Query - balancing of mind

[new meditator]

I have just come across this site. Thanks to Pollyanna for the direction to Ta-tsu-wa and to Ta-tsu-wa for the very insightful posts on the Principles of Meditation & Entrainment. Ta-tsu-wa mentions that all of the ranges of brainwaves LF can assist us in reaching are naturally occurring, although meditation (and FL) can help us for example reach them in a conscious state when they would normally only be reached in an unconscious state. The idea that these states are naturally occurring caused me to question the claim of LF to "balancing of the mind" and thereby achieving greater insights as the various parts of the brain are now working in sync. Any insights here?

I might also note the following that I thought was rather beautufully put in TIME magazine and seems to mesh nicely with FL's claims of actually helping the brain to function better [TIME (Canadian edition June 9, 1997)]:

"If scientists could eavesdrop on the human brain of a human embryo 10, maybe 12 weeks after conception, they would hear an astonishing racket.

But these neurons ... are not transmitting signals in scattershot fashion. That would produce a featureless static, the sort of noise picked up by radio tuned between stations. On the contrary, evidence is growing that the staccato bursts of electricity that form those distinctive rat-a-tat-tats arise from co-ordinated neural activity, and that those pulsating waves, like currents sifting sand on the ocean floor, actually change the shape of the brain, carving mental circuits into patterns that over time will enable the newborn infant to perceive a father’s voice, a mother’s touch, a shining mobile twirling over the crib.

Of all the discoveries that have poured out of neural labs in recent years, the finding that electrical activity of brain cells changes the physical structure of the brain is perhaps the most breathtaking. ... the brain begins working long before it is finished. And the same processes that wire the brain before birth, neuro scientists are finding, also drive the explosion of learning that occurs immediately afterward."

Like I said, kind of beautiful. I look forward to chatting.