January 2009) an investigator 'did two sessions with a 90-minute interval between them' with the Shakti amygdala signal 'over the front-end of the temporal lobes' (Murphy's page). Approximations (as in part 1): the proprietary 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' is approximated by a decelerating 40 to 6 Hz sweep in 3-ms points (2.5 s on, 1.5 s off; the 40 Hz modulation is not reproduced) and the amygdala 'burstx' template by the built-in accelerating burst (230 points of 3 ms, then 4 s of silence); 62.5 ms per coil (4 cycles per second on each side) stands in for the unpublished step time (Murphy: 'several times per second'); 'clockwise over the left, counter-clockwise over the right' is read with each side seen from its own side, as Murphy's God Helmet animations show (top, back, bottom, front on both sides); phase 2 runs at 0.71 of phase 1 because the software's phase-1 boost of '10%' is read as ten percentage points (35% against 25% at the default; 82% maximum setting + 10 = the 92% ceiling), with the default at 1.4 µT so that phase 2 stays near 1 µT. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Revised Oct 2026 after a re-check of the sources: Murphy's own words with the interview timestamp, the conditions of the 2013 procedure (altered states only, at most weekly, no extra hardware or software), the Shakti demo's 'three times' remark and the Paranormal State precedent were added, and the God Helmet weekly rule was stated more exactly. The program was then synced to the revised murphy-gh-chirpr-amybi-40min (4 cycles per second instead of 2, phase 2 at 0.71 instead of 0.91 of phase 1, default 1.4 µT instead of 1 µT) and is again identical to it and to part 1.

Aims at: right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-amygdala, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy & Balbin, God Helmet interview 2018 (58:17, the 90-minute repeat); Wayback copy of the Shakti 'advanced procedure' application (2013); Murphy, Shakti software demo (advanced procedure 'three times more effective', 3:38); Murphy, Paranormal State and Shakti (two sessions 90 minutes apart); List of Paranormal State episodes ('Lady Vampire', aired 26 January 2009); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths (no session longer than 60 min); Murphy, God Helmet 2-stage session using chirp and amygdala signals; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, The (Shiva) God Helmet (rotation 'several times per second'); Murphy, God Helmet animation, right side (coils 1-4); Murphy, God Helmet animation, left side (coils 5-8); Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-hippbi-amyl-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over both temporal lobes, then the amygdala burst-firing signal over the left temporal lobe only. The vendor states phase 2 aims at a sense of presence, elation, joy, inner imagery and love; 40-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most weekly, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

40-minute version (20 + 20 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 60-minute version (murphy-gh-hippbi-amyl-60min). The vendor page says 'each phase is 40 minutes', evidently a typo for 20. Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s), then the vendor's standard 4-s silence; the burst count is a choice, and 0.5-ms points replace the vendor's 3-ms points because 100 Hz pulses need them. The amygdala 'burstx' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with 230 points, the point count of the published lab burst-firing pattern (which used 4-ms points; Ryczko & Persinger 2002), on the vendor's standard 3-ms points, so 0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' bursts Persinger's lab reported at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009); then the 4-s silence: about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG); the vendor's own figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). Murphy reports that fear or anxiety in phase 1 'can be a sign that the second phase will be especially effective', but anger or 'unreasonable restlessness' in phase 1 means stop; anger or a 'racing mind' in phase 2 means stop and never reuse this session (the vendor blames the left hippocampus 'spilling over' into the left amygdala). Not for people prone to anger. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with the hippocampal signal; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Hippocampus and Amygdala God Helmet Stimulation; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-hippbi-amyl-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over both temporal lobes, then the amygdala burst-firing signal over the left temporal lobe only. The vendor states phase 2 aims at a sense of presence, elation, joy, inner imagery and love; 60-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: God Helmet sessions at most weekly, up to 6, then a 21-day break; for 60-minute sessions the Shiva pages say weekly or every two weeks and the Shakti pages at most every 3 weeks (the longer gap is the cautious choice). Never on consecutive days; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

60-minute version (30 + 30 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 40-minute version (murphy-gh-hippbi-amyl-40min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s), then the vendor's standard 4-s silence; the burst count is a choice, and 0.5-ms points replace the vendor's 3-ms points because 100 Hz pulses need them. The amygdala 'burstx' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with 230 points, the point count of the published lab burst-firing pattern (which used 4-ms points; Ryczko & Persinger 2002), on the vendor's standard 3-ms points, so 0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' bursts Persinger's lab reported at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009); then the 4-s silence: about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG); the vendor's own figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). Murphy reports that fear or anxiety in phase 1 'can be a sign that the second phase will be especially effective', but anger or 'unreasonable restlessness' in phase 1 means stop; anger or a 'racing mind' in phase 2 means stop and never reuse this session (the vendor blames the left hippocampus 'spilling over' into the left amygdala). Not for people prone to anger. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with the hippocampal signal; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Hippocampus and Amygdala God Helmet Stimulation; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-mod40bi-amyl-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the 'modulated 40 Hz' (binding factor) signal over both temporal lobes, then the amygdala burst-firing signal over the left temporal lobe. The vendor states it works like the chirp version (presence, elation, joy, imagery) but is 'more likely to elicit psychic phenomena' as an undertone; 40-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most weekly, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

40-minute version (20 + 20 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 60-minute version (murphy-gh-mod40bi-amyl-60min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The 'modulated 40 Hz' file is proprietary; the vendor calls it a signal 'almost in sync with the brain's own binding factor, but not quite' and, on its Shakti pages, a 'constant tone'. It is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad ahead of and behind a steady 40 Hz every 2 s (38.5-41.5 Hz). The amygdala 'burstx' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with 230 points, the point count of the published lab burst-firing pattern (which used 4-ms points; Ryczko & Persinger 2002), on the vendor's standard 3-ms points, so 0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' bursts Persinger's lab reported at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009); then the 4-s silence: about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG), and the vendor's '10mG' calibration for the modulated 40 Hz signal; the vendor's other figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). The vendor marks this session experimental: if anger appears during or after it, never reuse it. Not for people prone to anger. Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, The God Helmet applies one signal after another (modulated 40 Hz both, then amygdala left); Murphy, Modulated 40 Hz signal for the God Helmet; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-mod40bi-amyl-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the 'modulated 40 Hz' (binding factor) signal over both temporal lobes, then the amygdala burst-firing signal over the left temporal lobe. The vendor states it works like the chirp version (presence, elation, joy, imagery) but is 'more likely to elicit psychic phenomena' as an undertone; 60-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: God Helmet sessions at most weekly, up to 6, then a 21-day break; for 60-minute sessions the Shiva pages say weekly or every two weeks and the Shakti pages at most every 3 weeks (the longer gap is the cautious choice). Never on consecutive days; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

60-minute version (30 + 30 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 40-minute version (murphy-gh-mod40bi-amyl-40min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The 'modulated 40 Hz' file is proprietary; the vendor calls it a signal 'almost in sync with the brain's own binding factor, but not quite' and, on its Shakti pages, a 'constant tone'. It is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad ahead of and behind a steady 40 Hz every 2 s (38.5-41.5 Hz). The amygdala 'burstx' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with 230 points, the point count of the published lab burst-firing pattern (which used 4-ms points; Ryczko & Persinger 2002), on the vendor's standard 3-ms points, so 0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' bursts Persinger's lab reported at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009); then the 4-s silence: about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG), and the vendor's '10mG' calibration for the modulated 40 Hz signal; the vendor's other figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). The vendor marks this session experimental: if anger appears during or after it, never reuse it. Not for people prone to anger. Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, The God Helmet applies one signal after another (modulated 40 Hz both, then amygdala left); Murphy, Modulated 40 Hz signal for the God Helmet; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-retro-clockwise, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva 'Persinger Session'); 'Retro Shiva' after an unsigned practitioner's testimonial on Murphy's Shiva page (by 2011), placed with the page's link to the DeepFocus Institute, read as clockwise running by Murphy (2013), who credits the Swiss DeepFocus group (Rolf Boesch)

The Shiva 'Persinger Session' (seven applications of a 40 Hz 'chirp' with silences between them, about 43 min) run clockwise instead of counter-clockwise, which is how Murphy reads the 'Retro Shiva' of a practitioner's testimonial. The practitioner, who works mainly with healers and energy workers, tried it for people 'not able to come out of their energy state'; Murphy says the Swiss DeepFocus group found that running Shiva 'backwards' can ease 'the mental fatigue that can come from too much spiritual work'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, seated or lying relaxed. For the Persinger Session Murphy advises against spiritual practice or psychic exercises during the session ('daydreaming is better than meditation') and suggests geomagnetically quiet days for effects during the session.

Schedule: At most once a week, like the counter-clockwise Persinger Session. Murphy says the Swiss averaged 4 sessions per subject; their German report speaks of about 100 people with five or more sessions.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

The Persinger Session (the timing of murphy-shiva-persinger-session) run clockwise. Where the idea comes from: an unsigned testimonial on Murphy's Shiva page, archived in 2011, sits in one block that ends with the page's link to 'Research at the DeepFocus Institute', so it is attributed to the DeepFocus practitioner (it promises 'a article about this topic'); it says 'I tried a new application with Shiva: The "Retro Shiva" in which I turn the cap and apply the 40hz Chirp Signal (Persinger session)'; later versions of the page insert '(around)' after 'turn the cap', and the testimonial never mentions clockwise rotation. Murphy's 2013 blog reads it as running Shiva 'backwards', 'using clockwise rotation around the head instead of the usual counterclockwise configuration', and credits the Swiss group. The clockwise reading is Murphy's, not the user's words, and it is geometrically open: turning a ring cap 180 degrees about the vertical axis keeps the counter-clockwise stepping and only moves the first coil to the back of the head (that reading is simply murphy-shiva-persinger-session started at O2); only a mirror-image fitting (the cap flipped over) or a reversed channel order steps clockwise. This file follows Murphy's clockwise reading. Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring, one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs, and step clockwise seen from above, starting at Fp2, the mirror image of Shiva's usual first coil over the left frontal area (a project choice): Fp2, FT8, TP8, O2, O1, TP7, FT7, Fp1 (front to back on the right, back to front on the left). Murphy gives only 'seven unique applications of the chirp signal with silent sections in between ... about 43 minutes'; no source gives the length of each application or silence, so the split into 7 x 5 min with 80-s silences is a project choice. The chirp file is proprietary. Murphy says it 'does not change in tone, but rather has longer and longer gaps between sections of the signal as they travel around your head', so a steady 40 Hz carrier is used and the coil-to-coil timing supplies the gaps; the 40 Hz modulation of the original is not reproduced. Each block has its own dwell ramp (a project assignment): blocks 1-6 step +2 ms per coil, from Murphy's lecture example of 10 to 20 ms up to 20 to 30 ms (six values, so these ramps restart every six coils instead of lining up with the eight positions); block 7 uses the lab Octopus ramp, +20 ms per coil from 20 to 160 ms, then reset (Richards 2002). Murphy's other statements of the Shiva speed ('around 9 times per second'; in 2007 'around the same speed' as the 25-ms binding factor) do not match the lecture example, and the real Shiva timing tables are unpublished. The lab Octopus used about 1-10 µT; this file defaults to 1 µT, and the vendor advises starting at 50% volume and raising it over sessions. Persinger's lab reported more left-hemisphere power with clockwise and more right-hemisphere power with counter-clockwise rotation (Booth, Koren & Persinger 2008, not independently replicated); Murphy's suggestion that running Shiva 'backwards' may enhance 'left-hemispheric spiritual practices (like those that rely on prayer and work towards joy and light)' goes beyond that result. The reported benefits are testimonials: the practitioner says the clients felt clearer and more structured, and one Kriya-yoga user found the light of his practice 'stronger' with clockwise sessions (Murphy: 'only one case'). Murphy's blog calls the Swiss work 'an independent replication' led by 'Dr. Rolf Bosch'; the German report behind it ('Elektronische Erleuchtung?', Rolf Boesch, Institut für mediale Entwicklung, archived July 2011) is a two-page testimonial of 400 test sessions in Germany and Switzerland, mostly with the Persinger Session, that asserts EEG findings without data, methods or controls and mentions neither clockwise nor 'retro' use. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Murphy calls counter-clockwise 'usually the more pleasant direction': if the clockwise run feels unpleasant, stop. Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed. Revised Oct 2026 after a re-check of the sources: the testimonial's original wording ('turn the cap', with '(around)' added later), its unsigned author (attributed by the page layout to the DeepFocus practitioner) and the 180-degree-turn alternative were added, and the clockwise reading is now credited to Murphy rather than to the Swiss report; the phase names were shortened; the timing and rotation are unchanged.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-tpj, right-tpj, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Shiva main page (Retro Shiva testimonial, current wording); Wayback copy of the Shiva main page, 2011 (testimonial, original wording); Murphy, Shiva neural stimulation notes (2013 blog: 'backwards', clockwise); Boesch, Elektronische Erleuchtung? (DeepFocus report, German original, Wayback 2011); Shiva & 'Electronic Enlightenment', a Swiss report (English); Murphy, Shiva demo: Sessions used in lab experiments (Persinger Session); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Shiva demo: Staying safe with Shiva; Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz binding factor; Murphy, Understanding Shiva neural stimulation ('around 9 times per second'); Wayback copy of the Shiva main page, 2007 ('around the same speed'); Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture; Shiva demo: Volume; Richards, Koren & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:671; Booth, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:426; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-amygdala-fast, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti)

Murphy's single 60-minute session 'to try to create an intense experience in ONE session': the amygdala burst-firing signal, his best-tested choice, over both temporal lobes on the 8 Coil Shakti crosses, with the two coil pairs taking turns every half-second (the vendor's fast alternation).

Setting: Blindfold, earplugs or a sound-blocking headset (the vendor: 'substituting white noise won't work'), no interruptions and no plans afterwards. Murphy: 'For the first twenty minutes, not much happens.'

Schedule: A one-off for a single intense experience, not a series (the vendor: repeating it 'might eventually elicit an unpleasant experience'); at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Four coils in a cross over each temporal lobe, as in the 8 Coil Shakti chart: top C5/C6, bottom T9/T10, front FT7/FT8, back TP7/TP8. One stereo channel drives the top and bottom coils of both crosses, the other the front and back coils; the vendor says single long sessions 'should be bilateral'. The vendor's optional fast mode switches channels 'twice each second' and, it says, 'emerged as the most effective' in the original developers' lab tests; here (two tracks, the signal gated in point tables) the top and bottom coils and the front and back coils take turns every 0.5 s. So that the half-second clock and the signal repeat together, each burst comes every 4.5 s (latency 3.8 s instead of about 4 s), and the bursts alternately start on the top/bottom and on the front/back pair. murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-amygdala-slow has the standard mode. Coil polarity follows the vendor's chart, one + and one − coil in each pair: on the left cross the top (C5) and front (FT7) coils are − and the bottom (T9) and back (TP7) coils +; on the right cross the top (C6) and front (FT8) coils are + and the bottom (T10) and back (TP8) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s). An independent randomized, sham-controlled study of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over both temporal lobes (30 min) found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). Persinger's lab reported more aggression and less trust after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two ways to use Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: Both temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 coil placement; Murphy, Shakti demo: Using the 8 Coil Shakti over the temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (60-min sessions every 21 days)

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murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-amygdala-slow, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti)

Murphy's single 60-minute session 'to try to create an intense experience in ONE session': the amygdala burst-firing signal, his best-tested choice, over both temporal lobes on the 8 Coil Shakti crosses, switching between the two coil pairs after each burst.

Setting: Blindfold, earplugs or a sound-blocking headset (the vendor: 'substituting white noise won't work'), no interruptions and no plans afterwards. Murphy: 'For the first twenty minutes, not much happens.'

Schedule: A one-off for a single intense experience, not a series (the vendor: repeating it 'might eventually elicit an unpleasant experience'); at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Four coils in a cross over each temporal lobe, as in the 8 Coil Shakti chart: top C5/C6, bottom T9/T10, front FT7/FT8, back TP7/TP8. One stereo channel drives the top and bottom coils of both crosses, the other the front and back coils; the vendor says single long sessions 'should be bilateral'. In its standard ('slow') mode the Shakti switches channels 'after one instance of the signal', so here (two tracks) one burst plays on the top and bottom coils and the next on the front and back coils; murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-amygdala-fast has the twice-a-second option. Coil polarity follows the vendor's chart, one + and one − coil in each pair: on the left cross the top (C5) and front (FT7) coils are − and the bottom (T9) and back (TP7) coils +; on the right cross the top (C6) and front (FT8) coils are + and the bottom (T10) and back (TP8) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s), followed by the vendor's standard latency of about 4 s. An independent randomized, sham-controlled study of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over both temporal lobes (30 min) found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). Persinger's lab reported more aggression and less trust after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two ways to use Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: Both temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 coil placement; Murphy, Shakti demo: Using the 8 Coil Shakti over the temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (60-min sessions every 21 days)

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murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-hippocampus-fast, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti)

Murphy's single 60-minute session 'to try to create an intense experience in ONE session': the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over both temporal lobes on the 8 Coil Shakti crosses, with the two coil pairs taking turns every half-second (the vendor's fast alternation).

Setting: Blindfold, earplugs or a sound-blocking headset (the vendor: 'substituting white noise won't work'), no interruptions and no plans afterwards. Murphy: 'For the first twenty minutes, not much happens.'

Schedule: A one-off for a single intense experience, not a series (the vendor: repeating it 'might eventually elicit an unpleasant experience'); at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Four coils in a cross over each temporal lobe, as in the 8 Coil Shakti chart: top C5/C6, bottom T9/T10, front FT7/FT8, back TP7/TP8. One stereo channel drives the top and bottom coils of both crosses, the other the front and back coils; the vendor says single long sessions 'should be bilateral'. The vendor's optional fast mode switches channels 'twice each second' and, it says, 'emerged as the most effective' in the original developers' lab tests; here (two tracks, the signal gated in point tables) the top and bottom coils and the front and back coils take turns every 0.5 s. So that the half-second clock and the signal repeat together, each train comes every 4.5 s (latency 3.76 s instead of about 4 s), and the trains alternately start on the top/bottom and on the front/back pair. murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-hippocampus-slow has the standard mode. A biphasic pulse is never split between the pairs. Coil polarity follows the vendor's chart, one + and one − coil in each pair: on the left cross the top (C5) and front (FT7) coils are − and the bottom (T9) and back (TP7) coils +; on the right cross the top (C6) and front (FT8) coils are + and the bottom (T10) and back (TP8) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by a point table in the vendor's standard scheme (3-ms points): four theta bursts, each of four biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal). Anxiety during a hippocampal session is, for Murphy, a sign that it has run too long; stop then. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two ways to use Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: Both temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 coil placement; Murphy, Shakti demo: Using the 8 Coil Shakti over the temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (60-min sessions every 21 days)

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murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-hippocampus-slow, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti)

Murphy's single 60-minute session 'to try to create an intense experience in ONE session': the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over both temporal lobes on the 8 Coil Shakti crosses, switching between the two coil pairs after each train of bursts.

Setting: Blindfold, earplugs or a sound-blocking headset (the vendor: 'substituting white noise won't work'), no interruptions and no plans afterwards. Murphy: 'For the first twenty minutes, not much happens.'

Schedule: A one-off for a single intense experience, not a series (the vendor: repeating it 'might eventually elicit an unpleasant experience'); at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Four coils in a cross over each temporal lobe, as in the 8 Coil Shakti chart: top C5/C6, bottom T9/T10, front FT7/FT8, back TP7/TP8. One stereo channel drives the top and bottom coils of both crosses, the other the front and back coils; the vendor says single long sessions 'should be bilateral'. In its standard ('slow') mode the Shakti switches channels 'after one instance of the signal', so here (two tracks) one train of bursts plays on the top and bottom coils and the next on the front and back coils; murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-hippocampus-fast has the twice-a-second option. Coil polarity follows the vendor's chart, one + and one − coil in each pair: on the left cross the top (C5) and front (FT7) coils are − and the bottom (T9) and back (TP7) coils +; on the right cross the top (C6) and front (FT8) coils are + and the bottom (T10) and back (TP8) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by a point table in the vendor's standard scheme (3-ms points, about 4 s of latency): four theta bursts, each of four biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal). Anxiety during a hippocampal session is, for Murphy, a sign that it has run too long; stop then. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two ways to use Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: Both temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 coil placement; Murphy, Shakti demo: Using the 8 Coil Shakti over the temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (60-min sessions every 21 days)

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murphy-shakti-60min-bilateral-mod40-fast, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti)

Murphy's single 60-minute session 'to try to create an intense experience in ONE session': the modulated 40 Hz signal over both temporal lobes on the 8 Coil Shakti crosses, with the two coil pairs taking turns every half-second (the vendor's fast alternation).

Setting: Blindfold, earplugs or a sound-blocking headset (the vendor: 'substituting white noise won't work'), no interruptions and no plans afterwards. Murphy: 'For the first twenty minutes, not much happens.'

Schedule: A one-off for a single intense experience, not a series (the vendor: repeating it 'might eventually elicit an unpleasant experience'); at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Four coils in a cross over each temporal lobe, as in the 8 Coil Shakti chart: top C5/C6, bottom T9/T10, front FT7/FT8, back TP7/TP8. One stereo channel drives the top and bottom coils of both crosses, the other the front and back coils; the vendor says single long sessions 'should be bilateral'. The vendor's optional fast mode switches channels 'twice each second' and, it says, 'emerged as the most effective' in the original developers' lab tests; here (two tracks) the top and bottom coils and the front and back coils take turns every 0.5 s. The standard ('slow') mode switches after each instance of the signal; a constant tone has no instances, so only the fast mode is built. Coil polarity follows the vendor's chart, one + and one − coil in each pair: on the left cross the top (C5) and front (FT7) coils are − and the bottom (T9) and back (TP7) coils +; on the right cross the top (C6) and front (FT8) coils are + and the bottom (T10) and back (TP8) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. The 'modulated 40 Hz' file is proprietary; the vendor describes a constant tone, calibrated at 10 mG (1 µT, the default here). It is approximated by a phase-modulated sine, a 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad either way every 2 s (about 38.5-41.5 Hz), stored as 1-ms point tables so that it can be switched between the pairs. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two ways to use Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: Both temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 coil placement; Murphy, Shakti demo: Using the 8 Coil Shakti over the temporal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal (constant tone, 10 mG); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (60-min sessions every 21 days)

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murphy-shiva-special-architecture, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, Shiva software (new in Shiva; Murphy: not tested in laboratory experiments)

Shiva's 'Special Architecture' session: the amygdala signal on the left half of the ring and the hippocampal signal on the right half at the same time, both stepping back-to-front. Murphy states it may 'facilitate experiences commonly called religious or mystic' when used for 60 minutes in sensory deprivation, and that it has not been tested in laboratory experiments.

Setting: 60 min in darkness and silence (sensory deprivation), eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep.

Schedule: Shiva's rule for 60-min sessions: once a week or once every two weeks, with no other sessions in between; never longer than 60 min.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

The four left coils (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1) carry the amygdala signal stepping O1 → TP7 → FT7 → Fp1 (clockwise seen from above) and the four right coils (O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2) the hippocampal signal stepping O2 → TP8 → FT8 → Fp2 (counter-clockwise), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example), so both run back-to-front. Murphy's page: 'the hippocampal signal, applied over the right runs counterclockwise, but the amygdala signal, applied over the left hemisphere, is applied in the opposite direction', so that 'both run back to front'. Both sides start at the back coils (O1, O2) and step forward in mirror image (the placement order is the counter-clockwise ring started at O1 only to set those start coils; how Shiva aligns the two sides is unpublished). Murphy says this is the only Shiva session that works this way. He pairs the hippocampus ('with its cognitive functions, and positive effects from the right side') with the amygdala ('an emotional structure with positive effects from the left, and negative ones from the right'), each chosen 'for its positive effects over that side', while each signal 'alters the binding factor' (vendor claim, extended from small Persinger-lab studies). One coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs. Both signal files are proprietary: the amygdala 'burstx' file is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 → 30 Hz), 230 points × 3 ms (0.69 s, the published burst-firing length at the vendor's standard 3-ms points); the hippocampal 'LTP' file by a train of 4 theta bursts, each of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse 100 Hz bursts of Larson & Lynch), repeated every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), at 3-ms points; these are the same stand-ins as in the Shiva amygdala and hippocampus simple sessions. The two start together every 4.69 s, each followed by about 4 s of silence. The 10-20 ms ramp is Murphy's illustrative lecture example (six values over four coils per side here, so the ramp does not line up with one lap of a side): his other statements of the Shiva speed ('around 9 times per second', about 14 ms per coil on the full 8-coil ring by our arithmetic; in 2007 'around the same speed' as the 25-ms binding factor) do not agree with it, and the real Shiva timing tables are unpublished. Shiva lists 20, 30 and 60-min versions; this file runs the 60 min Murphy names for in-session effects; for shorter sessions before practice see murphy-shiva-special-architecture-30. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Left-handed or ambidextrous users should start with short sessions and stop on fear, irritability, sadness or anxiety; not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed. Murphy asks users to report unpleasant sessions. He reports headaches in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals, and advises lowering the intensity by a third. Re-checked Oct 2026 against the vendor page: the directions, the back-to-front stepping, the 20/30/60-min options and the 'not tested in laboratory experiments' statement are confirmed; the page's direction quote and the note on the conflicting speed statements were added, the hippocampus/amygdala rationale is now quoted in the page's own words, the schedule follows the session-length page, and the program is unchanged.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Simultaneous amygdala & hippocampus signals; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths and schedules; Murphy, Shiva testimonials; Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz Binding Factor; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Murphy, Understanding Shiva neural stimulation ('around 9 times per second'); Wayback copy of the Shiva main page, 2007 ('around the same speed'); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-7hz-point-duration-2003, layout: custom, Booth, Koren & Persinger (Laurentian University), 2003 point-duration study, n = 6

Booth, Koren & Persinger's (2003) test of point ('pixel') duration alone: a 7 Hz sine over the right hemisphere, played with points of 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 20 ms for 5 min each. The lab reported the most left-sided sensed presences and occipital EEG spikes at 1 and 10 ms, in six subjects.

Setting: Seated in a quiet, dark room with the eyes covered; in the original, EEG was recorded over the occipital regions and presences were scored by side.

Schedule: One session per person in the original. For a self-test, use a different Latin-square order each time and compare with sham sessions (the app's Blind option).

Coils: CH5 T8, CH6 TP8, CH7 P8

The abstract gives all the parameters: digital-to-analogue 7 Hz sine waves at 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 or 20 ms per point, 5 min each, 1 uT, over the right hemisphere, in a sequential counterbalanced order for six subjects (30 min in all). The six orders are not published; this file uses one row of a balanced Latin square, 1, 3, 20, 5, 10, 7 ms. For repeat sessions, reorder the phases to another row: 3-5-1-7-20-10, 5-7-3-10-1-20, 7-10-5-20-3-1, 10-20-7-1-5-3 or 20-1-10-3-7-5. The sine stays at 7 Hz and each value is held for the point duration, so at 20 ms a cycle is a staircase of about 7 steps; the lab file's exact point values are unpublished. Three right-side coils at T8, TP8 and P8 approximate 'over the right hemisphere'; the left side stays silent. Phase changes are abrupt. Note the time and side of anything you feel. Six subjects, six conditions and two separated optima is a shape chance produces easily; there is no independent replication, and independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop on fear or distress.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-tpj, right-angular-gyrus (field on the brain)

Sources:Booth, Koren & Persinger 2003, Increased proportions of sensed presences and occipital spikes with 1- and 10-msec. point duration of continuous 7-Hz transcerebral magnetic fields, Percept Mot Skills 97:951-952; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti8-tv-chirpbi-amyl, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's starred 'as seen on TV' two-phase session for the 8 Coil Shakti: the modulated 40 Hz chirp over both temporal lobes for 20 min, then amygdala burst-firing over the left temporal lobe for 20 min (the 40-min run most users prefer, Murphy says). Murphy calls it the design that 'comes closest to the sessions used in the God Helmet experiments' (on two stereo channels) and links its after-effects to the left amygdala.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence ('not just quiet'), at night; eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark. The vendor: 'You don't have to use sensory deprivation if you're looking for after-effects.'

Schedule: Vendor: while trying sessions out, at most every 72 h; once you settle on a session, once a week; never on consecutive days. For sessions of an hour or more (the 60-min run) the demo video and the safety pages say once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions from that rule.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FTT7h, CH6 TTP9h, CH7 FTT8h, CH8 TTP10h

Coils as in the photos on the vendor's output pages for the left-ending sessions: six on the left and two on the right ('The left side has four coils from the left channel, and two coils from the right channel. The right side has two coils from the right stereo channel.'). The four left-channel coils form a cross over the left temporal lobe (FT7 front, C5 top, TP7 back, T9 bottom; CH1-4); the two right-channel coils on the left sit inside that cross, above-front and below-back of its centre (FTT7h and TTP9h; CH5-6), and the two on the right form the same diagonal pair over the right temporal lobe (FTT8h and TTP10h; CH7-8). The 10-5 sites are read from the photos and are an inference. Phase 1 (20 min) drives the four right-channel coils together (the right channel over both sides); phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) drives the four left-channel coils (the left channel over the left side only). There is no rotation, as on the two-channel Shakti. Polarity: Murphy's software demo video says of this session that 'all of the coils on the left side of the head are positive' (the package includes four extra positive coils for it), so all six left coils run as is; on the right the upper-front coil (FTT8h) runs as is and the lower-back coil (TTP10h) reversed (weight -1), as in the page's photo of the right side. The page's photo of the left side shows a mix instead (left channel: top and front -, back and bottom +; right channel: upper-front +, lower-back -); murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-hippbi-amyl and -mod40bi-amyl follow those photos. Durations: the output pages and Murphy's demo video offer 40- and 60-min runs, and the video says 'most users seem to prefer the 40-minute session, 20 minutes of each of the signals seems to be enough' (in agreement, Murphy says, with some of the laboratory work); this file is that 40-min run. The 60-min run is presumably 30 + 30 min (not stated). The rotating Shiva God Helmet versions of this design are murphy-gh-chirpbi-amyl-40min and -60min. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' is proprietary (Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern and describes it as the modulated 40 Hz signal with gaps that get longer, amplitude and gaps varied by a Fibonacci constant); it is approximated by a sweep slowing from 40 to 6 Hz (the end frequency is a choice), 837 points at 3 ms (2.5 s) once every 4 s, after the published FM pattern (837 points at 1 ms every 4 s; Tiller & Persinger 2002 and the Shakti use 3-ms points). The 40 Hz phase modulation and the Fibonacci amplitude changes are not reproduced. The amygdala 'burstx' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at the standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern), then the standard 4-s silence. Vendor cautions: the chirp can be 'very unpleasant over the right side'; if phase 1 gets too uncomfortable, press Skip to go to phase 2, though finishing the session is advised. First test the amygdala signal on each side with 10-min test sessions. For the God Helmet version of this design Murphy advises: if anger appears during or after the session, don't use it again; not for people prone to anger. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's two-phase pages (2026): 20 + 20 min instead of 30 + 30, eight separate coils as on the output pages instead of six with two shared between the phases, and polarity from Murphy's demo video and the page's photo of the right side instead of the general coil chart. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: output 2-phase chirp both, then amygdala left (setup photos of both sides); Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions (as seen on TV); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; coil polarity for this session, 40-min run of 20 min per signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3-ms points); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, The God Helmet: chirp first and amygdala second; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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persinger-cook-1997-pattern-screen, layout: custom, Cook & Persinger 1997 (Laurentian University)

Successive 3-min blocks of different weak (1 uT) complex fields alternating with 3-min sham blocks through both temporal lobes, with the moment of any experience marked: Cook & Persinger 1997 reported that 9 of 15 volunteers signalled a sensed presence by button press this way. The paper lists no patterns, so six of the lab's later-published ones stand in.

Setting: Blindfolded, reclining in a quiet, dark room; a helper runs the program and records the clock time of each reported experience, without knowing or revealing which block is active.

Schedule: One 36-min screening session; at most once a week.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Cook & Persinger exposed people to 'successive 3-min. durations of bursts of different types' of 1-uT fields 'or sham-fields' and logged a button press at each experience; trying to focus on the presence moved it or changed its location. The patterns, their number and their order were not published. Here six documented Laurentian patterns alternate with sham blocks, starting with a sham: burst-firing (built-in accelerating burst, 230 points at 3 ms once every 4 s; point values unpublished), the exact Thomas table at 3 ms, the 'LTP' primed burst (5 trains in 1 s, repeated continuously; timing after Corradini 2014 and Delparte & Persinger 2007, values reconstructed), a 7 Hz sine on 1-ms points, the reversed Thomas table, and a 7 Hz sine on 10-ms points (the two point durations Booth 2003 found most effective). The set, the order, the alternation with sham and the use of both sides (T7/TP7, T8/TP8 for 'transcerebral') are inferences; in Roll et al. 2002, with an exceptional subject not shown to be Cook's, the fields went over the right temporoparietal lobes. Have a helper start the program and keep the phase display out of sight, and note the clock time of each experience to match with the phase list afterwards. Very small n; in Cook & Persinger 2001 presences came only in people with above-average temporal-lobe-sign scores, and French 2009 found such reports tracked those scores and not the field, so expectancy alone can produce the same marks. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: left-tpj, right-tpj, left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Cook & Persinger 1997, Percept Mot Skills 85:683; Cook & Persinger 2001, Percept Mot Skills 92:447; Roll, Persinger, Webster, Tiller & Cook 2002, Int J Neurosci 112:197; Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (849 points at 3 ms, 2.55-s cycle); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (230-point burst-firing file, 3-ms points); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Corradini 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University (LTP primed-burst file); Delparte & Persinger 2007, Int J Neurosci 117:295 ('1 s pulse of 5 trains'); Booth, Koren & Persinger 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:951 (7 Hz, 1- and 10-ms points); French et al. 2009, Cortex 45:619; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-cook-2001-fm-bilateral, layout: custom, Cook & Persinger 2001 (Laurentian University)

The bilateral arm of Cook & Persinger 2001: a 1-uT frequency-modulated field (here the 849-point 'Thomas' table at 3-ms points) across both hemispheres for 20 min in a darkened, quiet room. The lab reported a sensed presence in 60% of above-average temporal-lobe-sign scorers with this arm (75% with right-sided fields) and in none of the below-average scorers.

Setting: A darkened, quiet room, eyes covered, reclining; note the time and side of anything felt.

Schedule: One 20-min exposure; at most once a week. Compare blind with persinger-cook-2001-fm-right and a sham (the app's Blind option).

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Cook & Persinger applied a 1-uT frequency-modulated field 'through a helmet, either along the right hemisphere or across both hemispheres' for 20 min, 16 people in all; this file is the across-both arm and persinger-cook-2001-fm-right the other. The abstract names only a 'frequency-modulated' field; the Thomas table of US 6,234,953 (849 points, which the lab later described replaying at 3 ms per point; Buckner 2015; Murugan 2013) is an assumption, with a 3-ms pause after each pass (the rat optimum of Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999) for Buckner's 2.55-s cycle. Within each pass 18 pulses slow from about 12 to 5 per second (the lab's '25 to 6 Hz' labels do not follow from the table). T7/TP7 and T8/TP8, all four playing together, are an inference from 'across both hemispheres'. The effect appeared only in the half of the sample with above-average temporal-lobe-sign scores, the trait Granqvist 2005 and French 2009 found predicted reports regardless of the field; n = 16 across both arms, one lab. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: left-tpj, right-tpj, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Cook & Persinger 2001, Percept Mot Skills 92:447; Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (849 points at 3 ms, 2.55-s cycle); Murugan 2013, thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 44-45 (849-point Thomas pulse, 3-ms points); Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999, Percept Mot Skills 89:486 (3-ms pixel and interstimulus optimum in rats); French et al. 2009, Cortex 45:619; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-cook-2001-fm-right, layout: custom, Cook & Persinger 2001 (Laurentian University)

A frequency-modulated field (here the 849-point 'Thomas' table at 3-ms points) along the right hemisphere at 1 uT for 20 min in a darkened, quiet room. Cook & Persinger 2001 (16 people) reported a sensed presence (a 'sentient being') in 75% of above-average temporal-lobe-sign scorers with right-sided fields (60% with fields across both hemispheres) and in none of the below-average scorers.

Setting: A darkened, quiet room, eyes covered, reclining; note the time and side of anything felt.

Schedule: One 20-min exposure; at most once a week. Compare with a blinded sham (the app's Blind option).

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Cook & Persinger applied a 1-uT frequency-modulated field 'through a helmet, either along the right hemisphere or across both hemispheres' for 20 min; this file is the right-sided arm and persinger-cook-2001-fm-bilateral the other. The abstract names only a 'frequency-modulated' field; the Thomas table at 3 ms (the lab's frequency-modulated pattern over the right hemisphere in Tiller & Persinger 2002) is an assumption. The table is Table 1 of US 6,234,953 (Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger), 849 points, which the lab replayed at 3 ms per point (Buckner 2015; Murugan 2013). A 3-ms pause after each pass (the 3-ms pixel plus 3-ms interstimulus optimum Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999 found in rats) gives Buckner's 2.55-s cycle. Within it 18 pulses slow from about 12 to 5 per second (the lab's '25 to 6 Hz' labels do not follow from the table). Sites T8 and TP8 are an inference; the left channels stay silent. The effect appeared only in the half of the sample preselected by high temporal-lobe-sign scores, the trait Granqvist 2005 and French 2009 found predicted reports regardless of the field; n = 16, one lab. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: right-tpj, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Cook & Persinger 2001, Percept Mot Skills 92:447; Cook & Persinger 1997, Percept Mot Skills 85:683; Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (849 points at 3 ms, 2.55-s cycle); Murugan 2013, thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 44-45 (248-point burst-x, 849-point Thomas pulse, 3-ms points); Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999, Percept Mot Skills 89:486 (3-ms pixel and interstimulus optimum in rats); French et al. 2009, Cortex 45:619; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpbi-amyl-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signals licensed from Persinger & Koren

Murphy's Shiva God Helmet variant: the modulated-40 Hz chirp steps around both temporal lobes, then amygdala burst-firing steps around the left side only, which Murphy links to 'positive emotional functions'. Murphy reports presence, elation, joy, imagery and feelings of love; the vendor calls the combination experimental, and independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy).

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (20 min): the chirp on all eight coils (Murphy: it 'activates the temporal lobes overall'), left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. Phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch): amygdala burst-firing on the four left coils only, clockwise. Murphy: if you feel anger during or after the session, don't use it again; not for people prone to anger. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Field about 1 µT, as in the lab God Helmet. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The amygdala 'burstx' template is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz): 230 points as in Ryczko & Persinger 2002 (who used 4-ms points, once every 3 s), here at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' burst of Persinger et al. 2009), then the vendor's 4 s silence; this gives about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). Coil steps: the exact step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right', read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8); this reading is an inference (an image caption on Murphy's session list says the right side cycles clockwise, contradicting his text; the text is followed), and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. This is the 40-min version (20 + 20 min); the 60-min version is murphy-gh-chirpbi-amyl-60min.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, The God Helmet - Chirp first & Amygdala second; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, God Helmet safety; Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 (burst of about 0.7 s every 3 s); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpbi-amyl-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signals licensed from Persinger & Koren

Murphy's Shiva God Helmet variant: the modulated-40 Hz chirp steps around both temporal lobes, then amygdala burst-firing steps around the left side only, which Murphy links to 'positive emotional functions'. Murphy reports presence, elation, joy, imagery and feelings of love; the vendor calls the combination experimental, and independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy). Murphy's Shiva pages allow 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks; his Shakti pages say at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (30 min): the chirp on all eight coils (Murphy: it 'activates the temporal lobes overall'), left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. Phase 2 (30 min, abrupt switch): amygdala burst-firing on the four left coils only, clockwise. Murphy: if you feel anger during or after the session, don't use it again; not for people prone to anger. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Field about 1 µT, as in the lab God Helmet. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The amygdala 'burstx' template is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz): 230 points as in Ryczko & Persinger 2002 (who used 4-ms points, once every 3 s), here at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' burst of Persinger et al. 2009), then the vendor's 4 s silence; this gives about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). Coil steps: the exact step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right', read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8); this reading is an inference (an image caption on Murphy's session list says the right side cycles clockwise, contradicting his text; the text is followed), and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. This is the 60-min version (30 + 30 min); the 40-min version is murphy-gh-chirpbi-amyl-40min.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, The God Helmet - Chirp first & Amygdala second; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, God Helmet safety; Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 (burst of about 0.7 s every 3 s); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-harribance-koren-2s, layout: custom, Persinger & Koren lab (Laurentian University), Koren Helmet session with the psychic Sean Harribance, reported in Persinger 2010

The Koren-helmet session Persinger's lab ran with the psychic Sean Harribance: no field, 3.3 Hz and 1.6 Hz sine waves, burst-firing and an LTP (primed-burst) pattern, 2-3 min each, stepped around four left-right coil pairs every 0.5 s with the right side about 10% stronger. Persinger reported 22 presence or vision button presses during the LTP pattern against 5-12 for the others, with a 6:1 left-side bias (one subject).

Setting: Seated and blindfolded in a quiet, dark room, holding a button or tally counter in each hand: press the left or right one when you sense a presence or see a vision on that side, both when it is in front of or behind you. Have someone else note which condition was running, or use the app's Blind option.

Schedule: One session in the original (one subject).

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 C5, CH3 CP5, CH4 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 C6, CH7 CP6, CH8 TP8

Persinger 2010 describes the Koren Helmet as four pairs of solenoids "arranged in an elliptical pattern at the level of temporoparietal region", fed by a commutator that sends the pattern to each of the four pairs in turn for 0.5 s (2 s per full rotation); Persinger & Murphy 2016 add that one solenoid on the left and one on the right are on at any moment. The fields were "weak (1 uT)". Here each side carries four coils on a small ellipse over the temporoparietal region (T7, C5, CP5, TP7 and T8, C6, CP6, TP8), stepped in mirror image; the exact positions and stepping order are not published. The right side was set about 10% stronger (about 100 nT per 10 cm), so the left coils run at 0.91. In a 45-min setting Harribance received no field, 3.3 Hz, 1.6 Hz, burst-firing and LTP in counterbalanced order for 2-3 min each; how often each came and in which order is not given, so this runs two passes of 3 min each (30 min), the second in roughly reverse order. The sines' point duration is not given (1 ms here). Burst-firing is the lab's analgesic pattern presented once every 4 s (Martin et al. 2004); its point values are unpublished, so the built-in accelerating burst of 230 points at 3 ms (0.69 s) stands in. LTP is described as "a single pulse followed about 170 msec later by 4 pulses in rapid succession with a functional frequency of between 100 and 200 Hz"; it is built as 1-ms positive pulses at 0, 170, 175, 180 and 185 ms, repeating every 200 ms. The repetition rate is not given; 5 per second follows the lab's "1 s pulse of 5 trains" LTP field (Delparte & Persinger 2007). The 200-Hz spacing (the top of the stated range, which keeps the next primer 15 ms clear of the burst), the polarity, the 1-ms points and the repetition rate are assumptions; the project's primed generator instead uses the 150-ms primer interval of a later Shiva LTP file (Corradini 2014) with 100-Hz pulses. The left:right ratio of presses was 1.5-2.1:1 for the other conditions and 6:1 for LTP; Roll et al. 2002 likewise reported left-sided presences with LTP-patterned fields over his right temporoparietal region. The "Harribance configuration" of Persinger & Saroka 2012 is his own digitised EEG, not part of this program, and cannot be rebuilt without the original data. One subject, unblinded, button counts only, reported years later in a NeuroQuantology paper. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: right-tpj, left-tpj, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger 2010, The Harribance effect as pervasive out-of-body experiences, NeuroQuantology 8(4):444-465, pp. 448-449 and 454; Persinger & Murphy 2016, Neuroscience & Medicine 7:27-44 (Koren Helmet: four left-right solenoid pairs, 0.5 s each, 2-s cycle); Roll, Persinger, Webster, Tiller & Cook 2002, Int J Neurosci 112:197-224; Persinger & Saroka 2012, Protracted parahippocampal activity associated with Sean Harribance, Int J Yoga 5:140-145; Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226-229 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009 (burst-firing about 0.7 s once every 3 s); Delparte & Persinger 2007, Int J Neurosci 117:295-299 (LTP field as "1 s pulse of 5 trains"); Corradini 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University (primed-burst LTP file); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-meli-2009-red-light, layout: custom, Meli & Persinger 2009 (Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University)

Thirty minutes of the lab's burst-firing pattern over the right temporal lobe while you sit with your eyes open in dim red light. Persinger's lab reported that the field combined with red light, rather than green or white light, markedly increased dizziness, a sensed presence, "ego-alien" thoughts and feelings of detachment from the body (Meli & Persinger 2009).

Setting: Seated with the eyes open in a quiet room lit only by dim red light (the study's comparison conditions were dim green and dim white light).

Schedule: One 30-min session per condition. For a self-test, compare red with green or white light and field with sham (the app's Blind option) in blinded, counterbalanced sessions on different days, with the rating scale chosen in advance.

Coils: CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

The abstract says the right hemisphere was stimulated (the title says "over the temporal lobes") but gives no coil positions or intensity: T8 and TP8 (the other six channels stay silent) and 1 uT, the lab's usual human intensity, are inferences. The burst-firing point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst with the published timing (230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s, once every 4 s) stands in for them (the lab's theses give 230, 248 or 289 points and 3 or 4 s between bursts). Light colour and open eyes are part of this protocol, not comfort settings: field subjects reported more visual sensations on the left in red light and on the right in green light. The lab also logged geomagnetic activity: Booth, Koren & Persinger 2005 linked presences to rising activity, while other studies linked it to lower pleasantness, so if you track it, fix the analysis in advance. Karbowski et al. 2015 reported similar sensations from blue LEDs on the right back of the head flashed in one of the lab's field patterns, which if anything points away from the magnetic field as the cause; this helmet has no light channel. presence-right runs the same burst for 20 + 10 min on four right coils (FT8, T8, CP6, TP8). Single-lab finding, never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-tpj (field on the brain)

Sources:Meli & Persinger 2009, Red light facilitates the sensed presence elicited by application of weak, burst-firing magnetic fields over the temporal lobes, Int J Neurosci 119:68-75; Booth, Koren & Persinger 2005, Int J Neurosci 115:1053-1079 (sensed presence and geomagnetic activity); Karbowski, Saroka, Murugan & Persinger 2015, Epilepsy Behav 51:127-132 (blue-light version); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374-382 (burst-firing once every 3 s for about 0.7 s); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file, 3 ms points); Collins 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University (3 ms points, 4 s between bursts); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-paranormal-shakti-onsite-amygdala, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Paranormal Shakti software, retired)

The on-site amygdala session of Murphy's retired Paranormal Shakti (about 2012-2015), which the vendor sold to paranormal investigators to raise their 'sensitivity' at a site: 30 min of the amygdala signal alternating between the two stereo channels of a 4-coil cross on each temporal lobe. The vendor links it to the 'Lady Vampire' episode of the TV series Paranormal State.

Setting: On site during an investigation (vendor).

Schedule: Vendor: after 6 temporal sessions, do 3 frontal ones (murphy-paranormal-shakti-frontal), but not in the 3 days before an investigation, because it says the frontal session lowers sensitivity. The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Coils form a cross on each temporal lobe: FT7 (front), C5 (top), TP7 (back) and T9 (bottom) on the left, FT8, C6, TP8 and T10 on the right; the sites are an inference from the vendor's description. Following 'begin with the left channel vertical and the right channel horizontal', track 1 (the left stereo channel) drives the top and bottom coils (C5, T9, C6, T10) and track 2 (the right channel) the front and back coils (FT7, TP7, FT8, TP8). The signal alternates between the two groups slowly, one whole signal per switch with about 4 s of silence in between; the Paranormal Shakti pages give no alternation speed, and the 8 Coil Shakti's 'fast' mode (a switch every half-second), which its pages say 'emerged as the most effective' in the original developers' lab tests, is not used. Polarity follows the 8 Coil Shakti coil chart (the Paranormal Shakti pages do not repeat it): each pair is one + and one - coil, so C5 (top) and FT7 (front) on the left and T10 (bottom) and TP8 (back) on the right get the reversed signal (weight -1), while T9, TP7, C6 and FT8 get it as is. The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern). For the TV episode the vendor says 'the coils were placed about two inches forward of their usual locations' (move the whole cross about 5 cm forward). The vendor also describes the cross 'raised up' above the temporo-parietal region. Experiences during or after such a session are not evidence about the site. Persinger's lab reported that burst-firing fields over the right temporoparietal region raised hypnotic suggestibility (Healey 1996) and that three weekly bilateral sessions increased aggression (Gillis & Persinger 1993). An independent sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). The product is retired; this file is of historical interest. Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once on fear or distress.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: on-site sessions (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: the procedure (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: frontal lobe session (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Comments on the Lady Vampire episode of Paranormal State; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996, Int J Neurosci 87:201; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1

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persinger-healey-burst-left, layout: custom, Laurentian University: Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992; Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996; Persinger & Healey 2002

Burst-firing over the left temporoparietal region only, 1 uT for 20 min: the comparison arm of Persinger's lateralisation studies, which by the lab's reports raised neither hypnotic suggestibility (Healey 1996) nor apprehension (Richards 1992) and, with an unnamed 'complex, pulsed' pattern, gave fewer sensed presences than right-sided or bilateral fields (Persinger & Healey 2002).

Setting: Partial sensory deprivation: blindfold or opaque goggles, reclining in a very quiet, darkened room; the same before-and-after measures as the right arm.

Schedule: One 20-min exposure per arm. At most once a week; run right, left, bilateral and sham sessions in blinded, counterbalanced order.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996 gave 20 min of 1-uT burst-firing over the right hemisphere, the left, both or a sham; by the lab's reports the left arm raised neither suggestibility nor, in Richards 1992, apprehension in women, and in Persinger & Healey 2002 it gave fewer presences, fears and odd smells than the right or bilateral arms. Persinger & Healey 2002 (48 people) ran the same four arms at 100 nT-1 uT with fields 'primarily over' one side; they name no pattern ('complex, pulsed'), so burst-firing there is an assumption, and any field they had on the other side is off here. The presence-left program plays the same burst timing on four left-side coils and adds an optional 10 min; this file keeps the 20-min, two-coil form. The lab's burst-firing point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) stands in, with the file's published length, 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s; Carniello 2020; other theses give 248 or 289), once every 4 s (the lab's rat analgesia work, Martin & Persinger 2004, and Collins 2014's Shiva study; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009 give 'once every 3 s for about 0.7 s'). Two coils, T7 and TP7, are an inference from 'left temporoparietal'; the right channels stay silent. Same coils and pattern as the right and bilateral programs, so it is their active control. Tiller & Persinger 1994 (15 min of a 1-uT 'pulsed' field) reported higher suggestibility only when the right side came first (persinger-tiller-1994-right-then-left), so log the order in any comparison; and a field that raises suggestibility confounds every unblinded session, so compare blind (right, left, persinger-burst-temporal-bilateral, sham). None of these lateral effects has been replicated outside the lab. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012), and in Granqvist's study suggestibility traits, not the field, predicted the reports. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: left-tpj, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996, Int J Neurosci 87:201; Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667; Persinger & Healey 2002, J Nerv Ment Dis 190:533; Tiller & Persinger 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:157; Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (230-point burst-firing file, 3-ms points); Collins 2014, MA thesis 'Investigating the Shiva', Laurentian University, p. 31 (289 points, 3 ms, 4000 ms); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 ('once every 3 s for about 0.7 s'); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-healey-burst-right, layout: custom, Laurentian University: Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992; Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996; Persinger & Healey 2002

Burst-firing over the right temporoparietal region only, 1 uT for 20 min. With right-sided fields Persinger's lab reported a marked rise in hypnotic suggestibility (Healey 1996), apprehension in women (Richards 1992) and, with an unnamed 'complex, pulsed' pattern, more sensed presences, fears and odd smells than with left-sided or sham fields (Persinger & Healey 2002).

Setting: Partial sensory deprivation: blindfold or opaque goggles, reclining in a very quiet, darkened room. For the suggestibility test, take a standard hypnotic-susceptibility scale before and after (the lab used Spiegel's Hypnotic Induction Profile), scored by someone who does not know the condition.

Schedule: One 20-min exposure per arm. At most once a week; run right, left, bilateral and sham sessions in blinded, counterbalanced order.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996 gave 20 min of 1-uT burst-firing over the right hemisphere, the left, both or a sham, with Spiegel's Hypnotic Induction Profile before and after, and reported a marked rise in suggestibility only in the right group (eta = 0.58); Richards 1992 reported apprehension in women with right- but not left-sided bursts. Persinger & Healey 2002 (48 people) ran the same four arms at 100 nT-1 uT with fields 'primarily over' one side; they name no pattern ('complex, pulsed'), so burst-firing there is an assumption, and any field they had on the other side is off here. The presence-right program plays the same burst timing on four right-side coils and adds an optional 10 min; this file keeps the 20-min, two-coil form. The lab's burst-firing point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) stands in, with the file's published length, 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s; Carniello 2020; other theses give 248 or 289), once every 4 s (the lab's rat analgesia work, Martin & Persinger 2004, and Collins 2014's Shiva study; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009 give 'once every 3 s for about 0.7 s'). Two coils, T8 and TP8, are an inference from 'right temporoparietal'; the left channels stay silent. Tiller & Persinger 1994 (15 min of a 1-uT 'pulsed' field) reported higher suggestibility only when the right side came first (persinger-tiller-1994-right-then-left), so log the order in any comparison; and a field that raises suggestibility confounds every unblinded session, so compare blind (right, left, persinger-burst-temporal-bilateral, sham). The suggestibility effect has not been replicated outside the lab (the lab's re-analysis of 19 of its own experiments, St-Pierre & Persinger 2006, is not independent evidence). Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012), and in Granqvist's study suggestibility traits, not the field, predicted the reports. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: right-tpj, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996, Int J Neurosci 87:201; Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667; Persinger & Healey 2002, J Nerv Ment Dis 190:533; Tiller & Persinger 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:157; St-Pierre & Persinger 2006, Int J Neurosci 116:1079; Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (230-point burst-firing file, 3-ms points); Collins 2014, MA thesis 'Investigating the Shiva', Laurentian University, p. 31 (289 points, 3 ms, 4000 ms); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 ('once every 3 s for about 0.7 s'); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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presence-left, layout: Temporal 4+4 (Koren helmet / 8-coil Shakti), Persinger & Healey 2002 (Laurentian University), left-hemisphere arm; left-TPJ interest after Arzy et al. 2006

Burst-firing over the left temporal and temporoparietal region (FT7, T7, CP5, TP7) for 20 min: the left-hemisphere arm of Persinger & Healey 2002, which by their report gave fewer "presences" than right or bilateral fields. Arzy et al. 2006 evoked a "shadow person" by electrical stimulation of the LEFT temporoparietal junction; compare this preset with presence-right in blinded trials.

Setting: Seated or reclined in a quiet, darkened room with the eyes covered (Persinger & Healey used opaque goggles).

Schedule: At most weekly; run it against presence-right and sham in blinded, counterbalanced order, with the outcome decided in advance.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 T7, CH3 CP5, CH4 TP7, CH5 FT8, CH6 T8, CH7 CP6, CH8 TP8

Persinger & Healey ran a double-blind study with 48 subjects at 0.1-1 uT for 20 min, with opaque goggles in a very quiet room, and reported more presences, fears and odd smells with fields primarily over the right or equally across both hemispheres than with fields "primarily over the left temporoparietal region" or sham, so by Persinger's account this left-sided version should do less. Phase 1 is the 20-min exposure; phase 2 continues to 30 min so that it matches presence-right (Meli & Persinger 2009 used 30 min over the right side). Persinger & Healey name no waveform ("complex, pulsed"), so the lab's burst-firing pattern stands in, an assumption: the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with the published Burst-X timing, 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s; Carniello 2020; 248 and 289 points in other theses) once every 4 s (Martin & Persinger 2004; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009 give "once every 3 s for about 0.7 s"); the point values were never published. Changed after the primary-source check: it was 230 points of 4 ms once every 3 s, the rat timing of Ryczko & Persinger 2002. All four left-side coils play together and the right side stays silent; how much field that arm put on the right is not published. Arzy's patient had epilepsy and was stimulated directly on the cortex through implanted electrodes, with currents far stronger than this helmet; Blanke 2014 produced a felt presence in healthy people with a robot creating sensorimotor conflict, without any field. Weak-field stimulation of the left TPJ is untested outside Persinger's lab. Murphy says the presence rarely appears at home without true silence. In the only large independent double-blind test (Granqvist 2005, 89 people) suggestibility, not the field, predicted sensed presence; Gendle & McGrath 2012 also found no field effect. Stop on fear or distress; not for people with epilepsy.

Aims at: left-tpj, left-supramarginal-gyrus, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger & Healey 2002, J Nerv Ment Dis 190:533; Meli & Persinger 2009, Int J Neurosci 119:68; Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (230-point burst-firing file, 3-ms points; Thomas file with 3-ms points and intervals); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226-229 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374-382 ("once every 3 s for about 0.7 s"); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (rat timing: 230 points of 4 ms once every 3 s); Arzy et al. 2006, Nature 443:287; Blanke et al. 2014, Curr Biol 24:2681; Murphy-Balbin interview; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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presence-right, layout: Temporal 4+4 (Koren helmet / 8-coil Shakti), Persinger & Healey 2002 (Laurentian University), right-hemisphere arm; 30-min length after Meli & Persinger 2009

Burst-firing over the right temporal and temporoparietal region (FT8, T8, CP6, TP8) for 20 min, the arm in which Persinger & Healey 2002 reported more "presences" than with left-sided or sham fields, plus an optional 10 min to the 30-min exposure of Meli & Persinger 2009.

Setting: Seated or reclined in a quiet, darkened room with the eyes covered (Persinger & Healey used opaque goggles; Meli & Persinger a dim red light).

Schedule: At most weekly; run it against presence-left and sham in blinded, counterbalanced order, with the outcome decided in advance.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 T7, CH3 CP5, CH4 TP7, CH5 FT8, CH6 T8, CH7 CP6, CH8 TP8

Persinger & Healey ran a double-blind study with 48 subjects at 0.1-1 uT for 20 min, with opaque goggles in a very quiet room, and reported more presences, fears and odd smells with fields "primarily over the right temporoparietal region" or equally across both hemispheres than with left or sham; Meli & Persinger 2009 applied 30 min of burst-firing over the right temporal lobe. Phase 1 is the 20-min exposure (stop after it to copy Persinger & Healey); phase 2 continues to 30 min. Persinger & Healey name no waveform ("complex, pulsed"), so the lab's burst-firing pattern stands in, an assumption: the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with the published Burst-X timing, 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s; Carniello 2020; 248 and 289 points in other theses) once every 4 s (Martin & Persinger 2004; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009 give "once every 3 s for about 0.7 s"); the point values were never published. Changed after the primary-source check: it was 230 points of 4 ms once every 3 s, the rat timing of Ryczko & Persinger 2002. All four right-side coils play together and the left side stays silent; how much field that arm put on the left is not published. Persinger's lab also reported that 20 min of right temporoparietal burst-firing raised hypnotic suggestibility (Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996), and right-sided fields frightened some lab subjects: stop on fear or distress, and skip it if you are prone to anxiety or have epilepsy. Murphy admits that home God Helmets rarely produce the sensed presence and blames the lack of true acoustic silence. Mainstream work links the felt presence to the temporoparietal junction, but through electrodes and sensorimotor conflict, not weak fields (Arzy 2006; Blanke 2014). In the only large independent double-blind test (Granqvist 2005, 89 people) suggestibility, not the field, predicted sensed presence; Gendle & McGrath 2012 also found no field effect.

Aims at: right-tpj, right-angular-gyrus, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger & Healey 2002, J Nerv Ment Dis 190:533; Meli & Persinger 2009, Int J Neurosci 119:68; Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996, Int J Neurosci 87:201; Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (230-point burst-firing file, 3-ms points; Thomas file with 3-ms points and intervals); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226-229 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374-382 ("once every 3 s for about 0.7 s"); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (rat timing: 230 points of 4 ms once every 3 s); Murphy-Balbin interview; Murphy, God Helmet main page; Arzy et al. 2006, Nature 443:287; Blanke et al. 2014, Curr Biol 24:2681; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-saroka-2015-sensed-presence, layout: custom, Persinger laboratory, Laurentian University; the two-phase sensed-presence protocol as stated by Saroka (2015)

The Persinger lab's two-phase sensed-presence protocol as Saroka (2015) states it: 30 min of the frequency-modulated 'Thomas' pattern across both temporoparietal regions, then 30 min of the burst-firing (Burst-X) pattern. Saroka & Persinger (2013) reported that people who sensed a presence showed a rise in coherence between the two temporal lobes about 10-15 min after the initial frequency-modulated application, with more right-frontal theta.

Setting: Seated in a dark, quiet room with the eyes closed or covered by opaque goggles (the lab used an acoustic chamber that was also a Faraday cage, and sometimes recorded 19-channel EEG). The lab told people they might or might not receive a field; the app's Blind option does the same.

Schedule: One 60-min session. For a self-test, compare it with a blinded sham session on another day and write down what you experienced before unblinding; at most weekly.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Saroka's thesis (p. 29) gives the protocol in one sentence: 30 min of a frequency-modulated pattern ('also called the Thomas pattern') applied bilaterally over the temporo-parietal region, then 30 min of BurstX. It names no sites, intensity or intervals, so these follow the lab's other papers. Phase 1 plays the exact Thomas table (US 6,234,953 Table 1: 849 points at 3 ms, 2.55 s per cycle; Buckner 2015) with a 3-ms pause between repeats (Murugan 2013; Carniello 2020). The Burst-X point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst stands in, with the published timing of 230 points at 3 ms (0.69 s; Carniello 2020) once every 4 s (Martin 2004); Murugan (248 points, every 3 s) and Collins 2014 (289 points) give other versions. Saroka does not say where phase 2 was applied; it stays on the same coils, both sides together (an assumption). Two static coils per side, T7/TP7 and T8/TP8, stand in for 'temporo-parietal' (like the lab's four-solenoid 'Koren boxes', Tsang 2004; the lab never published coil positions); 1 uT is the lab's usual human intensity (1-5 uT inside its solenoids, Lehman 2016). How it differs: persinger-synthetic-ghost-2000 and persinger-granqvist-2005-replication play the Thomas phase on the right only, as the lab's 2000 haunt case did, and god-helmet-classic is Murphy's Shiva version (a right-side chirp, then a burst stepping around four coils per side). The coherence and theta markers (Saroka & Persinger 2013, as Saroka summarizes them) come from one lab and were never replicated; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The 2000 case reported 'rushes of fear' during the frequency-modulated pattern, and Murphy expects his first phase to be unpleasant for some people: press Skip to go to phase 2, and stop at once on fear or distress. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices, pregnancy, or anxiety or trauma symptoms; have someone nearby.

Aims at: right-tpj, left-tpj, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-amygdala, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Saroka 2015, doctoral thesis, Laurentian University, p. 29 (sensed-presence protocol: 30 min bilateral temporo-parietal frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, then 30 min BurstX); Saroka & Persinger 2013, Epilepsy Behav 28:395-407 (temporal coherence and right-frontal theta in people who sensed a presence, as cited by Saroka 2015); Persinger, Tiller & Koren 2000, Percept Mot Skills 90:659-674 (frequency-modulated pattern over the right hemisphere, then a second pattern bilaterally); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136, Methods (849 points at 3 ms, 2.55 s per cycle); Murugan 2013, thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 44-45, 69-70 (Thomas pulse 3 ms; burst-firing 248 points, 3 s); Carniello 2020, thesis, Laurentian University, p. 89 (burst-firing 230 points, 3 ms); Martin, Koren & Persinger 2004, Pharmacol Biochem Behav 78:217-227 (burst-firing once every about 4 s); Collins 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University, p. 31 (289 points, 3 ms, 4000 ms); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374-382 (burst-firing about 0.7 s every 3 s); Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2004, Int J Neurosci 114:1013 ('the set of 4 solenoids (Koren boxes)' through the temporal lobes); Lehman 2016, thesis, Laurentian University, p. 57 (1-5 uT inside each solenoid); Murphy, God Helmet session list (vendor two-phase version); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-synthetic-ghost-2000, layout: custom, Persinger, Tiller & Koren (Laurentian University), 2000 case study of one man who had experienced a haunt

Persinger's lab tried to re-create one man's earlier 'haunt': a frequency-modulated (Thomas) pattern over the right hemisphere, then a second pattern through both hemispheres. The lab reported rushes of fear and an apparition during the right-sided pattern and pleasant experiences during the bilateral one, in one unblinded subject.

Setting: Seated in a quiet, dark room with the eyes covered (the lab used blindfolds or opaque goggles in an acoustic chamber); the original subject had EEG recorded throughout.

Schedule: One session in the original. At most weekly; for a self-test, use the app's Blind option and write down what you felt before unblinding.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Persinger, Tiller & Koren (2000) exposed one 45-year-old man to 1 uT complex transcerebral fields: a frequency-modulated pattern over the right hemisphere, then a second pattern applied bilaterally. The lab reported that within 10 min of the right-sided pattern he felt 'rushes of fear' that ended in an apparition he judged very similar to his natural one, with 1-2 s paroxysmal 15 Hz complex spikes in the EEG, and that the bilateral pattern brought pleasant experiences. The paper gives no exposure durations ('within 10 min' is an onset latency); 30 + 30 min follows the lab's own two-phase sensed-presence protocol (30 min of the frequency-modulated pattern, then 30 min of BurstX; Saroka 2015) and its stated 20-40 min per pattern. The frequency-modulated pattern is taken to be the Thomas pattern (Saroka equates the two) and plays the exact patent table, 849 points at 3 ms (Buckner 2015), with a 3-ms pause between repeats: the point and interstimulus durations at which this pattern provoked the most seizures in the lab's epileptic rats (Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999). The second pattern is not named; the lab's burst-firing pattern stands in for it (an inference from Saroka's protocol). Its point values are unpublished, so an accelerating burst of 230 points at 3 ms (690 ms) once every 4 s (Martin & Persinger 2004; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009 give about 0.7 s every 3 s) approximates it. Two static coils per side, T8/TP8 and T7/TP7, approximate 'over the right hemisphere' and 'bilaterally'. Unlike this file, persinger-saroka-2015-sensed-presence plays the Thomas phase on both sides, as Saroka describes, and god-helmet-classic is Murphy's Shiva version (a chirp approximation and a burst stepping around four coils per side). French et al. (2009) based the waveform of their room-scale Haunt study on this paper's; with 79 people the reports were unrelated to condition and best explained by suggestibility. This is n = 1, unblinded, in a man chosen because he had had the experience and who knew the purpose: a case report, not evidence of an effect. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Phase 1 is the part the lab reported as frightening: press Skip to go to phase 2, and stop at once on fear or distress. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; not for anyone with anxiety or trauma symptoms; have someone nearby.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-tpj, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-tpj (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Tiller & Koren 2000, Experimental simulation of a haunt experience and elicitation of paroxysmal electroencephalographic activity by transcerebral complex magnetic fields: induction of a synthetic 'ghost'?, Percept Mot Skills 90:659-674; Saroka 2015, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, p. 29 (sensed-presence protocol: 30 min of the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern over both temporoparietal regions, then 30 min of BurstX); US 6,234,953 B1 (Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger), Table 1, Thomas pulse; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10:e0124136 (Thomas pattern: 849 points at 3 ms); Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999, Percept Mot Skills 89:486 (most seizures in epileptic rats with the Thomas pattern at 3-ms pixel and interstimulus durations); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file, 3 ms); Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374 (burst-firing about 0.7 s every 3 s); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226-229 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Persinger to Larhammar, 22 Nov 2004 (20-40 min per pattern); French, Haque, Bunton-Stasyshyn & Davis 2009, The Haunt project, Cortex 45:619; French et al., The Haunt project, accepted manuscript with the full method; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-tiller-2002-thomas-right, layout: custom, Tiller & Persinger 2002 (Laurentian University); 'Thomas' pattern after Alex W. Thomas (US 6,234,953)

The 849-point 'Thomas' frequency-modulated table of US 6,234,953, played at 3 ms per point as the lab later described (a 2.55-s decelerating burst, repeated), over the right parietotemporal region at 1 uT for 5 min. Tiller & Persinger 2002 (12 people) reported that 40% of all left-sided presences came during this one 5-min configuration and that the time-reversed pattern was less effective.

Setting: Blindfolded or with opaque goggles in a quiet, dark room; press a button, speak, or tell a helper the moment anything is felt and on which side (left, right, front or back).

Schedule: One 5-min block in the original, one of eight 5-min configurations given to each subject in an order they did not know. At most once a week.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Tiller & Persinger applied eight 1-uT configurations for 5 min each 'primarily over the right parietotemporal region', in an order the subjects did not know, and logged button presses as left, right or front-back presences. Only this pattern and its time-reversed copy (persinger-tiller-2002-thomas-reversed) are identified; the other six ('more or less complex') were never published, so this file holds the effective block alone. The table is Table 1 of US 6,234,953 (Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger), 849 points, which the lab replayed at 3 ms per point (Buckner 2015; Murugan 2013); that Tiller used this very file is the lab's later description, not stated in the 2002 abstract. A 3-ms pause after each pass (the 3-ms pixel plus 3-ms interstimulus optimum Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999 found in rats) gives Buckner's 2.55-s cycle; the lab's rat analgesia version was 837 values of 1 ms once every 4 s (Dixon & Persinger 2001). Within it 18 pulses slow from about 12 to 5 per second (the lab's '25 to 6 Hz' labels do not follow from the table). Sites T8 and TP8 are an inference; the left channels stay silent. A 5-s fade is added at start and end. The lab otherwise held that subjective effects need 20-40 min per pattern (see persinger-cook-2001-fm-right); this study used 5 min. For a blinded test, have someone else pick this file, the reversed file or a sham, and note the time and side of anything you feel. n = 12, within-subject, one lab; the side of a presence is a subjective report and has never been tested independently. Granqvist et al. ran 15 min of the Thomas pattern over the right hemisphere, then 15 min of bilateral burst-firing, double-blind with 89 people, and found no field effect; Persinger blamed uncalibrated Windows timing and the short exposure. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: right-tpj, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (849 points at 3 ms, 2.55-s cycle); Murugan 2013, thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 44-45 (248-point burst-x, 849-point Thomas pulse, 3-ms points); Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999, Percept Mot Skills 89:486 (3-ms pixel and interstimulus optimum in rats); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837 values at 1 ms, once every 4 s); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Persinger & Koren 2005, A response to Granqvist et al., Neurosci Lett 380:346; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-tiller-2002-thomas-reversed, layout: custom, Tiller & Persinger 2002 (Laurentian University), comparison configuration

The 849-point 'Thomas' table played backwards (pulses speeding up instead of slowing down), at 3 ms per point over the right parietotemporal region, 1 uT for 5 min: the comparison configuration that Tiller & Persinger 2002 reported as less effective than the forward pattern for left-sided presences.

Setting: Blindfolded or with opaque goggles in a quiet, dark room; report the moment and side of anything felt.

Schedule: One 5-min block, at most once a week.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Same table, timing, coils and intensity as persinger-tiller-2002-thomas-right, with the point order reversed; Buckner 2015 describes the lab's reverse Thomas file the same way ('proceeds from 6 Hz to 25 Hz'). Tiller & Persinger reported it less effective than the forward pattern for left-sided presences; with the same points and energy in the opposite time order, it is the forward file's active control. The forward table is Table 1 of US 6,234,953 (Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger), 849 points, which the lab replayed at 3 ms per point (Buckner 2015; Murugan 2013); with a 3-ms pause after each pass (the rat optimum of Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999) one pass lasts 2.55 s, in which 18 pulses speed up from about 5 to 12 per second (the lab's '6 to 25 Hz' labels do not follow from the table). Reversing the point order also mirrors each pulse in time, as a reversed point file does. Sites T8 and TP8 are an inference; the left channels stay silent. A 5-s fade is added at start and end. For a blinded test, have someone else pick this file, the forward file or a sham. n = 12, one lab, no independent replication of the forward-versus-reversed difference. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop at once on fear, headache or distress.

Aims at: right-tpj, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (849 points at 3 ms, 2.55-s cycle); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1; Murugan 2013, thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 44-45 (248-point burst-x, 849-point Thomas pulse, 3-ms points); Persinger & Belanger-Chellew 1999, Percept Mot Skills 89:486 (3-ms pixel and interstimulus optimum in rats); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva64-obe-lab, layout: custom, Saroka, Mulligan, Murphy & Persinger 2010 (Persinger's lab), 64-coil Shiva headset

Five minutes of the amygdala burst-firing signal circled over the whole head, after a single-case report from Persinger's lab in which a man reported an out-of-body experience shortly after 5 min in a 64-coil Shiva headset (Saroka, Mulligan, Murphy & Persinger 2010). This 8-coil version keeps the signal type, the duration and a rotation over both upper and lower head, not the 64-coil pattern.

Setting: The original was a laboratory session with EEG recording. Lie down in a dark, quiet room with eyes closed and someone present who can stop the session.

Schedule: One 5-min session; no repeat schedule was published. Keep at least a week between sessions, as Murphy advises for Shiva.

Coils: CH1 Fz, CH2 F7, CH3 C3, CH4 P7, CH5 Pz, CH6 P8, CH7 C4, CH8 F8

Persinger's lab reported one 27-year-old man who wore a headset of 64 coils that 'circled the same flickering magnetic fields around the entire head, and not just a circle around its edge' for 5 min with the amygdala burst-firing pattern. Shortly afterwards he described lightness, then 'floating'. The EEG showed excess theta and beta over the left temporal and right frontal regions with cross-hemispheric coherence. These details come from a press release and Murphy's blog; the paper (NeuroQuantology 8(4):466-477) was not available to the research. Left out: 64 coils cannot be copied with 8, and the 64-coil sequence, step times and field strength are unpublished. Here the 8 coils form two interleaved rings, a lower one (F7, P7, P8, F8) and an upper one around the vertex (Fz, C3, Pz, C4). The field steps counter-clockwise seen from above while alternating between them (Fz, F7, C3, P7, Pz, P8, C4, F8), so each turn covers both levels (an inference). The step time is Murphy's Shiva lecture example, 10 to 20 ms per coil in 2-ms steps. The amygdala signal is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s) once every 3 s. This combines burst-firing timings Persinger's lab published around then: 230 points every 3 s (with 4-ms points, Ryczko & Persinger 2002) and about 0.7 s every 3 s at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009). The subject had anxiety, nausea and a headache afterwards: lie down, have someone present, and stop at once on anxiety, nausea or headache. This is a single uncontrolled case. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or prone to anxiety.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Saroka, Mulligan, Murphy & Persinger 2010, NeuroQuantology 8(4):466-477 (ResearchGate listing); PRLog press release (2012); Murphy blog: OBE in less than six minutes; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-collins-2013-shiva-amygdaloid, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Collins & Persinger 2013; Collins 2013 MA thesis), on Todd Murphy's 64-coil Shiva hat

The 20-min field condition of Collins & Persinger 2013: Shiva's "amygdaloid signal, normal speed" (289 points of 3 ms, then 4 s of silence) stepped counter-clockwise around the head, 100 ms on the left frontal position and 20 ms longer on each next one. Persinger's lab reported more out-of-body, "somewhere else" and presence experiences than in a sham group (5 vs 4 people) and no rise in temporal delta power.

Setting: Seated in a comfortable chair in a quiet, dark room (originally a shielded acoustic chamber), eyes closed for the whole 20 min. The lab took 30-s EEG samples before the field and at 5, 10, 15 and 20 min, and gave a 20-item exit questionnaire afterwards.

Schedule: One 20-min session in the original. For a self-test, use the app's Blind option so the helmet picks field or sham, and fill in the questionnaire before the result is revealed.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Thesis method: a construction-worker hat from Todd Murphy with 8 columns of 8 solenoids at equal angles over the EEG cap, driven by Shiva Neural Stimulation Software 5E through four USB audio devices, each feeding two successive columns; 289 points of -5 to +5 V at 3 ms with 4000 ms between cycles; 100 ms on the left frontal column and "an additional 20 ms" on each next column counter-clockwise from the top (100 ... 240 ms, a 1.36-s turn); about 1 uT (10 mG) in the head. Here one coil stands for each column, on Murphy's Shiva ring starting at Fp1 (an inference; the column positions are not given). The amygdaloid file was never published; the built-in accelerating burst (6-30 Hz) on 289 points of 3 ms stands in, and the rotation runs continuously (how Shiva aligned burst and columns is not described). murphy-shiva-amygdala-simple-normal is Murphy's own version (230 points, 10-20 ms per coil); murphy-shiva64-obe-lab is the 5-min single case of Saroka et al. 2010. Results: 9 university volunteers aged 20-25 (5 field, 4 sham), told they might or might not get a field; field subjects endorsed 35 % vs 9 % of 20 exit-questionnaire items (t(7) = 3.11), with effect-size r of .58-.76 for presence, dizziness, terror or fear, leaving the body and being somewhere else; the sham group's temporal delta power rose over the 20 min while the field group's did not. Tiny sample, subjective endpoints, experimenter blinding not reported, never replicated; subjects sat in a dark chamber knowing a field might come, the setting in which Granqvist et al. tied such reports to suggestibility. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on fear, headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole (field on the brain)

Sources:Collins & Persinger 2013, Changing velocity circumcerebral magnetic fields produce altered state experiences and lowered delta-theta power over the temporal lobes, Review of Psychology Frontier 2(2):26-29; Collins 2013, Quantitative differences in participants exposed to patterned, weak-intensity electromagnetic fields: investigating the Shiva, MA thesis (Psychology), Laurentian University, ch. 2; Saroka, Mulligan, Murphy & Persinger 2010, NeuroQuantology 8(4):466-477; Murphy, Shiva coil locations; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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obe, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti OBE recipe, modulated 40 Hz 'obe45' signal); target site after Blanke et al. 2002

Murphy's OBE recipe in its two-coil form: the 'modulated 40 Hz' (obe45) signal for 30 min through one coil in front of and below the right ear and one over the right angular gyrus, then sleep about an hour later. Murphy reports that most OBEs came while users fell asleep after a session; Blanke et al. 2002 evoked an OBE by electrical stimulation at the right angular gyrus.

Setting: Lie down in a dark, quiet room at night (Murphy: midnight to 4 am is best for experiences). Plan to go to sleep about 1 h (the obe45 page says about 90 min) after the session, with your OBE exercises.

Schedule: At most weekly (or every 72 h), never on consecutive days; six sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH5 FT10, CH6 P6

Murphy's OBE page suggests 30-min sessions over the right hemisphere (temporal lobes, parietal lobes or the area behind them) with the hippocampal, the modulated 40 Hz or the chirp signal; his modulated 40 Hz (obe45) page adds the two-coil option used here, "one coil in front of and below the right ear, and one coil over the angular gyrus on the right side". FT10 and P6 are an inference from that wording; the other six channels stay silent. The obe45 file is proprietary; the vendor says it "has a constant tone" and that "the correct calibration will be 10mG for either channel, when measured from one coil" (10 mG = 1 uT, the default here). It is approximated by a 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad ahead of and behind a steady 40 Hz every 2 s (pm pattern, 1-ms points). Blanke's effect came from milliamp currents on the cortex of one patient; weak-field effects at the angular gyrus are untested. Murphy says "there is no such thing as a pushbutton technology for OBEs" and expects them more often in 'right-hemispheric' people. Stop using the signal if you have trouble finding words; right-hemisphere-only sessions can bring fear or unease, so stop at once on distress. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: right-angular-gyrus, right-tpj (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Out of body experiences and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45); Murphy, Shakti demo: right angular gyrus; McTaggart interview with Murphy (2006); Blanke et al. 2002, Nature 419:269; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-obe-chirp, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti OBE recipe

Murphy's OBE recipe for the 8 Coil Shakti with the chirp signal: 30 min over the right hemisphere, in front of and below the right ear and over the right angular gyrus, then sleep about an hour later. Murphy reports that most OBEs came during that later sleep.

Setting: Lie down in a dark, quiet room. Murphy reports that most OBEs came when users fell asleep about 1 h (or 90 min) after a session, so plan to go to sleep then and use your OBE exercises; he expects it to work more often in 'right-hemispheric' people.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most once a week or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT10, CH2 T10, CH3 TP8, CH4 CP6, CH5 P6, CH6 P8

Murphy's placement: 'sessions over the right hemisphere (temporal lobes, parietal lobes or the area behind the parietal lobes)', or two coils, 'one coil in front of and below the right ear, and one coil over the angular gyrus on the right side'. Here six coils cover those two spots, FT10 and T10 in front of and below the right ear, TP8, CP6, P6 and P8 around the right angular gyrus (the site names are an inference); all six play together and channels 7-8 stay silent. 30 min, one phase. The Shakti 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' file is proprietary. Murphy relates it to a frequency-modulated pulse 'named for its designer' (taken here to be the Thomas pattern), so it is approximated by a sweep falling from 40 to 6 Hz on 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off (837 points of 3 ms once every 4 s, after the published FM pattern); neither the 40 Hz modulation nor the build the vendor describes (frequency-modulated gaps, with amplitudes and gap lengths varied in Fibonacci steps) is reproduced. The vendor warns that the chirp can be 'very unpleasant over the right side'; stop if fear comes and do not make it an endurance test. The right angular gyrus is where Blanke et al. 2002 evoked an OBE with implanted electrodes at far higher currents; weak-field effects there are untested. Vendor cautions: word-finding trouble means stop using the signal, and 'There is no such thing as a pushbutton technology for OBEs.' Right-hemisphere-only sessions can bring fear or unease. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: right-angular-gyrus, right-tpj (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Out of Body Experiences and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Right angular gyrus; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern, once every 4 s); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3-ms points); Blanke et al. 2002, Nature 419:269; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-obe-hippocampus, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti OBE recipe

Murphy's OBE recipe for the 8 Coil Shakti with the hippocampal signal: 30 min over the right hemisphere, in front of and below the right ear and over the right angular gyrus, then sleep about an hour later. Murphy reports that most OBEs came during that later sleep.

Setting: Lie down in a dark, quiet room. Murphy reports that most OBEs came when users fell asleep about 1 h (or 90 min) after a session, so plan to go to sleep then and use your OBE exercises; he expects it to work more often in 'right-hemispheric' people.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most once a week or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT10, CH2 T10, CH3 TP8, CH4 CP6, CH5 P6, CH6 P8

Murphy's placement: 'sessions over the right hemisphere (temporal lobes, parietal lobes or the area behind the parietal lobes)', or two coils, 'one coil in front of and below the right ear, and one coil over the angular gyrus on the right side'. Here six coils cover those two spots, FT10 and T10 in front of and below the right ear, TP8, CP6, P6 and P8 around the right angular gyrus (the site names are an inference); all six play together and channels 7-8 stay silent. 30 min, one phase. Murphy names 'the hippocampal signals' without saying which version; the standard one is used. His preference for the hippocampal signal on the right goes back to one small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: right-sided LTP-pattern fields were rated more pleasant). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary. It is approximated on the vendor's standard 3-ms points: 4 bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart, one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), then the standard 4 s of silence (about 9.4 s of field per minute; the vendor gives 9.6 s). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. The right angular gyrus is where Blanke et al. 2002 evoked an OBE with implanted electrodes at far higher currents; weak-field effects there are untested. Vendor cautions: word-finding trouble means stop using the signal, and 'There is no such thing as a pushbutton technology for OBEs.' Right-hemisphere-only sessions can bring fear or unease. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: right-angular-gyrus, right-tpj, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Out of Body Experiences and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Right angular gyrus; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Blanke et al. 2002, Nature 419:269; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-obe-mod40, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti OBE recipe

Murphy's OBE recipe for the 8 Coil Shakti with the 'modulated 40 Hz' (obe45) signal: 30 min over the right hemisphere, in front of and below the right ear and over the right angular gyrus, then sleep about an hour later. Murphy reports that most OBEs came during that later sleep.

Setting: Lie down in a dark, quiet room. Murphy reports that most OBEs came when users fell asleep about 1 h (or 90 min) after a session, so plan to go to sleep then and use your OBE exercises; he expects it to work more often in 'right-hemispheric' people.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most once a week or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT10, CH2 T10, CH3 TP8, CH4 CP6, CH5 P6, CH6 P8

Murphy's placement: 'sessions over the right hemisphere (temporal lobes, parietal lobes or the area behind the parietal lobes)', or two coils, 'one coil in front of and below the right ear, and one coil over the angular gyrus on the right side'. Here six coils cover those two spots, FT10 and T10 in front of and below the right ear, TP8, CP6, P6 and P8 around the right angular gyrus (the site names are an inference); all six play together and channels 7-8 stay silent. 30 min, one phase. The obe45 file is proprietary; the vendor says it 'has a constant tone' and that 'the correct calibration will be 10mG for either channel, when measured from one coil' (10 mG = 1 µT, the default here). It is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad ahead of and behind a steady 40 Hz every 2 s (about 38.5 to 41.5 Hz), in 1-ms points. The right angular gyrus is where Blanke et al. 2002 evoked an OBE with implanted electrodes at far higher currents; weak-field effects there are untested. Vendor cautions: word-finding trouble means stop using the signal, and 'There is no such thing as a pushbutton technology for OBEs.' Right-hemisphere-only sessions can bring fear or unease. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: right-angular-gyrus, right-tpj (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Out of Body Experiences and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Right angular gyrus; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Blanke et al. 2002, Nature 419:269; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-burke-2013-halo-field-first, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Burke, Gauthier, Rouleau & Persinger 2013), Arduino-driven toroid ('halo')

Burke, Gauthier, Rouleau & Persinger 2013: in two pairs 300 km apart, each person wearing a ring coil ('halo') above the ears, the stimulus partner received six 30-s sound and light trains first with a shared rotating field, then without it (230 points, delays shortening from 20 to 8 ms in 2-ms steps). Persinger's lab reported sLORETA changes in the distant response partners only with the field and only for the sounds.

Setting: Stimulus partner: seated, helmet on, receiving the six 30-s trains (sound at 6, 8 and 15 Hz, light at 7, 10 and 40 Hz), one per minute from the start of each phase, in a different order in the two phases. Response partner: elsewhere, second helmet running this program, EEG recorded throughout by someone who does not know which train is playing or which phase has the field.

Schedule: One session per pair; run half of the pairs with persinger-burke-2013-halo.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Verified from the paper: 4 people (stimulus partners in Timmins, response partners in Sudbury, Ontario); 3 audio (6, 8, 15 Hz) and 3 light (7, 10, 40 Hz) trains from an iPhone 4, 30 s on and 30 s off, the no-field sequence using the same six in another order; the response partners' 19-channel QEEG recorded throughout by investigators not told which stimulus was playing; each halo 225 turns of 16-gauge wire on a 25.4-cm ring "just above the dorsal ear", driven by an Arduino Uno with "230 amplitude-modulated points (333 Hz, 1.45 Hz cycle)", about 1 uT, "phase modulated in 2 ms increments (20 ms delay to 8 ms delay) such that an increase in angular velocity occurred"; field and no-field order counterbalanced across the two pairs (persinger-burke-2013-halo runs the other order). This helmet has no toroid: its eight coils point into the head, while a toroid's field runs around the ring, so the field geometry is not reproduced. How the Arduino combined the 230 points with the delays is not described; here the seven delays (20, 18 ... 8 ms) become the time on each coil of a counter-clockwise ring rotation, as in the lab's 8-solenoid rings, whose "angular velocity" language the paper keeps; with seven delays on eight coils, the 20-ms step falls one coil earlier on each pass (Fp1, then Fp2, then FT8 ...). The 230 point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst stands in, 230 points of 3 ms repeated back to back (690 ms, 1.45 Hz). Ring sites Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2. Both partners' helmets run this program; the lab kept time by cell phone and synchronised stopwatches. Light flashes can trigger seizures in susceptible people. n = 4; many sLORETA voxel and band comparisons reported at p < 0.001 with no correction described; later papers give the distance as 400 km; published in JCER; never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Do not use results for decisions about real people. Nobody with epilepsy, a seizure history or photosensitivity should take part in either role.

Aims at: left-dlpfc, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, lateral-orbitofrontal-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Burke, Gauthier, Rouleau & Persinger 2013, Experimental demonstration of potential entanglement of brain activity over 300 km ..., J Conscious Explor Res 4(1):35-44; Rouleau & Persinger 2015, J Electromagn Anal Appl 7(2) (later description of the toroid protocol, 400 km); Scott et al. 2015, J Conscious Explor Res 6(9):658-684 (toroid build: 225 turns on a 25.4-cm ring); Dotta & Persinger 2012, "Doubling" of local photon emissions when two simultaneous, spatially-separated, chemiluminescent reactions share the same magnetic field configurations, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (859- and 230-point patterns at 1 ms; primer/effector order); Juden-Kelly, Dotta, Vares & Persinger 2015, JCER 6(9):728-737 (Burst-X: 230 points); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file); Persinger & Lavallee 2010, Theoretical and experimental evidence of macroscopic entanglement between human brain activity and photon emissions, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-burke-2013-halo, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Burke, Gauthier, Rouleau & Persinger 2013), Arduino-driven toroid ('halo')

Burke, Gauthier, Rouleau & Persinger 2013: in two pairs 300 km apart, each person wearing a ring coil ('halo') above the ears, the stimulus partner received six 30-s sound and light trains first without the field, then with a shared rotating field (230 points, delays shortening from 20 to 8 ms in 2-ms steps). Persinger's lab reported sLORETA changes in the distant response partners only with the field and only for the sounds.

Setting: Stimulus partner: seated, helmet on, receiving the six 30-s trains (sound at 6, 8 and 15 Hz, light at 7, 10 and 40 Hz), one per minute from the start of each phase, in a different order in the two phases. Response partner: elsewhere, second helmet running this program, EEG recorded throughout by someone who does not know which train is playing or which phase has the field.

Schedule: One session per pair; run half of the pairs with persinger-burke-2013-halo-field-first.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Verified from the paper: 4 people (stimulus partners in Timmins, response partners in Sudbury, Ontario); 3 audio (6, 8, 15 Hz) and 3 light (7, 10, 40 Hz) trains from an iPhone 4, 30 s on and 30 s off, the no-field sequence using the same six in another order; the response partners' 19-channel QEEG recorded throughout by investigators not told which stimulus was playing; each halo 225 turns of 16-gauge wire on a 25.4-cm ring "just above the dorsal ear", driven by an Arduino Uno with "230 amplitude-modulated points (333 Hz, 1.45 Hz cycle)", about 1 uT, "phase modulated in 2 ms increments (20 ms delay to 8 ms delay) such that an increase in angular velocity occurred"; field and no-field order counterbalanced across the two pairs (persinger-burke-2013-halo-field-first runs the other order). This helmet has no toroid: its eight coils point into the head, while a toroid's field runs around the ring, so the field geometry is not reproduced. How the Arduino combined the 230 points with the delays is not described; here the seven delays (20, 18 ... 8 ms) become the time on each coil of a counter-clockwise ring rotation, as in the lab's 8-solenoid rings, whose "angular velocity" language the paper keeps; with seven delays on eight coils, the 20-ms step falls one coil earlier on each pass (Fp1, then Fp2, then FT8 ...). The 230 point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst stands in, 230 points of 3 ms repeated back to back (690 ms, 1.45 Hz). Ring sites Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2. Both partners' helmets run this program; the lab kept time by cell phone and synchronised stopwatches. Light flashes can trigger seizures in susceptible people. n = 4; many sLORETA voxel and band comparisons reported at p < 0.001 with no correction described; later papers give the distance as 400 km; published in JCER; never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Do not use results for decisions about real people. Nobody with epilepsy, a seizure history or photosensitivity should take part in either role.

Aims at: left-dlpfc, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, lateral-orbitofrontal-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Burke, Gauthier, Rouleau & Persinger 2013, Experimental demonstration of potential entanglement of brain activity over 300 km ..., J Conscious Explor Res 4(1):35-44; Rouleau & Persinger 2015, J Electromagn Anal Appl 7(2) (later description of the toroid protocol, 400 km); Scott et al. 2015, J Conscious Explor Res 6(9):658-684 (toroid build: 225 turns on a 25.4-cm ring); Dotta & Persinger 2012, "Doubling" of local photon emissions when two simultaneous, spatially-separated, chemiluminescent reactions share the same magnetic field configurations, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (859- and 230-point patterns at 1 ms; primer/effector order); Juden-Kelly, Dotta, Vares & Persinger 2015, JCER 6(9):728-737 (Burst-X: 230 points); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file); Persinger & Lavallee 2010, Theoretical and experimental evidence of macroscopic entanglement between human brain activity and photon emissions, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-harribance-ltp-20s, layout: custom, Persinger & Koren lab (Laurentian University), later Koren Helmet trials with the psychic Sean Harribance, reported in Persinger 2010

A later Harribance series from Persinger's lab: the same LTP pattern at equal strength on both sides over the parietotemporal regions, stepping around the four coil pairs once every 20 s instead of every 2 s, here alternated with no-field blocks. Persinger reported that it cut Harribance's alpha rhythm to 25-30% of baseline and the rated accuracy of his readings by about 20% (one subject).

Setting: Seated, eyes closed or blindfolded, in a quiet, dark room. In each block, describe a hidden photograph that someone else picked at random, and have a third person rate the descriptions against the photographs without knowing which blocks had the field (use the app's Blind option).

Schedule: Several trials with one subject in the original; their number and spacing are not given.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 C5, CH3 CP5, CH4 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 C6, CH7 CP6, CH8 TP8

Persinger 2010 (p. 454) reports that in several later trials the same LTP pattern, applied at equal strength over both parietotemporal regions with one complete rotation taking 20 s instead of 2 s, lowered his alpha rhythm to 25-30% of baseline and his accuracy, as rated by others, by about 20%. The number and length of trials are not given, so this program alternates three 5-min no-field and LTP blocks (an assumption) so field and no-field periods can be compared. Persinger 2010 describes the Koren Helmet as four pairs of solenoids "arranged in an elliptical pattern at the level of temporoparietal region", fed by a commutator that sends the pattern to each of the four pairs in turn (0.5 s each in the first series); Persinger & Murphy 2016 add that one solenoid on the left and one on the right are on at any moment. The fields were "weak (1 uT)". Here each side carries four coils on a small ellipse over the temporoparietal region (T7, C5, CP5, TP7 and T8, C6, CP6, TP8), stepped in mirror image; the exact positions and stepping order are not published. Equal strength on both sides, 5 s per pair. LTP is described as "a single pulse followed about 170 msec later by 4 pulses in rapid succession with a functional frequency of between 100 and 200 Hz"; it is built as 1-ms positive pulses at 0, 170, 175, 180 and 185 ms, repeating every 200 ms. The repetition rate is not given; 5 per second follows the lab's "1 s pulse of 5 trains" LTP field (Delparte & Persinger 2007). The 200-Hz spacing (the top of the stated range, which keeps the next primer 15 ms clear of the burst), the polarity, the 1-ms points and the repetition rate are assumptions; the project's primed generator instead uses the 150-ms primer interval of a later Shiva LTP file (Corradini 2014) with 100-Hz pulses. The "Harribance configuration" of Persinger & Saroka 2012 is his own digitised EEG and is not part of this program. One subject, unblinded, a reported reduction rather than a gain; it is most useful as a comparison condition for persinger-harribance-koren-2s. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: right-tpj, left-tpj, right-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger 2010, The Harribance effect as pervasive out-of-body experiences, NeuroQuantology 8(4):444-465, pp. 448-449 and 454; Persinger & Murphy 2016, Neuroscience & Medicine 7:27-44 (Koren Helmet: four left-right solenoid pairs, 0.5 s each, 2-s cycle); Persinger & Saroka 2012, Protracted parahippocampal activity associated with Sean Harribance, Int J Yoga 5:140-145; Delparte & Persinger 2007, Int J Neurosci 117:295-299 (LTP field as "1 s pulse of 5 trains"); Corradini 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University (primed-burst LTP file); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-lehman-2016-gamer-pairs, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Lehman 2016, MSc thesis, ch. 4), 8-solenoid circumcerebral ring

Lehman's 22-min gamer-pair session: 4 min without field, 6 min of the Thomas pulse rotated counter-clockwise on an accelerating schedule (20, 18 ... 6 ms per coil), 8 min of the Burst-X pattern on a decelerating schedule (20, 22 ... 34 ms), then 4 min without field, in step with 2-min video-game runs. Persinger's lab used it to look for "excess correlation" between the scores of two players 10 m apart sharing the same field.

Setting: Two players, each wearing a helmet running this program, started together (the original drove both rings from one Intel 286 computer). Each sits with a laptop on the lap, facing north or south, one in a shielded acoustic chamber (Faraday cage) and one in a darkened room 10 m away, playing Super Hexagon on "hard". An assistant calls a new run every 2 min (every 30 s for novices); the player calls out the run time after each death and forces a death at 2 min.

Schedule: One 22-min session per trial (pairs ran 1-4 trials). Lehman's control pairs played the same session with no field; for a self-test use the app's Blind option and fix the comparison in advance.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Thesis structure: 11 two-minute runs of the game Super Hexagon (2 baseline, 3 "accelerating", 4 "decelerating", 2 baseline). The methods name only accelerating and decelerating runs; Lehman's run labels (T1 first, B4 last), his discussion (the Thomas "primer" inside an accelerating angular velocity, then the "effector" inside a decelerating one) and the identical scheme of Juden-Kelly et al. 2015 put the Thomas pulse in the accelerating rotation "20+2" (20, 18 ... 6 ms per solenoid) and Burst-X in the decelerating "20-2" (20, 22 ... 34 ms; 216 ms, 4.6 turns/s). Coil 1 sits over the left prefrontal region, counter-clockwise seen from above: Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2 (an inference; the thesis names no electrode sites). Points last 1 ms, the timebase of the lab system and the value in Juden-Kelly 2015 and Dotta & Persinger 2012, whose method Lehman cites; the patterns repeat back to back (no interval is given). Thomas: the exact 849-point patent table (Juden-Kelly gives 839 points). Burst-X: 230 points (Juden-Kelly) whose values were never published, approximated by the built-in accelerating burst, the 6-30 Hz stand-in for the 3-ms version replayed at 1 ms (18-90 Hz). The field was 1-5 uT inside each solenoid, 1-2 uT on average; 1.5 uT here. Lehman (7 men) found no field vs no-field difference in raw or z-scored run times for all players combined; experienced players in the field group scored higher during Burst-X (F(3,32) = 4.58, p = .01) but also lower in the pre-field baseline, before any field was on, and his abstract says the pairs' correlation "was diminished" when the fields were on. Thesis data, tiny sample, never replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Sources:Lehman 2016, Interaction between virtual (computer gaming) environments, brain activity, and the Schumann resonance as the next evolutionary step in adaptation: Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere, MSc thesis (Biology), Laurentian University, ch. 4; Juden-Kelly, Dotta, Vares & Persinger 2015, J Conscious Explor Res 6(9):728-737 (Thomas primer at 20+2, Burst-X effector at 20-2, 1-ms points); Dotta & Persinger 2012, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse values); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-siblings-2003-stimulus, layout: custom, Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003 (Laurentian University), circumcerebral "Octopus" ring; pattern table from the follow-up with strangers (Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008)

The helmet program for the stimulus person in Persinger's paired-sibling study: six circumcerebral patterns of 5 min each, rotated counter-clockwise, while this person imagines being with the partner, who sits unexposed with EEG in another room. Persinger's lab reported more 5-6 Hz EEG power in the partner during one of the patterns (four sibling pairs).

Setting: Stimulus person: seated, eyes closed or blindfolded, in a closed, quiet room (the lab used a Faraday cage), imagining being in the other room with the partner and touching him or her. Partner: blindfolded in another room 5 or 10 m away, with 8-channel EEG over the frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital lobes (for example F7, F8, T7, T8, P3, P4, O1, O2); a 20-s baseline, then a 20-s sample during each pattern, scored by someone who does not know which pattern ran.

Schedule: Siblings: two sessions a week apart. Strangers (2008): first meet for 1 h twice a week for 4 weeks.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Only the stimulus person wears the helmet; the partner (response person) wears EEG electrodes, blindfolded, 5 or 10 m away in another room. The 2003 abstract names the effective pattern "100 msec. with changes in rate of 20 msec." and Persinger & Lavallee 2010 call it "20+2"; both match rows of the lab's six-pattern battery. The table used here is Table 1 of Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008, whose stranger pairs went through the sibling study's procedures (Persinger & Lavallee 2010). The project could not open that paper, so the table comes secondhand and is unverified; the verified Table 1 of the Swann paper (persinger-swann-2002-table1) differs in BF2's 1-ms gap, FM2's 1-ms points and FM1's sign (+2 there, while this table reportedly prints -2). This program plays the table in its order, 5 min each (in 2008 half the stimulus persons got the reverse order): BF1 1 ms / 1 ms / 20 ms / +2, BF2 1 / 2 / 100 / +20, BF3 3 / 3000 / 200 / -2, FM1 1 / 1 / 20 / -2, FM2 2 / 1 / 100 / +20, FM3 3 / 3000 / 200 / -2 (point duration / gap between pattern repeats / time on coil 1 / change per coil). FM1 is played as printed. The signs are read literally, + longer and - shorter at each next coil: BF1 runs 20 to 34 ms, the +20 rows 100 to 240 ms, the 200-ms rows 200 to 186 ms and FM1 20 to 6 ms, which is what the same paper's results ("20 msec (+2 msec)") mean in the lab's later notation. Persinger & Lavallee 2010 use "+" to mean shorter, which would give 20 to 6 ms for BF1, 20 to 34 ms for FM1 and 200 to 214 ms for the 200-ms rows; the literal reading was chosen because the +20 rows cannot shorten seven times from 100 ms, Cook 1999's full turns of about 200 to 2000 ms fit it better (216 ms per turn at 20 to 34 ms, 104 ms at 20 to 6 ms), and the Koren software patent (US 6,312,376) uses the plain sign. The schedule the lab actually ran was never published. Ring: eight coils 45 degrees apart on the 10% line, coil 1 over the left frontal region, coil 2 at the left fronto-temporal junction and coil 8 over the right prefrontal region, counter-clockwise seen from above (Persinger & Lavallee 2010): Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2, an inference since the lab names no electrode sites. The Thomas (frequency-modulated) pulse plays from its exact 849-point table; the burst-firing point values were never published, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in (230 points, 6 -> 30 Hz at 3 ms per point and three times faster at 1 ms). Intensity "1 microTesla range" (2003). As reported: in the siblings, 5.0-6.0 Hz power rose over the partner's frontal and occipital lobes during one pattern (the 2010 retelling says right parietal, with left-sided sensed presences); in four pairs of strangers who had first met for 1 h twice a week for 4 weeks, theta rose mainly over the partners' temporal lobes, slightly more on the right, with the 20+2 field, and the partners reported sensed presences, anger and sexual arousal (2008, as retold by Persinger & Lavallee 2010). Four pairs per study, no sham condition described, no documented blinding of the field schedule, and the papers disagree on which pattern and which lobes: treat it as an unreplicated psi claim. It plays the same six fields as persinger-six-config-battery-2008 (one person, 5 uT) and differs from telepathy-sender (a reconstruction after Murphy's Shiva sessions). Both partners must know about and agree to the experiment; stop if either becomes distressed. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: lateral-orbitofrontal-cortex, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Enhanced power within a specific band of theta activity in one person while another receives circumcerebral pulsed magnetic fields, Percept Mot Skills 97:877-894; Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008, Enhanced power within a predicted narrow band of theta activity during stimulation of another by circumcerebral weak magnetic fields after weekly spatial proximity, NeuroQuantology 6(1):7-21 (Table 1, six patterns; not re-checked); Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:927-949 (verified Table 1 of the same battery); Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (the "20+2" notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal; sibling study retold); Richards, Koren & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:671-686; Lehman 2016, MSc thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 56-57 ("20-2" = 20, 22 ... 34 ms; counter-clockwise standard); Koren & Persinger, US 6,312,376 B1 (sequence interval and sequence acceleration); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms, 2.55 s per cycle); Dotta & Persinger 2012, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (230-point increasing-frequency pattern at 1 ms); Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61-64; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-paranormal-shakti-onsite-hippocampus, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Paranormal Shakti software, retired)

The on-site hippocampus session of Murphy's retired Paranormal Shakti (about 2012-2015), which the vendor offered to investigators for 'intuitive perceptions' at a site: 30 min of the hippocampal signal alternating between the two stereo channels of a 4-coil cross on each temporal lobe.

Setting: On site during an investigation, at a time of geomagnetic quiet (vendor).

Schedule: Vendor: after 6 temporal sessions, do 3 frontal ones (murphy-paranormal-shakti-frontal), but not in the 3 days before an investigation, because it says the frontal session lowers sensitivity. The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Coils form a cross on each temporal lobe: FT7 (front), C5 (top), TP7 (back) and T9 (bottom) on the left, FT8, C6, TP8 and T10 on the right; the sites are an inference from the vendor's description. Following 'begin with the left channel vertical and the right channel horizontal', track 1 (the left stereo channel) drives the top and bottom coils (C5, T9, C6, T10) and track 2 (the right channel) the front and back coils (FT7, TP7, FT8, TP8). The signal alternates between the two groups slowly, one whole signal per switch with about 4 s of silence in between; the Paranormal Shakti pages give no alternation speed, and the 8 Coil Shakti's 'fast' mode (a switch every half-second), which its pages say 'emerged as the most effective' in the original developers' lab tests, is not used. Polarity follows the 8 Coil Shakti coil chart (the Paranormal Shakti pages do not repeat it): each pair is one + and one - coil, so C5 (top) and FT7 (front) on the left and T10 (bottom) and TP8 (back) on the right get the reversed signal (weight -1), while T9, TP7, C6 and FT8 get it as is. The hippocampal ('LTP') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the point table of the project's other 8 Coil Shakti hippocampal sessions: four theta bursts, each of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (about 110 Hz, the nearest the Shakti's 3-ms points allow to the 100 Hz of Larson & Lynch's theta bursts), one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), 0.74 s per train. The vendor also describes the cross 'raised up' above the temporo-parietal region. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users of an earlier version of its signals, mostly with hippocampal signals, and advises lowering the intensity by one-third if it happens. Experiences during or after such a session are not evidence about the site. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The product is retired; this file is of historical interest. Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once on fear or distress.

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: on-site sessions (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: hippocampus session (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: the procedure (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: frontal lobe session (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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military-p06-persinger-swann-1998, layout: custom, Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook (Laurentian University), using the lab's standard circumcerebral protocol (Cook et al. 1999); given once to the former SRI remote viewer Ingo Swann during his 11-14 August 1998 lab visit

The 30-min exposure that Persinger's lab gave Ingo Swann before his remote-viewing trials: six 5-min counter-clockwise rotations around the head, three with a burst-firing pattern and three with the frequency-modulated 'Thomas' pattern, using the point durations, gaps and per-coil step times of the paper's Table 1. Persinger et al. (2002) report that the fields altered Swann's experiences; this is one subject in one lab.

Setting: Blindfolded, in a comfortable chair in a quiet, dark room (Swann sat in an acoustic chamber and his reports were recorded by lapel microphone). Remote-viewing trials followed on later days: 4-6 hidden targets per session, about 2-3 min of drawing each, with EEG at F7, F8, T7, T8, O1 and O2.

Schedule: One exposure in the original, with remote-viewing trials on the following days. For a self-test, randomise active and sham sessions blind and have the trials judged blind.

Coils: CH1 Fpz, CH2 F7, CH3 T7, CH4 P7, CH5 Oz, CH6 P8, CH7 T8, CH8 F8

Persinger et al. (2002) placed eight equally spaced solenoids in the horizontal plane 'between the midforehead and above the ears'; the ring Fpz, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, F8 approximates it (the lab plane may sit slightly higher above the ears). The field steps counter-clockwise seen from above, one coil at a time with abrupt switching, in six configurations of 5 min (B1-B3 burst-firing, T1-T3 Thomas). Table 1 is mapped as follows: pixel duration = time per point; interstimulus time = silence after each pattern; commutator rate = dwell on the first coil; change in rate = added at each following coil of a rotation, which then starts again. Tsang et al. (2004) describe the same lab's change as applied to each of the other 7 solenoids but, like Persinger & Lavallee (2010), use '+' to mean shorter, which would give 20 to 6 ms and 200 to 214 ms here. The signs are read literally instead (+ longer, - shorter), giving 20 to 34 ms, 100 to 240 ms and 200 down to 186 ms per coil, because 100 ms minus 7 x 20 ms would be negative, Cook et al. (1999), the standard protocol the paper cites, report full turns of about 200 to 2000 ms (216 ms per turn here, 104 ms for 20 to 6 ms), and the Koren software patent (US 6,312,376) uses the plain sign. The schedule the lab actually ran was never published, so this mapping is an interpretation. Configuration 6's pixel duration is missing in the scan and is taken as 1 ms. The burst-firing and Thomas point files are not published, so built-ins stand in for them, keeping the published point counts: an accelerating burst of 230 points (Ryczko & Persinger 2002) sweeping 6 to 30 Hz at 3 ms per point (690 ms), and the built-in decelerating Thomas sweep, 25 to 6 Hz over 837 points (Dixon & Persinger 2001) at 3 ms per point (2511 ms). At 1 ms per point the same points play three times faster (230 ms at 18 to 90 Hz; 837 ms at 75 to 18 Hz), as a shorter pixel duration does with a fixed point file. The Lawson Cnp table (cnp generator; US 6,234,953, Persinger co-inventor) is another candidate for the Thomas pattern, but the research did not confirm it was the file used. The paper gives 2-5 uT, so the default is the low end, 2 uT; do not go above 5 uT. Persinger's lab reported that Swann felt 'floating in and out of his body' during configuration 4, and pressure in his ear with a marked suppression of his usual remote-viewing imagery during configuration 5. They also reported that his accuracy in trials on later days correlated with occipital 7 Hz spike-and-slow-wave activity. These are one subject, an unblinded exposure and post-hoc correlations, with no independent replication. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The remote-viewing trials are left out of this file; run them blind with the app's photo-target trial guide, with a blinded sham session for comparison. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop on headache, nausea or dissociation. Do not use results for decisions about real people, places or money.

Aims at: primary-visual-cortex, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann, Percept Mot Skills 94:927-949 (full text scan) [2]; Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61; Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2004, Int J Neurosci 114:1183; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87; Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26; CIA, SRI Studies in Remote Viewing: A Program Review; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 ("20+2" notation); Koren & Persinger, US 6,312,376 B1 (sequence interval and sequence acceleration); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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remote-viewing, layout: Circumcerebral ring ("Octopus"), Todd Murphy (his description of the psi signal and timing of Persinger's circumcerebral 'Octopus' and his Shiva replica); ring placement after the Persinger-lab Octopus

Murphy's psi configuration for the circumcerebral Shiva/Octopus: the chirp signal, which he chose for psi, rotating counter-clockwise around an eight-coil ring with the time over each coil growing 10, 12 ... 20 ms and then starting again (about 8 turns a second), for 30 min. It is not the session Persinger's lab gave Ingo Swann; follow it with a blinded trial in the Trials tab.

Setting: Blindfolded, seated or reclined in a quiet room; Murphy says daydreaming is better than meditating during Shiva sessions. For perception during the session he advises geomagnetic quiet (K 0-2); for skill training, run it at K 4 and practise a few days later. Swann's later trials used 4-6 hidden targets per session with about 2-3 min of drawing each.

Schedule: At most weekly (Murphy's rule for Shiva sessions); six sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fpz, CH2 F7, CH3 T7, CH4 P7, CH5 Oz, CH6 P8, CH7 T8, CH8 F8

Murphy's lecture gives the steps as 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 ms "with the length of time over each area increasing", and the Shiva pages say the speed changes by a few milliseconds from one coil pair to the next, "usually around 9 times per second"; here the dwell grows by 2 ms at every coil (one turn about 0.11-0.12 s). No Shiva dwell table is published, so the exact steps are an inference. The ring Fpz, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, F8 approximates the lab Octopus, eight solenoids in the plane between the mid-forehead and above the ears, stepping counter-clockwise seen from above (front to back on the left, back to front on the right). Murphy's Shiva instead starts over the left frontal area and avoids coils over the nose, the inion and directly above the ears (about Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; the site names are an inference); to copy it, use a custom placement with those sites in that order. The Shiva "modulated 40 Hz chirp" is proprietary, and Murphy describes it two ways: his lab-sessions page says it "does not change in tone, but rather has longer and longer gaps between sections of the signal as they travel around your head", while his chirp page shows a classical chirp whose frequency gets lower. It is approximated by a sweep falling from 40 to 6 Hz on 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off. Murphy advises using the chirp on its own only after other Shiva sessions. 30 min is one of the Shiva session lengths (20, 30 or 60 min). Corrected: Persinger's lab gave Swann (Persinger et al. 2002, Table 1, read from a scan) one 30-min session of six 5-min configurations, three burst-firing and three frequency-modulated (Thomas), rotated counter-clockwise at 2-5 uT, with 20, 100 and 200 ms on the first coil and changes of +2, +20 and -2 ms per coil (signs as printed; their direction is ambiguous), 1- or 3-ms points and 1-ms or 3-s gaps between repeats; the remote-viewing trials came on later days. persinger-swann-2002-table1 runs that table. Murphy writes that Swann's clear remote viewing came during the final phase. Swann's accuracy correlated with occipital 7-Hz spike-and-slow-wave activity (rho = .50; one subject, no sham), and the paper does not test whether the fields changed accuracy; Murphy places psi in right-hemisphere hippocampal theta. The Octopus psi results have no independent replication, and independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Don't use results for decisions about real people, places or money. Not for people with epilepsy; stop on distress.

Aims at: primary-visual-cortex, right-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Psychic Skills lecture [2] [3]; Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz binding factor; Murphy, Shiva Neural System for psychic skills (basic explanation); Murphy, Shiva coil locations; Murphy, Staying safe with Shiva; Murphy, Shiva chirp signal (a classical chirp whose frequency falls); Murphy, Shiva: sessions used in lab experiments (Published Studies session; the chirp "does not change in tone"); Murphy, Shiva and the Earth's magnetic field; Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann, Percept Mot Skills 94:927-949 (Table 1: six circumcerebral configurations) (full-text scan) [2]; AIR 1995, An evaluation of remote viewing (Utts appendix: SRI/SAIC blind rank-order judging); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-scott-2015-transatlantic, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Scott, Rouleau, Lehman, Tessaro, Juden-Kelly, Saroka & Persinger 2015), Arduino-driven toroid

The 42-min send/receive paradigm of Scott et al. 2015: from minute 11, a 6-min primer of seven 3-ms pulses whose gaps lengthen from 20 to 32 ms, then a 14-min effector whose gaps shorten from 20 to 6 ms, stepped counter-clockwise around the head. Persinger's lab reported excess correlation of right-hemisphere theta-gamma power between five pairs of people more than 6000 km apart during the effector.

Setting: Both partners wear a helmet running this program, started within 1 s of each other (the original pairs began at agreed UTC times, 16:00-19:00 UTC in June 2015). Each sits still in a comfortable chair, eyes closed except for the eyes-open baselines. Cues come from a separate player, not the helmet: at each 1-min rest one partner hears a 220 Hz tone pulsed at 6.5 Hz and the other a single tone then silence (swapped every trial); then 2 min "send" and 2 min "receive" (imagine sending or receiving white light), Group A sending first while Group B receives. Both filled in the Profile of Mood States before and after.

Schedule: One session per pair in the original. For a self-test, decide the EEG comparison in advance and also run a blinded sham session (the app's Blind option) on another day.

Coils: CH1 Fpz, CH2 F7, CH3 T7, CH4 P7, CH5 Oz, CH6 P8, CH7 T8, CH8 F8

Timeline (22 segments): 3 min eyes open, 3 min eyes closed, six trials of 1 min rest, 2 min send/receive and 2 min receive/send, then 3 min eyes closed and 3 min eyes open. The field runs from minute 11 to 31 (trial 2 under the primer, trials 3-5 under the effector) and starts and stops abruptly. The original was one toroid per head (a 25.4-cm ring wound with 225 turns of 16-gauge wire, held by an elastic cap) pulsed by an Arduino Uno, so every pulse reached the whole ring at once, and a toroid's field runs around the ring while these coils point into the head: the field geometry is not reproduced. Here each 3-ms pulse steps to the next of eight coils on the 10 % ring (Fpz, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, F8), counter-clockwise seen from above, an inference from the lab's "rotating field" wording; a toroid has no first coil, and to pulse all coils at once change "rotate" to "bilateral". Primer: the paper's 7 pulses with gaps of 20, 22 ... 32 ms (203 ms), so the gap ramp restarts every 7 coils. Effector: the paper says only that the same pulses follow gaps starting at 20 ms and falling by 2 ms per pulse; the 128-ms cycle Rouleau & Persinger 2015 measured on the same toroid system fits 8 pulses down to 6 ms (one per coil, used here), while 7 pulses down to 8 ms (119 ms) is the other reading. Pulses are unipolar 5-V steps, as from the Arduino. The field averaged 30 nT (0.3 mG), the intensity the lab found most effective in its pH studies; 0.1 uT at 20 mm is the app's lowest setting. Five pairs, a very large set of EEG comparisons (19 x 19 channels, 8 bands, 22 segments), no pre-registration, published in JCER; no independent replication of any excess-correlation result exists. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole (field on the brain)

Sources:Scott, Rouleau, Lehman, Tessaro, Juden-Kelly, Saroka & Persinger 2015, Experimental production of excess correlation across the Atlantic Ocean of right hemispheric theta-gamma power between subject pairs sharing circumcerebral rotating magnetic fields (Part I), J Conscious Explor Res 6(9):658-684; Rouleau, Koren & Persinger 2015, J Conscious Explor Res 6(9):708-715 (effect 20-30 s after effector onset); Rouleau & Persinger 2015, J Electromagn Anal Appl 7(2) (toroid; 203- and 128-ms cycles); Rouleau, Carniello & Persinger 2014, J Biophys Chem 5:44-53; Karbowski 2017, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, ch. 10 (pulse notation "p, 20 ms ... p, 6 ms"); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-psi-rv-untested, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software; extrapolation from Persinger-lab papers)

Murphy's proposed Shakti design for telepathy: the modulated 40 Hz signal over both frontal lobes for 20 min, then over both occipital lobes for 20 min. He bases it on reported 15-25 ms front-to-back phase shifts in brain waves and writes that 'none of the procedures described on this page have been tested yet'.

Setting: Practise telepathy or remote-viewing exercises (Murphy). For a fair test, judge results blind, e.g. with the app's Photo-target trial guide.

Schedule: The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 F3, CH3 PO3, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 PO4, CH7 F4, CH8 Fp2

Phase 1 drives four frontal coils (Fp1, F3, Fp2, F4) and phase 2 four occipital coils above the bony ridge at the back of the head (O1, PO3, O2, PO4); all coils of a group carry the same signal, and the switch is abrupt. The exact sites are an inference from 'applied first over the frontal lobes, followed by the occipital lobes'. The Shakti's modulated 40 Hz file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in phase-modulated sine (a 40 Hz carrier drifting between about 38.5 and 41.5 Hz every 2 s, 1-ms points). The vendor calibrates its modulated 40 Hz signal at 10 mG (1 µT), the default here. Murphy's design moves the signal from front to back once, between phases; a front-to-back sweep in 15-25 ms steps would be a project construct and is not used. He also names the right occipito-temporo-parietal region and the right frontal, right occipital and right temporal lobes as candidate sites. The occipital-only remote-viewing design is murphy-shakti-psi-rv-untested-occipital. Persinger's lab reported that Ingo Swann's remote-viewing accuracy tracked occipital 7 Hz activity (Persinger et al. 2002, one subject) and telepathy-like EEG changes in paired subjects (Persinger et al. 2003, 2010); none has been independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The vendor notes that occipital stimulation could in principle blur vision: stop if your sight changes. Do not use results for decisions about real people, places or money. Not for people with epilepsy; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc, vmpfc, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Psychic skills; Murphy, Shakti demo: Remote viewing; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal (10 mG calibration); Persinger et al. 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:927 (remote viewing with Ingo Swann); Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:877; Persinger et al. 2010, Neurosci Lett 486:231; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-psi-rv-untested-occipital, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software; extrapolation from Persinger-lab papers)

Murphy's proposed Shakti design for remote viewing: the modulated 40 Hz signal over both occipital lobes, just above the bony ridge at the back of the head, for 20 min. He links it to the occipital 7 Hz activity Persinger's lab reported in the remote viewer Ingo Swann, and writes that the procedures on his page have not been tested.

Setting: Practise remote-viewing exercises (Murphy). For a fair test, judge results blind, e.g. with the app's Photo-target trial guide.

Schedule: The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 O1, CH2 PO3, CH5 O2, CH6 PO4

Four coils over the occipital lobes, above the bony ridge (O1, PO3, O2, PO4), all with the same signal; the sites are an inference from 'application of the modulated 40hz signal over the occipital lobes'. The other four channels stay unused. The Shakti's modulated 40 Hz file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in phase-modulated sine (a 40 Hz carrier drifting between about 38.5 and 41.5 Hz every 2 s, 1-ms points). The vendor calibrates its modulated 40 Hz signal at 10 mG (1 µT), the default here. Murphy also names the right occipito-temporo-parietal region and the right frontal, right occipital and right temporal lobes as candidate sites. The two-phase psychic design (frontal, then occipital) is murphy-shakti-psi-rv-untested. Persinger's lab reported that Swann's accuracy tracked occipital 7 Hz activity during a 30-min circumcerebral exposure (Persinger et al. 2002, one subject, one lab); it has not been independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The vendor notes that occipital stimulation could in principle blur vision: stop if your sight changes. Do not use results for decisions about real people, places or money. Not for people with epilepsy; stop on distress.

Aims at: primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Remote viewing; Murphy, Shakti demo: Psychic skills; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal (10 mG calibration); Persinger et al. 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:927 (remote viewing with Ingo Swann); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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persinger-shared-memory-2002, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Persinger, Cook & Tiller 2002; Booth, Charette & Persinger 2002)

A reconstruction of what the field-exposed partner received in two 2002 Persinger-lab studies of emotionally related pairs: six counter-clockwise circumcerebral patterns (here the lab's burst-firing and Thomas battery of the same year, 5 min each) while the other partner, in another room, wrote about a randomly chosen stimulus. Persinger's lab reported significant blind matching of the partners' texts for 5 of 7 analysable pairs and accuracy that varied with geomagnetic activity.

Setting: Exposed partner: seated and blindfolded with the helmet in a quiet, dark room. Other partner: a separate room, no helmet, writing the memories evoked by one of five postcards that someone else picked at random. Afterwards the cards are ranked (Booth et al.) or the two texts matched by judges who do not know the card (Persinger et al.). Log the planetary K index for the session time, as the lab did.

Schedule: One session per pair in the originals. For a self-test, randomise field and sham sessions with the app's Blind option and fix the scoring rule in advance.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Persinger, Cook & Tiller had 44 students blind-match each exposed partner's narrative with the related partner's concurrent comments on a randomly selected stimulus (significant for 5 of 7 analysable pairs; congruence correlated rho = -.72 with geomagnetic activity over the 24 h of the session). Booth, Charette & Persinger exposed the female member of 15 emotionally involved pairs, double-blind as to field or sham, to 'six different patterns' of 'counterclockwise weak magnetic fields' while the male member wrote the memories one of five postcards evoked; ranking accuracy rose with the global K index (0-5). The abstracts give only 'temporal configurations in the order of 20 msec'. The six configurations here are Table 1 of the same lab's Swann paper of the same year (Cook and Tiller co-authored both; it calls them 'our standard protocol'), 5 min each (an assumption; 30 min in the companion studies): point duration 1, 1, 3 ms, silence between repeats 1, 1, 3000 ms, time on the first coil 20, 100, 200 ms and change per coil +2, +20, -2, for the burst-firing (B) and again the Thomas (T) rows. The signs are read literally: each next coil gets 2 ms more in the +2 rows (20 to 34 ms), 20 ms more in the +20 rows (100 to 240 ms) and 2 ms less in the -2 rows (200 to 186 ms). Persinger & Lavallee 2010 use '+' to mean shorter, which would give 20 to 6 ms and 200 to 214 ms; the literal reading was chosen because the +20 rows cannot shorten seven times from 100 ms, Cook 1999's full turns of about 200 to 2000 ms fit it better (216 ms per turn at 20 to 34 ms, 104 ms at 20 to 6 ms), and the Koren software patent (US 6,312,376) uses the plain sign. The schedule the lab actually ran was never published. The Thomas pattern is the exact 849-point patent table; the burst-firing values were never published, so the built-in accelerating burst (230 points, 6-30 Hz at 3 ms, 18-90 Hz when played at 1 ms) stands in. Coil 1 left frontal, counter-clockwise seen from above, coil 8 right prefrontal (Persinger & Lavallee 2010): Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2. The intensity is not in the abstracts; 1 uT follows the lab's paired studies (the Swann exposure used 2-5 uT). persinger-swann-2002-table1 runs the same table at 3.5 uT; persinger-six-config-battery-2008 (2008 table, 5 uT) runs a related battery. Cautions: the geomagnetic correlation runs in opposite directions in the two papers, and blind matching of free text is weak evidence. Single-lab claims, never independently replicated; independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Score blind and never use results for decisions about real people. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Cook & Tiller 2002, Enhancement of images of possible memories of others during exposure to circumcerebral magnetic fields: correlations with ambient geomagnetic activity, Percept Mot Skills 95:531-543; Booth, Charette & Persinger 2002, Ranking of stimuli that evoked memories in significant others after exposure to circumcerebral magnetic fields: correlations with ambient geomagnetic activity, Percept Mot Skills 95:555-558; Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:927-949 (Table 1, six configurations); Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (coil 1 left frontal; '20+2' notation); Koren & Persinger, US 6,312,376 B1 (sequence interval and sequence acceleration); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file); Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:877 (paired study, 1 uT range); Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61-64; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-dotta-2011-shared-photon, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Dotta, Buckner, Lafrenie & Persinger 2011), shared circumcerebral rings

The magnetic half of Dotta, Buckner, Lafrenie & Persinger 2011: two people 10 m apart wear identical eight-coil rings running four counter-clockwise field conditions (20+2, 20-2, 100+10, 100-10) while one of them watches dim 7-8 Hz light flashes in 30-s trains. Persinger's lab reported a small rise in photon emission beside the right hemisphere of the other, blindfolded partner in the dark, and one of three such partners reported seeing 'white light' in 5 of 6 flash intervals.

Setting: Partner A (light): closed, quiet room, helmet on, watching a diffuse white light of about 1 lux flashing at 7-8 Hz in 30-s trains. Partner B: blindfolded in a dark room 10 m away, second helmet running this program; the lab measured photon emission 15 cm from the right side of B's head. A test that needs no photomultiplier (a project addition): B says 'now' whenever light seems to appear and a helper logs the times; A starts the trains at irregular times from a hidden list, compared with B's log only afterwards.

Schedule: One session per pair. As a control, repeat on another day with the light covered or both helmets on sham (set by a helper, the same for both) and compare B's hit rates blind.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Verified from the abstract and Persinger & Lavallee 2010 section 3.7: response partner blindfolded in a dark room 10 m away, a photomultiplier tube 15 cm from the right hemisphere at the level of the temporal lobes; 7-8 Hz flashes of about 1 lux, 30 s on and 30 s off; field conditions of 2-5 min with base and change durations of 20+2, 20-2, 100+10 and 100-10; a net increase of about 10^-11 W/m2; 3 pairs. In the lab's notation "20+2" is 20, 18 ... 6 ms over the 8 coils, "20-2" 20, 22 ... 34 ms, "100+10" 100, 90 ... 30 ms and "100-10" 100, 110 ... 170 ms. The order and length of the conditions in the human study are not given: each runs 5 min here, accelerating before decelerating, as in the lab's standard primer/effector sequence (Dotta & Persinger 2012; the statement that the effect needed that order comes from its chemistry and cell work, not from this human study). The waveforms are inferred from that sequence: the accelerating conditions carry the decreasing-frequency Thomas pattern (the exact 849-point patent table; the lab's file had 859 points) and the decelerating ones the increasing-frequency burst-firing pattern (230 points, values never published, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in, 18 to 90 Hz), both at 1 ms per point as in Dotta & Persinger 2012 and repeated back to back. Ring: Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2 (coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal, within 5 degrees of the 45-degree ring). Both helmets run this program and start together (the lab drove both rings from one controller). Source cautions: photon counts of 10^-11 W/m2 are at instrument noise and any home attempt will measure light leaks; no blinding of the PMT operator is described; flashing light can trigger seizures in susceptible people. 3 pairs, single lab, never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Do not use results for decisions about real people. Nobody with epilepsy, a seizure history or photosensitivity should take part in either role.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Dotta, Buckner, Lafrenie & Persinger 2011, Brain Res 1388:77-88; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, Theoretical and experimental evidence of macroscopic entanglement between human brain activity and photon emissions, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal); Dotta & Persinger 2012, "Doubling" of local photon emissions when two simultaneous, spatially-separated, chemiluminescent reactions share the same magnetic field configurations, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (859- and 230-point patterns at 1 ms; primer/effector order); Lehman 2016, PhD thesis, Laurentian University ("20-2" = 20, 22 ... 34 ms); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms); Juden-Kelly, Dotta, Vares & Persinger 2015, JCER 6(9):728-737 (Burst-X: 230 points); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-persinger-session, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva software, launcher persinger_batch); Murphy attributes the session to M.A. Persinger, but no Persinger paper describing it has been found

Murphy's Shiva session that he says Persinger 'developed for training in psi skills' and that 'enhances whatever spiritual technique a person works with': seven chirp applications with silences in between, stepping counter-clockwise around an 8-position ring, about 43 minutes.

Setting: Dark, quiet room. Murphy: 'Don't do spiritual practices or psychic exercises during Shiva Sessions ... Daydreaming is better than meditation.' For perception during the session he advises geomagnetic quiet (K 0-2).

Schedule: Weekly at most. For skill training Murphy advises running it when the K-index is 4 ('unsettled') and starting mental or psychic exercises two days later, for three days (elsewhere: practise 3-5 days after).

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

One coil per Shiva position (Shiva uses a like-polarity pair at each): the first over the left frontal area (Fp1), then FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2, stepping counter-clockwise seen from above, so front to back on the left and back to front on the right; no coils above the nose, directly above the ears or above the bony ridge at the back of the head. Murphy gives only the structure ('seven unique applications of the chirp signal with silent sections in between. The signals follow the standard counterclockwise rotation. The session is about 43 minutes long'); the 2011 version of the page (launcher persinger_batch.bat) has the same sentences without the 43-min figure, and his session-length page gives 40 to 45 min for this and the Published Studies session. No source gives the length of an application, a silence or a coil step, and no Persinger paper with a seven-application chirp batch is known, so the split into 7 x 5 min with 80-s silences is a project choice. The chirp template is proprietary. Murphy says it 'does not change in tone, but rather has longer and longer gaps between sections of the signal as they travel around your head', so a steady 40 Hz carrier is used and the coil-to-coil timing supplies the gaps; any modulation inside the original is not reproduced. The project's 'modulated 40 Hz' signal (pm) has no built-in silence, and seven blocks plus six separate silent phases would exceed the 12-phase limit, so it is not used here (the clockwise copy, murphy-shiva-retro-clockwise, uses the same timing). Each block has its own rising dwell ramp, so all seven differ (a project assignment). Blocks 1-6 step +2 ms per coil starting at 10, 12 ... 20 ms; block 1 is Murphy's lecture example, 10 to 20 ms. Block 7 uses the lab Octopus ramp of +20 ms per position, reset after the longest (20 to 160 ms; the 20-ms changes follow Richards 2002, the 20-ms start is a project choice). Murphy's speed statements disagree and Shiva's step tables are unpublished: in 2007 'around the same speed' as the 25-ms binding factor (about 5 turns a second), in the lecture an illustrative 10, 12 ... 20 ms per coil, and since 2008 'around 9 times per second', with the signal divided 'into eight segments, which change in length by a few milliseconds each time'. Blocks 1-6 here turn about 8.3 down to 5 times a second and block 7 about 1.4 times; their six-value lecture ramps restart every six coils instead of lining up with Shiva's eight segments (kept to match the project's other Shiva sessions). The lab Octopus used about 1-10 uT. The vendor says to start at 50% volume and raise it each session (up to 92%), so start low here and increase gradually. The psi and spiritual claims rest on Persinger-lab studies and testimonials, such as the Swiss DeepFocus report, a two-page testimonial by a Shiva coaching business: it reports about 400 test sessions in Germany and Switzerland, about 100 people with five or more sessions, in most cases with the Persinger Session, and asserts EEG findings without data, methods or controls (Murphy's blog calls it an independent replication; it is not one). Independent double-blind tests of Persinger-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Weekly at most; do not run it back to back with another session (a testimonial that did so says it 'wasn't advised'). Stop on distress; not for people with epilepsy. Changed in this revision: origin, page history, the speed statements and the DeepFocus description in these notes; the phases are unchanged.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-tpj, right-tpj, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Shiva demo: Sessions used in lab experiments (Persinger Session); Same page, Wayback 2011 (persinger_batch.bat, no 43-min figure); Shiva demo: Session lengths (40 to 45 min, weekly); Shiva demo: Coil locations; Shiva demo: Staying safe with Shiva (first coil left frontal, counter-clockwise); Shiva and the Earth's magnetic field; Shiva demo: Volume; Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz binding factor; Same page, Wayback 2008 ('eight segments, which change in length by a few milliseconds'); Shiva index, Wayback 2007 ('around the same speed'); Understanding Shiva Neural Stimulation ('around 9 times per second'); Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture; Shiva main page (testimonials); Richards, Koren & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:671; Shiva & 'Electronic Enlightenment', a Swiss report; Boesch, Elektronische Erleuchtung? (German original, Wayback 2011); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-published-studies, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva software, 'Published Experiment Session'), modelled on the Laurentian standard circumcerebral protocol (Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999; Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, the Ingo Swann study)

Todd Murphy's Shiva session after the six configurations of the Persinger lab's psi studies: three with the amygdala signal, then three with his modulated 40 Hz chirp, counter-clockwise around the head with quiet intervals in between, 40-45 min. The per-coil timings, point durations and gaps follow the lab's 'standard protocol' as printed in the Ingo Swann paper (Persinger et al. 2002, Table 1), the set that matches Murphy's description. Murphy calls it a good session to begin with for creating altered states.

Setting: Dark, acoustically silent room, eyes covered, seated and relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. For effects during the session Murphy recommends the highest Shiva setting (92%) in sensory deprivation, 'especially silence'; the lab subjects sat blindfolded in an acoustic chamber.

Schedule: At most once a week; never on consecutive days, and not back to back with the Persinger Session.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Murphy: 'The set of configurations used in the lab studies on psychic phenomena have six phases. The first three use the amygdala signal, and the second three use the chirp signal. There are quiet intervals between them'; the session runs 40 to 45 min and, he says, Swann 'experienced a clear remote viewing' in its final phase. The Swann paper ran 'burst-firing and frequency-modulated (Thomas)' patterns, 'three different parameters for each, a part of our standard protocol (Cook, et al., 1999)', 5 min each, counter-clockwise at 2-5 uT, one 30-min exposure, and in the final configuration (T3) Swann saw the three experimenters 'as skeletons'. Its Table 1 gives pixel (point) duration / interstimulus time / commutator rate / change in rate: B1 and T1 1/1/20/+2 ms, B2 and T2 1/1/100/+20 ms, B3 and T3 3/3000/200/-2 ms. Commutator rate is read as the time on the first coil and the change as the change at each next coil, with the plain sign as in the Koren software patent: 20 to 34, 100 to 240 and 200 to 186 ms (216, 1360 and 1544 ms per turn, inside the 'about 200 and 2000 ms' rotations of Cook 1999). The lab's later notation reads '+2' as 2 ms shorter (20 to 6 and 200 to 214 ms; B1 would then take 104 ms per turn). persinger-swann-2002-table1 is the lab version of this session: the same timings and sign reading, without quiet intervals, with the exact Thomas table and the lab's 2-5 uT. Murphy publishes none of his own coil timings, point durations or gaps; he says only that the signals are 'chopped' into lengths and 'Some of them get longer as they go along, and some of them get shorter', which fits the table's rising and falling ramps, so giving the Shiva session the Table 1 values is an inference. Nor does he publish his phase or interval lengths: each configuration runs 5 min as in the lab, and the 10-15 min by which his session is longer than the lab's 30 min is taken to be the quiet intervals, here five of 2.5 min (42.5 min in all, an inference). Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring, one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs: the first over the left frontal area (Fp1), then FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2, counter-clockwise seen from above (left side front to back, right side back to front); no coils above the nose, directly above the ears or above the bony ridge at the back. The signal files are proprietary. Amygdala: the built-in accelerating burst of 230 points (the lab's burst-firing length, Ryczko & Persinger 2002), 6 to 30 Hz at 3-ms points; at the 1-ms points of B1 and B2 the same points play three times faster (18 to 90 Hz in 230 ms) with 1 ms between bursts, the format of Murphy's own 'High-Speed' signals (his ltp_1_1 page: 'One millisecond between signals, and one millisecond for each point'); in B3 a 0.69-s burst follows every 3-s gap. Chirp: Murphy uses his modulated 40 Hz chirp where the lab used its frequency-modulated pattern (he calls the lab's an earlier 'pulse named for its designer'; that this is the Thomas pattern is an inference). He says the chirp 'does not change in tone, but rather has longer and longer gaps between sections of the signal as they travel around your head', so a steady 40 Hz carrier plays and the coil-to-coil timing supplies the gaps, as in murphy-shiva-persinger-session; any modulation inside the original is not reproduced. The lab's pixel durations are used as hold steps (1 ms; 3 ms in T3, a coarse 40 Hz staircase); each chirp section lasts as long as the 849-point Thomas file at that point duration (849 ms in T1 and T2, 2.55 s in T3; an inference) and is followed by the interstimulus gap (1 ms; 3 s in T3); whether Shiva also slows its chirp at 3-ms points is unpublished. The lab used 2-5 uT (Swann) and about 10 uT (Cook 1999); this file defaults to 1 uT and the helmet stops at 5 uT, so it copies the timing rather than the lab strength (no independent measurement of Shiva's output has been found). Tsang 2004 also ran six 5-min configurations but with other timings (25 to 11 ms, persinger-tsang-2004-gamma-thomas), so it is not the template; the effective pattern of Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003 (100 ms with 20-ms changes) is the B2/T2 timing. Evidence is rated 'claim': no test of this Shiva session has been published; the lab configurations it copies are single-lab (one subject, no sham, in the Swann study) and not independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Changed in this revision: the timings now follow Swann 2002 Table 1 (previously a mix of Richards 2002, Persinger 2003 and Tsang 2004 values), the lab's point durations and gaps are applied to both signals, and the silences are 2.5 instead of 2 min. Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, vmpfc, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-tpj, right-tpj, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Sessions used in lab experiments; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths (40 to 45 min, weekly); Murphy, Shiva demo: Shiva and altered states; Murphy, Shiva demo: Scientific evidence; Murphy, Shiva demo: Chirp signal (lab 'pulse named for its designer'); Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Shiva demo: Staying safe with Shiva (first coil left frontal); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Shakti demo 2007: ltp_1_1 ('One millisecond between signals'); Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann, Percept Mot Skills 94:927 (full text with Table 1) [2]; Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61; Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:877; Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2004, Int J Neurosci 114:1183; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-strangers-2008, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008), circumcerebral 'Octopus' ring, paired-stranger design

The stimulus partner's program from Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008: six 5-min counter-clockwise ring configurations (three burst-firing, three Thomas) after the two strangers had met twice a week for four weeks. Persinger's lab reported more 5-6 Hz power over the temporal lobes of the unexposed partner in another room during the 20+2 frequency-modulated field (phase 4 here), in 4 pairs.

Setting: Stimulus partner (this helmet): blindfolded, seated in a quiet, dark room (the lab used an acoustic chamber), imagining being with the partner, the instruction of the lab's sibling study. Response partner: another room, blindfolded with earplugs, no helmet, EEG recorded (the outcome measure); whoever scores the EEG should not know the phase times.

Schedule: First the two meet twice a week for 1 h, within about 1 m of each other, for 4 weeks; then one 30-min session. For a self-test, add a session on the app's Blind option (real or sham at random) and score the EEG or the partner's reports before unblinding.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Persinger & Lavallee 2010 confirm the design: 8 students drawn at random from a class roster of about 80, paid $50 per pair, meeting twice a week for 1 h over 4 weeks, then the sibling study's procedures with "20+2" fields; theta rose "more related to the temporal lobes, with a slight right hemispheric enhancement", and response partners reported a sensed presence, anger and sexual arousal. They add that strangers recruited off the street, with no shared history, showed no EEG or experiential change. The six configurations come from the 2008 paper's Table 1 as relayed secondhand (the paper itself could not be opened), so they are unverified (point duration, gap between pattern repeats, time on coil 1, change per coil): burst-firing 1 ms, 1 ms, 20 ms, +2; 1 ms, 2 ms, 100 ms, +20; 3 ms, 3 s, 200 ms, -2; frequency-modulated 1 ms, 1 ms, 20 ms, -2; 2 ms, 1 ms, 100 ms, +20; 3 ms, 3 s, 200 ms, -2. The signs are read literally, + longer and - shorter at each next coil: BF1 runs 20 to 34 ms (the papers' "20-2"), the +20 rows 100 to 240 ms, the 200-ms rows 200 to 186 ms and FM1, printed -2, 20 to 6 ms, the field the same paper's results call "20 ms (+2 ms)" and Persinger & Lavallee call "20+2". Persinger & Lavallee 2010 use "+" to mean shorter, which would give 20 to 6 ms for BF1, 20 to 34 ms for FM1 and 200 to 214 ms for the 200-ms rows; the literal reading was chosen because the +20 rows cannot shorten seven times from 100 ms, Cook 1999's full turns of about 200 to 2000 ms fit it better (216 ms per turn at 20 to 34 ms, 104 ms at 20 to 6 ms), and the Koren software patent (US 6,312,376) uses the plain sign. The schedule the lab actually ran was never published. Phase names give the actual time on each coil. The frequency-modulated rows are taken to be the lab's decelerating FM file, the Thomas pulse (Lehman 2016), played from the exact 849-point table; the burst-firing values were never published, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in (230 points; at 1 ms per point it plays three times faster, 18 to 90 Hz). Table order is assumed to be burst-firing first; half the pairs got the reverse order (persinger-strangers-2008-reversed). These six fields are those of persinger-six-config-battery-2008 (the single-person Richards 2002 framing at 5 uT); this version runs at 1 uT, the paired studies' "1 microTesla range" (the 2008 table is relayed as 0.5 uT, with 1.5 uT measured 1 cm inside the ring and about 500 nT at its centre, all unverified), and adds the second person. Coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal, counter-clockwise from above (Persinger & Lavallee 2010): Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2 lie within 5 degrees of that 45-degree ring (the mapping Fp1, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, Fp2 would leave only three coils on the right). Only the stimulus partner wears a helmet; both partners must know about and agree to the experiment. 4 pairs and many statistical tests; experiences were rated on an exit questionnaire that was not blinded, and anger or sexual arousal are reports that suggestion alone can produce; published in NeuroQuantology; never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Do not use results for decisions about real people. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on distress.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-temporal-pole (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008, Enhanced power within a predicted narrow band of theta activity during stimulation of another by circumcerebral weak magnetic fields after weekly spatial proximity: evidence for macroscopic quantum entanglement?, NeuroQuantology 6(1):7-21; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, Theoretical and experimental evidence of macroscopic entanglement between human brain activity and photon emissions, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal); Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:877-894 (sibling pairs); Lehman 2016, PhD thesis, Laurentian University ("20-2" = 20, 22 ... 34 ms); Koren & Persinger, US 6,312,376 B1 (sequence interval and sequence acceleration); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file); Booth, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:426-436 (counter-clockwise vs clockwise); Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61-64; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-strangers-2008-reversed, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008), circumcerebral 'Octopus' ring, paired-stranger design

The stimulus partner's program from Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008, in the reverse order given to half the pairs: six 5-min counter-clockwise ring configurations (three burst-firing, three Thomas) after the two strangers had met twice a week for four weeks. Persinger's lab reported more 5-6 Hz power over the temporal lobes of the unexposed partner in another room during the 20+2 frequency-modulated field (phase 3 here), in 4 pairs.

Setting: Stimulus partner (this helmet): blindfolded, seated in a quiet, dark room (the lab used an acoustic chamber), imagining being with the partner, the instruction of the lab's sibling study. Response partner: another room, blindfolded with earplugs, no helmet, EEG recorded (the outcome measure); whoever scores the EEG should not know the phase times.

Schedule: First the two meet twice a week for 1 h, within about 1 m of each other, for 4 weeks; then one 30-min session. For a self-test, add a session on the app's Blind option (real or sham at random) and score the EEG or the partner's reports before unblinding.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Persinger & Lavallee 2010 confirm the design: 8 students drawn at random from a class roster of about 80, paid $50 per pair, meeting twice a week for 1 h over 4 weeks, then the sibling study's procedures with "20+2" fields; theta rose "more related to the temporal lobes, with a slight right hemispheric enhancement", and response partners reported a sensed presence, anger and sexual arousal. They add that strangers recruited off the street, with no shared history, showed no EEG or experiential change. The six configurations come from the 2008 paper's Table 1 as relayed secondhand (the paper itself could not be opened), so they are unverified (point duration, gap between pattern repeats, time on coil 1, change per coil): burst-firing 1 ms, 1 ms, 20 ms, +2; 1 ms, 2 ms, 100 ms, +20; 3 ms, 3 s, 200 ms, -2; frequency-modulated 1 ms, 1 ms, 20 ms, -2; 2 ms, 1 ms, 100 ms, +20; 3 ms, 3 s, 200 ms, -2. The signs are read literally, + longer and - shorter at each next coil: BF1 runs 20 to 34 ms (the papers' "20-2"), the +20 rows 100 to 240 ms, the 200-ms rows 200 to 186 ms and FM1, printed -2, 20 to 6 ms, the field the same paper's results call "20 ms (+2 ms)" and Persinger & Lavallee call "20+2". Persinger & Lavallee 2010 use "+" to mean shorter, which would give 20 to 6 ms for BF1, 20 to 34 ms for FM1 and 200 to 214 ms for the 200-ms rows; the literal reading was chosen because the +20 rows cannot shorten seven times from 100 ms, Cook 1999's full turns of about 200 to 2000 ms fit it better (216 ms per turn at 20 to 34 ms, 104 ms at 20 to 6 ms), and the Koren software patent (US 6,312,376) uses the plain sign. The schedule the lab actually ran was never published. Phase names give the actual time on each coil. The frequency-modulated rows are taken to be the lab's decelerating FM file, the Thomas pulse (Lehman 2016), played from the exact 849-point table; the burst-firing values were never published, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in (230 points; at 1 ms per point it plays three times faster, 18 to 90 Hz). This is the reverse-order half of the counterbalancing (FM3 to BF1); persinger-strangers-2008 runs the table order. These six fields are those of persinger-six-config-battery-2008 (the single-person Richards 2002 framing at 5 uT); this version runs at 1 uT, the paired studies' "1 microTesla range" (the 2008 table is relayed as 0.5 uT, with 1.5 uT measured 1 cm inside the ring and about 500 nT at its centre, all unverified), and adds the second person. Coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal, counter-clockwise from above (Persinger & Lavallee 2010): Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2 lie within 5 degrees of that 45-degree ring (the mapping Fp1, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, Fp2 would leave only three coils on the right). Only the stimulus partner wears a helmet; both partners must know about and agree to the experiment. 4 pairs and many statistical tests; experiences were rated on an exit questionnaire that was not blinded, and anger or sexual arousal are reports that suggestion alone can produce; published in NeuroQuantology; never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Do not use results for decisions about real people. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on distress.

Aims at: right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-temporal-pole (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Tsang, Booth & Koren 2008, Enhanced power within a predicted narrow band of theta activity during stimulation of another by circumcerebral weak magnetic fields after weekly spatial proximity: evidence for macroscopic quantum entanglement?, NeuroQuantology 6(1):7-21; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, Theoretical and experimental evidence of macroscopic entanglement between human brain activity and photon emissions, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal); Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:877-894 (sibling pairs); Lehman 2016, PhD thesis, Laurentian University ("20-2" = 20, 22 ... 34 ms); Koren & Persinger, US 6,312,376 B1 (sequence interval and sequence acceleration); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file); Booth, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:426-436 (counter-clockwise vs clockwise); Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61-64; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-swann-2002-table1, layout: custom, Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook (Laurentian University), the lab's standard circumcerebral protocol (Cook et al. 1999), given once to Ingo Swann in August 1998

The 30-min exposure Persinger's lab gave the artist and remote viewer Ingo Swann: three burst-firing and three frequency-modulated (Thomas) configurations of 5 min each, rotated counter-clockwise around the head with the point durations, gaps and per-coil timing printed in the paper's Table 1. The lab reported altered experiences during the fields; one subject.

Setting: Blindfolded in a comfortable chair in a quiet, dark room; speak your impressions aloud and record them (Swann wore a lapel microphone in an acoustic chamber). Remote-viewing trials followed on later days: hidden pictures or objects in envelopes about 6 m away, 2-3 min of drawing each.

Schedule: One exposure in the original, followed by remote-viewing trials on the next days.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Table 1, read from the page scan: pixel (point) duration 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3 ms; interstimulus time 1, 1, 3000, 1, 1, 3000 ms; commutator rate 20, 100, 200 ms and change in rate +2, +20, -2, for B1-B3 and again for T1-T3. Commutator rate is read as the time on the first coil and change in rate as the change at each following coil, as the lab later defined "20+2"; that reading is an interpretation. The signs are read literally: each next coil gets 2 ms more in the +2 rows (20 to 34 ms), 20 ms more in the +20 rows (100 to 240 ms) and 2 ms less in the -2 rows (200 to 186 ms). Persinger & Lavallee 2010 use "+" to mean shorter, which would give 20 to 6 ms and 200 to 214 ms; the literal reading was chosen because the +20 rows cannot shorten seven times from 100 ms, Cook 1999's full turns of about 200 to 2000 ms fit it better (216 ms per turn at 20 to 34 ms, 104 ms at 20 to 6 ms), and the Koren software patent (US 6,312,376) uses the plain sign. The schedule the lab actually ran was never published. The paper puts eight equally spaced solenoids in the plane "between the midforehead and above the ears"; the ring here is Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2 on the 10% line, coil 1 left frontal and coil 8 right prefrontal as the lab later described its ring (Persinger & Lavallee 2010), an inference. The Thomas (frequency-modulated) pulse plays from its exact 849-point table; the burst-firing point values were never published, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in (230 points, 6 -> 30 Hz at 3 ms per point and three times faster at 1 ms). Intensity 2-5 uT in the paper; 3.5 uT is the midpoint. Differences from military-p06-persinger-swann-1998: that preset gives B2/T2 3-ms and B3/T3 1-ms points (the scan shows 1, 1, 3), a synthetic Thomas sweep and an Fpz-Oz ring. During the Thomas patterns Swann reported floating in and out of his body (T1), pressure in his ear and a marked suppression of his remote-viewing images (T2), and seeing the three experimenters as skeletons (T3). On later days, 7-Hz spike-and-slow-wave activity over his occipital lobes correlated (rho = .50) with blind accuracy ratings; the paper does not test whether the fields changed accuracy. One subject, no sham, unblinded exposure, and a follow-up pilot (Koren & Persinger 2002) reported that accuracy fell when weak Windows-generated, but not DOS-generated, fields were run around the targets, which shows how loosely controlled the setup was. For a self-test, randomise blinded active and sham sessions and have remote-viewing trials judged blind. No independent replication. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: primary-visual-cortex, right-angular-gyrus, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, lateral-orbitofrontal-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann, Percept Mot Skills 94:927-949 (full-text scan with Table 1) [2]; Cook, Koren & Persinger 1999, Neurosci Lett 268:61-64; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (the "20+2" notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal; sibling study retold); Lehman 2016, MSc thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 56-57 ("20-2" = 20, 22 ... 34 ms; counter-clockwise standard); Koren & Persinger, US 6,312,376 B1 (sequence interval and sequence acceleration); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms, 2.55 s per cycle); Dotta & Persinger 2012, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (230-point increasing-frequency pattern at 1 ms); Koren & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:989-998 (fields around the target, pilot); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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telepathy-sender, layout: Circumcerebral ring ("Octopus"), Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003; Persinger et al. 2010), circumcerebral 'Octopus'; phase order after the lab's six-configuration table and Murphy's Shiva 'Published Studies' session; sender/receiver trial by this project

Six 5-min counter-clockwise circumcerebral configurations for the partner who wears the helmet and looks at a target, while the other, unstimulated partner in another room writes impressions. Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003 reported 5-6 Hz EEG changes in the unstimulated partner during one configuration, which the lab describes both as 100 ms with 20-ms changes and as "20+2"; both run here, with the 100+10 rotation of its 2010 yoked study, all three first with burst-firing, then with the Thomas pulse.

Setting: Sender: seated in a quiet room with the helmet, looking at the target picture (in the 2003 study the stimulus person sat blindfolded in a closed chamber and imagined being in the other room touching the partner). Receiver: another room, no helmet, writing or sketching impressions (in 2003 blindfolded, 5 or 10 m away, with EEG). Use the app's blinded trial (hidden target, committed before the response, blind ranking against decoys).

Schedule: At most weekly for the sender (Murphy's rule for Shiva sessions); the sibling pairs had two sessions a week apart.

Coils: CH1 Fpz, CH2 F7, CH3 T7, CH4 P7, CH5 Oz, CH6 P8, CH7 T8, CH8 F8

Changed after the primary-source check: the rotations now come from the paired-person studies themselves, replacing 20 -> 160 ms (a reading of Cook 1999) and 25 -> 11 ms (Tsang 2004). The 2003 abstract gives the effective configuration as "100 msec. with changes in rate of 20 msec." (read as 100, 120 ... 240 ms, since 100 ms cannot shorten by 20 ms seven times; the lab's Shiva study used the same ramp, Collins 2014); the lab's 2010 retelling says the effect came "when the 20+2 ms presentations occurred" and defines 20+2 as 20, 18 ... 6 ms (Persinger & Lavallee 2010, p. 793); the Swann table prints this row as "+2", and if its sign meant longer, as its "+20" must, the rotation would run 20 -> 34 ms instead. The third rotation, 100+10 (100, 90 ... 30 ms), is the one that paper gives for the 2010 yoked light-flash study (Persinger et al. 2010: shared fields "based on 100ms"). The 2003 abstract names no other configuration; the lab's "standard protocol" table in the Swann paper also has a 200-ms rotation with "-2" (3-ms points, 3 s apart), which persinger-swann-2002-table1 runs. The order, three burst-firing then three frequency-modulated, follows the lab's six-configuration table in the Swann paper (Persinger et al. 2002) and Murphy's Shiva 'Published Studies' session; Murphy's three chirp phases are replaced by the lab's frequency-modulated Thomas pulse, played from its exact 849-point patent table. Point durations follow the Swann table, which prints 1-ms points with 1 ms between repeats for both 20+2 and 100 ms + 20 (rechecked on the page scan); 100+10 also runs at 1 ms, as in the lab's later shared-field work (Dotta & Persinger 2012). Burst-firing point values were never published; the built-in accelerating burst stands in as 230 points of 1 ms (the 6-30 Hz, 0.69-s sweep of the 3-ms Burst-X three times faster: 18 to 90 Hz in 0.23 s). The ring layout (Fpz, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, F8, counter-clockwise from above) approximates the lab's eight solenoids in the horizontal plane, whose coil 1 sat over the left frontal and coil 8 over the right prefrontal region; persinger-siblings-2003-stimulus is a separate reconstruction on such a ring. The 2003 result rests on four sibling pairs in one lab, and the abstract and the 2010 retelling disagree on where it appeared (frontal and occipital versus right parietal). Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The sender/receiver framing is this project's trial design. Both partners must know about and agree to the experiment; score trials blind and never use them for decisions about real people. Not for people with epilepsy; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, primary-visual-cortex, lateral-orbitofrontal-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Koren & Tsang 2003, Percept Mot Skills 97:877-894; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (base +/- change notation, "20+2" = 20, 18 ... 6 ms; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal; sibling and yoked studies retold); Persinger, Saroka, Lavallee, Booth, Hunter, Mulligan, Koren, Wu & Gang 2010, Neurosci Lett 486:231-234; Persinger, Roll, Tiller, Koren & Cook 2002, Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann, Percept Mot Skills 94:927-949 (Table 1: six circumcerebral configurations) (full-text scan) [2]; Collins 2014, MA thesis 'Investigating the Shiva', Laurentian University (Shiva amygdaloid signal: 289 points, 3 ms, 4000 ms between cycles; 100 ms plus 20 ms per column; ch. 4: Shiva 4+4 helmet); Dotta & Persinger 2012, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (1-ms points in the shared-field work); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 and FIG. 2 "Thomas Pulse (Cnp)"; Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms, 2.55 s per cycle); Murphy, Shiva: sessions used in lab experiments (Published Studies session; the chirp "does not change in tone"); Murphy, Shiva: scientific evidence; AIR 1995, An evaluation of remote viewing (Utts appendix: blind rank-order judging); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-yoked-2010-microstate, layout: custom, Persinger lab, Laurentian University (Persinger, Saroka, Lavallee, Booth, Hunter, Mulligan, Koren, Wu & Gang 2010), yoked circumcerebral rings

The shared field of Persinger et al. 2010: two unrelated people in rooms 15 m apart wear identical eight-coil rings running the same counter-clockwise rotation, 100 ms on the first coil and 10 ms less on each next one (down to 30 ms), while one of them watches dim 5-15 Hz light flashes. Persinger's lab reported power increases in the other partner's right parietal EEG within frequencies matching the distant flashes, only with this 100-ms-based field.

Setting: Partner A (light): seated in a closed, quiet room with a helmet on, watching a diffuse white light of about 1 lux. Partner B (measured): another room about 15 m away, second helmet running this program, EEG recorded (the outcome; the lab looked at the right parietal region). Flash trains at 5, 8, 10 and 15 Hz, 30 s each, starting at 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 and 5:00 on the program clock; take EEG for the 20 s before and the first 20 s of each train. A third person keeps the flash log away from whoever scores the EEG.

Schedule: One session per pair. As a control, a helper runs both helmets on this program or on sham (the same choice for both, unknown to the partners and the scorer) on different days, and the EEG is scored blind.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

From the abstract (three experiments; unrelated pairs in two rooms; 5, 8, 10 or 15 Hz flashes; right parietal power; fields "based on 100ms, the average duration of normal microstates") and Persinger & Lavallee 2010 section 3.6: two 8-solenoid systems 15 m apart driven by one computer; the time on each of the 8 successive solenoids fell from 100 ms to 90 ms and so on to 30 ms over the right prefrontal region (the lab's "100+10", one turn 520 ms); flashes of about 1 lux for 30 s, 4-15 Hz, strongest at 8-10 Hz; QEEG taken 20 s before and 20 s during each flash train. The sources give no exposure length, waveform file or point duration: the rotated "complex frequency-modulated" pattern is taken to be the Thomas pattern and plays the exact 849-point patent table at 1 ms per point, back to back, the point duration of the lab's later shared-field work (Dotta & Persinger 2012, whose file had 859 points); the 6 min and the flash timing in "setting" (one train per frequency, rising) are this project's choice. Coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal, counter-clockwise from above (Persinger & Lavallee 2010): Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2 lie within 5 degrees of that 45-degree ring (the mapping Fp1, F7, T7, P7, Oz, P8, T8, Fp2 would leave only three coils on the right). Both helmets must run this program and start together; the lab drove both rings from one computer, so two helmets started by hand are offset by the time between the two presses. The light source is not part of the helmet. Source caution: photic stimulation at 5-15 Hz can trigger seizures in susceptible people, a risk independent of the magnetic field. The lab's interpretation (the two brains sharing "the same space") is not supported by its measurements, which are EEG power changes in small samples; single-lab, never independently replicated. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Do not use results for decisions about real people. Nobody with epilepsy, a seizure history or photosensitivity should take part in either role.

Aims at: right-angular-gyrus, right-tpj, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Saroka, Lavallee, Booth, Hunter, Mulligan, Koren, Wu & Gang 2010, Neurosci Lett 486:231-234; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, Theoretical and experimental evidence of macroscopic entanglement between human brain activity and photon emissions, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785-807 (20+2 notation; coil 1 left frontal, coil 8 right prefrontal); Dotta & Persinger 2012, "Doubling" of local photon emissions when two simultaneous, spatially-separated, chemiluminescent reactions share the same magnetic field configurations, J Biophys Chem 3:72-80 (859- and 230-point patterns at 1 ms; primer/effector order); Lehman 2016, PhD thesis, Laurentian University ("20-2" = 20, 22 ... 34 ms); Thomas, Prato, Kavaliers & Persinger, US 6,234,953 B1, Table 1 (Thomas pulse point values); Buckner et al. 2015, PLoS ONE 10(4):e0124136 (Thomas file: 849 points at 3 ms); Booth, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:426-436 (counter-clockwise vs clockwise); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1-6; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-amybi-hippr, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

One of Todd Murphy's interhemispheric 'as seen on TV' two-phase sessions for the 8 Coil Shakti: amygdala burst-firing over both temporal lobes for 20 min, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe for 20 min (the 40-min run most users prefer, Murphy says). Murphy states that the hippocampal signal on the right in phase 2 gives non-verbal calm and imagery.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence ('not just quiet'), at night; eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark. The vendor: 'You don't have to use sensory deprivation if you're looking for after-effects.'

Schedule: Vendor: while trying sessions out, at most every 72 h; once you settle on a session, once a week; never on consecutive days. For sessions of an hour or more (the 60-min run) the demo video and the safety pages say once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions from that rule.

Coils: CH1 FTT7h, CH2 TTP9h, CH3 FTT8h, CH4 TTP10h, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Coils as in the photos on the vendor's output pages for the right-ending sessions: six on the right and two on the left ('The right side has four coils from the right channel, and two coils from the left channel. The left side has two coils from the left stereo channel.'). The four right-channel coils form a cross over the right temporal lobe (FT8 front, C6 top, TP8 back, T10 bottom; CH5-8); the two left-channel coils on the right sit inside that cross, above-front and below-back of its centre (FTT8h and TTP10h; CH3-4), and the two on the left form the same diagonal pair over the left temporal lobe (FTT7h and TTP9h; CH1-2). The 10-5 sites are read from the photos and are an inference. Phase 1 (20 min) drives the four left-channel coils together (the left channel over both sides); phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) drives the four right-channel coils (the right channel over the right side only). There is no rotation, as on the two-channel Shakti. Polarity as in the photos ('Note the positions of the positive and negative coils carefully'): the right cross has its top and front coils - (C6, FT8: weight -1) and its back and bottom coils + (TP8, T10); of the left-channel coils, the pair on the right has its upper-front coil + (FTT8h) and lower-back coil - (TTP10h), and the pair on the left the reverse (FTT7h -, TTP9h +). Durations: the output pages and Murphy's demo video offer 40- and 60-min runs, and the video says 'most users seem to prefer the 40-minute session, 20 minutes of each of the signals seems to be enough' (in agreement, Murphy says, with some of the laboratory work); this file is that 40-min run. The 60-min run is presumably 30 + 30 min (not stated). The rotating Shiva God Helmet versions of this design are murphy-gh-amybi-hippr-40min and -60min. The amygdala 'burstx' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at the standard 3-ms points (0.69 s, after the published 230-point burst-firing pattern), then the standard 4-s silence. The hippocampal 'LTP' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by 5 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), repeated at 5.4 Hz (the spectral peak the vendor gives for its LTP signal) and drawn on Shakti's standard 3-ms points (0.78 s; the burst count is a choice), then the standard 4-s silence. Vendor: 'Be careful when setting up these sessions ... check and double-check' (here: check that the coils sit on the correct sides); the first phase may be unpleasant, and Skip goes to phase 2. Test the phase-2 signal on each side first with 10-min test sessions. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on one small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994). Persinger's lab reported more apprehension in women with burst-firing over the right temporal lobe (Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992); stop if fear appears. For the God Helmet version of this design Murphy advises: fear or anxiety in phase 1 means Skip or Stop; fear or anxiety in phase 2 means stop and never reuse it; not for people prone to anxiety. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's two-phase pages (2026): 20 + 20 min instead of 30 + 30, eight separate coils as on the output pages instead of six with two shared between the phases, and polarity from the session photos instead of the general coil chart. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions (as seen on TV); Murphy, Shakti demo: output amygdala both, then hippocampus right (setup photos); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; 40-min runs of 20 min per signal); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191 (LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere rated more pleasant); Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667 (right temporal burst-firing and apprehension in women); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Murphy, A God Helmet session using signals from the amygdala and the hippocampus; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-chirpbi-hippr, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

One of Todd Murphy's interhemispheric 'as seen on TV' two-phase sessions for the 8 Coil Shakti: the modulated 40 Hz chirp over both temporal lobes for 20 min, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe for 20 min (the 40-min run most users prefer, Murphy says). Murphy states that the hippocampal signal on the right in phase 2 gives non-verbal calm and imagery.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence ('not just quiet'), at night; eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark. The vendor: 'You don't have to use sensory deprivation if you're looking for after-effects.'

Schedule: Vendor: while trying sessions out, at most every 72 h; once you settle on a session, once a week; never on consecutive days. For sessions of an hour or more (the 60-min run) the demo video and the safety pages say once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions from that rule.

Coils: CH1 FTT7h, CH2 TTP9h, CH3 FTT8h, CH4 TTP10h, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Coils as in the photos on the vendor's output pages for the right-ending sessions: six on the right and two on the left ('The right side has four coils from the right channel, and two coils from the left channel. The left side has two coils from the left stereo channel.'). The four right-channel coils form a cross over the right temporal lobe (FT8 front, C6 top, TP8 back, T10 bottom; CH5-8); the two left-channel coils on the right sit inside that cross, above-front and below-back of its centre (FTT8h and TTP10h; CH3-4), and the two on the left form the same diagonal pair over the left temporal lobe (FTT7h and TTP9h; CH1-2). The 10-5 sites are read from the photos and are an inference. Phase 1 (20 min) drives the four left-channel coils together (the left channel over both sides); phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) drives the four right-channel coils (the right channel over the right side only). There is no rotation, as on the two-channel Shakti. Polarity as in the photos ('Note the positions of the positive and negative coils carefully'): the right cross has its top and front coils - (C6, FT8: weight -1) and its back and bottom coils + (TP8, T10); of the left-channel coils, the pair on the right has its upper-front coil + (FTT8h) and lower-back coil - (TTP10h), and the pair on the left the reverse (FTT7h -, TTP9h +). Its output page's setup sentence is copied from the left-ending pages ('The left side has four coils from the left channel ...'), but its phase list (left channel on both sides, then right channel on the right side) and its photos are those of the right-ending layout, which this file follows. Durations: the output pages and Murphy's demo video offer 40- and 60-min runs, and the video says 'most users seem to prefer the 40-minute session, 20 minutes of each of the signals seems to be enough' (in agreement, Murphy says, with some of the laboratory work); this file is that 40-min run. The 60-min run is presumably 30 + 30 min (not stated). The rotating Shiva God Helmet versions of this design are murphy-gh-chirpbi-hippr-40min and -60min. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' is proprietary (Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern and describes it as the modulated 40 Hz signal with gaps that get longer, amplitude and gaps varied by a Fibonacci constant); it is approximated by a sweep slowing from 40 to 6 Hz (the end frequency is a choice), 837 points at 3 ms (2.5 s) once every 4 s, after the published FM pattern (837 points at 1 ms every 4 s; Tiller & Persinger 2002 and the Shakti use 3-ms points). The 40 Hz phase modulation and the Fibonacci amplitude changes are not reproduced. The hippocampal 'LTP' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by 5 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), repeated at 5.4 Hz (the spectral peak the vendor gives for its LTP signal) and drawn on Shakti's standard 3-ms points (0.78 s; the burst count is a choice), then the standard 4-s silence. Vendor: 'Be careful when setting up these sessions ... check and double-check' (here: check that the coils sit on the correct sides); the first phase may be unpleasant, and Skip goes to phase 2. Test the phase-2 signal on each side first with 10-min test sessions. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on one small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994). Murphy warns that the chirp can be 'very unpleasant over the right side'. For the God Helmet version of this design he advises: if anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, don't reuse it; not for people prone to anxiety. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's two-phase pages (2026): 20 + 20 min instead of 30 + 30, eight separate coils as on the output pages instead of six with two shared between the phases, and polarity from the session photos instead of the general coil chart. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions (as seen on TV); Murphy, Shakti demo: output chirp both, then hippocampus right (setup photos); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; 40-min runs of 20 min per signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3-ms points); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191 (LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere rated more pleasant); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Murphy, God Helmet sessions use two-step stimulation (chirp both, then hippocampus right); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-mod40bi-hippr, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

One of Todd Murphy's interhemispheric 'as seen on TV' two-phase sessions for the 8 Coil Shakti: the 'modulated 40 Hz' signal over both temporal lobes for 20 min, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe for 20 min (the 40-min run most users prefer, Murphy says). Murphy states that the hippocampal signal on the right in phase 2 gives non-verbal calm and imagery.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence ('not just quiet'), at night; eyes closed or blindfolded; relax without meditating or falling asleep. A helper can press Skip or Stop so you stay in the dark. The vendor: 'You don't have to use sensory deprivation if you're looking for after-effects.'

Schedule: Vendor: while trying sessions out, at most every 72 h; once you settle on a session, once a week; never on consecutive days. For sessions of an hour or more (the 60-min run) the demo video and the safety pages say once every 3 weeks (one week if the session had no effect), but the vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions from that rule.

Coils: CH1 FTT7h, CH2 TTP9h, CH3 FTT8h, CH4 TTP10h, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Coils as in the photos on the vendor's output pages for the right-ending sessions: six on the right and two on the left ('The right side has four coils from the right channel, and two coils from the left channel. The left side has two coils from the left stereo channel.'). The four right-channel coils form a cross over the right temporal lobe (FT8 front, C6 top, TP8 back, T10 bottom; CH5-8); the two left-channel coils on the right sit inside that cross, above-front and below-back of its centre (FTT8h and TTP10h; CH3-4), and the two on the left form the same diagonal pair over the left temporal lobe (FTT7h and TTP9h; CH1-2). The 10-5 sites are read from the photos and are an inference. Phase 1 (20 min) drives the four left-channel coils together (the left channel over both sides); phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch) drives the four right-channel coils (the right channel over the right side only). There is no rotation, as on the two-channel Shakti. Polarity as in the photos ('Note the positions of the positive and negative coils carefully'): the right cross has its top and front coils - (C6, FT8: weight -1) and its back and bottom coils + (TP8, T10); of the left-channel coils, the pair on the right has its upper-front coil + (FTT8h) and lower-back coil - (TTP10h), and the pair on the left the reverse (FTT7h -, TTP9h +). Durations: the output pages and Murphy's demo video offer 40- and 60-min runs, and the video says 'most users seem to prefer the 40-minute session, 20 minutes of each of the signals seems to be enough' (in agreement, Murphy says, with some of the laboratory work); this file is that 40-min run. The 60-min run is presumably 30 + 30 min (not stated). The rotating Shiva God Helmet versions of this design are murphy-gh-mod40bi-hippr-40min and -60min. The 'modulated 40 Hz' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz sine whose phase swings by up to 3 rad every 2 s (38.5-41.5 Hz). The hippocampal 'LTP' signal is proprietary; it is approximated by 5 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), repeated at 5.4 Hz (the spectral peak the vendor gives for its LTP signal) and drawn on Shakti's standard 3-ms points (0.78 s; the burst count is a choice), then the standard 4-s silence. Vendor: 'Be careful when setting up these sessions ... check and double-check' (here: check that the coils sit on the correct sides); the first phase may be unpleasant, and Skip goes to phase 2. Test the phase-2 signal on each side first with 10-min test sessions. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on one small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994). For the God Helmet version of this design Murphy advises: if anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, never reuse it; not for people prone to anxiety. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's two-phase pages (2026): 20 + 20 min instead of 30 + 30, eight separate coils as on the output pages instead of six with two shared between the phases, and polarity from the session photos instead of the general coil chart. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions (as seen on TV); Murphy, Shakti demo: output modulated 40 Hz both, then hippocampus right (setup photos); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; 40-min runs of 20 min per signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191 (LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere rated more pleasant); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Murphy, God Helmet session over both sides and then over one side (modulated 40 Hz, then hippocampus right); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-gh-chirpbi-hippr-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Murphy's Shiva God Helmet variant: the modulated-40 Hz chirp steps around both temporal lobes, then a hippocampal theta-burst ('LTP') signal steps around the right side only. Murphy reports inner silence, deep calm, inner images and possibly a sense of spaciousness; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence; relax without meditating or falling asleep.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy).

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (20 min): the chirp on all eight coils, left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. Phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch): the hippocampal signal on the four right coils only, counter-clockwise. The vendor page gives no phase lengths; the usual God Helmet 20 + 20 or 30 + 30 min are used. If anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, don't reuse the session (Murphy explains it as 'spill' from the right hippocampus into the right amygdala); Murphy says not to begin with this session if you are prone to anxiety; the vendor calls it experimental. If headaches occur (the vendor reports about 2% with hippocampal signals), lower the intensity by one-third. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Field about 1 µT, as in the lab God Helmet. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The hippocampal 'LTP' template is unpublished; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s) then the vendor's standard 4 s silence, so the trains fill about 8 s of each minute (the vendor states about 9.6 s of field per minute). The burst count is a choice; the vendor's 3-ms points are not copied because the 100 Hz pulses need 0.5-ms points. Coil steps: the exact step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right', read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8); this reading is an inference (an image caption on Murphy's session list says the right side cycles clockwise, contradicting his text; the text is followed), and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. This is the 40-min version (20 + 20 min); the 60-min version is murphy-gh-chirpbi-hippr-60min.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet Sessions use two-step stimulation (chirp both, hippocampus right); Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5.4 Hz peak of the hippocampal signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst LTP timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191 (LTP-pattern fields, right side rated more pleasant); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpbi-hippr-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Murphy's Shiva God Helmet variant: the modulated-40 Hz chirp steps around both temporal lobes, then a hippocampal theta-burst ('LTP') signal steps around the right side only. Murphy reports inner silence, deep calm, inner images and possibly a sense of spaciousness; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence; relax without meditating or falling asleep.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy). Murphy's Shiva pages allow 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks; his Shakti pages say at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (30 min): the chirp on all eight coils, left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. Phase 2 (30 min, abrupt switch): the hippocampal signal on the four right coils only, counter-clockwise. The vendor page gives no phase lengths; the usual God Helmet 20 + 20 or 30 + 30 min are used. If anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, don't reuse the session (Murphy explains it as 'spill' from the right hippocampus into the right amygdala); Murphy says not to begin with this session if you are prone to anxiety; the vendor calls it experimental. If headaches occur (the vendor reports about 2% with hippocampal signals), lower the intensity by one-third. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Field about 1 µT, as in the lab God Helmet. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The hippocampal 'LTP' template is unpublished; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s) then the vendor's standard 4 s silence, so the trains fill about 8 s of each minute (the vendor states about 9.6 s of field per minute). The burst count is a choice; the vendor's 3-ms points are not copied because the 100 Hz pulses need 0.5-ms points. Coil steps: the exact step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right', read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8); this reading is an inference (an image caption on Murphy's session list says the right side cycles clockwise, contradicting his text; the text is followed), and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. This is the 60-min version (30 + 30 min); the 40-min version is murphy-gh-chirpbi-hippr-40min.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet Sessions use two-step stimulation (chirp both, hippocampus right); Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5.4 Hz peak of the hippocampal signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst LTP timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191 (LTP-pattern fields, right side rated more pleasant); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpl-hippbi-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Murphy's mirror of the classic design: the modulated-40 Hz chirp on the left temporal lobe, which he says quiets the right, then a hippocampal theta-burst ('LTP') signal over both sides, meant to make the right hippocampus burst into activity. Murphy reports a calm 'theta state' with imagery that can deepen meditation or trance done about 90 min later; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence; relax without meditating or falling asleep during the session. Murphy suggests meditation or trance practice about 90 min afterwards.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy).

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (20 min): the chirp on the four left coils only, clockwise; Murphy says it can feel very pleasant, even blissful. If irritability or anger appears in phase 1, press Skip to go to phase 2; people prone to irritability should avoid this session or be ready to skip (session list), and the session page also warns people prone to anxiety. Phase 2 (20 min, abrupt switch): the hippocampal signal on all eight coils, left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. If anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, never reuse it. If headaches occur (the vendor reports about 2% with hippocampal signals), lower the intensity by one-third. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Field about 1 µT, as in the lab God Helmet. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The hippocampal 'LTP' template is unpublished; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s) then the vendor's standard 4 s silence, so the trains fill about 8 s of each minute (the vendor states about 9.6 s of field per minute). The burst count is a choice; the vendor's 3-ms points are not copied because the 100 Hz pulses need 0.5-ms points. Coil steps: the exact step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right', read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8); this reading is an inference (an image caption on Murphy's session list says the right side cycles clockwise, contradicting his text; the text is followed), and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. This is the 40-min version (20 + 20 min); the 60-min version is murphy-gh-chirpl-hippbi-60min.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, A God Helmet Session with two signals in succession (chirp left, hippocampus both); Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5.4 Hz peak of the hippocampal signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst LTP timing); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-chirpl-hippbi-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software)

Murphy's mirror of the classic design: the modulated-40 Hz chirp on the left temporal lobe, which he says quiets the right, then a hippocampal theta-burst ('LTP') signal over both sides, meant to make the right hippocampus burst into activity. Murphy reports a calm 'theta state' with imagery that can deepen meditation or trance done about 90 min later; independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence; relax without meditating or falling asleep during the session. Murphy suggests meditation or trance practice about 90 min afterwards.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 6, then a 21-day break; do not mix with other Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks (Murphy). Murphy's Shiva pages allow 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks; his Shakti pages say at most once every 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phase 1 (30 min): the chirp on the four left coils only, clockwise; Murphy says it can feel very pleasant, even blissful. If irritability or anger appears in phase 1, press Skip to go to phase 2; people prone to irritability should avoid this session or be ready to skip (session list), and the session page also warns people prone to anxiety. Phase 2 (30 min, abrupt switch): the hippocampal signal on all eight coils, left side clockwise and right side counter-clockwise. If anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, never reuse it. If headaches occur (the vendor reports about 2% with hippocampal signals), lower the intensity by one-third. Not for anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis or medication, epilepsy, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; no other mind machines at the same time; stop on any distress. Field about 1 µT, as in the lab God Helmet. The 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' template is proprietary. Murphy relates it to the frequency-modulated Thomas pattern, so it is approximated by a decelerating sweep from 40 to 6 Hz (the range is a choice) in 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off: the 837 points of Dixon & Persinger 2001 (who used 1-ms points) at the 3-ms points of Tiller & Persinger 2002, once every 4 s; the 40 Hz modulation itself is not reproduced. The hippocampal 'LTP' template is unpublished; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s) then the vendor's standard 4 s silence, so the trains fill about 8 s of each minute (the vendor states about 9.6 s of field per minute). The burst count is a choice; the vendor's 3-ms points are not copied because the 100 Hz pulses need 0.5-ms points. Coil steps: the exact step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. Directions follow Murphy's 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right', read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8); this reading is an inference (an image caption on Murphy's session list says the right side cycles clockwise, contradicting his text; the text is followed), and the placement order is set so the app's per-side directions mean exactly this. The cross centred near T7/T8 is an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe, above and forward of the ears'. This is the 60-min version (30 + 30 min); the 40-min version is murphy-gh-chirpl-hippbi-40min.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, A God Helmet Session with two signals in succession (chirp left, hippocampus both); Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5.4 Hz peak of the hippocampal signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Rapid and High-Speed signals (3 ms points, 4 s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3 ms points); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst LTP timing); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-amybi-hippr-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the amygdala burst-firing signal over both temporal lobes, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe only. The vendor expects 'deep calm, inner images, and possibly a sense of spaciousness' in phase 2; 40-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most weekly, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

40-minute version (20 + 20 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 60-minute version (murphy-gh-amybi-hippr-60min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The amygdala 'burstx' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with 230 points, the point count of the published lab burst-firing pattern (which used 4-ms points; Ryczko & Persinger 2002), on the vendor's standard 3-ms points, so 0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' bursts Persinger's lab reported at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009); then the 4-s silence: about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s), then the vendor's standard 4-s silence; the burst count is a choice, and 0.5-ms points replace the vendor's 3-ms points because 100 Hz pulses need them. 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG); the vendor's own figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). Fear or anxiety in phase 1 means stop. Murphy reports that irritability in phase 1 'is often a sign that the second phase will be especially effective'. Fear or anxiety in phase 2 means stop and never reuse this session. Not for people prone to anxiety. Persinger's lab reported more aggression and less trust after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with the hippocampal signal; if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, A God Helmet Session using signals from the Amygdala and the Hippocampus; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-amybi-hippr-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the amygdala burst-firing signal over both temporal lobes, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe only. The vendor expects 'deep calm, inner images, and possibly a sense of spaciousness' in phase 2; 60-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: God Helmet sessions at most weekly, up to 6, then a 21-day break; for 60-minute sessions the Shiva pages say weekly or every two weeks and the Shakti pages at most every 3 weeks (the longer gap is the cautious choice). Never on consecutive days; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

60-minute version (30 + 30 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 40-minute version (murphy-gh-amybi-hippr-40min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The amygdala 'burstx' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) with 230 points, the point count of the published lab burst-firing pattern (which used 4-ms points; Ryczko & Persinger 2002), on the vendor's standard 3-ms points, so 0.69 s, close to the 'about 0.7 s' bursts Persinger's lab reported at 1 µT (Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009); then the 4-s silence: about 9 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s), then the vendor's standard 4-s silence; the burst count is a choice, and 0.5-ms points replace the vendor's 3-ms points because 100 Hz pulses need them. 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG); the vendor's own figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). Fear or anxiety in phase 1 means stop. Murphy reports that irritability in phase 1 'is often a sign that the second phase will be especially effective'. Fear or anxiety in phase 2 means stop and never reuse this session. Not for people prone to anxiety. Persinger's lab reported more aggression and less trust after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with the hippocampal signal; if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, A God Helmet Session using signals from the Amygdala and the Hippocampus; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Hoang & Baker-Price 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:374; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-mod40bi-hippr-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the 'modulated 40 Hz' signal over both temporal lobes, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe. The vendor expects inner silence, deep calm, inner images and spaciousness, with a possible 'psychic' undertone; 40-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most weekly, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

40-minute version (20 + 20 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 60-minute version (murphy-gh-mod40bi-hippr-60min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The 'modulated 40 Hz' file is proprietary; the vendor calls it a signal 'almost in sync with the brain's own binding factor, but not quite' and, on its Shakti pages, a 'constant tone'. It is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad ahead of and behind a steady 40 Hz every 2 s (38.5-41.5 Hz). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s), then the vendor's standard 4-s silence; the burst count is a choice, and 0.5-ms points replace the vendor's 3-ms points because 100 Hz pulses need them. 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG), and the vendor's '10mG' calibration for the modulated 40 Hz signal; the vendor's other figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). If anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, never reuse this session (vendor). The vendor calls the session 'a bit experimental'. Not for people prone to anxiety. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with the hippocampal signal; if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet session over both sides and then over one side (modulated 40 Hz both, then hippocampus right); Murphy, Modulated 40 Hz signal for the God Helmet; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-gh-mod40bi-hippr-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva God Helmet software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's two-phase Shiva God Helmet session: the 'modulated 40 Hz' signal over both temporal lobes, then the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the right temporal lobe. The vendor expects inner silence, deep calm, inner images and spaciousness, with a possible 'psychic' undertone; 60-minute version.

Setting: Darkness and acoustic silence (the vendor: 'silence, not just quiet'), blindfold or eyes closed; sit or lie relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor prefers night sessions on geomagnetically quiet days and a helper who can stop the session. No meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor rules: God Helmet sessions at most weekly, up to 6, then a 21-day break; for 60-minute sessions the Shiva pages say weekly or every two weeks and the Shakti pages at most every 3 weeks (the longer gap is the cautious choice). Never on consecutive days; not mixed with Shiva or Shakti sessions in the same weeks; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

60-minute version (30 + 30 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers a 40-minute version (murphy-gh-mod40bi-hippr-40min). Four coils per temporal lobe in a cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from 'four coils over each temporal lobe'); the field steps from coil to coil, 'clockwise over the left side, counter-clockwise over the right' as the vendor states, read with each side seen from its own side, so both sides step top, back, bottom, front (C5-TP7-T9-FT7 and C6-TP8-T10-FT8; an inference). An image caption on the vendor's session list says the signals cycle clockwise on the right side, which contradicts the text; this preset follows the text. The step time is unpublished (Murphy: one cycle takes 'a fraction of a second'), so 125 ms per coil (0.5 s per cycle) is used. The 'modulated 40 Hz' file is proprietary; the vendor calls it a signal 'almost in sync with the brain's own binding factor, but not quite' and, on its Shakti pages, a 'constant tone'. It is approximated by a continuous 40 Hz carrier whose phase swings up to 3 rad ahead of and behind a steady 40 Hz every 2 s (38.5-41.5 Hz). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by the project's Larson & Lynch theta-burst table (4 pulses at 100 Hz per burst) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for this signal, 4 bursts (0.6 s), then the vendor's standard 4-s silence; the burst count is a choice, and 0.5-ms points replace the vendor's 3-ms points because 100 Hz pulses need them. 1 µT follows Persinger's papers, which mostly report about 1 µT (10 mG), and the vendor's '10mG' calibration for the modulated 40 Hz signal; the vendor's other figures disagree (10-20 mG on one page, a 50 or 90 mG 'laboratory standard' on others). If anxiety or fear appears during or after phase 2, never reuse this session (vendor). The vendor calls the session 'a bit experimental'. Not for people prone to anxiety. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with the hippocampal signal; if so, lower the intensity by one third. The 'hippocampus on the right' rule rests on a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Vendor exclusions: epilepsy or seizure history, psychiatric conditions or medication, migraine, brain injury, drugs. Stop on any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet session over both sides and then over one side (modulated 40 Hz both, then hippocampus right); Murphy, Modulated 40 Hz signal for the God Helmet; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, God Helmet schedule; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, God Helmet set and setting; Murphy, What to do during God Helmet sessions; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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meditation-prep, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti meditation advice; temporal sessions of the Feelgood and lucid-dream recipes)

Murphy's temporal session: the amygdala and hippocampal signals one after the other, with 4-s pauses, over both temporal lobes for 30 min, as preparation for meditation an hour or two later. Murphy: don't meditate during the stimulation. It is also the temporal session of his lucid-dream series (five weekly sessions before the frontal one).

Setting: No darkness or sensory deprivation needed; seated, eyes closed, relaxed but not meditating. Meditate 60-120 min after the session ends (Murphy: "an hour to 90 minutes later").

Schedule: Weekly or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; several sessions may be needed before an effect is noticed. Series of six, then a 21-day break. Lucid-dream series: five weekly sessions, then the frontal preset.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH3 FT8, CH4 TP8

For Vipassana or Zen, Murphy suggests 30-min Feelgood or 'altered states' sessions over both sides, or hippocampal signals over the right side only, and practising "an hour to 90 minutes later". This preset is the temporal part those bilateral sessions share: phase 1 of the Feelgood session and sessions 1-5 of the lucid-dream series play the amygdala and hippocampal signals in sequence over both temporal lobes. Two coils per side (FT7, TP7 and FT8, TP8 on CH1-4, so the same 8-coil set-up runs the frontal preset on CH5-8); the vendor shows only photos, so the site names are an inference. The signals are proprietary. One pass here is: the amygdala signal, approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s; the 230-point length is from Ryczko & Persinger 2002); 4 s of silence (the vendor: the two signals are "generated one after the other ... with a four-second latency"); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal, approximated by four theta bursts of four 100 Hz pulses (Larson & Lynch timing) repeated at 5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for it (0.6 s, with 1-ms points instead of the vendor's 3-ms points so the 100 Hz pulses fit); then 4 s of silence again. That gives about 8 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). Meditating or using other mind machines during the session "gives your brain conflicting instructions", Murphy says; use other mind machines about 2 h later, and no more than 3-5 a day. An independent sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over both temporal lobes (30 min) found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and Granqvist 2005 found no field effect. Persinger's lab reported more aggression and less trust after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993): stop if you notice irritability. Not for people with epilepsy, migraine, a psychiatric diagnosis or medication.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Meditation and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: During sessions; Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti safety; Murphy, Mood enhancement and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Lucid dreaming and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Deja vu lecture; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1

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murphy-shakti-meditation-hippocampus-right, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti meditation recipe

Murphy's meditation recipe for the 8 Coil Shakti, hippocampal variant: 30 min of the hippocampal signal over the right temporal lobe only, then meditate 60 to 120 min later. Murphy reports deeper meditation when the practice follows the session ('Shakti first, and the other an hour to 90 minutes later').

Setting: No sensory deprivation needed; sit or lie relaxed. Do not meditate during the session. Practise (for example Vipassana or Zen) 60 to 120 min after it ends.

Schedule: Murphy asks for patience: it may take several sessions. Vendor rules: at most once a week or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Murphy: for Vipassana or Zen use Feelgood or 'altered states' sessions over both sides, or hippocampal signals over the right side only, and 30 min is 'the right length for meditation enhancement'. This file is the right-side hippocampal variant, on the 8 Coil Shakti's 4-coil cross over the right temporal lobe (front FT8, top C6, back TP8, bottom T10; the vendor gives the cross as a chart and photos without 10-10 names, so the sites are an inference); the left channels stay silent. The Feelgood and Altered States options are separate programs and are not copied here: murphy-shakti8-feelgood-1phase-frontal (30 min) or murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-40min, and murphy-shakti8-altered-states-40min; end them 60 to 120 min before meditating. The wait and the meditation are not part of the program; use your own timer. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary. It is approximated on the vendor's standard 3-ms points: 4 bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart, one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), then the standard 4 s of silence (about 9.4 s of field per minute; the vendor gives 9.6 s). Hippocampus on the right follows a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: right-sided LTP-pattern fields were rated more pleasant). Murphy warns that meditating or using another mind machine during the session 'gives your brain conflicting instructions'; he also says a session can strengthen other mind machines used about 2 h later, and the vendor limits use to 'three to five devices per day'. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Meditation and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti safety; Murphy, Shakti demo: During sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-special-architecture-30, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, Shiva software (new in Shiva; Murphy: not tested in laboratory experiments)

Shorter use of Shiva's 'Special Architecture' session (left amygdala and right hippocampus signals together, both stepping back-to-front), finished about an hour before yoga, meditation, prayer or chanting. Murphy states that after shorter sessions the after-effects resemble meditation or deeper prayer.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed; do not meditate during the session; finish about 1 h before yoga, meditation, prayer or chanting.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

The four left coils (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1) carry the amygdala signal stepping O1 → TP7 → FT7 → Fp1 (clockwise seen from above) and the four right coils (O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2) the hippocampal signal stepping O2 → TP8 → FT8 → Fp2 (counter-clockwise), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example), so both run back-to-front. Murphy's page: 'the hippocampal signal, applied over the right runs counterclockwise, but the amygdala signal, applied over the left hemisphere, is applied in the opposite direction', so that 'both run back to front'. Both sides start at the back coils (O1, O2) and step forward in mirror image (the placement order is the counter-clockwise ring started at O1 only to set those start coils; how Shiva aligns the two sides is unpublished). Murphy says this is the only Shiva session that works this way. He pairs the hippocampus ('with its cognitive functions, and positive effects from the right side') with the amygdala ('an emotional structure with positive effects from the left, and negative ones from the right'), each chosen 'for its positive effects over that side', while each signal 'alters the binding factor' (vendor claim, extended from small Persinger-lab studies). One coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs. Both signal files are proprietary: the amygdala 'burstx' file is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 → 30 Hz), 230 points × 3 ms (0.69 s, the published burst-firing length at the vendor's standard 3-ms points); the hippocampal 'LTP' file by a train of 4 theta bursts, each of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse 100 Hz bursts of Larson & Lynch), repeated every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), at 3-ms points; these are the same stand-ins as in the Shiva amygdala and hippocampus simple sessions. The two start together every 4.69 s, each followed by about 4 s of silence. The 10-20 ms ramp is Murphy's illustrative lecture example (six values over four coils per side here, so the ramp does not line up with one lap of a side): his other statements of the Shiva speed ('around 9 times per second', about 14 ms per coil on the full 8-coil ring by our arithmetic; in 2007 'around the same speed' as the 25-ms binding factor) do not agree with it, and the real Shiva timing tables are unpublished. Shiva lists 20, 30 and 60-min versions of this session, but Murphy does not say which shorter length to use before practice; one user testimonial describes a 30-min session at 65% volume. Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version; phase 2 makes it the 30-min version. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Left-handed or ambidextrous users should start with short sessions and stop on fear, irritability, sadness or anxiety; not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed. Murphy asks users to report unpleasant sessions. He reports headaches in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals, and advises lowering the intensity by a third. Re-checked Oct 2026 against the vendor page: the directions, the back-to-front stepping, the 20/30/60-min options and the 'not tested in laboratory experiments' statement are confirmed; the page's direction quote and the note on the conflicting speed statements were added, the hippocampus/amygdala rationale is now quoted in the page's own words, phase 1 was renamed to fit the helmet display, and the program is unchanged.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Simultaneous amygdala & hippocampus signals; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths and schedules; Murphy, Shiva testimonials; Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz Binding Factor; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Murphy, Understanding Shiva neural stimulation ('around 9 times per second'); Wayback copy of the Shiva main page, 2007 ('around the same speed'); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-sync, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's stereo Shakti session in its 'synchronized' form: the amygdala signal on the left temporal lobe and the hippocampal signal on the right play at the same time. Murphy presents it as positive emotion (left amygdala) plus positive cognition (right hippocampus).

Setting: Evenings: the vendor says sessions are 'usually better after the sun goes down'. Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH5 FT8, CH6 TP8

4-coil Shakti layout: the left stereo channel's two coils on the left temporal lobe (FT7, TP7) and the right channel's two on the right (FT8, TP8), static, with no rotation or alternation; the vendor says only 'left channel coils on the left side, right channel on the right' (temporal or temporo-frontal), so the sites are an inference. The vendor gives no coil polarity for this 4-coil layout (the one + and one − coil per pair is documented only for the 8 Coil Shakti), so both coils of a side are driven with the same polarity here. Synchronized: both signals start together every 4.69 s, each followed by about 4 s of silence (Shakti's standard latency). Both signal files are proprietary: the amygdala 'burstx' file is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s, the published 230-point burst-firing length at Shakti's standard 3-ms points); the hippocampal 'LTP' file by 4 theta bursts, each of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse 100 Hz bursts of Larson & Lynch), repeated every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), on 3-ms points (0.74 s). Other forms of this session: murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-sequence (taking turns) and murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-slow (alternative slow hippocampal signal). Murphy aims the left amygdala signal at positive emotion and the right hippocampal signal at positive cognition, a vendor reading extended from small Persinger-lab studies (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Murphy reports male users feeling 'energized' and describing better 'verbal/mathematical/logical skills'; these are testimonials. One negative report followed sessions longer than suggested, so keep to 30 min and the schedule. Murphy reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Amygdala (left) and hippocampus (right) signals; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5jut4ran; 5.4 Hz FFT peak, also the LTP signal's peak); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-slow, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's stereo Shakti session with the alternative 'slow' hippocampal signal on the right temporal lobe and the amygdala signal on the left, offered for users whose standard sessions are 'duds'. Murphy calls the slow signal 'more experimental than the Standard Hippocampal signal'.

Setting: Evenings: the vendor says sessions are 'usually better after the sun goes down'. Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH5 FT8, CH6 TP8

4-coil Shakti layout: the left stereo channel's two coils on the left temporal lobe (FT7, TP7) and the right channel's two on the right (FT8, TP8), static, with no rotation or alternation; the vendor says only 'left channel coils on the left side, right channel on the right' (temporal or temporo-frontal), so the sites are an inference. The vendor gives no coil polarity for this 4-coil layout (the one + and one − coil per pair is documented only for the 8 Coil Shakti), so both coils of a side are driven with the same polarity here. Murphy says the slow signal keeps the 'same EEG pattern (long-term potentiating)' but changes 'the duration of the bursts ... as well as the length of time between the bursts'; its file (tp_24_16) is unpublished. Approximations: the amygdala 'burstx' file is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s, the published 230-point burst-firing length at Shakti's standard 3-ms points), then the standard 4 s of silence; the slow hippocampal signal by the project's standard LTP stand-in (4 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses) played on 4-ms points instead of 3, so the bursts and the time between them are a third longer (pulses 12 ms apart, bursts every 248 ms, about 4 Hz, a 0.99-s train), then 4 s of silence; the same choice as the project's Limbic Workout. The vendor does not say whether this form runs in sequence or at the same time; here both sides play at once, each with its own 4-s silence, so their onsets drift apart and back together. Standard forms: murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-sequence and murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-sync. Murphy aims the left amygdala signal at positive emotion and the right hippocampal signal at positive cognition, a vendor reading extended from small Persinger-lab studies (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Murphy reports male users feeling 'energized' and describing better 'verbal/mathematical/logical skills'; these are testimonials. One negative report followed sessions longer than suggested, so keep to 30 min and the schedule. Murphy reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Amygdala (left) and hippocampus (right) signals; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5jut4ran; 5.4 Hz FFT peak, also the LTP signal's peak); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-sequence, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's stereo Shakti session in its 'in sequence' form: the amygdala signal on the left temporal lobe and the hippocampal signal on the right take turns with the standard 4-s silences. Murphy presents it as positive emotion (left amygdala) plus positive cognition (right hippocampus).

Setting: Evenings: the vendor says sessions are 'usually better after the sun goes down'. Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH5 FT8, CH6 TP8

4-coil Shakti layout: the left stereo channel's two coils on the left temporal lobe (FT7, TP7) and the right channel's two on the right (FT8, TP8), static, with no rotation or alternation; the vendor says only 'left channel coils on the left side, right channel on the right' (temporal or temporo-frontal), so the sites are an inference. The vendor gives no coil polarity for this 4-coil layout (the one + and one − coil per pair is documented only for the 8 Coil Shakti), so both coils of a side are driven with the same polarity here. In sequence, with the standard timings: amygdala on the left, 4 s of silence, hippocampus on the right, 4 s of silence (one cycle 9.4 s). Both signal files are proprietary: the amygdala 'burstx' file is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s, the published 230-point burst-firing length at Shakti's standard 3-ms points); the hippocampal 'LTP' file by 4 theta bursts, each of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse 100 Hz bursts of Larson & Lynch), repeated every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), on 3-ms points (0.74 s). Other forms of this session: murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-sync (both at once) and murphy-shakti-amyl-hippr-variants-slow (alternative slow hippocampal signal). Murphy aims the left amygdala signal at positive emotion and the right hippocampal signal at positive cognition, a vendor reading extended from small Persinger-lab studies (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Murphy reports male users feeling 'energized' and describing better 'verbal/mathematical/logical skills'; these are testimonials. One negative report followed sessions longer than suggested, so keep to 30 min and the schedule. Murphy reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Amygdala (left) and hippocampus (right) signals; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5jut4ran; 5.4 Hz FFT peak, also the LTP signal's peak); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti8-feelgood-1phase-frontal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Murphy's one-phase Feelgood session: the amygdala and hippocampal signals one after the other with 4-s pauses, over both frontal lobes only. The vendor calls it 'the most effective feelgood session' and says to begin with it rather than the two-phase version.

Setting: Not in sensory deprivation: the vendor says the Feelgood session 'should not be done in sensory deprivation', since it is meant for 'outward-looking', 'this-worldly' effects. No time of day is prescribed (the vendor's page on weekly sessions says they 'can be done any time of day'); the vendor notes that the effect often shows only the morning after.

Schedule: Vendor: 6 weekly sessions or 6 sessions every 3 days (never more often than every 72 h), then 3 weeks off. If a session is interrupted before it ends, wait three days and start it again from the beginning (if you miss a session of an every-3-days series, the vendor says to stop for three weeks).

Coils: CH5 Fp1, CH6 AF3, CH7 Fp2, CH8 AF4

Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version (Murphy's demo video: 'choose 20 minutes, that's usually a fine length for most people'): stop after it, or let phase 2 run for the 30-min version. Four coils over the frontal lobes (Fp1, AF3, Fp2, AF4 on CH5-8, the frontal group of the two-phase files; CH1-4 stay silent). The vendor describes this session as 'running the 'feelgood' session, and bypassing the first phase', 'doing only the second phase, which applies the signals only to the frontal lobes'; its 2019 photo of the single-phase setup labels the two right coils R and the two left coils L, and the demo video shows the signal on 'both stereo channels at once', so all four coils carry the same signal at the same time. Polarity as in that photo and the older front view: AF4 (upper right) and Fp1 (lower left) +, AF3 (upper left) and Fp2 (lower right) - (weight -1). The exact sites are an inference from the photos. The vendor's signals are proprietary. One pass here is: the amygdala signal, approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s; the 230-point length is from Ryczko & Persinger 2002); 4 s of silence (the vendor: 'generated one after the other ... with a four-second latency'); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal, approximated by four theta bursts of 4 pulses at 100 Hz (the Larson & Lynch timing of the project's ltp generator) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for it (0.6 s, with 1-ms points instead of the vendor's 3-ms points so the 100 Hz pulses fit); then 4 s of silence again. That gives about 8 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). The vendor says you may feel 'a bit foggy' right after, that too many frontal (or temporal) sessions 'can create a kind of malaise or even lethargy', and that if unwanted effects appear after more than one series over the frontal or the temporal lobes, you should consider moving to the other. Intensity: the Shakti software defaults to 50% volume, which the vendor calls the 50 mG 'laboratory standard' (5 µT), while its measurement page gives 10 mG (1 µT) as the normal peak; no independent measurement of a Shakti unit was found, and this file uses 1 µT. Persinger's lab reported better mood with weekly burst-firing fields in small samples (Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, 2003, the latter with temporal or left-frontal placement; Tsang et al. 2009); none has been independently replicated. An independent randomized sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over the temporal lobes found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012; Murphy argues it used the wrong session), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). The same lab reported more aggression after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993) and more acceptance of false statements with burst-firing over the left prefrontal region (Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008). Not a treatment for depression or any illness: the vendor excludes people with psychiatric diagnoses. Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's Feelgood pages (2026): coil polarity added (all four coils had the same polarity before), and the 'not in sensory deprivation' rule, the demo's 20-min suggestion and the vendor's intensity figures noted; on review, the time-of-day and interruption statements were corrected to the vendor's wording. Still approximate: the coil sites and both signal templates.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti; Shakti demo: Feelgood output page; Shakti demo: Feelgood consent (schedule, coil photos, not in sensory deprivation); Shakti demo: Feelgood consent, 2007 version (30-min phases, one channel at a time); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; Feelgood channels, single phase of 20 min); Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (50 mG default); Murphy, Shakti demo: Measurement (10 mG normal peak); Murphy blog: 8 Coil Shakti feelgood session (reports); Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, Percept Mot Skills 83:491; Baker-Price & Persinger 2003, Percept Mot Skills 96:965; Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:365; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:365; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, A Reply to Gendle & McGrath; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions once a week (any time of day; metabolic snapback); Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions every 72 hours (missed sessions); Murphy, Shakti demo: Too many sessions over the same area

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murphy-shakti8-feelgood-1phase-temporofrontal, layout: custom, An 8 Coil Shakti user, reported on Todd Murphy's blog; variant of Murphy's one-phase Feelgood session

A user-reported variant of Murphy's one-phase Feelgood session with the four coils moved from the frontal lobes to the temporo-frontal area, where the frontal and temporal lobes meet. Same signal: the amygdala and hippocampal signals one after the other with 4-s pauses.

Setting: Not in sensory deprivation: the vendor says the Feelgood session 'should not be done in sensory deprivation', since it is meant for 'outward-looking', 'this-worldly' effects. No time of day is prescribed (the vendor's page on weekly sessions says they 'can be done any time of day'); the vendor notes that the effect often shows only the morning after.

Schedule: Vendor: 6 weekly sessions or 6 sessions every 3 days (never more often than every 72 h), then 3 weeks off. The 60-min version is a one-phase hour-long session, which the vendor allows at most once every three weeks. If a session is interrupted before it ends, wait three days and start it again from the beginning (if you miss a session of an every-3-days series, the vendor says to stop for three weeks).

Coils: CH5 F7, CH6 FT7, CH7 F8, CH8 FT8

The report names the area but not the sites; F7, FT7, F8 and FT8 (on CH5-8; CH1-4 stay silent) are an inference, and all four carry the same signal at once. Polarity is an inference too: each side gets one + and one - coil, as every Shakti channel has ('You need TWO poles (positive and negative) to make ONE magnetic field'), following the vendor's frontal photo, where each coil has the opposite polarity to its counterpart on the other side (here F7 and FT8 reversed, weight -1; FT7 and F8 as is). The user reported 30-min and 60-min sessions: phase 1 (30 min) is the 30-min version; stop after it, or let phase 2 run for the 60-min version. The vendor's own Feelgood phases are 20 or 30 min. This placement is one user's report, not a vendor design. The vendor's signals are proprietary. One pass here is: the amygdala signal, approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s; the 230-point length is from Ryczko & Persinger 2002); 4 s of silence (the vendor: 'generated one after the other ... with a four-second latency'); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal, approximated by four theta bursts of 4 pulses at 100 Hz (the Larson & Lynch timing of the project's ltp generator) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for it (0.6 s, with 1-ms points instead of the vendor's 3-ms points so the 100 Hz pulses fit); then 4 s of silence again. That gives about 8 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). The vendor says you may feel 'a bit foggy' right after, that too many frontal (or temporal) sessions 'can create a kind of malaise or even lethargy', and that if unwanted effects appear after more than one series over the frontal or the temporal lobes, you should consider moving to the other. Intensity: the Shakti software defaults to 50% volume, which the vendor calls the 50 mG 'laboratory standard' (5 µT), while its measurement page gives 10 mG (1 µT) as the normal peak; no independent measurement of a Shakti unit was found, and this file uses 1 µT. Persinger's lab reported better mood with weekly burst-firing fields in small samples (Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, 2003, the latter with temporal or left-frontal placement; Tsang et al. 2009); none has been independently replicated. An independent randomized sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over the temporal lobes found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012; Murphy argues it used the wrong session), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). The same lab reported more aggression after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993) and more acceptance of false statements with burst-firing over the left prefrontal region (Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008). Not a treatment for depression or any illness: the vendor excludes people with psychiatric diagnoses. Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's Feelgood pages (2026): coil polarity added (all four coils had the same polarity before), and the 'not in sensory deprivation' rule and the vendor's intensity figures noted; on review, the time-of-day and interruption statements were corrected to the vendor's wording. Still approximate: the sites, the polarity and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, lateral-orbitofrontal-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti; Shakti demo: Feelgood output page; Shakti demo: Feelgood consent (schedule, coil photos, not in sensory deprivation); Shakti demo: Feelgood consent, 2007 version (30-min phases, one channel at a time); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; Feelgood channels, single phase of 20 min); Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (50 mG default); Murphy, Shakti demo: Measurement (10 mG normal peak); Murphy blog: 8 Coil Shakti feelgood session (reports); Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, Percept Mot Skills 83:491; Baker-Price & Persinger 2003, Percept Mot Skills 96:965; Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:365; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:365; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, A Reply to Gendle & McGrath; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions once a week (any time of day; metabolic snapback); Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions every 72 hours (missed sessions); Murphy, Shakti demo: Too many sessions over the same area; Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-40min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti), design based on Baker-Price & Persinger's burst-firing studies; signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Murphy's two-phase Feelgood session for the 8 Coil Shakti: the amygdala and hippocampal signals one after the other with 4-s pauses, first over both temporal lobes, then over both frontal lobes. The vendor presents it for 'overcoming fear, anger and sadness' and says it suits people who are 'at their worst in the morning'.

Setting: Not in sensory deprivation: the vendor says the Feelgood session 'should not be done in sensory deprivation', since it is meant for 'outward-looking', 'this-worldly' effects. No time of day is prescribed (the vendor's page on weekly sessions says they 'can be done any time of day'); the vendor notes that the effect often shows only the morning after.

Schedule: Vendor: no more often than every three days for the 40-min session (once a week when effects appear for the 60-min one); six sessions, weekly or every 3 days, then a 3-week break. If no effects appear, alternate Feelgood and Altered States (murphy-shakti8-altered-states-40min) every three days for three sessions, then stop for a week (the vendor's general safety page, by contrast, advises against going back and forth between two session designs). If a session is interrupted before it ends, wait three days and start it again from the beginning (if you miss a session of an every-3-days series, the vendor says to stop for three weeks). The vendor's schedule pages describe a possible 'metabolic snapback' beginning about four days after the second session; the vendor says the effects of one session last 3-4 days, and claims a 6-week series lasts about 6 months.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH3 FT8, CH4 TP8, CH5 Fp1, CH6 AF3, CH7 Fp2, CH8 AF4

40-minute version (20 + 20 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers 30-min phases (murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-60min) and says to begin with the one-phase frontal session (murphy-shakti8-feelgood-1phase-frontal). The vendor: 'the left stereo channel applies the signals to the temporal lobes, and the right stereo channel applies the signals to the frontal lobes'. Here CH1-4 sit over the temporal lobes (FT7, TP7, FT8, TP8: two coils per side around T7/T8) and CH5-8 over the frontal lobes (Fp1, AF3, Fp2, AF4); the exact sites are an inference from vendor photos. All coils of the active group carry the signal at once, with no rotation and no left/right alternation (the 2007 version of the page: the signals 'repeat for 30 minutes through only one channel ... After 30 minutes, when the left channel is silenced and the right begins'). Polarity: the Shakti's coils come as + and - ('You need TWO poles (positive and negative) to make ONE magnetic field'), one of each per stereo channel on each side. As in murphy-shakti8-altered-states-40min, which uses the same eight coils, Fp1 and AF4 run as is and AF3 and Fp2 reversed (weight -1), after the vendor's front-view photos, and on the temples TP7 and FT8 run as is and FT7 and TP8 reversed, after the vendor's coil chart (its side-view photos disagree: the two on the Feelgood consent page show the front coil + and the back coil -, a 2021 view on the Mood enhancement page the reverse). The vendor calls phase 1 'preparation for the second phase': if unwanted effects come in phase 1 'you can skip to the second, or skip the first part altogether', but stopping in phase 1 'may leave you further from the goal of the session than you were before'. The vendor's signals are proprietary. One pass here is: the amygdala signal, approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s; the 230-point length is from Ryczko & Persinger 2002); 4 s of silence (the vendor: 'generated one after the other ... with a four-second latency'); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal, approximated by four theta bursts of 4 pulses at 100 Hz (the Larson & Lynch timing of the project's ltp generator) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for it (0.6 s, with 1-ms points instead of the vendor's 3-ms points so the 100 Hz pulses fit); then 4 s of silence again. That gives about 8 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). The vendor says the effect is 'like aspirin' (little change if you already feel good) and is often noticed only the next morning. The vendor warns that too many Feelgood (frontal) or Altered States (temporal) sessions 'can create a kind of malaise or even lethargy'; if unwanted effects appear after more than one series over one area, it suggests moving to the other. Intensity: the Shakti software defaults to 50% volume, which the vendor calls the 50 mG 'laboratory standard' (5 µT), while its measurement page gives 10 mG (1 µT) as the normal peak; no independent measurement of a Shakti unit was found, and this file uses 1 µT. Persinger's lab reported better mood with weekly burst-firing fields in small samples (Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, 2003, the latter with temporal or left-frontal placement; Tsang et al. 2009); none has been independently replicated. An independent randomized sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over the temporal lobes found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012; Murphy argues it used the wrong session), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). The same lab reported more aggression after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993) and more acceptance of false statements with burst-firing over the left prefrontal region (Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008). Not a treatment for depression or any illness: the vendor excludes people with psychiatric diagnoses. Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's Feelgood pages (2026): coil polarity added (all coils had the same polarity before), and the 'not in sensory deprivation' rule, the per-length schedule and the vendor's intensity figures noted; on review, the time-of-day, interruption and snapback statements were corrected to the vendor's wording and its malaise caution added. Still approximate: the coil sites, the temporal polarity and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-head, vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti; Shakti demo: Feelgood output page; Shakti demo: Feelgood consent (schedule, coil photos, not in sensory deprivation); Shakti demo: Feelgood consent, 2007 version (30-min phases, one channel at a time); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; Feelgood channels, single phase of 20 min); Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (50 mG default); Murphy, Shakti demo: Measurement (10 mG normal peak); Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, Percept Mot Skills 83:491; Baker-Price & Persinger 2003, Percept Mot Skills 96:965; Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:365; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:365; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, A Reply to Gendle & McGrath; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions once a week (any time of day; metabolic snapback); Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions every 72 hours (missed sessions); Murphy, Shakti demo: Too many sessions over the same area; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often (no going back and forth between two designs)

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murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-60min, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti), design based on Baker-Price & Persinger's burst-firing studies; signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Murphy's two-phase Feelgood session for the 8 Coil Shakti: the amygdala and hippocampal signals one after the other with 4-s pauses, first over both temporal lobes, then over both frontal lobes. The vendor presents it for 'overcoming fear, anger and sadness' and says it suits people who are 'at their worst in the morning'.

Setting: Not in sensory deprivation: the vendor says the Feelgood session 'should not be done in sensory deprivation', since it is meant for 'outward-looking', 'this-worldly' effects. No time of day is prescribed (the vendor's page on weekly sessions says they 'can be done any time of day'); the vendor notes that the effect often shows only the morning after.

Schedule: Vendor: no more often than once a week when effects appear for the 60-min session (every three days for the 40-min one); six sessions, then a 3-week break. The vendor's 60-minute page exempts two-phase sessions such as this one from its limit of one hour-long session per three weeks. If no effects appear, alternate Feelgood and Altered States (murphy-shakti8-altered-states-60min) every three days for three sessions, then stop for a week (the vendor's general safety page, by contrast, advises against going back and forth between two session designs). If a session is interrupted before it ends, wait three days and start it again from the beginning (if you miss a session of an every-3-days series, the vendor says to stop for three weeks). The vendor's schedule pages describe a possible 'metabolic snapback' beginning about four days after the second session; the vendor says the effects of one session last 3-4 days, and claims a 6-week series lasts about 6 months.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH3 FT8, CH4 TP8, CH5 Fp1, CH6 AF3, CH7 Fp2, CH8 AF4

60-minute version (30 + 30 min, switching abruptly); the vendor also offers 20-min phases (murphy-shakti8-feelgood-2phase-40min) and says to begin with the one-phase frontal session (murphy-shakti8-feelgood-1phase-frontal). The vendor: 'the left stereo channel applies the signals to the temporal lobes, and the right stereo channel applies the signals to the frontal lobes'. Here CH1-4 sit over the temporal lobes (FT7, TP7, FT8, TP8: two coils per side around T7/T8) and CH5-8 over the frontal lobes (Fp1, AF3, Fp2, AF4); the exact sites are an inference from vendor photos. All coils of the active group carry the signal at once, with no rotation and no left/right alternation (the 2007 version of the page: the signals 'repeat for 30 minutes through only one channel ... After 30 minutes, when the left channel is silenced and the right begins'). Polarity: the Shakti's coils come as + and - ('You need TWO poles (positive and negative) to make ONE magnetic field'), one of each per stereo channel on each side. As in murphy-shakti8-altered-states-40min, which uses the same eight coils, Fp1 and AF4 run as is and AF3 and Fp2 reversed (weight -1), after the vendor's front-view photos, and on the temples TP7 and FT8 run as is and FT7 and TP8 reversed, after the vendor's coil chart (its side-view photos disagree: the two on the Feelgood consent page show the front coil + and the back coil -, a 2021 view on the Mood enhancement page the reverse). The vendor calls phase 1 'preparation for the second phase': if unwanted effects come in phase 1 'you can skip to the second, or skip the first part altogether', but stopping in phase 1 'may leave you further from the goal of the session than you were before'. The vendor's signals are proprietary. One pass here is: the amygdala signal, approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s; the 230-point length is from Ryczko & Persinger 2002); 4 s of silence (the vendor: 'generated one after the other ... with a four-second latency'); the hippocampal 'LTP' signal, approximated by four theta bursts of 4 pulses at 100 Hz (the Larson & Lynch timing of the project's ltp generator) at the 5.4 Hz spectral peak the vendor reports for it (0.6 s, with 1-ms points instead of the vendor's 3-ms points so the 100 Hz pulses fit); then 4 s of silence again. That gives about 8 s of field per minute (the vendor states 9.6 s). The vendor says the effect is 'like aspirin' (little change if you already feel good) and is often noticed only the next morning. The vendor warns that too many Feelgood (frontal) or Altered States (temporal) sessions 'can create a kind of malaise or even lethargy'; if unwanted effects appear after more than one series over one area, it suggests moving to the other. Intensity: the Shakti software defaults to 50% volume, which the vendor calls the 50 mG 'laboratory standard' (5 µT), while its measurement page gives 10 mG (1 µT) as the normal peak; no independent measurement of a Shakti unit was found, and this file uses 1 µT. Persinger's lab reported better mood with weekly burst-firing fields in small samples (Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, 2003, the latter with temporal or left-frontal placement; Tsang et al. 2009); none has been independently replicated. An independent randomized sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal over the temporal lobes found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012; Murphy argues it used the wrong session), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). The same lab reported more aggression after three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions (Gillis & Persinger 1993) and more acceptance of false statements with burst-firing over the left prefrontal region (Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008). Not a treatment for depression or any illness: the vendor excludes people with psychiatric diagnoses. Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed. Revised after a re-check of the vendor's Feelgood pages (2026): coil polarity added (all coils had the same polarity before), and the 'not in sensory deprivation' rule, the per-length schedule and the vendor's intensity figures noted; on review, the time-of-day, interruption and snapback statements were corrected to the vendor's wording and its malaise caution added. Still approximate: the coil sites, the temporal polarity and both signal templates.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-head, vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti; Shakti demo: Feelgood output page; Shakti demo: Feelgood consent (schedule, coil photos, not in sensory deprivation); Shakti demo: Feelgood consent, 2007 version (30-min phases, one channel at a time); Murphy, Shakti Software Demo (video; Feelgood channels, single phase of 20 min); Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (50 mG default); Murphy, Shakti demo: Measurement (10 mG normal peak); Shakti demo: 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Baker-Price & Persinger 1996, Percept Mot Skills 83:491; Baker-Price & Persinger 2003, Percept Mot Skills 96:965; Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:365; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:365; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Murphy, A Reply to Gendle & McGrath; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions once a week (any time of day; metabolic snapback); Murphy, Shakti demo: Doing sessions every 72 hours (missed sessions); Murphy, Shakti demo: Too many sessions over the same area; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often (no going back and forth between two designs); Murphy, Shakti demo: 60 minute sessions (one per three weeks, two-phase sessions excepted); Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks (one week after an ineffective hour-long session)

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murphy-frontal-reset, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shiva 'mono SDU' and God Helmet software)

Murphy's 20-minute frontal session, which the vendor offers against 'lethargy, listlessness or mental fogginess' after too much temporal-lobe or one-sided stimulation. Hippocampal and amygdala signals run one after the other from static coils over both eyes with opposite polarity; the vendor states it 'treats both sides of the brain the same'.

Setting: Only as needed after over-stimulation; the vendor asks users to contact tech support first. Four coils on the forehead: Fp1 and AF3 above the left eye, Fp2 and AF4 above the right eye; the other four coils stay unused.

Schedule: One 20-minute run; the vendor says it 'can be run twice, if necessary', and not three times.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 AF3, CH5 Fp2, CH6 AF4

The vendor says to use 'only two or four coils', with opposite polarities, 'one or two coils over each eye'. Here the left pair (Fp1, AF3) gets the signal and the right pair (Fp2, AF4) the same signal reversed (weight -1); splitting the polarity by side is a project reading. For the two-coil form, unplug AF3 and AF4. The coils stay still, with no rotation. Approximations: the hippocampal 'LTP' and amygdala 'burstx' templates are proprietary. Each 9.5-s cycle follows the vendor's 'one after the other ... with a four-second latency' and its standard 3-ms points: five hippocampal theta bursts at 5 Hz (about 0.84 s; each 4 biphasic pulses at about 110 Hz, the nearest the 3-ms grid allows to the 100 Hz of the project's ltp generator; the number of bursts is a project choice), 4 s of silence, the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) for 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s, the published burst-firing length), then 4 s of silence. That gives about 9.6 s of field per minute, the vendor's figure for its standard signals; the same stand-in is used in murphy-paranormal-shakti-frontal. Do not exceed two runs; stop on distress. Not for people with epilepsy or a psychiatric condition. This session rests on vendor statements only and is not a treatment for anything. Independent double-blind tests of the related temporal-lobe sessions found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Shiva demo: A Frontal Lobe session (session to stop unwanted effects); God Helmet session using amygdala and hippocampus signals (stopping unwanted effects); Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Mood enhancement / feelgood, 8 Coil Shakti (signals one after the other with a 4-s latency); Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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love-agape, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (left-amygdala rule; the left-sided amygdala phase of his Shiva God Helmet sessions)

The amygdala burst-firing signal cycling around four coils on the LEFT temporal lobe only, as in the left-sided second phase of Murphy's God Helmet sessions. Murphy links the left amygdala with positive feelings (elation, joy, love) and reports bliss when he moved the amygdala signal to the left side; this is his anecdote, not a tested result.

Setting: Quiet, dim room, seated or reclined; darkness and silence only if you want effects during the session.

Schedule: At most weekly (or every 72 h), never on consecutive days; a series of six, then a 21-day break. At most one 10-min side test every 72 h.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9

Murphy's God Helmet sessions that end on the left (for example chirp on both sides, then amygdala on the left; 30 + 30 or 20 + 20 min) cycle the amygdala signal clockwise around a 4-coil cross on the left temporal lobe (about FT7, C5, TP7, T9; the site names are an inference). This preset runs that 30-min left phase on its own, so it is a project construct, not one of his sessions. The step time is not published; 125 ms per coil is an inference (as in god-helmet-classic). The amygdala 'burstx' template is proprietary and is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s) with the vendor's standard 4 s of silence. Murphy's "left positive, right negative" rule grew out of two small Persinger-lab studies (right-temporal burst-firing raised apprehension in women, Richards 1992; right-hemisphere LTP-pattern fields felt more pleasant than left, Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994) and from user reports; mainstream studies find that both amygdalae respond to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli. Murphy suggests a 10-min test of a signal on each side first, starting on the side usually unpleasant for it (the right for the amygdala signal), because some people have 'reversed' structures. If anger appears during or after a session, don't use it again; for lethargy or fogginess after one-sided sessions Murphy offers a frontal 'stopping unwanted effects' session (murphy-frontal-reset). Not for people prone to anger, or with epilepsy, a psychiatric diagnosis or medication. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of the field (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-amygdala, left-temporal-pole (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, God Helmet: chirp first and amygdala (left) second; Murphy, God Helmet session list; Murphy, Shakti test sessions; Murphy, 'Reversed' or 'left-handed' brain structures; Murphy, Enlightenment lecture; Murphy, Sacred Body lecture; McTaggart interview with Murphy (2006); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-ltp-pleasantness-right, layout: custom, Persinger, Richards & Koren (Laurentian University), 1994 double-blind pleasantness study, right-hemisphere arm

The right-hemisphere arm of Persinger, Richards & Koren (1994): 20 min of a 1 uT 'LTP' pattern (modelled on the current trains that induce long-term potentiation in hippocampal slices) over the right temporal lobe. In their double-blind study of 40 people, this arm's experiences were rated more pleasant than the left arm's.

Setting: Seated or reclined in a quiet, dark room with the eyes covered (the lab's standard: blindfold or opaque goggles in an acoustic chamber). Rate how pleasant the session was before unblinding.

Schedule: One 20-min session per person in the original (between-subjects). For a self-test, compare the four arms (right, left, both, sham) in blinded, counterbalanced order on separate days.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH2 TP7, CH5 T8, CH6 TP8

Persinger, Richards & Koren (1994) gave 40 people 20 min of 1 uT (10 mG) fields 'known to produce long-term potentiation within hippocampal slices', primarily over the right temporal lobe, the left, or both homogeneously, or a sham, under double-blind conditions. The lab reported that right-hemisphere recipients rated their experiences more pleasant than left-hemisphere recipients (eta = 0.51), and that ambient geomagnetic activity correlated negatively with pleasantness. The 1994 abstract gives no pattern timing. The lab later described its LTP pattern as 'a single pulse followed about 170 msec later by 4 pulses in rapid succession with a functional frequency of between 100 and 200 Hz' (Persinger 2010), and the Shiva software's version is a primed burst (Rose et al. 1988): positive-only 1-ms pulses, a primer, then 4 pulses 150 ms later (Corradini 2014, MA thesis). This file uses the project's primed-burst table with Corradini's 150 ms; the 10-ms spacing of the 4 pulses (100 Hz, the low end of Persinger's range) is an assumption. Delparte & Persinger (2007) describe the lab's fields as a '1 s pulse of 5 trains' and also call them theta-burst. Here the primed-burst table plays one 1-s pulse of 5 trains, then 4 s of silence, the interstimulus interval McKay & Persinger (2005) reported as optimal in rats (Delparte & Persinger used continuous, 5 s or 10 s). Timing and point values are reconstructions from these descriptions, not the lab file. Two coils per side, T8/TP8 and T7/TP7, approximate 'over the temporal lobe'; only the right pair plays. Calling a 1 uT field an 'LTP' stimulus is the lab's extrapolation from electrical current trains applied to brain slices, not a measurement. The pleasantness difference has not been independently replicated, and independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Use the app's Blind option for the sham arm. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history, implanted devices or pregnancy; stop on headache or distress.

Aims at: right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Differential ratings of pleasantness following right and left hemispheric application of low energy magnetic fields that stimulate long-term potentiation, Int J Neurosci 79:191-197; Corradini 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University (LTP file: primer, then 4 pulses 150 ms later, 1-ms points, positive values); Persinger 2010, The Harribance effect as pervasive out-of-body experiences, NeuroQuantology 8(4):444-465 (LTP: a single pulse, then about 170 ms later 4 pulses at 100-200 Hz); Rose, Diamond, Pang & Dunwiddie 1988, Primed burst potentiation (as cited by Corradini 2014); Delparte & Persinger 2007, Int J Neurosci 117:295 (1 s pulse of 5 trains, continuous or with 5 s or 10 s ISI); McKay & Persinger 2005 (theta-burst, 200-500 nT, 4000 ms ISI); Richards, Persinger & Koren 1996, Electro- and Magnetobiology 15:141 (a 1 uT field structure that promotes long-term potentiation in hippocampal slices); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-paranormal-shakti-frontal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Paranormal Shakti software, retired)

The frontal-lobe session of Murphy's retired Paranormal Shakti, which the vendor offered to adults troubled by reported paranormal experiences ('victims of paranormal pollution') to lower their 'sensitivity': 30 min of the hippocampal and amygdala signals one after the other, the same signal on four coils over the forehead.

Setting: Adults (over 18) only (vendor). Investigators: not in the 3 days before an investigation, since the vendor says it lowers sensitivity.

Schedule: Vendor: after 6 temporal sessions, 3 frontal sessions; 30 min each ('10 minutes will not be effective, and 40 minutes will be more than needed'). The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 AF3, CH5 Fp2, CH6 AF4

Coils: Fp1 and AF3 over the left frontal lobe, Fp2 and AF4 over the right; the exact sites are an inference from 'coils over the frontal lobes'. The other four channels stay unused. All four coils carry the same signal ('the same signal in both channels'), with no rotation. One 9.5-s pass: the hippocampal stand-in (five theta bursts at 5 Hz, each of 4 biphasic pulses at about 110 Hz, 0.84 s), 4 s of silence, the amygdala stand-in (the built-in accelerating burst, 6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s), then 4 s of silence; that gives about 9.6 s of field per minute, the vendor's figure for its standard signals. Both originals are proprietary; the hippocampal stand-in is the one used in the project's frontal reset session. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users of an earlier version of its signals, mostly with hippocampal signals; if that happens, lower the intensity by one-third. The vendor excluded cases described as 'possession' (or took them only with caveats), and its wording came close to medical claims. This file makes none: it is not a treatment for anything, and anyone distressed by unusual experiences should talk to a doctor. Persinger's lab reported more acceptance of false statements after burst-firing over the left prefrontal region (Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008, single lab). Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). The product is retired; this file is of historical interest. Not for people with epilepsy; stop on distress.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: frontal lobe session (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: the procedure (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Paranormal Shakti: on-site sessions (Wayback, 2013); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Ross, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:365; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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persinger-mood-rotated-burst-2009, layout: custom, Tsang, Koren & Persinger, Laurentian University

The burst-firing arm of Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009: a 1 uT burst-firing field rotated around the head at the level of the temporoparietal lobes, 20 min once a week for 3 weeks. Persinger's lab reported better mood and vigour than with sham or the six other field configurations.

Setting: Seated, eyes closed, in a quiet, dim room. Fill in the same mood questionnaire (the study used the Profile of Mood States) before and after each session.

Schedule: 20 min once a week for 3 weeks. To separate the pattern from expectation, compare blinded against the sham program and the random-field arm.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FFT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 POO7, CH5 POO8, CH6 TP8, CH7 FFT8, CH8 Fp2

Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009 exposed normal volunteers for 20 min once a week, 3 sessions in all, to 1 of 7 configurations of weak (1 microTesla) fields or to a sham field; "the fields were spatially rotated and applied through the brain at the level of the temporoparietal lobes". Mood (Profile of Mood States) was rated before and after each session, and heart rate, plethysmography and skin conductance were measured before, during and after; the abstract states no autonomic effect. Persinger's lab reported that the burst-firing pattern "previously demonstrated to be effective for clinical depression" improved mood and vigour compared with sham and the other configurations, and that burst-firing, a complex-sequenced pattern and an LTP pattern reduced fatigue compared with sham and random-sequenced fields. The arms rebuilt here are persinger-mood-rotated-burst-2009, persinger-mood-rotated-ltp-2009 and persinger-mood-rotated-random-2009 (run sham, or the app's Blind option, for the sham arm); the complex-sequenced arm and the other three configurations are not described well enough to rebuild. Approximations: the abstract gives no rotation schedule, so one of the lab's documented schedules, '20+2' (20, 18 ... 6 ms per solenoid, one turn 104 ms; Persinger & Lavallee 2010), turning counter-clockwise (the lab standard; Lehman 2016), stands in; the ring of 8 coils about 45 degrees apart on the 10% line, coil 1 over the left frontal region and coil 8 over the right prefrontal region (Fp1, FFT7, TP7, POO7, POO8, TP8, FFT8, Fp2), is an inference from the lab's circumcerebral device. The paper puts the rotation "through the brain at the level of the temporoparietal lobes", that is around T7, TP7, P7 and T8, TP8, P8, while this ring follows the lab's own solenoid order, whose first and last coils sit over the left frontal and right prefrontal regions: the side and back coils are near the paper's plane and the two forehead coils sit above and in front of it. The burst-firing point values were never published, so the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) stands in: 230 points of 3 ms (0.69 s, the best-supported of the lab's 230, 248 and 289-point lengths) once every 4 s; with the 104-ms rotation each burst sweeps the ring about six and a half times. Source cautions: one lab, mood questionnaires, a modest sample spread over 8 groups, never independently replicated. A randomized, sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). Not a treatment for low mood or depression. Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: left-tpj, right-tpj, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:365; Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785 (ring order and the '20+2' notation); Lehman 2016, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 56-57 (CCW standard, 1-5 uT inside each solenoid); Carniello 2020, PhD thesis, Laurentian University (230-point burst-firing file, 3 ms); Martin & Persinger 2004, Neurosci Lett 366:226 (burst-firing once every 4 s); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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persinger-mood-rotated-ltp-2009, layout: custom, Tsang, Koren & Persinger, Laurentian University

The LTP arm of Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009: a 1 uT 'LTP' (hippocampal primed-burst) field rotated around the head at the level of the temporoparietal lobes, 20 min once a week for 3 weeks. Persinger's lab reported less fatigue than with sham or random-sequenced fields.

Setting: Seated, eyes closed, in a quiet, dim room. Fill in the same mood questionnaire (the study used the Profile of Mood States) before and after each session.

Schedule: 20 min once a week for 3 weeks. To separate the pattern from expectation, compare blinded against the sham program and the random-field arm.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FFT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 POO7, CH5 POO8, CH6 TP8, CH7 FFT8, CH8 Fp2

Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009 exposed normal volunteers for 20 min once a week, 3 sessions in all, to 1 of 7 configurations of weak (1 microTesla) fields or to a sham field; "the fields were spatially rotated and applied through the brain at the level of the temporoparietal lobes". Mood (Profile of Mood States) was rated before and after each session, and heart rate, plethysmography and skin conductance were measured before, during and after; the abstract states no autonomic effect. Persinger's lab reported that the burst-firing pattern "previously demonstrated to be effective for clinical depression" improved mood and vigour compared with sham and the other configurations, and that burst-firing, a complex-sequenced pattern and an LTP pattern reduced fatigue compared with sham and random-sequenced fields. The arms rebuilt here are persinger-mood-rotated-burst-2009, persinger-mood-rotated-ltp-2009 and persinger-mood-rotated-random-2009 (run sham, or the app's Blind option, for the sham arm); the complex-sequenced arm and the other three configurations are not described well enough to rebuild. Approximations: the abstract gives no rotation schedule, so one of the lab's documented schedules, '20+2' (20, 18 ... 6 ms per solenoid, one turn 104 ms; Persinger & Lavallee 2010), turning counter-clockwise (the lab standard; Lehman 2016), stands in; the ring of 8 coils about 45 degrees apart on the 10% line, coil 1 over the left frontal region and coil 8 over the right prefrontal region (Fp1, FFT7, TP7, POO7, POO8, TP8, FFT8, Fp2), is an inference from the lab's circumcerebral device. The paper puts the rotation "through the brain at the level of the temporoparietal lobes", that is around T7, TP7, P7 and T8, TP8, P8, while this ring follows the lab's own solenoid order, whose first and last coils sit over the left frontal and right prefrontal regions: the side and back coils are near the paper's plane and the two forehead coils sit above and in front of it. The lab's LTP file is unpublished. It is rebuilt as the primed burst described for the LTP file that Corradini 2014 applied in Persinger's lab (Shiva software): positive-only 1-ms pulses, a primer, then 4 pulses at 100 Hz from 150 ms later (Rose et al. 1988 primed-burst potentiation). The 10-ms spacing is the 100 Hz end of the lab's own wording, "a single pulse followed about 170 msec later by 4 pulses in rapid succession with a functional frequency of between 100 and 200 Hz" (Persinger 2010), which also puts the primer gap near 170 ms rather than Corradini's 150 ms. Five such trains make the lab's "1 s pulse of 5 trains of an LTP-evoking pattern" (Delparte & Persinger 2007), played here without pauses; Delparte also used 5- or 10-s gaps, and the 2009 abstract gives neither. The lab also called these fields 'theta-burst', and the primed-burst structure is documented only for the Shiva file. The pulses fall on whichever coil the rotation has reached. Calling a 1 uT field an LTP stimulus is the lab's extrapolation from current trains in brain slices. Source cautions: one lab, mood questionnaires, a modest sample spread over 8 groups, never independently replicated. A randomized, sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). Not a treatment for low mood or depression. Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop on headache, nausea or distress.

Aims at: left-tpj, right-tpj, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Tsang, Koren & Persinger 2009, Electromagn Biol Med 28:365; Corradini 2014, MA thesis, Laurentian University (primed-burst LTP file); Delparte & Persinger 2007, Int J Neurosci 117:295 ('1 s pulse of 5 trains'); Persinger 2010, NeuroQuantology 8(4):444 (the LTP pattern: a primer then 4 pulses about 170 ms later at 100-200 Hz); Persinger & Lavallee 2010, J Conscious Explor Res 1(7):785 (ring order and the '20+2' notation); Lehman 2016, PhD thesis, Laurentian University, pp. 56-57 (CCW standard, 1-5 uT inside each solenoid); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-amygdala, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software), after Persinger's vectorial hemisphericity theory

Murphy's 'interhemispheric intrusion' (back-and-forth) session: 30 min of the amygdala burst-firing signal over the right temporal lobe, its 'usually wrong' side, then 30 min over the left. Murphy says the first phase is expected to be unpleasant and that the switch can bring bliss or elation.

Setting: Advanced users only, after a side test has shown the usual pattern for the signal (this file assumes the usual sides). The vendor says darkness and silence (sensory deprivation) help; eyes closed, relaxed. Run murphy-shakti-test-session-amygdala first.

Schedule: Vendor rules: never on consecutive days, at most every 72 hours or weekly; 60-minute sessions at most once in 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Murphy bases the design on Persinger's vectorial hemisphericity idea: stimulating a structure's negative counterpart first mutes the positive one, and stimulating the positive one next gives what he calls a 'sudden burst'. For the amygdala he links this to the anterior commissure and to bliss and elation. That the right amygdala is the unpleasant side rests on user reports and a small Persinger-lab study (Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992: burst-firing over the right temporal lobe raised apprehension in women). Murphy links the right amygdala with fear and sadness and the left with bliss, mostly from user reports, so phase 1 can bring fear. Phase 1 is meant to be unpleasant (the vendor: 'EXPECTED to be unpleasant') and phase 2 pleasant; if phase 1 feels good instead, the vendor reads that as a possible 'reversed' or 'left-handed' structure. The vendor 'strongly' suggests running this procedure with each signal separately (murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-amygdala and -hippocampus) before trying the two-signal option (murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-both). If phase 1 becomes too uncomfortable, press Skip at once to start phase 2, but never stop after phase 1 without phase 2 (the vendor: 'Do NOT apply the signal over the wrong side without following it with the same signal over the correct side'). For unwanted effects that linger, the vendor's undo procedures are the hippocampal signal over both frontal lobes or the ERP signal over the cerebellum (in this project: murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp). Coils: a cross of four over each temporal lobe (FT7, C5, TP7, T9 and FT8, C6, TP8, T10); each phase drives the four coils of one side together, without movement or channel alternation (none is described for this procedure). The vendor's Alternative procedures page says to apply the signal 'over the (usually) WRONG side of your head for 30 minutes, and then immediately apply the same wave form to the (usually) CORRECT side', without a length for the second phase; its 30 min here is an inference (it matches the first phase and the 30 + 30 min the page gives for the two-signal option; the Bliss page gives 20-30 min per phase). The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s), followed by the vendor's standard latency of about 4 s. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition. If phase 1 is distressing, skip to phase 2 as the vendor advises; stop the session if distress continues in phase 2. Revised after a re-check of the procedures page (2026): the length of phase 2 is now marked as an inference, and the page's advice on order and on 'reversed' structures is added; sites, signals and timing are unchanged and remain approximations as described.

Aims at: right-amygdala, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Alternative procedures; Murphy, Shakti demo: Bliss; Murphy, Shakti demo: Test sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Reversed' or 'left-handed' brain structures; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety – how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-both, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software), after Persinger's vectorial hemisphericity theory

Option 2 of Murphy's back-and-forth session: 30 min with the amygdala signal on the right and the hippocampal signal on the left (both on their 'usually wrong' sides), then 30 min with both on their usual sides (amygdala left, hippocampus right). Murphy says the first phase is expected to be unpleasant.

Setting: Advanced users only, after a side test has shown the usual pattern for the signal (this file assumes the usual sides). The vendor says darkness and silence (sensory deprivation) help; eyes closed, relaxed. Test both signals first (murphy-shakti-test-session-amygdala and -hippocampus, at least 72 hours apart).

Schedule: Vendor rules: never on consecutive days, at most every 72 hours or weekly; 60-minute sessions at most once in 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

The vendor's option 2 'reverses both signals, then corrects both'; running the two signals at the same time, one on each side, is this project's reading (an inference). Murphy bases the design on Persinger's vectorial hemisphericity idea: stimulating a structure's negative counterpart first mutes the positive one, and stimulating the positive one next gives what he calls a 'sudden burst'. The left/right rules rest on user reports and small Persinger-lab studies (Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992; Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994). Murphy links the right amygdala with fear and sadness and the left hippocampus with irritability, mostly from user reports, so phase 1 can bring fear or irritability. Phase 1 is meant to be unpleasant (the vendor: 'EXPECTED to be unpleasant') and phase 2 pleasant; if phase 1 feels good instead, the vendor reads that as a possible 'reversed' or 'left-handed' structure. The vendor offers this option only after the single-signal procedure, which it 'strongly' suggests running with each signal separately first (murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-amygdala and -hippocampus). If phase 1 becomes too uncomfortable, press Skip at once to start phase 2, but never stop after phase 1 without phase 2 (the vendor: 'Do NOT apply the signal over the wrong side without following it with the same signal over the correct side'). For unwanted effects that linger, the vendor's undo procedures are the hippocampal signal over both frontal lobes or the ERP signal over the cerebellum (in this project: murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp). Coils: a cross of four over each temporal lobe (FT7, C5, TP7, T9 and FT8, C6, TP8, T10); in each phase one track drives the four coils of one side with one signal, without movement or channel alternation (none is described for this procedure). The burst repeats every 4.69 s and the LTP train every 4.74 s, so the two drift against each other. The Alternative procedures page gives this option as 'Reversing both signals for 30 minutes, followed by applying both signals to the 'correct' sides for 30 minutes' (the Bliss page gives 20-30 min per phase). The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s), followed by the vendor's standard latency of about 4 s. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by a point table in the vendor's standard scheme (3-ms points, about 4 s of latency): four theta bursts, each of four biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition. If phase 1 is distressing, skip to phase 2 as the vendor advises; stop the session if distress continues in phase 2. Revised after a re-check of the procedures page (2026): the page's advice on order and on 'reversed' structures is added; sites, signals and timing are unchanged and remain approximations as described.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Alternative procedures; Murphy, Shakti demo: Bliss; Murphy, Shakti demo: Test sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Reversed' or 'left-handed' brain structures; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667; Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety – how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-hippocampus, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software), after Persinger's vectorial hemisphericity theory

Murphy's 'interhemispheric intrusion' (back-and-forth) session: 30 min of the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the left temporal lobe, its 'usually wrong' side, then 30 min over the right. Murphy says the first phase is expected to be unpleasant and the second pleasant.

Setting: Advanced users only, after a side test has shown the usual pattern for the signal (this file assumes the usual sides). The vendor says darkness and silence (sensory deprivation) help; eyes closed, relaxed. Run murphy-shakti-test-session-hippocampus first.

Schedule: Vendor rules: never on consecutive days, at most every 72 hours or weekly; 60-minute sessions at most once in 3 weeks.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Murphy bases the design on Persinger's vectorial hemisphericity idea: stimulating a structure's negative counterpart first mutes the positive one, and stimulating the positive one next gives what he calls a 'sudden burst'. Murphy links the left hippocampus with irritability and verbal thought and the right with calm and imagery, mostly from user reports; the left/right rule rests on a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). Phase 1 is meant to be unpleasant (the vendor: 'EXPECTED to be unpleasant') and phase 2 pleasant; if phase 1 feels good instead, the vendor reads that as a possible 'reversed' or 'left-handed' structure. The vendor 'strongly' suggests running this procedure with each signal separately (murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-amygdala and -hippocampus) before trying the two-signal option (murphy-shakti-back-and-forth-both). If phase 1 becomes too uncomfortable, press Skip at once to start phase 2, but never stop after phase 1 without phase 2 (the vendor: 'Do NOT apply the signal over the wrong side without following it with the same signal over the correct side'). For unwanted effects that linger, the vendor's undo procedures are the hippocampal signal over both frontal lobes or the ERP signal over the cerebellum (in this project: murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp). Coils: a cross of four over each temporal lobe (FT7, C5, TP7, T9 and FT8, C6, TP8, T10); each phase drives the four coils of one side together, without movement or channel alternation (none is described for this procedure). The vendor's Alternative procedures page says to apply the signal 'over the (usually) WRONG side of your head for 30 minutes, and then immediately apply the same wave form to the (usually) CORRECT side', without a length for the second phase; its 30 min here is an inference (it matches the first phase and the 30 + 30 min the page gives for the two-signal option; the Bliss page gives 20-30 min per phase). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by a point table in the vendor's standard scheme (3-ms points, about 4 s of latency): four theta bursts, each of four biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition. If phase 1 is distressing, skip to phase 2 as the vendor advises; stop the session if distress continues in phase 2. Revised after a re-check of the procedures page (2026): the length of phase 2 is now marked as an inference, and the page's advice on order and on 'reversed' structures is added; sites, signals and timing are unchanged and remain approximations as described.

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Alternative procedures; Murphy, Shakti demo: Bliss; Murphy, Shakti demo: Test sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Reversed' or 'left-handed' brain structures; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety – how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's one-coil Shakti session over the cerebellum, just below the bony ridge at the back of the head: 20 min of an event-related-potential (ERP) signal. The vendor calls the cerebellum a 'pleasure/orgasm center' and suggests cerebellar ERP to 'un-do unwanted effects' after sessions that used both the amygdala and the hippocampal signals.

Setting: As an 'undo' session after sessions that used both the amygdala and hippocampal signals, or in series that alternate with series over other areas (vendor). Sit, or lie on your side, so the coil at the back of the head is not pressed.

Schedule: Vendor: alternate cerebellar series with series over other areas. The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Iz

One coil at Iz, the 10-5 site on the inion: the vendor says to 'use the bony ridge at the back of your head', with the occipital lobes above the ridge and the cerebellum below it, and uses a one-coil headset, so seat the coil on or just below the ridge. Iz is an inference; I1 or I2 (a little to either side) and O9 or O10 (further out) are alternative sites. The other seven channels stay unused. A coil below the inion is hard to hold on a Velcro band, so check that it sits firmly and comfortably. The vendor's ERP file is proprietary and undescribed; this file uses the project's ERP construct (textbook P50, N100, P200, N200 and P300 components after Luck 2014: a 0.6-s pulse every 1.5 s, 1-ms points), not the Shakti file. The vendor's volume table (desktop sound card 90% for men and 58% for women; laptop or onboard sound 100% for both) sets sound-card levels, not a calibrated field. The default here is 1 µT; the table's lower desktop setting for women would mean about two-thirds of that. The vendor also allows the modulated 40 Hz signal here (murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp-mod40). Its statement that 'cerebellar activation can attenuate limbic, particularly amygdaloid, activation' is a vendor claim, and the vendor calls the ERP signal untested. The vendor warns that 'excess cerebellar activation may lead to emotional flattening', so do not overuse it. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed.

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Cerebellum; Murphy, Shakti demo: ERP signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Bliss (undo procedures); Murphy, Shakti demo: Measurement; Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-lucid-dream-series-chirp-hipp, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti (dream recipe; two-phase session design)

The alternative dream session on Murphy's Shakti pages: the chirp over both temporal lobes, then the hippocampal signal over the right temporal lobe, finished 1 to 1.5 h before bed. Murphy presents it for dream recall and vivid dreams.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, at night, eyes closed; finish 1 to 1.5 h before going to bed.

Schedule: Vendor rules: 60-min sessions at most once every 3 weeks; never on consecutive days.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 TP7, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

The dream page names the signals and sides but gives no durations, so the phase lengths (30 + 30 min, abrupt switch) and coil groups follow the vendor's 8 Coil Shakti two-phase session 'chirp both sides, then hippocampus right': phase 1 drives two coils per side (FT7/TP7 and FT8/TP8), phase 2 the four-coil cross on the right (FT8, C6, TP8, T10; the vendor names no 10-10 sites, so these are an inference). On the Shakti the phase-1 coils on the right are separate coils of the other stereo channel; here FT8 and TP8 serve both phases, and channels 3-4 stay silent. The Shakti 'modulated 40 Hz chirp' file is proprietary. Murphy relates it to a frequency-modulated pulse 'named for its designer' (taken here to be the Thomas pattern), so it is approximated by a sweep falling from 40 to 6 Hz on 3-ms points, 2.5 s on and 1.5 s off (837 points of 3 ms once every 4 s, after the published FM pattern); neither the 40 Hz modulation nor the build the vendor describes (frequency-modulated gaps, with amplitudes and gap lengths varied in Fibonacci steps) is reproduced. The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary. It is approximated on the vendor's standard 3-ms points: 4 bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart, one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), then the standard 4 s of silence (about 9.4 s of field per minute; the vendor gives 9.6 s). The vendor warns that the chirp can be 'very unpleasant over the right side'; if fear comes, press Skip to go to phase 2. Hippocampus on the right follows a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: right-sided LTP-pattern fields were rated more pleasant). Murphy notes that 'There have not been many reports' of lucid dreams from his dream sessions, so do not expect this one to produce them. The same coil design without the dream timing is murphy-shakti8-twophase-family-chirpbi-hippr. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Dreaming; Murphy, Lucid dreaming and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Two-phase sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern, once every 4 s); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3-ms points); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, Shakti demo: Overcoming dud sessions (60-min sessions every 21 days); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-lucid-dream-series-frontal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti (pattern drawn from user reports)

Session 6 of Murphy's lucid-dreaming series: after five weekly temporal sessions, the same amygdala and hippocampal signals in sequence over the frontal lobes. Murphy reports cases of lucid dreaming 'that very night'.

Setting: Run it on the night you want to dream; end it 1 to 1.5 h before going to bed. Dark, quiet room, eyes closed.

Schedule: Once, a week after session 5 of murphy-shakti-lucid-dream-series-temporal; then the vendor's 21-day break. Murphy says effective temporal sessions are 'probably ... a prerequisite', so do not start the series with this file.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 AF3, CH5 Fp2, CH6 AF4

30 min on four frontal coils, Fp1 and AF3 on the left, Fp2 and AF4 on the right (the vendor shows the frontal placement only in photos, so these sites are an inference); the other four channels stay silent. All four play the same signal together. Both signals are proprietary. The amygdala 'burstx' template is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz over 230 points, the point count of the published burst-firing pattern, drawn on the Shakti's 3-ms points = 0.69 s), the hippocampal 'LTP' template by 4 bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart repeated at 5.4 Hz (the vendor's reported LTP spectral peak), also on 3-ms points. As the vendor describes, the two follow each other with a 4-s silence after each: amygdala 0.69 s, silence 4 s, hippocampus 0.74 s, silence 4 s (a 9.4-s cycle). Murphy notes that 'There have not been many reports' of lucid dreams after the series, so do not expect it to produce them. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc, vmpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Lucid dreaming and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Dreaming; Murphy, Deja vu and other ways to use neuroscience for prayer and meditation (lecture); Murphy, Mood enhancement and the 8 Coil Shakti (signals in sequence with a 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-lucid-dream-series-temporal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti (pattern drawn from user reports)

Sessions 1 to 5 of Murphy's lucid-dreaming series: the amygdala and hippocampal signals in sequence over both temporal lobes, once a week. Murphy says such temporal sessions are 'probably ... a prerequisite' for the frontal session 6, after which he reports cases of lucid dreaming 'that very night'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed; relax without meditating or falling asleep. End the session 1 to 1.5 h before going to bed.

Schedule: One session a week for 5 weeks, then session 6 (murphy-shakti-lucid-dream-series-frontal). Never on consecutive days; after the series take the vendor's 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

30 min on all 8 coils in the 8 Coil Shakti's 4-coil cross over each temporal lobe (front FT7/FT8, top C5/C6, back TP7/TP8, bottom T9/T10; the vendor gives the cross as a chart and photos without 10-10 names, so these sites are an inference). The Shakti's paired +/- coils and its channel alternation are not reproduced (no alternation setting is given for this session); all coils play the same signal together. Both signals are proprietary. The amygdala 'burstx' template is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz over 230 points, the point count of the published burst-firing pattern, drawn on the Shakti's 3-ms points = 0.69 s), the hippocampal 'LTP' template by 4 bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart repeated at 5.4 Hz (the vendor's reported LTP spectral peak), also on 3-ms points. As the vendor describes, the two follow each other with a 4-s silence after each: amygdala 0.69 s, silence 4 s, hippocampus 0.74 s, silence 4 s (a 9.4-s cycle). Murphy notes that 'There have not been many reports' of lucid dreams after the series, so do not expect it to produce them. The vendor also suggests an alternative dream session, chirp over both sides, then hippocampus over the right (murphy-shakti-lucid-dream-series-chirp-hipp). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Lucid dreaming and the 8 Coil Shakti; Murphy, Shakti demo: Dreaming; Murphy, Deja vu and other ways to use neuroscience for prayer and meditation (lecture); Murphy, Mood enhancement and the 8 Coil Shakti (signals in sequence with a 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-bilateral-fast, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software)

Murphy's caudate nucleus ('body') signal over both parietal lobes with the 8 Coil Shakti's fast alternation: on each side two coil pairs take turns twice a second. Murphy presents it for body awareness and balance and reports tingling and sensations of movement.

Setting: Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it. Keep to it even though parietal thresholds are higher, and stay with parietal placement for the whole series.

Coils: CH1 CP1, CH2 CP3, CH3 CP5, CH4 P3, CH5 CP2, CH6 CP4, CH7 CP6, CH8 P4

Coils over the parietal strip, which the vendor locates 'about an inch behind the topmost point on the head, and then in a strip down to the top of the ears': CP1, CP3, CP5 and P3 on the left, CP2, CP4, CP6 and P4 on the right (an inference). The 8 Coil Shakti puts both stereo channels on each side (in its temporal-lobe chart one channel's pair sits top and bottom, the other's front and back, each pair one + and one − coil) and alternates the signal between the channels, not between the hemispheres. How the pairs sit over the parietal lobes is not documented, so this file pairs them the same way (an inference): CP1 and CP5 (top and bottom) with CP2 and CP6 as one channel, CP3 and P3 (front and back) with CP4 and P4 as the other. Both hemispheres get every burst; the two pairs on each side take turns. Coil polarity follows that chart, carried over to these sites (an inference): on the left the top (CP1) and front (CP3) coils are − and the bottom (CP5) and back (P3) coils +; on the right the top (CP2) and front (CP4) coils are + and the bottom (CP6) and back (P4) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. Fast alternation: the channels switch 'twice each second' (the vendor says fast alternation emerged as 'the most effective' in the original developers' lab tests); here the signal is gated in point tables so that the two pairs take turns every 0.5 s, and each 0.69-s burst is split between them. So that the half-second clock and the signal repeat together, a burst comes every 4.5 s (3.81 s of silence instead of Shakti's standard 4 s), and the bursts alternately start on the top/bottom and on the front/back pairs. The caudate signal is unpublished, and Murphy calls it 'not a well tested signal'; the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s) stands in for it, as in the project's Shiva caudate session, so the waveform here does not differ from the amygdala stand-in. Murphy describes 'intense tingly sensations ... sensations of movement' with parietal sessions, left-side caudate sessions as arousing (energy, excitement, possibly anger or sexual desire) and right-side ones as relaxing (calm, possibly lethargy), and bilateral ones as balancing body awareness; these are vendor reports. Other forms: murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-bilateral-slow, -left (arousal) and -right (relaxation). The vendor says thresholds over the parietal lobes 'are a bit higher' and asks users to keep to the normal schedules and not to switch back and forth between the parietal lobes and other locations. A report of anger in two users after a left caudate session followed by a left amygdala session is credited to Murphy but could not be verified on his pages (including both caudate pages); as a precaution, do not follow a left caudate session with a left amygdala session. The vendor does not suggest the caudate signal over the frontal lobes in the 2- and 4-coil Shakti. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus, left-supramarginal-gyrus, right-angular-gyrus (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8-coil caudate signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 Coil Shakti over the parietal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart: L−/L+ top and bottom, R−/R+ front and back); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Lynne McTaggart interviews Todd Murphy (2006); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-bilateral-slow, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software)

Murphy's caudate nucleus ('body') signal over both parietal lobes with the 8 Coil Shakti's slow alternation: on each side two coil pairs take turns, one burst each. Murphy presents it for body awareness and balance and reports tingling and sensations of movement.

Setting: Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it. Keep to it even though parietal thresholds are higher, and stay with parietal placement for the whole series.

Coils: CH1 CP1, CH2 CP3, CH3 CP5, CH4 P3, CH5 CP2, CH6 CP4, CH7 CP6, CH8 P4

Coils over the parietal strip, which the vendor locates 'about an inch behind the topmost point on the head, and then in a strip down to the top of the ears': CP1, CP3, CP5 and P3 on the left, CP2, CP4, CP6 and P4 on the right (an inference). The 8 Coil Shakti puts both stereo channels on each side (in its temporal-lobe chart one channel's pair sits top and bottom, the other's front and back, each pair one + and one − coil) and alternates the signal between the channels, not between the hemispheres. How the pairs sit over the parietal lobes is not documented, so this file pairs them the same way (an inference): CP1 and CP5 (top and bottom) with CP2 and CP6 as one channel, CP3 and P3 (front and back) with CP4 and P4 as the other. Both hemispheres get every burst; the two pairs on each side take turns. Coil polarity follows that chart, carried over to these sites (an inference): on the left the top (CP1) and front (CP3) coils are − and the bottom (CP5) and back (P3) coils +; on the right the top (CP2) and front (CP4) coils are + and the bottom (CP6) and back (P4) coils −. The − coils have negative weights, which reverse their current as if the coil were turned over; + is taken as this helmet's normal drive. Slow alternation: 'one switch after one instance of the signal', so one burst plays on the top/bottom pairs and the next, 4.69 s later, on the front/back pairs (each pair gets a burst every 9.38 s). The caudate signal is unpublished, and Murphy calls it 'not a well tested signal'; the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s, then Shakti's standard 4 s of silence) stands in for it, as in the project's Shiva caudate session, so the waveform here does not differ from the amygdala stand-in. Murphy describes 'intense tingly sensations ... sensations of movement' with parietal sessions, left-side caudate sessions as arousing (energy, excitement, possibly anger or sexual desire) and right-side ones as relaxing (calm, possibly lethargy), and bilateral ones as balancing body awareness; these are vendor reports. Other forms: murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-bilateral-fast, -left (arousal) and -right (relaxation). The vendor says thresholds over the parietal lobes 'are a bit higher' and asks users to keep to the normal schedules and not to switch back and forth between the parietal lobes and other locations. A report of anger in two users after a left caudate session followed by a left amygdala session is credited to Murphy but could not be verified on his pages (including both caudate pages); as a precaution, do not follow a left caudate session with a left amygdala session. The vendor does not suggest the caudate signal over the frontal lobes in the 2- and 4-coil Shakti. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus, left-supramarginal-gyrus, right-angular-gyrus (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8-coil caudate signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 Coil Shakti over the parietal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart: L−/L+ top and bottom, R−/R+ front and back); Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Lynne McTaggart interviews Todd Murphy (2006); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-left, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's caudate nucleus ('body') signal over the left parietal lobe only, which he describes as arousing: energy and excitement, possibly anger or sexual desire.

Setting: Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it. Keep to it even though parietal thresholds are higher, and stay with parietal placement for the whole series.

Coils: CH1 CP1, CH2 CP3, CH3 CP5, CH4 P3

Coils over the parietal strip, which the vendor locates 'about an inch behind the topmost point on the head, and then in a strip down to the top of the ears': CP1, CP3, CP5 and P3 on the left (an inference); the right channels stay unused. All four coils of the side run together; the 8-coil channel alternation is not used, as with the 2- and 4-coil Shakti. The caudate signal is unpublished, and Murphy calls it 'not a well tested signal'; the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s, then Shakti's standard 4 s of silence) stands in for it, as in the project's Shiva caudate session, so the waveform here does not differ from the amygdala stand-in. Murphy describes 'intense tingly sensations ... sensations of movement' with parietal sessions, left-side caudate sessions as arousing (energy, excitement, possibly anger or sexual desire) and right-side ones as relaxing (calm, possibly lethargy), and bilateral ones as balancing body awareness; these are vendor reports. Murphy names anger among the possible effects of the left side; stop if irritable or angry. Other forms: murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-right (relaxation) and the bilateral -bilateral-fast and -bilateral-slow. The vendor says thresholds over the parietal lobes 'are a bit higher' and asks users to keep to the normal schedules and not to switch back and forth between the parietal lobes and other locations. A report of anger in two users after a left caudate session followed by a left amygdala session is credited to Murphy but could not be verified on his pages (including both caudate pages); as a precaution, do not follow a left caudate session with a left amygdala session. The vendor does not suggest the caudate signal over the frontal lobes in the 2- and 4-coil Shakti. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus, left-supramarginal-gyrus (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8-coil caudate signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 Coil Shakti over the parietal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Lynne McTaggart interviews Todd Murphy (2006); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-right, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's caudate nucleus ('body') signal over the right parietal lobe only, which he describes as relaxing: calm, possibly lethargy.

Setting: Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it. Keep to it even though parietal thresholds are higher, and stay with parietal placement for the whole series.

Coils: CH5 CP2, CH6 CP4, CH7 CP6, CH8 P4

Coils over the parietal strip, which the vendor locates 'about an inch behind the topmost point on the head, and then in a strip down to the top of the ears': CP2, CP4, CP6 and P4 on the right (an inference); the left channels stay unused. All four coils of the side run together; the 8-coil channel alternation is not used, as with the 2- and 4-coil Shakti. The caudate signal is unpublished, and Murphy calls it 'not a well tested signal'; the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s, then Shakti's standard 4 s of silence) stands in for it, as in the project's Shiva caudate session, so the waveform here does not differ from the amygdala stand-in. Murphy describes 'intense tingly sensations ... sensations of movement' with parietal sessions, left-side caudate sessions as arousing (energy, excitement, possibly anger or sexual desire) and right-side ones as relaxing (calm, possibly lethargy), and bilateral ones as balancing body awareness; these are vendor reports. Murphy names lethargy among the possible effects of the right side. Other forms: murphy-shakti-caudate-parietal-left (arousal) and the bilateral -bilateral-fast and -bilateral-slow. The vendor says thresholds over the parietal lobes 'are a bit higher' and asks users to keep to the normal schedules and not to switch back and forth between the parietal lobes and other locations. A report of anger in two users after a left caudate session followed by a left amygdala session is credited to Murphy but could not be verified on his pages (including both caudate pages); as a precaution, do not follow a left caudate session with a left amygdala session. The vendor does not suggest the caudate signal over the frontal lobes in the 2- and 4-coil Shakti. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus, right-angular-gyrus (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8-coil caudate signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8 Coil Shakti over the parietal lobes; Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Lynne McTaggart interviews Todd Murphy (2006); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp-mod40, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

The modulated 40 Hz form of Murphy's one-coil Shakti cerebellum session: 20 min from one coil just below the bony ridge at the back of the head. The vendor names modulated 40 Hz as the alternative to its ERP signal over the cerebellum, which it calls a 'pleasure/orgasm center'.

Setting: In series that alternate with series over other areas (vendor). Sit, or lie on your side, so the coil at the back of the head is not pressed.

Schedule: Vendor: alternate cerebellar series with series over other areas. The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Iz

One coil at Iz, the 10-5 site on the inion: the vendor says to 'use the bony ridge at the back of your head', with the occipital lobes above the ridge and the cerebellum below it, and uses a one-coil headset, so seat the coil on or just below the ridge. Iz is an inference; I1 or I2 (a little to either side) and O9 or O10 (further out) are alternative sites. The other seven channels stay unused. A coil below the inion is hard to hold on a Velcro band, so check that it sits firmly and comfortably. The Shakti's modulated 40 Hz file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in phase-modulated sine (a 40 Hz carrier drifting between about 38.5 and 41.5 Hz every 2 s, 1-ms points). The vendor calibrates its modulated 40 Hz signal at 10 mG (1 µT), the default here. The vendor's 'un-do unwanted effects' advice after amygdala-and-hippocampus sessions names the ERP signal; that form is murphy-shakti-cerebellum-erp. The vendor's claim that 'cerebellar activation can attenuate limbic, particularly amygdaloid, activation' is untested. The vendor warns that 'excess cerebellar activation may lead to emotional flattening', so do not overuse it. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed.

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Cerebellum; Murphy, Shakti demo: ERP signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Bliss (undo procedures); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal (10 mG calibration); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-septal-vertical, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's Shakti septal signal from two still coils in a front-to-back line on the midline at the top of the head, over the upper parietal strip. The vendor presents it for pleasant and sexual sensations and reports after-effects.

Setting: Quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed. Only two coils, one behind the other on the midline: Cz at the top of the head and CPz behind it; the other six stay unused.

Schedule: At most weekly; the vendor warns not to over-use it.

Coils: CH1 Cz, CH2 CPz

Front-to-back two-coil arrangement; Cz/CPz is the research translation. The vendor's text starts the strip about an inch behind the very top of the head, so the pair may sit a little further back than Cz. Both coils play the signal together without moving (murphy-shakti-septal-horizontal has the side-by-side arrangement). The vendor puts the coils 'over the tops of both parietal lobes', on 'the upper portion of the parietal strip ... from an inch behind the very top of the head to two inches from that point'. The septal file is proprietary; Murphy says only that it has 'very low frequencies' and needs a higher volume. As in this project's Shiva septum program, it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst lowered to 1-6 Hz, in the vendor's standard format (230 points × 3 ms, then about 4 s of silence). The vendor's 'square wave' version is unpublished and not included. The vendor's volume table (PCI sound card 65% for men and 42% for women; onboard or laptop sound 100% and 85%) gives sound-card settings, not field strengths (it implies the vendor ran this signal lower for women), so the default here is 1 µT; adjust the intensity in the app. The vendor adds that over the frontal lobes the signal 'can help people feel relaxed'. It says the signal was 'tested with only a few human and no animal subjects' and is 'not a treatment' for sexual dysfunction; the reported effects are testimonials. The septal nuclei are not in the brain view's region list, so no target is highlighted. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if it is unpleasant.

Sources:Murphy, Shakti and the brain's pleasure center – the septum; Murphy, Shakti demo: Septum signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Sexual effects; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety – how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-septal-horizontal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's Shakti septal signal from two still coils side by side over the tops of both parietal lobes, where the vendor places the body map's genital area. The vendor presents it for pleasant and sexual sensations and reports after-effects.

Setting: Quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed. Only two coils: CP1 over the top of the left parietal lobe and CP2 over the right; the other six stay unused.

Schedule: At most weekly; the vendor warns not to over-use it.

Coils: CH1 CP1, CH5 CP2

Side-by-side two-coil arrangement; CP1/CP2 is the research translation of the vendor's description, and both coils play the signal together without moving (murphy-shakti-septal-vertical has the front-to-back arrangement, murphy-shakti-septal-fast the alternating 8-coil file). The vendor puts the coils 'over the tops of both parietal lobes', on 'the upper portion of the parietal strip ... from an inch behind the very top of the head to two inches from that point'. The septal file is proprietary; Murphy says only that it has 'very low frequencies' and needs a higher volume. As in this project's Shiva septum program, it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst lowered to 1-6 Hz, in the vendor's standard format (230 points × 3 ms, then about 4 s of silence). The vendor's 'square wave' version is unpublished and not included. The vendor's volume table (PCI sound card 65% for men and 42% for women; onboard or laptop sound 100% and 85%) gives sound-card settings, not field strengths (it implies the vendor ran this signal lower for women), so the default here is 1 µT; adjust the intensity in the app. The vendor adds that over the frontal lobes the signal 'can help people feel relaxed'. It says the signal was 'tested with only a few human and no animal subjects' and is 'not a treatment' for sexual dysfunction; the reported effects are testimonials. The septal nuclei are not in the brain view's region list, so no target is highlighted. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if it is unpleasant.

Sources:Murphy, Shakti and the brain's pleasure center – the septum; Murphy, Shakti demo: Septum signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Sexual effects; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety – how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-septal-fast, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's Shakti septal signal over the tops of both parietal lobes, switching between a left and a right coil twice a second as the vendor's 8-coil septal file switches between its two channels. The vendor presents it for pleasant and sexual sensations and reports after-effects.

Setting: Quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed. Two coils: CP1 over the top of the left parietal lobe and CP2 over the right; the other six stay unused.

Schedule: At most weekly; the vendor warns not to over-use it.

Coils: CH1 CP1, CH5 CP2

The vendor's 8-coil septal file alternates between its two stereo channels 'twice each second'. Where the 8 Coil Shakti's coils go for this signal is not in the research, so the alternation runs on the side-by-side pair: CP1 carries one channel and CP2 the other, each for 0.5 s in turn (an inference; murphy-shakti-septal-horizontal plays both coils together). The vendor puts the coils 'over the tops of both parietal lobes', on 'the upper portion of the parietal strip ... from an inch behind the very top of the head to two inches from that point'. The septal file is proprietary; Murphy says only that it has 'very low frequencies' and needs a higher volume. As in this project's Shiva septum program, it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst lowered to 1-6 Hz, in the vendor's standard format (230 points × 3 ms, then about 4 s of silence). The vendor's 'square wave' version is unpublished and not included. The vendor's volume table (PCI sound card 65% for men and 42% for women; onboard or laptop sound 100% and 85%) gives sound-card settings, not field strengths (it implies the vendor ran this signal lower for women), so the default here is 1 µT; adjust the intensity in the app. The vendor adds that over the frontal lobes the signal 'can help people feel relaxed'. It says the signal was 'tested with only a few human and no animal subjects' and is 'not a treatment' for sexual dysfunction; the reported effects are testimonials. The septal nuclei are not in the brain view's region list, so no target is highlighted. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if it is unpleasant.

Sources:Murphy, Shakti and the brain's pleasure center – the septum; Murphy, Shakti demo: Septum signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Sexual effects; Murphy, Shakti demo: Understanding the 8 Coil Shakti (fast and slow alternation); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety – how often; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-caudate-60, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's 60-min Shiva caudate nucleus session, stepped counter-clockwise around the head. Murphy describes body-related ('emotive-visceral') effects, and one user reported 'a sort of timeless quality'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep.

Schedule: Weekly or less (vendor); Shiva's rule for 60-min sessions is weekly or every two weeks at most, never on consecutive days.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and fire one at a time counter-clockwise seen from above (back-to-front over the right side), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example; Shiva's own step table is unpublished). Murphy's Shakti caudate pages call the caudate signal 'not well tested', and its waveform is not described anywhere; this file uses the built-in accelerating burst in the vendor's standard format (6 → 30 Hz, 230 points × 3 ms, then about 4 s of silence) as a stand-in, so on this helmet it differs from the Shiva amygdala session only in name and length. Murphy also names caudate sessions, with the Persinger Session, as candidates for his 'healing by laying on hands' practice (a palm exercise four times a day for five minutes, practised three to six days after a session, with sessions on geomagnetically unsettled days); that is a vendor claim, not a treatment, and there is no evidence that it heals anything. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva main page (caudate testimonial); Murphy, Shiva: Healing by laying on hands; Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-erp-septum-chirp-septum, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva septum session: his 'pleasure center' signal stepped counter-clockwise around the head. Murphy describes pleasant and sexual sensations.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and fire one at a time counter-clockwise seen from above (back-to-front over the right side), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example; Shiva's own step table is unpublished). The septal file is proprietary; Murphy says only (on his Shakti septal page) that it has 'very low frequencies' and so needs a higher volume. This file uses the built-in accelerating burst in the vendor's standard format (230 points × 3 ms, then about 4 s of silence) with its sweep lowered to 1 → 6 Hz as a stand-in; it is an approximation, not the Shiva file. Murphy suggests men and women may respond differently (he counts four orgasm centres for women and one for men), and his Shakti volume table sets the septal signal lower for women. His Shakti septal pages say the signal was 'tested with only a few human and no animal subjects' and is 'not a treatment' for sexual problems. The septal nuclei are not in the brain view's region list, so no target is highlighted. Shiva's simple sessions usually come in 20, 30 and 60-min versions; this file runs 20. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Stop if it is unpleasant; not for people with epilepsy.

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Septum signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Septum signal; Murphy, Shakti and the brain's pleasure center – the septum; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti8-limbic-workout-frontal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's 'Limbic Workout' (descending lability batch) for the 8 Coil Shakti: seven 5-min signals for limbic structures, from the least to the most sensitive (chirp, caudate, Fibonacci, slow and standard hippocampus, short-latency and standard amygdala), with 90-s silences, over both frontal lobes. Murphy states that the brain gets 'a novel stimulation every few minutes' and so avoids habituation.

Setting: The vendor's session takes about 45 min (42.5 min here). Darkness and silence for effects during the session; eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Bilateral placement only.

Schedule: Vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 AF3, CH3 AF7, CH4 F3, CH5 Fp2, CH6 AF4, CH7 AF8, CH8 F4

Coils over both frontal lobes (Murphy's first choice; the sites Fp1, AF3, AF7, F3 and Fp2, AF4, AF8, F4 are an inference, as the vendor shows photos only); all eight run together, with no rotation or channel alternation (the vendor specifies none). The Shakti's coils come as + and - ('North and South'), one of each per stereo channel on each side; the vendor publishes no 8-coil frontal chart, so the signs extend its four-coil forehead photos (upper coil -, lower coil + on the left, the reverse on the right): AF3 and F3 on the left and Fp2 and AF8 on the right are reversed (weight -1), while Fp1, AF7, AF4 and F4 run as is (an inference). The vendor's session has 13 phases (7 signals of 5 min, each followed by 90 s of silence except the last; 44 min). This helmet allows 12 phases, so the silence between the slow and the standard hippocampal signal is left out (the slow signal is meant to 'prepare the hippocampus' for the standard one) and the session runs 42.5 min. The structure is verbatim on the vendor's page: 'This session is approximately 45 minutes. It uses seven signals. There is a 90 second silent gap between each phase, for a total of 13 phases', 'applying the various signals for five minutes each', in the order used here; the public demo does not include the session, and the vendor gives no alternation mode for it. Every waveform is proprietary. Chirp (Murphy: the modulated 40 Hz signal with gaps that get longer, amplitude and gaps varied by a Fibonacci constant): a sweep slowing from 40 to 6 Hz (the end frequency is a choice), 837 points at 3 ms once every 4 s, after the published FM pattern (837 points at 1 ms every 4 s); the 40 Hz phase modulation and the Fibonacci amplitude changes are not reproduced. Caudate: its waveform is unpublished, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in, as in the project's other caudate sessions, but with the default 1.5-s sweep (6 to 30 Hz, then 4 s of silence) instead of their 0.69 s, so that this phase differs from the two amygdala phases. Fibonacci: the project's Fibonacci-amplitude theta-burst construct (100 Hz pulse bursts at 5 Hz whose strength rises and falls along 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ...). Standard hippocampus: 5 theta bursts of 4 pulses at 5.4 Hz (the vendor's LTP spectral peak) on Shakti's 3-ms points, then 4 s of silence. Slow hippocampus: the same template at 4-ms points, so the bursts and the time between them are a third longer (the vendor says both differ but gives no values; elsewhere its slow hippocampal files carry the codes tp_24_16 (kor_9_tp_24_16, 'Slow Hippocampal Signal - Fast Alternation') and ltp_24_16 (in the amygdala-left, slow-hippocampus-right file), whose numbers it does not explain, and whether this session uses either file is not stated). Amygdala: the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at 3 ms (0.69 s) with the standard 4-s silence; for the 'shorter latency' phase the silence is 2.3 s, so a burst starts every 3 s as in the published 230-point burst-firing pattern (the vendor gives no value). Vendor: 'USE THIS SESSION ONLY OVER BOTH SIDES OF YOUR HEAD.' The temporal-lobe version is murphy-shakti8-limbic-workout-temporal. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Changed in this revision: the vendor's wording of the 13-phase structure, the slow-signal file code and the output page were added to the notes and sources; the phases are unchanged.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail, left-amygdala, right-amygdala, vmpfc, left-dlpfc, right-dlpfc (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Limbic Workout session; Murphy, Shakti demo: Limbic Workout output page; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8-coil hippocampal signal (slow hippocampal file codes); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, The Feelgood Session for the 8 Coil Shakti (forehead coil photos with + and - coils); Murphy, Mood enhancement & the 8 Coil Shakti (coils 'North and South'); Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Fibonacci and hippocampus session; Murphy, Shakti demo: Amygdala (left) and hippocampus (right) signals (alternative 'slow' hippocampal signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3-ms points); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti8-limbic-workout-temporal, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (8 Coil Shakti software); signal templates licensed from Persinger & Koren

Todd Murphy's 'Limbic Workout' (descending lability batch) for the 8 Coil Shakti: seven 5-min signals for limbic structures, from the least to the most sensitive (chirp, caudate, Fibonacci, slow and standard hippocampus, short-latency and standard amygdala), with 90-s silences, over both temporal lobes. Murphy states that the brain gets 'a novel stimulation every few minutes' and so avoids habituation.

Setting: The vendor's session takes about 45 min (42.5 min here). Darkness and silence for effects during the session; eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Bilateral placement only.

Schedule: Vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Coils over both temporal lobes (Murphy's second choice), on the standard 8 Coil Shakti cross centred near T7/T8 (an inference from the vendor's chart); all eight run together, with no rotation or channel alternation (the vendor specifies none). Coil polarity follows the vendor's coil chart, one + and one - coil per stereo pair: C5 (top) and FT7 (front) on the left and T10 (bottom) and TP8 (back) on the right are reversed (weight -1), while T9, TP7, C6 and FT8 run as is. The vendor's session has 13 phases (7 signals of 5 min, each followed by 90 s of silence except the last; 44 min). This helmet allows 12 phases, so the silence between the slow and the standard hippocampal signal is left out (the slow signal is meant to 'prepare the hippocampus' for the standard one) and the session runs 42.5 min. The structure is verbatim on the vendor's page: 'This session is approximately 45 minutes. It uses seven signals. There is a 90 second silent gap between each phase, for a total of 13 phases', 'applying the various signals for five minutes each', in the order used here; the public demo does not include the session, and the vendor gives no alternation mode for it. Every waveform is proprietary. Chirp (Murphy: the modulated 40 Hz signal with gaps that get longer, amplitude and gaps varied by a Fibonacci constant): a sweep slowing from 40 to 6 Hz (the end frequency is a choice), 837 points at 3 ms once every 4 s, after the published FM pattern (837 points at 1 ms every 4 s); the 40 Hz phase modulation and the Fibonacci amplitude changes are not reproduced. Caudate: its waveform is unpublished, so the built-in accelerating burst stands in, as in the project's other caudate sessions, but with the default 1.5-s sweep (6 to 30 Hz, then 4 s of silence) instead of their 0.69 s, so that this phase differs from the two amygdala phases. Fibonacci: the project's Fibonacci-amplitude theta-burst construct (100 Hz pulse bursts at 5 Hz whose strength rises and falls along 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 ...). Standard hippocampus: 5 theta bursts of 4 pulses at 5.4 Hz (the vendor's LTP spectral peak) on Shakti's 3-ms points, then 4 s of silence. Slow hippocampus: the same template at 4-ms points, so the bursts and the time between them are a third longer (the vendor says both differ but gives no values; elsewhere its slow hippocampal files carry the codes tp_24_16 (kor_9_tp_24_16, 'Slow Hippocampal Signal - Fast Alternation') and ltp_24_16 (in the amygdala-left, slow-hippocampus-right file), whose numbers it does not explain, and whether this session uses either file is not stated). Amygdala: the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points at 3 ms (0.69 s) with the standard 4-s silence; for the 'shorter latency' phase the silence is 2.3 s, so a burst starts every 3 s as in the published 230-point burst-firing pattern (the vendor gives no value). Vendor: 'USE THIS SESSION ONLY OVER BOTH SIDES OF YOUR HEAD.' The frontal-lobe version is murphy-shakti8-limbic-workout-frontal. The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with the hippocampal signal (a figure it attributes to an earlier version of the technology); if so, lower the intensity by one third. The effects are vendor claims backed only by user reports. Independent double-blind tests found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history, a psychiatric condition or medication, migraine or brain injury, or on drugs; this is not a treatment. Stop at once on fear or distress. Changed in this revision: the vendor's wording of the 13-phase structure, the slow-signal file code and the output page were added to the notes and sources; the phases are unchanged.

Aims at: caudate-nucleus, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail, left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-temporal-pole, left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-temporal-pole, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Limbic Workout session; Murphy, Shakti demo: Limbic Workout output page; Murphy, Shakti demo: 8-coil hippocampal signal (slow hippocampal file codes); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting Started (8-coil chart, +/- coil pairs); Murphy, Shakti demo: Caudate nucleus signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: Fibonacci and hippocampus session; Murphy, Shakti demo: Amygdala (left) and hippocampus (right) signals (alternative 'slow' hippocampal signal); Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz chirp signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal Discussion (about 9.6 s of field per minute, 10-20 mG); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern once every 3 s); Dixon & Persinger 2001, Int J Neurosci 108:87 (837-point FM pattern every 4 s); Tiller & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 94:26 (Thomas pattern, 3-ms points); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headache with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-theta-noise, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software); copies an accidental noise output of Persinger-lab (Laurentian University) DAC hardware in the early 1990s

Murphy's 'Theta Band' signal: low-frequency noise with a 5.4 Hz spectral peak from one coil above each ear. Murphy reports that the accidental DAC noise it copies produced 'visions, vestibular sensations, and pleasant emotional effects'.

Setting: Darkness and quiet (the vendor says effects during a session need darkness and silence); eyes closed, relaxed, without meditating or falling asleep; no meditation, mind machines or drugs at the same time.

Schedule: Vendor's Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break; try a session 2-3 times before changing it.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH5 T8

Two coils carry the same signal, one above each ear (T7 and T8, the vendor's 'one signal to two coils, located above the ears, over both temporal lobes'); the other six channels stay unused. Murphy says the noise first came from an accident: the lab software ran 'too fast' after a 286 to 386 upgrade, and his own DAC was not set up; the vendor's FFT of its file shows a peak at 5.4 Hz, the same peak it reports for its hippocampal LTP signal. The file is unpublished, so it is approximated by the built-in band-limited noise from 4 to 6.8 Hz (centred on 5.4 Hz); the original spectrum and its 'low amplitude' are not specified, and 1 µT is the usual Persinger-lab strength. 10 min: the vendor's only duration is '10 minute sessions are usually sufficient', given for trying the signal out; it gives no length for a full session. The vendor calls the signal less well tested and has tried it only on both sides at once, so there is no one-sided version. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012, the latter with the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal). Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once if distressed.

Aims at: left-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, right-superior-temporal-gyrus-posterior, left-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-body (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (5jut4ran; 5.4 Hz FFT peak, also the LTP signal's peak); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: How long should sessions be; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-test-session-amygdala, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's laterality test before any one-sided series: 10 min of the amygdala burst-firing signal over the right temporal lobe, where he says it is usually unpleasant, then at once 10 min at the mirror site on the left. It checks for what Murphy calls a 'reversed' structure.

Setting: Quiet, dim room, eyes closed, relaxed. One coil above each ear: T8 (right) for phase 1 and T7 (left) for phase 2; the other six stay unused. Note how each half feels: pleasant, unpleasant or nothing.

Schedule: One signal per test and at most one test every 72 hours (vendor rule).

Coils: CH1 T7, CH5 T8

The vendor: start over the side where the signal is usually UNPLEASANT (amygdala: right), then switch immediately to the mirror location, 5-10 min each; this file uses 10 min per side (Skip ends a side early). Murphy uses the result to choose sides for one-sided sessions: a response opposite to the usual one points, in his view, to a 'reversed' or 'left-handed' structure, while 'If you get no response at all, you probably do not have one'. Negative imagery during an amygdala session is his sign that it has run too long, so skip or stop then. T7/T8 is the research translation of 'the same location on each side'; if a one-sided series will use other sites, test there instead. The laterality rule comes from user reports and a small Persinger-lab study (Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992: burst-firing over the right temporal lobe raised apprehension in women). Murphy links the right amygdala with fear and sadness, mostly from user reports, so the first half can bring fear; press Skip to move to the mirror side. The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz), 230 points at the vendor's standard 3-ms points (0.69 s), followed by the vendor's standard latency of about 4 s. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: right-amygdala, left-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Test sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 10 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Reversed' or 'left-handed' brain structures; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Richards, Koren & Persinger 1992, Percept Mot Skills 75:667; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-test-session-hippocampus, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (Shakti software)

Murphy's laterality test before any one-sided series: 10 min of the hippocampal 'LTP' signal over the left temporal lobe, where he says it is usually unpleasant, then at once 10 min at the mirror site on the right. It checks for what Murphy calls a 'reversed' structure.

Setting: Quiet, dim room, eyes closed, relaxed. One coil above each ear: T7 (left) for phase 1 and T8 (right) for phase 2; the other six stay unused. Note how each half feels: pleasant, unpleasant or nothing.

Schedule: One signal per test and at most one test every 72 hours (vendor rule).

Coils: CH1 T7, CH5 T8

The vendor: start over the side where the signal is usually UNPLEASANT (hippocampus: left), then switch immediately to the mirror location, 5-10 min each; this file uses 10 min per side (Skip ends a side early). Murphy uses the result to choose sides for one-sided sessions: a response opposite to the usual one points, in his view, to a 'reversed' or 'left-handed' structure, while 'If you get no response at all, you probably do not have one'. Anxiety during a hippocampal session is his sign that it has run too long, so skip or stop then. T7/T8 is the research translation of 'the same location on each side'; if a one-sided series will use other sites, test there instead. The laterality rule comes from user reports and a small Persinger-lab study (Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: LTP-pattern fields over the right hemisphere were rated more pleasant than over the left). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary; it is approximated by a point table in the vendor's standard scheme (3-ms points, about 4 s of latency): four theta bursts, each of four biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse bursts of Larson & Lynch 1986), one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy, seizure history or a psychiatric condition; stop on distress.

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Test sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 10 minute sessions; Murphy, Shakti demo: 'Reversed' or 'left-handed' brain structures; Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart; one test every 72 hours); Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Larson & Lynch 1986, Science (theta-burst timing); Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shakti-thalamus, layout: custom, Todd Murphy (2- and 4-coil Shakti software)

Murphy's thalamus burst-firing signal for the 2- and 4-coil Shakti, 20 min. The vendor aims at states resembling 'dreamless sleep' with awareness ('The Source', 'The Formless'), says it 'may do no more for you than make you drowsy', and calls it 'an untested signal'.

Setting: Stay alert and 'present' during the session rather than drifting into sleep (vendor).

Schedule: The vendor's general Shakti rules: at most every 72 h or once a week, never on consecutive days; a series of 3 or 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 T7, CH5 T8

The vendor gives neither the waveform nor a coil position; its location pages list the signal as untested over the right temporal, parietal and occipital lobes. This file puts one coil above each ear (T7 and T8, the same signal on both), a project choice for a two-coil set; the other six channels stay unused. The thalamus file is unpublished, so the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz, 230 points of 3 ms = 0.69 s, then the Shakti's standard 4 s of silence) stands in for it: nothing thalamus-specific is copied, and the waveform is the same as the project's amygdala stand-in. The thalamus lies deep in the centre of the brain, several centimetres from any coil. If the session leaves you drowsy, do not drive afterwards. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed.

Aims at: thalamus (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Thalamus burst firing signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592 (230-point burst-firing pattern); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety - how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217 (8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal, sham-controlled)

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murphy-shakti-fibonacci-hippocampus, layout: custom, Todd Murphy, 8 Coil Shakti software (the vendor says the design was 'used in the lab in unpublished studies')

Murphy's 4-phase 8 Coil Shakti session over both temporal lobes: a Fibonacci-amplitude signal (4 min) and the standard hippocampal 'LTP' signal (5.25 min) take turns twice, an alternation meant to keep the brain from habituating to one signal. The vendor calls it 'less well-tested'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed; relax without meditating or falling asleep. The vendor says to start with the coils over the temporal lobes.

Schedule: Vendor rules: at most once a week or every 72 h, never on consecutive days; a series of up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 FT7, CH2 C5, CH3 TP7, CH4 T9, CH5 FT8, CH6 C6, CH7 TP8, CH8 T10

Phases as on the vendor page: Fibonacci 4 min, hippocampus 5.25 min, Fibonacci 4 min, hippocampus 5.25 min (18.5 min of signal; the vendor calls it a 20-min session), with abrupt switches. All 8 coils sit in the 8 Coil Shakti's 4-coil cross over each temporal lobe (front FT7/FT8, top C5/C6, back TP7/TP8, bottom T9/T10; the vendor gives the cross as a chart and photos without 10-10 names, so these sites are an inference). The Shakti's paired +/- coils and its channel alternation are not reproduced (no alternation setting is given for this session); all coils play the same signal together. The vendor says only that in the Fibonacci signal 'the magnetic field goes up and down in strength at each Fibonacci node'; the file is proprietary. It is approximated by the project's Fibonacci table: theta bursts (4 pulses at 100 Hz, 5 bursts a second, after the Larson & Lynch 1986 LTP timing) whose amplitudes rise 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and fall back over 3 s, repeated without a pause (the page does not say whether this signal has the Shakti's 4-s latency). The hippocampal 'LTP' file is proprietary. It is approximated on the vendor's standard 3-ms points: 4 bursts of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart, one burst every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), then the standard 4 s of silence (about 9.4 s of field per minute; the vendor gives 9.6 s). Murphy says the hippocampal signal is more likely to have positive effects over the right side or both sides, but not over the left side alone (his right-side rule goes back to one small Persinger-lab study, Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994: right-sided LTP-pattern fields were rated more pleasant). The vendor reports headache or pressure in about 2% of users with hippocampal signals; if so, lower the intensity by one third. Not for people with epilepsy or a seizure history; stop at once on fear or any distress. Independent double-blind tests found no effect of God-Helmet-type fields (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012).

Aims at: left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shakti demo: Fibonacci and hippocampus session; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals? (3-ms points, 4-s latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Formal discussion (9.6 s of field per minute); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random theta band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shakti demo: Getting started (8-coil chart); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information (headaches with hippocampal signals); Murphy, Shakti demo: Safety, how often; Murphy, Shakti demo: Taking breaks; Persinger, Richards & Koren 1994, Int J Neurosci 79:191; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-amy-hipp-sequence-fast, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva 'amygdala and hippocampus signals in sequence' session in its Fast (3×) version: the alternating amygdala and hippocampal bursts are played three times faster, stepped counter-clockwise around the head. Murphy states the pair 'should elicit a greater limbic activation than either of them alone'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Shiva offers 20, 30 and 60-min versions; start with the short one.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and fire one at a time counter-clockwise seen from above (back-to-front over the right side), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example; Shiva's own step table is unpublished). Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version; phase 2 makes it the 30-min version (a 60-min Shiva version also exists). The normal-speed stand-ins (amygdala: built-in accelerating burst, 230 points × 3 ms, 6 → 30 Hz; hippocampus: 4 theta bursts of 4 biphasic pulses at 3-ms points, bursts every 186 ms = the vendor's 5.4 Hz LTP peak; about 4 s of silence after each) are played here at 1-ms points, three times faster: a 0.23-s amygdala burst sweeping 18 → 90 Hz, 1.33 s of silence, a 0.25-s hippocampal train with bursts every 62 ms (16 Hz) and pulses 3 ms apart, 1.33 s of silence (cycle 3.1 s). Murphy's Shakti 'high-speed' signals likewise use 1-ms points and drop the latency; whether Shiva's fast version shortens or drops it is not published, so it is shortened 3× with the rest of the signal, as in the project's other Shiva fast sessions. Both signal files are proprietary, so these are approximations. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Try the normal-speed version first; not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed. Murphy reports headaches in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals, and advises lowering the intensity by a third.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Amygdala and hippocampus signals in sequence; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Mood enhancement / feelgood (8 Coil Shakti; two signals 'one after the other' with a four-second latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-amy-hipp-sequence, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva session 'amygdala and hippocampus signals in sequence': an amygdala burst and a hippocampal burst take turns, each followed by about 4 s of silence, stepped counter-clockwise around the head. Murphy states the pair 'should elicit a greater limbic activation than either of them alone'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Shiva offers 20, 30 and 60-min versions; start with the short one.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and fire one at a time counter-clockwise seen from above (back-to-front over the right side), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example; Shiva's own step table is unpublished). Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version; phase 2 makes it the 30-min version (a 60-min Shiva version also exists). Both signal files are proprietary: the amygdala 'burstx' file is approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 → 30 Hz), 230 points × 3 ms (0.69 s, the published burst-firing length at the vendor's standard 3-ms points); the hippocampal 'LTP' file by a train of 4 theta bursts, each of 4 biphasic pulses 9 ms apart (after the 4-pulse 100 Hz bursts of Larson & Lynch), repeated every 186 ms (5.4 Hz, the spectral peak the vendor reports for its LTP signal), at 3-ms points; these are the same stand-ins as in the Shiva amygdala and hippocampus simple sessions. One cycle is amygdala 0.69 s, silence 4 s, hippocampus 0.74 s, silence 4 s (9.4 s), following the about 4-s latencies Murphy gives for the two signals in sequence (stated for Murphy's Shakti feelgood sessions). Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Begin with shorter sessions; not for people with epilepsy; stop at once if distressed. Murphy reports headaches in about 2% of users of an earlier version of the technology, mostly with hippocampal signals, and advises lowering the intensity by a third.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala, left-hippocampus-head, left-hippocampus-body, left-hippocampus-tail, right-hippocampus-head, right-hippocampus-body, right-hippocampus-tail (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Amygdala and hippocampus signals in sequence; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Mood enhancement / feelgood (8 Coil Shakti; two signals 'one after the other' with a four-second latency); Murphy, Shakti demo: Random Theta Band output (LTP spectral peak 5.4 Hz); Murphy, Shiva demo: Consumer information; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-amygdala-simple-fast, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva amygdala session with the signal played three times faster; Murphy says the fast version gives 'fewer phenomenal effects' than the normal speed. The vendor presents the amygdala signal for emotional effects.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Shiva offers 20, 30 and 60-min versions; start with the short one.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break. 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks at most.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and step counter-clockwise seen from above, with Murphy's lecture example of 10, 12 ... 20 ms per coil (about 8 rotations a second; Murphy writes 'around 9 times per second'). Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version; phase 2 makes it the 30-min version (a 60-min Shiva version also exists). The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary and approximated by the built-in accelerating burst; the normal version's 230 points x 3 ms (6 to 30 Hz) and 4-s latency are compressed three times here: 1-ms points, a 230-ms burst sweeping 18 to 90 Hz, every 1.56 s. Murphy's Shakti 'high-speed' signals likewise use 1-ms points and drop the latency; whether Shiva's fast version shortens or drops it is not published, so it is shortened 3x with the rest of the signal. Murphy suggests moving between temporal and frontal presentations over a series to keep frontal and temporal activity balanced, and trying a frontal session if a session feels good but you feel down afterwards. Persinger-lab studies reported that three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions increased aggression and lowered trust (Gillis 1993) and that 20 min of burst-firing over the right temporoparietal lobe raised hypnotic suggestibility (Healey 1996). An independent randomized sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Amygdala signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz binding factor; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shiva demo: Staying safe with Shiva; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996, Int J Neurosci 87:201; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1

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murphy-shiva-amygdala-simple-normal, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva session: the amygdala burst-firing signal stepped counter-clockwise around the head at the speed Murphy says 'was found to be the most effective in earlier lab studies'. The vendor presents it for emotional effects.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Shiva offers 20, 30 and 60-min versions; start with the short one.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break. 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks at most.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and step counter-clockwise seen from above, with Murphy's lecture example of 10, 12 ... 20 ms per coil (about 8 rotations a second; Murphy writes 'around 9 times per second'). Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version; phase 2 makes it the 30-min version (a 60-min Shiva version also exists). The amygdala ('burstx') file is proprietary and approximated by the built-in accelerating burst (6 to 30 Hz) of 230 points x 3 ms followed by the standard 4-s latency (Murphy: standard signals use 3-ms points and a latency of about 4 s; the 230-point length is from Ryczko & Persinger 2002). Murphy suggests moving between temporal and frontal presentations over a series to keep frontal and temporal activity balanced, and trying a frontal session if a session feels good but you feel down afterwards. Persinger-lab studies reported that three weekly bilateral burst-firing sessions increased aggression and lowered trust (Gillis 1993) and that 20 min of burst-firing over the right temporoparietal lobe raised hypnotic suggestibility (Healey 1996). An independent randomized sham-controlled test of the 8 Coil Shakti amygdala signal found no effect on emotional responses (Gendle & McGrath 2012), and a double-blind God Helmet test found no field effect (Granqvist 2005). Not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed.

Aims at: left-amygdala, right-amygdala (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Amygdala signal; Murphy, Shakti demo: What are 'Rapid' and 'High-Speed' signals?; Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz binding factor; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shiva demo: Staying safe with Shiva; Ryczko & Persinger 2002, Percept Mot Skills 95:592; Gillis & Persinger 1993, Percept Mot Skills 76:168; Healey, Persinger & Koren 1996, Int J Neurosci 87:201; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1

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murphy-shiva-consciousness-mod40, layout: custom, Pattern credited by the vendor to Dr. M.A. Persinger; Shiva software by Todd Murphy

Murphy's simple Shiva 'Consciousness' session: a modulated 40 Hz signal stepped counter-clockwise around the head at almost, but not exactly, the speed of the brain's front-to-back 40 Hz 'binding factor'. Murphy writes that reports emphasise bliss and joy, and testimonials on the vendor's site mention colours seeming brighter the next day and dream effects.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Murphy suggests the 60-min version in sensory deprivation (darkness and silence) for effects during the session.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break. 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks at most.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and step counter-clockwise seen from above. Phase 1 (20 min) is the 20-min version: stop after it, or let phase 2 run for the 30-min version (a 60-min Shiva version also exists). The Shiva signal file is proprietary; it is approximated by the built-in phase-modulated sine, a 40 Hz carrier drifting between about 38.5 and 41.5 Hz every 2 s, so it stays close to 40 Hz without locking to it ('almost in sync with the brain's own binding factor, but not quite'). Murphy says the rotation speed is set 'at almost the same frequency the binding factor sweeps through the brain' but publishes no step times. His technical page quotes Persinger that speeds around 6 Hz 'would involve increments of 20 to 25 milliseconds' and says Shiva's timings avoid the binding factor's exact (25-ms) speed, so each coil is held alternately 23 and 27 ms here (average 25 ms, 200 ms per rotation); this is an inference, not a Murphy specification, and a whole rotation near 25 ms (about 3 ms per coil) would be another reading. The vendor calibrates its Shakti version of the modulated 40 Hz signal at 10 mG (1 µT), the default here. All reported effects are testimonials, and independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Begin with the shorter version; not for people with epilepsy; stop if distressed.

Aims at: vmpfc, left-temporal-pole, right-temporal-pole, left-tpj, right-tpj, primary-visual-cortex (field on the brain)

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: Modulated 40 Hz signal; Murphy, Shiva neural stimulation notes ('Consciousness Signal'); Shiva main page (testimonials); Murphy, Shiva / Octopus and the 40 Hz binding factor; Murphy, Shakti demo: Modulated 40 Hz (obe45) signal; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Murphy, Shiva demo: Staying safe with Shiva; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-erp-septum-chirp-erp, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva ERP session: an event-related-potential-shaped pulse stepped counter-clockwise around the head. Murphy expects 'general cortical effects', likely with more right-hemisphere response, and says the signal 'should be considered as untested'.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2

Coils sit on Murphy's Shiva ring (Fp1, FT7, TP7, O1, O2, TP8, FT8, Fp2; one coil per site instead of Shiva's coil pairs) and fire one at a time counter-clockwise seen from above (back-to-front over the right side), 10, 12 … 20 ms per coil (Murphy's lecture example; Shiva's own step table is unpublished). Murphy's ERP file is proprietary and undescribed; this file uses the project's ERP construct (textbook P50, N100, P200, N200 and P300 components after Luck 2014: a 0.6-s pulse every 1.5 s, 1-ms points), not the Shiva file. Counter-clockwise rotation raised right-hemisphere EEG power in a Persinger-lab study (Booth 2008, single-lab), which may be why Murphy expects more right-hemisphere response; that link is the project's inference. Shiva offers 20, 30 and 60-min versions; this file runs 20. Independent double-blind tests of God-Helmet-type fields found no field effect (Granqvist 2005; Gendle & McGrath 2012). Untested signal: stop if it is unpleasant; not for people with epilepsy.

Sources:Murphy, Shiva demo: ERP signal; Murphy, Shiva demo: Magnetic coil locations; Murphy, Psychic Skills & Miracles lecture (coil steps of 10, 12 ... 20 ms); Booth, Koren & Persinger 2008, Electromagn Biol Med 27:426; Murphy, Shiva demo: Session lengths; Granqvist et al. 2005, Neurosci Lett 379:1; Gendle & McGrath 2012, Percept Mot Skills 114:217

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murphy-shiva-hippocampus-simple-fast, layout: custom, Shiva software by Todd Murphy (signal templates licensed from Persinger and Koren)

Murphy's simple Shiva hippocampus session with the 'LTP' theta-burst signal played three times faster, stepped counter-clockwise around the head. The vendor presents the hippocampal signal for cognitive, non-verbal, imagery and intuition effects.

Setting: Dark, quiet room, eyes closed, relaxed without meditating or falling asleep. Shiva offers 20, 30 and 60-min versions; start with the short one.

Schedule: At most once a week, never on consecutive days; up to 6 sessions, then a 21-day break. 60-min sessions weekly or every two weeks at most.

Coils: CH1 Fp1, CH2 FT7, CH3 TP7, CH4 O1, CH5 O2, CH6 TP8, CH7 FT8, CH8 Fp2