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Figure 3.14.
EEg biofeedback. The photograph ran with an article entitled “what a
Sexy Brainwave” and had a caption reading, “georgina Boyle calls up those no-worry
waves.” Source:
sunday mirror
(london), 12 december 1971, 22.
heads to a tremendous extent” (Robbins 2000, 65, quoting Joe Kamiya, a pio-
neer in the scientific exploration of biofeedback). David Rorvik (1970) elabo-
rates on this in much the same terms as were applied to flicker: “Now, with
the dawning of the cybernetic seventies, it is not too surprising that LSD and
the other hallucinogens of the sixties are about to be eclipsed, in a sense, by
an electronic successor: BFT. Bio-Feedback Training, or 'electronic yoga' as
it has been called, puts you in touch with inner space, just like LSD but, un-
like acid, leaves you in full control of your senses. And, unlike meditation, it
doesn't take years of sitting on mountaintops to master. . . . There are those
who believe that biofeedback training may not only illuminate the myriad
workings of the mind but may even fling open the doors to entirely new kinds
of experience, extending the inner dimensions of the emergent cybernetic
man” (1970, 175-76).
