I've been musing for a while on how the key sound might actually work & what parallels it may have throughout nature.

Why should this range of feelings be available & yet be so commonly withheld from men and so often women & why would a key sound be any help?

It has occurred to me that rather than working by actually vibrating this vertebra or tingling that nerve etc that what may be
happening is a re mapping of parts of the brain.

The brain is a computer, the main difference between the computer in your head & the one that you're reading this post on being the fact that the programming language for your desk top is known.
The human brain seems to be programmed by a variety of inputs including inherited information and experience.

The language is unknown though, as are many of the functions & potentials..

I would like to propose that the function of the key sound may be a re mapping of our relationship with the much suppressed limbic system, clearly pathways are being opened but from and to where?

The limbic system is the seat of emotion including love, anger, sex etc, it was once all the brain our ancestors had, the rest evolving around the core.

Without higher reasoning and social conditioning, feelings and emotions would have been powerful in our ancestors - they would be hard wired to their feelings!, (compare with the uninhibited emotions of a human child for example - they can barely contain their feelings at times).
We learn to suppress the routes for anger, violence & out goes the baby with the bath water - pleasure is also a victim. If you've ever wondered why the world contains more powerful feelings of pain than pleasure then
I suggest that this is why. The pain you feel when you cut your finger happens in the brain not in the finger, likewise the pleasure is also synthesised in the brain from it's interpretation of physical signals.

I think the traditional caring / nursing role may have helped women to retain pathways to the limbic system to a higher degree than men but I believe that both sexes have the same structure & the same potential pathways, they just need to be established!

Jack has postulated that the key sound may have been an ancient tribal secret passed on to generations. It's a really nice idea & may be true >IF< they actually managed to discover it!?
I suggest that the sound links us to a much earlier time, a time when we were far from humans - possibly even far from apes.

We would have had just a basic brain layout at the time, just the limbic system.
The call of this creature would be something along the lines of a two part key sound, that's the race memory which we may now carry & which in my musings allow us to remember how to feel, how to access long lost abilities and neural pathways.

Makes me wonder what's really going on when a Whale calls or a thrush sings!

Anyway the point of this post is to draw attention to the fact that the brain can actually be programmed by experience, choice and other inputs such as smells, images and sounds!
In the case of key sound I suspect that what is happening, rather than tampering and making things worse, is that we are actually restoring factory settings!!
In effect undoing unauthorised changes to our programming via environmental factors.

Knowing that this is possible (check the link below) & that there is sound scientific work which backs this up should hopefully give confidence in ones practice.


Phil - bilko

Something that spurred me to write these thoughts rather than just enjoy them swilling round my head was the info in this

link http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lectures.shtml

(Best read for ages! Debate welcome

Hey Bilko,

There's some great food for thought in there! I certainly agree with your theory that the Key Sound (and subsequent orgasmic release associated) has the affect of re-mapping our neural pathways. Taking from the link you posted to the article, "The Brain Emerging," there is a direct correlation between the, "pain," of phantom limbs felt by amputees and the process of re-mapping those neural pathways in order to restore a more accurate representation of the body to the brain, thereby eliminating the sensation of a, "limb," particularly a, "painful," one.
I've had the same theory about my own nerve pain, which is all but non-existent at this point. Although I had experienced lapses in this type of pain before, it always returned eventually. Since my KSMO practice, it seemed as though with each session of orgasmic release, the, "volume," of that pain would decrease, until it became virtually undetectable. I am inclined to believe that somehow the repeated, extended orgasms within my brain and nervous system have, "re-wired," my neural pathways to focus my conscious awareness on pleasure, rather than pain. I'm hoping to find more information regarding this phenomena.
As for why we tend to be more focused or more aware of pain as opposed to pleasure, I think there are two reasons for this. From a Nature vs. Nurture point of view, I believe there is a reason from each side of the argument. Regarding the Nature side, it seems obvious that pain serves the purpose of immediate survival, and therefore would serve the best evolutionary advantage to be in the foreground of our awareness and behavior. However, from the Nurture side, I think socially, it was always more acceptable to express pain rather than pleasure in public situations. We've all had situations where we yell, "ouch" or something similar in public, this will often induce a nurturing response from those around you. In the case of extreme pain and subsequent screams of its expression, this will often have people running to your aid. But try screaming in orgasmic pleasure in a movie theatre sometime and you'll get quite a different reaction! The lesson we learn from an early age is, expression of pain = attention and assistance, in other words, it has REWARDS. But many of us growing up in sexually repressive households learn that sexual behavior and expression has CONSEQUENCES. So there's a real Pavlov's response there.
Now it's not always good or helpful to express pain in public, for instance parties are no place for people in agony. In my experience, I was often in a great deal of pain for most of my time in college, but since it served no purpose to express it, I held it in. I quite literally, bit down on screams when I was in public and that left me with a lot of residual frustration. I often fantasized about being far away from people, where I could scream freely and LET IT ALL OUT.
One of the aspects of the Key Sound that I found so incredibly beneficial was the similarity of deep expression between it, and screams of pain. They both have that quality of uninhibited release. The interesting part was, as my, Key Sound "roar," grew in it's expression, my need/desire to scream in pain subsided. Somehow the experience of complete and total expression of another intense feeling was enough to LET IT ALL OUT. So, I now wonder if the Key Sound re-routed my pain into pleasure by way of neural, "re-wiring?" or was it an alternative expression and release of "old pain," in my physical and emotional self? Maybe both?
As for Jack's theory that perhaps ancient tribes and cultures had already discovered and made use of the Key Sound, I fully believe that. Again, taking from the, "Emerging Brain," article, the doctor demonstrated how we developed "mirror neurons," over 50,000 years ago. These neurons serve one function, to re-create a sense of experience in watching the actions and experiences of others. Now, while he didn't say whether this applied to living beings besides our fellow humans, I am inclined to believed it does.
There's a long history of humanity revering and imitating other life forms. American Indians believed that they took in the, "spirit," of various animals and in Asia, many, if not all martial arts are developed from the meticulous observation and imitation of animals and insects. It seems to be an essential aspect of our nature to attempt to share in the experience of others, regardless of their species.
Since animals have no sense of reflection or shame, no loss of expression, it makes sense that we, as humans would see value in that and attempt to imitate it. In Jack's case, it was roaring lions. I'm sure we can all see the similarity between the Key Sound and a lion's roar. What are the odds that Jack was first and only person to ever notice it? I'm inclined to believe that the Key Sound has been part of our Collective Conscious for many millennia. Discovered, lost, re-discovered, and so on.
Jack's true gift to the world is to have discovered it, analyzed it, and made it a matter of global record. He is teaching this system across cultures and continents, genders and religions, economic and social castes. I believe that is the true quantum leap of KSMO. For the first time in history, the Key Sound will be heard around the world, simultaneously. I see this almost like a memory or a dream that all cultures have had at one time or another. Jack is the vessel through which this memory can finally be shared and discussed in the open forum of human knowledge and experience. I believe what happens from here will truly be a new step in our evolution!

There is no need to respond but I just wanted to say,"Boy, those
are excellent posts!"