these light pulse glasses from 1993 are
flashing light through my eyelids in
perfect combination with synthesized
sound frequencies to generate brain wave
patterns through a process known as
entrainment and the company who promised
to deliver this mind power breakthrough
found itself at the center of not one
not two but 20 lawsuits the zygon super
mind brainwave synchronizer and its
behavioral mind scripts cassette tapes
promised to fulfill virtually every
human desire you could learn a foreign
language become a better public speaker
combat illness lose weight quit smoking
experience the afterlife and even
transform into a whale what began as a
peak into a curious relic of 9s Tech
snowballed into uncovering a top secret
government psychic project called star
gate wearing glasses that made me feel
like I was getting the Ludo technique
from A Clockwork Orange and chronicling
one man's desire to power up everyone's
brains because the most surprising thing
about this Oddity from the past is that
zygon is back and ready to make you into
a mind Warrior right
now if you flipped open the pages of
Popular Science and in the mid99s you
were bound to stumble upon one of the
most consistently advertised products at
the time mind power breakthrough
learning machine breakthrough you'd have
seen a picture of a woman wearing dark
sunglasses with images of the beach or a
shuttle launching inside and an offer
for $600 worth of free mindwar what is
mindwar the bottom of the ad highlights
the $500 mindwar bonus pack and $100 of
mindlifting moodscapes for free the
bolded subheadings include a vacation in
20 minutes boost brain power speak
French Spanish German and Italian
overnight and three fantastic mind
Journeys what is this thing no
seriously what is this thing the first
shock was discovering how expensive it
is on eBay I've done several retro Tech
videos on forgotten Gadget that no one
really wants anymore you can pick up a
brand new interactor or a direct Ed Plus
for about 25 bucks a complete zygon
supermind is 10 times that I had to pay
$283 45 for my kit and you can see a
mint condition unit listed for
399 bucks it's proof that there's still
a market for 30-year-old brainwave
synchronizers but what does the super
super mind even do the setup consists of
the brainwave synchronizer computer and
the light pulse glasses which you use
with your own headphones and cassette
tape player everything gets plugged into
the brain wave synchronizer which allows
you to choose from a list of programs
designed to create specific brainwave
States through a process called
brainwave entrainment the entrainment
process consists of using a rhythm of
external stimuli like flickering lights
music or tactile stimuli that
synchronize brain waves to induce a
highly specific mental state the
supermind is capable of achieving four
different levels beta is measured in 14
to 16 cycles per second and is a waking
conscious State Alpha is 8 to 13 CPS and
is a relaxed but Alert state Theta is 4
to 8 CPS and is related to creativity
and dreaming and Delta 0 to4 CPS is the
deepest stage of sleep so the superm
mind is built to place your mind in the
ideal state for your intended goal
whether you're hoping to learn a new
language become a better salesman or go
on a meditative Journey the programs
range in duration from 7 minutes for a
quick charge of your mental acuity to 60
Minutes for super Delta meditation I
just wanted to expand my mind a little
and experience some deep restorative
relaxation
instead I got
tortured let me explain what's going on
here cation mind link is part of the
Fantastic Journey moodscape series
alongside near-death experience and
Aboriginal dream time these are
30-minute programs meant to trigger a
Theta brain wave state to inspire Vivid
mental imagery these do appear to work
well for some people and I'll get to
that later people who feel like they're
floating with dolphins or achieving
Enlightenment in the ancient Australian
Outback but to me no definitely not to
me they sound almost scary listen to
this sample of citation mind link and
tell me it doesn't sound like an oceanic
horror soundtrack
[Music]
now pair half an hour of that sound with
Relentless blisteringly Fast Flashing
red lights right on top of your eyeballs
obviously you have to close your eyes
while wearing these super mind light
pulse glasses and there's also a
protective red plastic covering over the
lights inside but I actually bought a
second pair which interestingly have no
branding on the front and the inner
Shield is missing this allows us to see
under the hook at the two pairs of red
LEDs which do the pulsing although the
camera can pick up the LEDs flickering
this in no way replicates the experience
of having these flashing lights
maniacally assaulting your eyelids so
I'm going to simulate what it looks like
and pair that visual with the bone
chilling audio from the near-death
experience moodscape I also need to
provide a serious warning the following
flashing lights May C cause discomfort
or seizures for those with
photosensitive epilepsy viewer
discretion is advised please skip to
this time code to avoid viewing the
flashing lights I'll give you time to
skip ahead if you need to okay here we
go how did you like that
I found it impossible to handle I could
only sit through a few minutes before I
turned it off it makes sense that when
you're trying to technologically
synchronize brain waves to induce a
particular mental state it's going to
require some Extreme Measures I put the
glasses on my wife and she ripped them
off after 5 Seconds zygon founder and
CEO danne spots admitted some people
have this reaction in episode 4 of the
zygon story in his mind Warrior Project
podcast Dane said that some people and
they they would take their cassette or
their headphones off and throw them at
the wall so there's a small percentage
of people that have difficulty with this
and that's because their conscious mind
rejects it and so what they're doing is
they're it's almost like they're
fighting the transformation process I
honestly felt like I was fighting for my
own sanity while I love to cover retro
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interestingly the testimonial quote on
the back of the box is actually from
Dane spots himself declaring this has to
be the closest thing there is to what we
saw Arnold Schwarzenegger experience in
the science fiction movie Total Recall
and that's just the mood escapes which
are supposed to be enlightening brain
Adventures I hav't even gotten into the
behavior mind scripts that are literally
meant to change your life they're
designed to entrain your brain into
becoming a sales Superstar gaining a
super memory and making lots of money
but before I demonstrate Behavior
scripts I wanted to find out what
happened to supermind how popular was it
what happened to the company why was it
all over Popular Science 30 years years
ago then seemingly disappeared for
decades until now what I found was
lawsuits a lot of them zyon
International faced an onslaught of
false advertising lawsuits over claims
they made about their devices super mind
is a pretty nebulous and frankly really
cool name for a piece of tech but their
1994 follow-up device which used CDs
instead of cassette tapes was named
something perfectly direct the learning
machine the learning diss promised to
teach you everything from beginner
Spanish attracting wealth better time
management and organization super memory
quick energy creativity and problem
solving health and healing powers
eliminating fear and anxiety and even
expanding psychic powers more on that
later but these claims were so serious
that the FTC got involved ordering zygon
to cease and desist from representing
that the use of such a product can or
will have any effect on a person's
health or that they can help the user
quit smoking they were also ordered to
pay up to
$195,000 in refunds to customers which
never would have happened if they had
marketed the thing for relaxation as
Napa County District attorney Daryl
Roberts suggested in a 1996 edition of
the San Francisco Examiner but that's
not all zygon was involved in 20
different suits on their home turf of
Kings County Washington alone ranging
from commercial suits all the way down
to tax warrants as a result zygon
stopped selling the learning machine and
the company ultimately shut down Dan
spots pivoted to his work with his other
company called scitec and that was that
but some people really loved zygon brain
synchronization machines swabi 429 wrote
a retrospective on his experience with
the learning machine in March of 2011 on
Blue J blog he described this
surprisingly elaborate and classy
packaging of the device that included a
styrofoam statue head to display the
unit on other than an annoying
high-pitched wine when he first booted
up the system he said sweet so far so
good after trying out the French CD and
sampling a few others swabi found
himself using the learning machine every
day he had no intention of sending the
device back because he simply just liked
it a lot and for him it really did seem
to be a success he even admits that he
noticed and altered Consciousness after
using it and he wasn't alone either the
comments on just this blog are filled
with people just like him with extremely
fond memories of the device but it was
impossible for zygon to overcome the
legal troubles there were also a lot of
Skeptics including a scathing supermind
critique by John Margolis in the 1992
Chicago Tribune who referred to danne
spots as a Hightech snake oil salesman
and then decision was made to shut the
company down right any company anybody
that does innovative news stuff is
always under attack wait so who is is
Dane spots how did he even start
supermind and what is zitech this retro
future device meant to give me the
answers to all of life's questions just
ended up raising a lot more questions
Dane spots has dedicated his life to
nothing less than making your life
better and he means it when danne was in
his 20s he moved to Southern California
and began to experiment with sens
deprivation tanks a process in which
you're sealed inside a pitch dark
chamber filled with salt water
completely cut off from all your senses
so I actually had what they call a
somati experience I was in for 3 hours
but it felt like 10 minutes I felt like
I was connected to God and that I had
the answers to every single question I'd
ever asked Dane's eyes were open to an
entirely new way of thinking and it's a
high he's been chasing the rest of his
life and then he had a breakthrough on
his journey of personal development he
discovered that he could create a
similar effect to his somat experience
when listening to certain forms of music
while meditating so he hopped into a
recording studio and made his own I went
into a studio and I experimented with
sound phasing certain frequencies and
working with harmonics and to make a
long story short came up with a matrix
that replicated closely a very deep
meditation and the experience like I had
in a sensory deprivation tanks danne
gave out his cassettes to a few of his
friends and after most of them reported
back having achieved amazingly deep
relaxation in Altered States phenomenon
he decided that he would take it to the
masses and in 1986 zygon International
was born not to be confused with the
cone shaped sucker covered aliens from
Doctor Who the word zygon is actually
Greek meaning to yoke or to join it's
really about the union of two things to
create a third it's where we got the
word zyo in terms of human reproduction
in the case of Dan's company though
zygon really means the union of Science
and spirituality to create a new
paradigm or belief system he wanted
everyone to power up their brains and he
specifically targeted what he called
Mind Warriors or a person who Embraces
the idea that mind is at the core of
everything he describes walking the path
of the Mind Warrior like being a Jedi
night in 1989 danne filed a patent for
the very first zygon machine the brain
supercharger like the supermind the
brain supercharger used pre-recorded
audio cassette tapes featuring
self-improvement topics and he had a
list of classifications ranging from
scientific to nautical all the way down
to life saving in 1993 zyon released
super mine for
$299.95 plus $15 shipping or the
equivalent of about $700 today and in
1994 the learning machine debuted at the
same price point at its peak zyon
claimed to be raking in a whopping $50
million a year and then there was Dan's
psychic powers company based on top
secret government research in the summer
of 2000 DNE purchased a company called
scitec which ratcheted up the idea of
being like Jedi Knights by pretty much
trying to use the force scitec was
founded in 1989 by Ed Dames who might
have been a fourstar general and Dia
intelligence officer or he might not
have been who knows but scitec
specializes in remote viewing what is
remote viewing
the CIA defines it as the ability to
describe locations one has not visited
so it's being able to see a place that
you aren't from where you are by using
nothing but the power of your mind
remote viewing was actually the basis
for an episode of X Files called Mind's
Eye in which a blind woman has visions
of an active killer on the loose and if
you've ever seen the movie The Men Who
Stare at Goats you get the idea the CIA
had a program dedicated to studying the
phenomenon during the Cold War called
the Stargate project which Ed Dame's
claims to have worked on which is
exactly where his claims to being a
psionic spy get a little hazy since the
military doesn't publish organizational
charts of their classified projects
there's no way to know who actually
worked on them the Stargate project was
ended in 1995 and a 17 8 page CIA report
Declassified in 2002 titled an
evaluation of the remote viewing program
research and operational applications
basically says nothing useful came out
of it it summarizes the program by
stating we conclude that continued use
of remote viewing in intelligence
gathering operations is not warranted
the very concept of remote viewing had
some very famous detractors including
recreational math Legend Martin Gardner
whose work I featured on Vsauce 2
Gardner noted the link between founding
remote viewing researcher Harold put off
and the Church of Scientology in his
2000 book on pseudo science did Adam and
Eve have Naval the implication being
that remote viewing was rooted in
religion instead of science the remote
viewing tests were things like trying to
mentally see what was on a series of
photographs while another person tried
to tell them telepathically which seems
very similar to the ESP testing scene in
1984's Ghostbusters where Peter Venkman
lies to an attractive woman about her
uncanny ability to guess the symbols on
cards in order to secure a date with her
anyway Ed Dames left the Army and went
on to start scitec to focus on remote
viewing now calling it technical remote
viewing or TRV for short the goal was to
offer remote viewing services to their
clients the first of which supposedly
was the defense department with whom
they apparently helped gather
intelligence for the Gulf War and scitec
only got more ambitious after danne
spots got in the mix because Dane wanted
to bring TRV to everyone it wasn't long
before scitec began to offer products
like remote viewing training self-help
books gear meditation tools and mind
Technologies all available for purchase
on their website Dane even started his
own online TRV University which featured
a host of courses training its students
on remote viewing and even had its very
own virtual campus as far back as 2003
but perhaps the most ambitious question
danne tried to answer with scitec was
literally what happens after you die in
2003 he assigned the scitech Special
Operations team a team of skilled
technical remote viewers to project
afterlife and Endeavor to answer the
ultimate question an Endeavor that
according to scitec was ultimately
successful unfortunately for us though
that answer was locked behind a pay wall
on a page only accessible with the
Wayback machine and is thus lost to time
so danne Scoops up scitech and does what
he does best and it seems like
everything went off without a hitch but
there was a hitch the troubles began
with scitec before spots even arrived
really they were kind of the reason he
arrived before spots entered the picture
Ed Dames partnered with a man named
Harry delighter who owned a video
production studio called Light
Productions that specialized in the
production and distribution of many UFO
and paranormal related videos Dames
hired deler to make a series of
instructional tapes on remote viewing to
distribute to the public but after
production was completed Dames took the
tapes for himself and hired another
person for distribution he believed that
he could make more money on the videos
than he initially thought so he decided
to cut deler out to keep more of the
profit for himself deler took Dames to
court and Dames lost to the tune of
$435,000 because of of this Dame stepped
down from his role as president of
scitec and spot swooped in and bought up
his shares and took over as chairman and
CEO in the spirit of virtually every
Miracle device sold in the 1990s I have
to say this but wait there's more part
of spot's deal with Dames was a complete
transfer of all the company's assets
including its intellectual property
which seems straightforward enough that
is until a former scitech employee named
FM bonsel broke into Dam's ex-wife's
house whom he may have been having an
affair with stole a bunch of scitec
files and allegedly handed them over to
Dames it's a pretty wild story and spots
thought so too he sued bonsel for the
files in 2001 and when the case finally
settled in 2002 spots walked away
Victorious leaving bonsel to hand over
the file and pay damages of at least
$11,900 so then what did Dane go broke
and give up on his mental mission to
create a 21st century remote viewing
hyper intelligent Jedi Order is zygon
like this supermind computer a defunct
relic of the Noto distant past no chance
scitec still exists today and danne is
still at the ahead of it they've since
shifted their focus and are now
operating as a research and consulting
firm specializing in intelligence
collection for individual corporate and
government clients who are looking to
solve problems outside of what
conventional information can provide
they do still provide some personal
remote viewing services and are now
offering to train and manage a TRV team
for you and they even got hired to help
find Jean Benet Ramsay's killer using
remote viewing as for zygon it is back
Dane revived the project in 2020 at the
start of the pandemic to bring zon's
mind expanding Tech into your home but
this time without all the extra
attachments you can access these zygon
mind tools right from your phone through
their app no need for bulky headphones
aquatic mammal cassettes or blinding LED
glasses is it now we have the ability to
reach any place on Earth in a matter of
seconds so you'll be able to take a
course on your PC during the day and
then at night use your phone to engage
in a sleep program but the Mind Warriors
Heroes Journey started with a box of 11
behavioral mind script tapes ranging
from permanent weight loss and
attracting love relationships to reduce
blood pressure SL Better Health and
mastering fears and anxiety honestly
it's all so weird that it's just so
intriguing now I am ready to give
supermind another shot and in keeping
with the true ethos of zygon I will
Begin by expanding my psychic
[Music]
powers see you in the
future I am surrounded by the white
light of
love my mind is connected to the P
consciousness of the
Universe I receive
truth I remove all barriers and
blocks I let
go I
see I
heal I am the source and center of all
life I am truth
and
love my Consciousness expands