My experience with Biocybernaut is very personal, and difficult to explain without over sharing,…read morebut I will attempt to bullet point what happened during my week of Alpha One Double Training.
To start, it is a $19,995 training of two sessions per day over the course of 7 days. The training was not explained to me beforehand-- no practices or ideas of what was to come was shared AT ALL. They did not offer the information and when I asked, it wasn't broken down for me, so I truly had no idea what to expect. What ensued was sort of a mix between forgiveness work and therapy sessions coupled with the actual brain training during which they hook you up to the machine with electrodes to your head and leave you in there for an amount of time you're not allowed to know. It is extremely tedious and exhausting. Before starting, you are given questions to answer-- a sort of lie detector test to find out your hidden emotions, then you are given another question segment at the end. The questions are repetitive and again, very tedious.
During the training, you spend around 12-14 hours with the trainers, going through a sort of therapeutic process of looking for people to forgive and creating lists of forgiveness. At the end of the night, you process what went on in the chamber brain training. You're expected to share your deepest and most intimate experiences, and it's extremely sensitive stuff that comes up naturally when you start to do this work.
In the training, it was me and one other participant who I did not know until we met there. We shared very intimate details of our lives, and were each processing very difficult childhood traumas as well as patterns that arose in our lives from them.
On the last day, the other participant showed Delta brain waves in a very exotic way. Up until this day, we had been on a regimented and very specific schedule. When these brain waves were discovered, the actual doctor (who had been in hiding the whole time we were there, and we hadn't met) wanted to meet with the other participant and we were brought into the room with the doctor, another doctor on the phone, and our trainers. The doctor was incredibly enthused with the unique brain waves, and spent about an hour talking about them. I sat there feeling embarrassed that I didn't also have these brains waves, and part of my therapy there was working through feelings of inadequacy and feeling I wasn't good enough. After the doctor worshipped this other participant, we went back into the chamber and I broke down crying. It was an uncontrollable weeping, and my chamber couldn't even record feedback because my sobs were affecting the electrodes.
When we got out, I had cried the whole time. The very last day is supposed to be a day where you focus on positive emotion and wrapping everything up, but that was not possible for me given the circumstances. I was extremely distraught. The other participant had become my friend, and I didn't fault him for the brain waves but the way in which it was handled was absolutely WRONG. They should not have disrupted the schedule and praised the participant with the exotic brain waves in front of the other participant especially given the delicate nature of our interactions and therapy.
During processing that night, I shared my experience and wept uncontrollably. The trainers just talked with us about it, but no additional therapy or help was given. At the end of the night, we were shown our brain waves again, with much time spent on the other participant and a small amount of time spent on mine. The trainer asked if I was settled when it was clear I wasn't. We then left and I never heard from the trainer or the doctor again. I wrote an email expressing that I felt they shouldn't do this to another participant-- that if one had exotic brain wave patterns, they should wait to reveal that so that it is not a feeling off less-than for the one who doesn't exhibit these exotic brain waves. No one responded to my email.
To follow this up, I fell into a very deep depression after the brain training, the likes of which I have never before experienced. I have not recovered since then, and it has been nearly 3 months. I DO NOT RECOMMEND BIOCYBERNAUT OR THIS FORM OF BRAIN TRAINING.
Alongside the depression also came a clumsiness that is unlike me-- I do not know if it is tied to the training or if my brain is still fighting to recover, but at times, I can't remembers certain words or form a proper sentence.
Again, no one ever followed up with my email, or reached out to offer the therapeutic help that should be available following such a traumatic event.
