Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video covers the 1990 paper by Ruttan, Persinger, and Koren called "Enhancement of temporal lobe-related experiences during brief exposures to milligauss intensity extremely low freuquency magnetic fields," more commonly known as the God Helmet paper.
I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
At the outset, I just want to point out a lesson I learned in grad school. Sometimes you read a paper and feel not smart. The thing is that there are some terribly written papers out there - so the paper not making sense isn't always the fault of the reader. This is one of those times.
Run time: 1:10:03
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Link
* Jung youtu.be/zDUkCT6VThI
* There may be a God Helmet dot com that is a weird rabbit hole to fall down, but they helpfully have all of Persinger's work available, like the paper covered in this video: neurosciarchive.byethost12.com/1990-Ruttan-and-Persinger-Journal-of-Bioelectricity-Enhancement-of-temporal-lobe-related-experiences-during-brief-exposures-to-milliga.pdf
Timestamps
0:00 The God Helmet
3:05 APA format notes
6:44 The God Helmet paper - Introduction
11:58 - Methods
19:22 - Results
25:55 - Discussion
27:27 My comments and critiques: General
29:48 - Intro
40:11 - Methods
45:49 - Results
49:15 Physics chat!
50:25 - Magnetic field
54:32 - Room shielding
57:12 - Susceptibility to magnetic fields
58:28 - MRI and TMS
1:07:57 - Final physics-y thoughts
1:09:20 Wrap up
This video covers the 1990 paper by Ruttan, Persinger, and Koren called "Enhancement of temporal lobe-related experiences during brief exposures to milligauss intensity extremely low freuquency magnetic fields," more commonly known as the God Helmet paper.
I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.
At the outset, I just want to point out a lesson I learned in grad school. Sometimes you read a paper and feel not smart. The thing is that there are some terribly written papers out there - so the paper not making sense isn't always the fault of the reader. This is one of those times.
Run time: 1:10:03
___________________
Music: zoeblade.com
Questions? Comments? Requests?: twitter.com/CassErisYT
Discord server (by way of linktree): https://linktr.ee/casseris
Instagram: instagram.com/cass_eris
Support the channel!
patreon.com/casserisYT
paypal.me/casseris
Link
* Jung youtu.be/zDUkCT6VThI
* There may be a God Helmet dot com that is a weird rabbit hole to fall down, but they helpfully have all of Persinger's work available, like the paper covered in this video: neurosciarchive.byethost12.com/1990-Ruttan-and-Persinger-Journal-of-Bioelectricity-Enhancement-of-temporal-lobe-related-experiences-during-brief-exposures-to-milliga.pdf
Timestamps
0:00 The God Helmet
3:05 APA format notes
6:44 The God Helmet paper - Introduction
11:58 - Methods
19:22 - Results
25:55 - Discussion
27:27 My comments and critiques: General
29:48 - Intro
40:11 - Methods
45:49 - Results
49:15 Physics chat!
50:25 - Magnetic field
54:32 - Room shielding
57:12 - Susceptibility to magnetic fields
58:28 - MRI and TMS
1:07:57 - Final physics-y thoughts
1:09:20 Wrap up
