Having read Cade & Coxhead's exelent book and recently Anna Wise, I believe the Awakened Mind is a coke bottle shaped pattern, not just an alpha/theta although I wold give a weeks salary to rent a mind mirror to find out just what my pattern is. I wonder if it is possible to get there without equipment. I get pretty deep with Thompson's tapes, but don't always go to the same level every time. However they seem to hold me at the bottom level so I dont actually fall asleep. Brain waves fascinate the heck out of me.