Epileptic seizures, some dyskinesia and the ‘alpha tape’

On January 31, 2001, we witnessed jointly with a number of medical aides a most remarkable event. Our son was starting his fifth epileptic seizure of that morning after a high dose of stesolid, in addition to his regular doses of luminal and dilantin, when we decided to play the alpha tape. The seizure ceased immediately, in its tracks. Eyes and face returned to normal. The cycle repeated itself in the coming minutes, days and weeks. The same for nystagmus, and facial and head movements. Our son was injured over 11 years ago as an air force officer. He was then under 21 years of age. A 10 kg antenna fell from a height of 30 m on his head and spine. He was left paralysed from the shoulders down and was in a coma for 10 months. After a year he began having epileptic seizures. There was 1 day with 16 seizures, and 1 day with a 3.5 hour seizure. The 'alpha tape' is a dot.. . dot.. . dot sound of 10 Hz which we received from the Silva Mind Control course that we took some 20 years ago. It is a sound that 'helps maintain your level' of relaxation. Our idea to use this tape for this purpose was stimulated by Deepak et al. 1 who speak of meditation as a preventive. We used the tape to stop the seizures. When we first informed people of this phenomenon we were warned that the 'Alpha tape' sounds to them like alpha induction. As a result we ask people with epilepsy who want to use the tape to listen to it first under normal circumstances. We succeeded with the original 10 Hz 'Alpha tape' to stop 16.5 out of 18 seizures. To eliminate further failures we adopted a hypothesis communicated to us by Dr Deepak, and started using a 9 Hz version of the tape instead. We have had unfailing success, twelve out of twelve. We restrict our use of the alpha tape to stop impending or ongoing seizures. To prevent the start of further seizures as well as other neurological episodes we adopted a regimen of listening to a 12 minute guided relaxation tape three times a day followed by listening to Mozart's Two Pianos Sonata in D (K448). In addition we play the Mozart sonata as well as Yanni's compositions for general background music. We see over …