Aeronautical engineer, George VanTassel is Heidi’s cousin. George held UFO conferences and built the first Integratron. In this Unidentified, Flying, Ultrafree Episode, Drea’s homegirl, Heidi discusses her family’s invention —  A healing machine that restores cell tissue integrity through sound frequencies that became known as a “Sound Bath.”

The Integraton is a 38-foot-tall (12 m) cupola structure with a diameter of 55 feet (17 m) designed by ufologist and contactee George Van Tassel. Van Tassel claimed the Integratron was capable of rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel. He built the structure in Landers, California (near Joshua Tree), following instructions that Van Tassel vehemently claimed were provided directly to him by visitors from the planet Venus. 

The Integratron machine was started in 1957, the structure erected in 1959. It was financed predominantly by donations, including funds from Howard Hughes.

After Van Tassel's death in 1978, the building had a series of owners (and was left in various states of disrepair) before sisters Joanne, Nancy, and Patty Karl bought it in the early 2000s. 

The sisters promote the Integratron as an "acoustically perfect structure", and offer "sound baths" they describe as "...meditation-like sessions accompanied by tones from 22 quartz crystal bowls, creating binaural beats for relaxation and rejuvenation".The building is now a part of the National Historic Register, and continues to be stewarded by the Karl sisters and their adult children.

After Van Tassel died, there was a proposal to turn the Integratron into a disco, but that plan was never realized. The Integratron's new owners operate it as a tourist attraction and offer "sound baths" where groups of people are "exposed to harmonic sound frequencies" produced by quartz bowls, claimed to have a deep calming effect. According to one of the structure's docents, the Integratron is an "acoustically perfect sound chamber".

The Integratron was added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 2018.

The Integratron, located in Landers, California, is known for its perfect acoustics and has been used for recording by artists including the Arctic Monkeys ("Secret Door"), Robert Plant, Arcade Fire, Jason Mraz, Smashing Pumpkins, Vampire Weekend, Moby, and George Lynch.

Links:

Website: https://www.integratron.com/

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/integratronofficial/

Books by George Van Tassel: https://www.amazon.com/stores/George-Van-Tassel/author/B0DGXP3KXW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1778087538&sr=8-1&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=23131afe-46f6-4ff4-b141-360d0b58e489 

NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/20/style/tmagazine/welcome-to-the-integratron.html

What’s it like to get a sound bath at The Integratron?  Read an article here: https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2015/05/05/what-its-like-to-get-a-sound-bath-at-the-integratron

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