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...brain's constant electrical activity produces wave patterns that can easily be measured with an electroencephalograph attached to the scalp. The patterns, recorded by the EEG as tracings on ribbons of paper, come in four main wave lengths: delta (.5 to 3 cycles per sec.), occurring in sleep; theta (4 to 7 per sec.), linked to creativity; beta (13 to 30 per sec.), identified with mental concentration; and the relaxed alpha (8 to 12 per sec.). It was only in 1929 that German Psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered alpha waves and not until 1958 that experimenters began working with alpha...
...Beaumont, Texas, the Angie Nall School for problem children has experimented with alpha training to relax stutterers and as a substitute for tranquilizers in hyperactive youngsters. At the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kans., Psychologist Elmer Green is training subjects not to raise but to lower their alpha while increasing theta. In a low-alpha, high-theta state, Green explains, deeply buried unconscious problems sometimes seem to float into awareness...
...Merilee I know, but who is this? Sorrow? Mountain, rock, hill, valley, breathing thing, pulsating along on his theta waves...
After a few minutes, the crowd is seated and the combo stops. An officer from Theta Chi-the Tufts Fraternity that brought Masters to Boston-makes an introduction, the band swings into the theme from "The Johnny Carson Show," and he comes in. He is wearing a royal blue dinner jacket, black cummerbund and tie, dazzling white shirt. One look and you know-Mr. Show Business...
...space jargon and "gee whiz," the space explorers gave back to Middle America a victory of its own values. It was little noted, except in Middle America where such things still matter, that among Neil Armstrong's extraterrestrial baggage was a special badge of his college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He used it symbolically to establish Moon Alpha Chapter...