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Miranon seven-color model

A repeating seven-stage interpretation of Focus 0 through 49 assembled by Daniel Erickson from Miranon/Explorer material, Monroe references, diagrams, exercises, and Erickson's commentary; it is not a standardized Monroe Institute meaning for every integer.

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Miranon focus levelsseven resonant colors0–49 map

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Terminology: editorial definitions · Markdown lines 386–398

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The journal listening guide lists examples including Energy Walk, sleep recordings and guided exercises. A technical presentation uses Into the Light, a guided exploration of near-death themes, as a contemporary example. Specific titles have different purposes; the family name does not describe a single course. Usage: Audio family · journal listening guide and technical presentation Editorial definition: /terminology#mind-food References: Hemi-Sync® Journal 1998-1 (Winter) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-1998-1-winter; 2014 Professional Seminar: Hemi-Sync® Evolution (A.J. Honeycutt) https://archive.org/details/2014-aj-honeycutt Miranon · Accounts & ideas The name of a reported nonphysical communicator in several Explorer sessions. The identity presented through Explorer Six/SHE sessions whose statements about levels, planes, colors, and consciousness were later compiled and interpreted by Daniel Erickson. Editorial definition: /terminology#miranon References: Focus Levels - Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon https://archive.org/details/miranon-focus-levels-erickson; Compiled Explorer Series Transcripts #1-32 https://archive.org/details/compiled-explorer-series-transcripts-1-32 Miranon seven-color model (Miranon focus levels; seven resonant colors; 0–49 map) · Accounts & ideas A later map that arranges numbered levels into repeating groups of seven colors.
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Levels and the seven-color model · Markdown lines 1–17

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The level numbers in the Miranon material acquire meaning through descriptions, comparisons and later interpretation. This reading path starts with an Explorer’s account, then follows the grouping of levels and the compiler who brings the material together. Start with what the Explorer describes At the beginning of Explorer #6, SHE describes level 22 as nonphysical and level 21 as allowing physical or nonphysical focus. The account moves between images, bodily awareness and the language of vibration. These descriptions give the numbers their meaning within this exchange. They also preserve the participant’s uncertainty, including a wish to understand vibrational rates better. Read that uncertainty alongside the more definite statements. Notice the recurring groups of seven In Explorer #5, the speaker labeled MIRANON arranges plants, animals and incarnated human beings into three groups of seven levels. He places himself at level 46 and describes communication as requiring a meeting across levels. The passage offers a framework for the later discussion. It is useful to keep this account of levels attached to the Miranon material when comparing it with other uses of “Focus” elsewhere in the archive. Recognize the later compiler’s role Daniel Erickson identifies his document as assembled and commented material. He describes its purpose as bringing together information attributed to Miranon and developing an understanding of Focus levels and resonant colors.
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Miranon · Markdown lines 99–103

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Explorer 5 introduces him, with SHE in Focus 12 and the first naming. Explorer 6, Miranon Levels and Planes of Existence, is the best place to hear the seven colors. Explorer 13, Human Existence, is a relaxed question-and-answer session, and Explorer 14 is titled The Brain and Higher Consciousness. The Institute's title for Explorer 9 names Miranon beside TC's contact Thor, and TC reports sessions with Miranon in other recordings. The recordings and transcripts are free in the Explorer Series collections on the Internet Archive, and the Monroe Institute's YouTube channel carries many of the tapes. Do Miranon's levels match the Focus levels in Gateway? They overlap in the lab, but they are not the same thing. In Explorer 6 Monroe counted SHE through levels 15 to 22, which Miranon had called the levels of human life on Earth, and she reported colors and changes of vibration as he counted. The seven-color structure, in which every plane repeats seven levels from blue to white, is Miranon's description. The home Gateway program is organized around Monroe's numbered Focus levels, such as Focus 10 and 12, and you do not need the colors to use it. Daniel Erickson's booklet lines the colors up with the Focus numbers and quotes a Monroe meditation that moves from the blue of Focus 15 to the white of Focus 21, with diagrams from Nancy McMoneagle's compilation.
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Miranon · Markdown lines 1–7

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Miranon A communicator who spoke through an Explorer in Monroe's lab and described reality as levels in sevens, each with a color from blue to white. Miranon is the name of a communicator who spoke through an Explorer coded SHE in Robert Monroe's laboratory sessions in the 1970s. At the close of an early Explorer 5 session, Monroe asked the presence whether it could be given a name or a number to call it by, and the answer came: "The energy that would best describe me is Miranon." The Explorer series devotes several tapes to the exchange that followed: Explorer 5, an introduction; Explorer 6, levels and planes of existence; Explorer 13, human existence; and Explorer 14, the brain and higher consciousness. The material people remember most is his description of reality as levels grouped in sevens, each carrying a color: blue, red, yellow, rose, green, purple and white. Blue is a soothing, pulsing entry into a new plane, rose is the level of love where Miranon and SHE could meet, and white touches every other level and holds all color. Monroe called the Explorer 6 recording one of the most interesting descriptions of total reality his team had encountered. Nancy McMoneagle, a former director of the Institute, assembled transcripts and drew the diagram of the seven colors, and Daniel Erickson later collected them in a commented booklet, Focus Levels: Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon.
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The Interstate: Monroe's map of Focus levels · Markdown lines 1–7

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The Interstate: Monroe's map of Focus levels Monroe pictured consciousness as a highway out of physical life, with the Focus levels as stops and the belief systems as exit ramps along the way. The Interstate is Robert Monroe's image for the whole spectrum of consciousness, borrowed from the American highway system. Everyday physical life, with its worries, customs and certainties, is "local traffic." The Interstate is the big road out of town, where you can travel fast and far. Monroe used the image from at least 1978, explained it to foreign interviewers by comparing it with the autobahn, and built a whole map of the afterlife around it. He even named his business Interstate Industries; Nancy McMoneagle later recalled that the name came straight from his advice to skip the local traffic and take the Interstate. On the Institute's map the stops along the road are Focus levels. Gateway takes you from waking consciousness through Focus 10, 12 and 15 to Focus 21, the edge of time-space. Past it, the levels taught in Lifeline, Exploration 27 and the Going Home series lie along the Interstate proper: Focus 22, where people who are still physically alive but only partly conscious are found; Focus 23, where many of the newly dead stay stuck; Focus 24 to 26, the Belief System Territories, which Monroe described as exit ramps to every belief system humans hold; and Focus 27, a human-made way station often called the Park.
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TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels · TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf · Markdown lines 54–85

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(TMI Web Resources – 2012) OVERVIEW OF FOCUS LEVELS The following Focus level descriptions are taken from Monroe Institute literature. Focus 1 (or C1, Full, Physical Waking Consciousness) This is the level of awareness in which most of us spend our normal, waking lives. Because it is the everyday, ordinary reality of the physical world in which we live, C1 changes with life’s experiences. We learn to move beyond this physical level of consciousness using Monroe audio-guidance programs. Focus 3: (Basic Hemi-Sync®) This level is usually one’s first exposure to the concept and technology of Hemi-Sync. Focus 10 (Mind Awake/Body Asleep) This is the level at which the physical body is asleep, but the mind is awake and alert. Consciousness is fully retained without dependence upon signals from the physical body. Conceptual tools are developed that the participant may use to reduce anxiety and tension, for healing, for remote viewing and for establishing resonance with other individuals. In Focus 10, much like the dream state, we learn to think in images rather than in words. Focus 12 (Expanded Awareness) This is a state where conscious awareness is expanded beyond the limits of the physical body. Focus 12 has many different facets, including: exploring nonphysical realities, decision making, problem solving and enhanced creative expression. Focus 15 (No Time)
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TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels · TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf · Markdown lines 128–150

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can be said to a extent maintain varying degrees of relationship to the physical in that they usually do not automatically include being fully present at a certain ‘astral location’, but rather, involve an expanded state of awareness of some kind while still remaining in the same "location". These focus levels have been described as follows (Monroe, 1994, p. 248): Focus 3: State of increased mental coherency and balance Focus 10: Mind Awake/Body Asleep Focus 12: A state of expanded awareness Focus 15: State of no time Focus 21: The edge of time/space where it is possible to contact other energy systems. There is some confusion and uncertainty regarding the focus 12 through 21 states and differentiating them appropriately. Frank, our in-house expert on phasing, and several others have noted how the transition from focus 10 to 12 is often characterized by seeing several abstract forms and colors, often very quickly followed by a 3d effect in the blackness surrounding you. Hence, there is some controversy on the exact delineation between focus 12, 15 and 21. Perhaps the 3D blackness of focus 21 can be said to be more expansive to the extent that it starts to touch upon ‘astral locations’ beyond focus 21. It is important to realize these focus levels are merely arbitrary numbers and signposts to identify the state of consciousness one is in. In case you’re wondering, there is no focus 14 or
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Explorer #6 · Markdown lines 154–170

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SHE: Very good. There are many levels. As I h ave said to you, I am on level 46. All of the levels are related to the number 7. The first level is always a pulsing level. It is the beat of life, of the impulse of being. It is the flowing quality as we have talked about earlier. And since entering into any new plane of existence is often times difficult for the consciousness, this color is a very soothing color. This level h as a very soothing color to it. And that is as Leana described to you last week, a blue. It allows the being or consciousness to make a smooth transition. But this level is also a level that is somewhat difficult for the consciousness because on this level it is new to this plane and it must become secure. It must develop feelings of being comfortable in this new plane. And therefore it can only flow in the horizontal direction. If you will notice on the diagram, the first three levels are horizontal levels. There are levels in which the being is becoming comfortable with this new plane of existence. In which it is learning and establishing the foundation for the other levels within that plane of existence. Are you following? The second level is simply a mirror image of the first level. It is the reverse and the two
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Focus 21 · Markdown lines 41–45

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Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell's 1983 Army assessment titles its section Focus 21: The Future, calling it the last and most advanced Gateway state, like Focus 15 but aimed at the future rather than the past, and probably attainable only after long meditation or sustained work with the tapes. Gateway participants who have read the report note that their programs described Focus 21 as a bridge between worlds, not as the future. Robert Monroe: “Now, from Focus 15, from Focus 15, you're going to move through the colors to the white of Focus 21. The white of Focus 21, which is a bridge to the energy systems. A bridge that can allow you to experience other realities. Move now to a pattern of blue in Focus 15. Beyond the blue. Beyond the blue of 15 to an expanded 15.” (Focus Levels - Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon — Focus Levels- Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon.pdf) “Focus 21, which your caller referred to, we call a bridge to other energy systems, to other non-physical realms where people can perhaps visit or gather information or get in touch with larger parts of themselves, or perhaps some people consider them things outside themselves.” (Art Bell, Dr. Robert Monroe & Skip Atwater - Out of Body Experience - Black Screen - Interview Only, 2025-07-15)
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Focus 27 (F27) · Focus levels A shared afterlife setting in Monroe-related accounts, described as a place of reception, learning and assistance. The overview’s Moen quotation describes centers for adjustment and continuing development. Lifeline accounts connect it with a park-like reception area. These are reported experiences and interpretations. Usage: Moen’s map and Lifeline participant accounts Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-27 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels; Hemi-Sync® Journal 1994-4 (Fall) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-1994-4-fall Focus 3 (F3; basic Hemi-Sync) · Focus levels The introductory Hemi-Sync state in the archived Focus-level overview. The overview describes this as an initial encounter with Hemi-Sync and associates it with greater mental coherence and balance. It precedes the mind-awake, body-asleep description of Focus 10. Usage: Archived Focus-level overview Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-3 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels Focus 34/35 (Focus 34; Focus 35; F34; F35) · Focus levels The region called the Gathering in the archived Focus-level overview.
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Focus 22: outside ordinary waking awareness · Markdown lines 9–15

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Unlike Focus 10 and Focus 12, Focus 22 is described mainly by who explorers say they find there, not as a state a listener is trained to enter. The Institute's Lifeline page describes exploring Focus Levels 23 through 27, and the overview presents the Gateway Experience as a platform for exploring further on your own. Everything here is a report from explorers' maps, not a medical or diagnostic category, and the overview itself cautions that the higher levels are far less easily identified than people assume. Where Focus 22 sits on the map The 2012 overview lists the levels in order. Focus 21 is the edge of time and space, where it is possible to contact other energy systems. Focus 22 follows as the level of living people in unconscious states, Focus 23 as the level of people who have died and become stuck, Focus 24 through 26 as the belief system territories, and Focus 27 as the afterlife area of greatest free will choice. The overview adds that there is no Focus 14 or Focus 16, and that the numbers are arbitrary signposts for states of consciousness. Whose description it is
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Explorer #6 · Markdown lines 236–250

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SHE: The color for this sixth plane is a purple, but it is a different kind of purple. That is the sixth plane. The seventh plane is the full circle at which you understand and have a complete awareness of all that is in your plane of reality. A complete and total understanding. Not only of yourself but of all the levels that you touch. If you will notice, the seventh level touches or crosses every other level of existence. It has the harmonizing influence. It is the level that unites everything with the level. And it also has the ability to cross into other levels. Since the light is pulsing, since the light radiates, it touches all the levels. The levels above it, again space is not right, but the levels above it, below it, on tope of it, and behind it, for lack of better analogies. The color for this level is white. There is no color, or there is all color. And it is the highest level you can attain and still stay in the plane of reality upon which you exist. That is the basic understanding I have of these levels.
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