Where the Mind Mirror Comes From
The Mind Mirror did not start as a wellness gadget or a meditation app.
It began as a radical question:
What does the brain look like when a person is functioning at their best?
In the 1970s, British physicist Maxwell Cade and electronic engineer Jeffrey Blundell developed the first Mind Mirror EEG. Unlike medical EEG devices, it was not designed to detect problems, but to explore optimal and expanded states of awareness.
At the time, nothing like it existed.
Seeing Consciousness for the First Time
Max Cade came from a background in radar technology, light, and sound. He understood the world and the brain as patterns of frequency. Together with Blundell, he built an EEG system that did something revolutionary:
it showed brain activity live, using light-based feedback.
For the first time, people could see how their state of awareness changed moment by moment.
Using the Mind Mirror, Cade studied the brainwave patterns of more than 4,000 people. He did not focus on illness or dysfunction. Instead, he deliberately measured:
Experienced meditators
Yogis and Zen practitioners
Healers and highly intuitive individuals
Across traditions and cultures, the same coherent brainwave pattern appeared again and again. Cade called this pattern the Awakened Mind.
He described it in his book The Awakened Mind as a state in which awareness becomes clearer, broader, and more integrated while remaining fully awake.
From Research to Training
Psychologist Anna Wise worked closely with Cade and Blundell and later brought the Mind Mirror to the United States. Over the next decades, she expanded the research at places like the Esalen Institute, measuring artists, scientists, executives, and innovators at the peak of their abilities.
She found the same thing:
the Awakened Mind was not rare, mystical, or belief-based. It was a trainable state of consciousness.
Anna Wise described it as a symphony of brainwaves:
clear thinking (beta), relaxed awareness (alpha), deep creativity (theta), and intuitive sensitivity (delta) all active together.
What This Means for You — Today
Early versions of the Mind Mirror worked with lights. Today, the technology has evolved into modern hardware and software, but the core idea remains exactly the same:
When you can see your brain activity, you can learn from it.
The Mind Mirror App is the next step and carries this original vision into the present:
It does not try to fix your brain
It does not push you into artificial states
It reflects what is already happening, in real time
By making your inner states visible, the app helps you recognise what supports clarity, calm, focus, creativity, or deeper awareness and what doesn’t.
You are not following someone else’s idea of how your mind should work.
You are learning directly from your own brain.
In Short
The Mind Mirror App is built on more than 50 years of exploration into human potential and conscious awareness.
It exists for one simple reason:
When awareness becomes visible, it becomes trainable.
If you want to understand the science behind how this works, you can continue with the article What Is Neurofeedback?