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The Voice is the idiomatic terminology used to refer to the manipulation of speech to achieve complete control over the receiver. It is the production of extraperceptual auditory stimuli capable of implanting a message in an individual's unconscious mind, thus creating a compulsion to obey. Although the Voice is founded on physical knowledge, few are able to exploit for practical purposes the knowledge that others possess but do not understand.

The production of extraperceptual auditory stimuli involves manipulation of the laryngeal musculature in a manner that generates overtones well above the 20,000 cycles per second (cps) limit for conscious reception. A person must learn to control the thyroarytenoid and cricothyroid muscles so as to intentionally regulate vocal quality in a manner that generated specific frequencies within the 25,000-35,000 cps range. Normal phonation, caused by tension of the vocal folds to effect condensations and rarefactions of the airstream, operates within a range of 500 to 4,000 cps, with random and only partially controlled overtones up to 10,000 cps.

It is the combinations of overtones -- along with the resonating characteristics of the pharyngeal, nasal, and oral cavities that amplify specific frequencies -- that account in large measure for the vocal quality that makes each individual's voice somewhat unique. For instance, the trained singing voice owes its richness to overtones of more than ordinary amplitude. Skillful manipulation of the Voice requires generating these overtones without altering the basic pitch or loudness of the perceived voice. Each individual word or phoneme requires a unique combination of perceived tones and extraperceptual frequencies. This perceptual/extraperceptual ratio (specific combination of perceptual and extraperceptual frequencies) must vary according to the position of a phoneme within a word, be it initial, medial or terminal.

Extraperceptual stimuli trigger so-called uncommitted zones of the auditory cortex. That effect frequently has been measured in the laboratory using high-frequency sounds from whistles and animals. Numerous languages rely extensively on tone to denote shades of meaning. In those languages, however, tone is a digital aspect of language that requires knowledge of the message code to be understood. The Voice, on the other hand, registers on the receiver and creates a compulsion, to obey without any previous training or conditioning of the target. That aspect of the Voice requires that we engage in extensive speculation in an effort to deduce its function.

Sometime in the prehistoric background of the human race, our ancestors possessed more acute hearing, sharing with numerous lesser creatures the ability to perceive high-frequency sounds. Although disuse has left us with no conscious ability to recognize or interpret such stimuli, rendering them extraperceptual, racial memory has locked that knowledge in our unconscious. Thus, segments of the auditory cortex are merely unused, as opposed to being uncommitted. Those zones are actually committed but the information stored there is unavailable to the conscious mind.

Scientists conclude that extraperceptual auditory stimuli do impinge on the nervous system by exciting portions of the auditory cortex, which feeds information only to the individual's unconscious. The Voice messages, therefore, go directly to the unconscious, are not subject to scrutiny by the conscious will of the receiver and compliance requires no voluntary decision. Someone who is able to monitor and control certain neural and physical functions of their body, permitting them to hear as well as generate such stimuli, can use the Voice to compel obedience from others while they themselves are resistant to the Voice commands.

The knowledge upon which the perfection of the Voice is drawn from two fields of traditional learning, physics and psychology. Instrumentation for registering electrical variations in the central nervous system led to the discovery that sound waves outside the normal hearing range precipitated measurable neural activity. Although primitive man probably was aware that certain animals could hear sounds humans could not, and that the human vocal mechanism could produce sounds outside the human hearing range, the distinction between hearing and neural sensitivity at first perplexed scientists. The old explanation for hearing was based on a mechanical-electrical process that would seem to indicate that the individual would "hear" any acoustical stimulus within the range received by the physical apparatus. Although modern, science has gone well beyond such crude approximations, the "we hear what we cannot hear" paradox was not fully explained until recently.