Gamma Meditation System

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: July 18, 2006
• Release Date: December 10, 2007
• Label: The Relaxation Company
• Copyright: 2006 The Relaxation Company
• Total Length: 1:01:00
• Genres:
• ASIN: B001200MCS
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,215 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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142 of 146 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a brainwave CD that actually works!, January 13, 2007

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Andrew Wilcox - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gamma Meditation System (Audio CD)

I meditated for a number of years but I just wasn't very good at it. I tried everything -- expensive brain wave CDs from Centerpointe; I even tried making my own. Nothing seemed to make it even the slightest bit easier to meditate. So after years of meditating, I just gave up.

I found out, however, that even if you're no good at meditating, it still provides some benefits. So I decided to start doing it again. I went to my local book store to get some CDs of just nature-sounds to listen to, and I saw this CD. It wasn't that expensive (even at full retail), so I picked it up too.

I don't give out praise lightly, but I was blown away by this CD. It helps me in three ways:

1. The amibient music on the CD helps to get me in the right state of mind.
2. Where the CD shines is that it really, really helps me to get "locked-in" to a single minded state.
3. When I get distracted, it makes it so much easier to get back into a single minded state.

The quality of my meditative experience is now much better than it was in the past. I can really see this in my life outside of meditation. I am much happer, more even keeled, more ... at one with the Tao, if you will.

This is my experience. Your mileage my vary, but this CD is so inexpensive that, in my opinion, it's worth a try even if it doesn't end up working for you.


iTunes users: by default, iTunes will compress CDs when you import them. Normally this is not a big deal, but I personally worry that this might damage the quality of this kind of CD. In order to avoid this, before importing this CD into iTunes, in the iTunes menu go to Preferences > Advanced > Importing and change "Import Using" to "Apple Lossless Encoder". You should also check to make sure that your iPod supports this kind of encoding (most do, but the new Shuffle, for example, doesn't).

89 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful And Transformative, November 19, 2006

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The Psychonaut - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gamma Meditation System (Audio CD)

A few weeks ago I ordered the Gamma Meditation System CD and I have to say it's one of the most powerful and transformative psychoacoustic CDs I have recently listen to and I have listened to pretty much everything that's currently available. The CD is Gamma at 40 Hz which, according to Dr. Jeffrey D. Thompson: "Early evidence of the 40 Hz EEG brain activity from the Neuroscience Unit at the University of Birmingham, has shown these frequencies to be associated with higher levels of brain organization "binding" information from all the senses together for a higher-level awareness of unity of the objects of our perception. Gamma rhythms also seem to be associated exclusively with higher mental activity, including perception and consciousness since Gamma activity disappears with general anesthesia. There is also evidence that Gamma frequencies appearing in different areas of the cortex synchronize themselves together in a more holographic manner during these extraordinary states of consciousness associated with "Shamanic" and "Mystical" experience." The soundtrack is very ambient and atmospheric so it's perfect for deep meditation and exploring higher consciousness. I highly recommend this CD and the Gamma Meditation System 2.0 as well. (It's Hypergamma at 100 Hz which is also associated with extraordinary states of consciousness.)

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, September 21, 2007

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Theresa Michael (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gamma Meditation System (Audio CD)

I have purchased Dr Thompson's Gamma Meditation months back but have refrained from writing a review until I used the CD fairly frequently. I think it's pretty amazing the impact that it has on the brain. It's almost as if you can feel it making new neuronal pathways. There is some physical stimulation felt in the brain from listening to this, almost as if the brain is being "calibrated". I feel much less stressed after taking time out each day to listen and it really seems overall that it has made a very positive change in my life. Although I do use it in conjunction with other meditation techniques, such as a couple of free podcasts that I discovered.
Anyhow, I want to stress to people purchasing this to wear the proper stereo headsets, and not to expect much reaction until you are at least 20 minutes into the CD. I think once you listen to it one time, you will appreciate the effect and automatically want to listen again and again.
All the best!