Can Music Heal the World

Can music heal the world? An investigation into the power of music to help bring about a global shift in consciousness

Gavin Smart

Can music heal the world?

Chapter 1

Why Music? “We are striding towards critical mass, towards that instant when the relatively few will tip the scales of awareness for all humanity. The momentum now building exponentially towards a quantum leap in consciousness cannot be stopped.” (Mary C Bennet 2009)

It is hard to turn on the television or browse the internet these days without coming across some mention of the idea that the world as we know it is due to end in the year 2012. Many people believe that this will involve a major shift in consciousness and the science of quantum mechanics is starting to explain how this will occur. The field of noetic science looks at the nature and potential of the mind and consciousness and how it relates to the physical world. In recent years they have started to make their findings more public. Most notably with the release of the 2004 movie “What the Bleep Do We Know”, that has become one of the most successful documentaries of all time, and the use, by author Dan Brown of noetic science as the basis for his new novel “The Lost Symbol”. I shall attempt to explain noetic science and quantum mechanics in more detail in a later chapter but for now I would like to state that this greater understanding of the nature of reality and consciousness is poised to alter the world as we know it. Experiments like the ones performed by Masaru Emoto on water crystals that can be seen on the ‘What the Bleep’ website and in the movie have recently proved that the mind can alter physical reality simply by the act of observing and that this can be varied by altering the intentions of the observer. Music can be used used to alter peoples mind states through the manipulation of emotions and brainwave entrainment and is widely seen as a universal language capable of transmitting ideas or emotions across great cultural barriers. A distinguished politician or scientist can stand on a soap box and shout till he’s blue in the face and most people will have forgotten the exact details of what they said by the time they get home. They will usually not even remember the general gist of it a week later. Contrast that with the cheesiest pop song that you might hate but still remember all the words to 20 years after you first heard it. In a survey of 132 people 89% said they were more likely to believe a musician than a politician and 62% said they were more likely to believe something they heard in a song than in a newspaper (Smart 2009). The music of a society or culture tends to reflect the current issues or climate and it is through music that many people are exposed to new ideas and beliefs. I will attempt to show evidence that music can have a profound effect on the state of mind of not just an individual but a whole generation. New discoveries are being made that are bringing the worlds of science and religion together to form one coherent understanding of the universe and it is through music that these ideas are being disseminated at a rate that would never have been possible until now. It is only in the last ten years that the internet has connected people across cultures and it is now possible for anyone to find out anything they want. Those that seek knowledge can find it easily and those that are not interested will hear about it anyway through their TV or radio. 2


Chapter 2

Origins of Music As a producer I have used samples from movies and famous speeches many times and one thing that I have always noticed is that the most successful actors and public speakers have a very discernable rhythm to their speech. One thing I love to do is to synchronize the speech with music and I have found that the most well known speeches are very easy to work with. Good examples of this use of rhythm can be found in Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and Lawrence Fishburn’s much sampled “Take the red pill” scene from the 1999 movie “The Matrix”. Most guides on successful public speaking teach you that pitch and rhythm are very useful in adding color and meaning to what you are saying and can reduce the monotony of your delivery. This shows us that music and language are very closely related and if we look back far enough into the ancient history of the human race we find that they developed fairly simultaneously. In his 1991 book, ‘Biomusicology’, Nils L Wallis describes the study of music from a biological perspective. This is split in to three main areas of interest: Comparative musicology, which deals with the different uses and roles of music in human cultures from ritual to entertainment and the different types of performance and methods involved, Neuromusicology, which looks at how the brain processes music and how that develops as we grow, and Evolutionary Musicology, which focuses on the evolutionary origins of music, comparing it to communication in animals and looking at the psychological development of music in human beings. (Brown 2000) One of the key indicators that music and language are intrinsically related is the way they are structured. Both contain sets of rules that, once understood enable us to create complex sentences or musical phrases that we have never heard before without having to rely on our memory. Anyone who has raised children will have witnessed the way the child will attempt to make their own sentences up from these rules with often hilarious results. You can hear very clearly how closely related they are when you listen to a talented guitar player using a wah peddle to create an effect that makes the guitar sound as if it is speaking. There are several different models proposed for how music may have developed. The parallelism model suggests that music and language evolved independently from each other. The binding model suggests that they evolved independently but have developed similar characteristics through cross fertilization. There are outgrowth models that propose that one of the two existed first and that the other grew from it as a kind of byproduct. The director of the Neuro Arts Lab in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior at McMaster University in California : Steve Brown, has put forward a hypothesis that he calls calls “Musilanguage”. The basic premise of this is that they evolved from a single evolutionary precursor that is perceived in two different ways. These are referred to as emotive and communicative. Emotive refers to the immediate feeling that is generated by the sound depending on such variables of pitch, harmony, 3


rhythm and tempo. Communicative relates to the context and linguistic components of the sound and depends on the brain’s ability to decode information contained in the sound based on cultural meanings, not only words but also the use of certain sounds or melodies to represent culturally specific ideas, for example the use of recognizable melodies to represent products in advertising. In the spring 2007 issue of Musicae Scientiae Steven Brown put forward a new, more comprehensive hypothesis that he calls “Contagious heterophony”. He states that the brains ability to imitate through the use of mirror neurons shows that our musical ability is related to the different group vocalizations of animals such as wolves, howler monkeys, chimpanzees, lions etc. This happens when one animal will begin calling and other animals will join in leading to a primitive type of harmony. This behavior is thought to have important evolutionary benefits such as social bonding, territory marking and group identity. From there we developed abilities such as pitch matching and alternating that led the reply and response characteristics of modern music and speech. The ability to be able to detect subtle changes in the pitch or rhythm of the general cacophony of sounds all around us is an essential survival tool that is as relevant now as it was when we first climbed down from the trees. For example you could compare being able to detect the noise of a car approaching in a busy street to the ability to pick out the sound of a predator’s footsteps in a noisy jungle. It is only in the last few years that mankind has had the tools to discover that listening to music involves virtually every known area of the brain.

Chapter 3

Music and the Brain A lot of what we know about how the brain processes music comes from studies of those with brain damage and experiments using brain imaging techniques like electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). When certain areas of the brain are damaged it is possible to see what function this portion of the brain serves by observing the changes in the subject. With brain imaging techniques it is possible to view the electrical activity and blood flow in the brain whilst the patient is listening to music and have a visual image of exactly which portions of the brain are responding. Cleverly targeted experiments have led us to have an understanding of how the brain handles such components as pitch, tempo, contour, and song memory. One experiment by Petr Janata, a student in biology involved placing electrodes in the inferior colliculus of the barn owl. He then played the owl a version of ‘The Blue Danube Waltz’ made up of tones from which the fundamental frequency had been removed. He connected the output of the electrodes to a small amplifier and astonishingly the owl’s brain was playing back the missing fundamentals. This proved that the process known as restoration of the missing fundamental is present at the early stages of auditory processing. (Levitin 2006)

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In order for music to get from the outside world into the brain it first has to be turned from vibrating air molecules into an electrical signal. The first port of call is the ear drum which acts like a kind of regulator to prevent the inner ear from being damaged by noises exceeding the acceptable thresholds that it can take. It works in a similar way to a compression effect that many music producers use to smooth out spikes in a recording for example where a drummer hit the snare too hard. From there the sound enters the inner ear that contains an area filled with tiny hairs known as the basilar membrane. These hairs are arranged like the strings of a harp, with the hairs at one end responding to low frequencies and the high frequencies at the other. As the high frequency hairs vibrate at a faster rate these tend to wear out quicker, which is why people who are exposed to loud noise for a lot of their life tend to lose the ability to hear higher frequencies. The movement of these hairs generates electrical signals that are then sent to an area above the ear called the auditory cortex, which in turn distributes the signals to different areas of the brain. When it comes to processing the music it becomes a lot more complicated. It has been understood since the late 1960s that in right handed people the two hemispheres of the brain process information in different ways. People who are ambidextrous or left handed can sometimes have a different brain organization that has not been particularly well studied at this date. The right brain tends to focus more on emotion and intuition, processing the whole picture before looking at the details. Artists and musicians tend to think of themselves at ‘right brainers’. Aspects of music like the contour, pitch and emotion tend to be processed in the right hemisphere of the brain. The left brain is more analytical and logical and is used to focus on the details of a song such as the lyrics or the name of the performer. As people receive musical training some of the processing tends to shift from the right hemisphere to the left as they become able to describe in words characteristics of the music they would previously only have known by intuition. The ability to perceive music develops very early in life. Thanks to the experiments of Alfred Tomatis M.D. we know that the human ear starts to develop sometime around the tenth week of pregnancy and is functional by the time the fetus is four and a half months old (Campbell 1997). In the early stages babies are exposed to lots of different senses and are unable to tell the difference between them. To begin with a group of neurons may respond equally to any of the five senses, but as the baby develops the pathways between them are pruned so that they become specialized to focus on a particular sense. It is theorized that this process does not always go according to plan and can sometimes lead to a condition known as synaesthesia.

Synaesthesea was first documented by Sir Francis Galton in 1883 in a paper entitled “Inquiries into Human Faculty" and gives psychologists a valuable insight into the processes in the brain. Synesthetics report extraordinary connections between senses such as the ability to taste colors or see sounds as a shape or a color. Connections can

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happen between any of the senses so virtually any combination is possible although some of the more common forms have been given categories like ‘grapheme’ where numbers and letters are seen as tinged by a particular color, ‘personification’ is where numbers or letters relate to personalities, and lexical gustatory is where spoken words trigger different tastes in the mouth. There are some similarities between experiences. Experiments with larger groups of synesthetics have shown that grapheme-color synesthetes will tend to see similar colors for each letter, A tends to be red O tends to be white etc. There are over 100 different types of synaesthesia and it is said to affect 1 in 200 people. A study has shown that synaesthesia is seven times as common in creative people as in the general population. (Ramachandran 2003). A lot has been discovered about which regions of the brain are responsible for processing different aspects of music but it is worth noting that the brain also has an ability called neoroplasticity that enables it to reorganize which parts of the brain perform certain functions. This redistribution can help with healing by moving functions to other areas of the brain after trauma or brain damage (Levitin 2006). In order to process music our brains will separate the sound into several different components to be analyzed by different parts of the brain before it can be perceived as a whole. The emotional characteristics of the music are handled in most primitive parts of the brain such as the amygdala and the cerebelar verdis. The cerebellum also has timing circuits which help you to follow the rhythm and tempo with astonishing accuracy. Experiments by Daniel Levitin and Perry Cook have shown that we have the ability to detect changes in tempo to an average of 4 percent from the norm. The areas of the brain associated with memory are the hippocampus and parts of the frontal lobe and these are involved when listening to music or styles that you know. When playing an instrument you also activate areas such as the motor cortex for movement, the sensory cortex to feel the instrument and if you read music the visual cortex also becomes involved. The way our brains process music also depends a lot on our cultural influences. During childhood the pruning process that begins in the womb carries on at a faster rate than at any other time in our lives. According to linguist Noam Chomsky we are all born with the ability to learn any language and this process also applies to music. As we grow up our brains begin to prune any unused neural pathways and strengthen the ones that are used most often. This is why a lot of the world’s greatest musicians are known to have started their musical development at an early age. A great example of this is Mozart, whose music has been used extensively in experiments that prove that listening to complex music can have a dramatic effect on the mind and body. Most notably by the University of California in the early 1990s.

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Chapter 4

Healing, Trance & N.L.P. In 1991 Dr Alfred Tomatis published his book ‘Pourquoi Mozart’ after using Mozart’s music in his attempts to cure disorders such as ADHD and autism. This led to a series of experiments by the University of California where they found that students listening to Mozart’s “Sonata For Pianos In D Major” increased their score in spatial IQ tests by up to 9 points. This effect was found to only last for up to 10 minutes after listening. Further experiments were done with school children who, in contrast, would find their spatial awareness increased for up to a full day after the experiment. Children who were given three months of piano training scored 34 percent higher on spatio temporal tests than those who were given computer or singing lessons. The Mozart effect was popularized in a book by Don Campbell and created quite a bit of controversy leading to many follow up experiments by various people trying to prove or disprove the theory. Tomatis himself said in his biography that he regretted not being able to provide more statistical evidence but that it had been difficult to measure the results of his methods. Despite the controversy people still bought into the idea and the governor of Georgia decided to add provisions in his state budget to provide every child with classical music. You can now find collections of music inspired by this all over the internet. As I write this I am currently listening to a collection of Mozart pieces put together under the title ‘music for projects and study’, part of huge compilation available through various unofficial sources entitled ‘Music for Mom and Babies’. Thanks to pioneering work like this the effects of music are starting to become more universally understood and it has become common practice for corporate companies to use music to increase workforce production or customer spending, even leading to the creation of the ‘Musak’ that you hear in the doctor’s waiting room.

In the last thirty years the practice of clinical music therapy has developed some very effective techniques to help those with learning disabilities or physical or psychological disorders. It has become a recognized profession and music therapists can be found working in a variety of places like schools, hospitals etc. Music is used as a way for the therapist to build a relationship with the client and in some cases music is the only means of communication to begin with. Clients who have been completely unresponsive to other techniques can sometimes be encouraged to break out of their shell by simply being given a drum to make a noise with. Sessions will usually involve a lot of improvisation and can be tailored one to one sessions or group sessions in the form of a social club or workshop. A typical one to one session can often start with the client being given a selection of instruments and encouraged to express themselves with whatever instrument they choose. The therapist will then attempt to play along with them enabling a musical discourse that can lead to a bonding that may not have been possible through words.

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Group sessions can help with social interaction and empowerment. Plymouth Music Zone in the UK runs workshops for people with all sorts of disabilities and has specialized music equipment that can be used by people with severe impairment. These range from simple touch pads to motion sensing devices that can trigger electronic instruments with just a tiny amount of movement. Many of the people that use their facilities have been given an opportunity to do something creative that gives them an enormous sense of achievement. Another very ancient type of music therapy that has become very popular in recent years is brainwave entrainment. Brainwave entrainment or synchronization is the process by which external stimulus is used to stimulate the brain to change brainwave frequencies and thus enter a different state of consciousness. Modern science first became aware of the existence of brainwaves in the 1930’s when neurophysiologist and robotician William Grey Walter improved the capabilities of Hans Berger’s EEG machine and discovered that the electrical activity in the brain could be measured in the form of waves that alter in frequency depending on the state of arousal of the subject. A lot of work has been done since then to document these brainwaves and they are currently categorized as follows: Gamma Brainwaves 40 Hz+: Only recently recognized as separate from the lower beta brainwaves they are associated with learning and problem solving and are found all through the brain. It is thought that people with learning difficulties may have a lower rate of gamma wave activity. Beta Brainwaves 12 – 40 Hz: These are present when you are wide awake and alert and are associated with performing calculations or any kind of work that requires focus and concentration. Beta waves on the right side of the brain have been linked to tension and worry. Conversely when seen on the left side of the brain they are seen as healthy. Excess beta waves can lead to things like fear and anxiety as well as disorders like Insomnia and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). It is possible to increase your cognitive and concentration abilities by stimulating beta brainwaves. Alpha Brainwaves 8 – 12 Hz: When you are in a relaxed or meditative state you will have an increase in alpha brainwaves. These are usually spread equally between both sides of the brain and more commonly found toward the rear of the brain. People with depression tend to have an excess of alpha waves in the left hemisphere and high amounts of alpha waves in the frontal lobe may cause disorders such as depression or ADHD. It is interesting to note that the resonant frequency of the earth’s magnetic field, known as the Schuman resonance, lies within this frequency range. Stimulating alpha brainwaves can help you to achieve deep levels of relaxation. Theta Brainwaves 4 – 7Hz: Theta is thought to be the ultimate state for deep meditation and is associated with increased creative ability and heightened emotions. It is the state that we are in when we enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep and can help us to recover lost memories and increase spiritual connections. Theta stimulation has been used to treat addictions and as part of programs for behavior modification. Excessive amounts make you feel distracted or fuzzy headed and can lead to attention disorders and slow reaction times. Stimulating theta brainwaves can help to reduce stress and it 8


has been suggested that they can enhance extra sensory sensory skills such as telepathy and clairvoyance. Delta Brainwaves 1 – 4Hz: These are the slowest patterns observed in the brain and are usually seen during deep sleep. Delta stimulation is considered particularly important in healing as the human growth hormone is triggered by some delta frequencies. It appears that as you get older your brainwave patterns speed up, with delta brainwaves being the most dominant in babies compared to adults who spend most of their time with their brains attuned to the beta frequencies. The earliest known examples of brainwave entrainment are the trance states entered by shamans who use traditional instruments like the drum or rattle to stimulate their mind to enter an altered state where they can interact with the spirit world to help others in their tribe, sometimes enhancing this ability with the use of hallucinogenic substances. In his book ‘Supernatural’, author Graham Hancock puts forward evidence that it is these otherworldly experiences that led to the birth of the world’s religions and that the images that the shamans would paint of their experience can be seen in examples of cave paintings all over the world giving us a clue to the origins of art. You can also find examples of rituals that use sound to alter consciousness in Tibetan Buddhism. As well as the Tibetan drums that stem from Buddhism’s shamanic roots, you also find bells, singing bowls and vocal techniques being used. It is quite easy to see how the ancient art of shamanic dancing has evolved into the rave culture that has become the chosen religion for a large portion of the world’s young people today. The origins of modern trance music can be easily be seen in the shamanic drumming of the ancient world. This type of entrainment is referred to as monaural, which entails a repetitive sound reaching both ears and recent research has shown that this can be effective in altering the brainwaves. Various physical conditions and personality disorders have been relieved by using drumming to alter the associated brainwave patterns (Turow 2005). A technique of brainwave entrainment that seems to have exploded on to the internet in recent years is the phenomenon of ‘Binaural Beats’. In 1839 Prussian physicist and meteorologist, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that when you listen to two tones of slightly different frequencies in each ear with stereo headphones, the brain combines the two and produces a pulse at the rate of difference . Listening to a 350 Hz tone in one ear and a 365 Hz tone in the other will cause the brain to be entrained to the perceived pulse at 15Hz which is in the lower beta brainwave frequency range. There are hundreds of websites offering meditation recordings and software using this technology and I have successfully managed to cure my own insomnia using the theta brainwave meditation pack available at www.brainwave-entrainment.com . I found it particularly effective as it starts at the higher end of the theta frequency range then slowly brings you down into the range of the upper delta brainwaves. My partner suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and has been experimenting with some of these recordings to help her to reduce stress and change her sleeping patterns. Many of these recordings also use the technique of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which 9


is related to self hypnosis and creative visualization. NLP involves using methods of reprogramming the way people think to enable them to change unhealthy brain patterns. It is now being used from everything from business management to healing Panic attacks and anxiety. It appears that this knowledge has been around for a very long time and is only recently being rediscovered. Minister and naturopathic physician Dr Joseph Puleo claims to have discovered hidden codes in the bible that reveal six electromagnetic sound frequencies directly related to an ancient musical scale called the ’Solfeggio scale’ These frequencies were said to have powerful healing properties and were originally used in a hymn to St John the Baptist and several Gregorian chants. It is also believed that these frequencies were used to shatter the walls of Jericho and Puleo has linked them to the ancient belief that God ‘sang the world into existence’; with a theory that relates the genesis account of the 6 days of creation to these six tones. One of the frequencies of the scale: 528Hz, is already being used in laboratories by researchers to repair genetic DNA. These hymns were purged by the church in 1050 and had been thought to be lost until now. Researchers into the Solfeggio scale

have received extremely frosty responses from church officials and with a story to rival a Dan Brown novel, Puleo himself reports several attempts being made on his life. On one occasion neighbors reported seeing two masked men fire a laser gun through his kitchen window, which would have given Puleo a heart attack were it not for a bottle of olive oil that absorbed most of the blast. (Horowitz 1999). On some of the more esoteric websites you can find examples of eyewitness accounts of monks in Tibet using sound to levitate stone blocks up the side of mountains to build their temples. One widely circulated report from 1939, that was reportedly taken from a German magazine by researcher Bruce Cathie, gives accurate details of the process, describing 13 large drums, 6 trumpets and human voices being used to transport 5 to 6 blocks an hour over a distance of 500 metres and to a height of 250 metres (Cathie 2009). It is stories like this that offer a tantalizing glimpse into the possible undiscovered capabilities of sound.

Chapter 5

Quantum Mechanics and Music “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” world .” —Buddha

It would be impossible to fully explain quantum mechanics within the constraints of this assignment but I will do my best to try to give you a brief outline of what it is all about. Quantum physics brings together the realms of ancient beliefs, psychic phenomena and science by using mathematics to describe and measure the behavior of fundamental particles. It is a quest to understand the nature of physical reality that has led to a complete shake up of the currently accepted paradigms. The Institute of Noetic Science states that “It should be emphasized that at present no one fully understands quantum mechanics. And thus there is no clear authority on which interpretation is more 10


accurate.” (Bleep Study Guide 2009). Scientists have performed experiments that show that electrons, which are the very building blocks of our universe, behave differently when they are observed, existing as waves when unmeasured or unobserved then switching to become particles when they are observed. Experiments like this have led to new theories that “challenge all the assumptions of classical physics”. (Bleep Study Guide 2009). Scientists using a global network of random number generators to test the possible existence of a link between mind and matter have reported that the numbers, as Dan Brown puts it in his new novel, ”become significantly less random” during global events like the world trade centre disaster on September 11 th 2001. The findings of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, The Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and the Boundary Institute, also in California, Show that when a large number of people focus on a single thought it can increase the effect of the mind on physical reality. With this in mind it does not take a great leap of faith to imagine the possibilities of using music to focus the attention of large numbers of people to achieve changes on a global scale. For the first time in modern history science is having to stop turning it’s nose up at such phenomena as telepathy, sound healing and levitation as it rediscovers knowledge that had previously been thought of as mythological. There are many ideas that the religious have always accepted on faith alone without needing proof. Science could be seen as the unruly child that refuses to believe what he has been told until he has seen it with his own eyes. Many people will not believe something until it has been proven by science and even then it can take a great deal of persuasion. There are still those who refuse to believe that the earth is round and their scientific arguments and conspiracy theories can be seen on the Flat Earth Society website. Belief is also something that can be considered by degrees rather than just a black/white on/off state. How many of your beliefs can you honestly say that you believe 100% when you examine them in depth? It just might be that once we begin to accept the proof that the quantum physicists and new age scientists are trying to wave under our noses, we will start to use our brains to their full capabilities and music really will heal the world.

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Appendix Results of Survey: How has music affected your beliefs by Gavin Smart 132

Total Responses Received:

Question 1* Are you male or female? Male

76

58%

Female

56

42%

Question 2* How old are you? 0-10

0 0%

10-15

5

4%

16-20

32

24%

21-30

54

41%

31-40

26

20%

41-50

11

8%

51-60

4

3%

61-70

0 0%

71+

0 0%

Question 3* How often do you listen to the following types of music? 16


All the time I love it Quite a lot Occasionally Not if I can help it Responses Total Pop

2%

16%

34%

48%

132

4%

Rock

19%

34%

37%

10%

132

4%

Indy

9%

26%

45%

20%

132

4%

Hip Hop

5%

11%

51%

33%

132

4%

RnB

0%

8%

27%

66%

132

4%

14%

50%

32%

132

4%

Goth/Alternative Goth/Alternati ve 4% Punk

11%

19%

41%

30%

132

4%

Classical

5%

17%

52%

27%

132

4%

Ambient

13%

28%

37%

22%

132

4%

World

8%

21%

51%

20%

132

4%

Dub / Reggae

16%

25%

43%

16%

132

4%

Country

2%

8%

26%

64%

132

4%

Folk

8%

16%

36%

41%

132

4%

Jazz

8%

15%

50%

27%

132

4%

Blues

8%

14%

50%

28%

132

4%

Soul

3%

11%

42%

45%

132

4%

Rock n Roll

9%

22%

48%

20%

132

4%

House

9%

24%

40%

27%

132

4%

Trance

19%

23%

29%

30%

132

4%

Breaks

17%

21%

33%

28%

132

4%

Techno

20%

28%

23%

28%

132

4%

Hardcore

11%

16%

30%

43%

132

4%

9%

11%

32%

48%

132

4%

Psytrance

33%

18%

16%

33%

132

4%

DnB

16%

21%

27%

36%

132

4%

Hard House

17


Dubstep

12%

21%

23%

43%

132

4%

Breakcore

8%

17%

26%

50%

131

4%

Gabber

5%

8%

27%

60%

131

4%

Question 4 If I have missed off your favorite type of music please tell me what it is... Text Answers Speedcore gypsy ass skankin skiffle sk iffle Black Metal Progressive Rock goa deep trance psychedelia electronica, aphex twinny sort of stuff Ska Extreme black and death metal grunge jungle neofolk Extreme Metal, Death Metal Hardtek clowncore

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Question 5* Do you read any of these newspapers? Every Day Once a week Sometimes Never Responses Total Sun

1%

5%

17%

77%

132

10%

Star

0%

0%

14%

86%

132

10%

Daily Mail

1%

1%

17%

82%

132

10%

Mirror

1%

0%

17%

83%

132

10%

Independant 0%

5%

20%

74%

132

10%

Times

2%

4%

30%

65%

132

10%

Guardian

2%

8%

18%

72%

132

10%

Telegraph

1%

4%

12%

83%

132

10%

People

0%

2%

7%

92%

132

10%

Daily Express 2%

2%

12%

85%

132

10%

Question 6* Would you say that the music you listen to has had an effect on what you believe?

Yes

74

56%

No

35

27%

Not sure

23

17%

Question 7* Would you say that your beliefs have had an effect on the music you listen to?

19


Yes

82

62%

No

31

23%

Not Sure

19

14%

Question 8* Who are you more likely to believe, a musician or a politician

Musician

118

89%

Politician

14

11%

Question 9* Are you more likely to believe something you hear in a song or a newspaper?

Song

82

62%

Newspaper

50

38%

Question 10* Do you believe in psychic abilities?

Yes

83

63%

No

22

17%

Undecided

27

20%

Question 11* Do you believe in other dimensions/alternate realities?

20


Yes

95

72%

No

13

10%

Undecided

24

18%

Question 12 Do you believe in aliens?

Yes

85

64%

No

15

11%

Undecided

32

24%

Question 13* Have you ever experienced lucid dreaming (The ability to have conscious control over what you do in your dreams)?

Yes all the time

45

34%

Once or twice

65

49%

Never

22

17%

Question 14 Have you ever had an out of body experience?

21


Yes lots of them

21

16%

Once or twice

63

48%

Never

48

36%

Question 15* Do you believe that Darwins theory of evolution evolution offers a comprehensive comprehensive explanation of how the human race came into existence?

Yes we evolved directly from monkeys over millions of years and that's all there is to it

60

45%

No it doesn't add up I think there is more to it than that

72

55%

Question 16* Do you believe that the pyramids of Giza were built by the egyptian pharaohs in 3000bc

Yes I agree with the history books

73

55%

No I think the history books are wrong and it was much earlier than that

59

45%

Question 17 (control question, completely untrue, to rule out those who will say yes to anything) Did you know that an ancient man made cave system has been found underneath Ayres rock in the Australian outback?

Yes

26

20%

No

104

80%

Question 18* Have you heard of the annunaki?

22


Yes

51

39%

No

81

61%

Question 19* Have you heard of planet X / Nibiru

Yes

65

49%

No

67

51%

Question 20 Do you eat meat?

Yes

78

62%

I'm a Vegetarian

14

11%

I'm a Vegan

23

18%

I'm a pescitarian (I Eat Fish)

11

9%

Question 21* What do you think about all the myths of gods that are found in the ancient writings of the Egyptians, Sumerians, Aztecs, Olmecs, Mayans, Greeks, Romans, Maori, Celts etc that are found all over the world?

They are just made up stories

11

8%

They are purely symbolic

34

26%

They are based on actual events

26

20%

I think they are...

59

45%

23


I think they are...

View Survey

Basically invented to flll the gaps in people's understanding. Perhaps sometimes related to observed events or phenomena but not a factual account.

View

a mixture of all the above.

View

A mixture of symbolic and actual events. Everything has a perpous

View

They are stories that may be tru or may not, but who are we to say what is wrong with what other people believe in

View

i don't know but i think they could be purely symbolic, or they could be based on anything from figures existing in collective human/overall hum an/overall consciousness, manifestations of emotional dynamics in our minds, gods, highly evolved beings, spirits, i don't know so i don't commit to an idea but it's fun to explore

View

They reflect arcetypal manifestations of the psyche in all a ll cultures p.s. have you read anyhting by Joseph Campell?

View

Simbolic language to explain their experiences with the infity reality and their infity dimensions and possibilitys.. p ossibilitys....

View

interpretations of alien visitors being mistaken for gods in their "flying wheel fire View chariots" that came and geneticaly "made" man in order to mine gold *the solar metal* Fascinating

View

Question 22* Did you know that NASA have released photos showing undeniable evidence of an ancient civilisation on mars?

Yes I've seen the pictures

24

24

18%


Yes I've heard about it

34

26%

No thats news to me

74

56%

Question 23* Do you believe in a divine creator/creators creator/creators ie god / allah / buddah etc?

Yes

38

29%

No

50

38%

Undecided

44

33%

Question 24 Do you believe that the world is going to end sometime sometime in the next few years?

Yes the world is going to be destroyed

3

2%

No but there is going to be a major change

72

55%

No they've got it all wrong

14

11%

I have no idea what you are talking about

4

3%

Actually I think that...

37

28%

Actually I think that...

mankind will be micro-chipt in the next few years.or at least all new born babys.

View Survey View

im open-minded to all possibilites. I believe your refering to the 2012 theories and the end of the mayan calendar. I have done some reading and thinking about this. Overall View the palace of conception is burning and whatever happens I'll watch.

25


human race will get extinct one day, but the world will continue just fine without them

View

Its just as possible as it is unlikely.

View

Nobody can possibly know for sure

View

It seems likley but will be determined by sociological and economic laws. IT is very possible that human civilization could destroy de stroy it's self but the time of its occurrence cannot be predicted.

View

2012 is just the end of the a cycle that will simply restart. Not in any drastic way, but in View the way that the seasons fade fad e into eachother. Nothing immedeatly noticable. no one knows whats going too happen so whats the point in making assumptions life happens and life ends live as much as you can in the middle without worrying or living View in fear could be, i think it's more likely that human beings will be destroyed if we do not change, maybe a self defense mechanism of planet earth. think change has to be initiated by us, think hoping for pleiadian star ships to come and save us is hoping for to much, i think we are responsible for ourselves and any change that we want to experience

View

let the chips fall where they may

View

Question 25* What does the item in the centre of this image look like to you?

26


A Bird

8

6%

An Angel

23

17%

A House

0 0%

A Space Ship

47

35%

A Plane

15

11%

Something Else...

40

30%

Something Else...

View Survey

raw materials to build a barn

View

No idea.

View

A cartoon person in a funny outfit

View

a satalite

View

a toy

View

Sun or an altar for the sun

View

27


The division of the sun into seasons

View

somebody from an unknown place

View

a bad drawing?! d rawing?! first thought... satellite View Male genatalia

View

Question 26* Have you heard of the following authors? Yes I've read most of their books

Yes I've read some of their books

Yes but I've not read their books

Never heard Responses Total of them

David Icke

3%

13%

36%

48%

130

8%

Michael Tsarion

0%

5%

15%

80%

128

8%

Eric Von Daniken

2%

8%

16%

75%

129

8%

Zechariah Sitchin

0%

6%

12%

82%

125

8%

Graham Hancock

3%

7%

29%

61%

129

8%

Terrance Mckenna

5%

17%

22%

57%

129

8%

3%

15%

82%

124

8%

27%

28%

34%

132

9%

2%

12%

85%

129

8%

Alan F Alford 0% Dan Brown

11%

Robert Bauval 1% Michael Baigent

0%

6%

11%

83%

126

8%

Carl Sagan

2%

12%

31%

56%

130

8%

Jim Marrs

0%

2%

16%

83%

127

8%

28


Question 27* Please tell me if you use or have used the following substances (This survey is anonymous so please be honest) Regularly Now and again Once or twice Never Responses Total Nicotine

56%

15%

19%

10%

132

6%

Caffeine

65%

21%

10%

4%

132

6%

Alcohol

42%

42%

9%

6%

132

6%

Cannabis

38%

26%

23%

14%

132

6%

8%

27%

20%

45%

132

6%

Magic Mushrooms 4%

36%

25%

36%

132

6%

Lsd

Cocaine

8%

21%

27%

45%

132

6%

Crack

2%

3%

14%

80%

132

6%

10%

27%

23%

39%

132

6%

Amphetamines

5%

16%

36%

44%

132

6%

Mescalin

0%

6%

18%

76%

132

6%

Ketamine

5%

14%

17%

65%

132

6%

Crystal Meth

0%

2%

8%

90%

132

6%

Heroin

0%

4%

12%

84%

132

6%

MDMA

12%

25%

16%

47%

132

6%

Khat

0%

2%

7%

92%

132

6%

Solvents

1%

3%

13%

83%

132

6%

Steroids

1%

1%

2%

96%

132

6%

Ecstasy

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