[Mohini:]>> Hello everyone this is an informational video on Phonemic Intelligence, our intelligence
enhancing technology, that we’ve been teaching to children worldwide for the past 10 years.
My name is Elaine Kueper.
I am the Global Director of Phonemic Intelligence or what we call ‘PI’.
And I’m here today with Dr. Baskaran Pillai, the Founder of PI Technology.
I’ve had fantastic results using PI in our educational initiatives in India for the past
10 years, but I have some questions on exactly how PI works.
Dr. Pillai, how do sounds create intelligence, or improve intelligence?
[Dr. Pillai:]>> The term ‘PI,’ ‘Phonemic Intelligence,’ is self- explanatory.
It explains that Phonemes, sounds, carry intelligence.
A Phoneme is the smallest sound.
For instance, the sounds that we use in ‘Phonemic Intelligence’ are like: AH, EE, AI.
They carry intelligence.
Universally, sounds create intelligence.
Words use sounds to communicate.
And insects, mammals, all animals, all life forms use — even non-lifeforms — use sounds
as intelligence, as a means of communicating intelligence.
Meaning is embedded in sounds.
If there is no meaning then you cannot understand.
And where is the meaning?
The meaning is in the sounds.
And what is meaning?
Meaning is a matter of semantics.
It’s a matter of intelligence.
And it allows you to comprehend, to understand.
Now this theory that ‘Sound equals Intelligence’ is a very ancient concept, particularly in
the Indian Psycho-Linguistic Tradition.
You see that sound which is Shubda, and meaning, Artha, are inter-related at the Phonemic level.
At the very fundamental level, they are the building blocks of intelligence.
So about 5,000 years ago, or even before, the Yogis were involved in trying to figure
out how we understand, what is intelligence, and what is the relationship between intelligence
and sounds.
So I developed on this concept which is psycho-linguistics or sacred linguistics, and it is in Sanskrit
grammar and 6 systems of Indian Philosophy.
They all deal with questions that we have not even started asking.
Like — which comes first? the thought or the word.
And if a word carries intelligence, what part of the word or sound?
For instance, is the sound like pull, and bull, there’s only one difference between
these two words pull and bull.
Pull is pulling, and bull is an animal.
And how a single variation of the sound as ‘p’ and ‘b’ create a change in meaning.
So they studied it about 10,000 years ago.
So this is the origin of it.
And I then just wanted to use the modern means to validate it so I went into different institutions
to study this.
The last one I used was Harvard Medical School where we found that these sounds go and affect
the learning centers in the brain.
The sounds that we have studied are AH, EE, and AI.
The AH sound creates a global activation, is the technical term.
It activates the entire brain and it is repeatable.
And the device we have used is the fMRI, functional MRI.
We find that, in case after case, that there is global activation with the sound AH, and
the sound AH also creates a higher cognition, which is latest finding in Neuroscience.
A higher cognition is attributed to the Cerebellum area.
We have expression, we have activation there in AH.
That’s why we find in Phonemic Intelligence, dramatic results within a couple of weeks
of introduction of the technique.
There are different parts of the brain activated by different sounds, and this is the main
thing.
Orbital/ Frontal Lobe here is involved in decision making, and you find with Phonemic
Intelligence it activates within seconds.
You can see it in seconds this happening.
Go and activate that part of the brain.
And Parietal Lobe is a very important part of the brain.
It’s a large area just after the Frontal Lobe.
And then you have the abilities of comprehension, self-hood, writing, learning, comprehension,
all of these activities are in the Parietal Lobe, particularly math, and science.
And you have these sounds go and activate the Parietal Lobe as well.
So we have now research to back up that these sounds go and activate these brains.
What do I mean by activation?
There’s blood flow into those regions as soon as they hear the sound, even if you think
the sound.
There are numerable researches that can be done.
So besides, you know, presenting it as a Philosophy or a Neurolinguistics or a Cognitive Psychology,
I wanted to bring in biological, neuro-biological evidence, neuro-cognitive evidence, for the
sounds being associated with intelligence.
The important thing is I never told the scientists about what sound will do what functionality,
or what functionality is associated with what sound.
They were never told.
No hypothesis was given.
The hypothesis evolved as they went researching the sound, and then they came up with the
hypothesis that these sounds are area specific, function specific.
And, of course, I must admit that we need to do a lot more studies.
We have done only a pilot study.
And the pilot study is very encouraging.
And then we are going to do further studies on this concept that sound can enhance your
intelligence.
Sounds can enhance your math brain.
Sounds can enhance your higher cognition.
Sounds can enhance your learning abilities, such as listening, such as writing.
All of these things are very important for students to know because up until now we have
been putting all of our attention on a pedagogy that involves tutoring.
You can go on tutoring people, but if the brain doesn’t work, if the math brain doesn’t
work, you will not be able to do math well.
Now there is research that says that math brain is only here a very little, tiny part
of the brain called the Inter-Parietal Lobe, and previously we were thinking it was the
larger area the Parietal Lobe.
It is, but now we are able to pinpoint it.
And later on they said it’s the Angular Gyrus, and then they said it is a specifically
the Angular Gyrus, now we see the PA working on that.
You know, I’m very excited about it.
It’s my ambition that we can take it to even to areas where there’s no education
given to the children, like areas in Africa, and use Phonemic Intelligence to empower their
brain and then after that teach them.
That’s my intention.
[Mohini:]>> So Phonemic Intelligence Programs have been compared to Mindfulness Programs,
and those programs are getting a lot of popularity in the US schools, but particularly to address
this issue of socio-emotional learning problems.
So what exactly is the difference between Mindfulness and Phonemic Intelligence?
[Dr. Pillai:]>> Mindfulness is a watered down version of a Buddhist Technique called Vipassana.
You just close your eyes and then get to a quiet state of mind; and from that quiet state,
you acquire an ability for better concentration.
It’s a good technique, but it cannot go to different parts of the brain and then activate
different intelligence functionalities, as no research has proved that it improves specific
parts of the brain as we have done.
[Mohini:]>> So I’m also here with Sunny Das Gupta, a Bio-Information Scientist, and
he has some questions for Dr. Pillai.
[Sunny:]>>My work involves studying diseases at a molecular level and also at a DNA level.
You have spoken about how ‘PI’ activates intelligence.
I would also like to know if ‘PI’ can play a role in healing the body of disease?
[Dr. Pillai:]>> See, I have to broaden the concept of intelligence.
Intelligence is not only in the brain, in the neurons, or the synaptic gaps when neurons
fire.
Intelligence is everywhere.
The cells are very intelligent.
As you know, the DNA is intelligent.
And it also has ignorance, and because of that it creates diseases.
Otherwise, it won’t create diseases.
Now, we have a study we did at SRM University.
We used the medical students of SRM as subjects.
This was about 5, 6, or 7 years ago.
What we found was they used the same sounds, that they use in ‘Phonemic Intelligence.’
At that time it was ‘Mind Sound Technology.’
What we found was as the students started working with the sounds, they were a lot of
biological changes, blood chemistry change.
So the one thing they found was the Cortisol level came down.
So the sounds, not only affect the brain, but also biologically it changes.
In the ancient times they used it to heal people.
Sounds were used as healing.
We have it in all scriptures, or in most all scriptures that sounds were used to heal.
There’s a lot of information about the sounds.
This is just only beginning to unfold.
My goal, right now, is very focused.
It is only to help people to enhance their ability to comprehend different subjects such
as physics, chemistry, math because these are challenging subjects and also fine arts
and languages as well.
So once we prove that, then it can go into almost every field and then prove that sounds
can play a vital role in changing our biology, changing are psychology, and also behavior.
Because what we have found in New York is that the suspension grid of what they call
the rowdy students came 50% lower after they have practiced.
Because it goes and activates, influences the Anterior Cingulate which is the part of
the brain below the Corpus Callosum which helps with behavior, and emotional stability.
So I’m very excited about it and then we need more information on Phonemic Intelligence,
you can go to the website and we’ll have information on it.
[Mohini:]>> Thank you.