Dr. G. Patrick Flanagan was born in 1944 in Oklahoma. As a child, Patrick was noted for his exceptional gifts and unusual abilities to become exceedingly proficient in the sciences and the arts. Patrick excelled in chemistry, physics and electronics. His early inventions include a missile detector that he invented from the spare parts of a amateur radio. At the age of 12, Patrick's missile detector attracted the attention of the military due to its precision and accuracy in detecting "classified" missile tests. When Patrick was 14, he invented the NeurophoneŽ, a device that allowed sound to be translated through skin.

The original model of the NeurophoneŽin 1958 was from a Hi-Fi stereo with a transducer, metal pads and a plastic bag. After a few iterations and perfecting the circuit, Patrick had created a state of the art electronics masterpiece. In 1962, the Acadamy of Achievement in San Diego, California awarded Patrick with the gold medal for the invention of the NeurophoneŽ.

That same year, LIFE magazine featured Patrick in the aricle, "The Take-Over Generation" and was listed as one of the top young men and women in the country.

In 1968, the United States Patent Office issued patent #3,393,279 to Dr. Flanagan for his nervous system excitation device. Advances in printed circuit board and microprocessor technology had allowed the growth and development of the NeurophoneŽ into previous advanced models throughout the 1980's and 1990's.

Dr. Flanagan has since been spotlighted in countless television, radio and print media venues. He has hundreds of inventions and has been part of history's most profound and novel research endeavors, including the Gemini space flight team through NASA and the Navy Dolphin Communication Project.

In his youth Patrick collaborated with Henri Coanda as he began on of his other projects. He was inspired by Dr. Coanda and began a quest which involved solving a huge mystery about what was in the water that allowed the Hunza to live such long lives with very low occurrence of disease. This was one of many projects Patrick was involved with alongside his neurophone / alternative hearing research.





The NeurophoneŽ was invented by Dr. G. Patrick Flanagan in 1958 when he was 14 years old. It is a precision scientific instrument with an extensive digital signal processor that encodes sound and modulates it onto ultrasonic signals. Patrick was a child prodigy in electronics, chemistry and physics. He had discovered an entirely new way to transmit sound into the human brain. Patrick's profound invention has received two United States patents, #3,393,279 and #3,647,970. It took medical science 33 years to discover how the device works.

It has been said that great inventions take 50 years before they are understood. In 1991, Martin Lenhardt of the University of Virginia discovered that human beings have the ability to detect ultrasonic sound when it is transmitted through the skin, bones and liquids of the body. His groundbreaking discovery was published in the prestigious journal Science, Vol. 253, 5, 1991, 82. Lenhardt had duplicated Patrick's original 1958 NeurophoneŽ using sophisticated ultrasonic transducers and discovered that a tiny organ in the inner ear that is normally associated with balance is also a hearing organ for ultrasonic sound.

The organ is called the saccule and is about the size of a pea. It contains nerve endings, called macula, and an otolith, a gelatinous cap containing fine sand-like particles of calcium carbonate called otoconia. When the head is tilted in relation to gravity, the macula signals the vestibulocochlear nerve in the nervous system so that balance can be regained. The saccule has nerve endings that are distributed throughout the brain. Some of these nerves go to the area of the brain that computes sound. Other nerves are distributed into areas concerned with long-term memory. The NeurophoneŽ transmits modulated ultrasonic sound at 40,000 cycles per second (40 kHz). When we swim with dolphins or whales, we can hear the ultrasonic energy emitted by these mammals through our saccule. By using the NeurophoneŽ, we can train our brain pathways so that we can "hear" through the saccule pathway. It may be that our ancestors could communicate with whales and dolphins by the use of ultrasonic sound. When the NeurophoneŽ is used as an experimental listening device, these pathways are developed and appear to expand consciousness balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain.



The GPF-1011 DSP NeurophoneŽ has been developed and engineered to provide a means for ultrasonic waves to be interpreted by our brain as "hearing". The technology bypasses the normal audio mechanisms used by the body to hear sound and provides a direct neural stimulation directly to the brain. By bypassing the ears to hear- reading, meditating, studying and learning in general may become easier to comprehend and retain.

Generally, commercial digital speech recognition circuitry is based on a technology called dominant frequency power analysis. While speech may be recognized by such a circuit, a more effective and natural speech encoding is based on time ratios. If the phase of the frequency power analysis circuits are not correct, they will not work. The intelligence (sound) is carried by phase information. The frequency content of the voice gives our voice a certain quality, but frequency does not contain information. Most attempts at computer voice recognition and voice generation are only partially successful. Until digital time-ratio encoding is used, our computers will never be able to truly talk to us. By recognizing and using time-ratio encoding, we could transmit clear voice data through extremely narrow bandwidths.

If the NeurophoneŽ transducers are placed on the closed eyes or on the face, the sound can be clearly 'heard' as if it were coming from inside the brain. When the transducers are placed on the face, the sound is perceived through the trigeminal nerve. There was an earlier test performed at Tufts University that was designed by Dr. Dwight Wayne Batteau, one of my partners in the United States Navy Dolphin Communication Project. This test was known as the "Beat Frequency Test". It is well known that sound waves of two slightly different frequencies create a 'beat' note as the waves interfere with each other. For example, if a sound of 300 Hertz and one of 330 Hertz are played into one ear at the same time, a beat note of 30 Hertz will be perceived. This is a mechanical summation of sound in the bone structure of the inner ear. There is another beat, sounds beat together in the corpus callosum in the center of the brain. This binaural beat is used by the Monroe Institute and others to simulate altered brain states by entraining (causing brain waves to lock on and follow the signal) the brain into high alpha or even theta brain states. These brain states are associated with creativity, lucid dreaming and other states of consciousness otherwise difficult to reach when awake. The NeurophoneŽ is a powerful brain entrainment device. If we play alpha or theta signals directly through the NeurophoneŽ, we can move the brain into any state desired. Batteau's theory was that if we could place the NeurophoneŽ transducers so that the sound was perceived as coming from one side of the head only, and if we played a 300 Hertz signal through the NeurophoneŽ, if we also played a 330 Hertz signal through an ordinary headphone we would get a beat note if the signals were summing in the inner ear bones. When the test was conducted, we were able to perceive two distinct tones without beat. This test again proved that Neurophonic hearing was not through bone conduction.



Regular users of the NeurophoneŽ notice:

	A harmonizing feeling of being grounded in thoughts and action
	Relaxation though listening to pink noise or external audio
	Increased learning potential while listening to audio books or foreign languages
	Increased concentration and focus
	Increased auditory sensation

University studies are underway in Florida to evaluate the efficacy of NeurophoneŽ use with advanced accelerated learning and receptiveness to new information.

Application Suggestions

One of the main goals while using the NeuophoneŽ will be to decrease the gain levels (volume) of the output over time. As you are training yourself to hear ultrasonically through your saccule, you will find that over time you are able to hear the output of the NeurophoneŽ at a seemingly higher volume even though you are turning down the gain.

One of the main goals while using the NeuophoneŽ will be to decrease the gain levels (volume) of the output over time. As you are training yourself to hear ultrasonically through your saccule, you will find that over time you are able to hear the output of the NeurophoneŽ at a seemingly higher volume even though you are turning down the gain.

For external audio (With headphones): For external audio sources, such as books on tape or foreign languages, attach the three-way splitter (supplied) into the output of your CD or cassette player. Attach the audio extension cable (supplied) to the splitter, as shown. Headphones may be attached to the second opening on the splitter. Attach the other end of the audio extension to the input of the GPF-1011 DSP front panel. Toggle the power switch to the "external" position and you will be playing the audio sound modulated ultrasonically through the NeurophoneŽ.

For external audio (without headphones): Attach the audio extension cable from the output of the CD or cassette player to the "input" of the GPF-1011 DSP front panel. Toggle the power switch to the "external" position.

	The all-digital, NeurophoneŽ GPF-1011 DSP offers refined quality and aesthetics providing a rich harmonics and dynamic unltrasonic neural stimulation.
	The NeurophoneŽ GPF-1011 DSP offers:
		Digital signal processing
		Integrated pink-noise generator for inclusive use
		Stainless steel transducers
		20+ hours of battery life per charge with NiMH batteries
		Extruded aluminum housing
		Laser-etched graphics
		One-year warranty - Made In USA
		Individually serialized instruments with certificate of authenticity