Order Out of Chaos

by Eric Thompson

One of the most persuasive theories in neauroacoustic research was developed by Bill Harris, founder of Centerpointe Research Insititute and developer of the famous Holosync technology, and uses the dissipative structures of systems theory to explain the emergence of many impactful changes in human behavior and experience that have been witnessed and reported by thousands of entrainment technology participants.

An open system normally regulates itself by dissipating the incoming flow of entropy (chaos) into the environment. The reason it can do this is because its boundaries are permeable and can freely exchange both mass and energy with its environment. Such permeable boundaries and their symbiotic relationship with the environment is one of the defining capacities of open systems. Some examples of open systems include the human brain and nervous system, U.S. highway systems, and the earth.

Whenever the inflow of energy becomes greater than the system's ability to dissipate it, this rapid build-up of energy is experienced as entropy, and the system's functioning is severely hampered. In fact, if the entropy builds too rapidly, it can even threaten the life of the system.

Interestingly, though, Russian Nobelist Ilya Prigogene discovered that when open systems experience such "backup," this is often the moment at which a "bifurcation point" arises, meaning that an entirely new order spontaneously emerges out of the chaos of the old one, an order easily capable of handling the entropy that once overwhelmed the old system. In his book, "Order Out of Chaos," Prigogene reveals how his experiments with chemical systems proved that evolution occurs as the result of spontaneous increases in system complexity in response to encroaching chaos.

We once believed, as some still do, that evolution was impossible because of the second law of thermodynamics, which says that all energy available for utilization is always on the decrease: the law of increasing entropy. Yet Prigogene's research seems to indicate that evolution happens because of, or at least in dynamic partnership with, the second law of thermodynamics.

The reason this applies to neuroacoustic research is twofold:

1) The states we're entering into (predominantly Delta and Sub-Delta) are high-amplitude states of consciousness, which means that the brainwaves being produced are higher in power (or force) than normal waking states; and 2) The carrier frquencies we are using to gently induce such states are exceptionally high in amplitude , meaning that highly focused currents of energy are being delivered to the brain and nervous system.

The combined effect of these two occurences is an ultra-coherent brainwave frequency that gently pushes the brain and nervous system to perform at higher and higher levels of efficiency. This is much like slowly and gently introducing 5,000 vehicles into a highway system that can presently handle only 4,000 vehicles. At some point it will begin to experience an observeable inability to handle the inflow of energy, and entropy will begin to build up. The brain and nervous system, however, have an amazing advantage over the highway system because of what neuroscientists refer to as "neuroplasticity," the brain's ability to reconfigure itself in direct relationship to how it is being used. At some p0int, when the incoming flow of sound entrainment begins to become just a bit more than what the nervous system is used to handling, it starts to be experienced as entropy and overwhelm. Yet when the brain and nervous system are gently encouraged to continue handling the incoming flow of energy (as they are during the program we will be using in the upcoming research study), they experience a point when they spontaneously reconfigure to higher levels of functioning, and the overwhelm likewise releases into a new felt sense of composure and equanimity. 

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