Harmonic Frequencies To Balance The Brain: Bob Beck's Legacy

Bob Beck’s Legacy
Harmonic Frequencies to Balance the Brain
Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES) Technology
The desire for a good nights sleep seems to have been the original motivation for modern-day
research using frequencies to balance the brain. The technology called electrosleep was imported
from Russia and Europe to the United States where it eventually became known as Cranial Electrical
Stimulation (CES). Research to balance brain chemistry has been conducted extensively in other
countries as well—Hong Kong, Japan, and the UK. Bob Beck based his Brain Tuner on a broad
spectrum of research.
Studies show that Cranial Electrical Stimulation technology helps with addictions, attention deficit
disorder (ADD), aggression, multiple sclerosis, pain and insomnia. In the USA, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), allows the use of approved units for the relief of anxiety, depression and
insomnia. While Bob Beck’s Brain Tuner was at one point approved by the FDA as a CES type unit, it
has not been used in the published research studies.
The Brain as a Messaging Center
When healing frequencies are applied to the head, healing is sometimes reported in other areas of the
body. As one researcher put it, the technology has “global effects.”1
The brain is one of the main command centers for much of the
body’s communication with its concentration of nerve cells. The
nerve pathways branch out to affect the whole body. Reliable
delivery of messages from one nerve cell to the next depends on
chemicals called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters expedite
communication from nerve cell to nerve cell. When neurotransmitters
are in balance, the nervous system passes messages smoothly and
accurately to help keep the brain and the body healthy.
As with all chemical reactions in the body, it is the natural flow of
electricity that sparks the chemicals into action. The production of neurotransmitters in the brain also
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Bob Beck’s Legacy Harmonic Frequencies to balance the brain
depends on the body’s natural electricity. Research over the past several decades is showing how the
use of Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES)—the application of specific healing frequencies—provides
the ignition to help balance brain chemicals to restore healthy nerve transmission for brain function.
Information that occasionally surfaces in the mainstream media leads us to believe that the use
of electricity and frequencies for health, including brain function, will eventually gain widespread
acceptance.
One such article, for example, appeared in The Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper.
After describing a medical procedure to insert electrodes into the brain, one of the researchers was
quoted: “I constantly have to remind people that the brain is basically an electrical device,” said Dr.
Montgomery. “It processes and stores information electrically, and we therefore should be able to
affect brain function—and misfunction—electrically.”2
Healing Harmonic Frequencies
Bob Beck’s Brain Tuner applies a broad range of harmonic frequencies. Georges Lakhovsky was
one of the pioneers to research the application of harmonic frequencies for healing. Early in the
20th century, his Multiple Wave Oscillator (MWO) using harmonic frequencies gained recognition as
a healing device. He had the cooperation of a hospital in the eastern USA to apply frequencies to
help heal specific diseases. While Lakhovsky was not working with CES technology, he based his
work on the principle of giving the living cells a broad range of healing frequencies so they would be
able to restore their healthy vibrations. The cell
is then better able to repel disease-producing
microbes. “The main thing,” Lakhovsky reported,
“is to produce the greatest number of harmonics
possible.”3
It is interesting to note that Bob Beck had a direct
role in reviving the Multiple Wave Oscillator
in the United States for a time. In 1963, after
discovering an original MWO, he designed a
portable multiple wave oscillator to make the
technology available once again.
As with the Multiple Wave Oscillator, Cranial
Electrical Stimulation technology, creates a broad
range of harmonic frequencies allowing the body
to use the frequencies it needs to help improve its communication system. Since the nerve networks
in the brain spread throughout the body, applying Cranial Electrical Stimulation spreads the benefits
throughout the body.
A Pivotal Time in CES Development
In North America, 1983 could have been dubbed the “Year of Brain Tuning.” At least three publications
launched the year heralding the benefits of using frequencies to balance the brain:
Drug Addiction
In January, the cover of Omni magazine announced a promising treatment: “The Black Box: Secret
Drug Treatment of Rock Superstars.” The Black Box was a device developed by Dr. Margaret
Patterson in the UK. After overcoming his drug addiction, rock star, Pete Townshend, said:
In retrospect, I realize that the treatment is an education in itself. … in the process you learn
something about your human potential. You come to realize that somewhere within you is the
power to deal with crises, tensions, and frustrations. So the treatment reaffirms one’s faith in
the self-healing process.
Anxiety and Depression

Focus, a publication of the U.S. Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Inc. highlighted CES
technology early in the year as well. The January/February 1983 issue stated:
CES reduces anxiety and depression. … Studies have shown that both physiological and
psychological changes toward homeostasis, i.e., the normal or relaxed state, take place
following CES treatments. Variations of CES have been in use in Europe and Russia for more
than 30 years.
Relief from Pain

“The Quiet Revolution: Pain Control and
Electromedicine” headlined an article by Dr.
Fred N. Lerner published in the April/May 1983
California Health Review. In addition to describing
the benefits of transcutaneous electrical nerve
stimulation (TENS) for pain, the article also
outlined the research and benefits of transcranial
electro therapy—later to be called CES:
… exciting methods have evolved that are
painless, non-invasive and have little or no side effects. … There is little doubt that the doctor
of the future will utilize electromedicine as a mainstay in everyday practice.
One of the earliest pioneers in researching Cranial Electrical Stimulation in the United States was Ray
Smith. He said Cranial Electrical Stimulation:
showed remarkable improvements in memory, learning and other cognitive and

psychophysiological functions. The CES, that is, not only improved cognitive functioning but
seemed to reverse the brain damage that caused it!4
When asked about using CES technology for Parkinson’s, Smith replied: “In almost every tremor
condition we’ve seen in hospitals, CES always reduces it somewhat.”5
Help with anxiety and depression, overcoming addictions and relief from pain. Those are major
challenges from which many suffer. Why then, in the 21st Century, is the application of harmonic
frequencies or CES technology still not a household word, or at least, the treatment of choice among
health professionals?
Keeping CES Alive in North America
We’ll touch on key players who have kept this technology alive and available in North America.
Ray Gilmer formed Neuro Systems Inc. to market a CES device in the USA in the early 1970s. At
that time, he adopted the name used on the other side of the Atlantic, electrosleep, to describe the
technology. In 1978, working with the FDA, Gilmer’s device led the way to formally dub the technology
Cranial Electro Stimulation (CES). He suggested cranial electro therapy
(CET) but the FDA apparently did not want to call the technology a
therapy. CES was the compromise.6
It was also during the 1970s that Dr. Margaret Patterson, in the UK, had
developed a device based on her experience working in Hong Kong
with Dr. H.L. Wen. Dr. Wen had made an ‘accidental’ discovery that the
electro-acupuncture he was using as an anaesthetic helped patients
addicted to drugs. Patients reported they no longer craved drugs and
had not experienced severe withdrawal symptoms. Dr. Patterson later
moved to the USA to work with a consortium of investors to develop
a unit based on her Neuroelectric Therapy (NET) device. During her
lifetime, she was not able to bring her technology to the public.
As Bob Beck delved into the research about Cranial Electro Stimulation
and with his years of research into the mysteries of brain frequencies, he
decided to design a CES unit himself. Having developed sensitive instrumentation to measure both
brain and earth frequencies, Bob designed a simple-to-use handheld unit. Bob acknowledged both
Gilmer and Patterson as pioneers in bringing CES technology to the USA.7
Bob noted the history of the use of frequencies to balance brain function:
When I was experimenting and documenting and doing the informational searches on Cranial
Electrical Stimulation. I, for one, was blown away that the very first patent that I could find on
this was in 1893.8
How to Bring the Brain Tuner to the World?
Bob wondered how best to make the benefits of the Brain Tuner known. He was concerned about the
FDA approval process. He mused, “Now, what to do with this? … I like to stay out of jail like the rest
of you electronic medical people.” Bob’s work with instrumentation had for several years involved
government contracts. As a result, he knew officials in several government departments, including the
FDA. Bob continued:
I called a friend of mine in Washington and said, ‘Hey, I’m going to build some Brain Tuners.’
And he said, ‘Oh, oh. I better get back to you. I’m going to call downtown.’
Downtown meant the FDA office. Bob continued:
A couple days later we heard from him. He said, ‘Bob, I’ve got some good news and bad news.
The good news is you can build all the Brain Tuners you want to. The bad news is you can
never, ever, ever sell one.’
Bob sensed there was more. He waited and his friend continued:
On the other hand, why don’t you sell rare Bugs Bunny comic books for $300 and then give
them one of those devices as an absolutely free bonus. … He said, by the way, none of these
will ever, ever be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.7
Role of the FDA
Despite what his friend in government predicted, at a later time, Bob’s Brain Tuner was approved
by the FDA. The lengthy process and the limits put on the availability of his unit, however, made
him eventually decide to offer his Brain Tuner directly to the people. At times during the 1980s, Bob
lectured about the benefits of harmonic frequencies and the Brain Tuner at conferences and health
shows. Bob Beck was especially known among his peers for two things: One was his ability to
simplify existing technologies and build simple-to-use devices, and the second was his desire to bring
the benefits of technology directly to the public.9
The words of his friend in government did foreshadow, however, an eventual fight for survival—even
for FDA approved devices that were already on the market. A few devices were on the market under
the 1976 FDA Device Amendment Act. The intent of the act was to review and evaluate all existing
devices. Because this was not immediately possible, the devices were ‘grandfathered’ in order to
remain available. During the 1980s and early 1990s, several CES devices were registered with the
FDA. Daniel Kirsch, PhD, was among those marketing an approved CES unit.
In the early 1990s, the FDA exerted increasing pressure to curb the availability of CES devices. The
result? In 1997, when the costly legal battles cleared, the only company able to survive with an FDA
approved device was that of Daniel Kirsch. Despite the pressure from the FDA, Kirsch predicted, “The
day is rapidly approaching when CES will no longer be the best kept secret in American medicine.”10
That prediction still has an uphill battle to become true. In the USA the sale of CES units is limited to
a prescription only basis. The FDA continues to put road blocks on the CES technology—despite the
fact CES has been safely used in the USA for more than three decades.
Summing Up
Early studies indicated CES was effective for treating addictions and improving memory. The FDA
approved the technology for the relief of anxiety, depression and insomnia. Later studies show CES
devices have provided relief from fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and pain. With such a variety
of indications for use, providing the brain with balancing frequencies does appear to have “global
effects.”1
Bob Beck developed the Brain Tuner, known today as the Bio Tuner, to help supply those global
healing effects.
Excerpts in Books about Bob Beck’s Brain Research
Bob Beck’s Brain Tuner was cited in three books and his research on the brain in another. Excerpts
from each of the three books follows:
Super–Learning 2000
Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder with Nancy Ostrander
We have new technology for enhancing consciousness, rapidly, safely, right
now, with no side effects,” our old friend, physicist Dr. Robert Beck, told us. …
Dr. Beck, who, as a consultant to the U.S. Defense Department, was in on part
of the behind-the-scenes intrigue that led to some of these unusual devices,
calls it “one of the most fascinating psycho-political stories ever to emerge.11
and
The implications of this work are stunning,” said physicist Bob Beck … Working with spectrum
analyzers and sophisticated equipment, he came up with a device: the Brain Tuner 5+, which
broadcasts the frequencies of the three ‘magic’ ranges of neurotransmitters—enkephalins,
catecholamines, and betaendorphins. He set up the frequencies in bundles. Instead of
sounding one for each neurotransmitter separately, he put 256 frequencies together like a
resonating chord of music. His device, smaller than a Walkman, runs on a 9–volt battery and is
safe. … You wear the device just twenty minutes a day. …
Users report the BT 5+ reduces stress, improves short and long term memory, helps learning,
increases energy, improves concentration and reduces pain, anxiety, depression, and sleep
requirements. …
Both the BT 5+ and electroacupuncture could prove powerful new ways to open fabulous new
dimensions of mind as well as overcome disabilities and addictions. Now the latest model, the
BT 6, has just made its debut.12
Mega Brain Power

Michael Hutchison
Beth was given anesthesia when she gave birth to her first baby and later found
that she had lost part of her memory. She was forced to give up her job in an
aerospace plant. Years later a friend gave her a small cranial electrostimulation
(CES) device and she began using it. “Almost overnight,” she said, “all my
memories started coming back, including everyone’s telephone extensions at
the plant. It was uncanny—all these old extension numbers of people I hadn’t
thought of in years.”
This story, told to me by researcher Bob Beck, Ph.D., provides graphic evidence of a key
fact: We have electric–powered brains. Each of the billions of neurons in our brains is a tiny
electrical generator, as complex as a small computer, firing an electrical signal that triggers the
release of various neurochemicals and links it with thousands of other neurons.13
and
The Brain Tuner (BT-6) was devised by Dr. Bob Beck. It uses a complex waveform that,
according to Beck, produces over 250 frequency harmonics simultaneously—“all known
beneficial frequencies for the natural stimulation of the brain’s neurotransmitters.” … 14
and
Since addiction, withdrawal, and anhedonia are the result of insufficient levels of certain brain
chemicals, or undeveloped pleasure centers and pleasure pathways, the most direct way of
eliminating them is to restore optimal levels of the brain chemicals, to stimulate the pleasure
centers and pleasure pathways. One of the most exciting breakthroughs in the treatment of
addiction has been the discovery that stimulating the brain with a minuscule electrical current
(cranial electrostimulation, or CES) can cause the brain quickly to pour out large quantities of
the neurochemicals that have been suppressed by addictive substances.
As electrotherapy researcher Bob Beck described it to me, this was originally discovered when
scientists analyzed the brains of rats that had been addicted to opiates:
The rats that were addicted had been getting so much opiate that the little endorphin
factories in the brain would shut down and say, “Look, our body’s got too much of this. Quit
manufacturing it.” And it would take anywhere from a week to three weeks before their
rats’ brains would begin manufacturing beta–endorphin again. Whereas in the brains of
the control rats that had never been addicted, you would find the normal, expected levels
of beta–endorphin. And then they would take a third group of addicted rats, cold turkey cut
them off of the heroin, clip little electrodes to their ears, and within 20 minutes of electrical
stimulation … the rat brain would start showing that the endorphin production had started
up again. So, those rats wouldn’t go through withdrawal symptoms!
This evidence quickly led to the use of CES in the treatment of humans.15
Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis

James L. Oschman
If the therapist relaxes into the state of consciousness typical of those who practice
meditation, therapeutic touch and QiGong, and other methods, it is likely that his or
her brain waves will, from time to time, become entrained with the micropulsations
of the earth’s field. If the patient is also relaxed, both therapist and patient may
become entrained with the earth’s field.
There is remarkable documentation for this concept. In 1969, Robert C. Beck
began a decade of research on the brain wave activity of ‘healers’ from a wide
variety of subcultures around the world (Beck 1986). Beck recorded their electrical brain waves
with an electroencephalograph (EEG). All the healers produced similar brain wave patterns
when they were in their ‘altered state’ and performing a ‘healing’. Whatever their beliefs and
customs were, all healers registered brain wave activity averaging about 7.8–8.0 cycles/
second while they were in their ‘healing’ state. Beck studied exceptional individuals who were
famous or who had developed reputations as healers, psychics, shamans or dowsers. …
Beck performed additional studies on some of the subjects and found that during the healing
moments their brain waves became phase and frequency synchronized with the earth’s
geoelectric micropulsations—the Schumann resonance. (Reference: Beck R 1986 Mood modification
with ELF magnetic fields: a preliminary exploration. Archaeus 4:48)16
References
1. “Electromagnetic Techniques in Neural Therapy,” K.A. Jenrow and A.R. Liboff, Bioelectromagnetic
Medicine, edited by Paul J. Rosch and Marko S. Markov, 2004, ISBN #0–8247–4700–3.
2. “Turning back the Parkinson’s clock,” Paul Taylor, The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2001.
3. “Curing Cancer with Ultra High Frequencies,” Georges Lakhovsky, Radio News Magazine,
February 1925.
4. “High Voltage: The Bioelectric Interviews,” Megabrain Report, Michael Hutchison, 1990.
5. “Supercharging the Brain: The BioElectric Interviews,” Megabrain Report, Michael Hutchison,
1990. (Ray Smith later joined Electromedical Products International, Inc., a manufacturer of FDA
approved CES devices.)
6. Politics in Healing, Daniel Haley, 2000, ISBN #0–9701150–0–8.
7. “Neuro-Electric Therapy: Micro-Electronic Brain Tuners Might Be Tomorrow’s ‘Miracle Cure’ Black
Box,” Bob Beck lecture, US Psychotronics Association Conference, August 1983.
8. Bob Beck talk to DOLAC, Dowsers of Los Angeles County, 1990.
9. Telephone interview with Andrew Michrowski, PhD, President, The Planetary Association for
Clean Energy Inc., June 15, 2005. http://pacenet.homestead.com.
10. “Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation for Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Cognitive Dysfunction, and
Pain,” Daniel L. Kirsch and Ray B. Smith, Bioelectromagnetic Medicine, edited by Paul J. Rosch
and Marko S. Markov, 2004. ISBN #0–8247–4700–3.
11. Super–Learning 2000, Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder with Nancy Ostrander, 1994, ISBN#0–
440–22388–1, pg 243.
12. Super–Learning 2000, Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder with Nancy Ostrander, 1994. ISBN#0–
440–22388–1, pgs 249-250.
13. Mega Brain Power, Michael Hutchison, 1994, ISBN#1–56282–770–7, pg 95.
14. Mega Brain Power, Michael Hutchison, 1994, ISBN#1–56282–770–7, pg 100.
15. Mega Brain Power, Michael Hutchison, 1994, ISBN#1–56282–770–7, pgs 308-309.
16. Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, James L. Oschman, 2000, ISBN#0–443–06261–7, pgs
107-108.

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What is Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES) technology?

What is Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES) technology?

How does the brain function as a messaging center?

How does the brain function as a messaging center?

Bob Beck’s Legacy

Harmonic Frequencies to Balance the Brain

Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES) Technology

The Brain as a Messaging Center

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Healing Harmonic Frequencies

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A Pivotal Time in CES Development

Anxiety and Depression

Relief from Pain

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showed remarkable improvements in memory, learning and other cognitive and

Keeping CES Alive in North America

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How to Bring the Brain Tuner to the World?

Role of the FDA

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Excerpts in Books about Bob Beck’s Brain Research

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Mega Brain Power

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Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis

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