Guest guest Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Many who have had personal experience with Jon, who is a very bright and knowledgeable fellow, tend to steer clear of him--or even commenting about him. He has been on this list twice and had to be removed both times (you can scan back through the archives if you wish) for threatening participants. As has been mentioned previously in this thread, Jon is one of the two persons in the field to " patent " a protocol. There has been on other lists (from which he is also apparently now banned) long, acrimonious arguments between him and Dan Maust and, I think, him and Chuck , among others, about who first developed and used the " squash " protocol. Most knowledgeable people with whom I've spoken agree that if anyone chose to expend all the money and negative energy to go to court around this issue, the patent would be invalidated, but you only have to hang around Jon, when he's in the mood, for he's quite capable of being charming at other times, to decide it simply wouldn't be worth the effort. Jon carries this to a point almost of fetish: in his first incarnation on the list, he threatened lawsuits against one or two participants who even mentioned the term " squash " on the list. Apparently, though he works/worked with a one-channel pre-frontal squash (originally af Afz), any squash of any type performed anywhere on the brain he considers to be covered, as is any use of the word (I guess not referring to a vegetable, though I'm not certain that is permitted either). I don't know that he has ever sued anyone (certainly not if he has an smart lawyer, or any lawyer at all) but he's not shy about threatening. I bought his first Peak Achievement trainer for $2,500, and it turned out to be a $600 WaveRider, a videotape and a pretty simple frontal 2-21 Hz (as I recall) down training at Afz and a manual. I felt pretty ripped off, tried it a few times and just put it on the shelf. He has since then on a couple occasions accused me of giving away his proprietary information, etc. So excuse me now and in the future if I fail to respond to questions about Jon and his work. He promotes it very hard, and he has developed some clever special uses of BioExplorer (and I think BioEra) that make his feedback fancy. I don't know that it works any better than anything else that does the same thing, and I have absolutely no intention of finding out. Pete > > From: " Mark Baddeley " <baddeley@...> > Date: 2006/02/11 Sat AM 01:18:35 EST > < > > Subject: Cowan design > > Has Cowan produced a design for Bioexplorer? > Mark > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Pete Thanks for the background. Mark Cowan design> > Has Cowan produced a design for Bioexplorer?> Mark> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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