Introduction

One such entry point could be that of the Vargas nerve (through the skin). It is very well known that the Vargas can be electrically stimulated to produce many health beneficial effects, such as treating refractory epilepsy and treatment resistant depression. The stimulation of the Vargas nerve is also being investigated as a potential therapy for; heart failure, tinnitus, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease. In a study it was concluded that the application of an electrical signal by the ear where the auricular branch of the vagus nerve is close to the skin, enables the stimulation of the Vagus nerve which enhances brain GABA and noradrenaline levels, increases heart rate variability, and reduces sympathetic nerve outflow which is desirable in conditions characterized by enhanced sympathetic nerve activity, such as heart failure.

Other nerves, also close to the skin of the body, can also be used to affect the brain / body, such as the Trigeminal Nerve, which is currently being used to help treat ADHD in children (another article here).

Interesting that this is all, already fully established, science with origins going as far back as 1965 to the Ford Motor Company where they performed research on how the autonomic nervous system is affected by microwaves (another link here). Depending on the frequency and energies applied it was found to be possible to influence an individuals: motor and sensory nerves, circulation, respiration, temperature control, body water balance, EEG, galvanic skin resistance, sleep, and conscious awareness. Here are some very interesting facts!

• Depending on the dosage applied the applied energy will either stimulate the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system.
• Very small dosages produce analgesic effects; very large dosages are fatal.
• A dosage as small as 1 Watt was found to alleviate surgical pain.
• The biological effects of these waves results from the resonance absorption in the ganglia.
• There are indications that only higher harmonics found in the signal produce biological effects.
• The physical properties of those higher harmonics have physical properties that are similar to those of the bio-electrical energy naturally generated by the body.
• The shielding of the test subject by metal screens increases these effects; while magnetic fields remove them.
• The mechanism of hypnosis is explained by the transmission of this energy – in other words, some of the effects are the same as found when a person has undergone hypnosis.
• I offer this link to an individual that seemed to have performed an interesting experiment, but please note that this link is not to one of my standard resources – this is a link to some private research that has not been vetted by other researchers. The research is titled, “Effects of 6-10 Hz ELF on Brain Waves“. While it seems the info in this link aligns with other researchers, this was not a published article, thus I would not normally have included it.

Can The Brain Discern Between Natural And Artificial Signals?

Simply put – no. As the brain evolved in nature, it did not evolve in a way so as to be able to discern between natural and synthetic stimulus. In other words, the brain cannot distinguish the difference between externally applied signals or those generated by the body – it will act on any signal it receives as if it was generated by the body. For example, a synthetic auditory stimulus that is introduced into the brain would be immediately treated as a visual stimulus if its communication ‘pattern’ was made to be identical to the visual stimulus. Therefore it is possible to introduce artificial signals in the brain beyond the reach of human perception, creating false sensations, distorting reality, and etc..

I offer three examples of ‘like’ experiments:

• Researchers have shown that pain can be alleviated by ‘tuning’ the brain to a specific frequency.
• Facebook made an armband that enables people to ‘hear’ through their skin.
• A specific region in a rats brain was exposed to a pulsing magnetic field of specific intensity, pulse rate, and duration, causing the brain to evoke a response similar to the application of a tactile stimulation on the foot-pads.
• Researchers used Ultrasound technology to change the outcomes of a monkey’s decision making process – the researchers used low-intensity ultrasound to reversibly change brain activity in a very precise part of the brain.

Can You Alter A Person’s Behavior And Functional Capabilities Using Externally Applied Signals?

Yes! Back in the 1960’s scientists were able to alter the daily habits of animals using devices implanted into the brain.  Here is an archived CNN video recording of Dr. Jose Dalgado’s experiments where he used brain implants to stop a bull from charging and used low frequency RF signals to modify monkey’s behaviors.  Here is a video interview of Dr. Jose Dalgado.  He later studied this effect on humans – here is a video about this called, “Dark Matters”, which was aired on television.

Of course, the functioning of the brain and organs can also be manipulated using non-invasive technologies (no surgery required).  For instance, electromagnetic neurostimulation produces an electric field in neuronal tissue in a way so as to cause the excitation of neurons. High precision is required during application, as we would only want to stimulate the area of focus – and have as little residual amount of current applied to nearby tissue.  This procedure generates no noticeable pain. And another example where they discovered that a person’s moral center could be modified using magnetics (second article here). In yet another example, light can be used to control brain tissue, without implanting anything into the brain (Optogenetics)! Optogenetics can now control neural circuits at unprecedented depths within living brain tissue without surgery.

Elsewhere on this website I brought attention to an article that stated that scientists were able to stimulate brain tissue (neurons) using light – but those neurons had been genetically altered to respond to light. Since then they have been able to eliminate the need for the neurons to be genetically modified, and also eliminated the need for the device to be implanted into the brain. The scientists were able to bypass the need to genetically alter the brain cells using a PHP virus (developed at CalTech) that, when injected in blood, enables it to cross the blood-brain barrier and deliver an opsin gene to the brain cells. Yes – you read that correctly – we are now able to induce neural activity using nothing more than light in a body and without actually touching the body.

Is Free Will An Illusion?

Free will could just be a figment of our imagination – it might be that no one has it and never will! From the view of neuroscience, perhaps in the very moments that we experience a choice our minds rewrite history, fooling us into thinking that this choice – that was actually completed after its consequences were subconsciously perceived – was a choice that we had made all along. To help explain this, take for example that we see the apparent motion of a dot before seeing that dot reach its destination, and that we feel phantom touches moving up our arm before feeling an actual touch further up our arm! “Postdictive” illusions of this sort are typically explained by noting that there’s a delay in the time it takes information out in the world to reach conscious awareness:  because it lags slightly behind reality, consciousness “anticipates” future events that haven’t yet entered awareness but have been encoded subconsciously, allowing for an illusion in which the experienced future alters the experienced past. Here is what Neuroscientists say.

List Of Frequencies Claimed To Affect The Brain or Body

On this site, you’ll find a listing of frequencies that various parties have claimed can affect the human brain or body in some way.

Can You Communicate With People Using Externally Applied Signals?

We can communicate with people during sleep, when they are most vulnerable to suggestion. Described as “Interactive Dreaming“, people experiencing deep sleep and lucid dreams are able to follow instructions, answer simple yes-or-no questions, and even solve basic mathematics problems. (article 1, article 2).

Can We Change Cells And Genes Using Electromagnetic Signals?

Yes! Back in 2014, researchers published an article in Nature Medicine advising how the team successfully used electromagnetic waves to turn on insulin production to lower blood sugar in diabetic mice. Check out my Knowledge Section for more articles, here.

Can We Grow Brain Tissue Using Electromagnetic Signals?

Yes! Researchers at Tufts University and the University of Minnesota investigated how the difference in charge on either side of a resting cell’s membrane – its electrical potential – helps build the brain.  In previous work developmental biologist Michael Levin found that patterns of electrical potentials in the earliest stages of an embryo’s development can direct how an animal’s body grows, and that manipulating those potentials can cause a creature to sprout extra limbs, tails or functioning eyes.  This team more recently investigated how these potentials shape the brain, and were able to find a key component in healthy brain development – a bio-electrical blueprint for the brain. The team was able to grow full neural tissue, which could open the door to healing mature brains or undoing genetic damage.

Published Research – Accomplishments

Here are some more examples of how the body can be affected by externally applied signals / magnetic fields / light:

• A research article where scientists have modified the functioning of a frogs heart using low intensity magnetic fields.
• We can accelerate the healing of fractures using low intensity ultrasound!
• The application of near-infrared light seemed to reverse the the onset of multiple sclerosis.
• A proposal to eliminate neurodegenerative diseases using RF signals.
• How we can can now enhance learning using neuro-stimulation devices [Sources: The Telegraph, Halo, Gizmodo, The Brain Stimulator, Tech Crunch, Research News, PLOS ONE].
• How we can change EEG patterns using low level modulated microwave stimulation (here).
• The effects of microwave radiation on brains (here).
• An example where a man in a coma was awakened using magnetic brain stimulation (another source here).
• Here are some studies showing you can affect someone’s brain using externally applied signals that are generated by magnets, or RF devices (second article here), and light (second article here)!

A fair bit of research has been performed on how the body reacts to EMF, and how we can read EMF generated by the body. Due to the sheer number of articles please find that I have created separate knowledgebase pages for each of them:

• Processing Biological Signals using Invasive technologies
• Processing Biological Signals using Non-Invasive technologies
• Stimulating The Brain Using Invasive technologies
• Stimulating The Brain Using Non-Invasive technologies

Considering all the above, it becomes possible for you to create a pulsed signal containing an ‘instruction’ that the body would respond to / react to. And, it would be difficult to detect – even if you were trying to detect it – as you would need to know the medium (material) that the signal was intended for to be able to decipher how it would be interpreted by the body – as well it would just look like background noise. Considering that the body reacts to extremely low level electronic signals, a signal could theoretically be constructed that could be masked by ‘background noise’ and nobody would be able to find it!

Constructing Signals To Artificially Stimulate The Body

Here is a paper suggesting how to derive the optimal frequency for wireless power transmission into dispersive tissue. Below I have prepared a simplified instruction that helps explain the core concepts behind how RF signals (EMF) can be constructed to work with the human body.

Combining Signals

You can broadcast a signal that contains meaningful information by ‘mixing’ signals together.  An example of this is music – essentially music is electronically produced by nothing more than an electrical signal that, when sent to a speaker, physically moves a magnet connected to the speaker cone back and forth.  This movement causes the air to move back and forth which is detected by your ear.  If the signal sent to the speaker only had one constant frequency in it (a single tone) then it would not be very pleasing, as you would only hear that one particular note (frequency).  But if you add different notes (frequencies) together, like drums, guitar, bass, and voice, then the sound can become more interesting!  In the example below I combined four signals together (drums, guitar, bass, voice) on the left side and show what the combined signal would look like on the right side.

Because the body treats signals transmitted by it differently than your ears, it is possible that the signal could be demodulated (broken apart into the original four signals again), which could then be interpreted differently by various organs or sections of the brain, or ignored if the signals were not compatible with that specific organ. Where this gets interesting is that the body is electro-chemical by design, meaning that it responds to signals generated from within and signals applied by external sources.

Examining Biological Signals

Different parts of the body generate different signals, such as the heart and each of the different parts of the brain. By establishing what these signals look like, you would then be able to overlap these signals to build a ‘map’ as to what the body is doing at that moment. For example, the brain generates different frequencies depending on a persons sleeping and waking states.  As well, a person’s heart rate changes when they are digesting food.  If you captured these signals, then you would be able to tell every time a person was awake and eating without looking at them or interacting with them in any way.

A more complicated example could be in the examination of a grouping of the higher level brain signals generated by a person. You could, theoretically, create a full description of the top level thoughts generated by the person simply by reading a handful of biologically generated signals.

Signal Pulsing

Signals can be either continuous (non-stop) or intermittent (pulsed).  If a signal is continuous, then it is broadcast from start to finish without stopping.  If a signal is pulsed, then the signal is represented by short bursts of energy from start to finish. This idea is like that of how motion pictures work – individual pictures fly by your eye so fast you see a continuous video stream – but they are actually individual picture frames. Interesting to note that biological cells take time to react to an applied signal – just like your eyes.

Notice the graph of a pulsed signal below. The actual signal that was transmitted actually only consists of the dot points (pulsed signal). As mentioned above, because it takes a bit of time for the body to absorb a pulsed signal and it also takes time for the body to discharge energy, the body would actually see a pulsed signal as a continuous signal. To help visualize this, I drew a line through the dots in the picture below.

Considering Changes To A Signal As It Passes Through A Material

As an electrical signal passes through a material it changes in consideration of the properties of that material. The signal may be partially absorbed, or the wave delayed, phase shifted and attenuated by the material. Therefore any signals being broadcast on the body would need to consider any materials within the broadcast path, or be broadcast with an intensity sufficient to penetrate the material and affect the intended target. Here is a good reference! And here is a good article that discusses the considerations of transmitting signals through a body.