The rise of meditation music
thefader.comIn 1970, master yogi Swami Rama reportedly stopped his heart for 17 seconds during a demonstration at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.
He was participating in a study on voluntary control over the autonomic nervous system, demonstrating his ability to fluctuate his muscle temperature, form cysts beneath his skin, and rapidly cycle through different brainwave frequencies using yoga nidrā, a form of meditation where the mind is conscious, but the physical body enters a state of restful “psychic sleep." According to a summary of lead researchers Dr.
Elmer and Alyce Green's findings, it took five minutes for the EEG machine to show he'd entered a deep and dreamless sleep. Twenty minutes later, the Greens reported that Rama woke up and was able to repeat a whispered conversation between two nearby lab techs verbatim..
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