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INTERNATIONA
BRAIN DOMINANCE REVIEW
Volume 4
b cearunsnsmsnnr 1987 _
BRAIN DOMINANCE INSTITUTE, LAKE LURE, N.C.
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FROM(DOZERS TO DEEZERS
by Robert A. Monroe
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monroe Institute
In one of the more rural sections of Virginia, we were
watching an eighty-two-year-old man named Orville as he
operated a D-7 bulldozer to clear for a house foundation.
His smooth control of the machine, with no waste motion,
effortless coordination, maximum results with little strain
on the equipment, was truly a ballet of man and machine.
Only long experience could produce such a profound
performance, so during a break in the action, I made the
obvious statement to Orville. ‘‘I guess you’ve been doing
that all your life.”
He looked at me with no expression on his face, adjusted
his CAT cap and said softly, ‘‘Not yet.’”
Not yet — which supports the old saw that says we don’t
change as we grow older, we just become more of the
same. It makes Orville a better dozer operator each day
that he works. It also compounds the problem when dozers
are replaced with deezers and Orville can’t be more of the
same because there are no more dozers to operate — and
he doesn’t have seventy-plus more years to learn proficien-
cy in deezers. Moreover, he doesn’t trust deezers. They'll
never replace dozers.
Training for adults regularly faces this problem. If an in-
dividual is good in his field, he is extremely resistant to
change. He will continue being good in his field until his
dying day even if the field fades away, and no one is going
to change him. The only reason he resentfully consents to
learning in any other field is dire necessity. It has to get
down to something to eat and a place to sleep before you
truly get his attention — a level difficult to fall to in this
era of unemployment compensation, early pensions, food
stamps and the like. The fear of change is overcome by the
fear of non-survival.
Add to this resistance the suspicion attached to any in-
novative or unusual or unorthodox learning process that
not only symbolizes change, but is indeed a massive switch
in overview — and one begins to appreciate any progress in
human learning techniques no matter how small the evolu-
tion. True revolution can take place only at the child-
learning phase, at the beginning. The Communist nations
are smart enough to give it a try.
@@A good man is
always a beginner.99
Martial (Ist century 8)
Whole Brain, left brain, right brain, brain dominance,
coherent brain, motivation, behavior modification, belief
systems, learning curves, all are part of a Cloud of growing
thought where the line between learning and psychothera-
py is so dim and thin as to become at times non-existent or
at the least, unimportant. The creator/progenitor of such
Cloud is the hundreds of millions in dollars being spent for
training and learning among governmental, commercial,
and corporate entities. Ideas and innovation abound,
cross-fertilization among physical, social, and medical
sciences is an ongoing pattern — all with a basic goal, not
to improve human consciousness, but to improve human
efficiency and productivity so as to make a bigger buck.
This in no way implies a condemnation or judgement of
the morality in such effort, only to indicate the reality that
does exist therein. Just as in wars, space programs, televi-
sion, rock music, politics, religious beliefs, professional
sports or any other major force within our cultural and
historical context — the fallout from such new learning
systems can provide a tremendous stimulus to humankind
in ways that are often too subtle to perceive at their incep-
tion.
Illustration: Those of you in the Cloud, think about the
impact of what you do and how you do it upon the present-
day archaic learning systems that still exist in our primary
and secondary schools. Talk to a six or seven-year-old
about his school and what happens there and how he is
supposed to learn. Then think of what you know and how
it could be applied. Don’t think about it too long or you'll
become angry and frustrated because you know a better
way. Don’t try to do too much about it because the present
system is solidly entrenched. But don’t concern yourself.
The fallout from what you do will inevitably reach in and
slowly but surely effect such changes where they will be far
more potent than any learning curve you have ever
predicted. The kids in grade school will love it.
The Monroe Institute has not been directly a part of
such action although there has been much cross-referenc-
ing of information through the years. Our original purpose
was not the same, but it did have something in common:
the goal was not primarily service to mankind. The In-
stitute was organized as a subsidiary of a privately held
corporation to perform R & D into human consciousness
so as to provide unavailable information and help to one
individual who claimed to need it badly. He paid the bills,
thus, the bottom line was important only as it related to the
depth of his pocket.
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DC Body Polarity Shifts: A unique and simple means
developed by the Institute to identify and measure levels of
consciousness, considered by many as one of its most im-
portant achievements. Not to be confused with galvanic
skin response bio-monitoring, the system utilizes a sensi-
tive DC voltmeter to measure body voltage between ex-
tremes of the physical body, and similar finger measure-
ments on the dominant hand. As the subject moves from
physical wakefulness to conscious internal states, a decline
in voltage is observed corresponding to the degree of such
change. At a predictable point, an apparent shift in polari-
ty occurs, from positive to negative. With such shift, a ma-
jor change in consciousness emerges that increases in its
ability to express itself in direct ratio to voltage levels in the
new polarity.
A number of studies are planned and under way to
assess the implications of these findings, not only at the In-
stitute, but in other, more conventional research organiza-
tions.
Mind Awake — Body Asleep: Through the use of Hemi-
Sync sound processes, The Institute developed and dissem-
inated the ability to self-induce a state of consciousness
loosely labeled Focus 10. It is often accurately described as
a state of active meditation, and offers a freedom of
thought generally unavailable to ordinary waking con-
sciousness. It is user-directed for a wide variety of daily
needs, including such items as stress-tension reduction and
problem solving.
An important by-product of Focus 10 is the discovery by
the individual that physical sensory input is not a requisite
of active consciousness — a revelation whose implications
are rarely missed by the user. Upwards of 40,000 individu-
als have learned and are presumably utilizing Focus 10 in
daily life activity.
Emergency Treatment Series: A set of Hemi-Sync exer-
cises on tape to reinforce mind/body relationships during
critical physical trauma such as illness or injury. To date,
the most effective and spectacular application has been
during surgery where, when used as recommended, pre-
dicted results have run as high as 85%. Body systems such
as blood flow remain stable, mental attitude is high, less
anaesthesia is required, there is no post-operative shock,
pain is reduced to a minimum, and the recuperation time is
cut at least by 50%.
The basic problem is the resistance to the process in the
medical profession, especially among inflexible hospital
procedures and routines. To obviate this, a team of psychi-
atrists, surgeons and anaesthesiologists in the San Fran-
cisco area are conducting a pilot study of 200 patients
where the Emergency Treatment Hemi-Sync will be uti-
lized. It is their belief that acceptance by major hospital
chains will result simply on a cost-effective basis.
The Gateway Experience: Now in its 12th year, Gateway
is a system of learning whereby any individual can explore
and understand without limitation his own total self. No
expectation or critical restraints hamper the process. The
results range from simple physical and mental three R’s —
rest, relaxation, recharge — to deep personal insights and
life-changing macro internal events. It is interesting to note
the statistics as to current Gateway participants: the ma-
jority are over 40 (73%), professional, business or educa-
tion (64%), male (47%). Those under sixteen are not ac-
cepted as a general rule.
The Gateway Program is conducted principally in week-
long sessions at the Institute Center in Virginia. It also is
available in England and West Germany, and in a series of
audiotaped albums for home study. In 1988, the first Gate-
way Voyage session will be held in Australia. Since its in-
ception, some 8,500 participants have ‘discovered’
Gateway.
The Human Plus Evolution: The latest and most encom-
passing fallout from Institute consciousness research dur-
ing the past five years. It is a learning system whereby the
individual begins in small steps to take complete control of
the total self — mental, physical and emotional — without
limitation. It provides a pragmatic means not simply to
change from one belief system to another, but to create,
recognize and apply a ‘‘know” system that specifically
meets the needs that arise in daily life activity. The tenden-
cy of Hemi-Sync signal patterns which may provide access
as deep as the cellular level makes the project possible.
The first H Plus Intensive was held at the Institute
Center in October, 1987, and promptly exceeded the goals
set for this beginning phase. A total of 27 different func-
tion exercises were given each participant during a six-day
period. Other such Intensives are scheduled for 1988 as
welag distribution at professional and selected individual
levels.
The above is therefore a sampling of what can occur
when unconventional and free-flow investigative patterns
do engender something of value to the culture as a whole.
It does not seem too much when measured by orthodox
standards. It becomes remarkable only when viewed as an
acceptance strictly upon merit and performance, in spite of
resistance from the dozer owners and operators. Still, to-
day some of our best friends are psychiatrists, psycholo-
gists, engineers, educators, and business executives.
Now here’s the latest on deezers.....
Robert S. Monroe
MONROE INSTITUTE
Faber, Virginia 22938
November, 1987
The Monroe Institute was founded by Robert Monroe, a
former broadcasting executive who began to undergo
Spontaneous experiences in 1958 that drastically altered
his life, Unpredictably, and without willing it, Monroe
found himself leaving his physical body via a “second
body" to explore locales unbounded by conventional
concepts of time and space. He has documented these
experiences in Journeys Out of the Body (Doubleday, 1971
-- published in eight languages worldwide) and in Far
Journeys (Doubleday, 1985).
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All of this had great advantages. It permitted a pure
grazing principle to apply in research. Studies and investi-
gations began in one direction only to take a new course
when significant but unrelated results were uncovered. As
survival in Academe was not essential, no formal papers
needed to be produced and published. Proof of perfor-
mance acceptable to the scientific community and the
world at large was not a goal, which permitted information
gathering by methods considered quite unorthodox
elsewhere. If a process worked and could be reduced to
practice, it became Something of Value to be put to use.
Conversely, within the activities of the Institute, scien-
tific principles were and are applied preferentially wher-
ever feasible and possible. The baseline/foundation of
such activities has always been the scientific and cultural
history of Western Civilization as against Eastern disci-
plines — but not limited to either.
Using the long and successful proficiency in psychologi-