Hemi-Sync® Journal 2008-1&2 (Winter/Spring)

PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR OVERVIEW Journal HEMI-SYNC ® On March 22, 2008, over sixty TMI professional mem- bers, Monroe family members, and special guests arrived at the Nancy Penn Center to register for Hemi-Sync: Varieties of Experience, the Twenty-first Professional Seminar. This very special occasion was the first oppor- Vol. XXVI Winter/Spring 2008 Nos. 1 & 2 tunity for most of those in attendance to meet Paul Rademacher, the Institute’s new executive director. After a sumptuous dinner in the Nancy Penn Center A Research and Educational dining room, we adjourned to David Francis Hall for Publication of The Monroe Institute the opening ceremonies. Paul’s resonant voice embraced everyone, and he began his remarks by honoring the many contributions that have helped to create the endur- ing legacy of TMI. In particular he singled out Bob and Nancy Monroe, Laurie Monroe, and Nancy McMoneagle as guiding lights through formative years. Paul then com- mented on how the curiosity and creativity that drove Bob in his research will continue to be the hallmark of our efforts as the Institute grows in new and ever expanding directions. As so frequently happens with the keynote address, “The Healing Energy Experiments: Science Reveals our Natural Power to Heal” by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD, creat- ed a congenial context for the presentations that followed. The diverse topics included introducing Hemi-Sync in allopathic medical institutions, using energy work to enhance the response to a Hemi-Sync OUTREACH exer- IN THIS ISSUE cise, employing Hemi-Sync and other innovative tools to enrich educational environments, an analysis of residential PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR OVERVIEW program benefits, a report on a long-term project devoted to exploring Focus 27, Hemi-Sync as a springboard to THE BENEFITS OF LONG-TERM creating individual soundscapes for severely disabled stu- PARTICIPATION IN TMI PROGRAMS...ii dents, and, not least, the amazing power and versatility of METAMUSIC®. For an entire year, researcher Cam Danielson On both Sunday and Monday evenings, professional engaged in the most rigorous examination ever members divided into two groups to dialogue with Paul of the benefits derived from participating in Rademacher. Those brainstorming sessions produced a TMI’s residential programs. Using a 131-item cornucopia of ideas, some of which Paul shares in this questionnaire, Cam evaluated 350 GATEWAY issue of the TMI Focus. Among those participating were VOYAGE ® graduates and 330 graduates founding professional members as well as members who of the VOYAGE and other TMI programs. joined mere months before the seminar. One of our newest This paper presents his largely positive members came all the way from Israel, fulfilling a dream and sometimes surprising findings. first conceived in the early 1990s. SEMINAR CD ORDER LINK.....vii As we dream, plan, and create together, The Monroe Institute will continue to contribute “something of value” in the twenty-first century and beyond. © 2008 The Monroe Institute 365 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938 434/361-1252 HEMI-SYNC® JOURNAL • Those who have attended only the GATEWAY VOYAGE THE BENEFITS OF LONG-TERM program • Those who have attended three or more programs PARTICIPATION IN TMI PROGRAMS The population for this study was taken from the TMI database, which was automated in 2000. Participants were all found in the automated version, which means they had taken at least one program since 2000. Those with attendance at three or more pro- grams included 75 percent who had taken four or more programs (some dating back to the late 1970s). An online survey was developed on the following dimensions: • Demographics (6 items) – gender, age, employment, education, income, race, etc. • Psychographics (19 items) – job status and transi- by Cam Danielson tion, family status and transition, number of programs attended, personal objectives for attendance, support or resistance to attendance from family members and/or friends, continuing contact with TMI alumni and facili- tators, memorable moments from the program(s), etc. Cam is a partner at MESA Research Group. His work focuses on assist- • Program Effects (37 items) – decision-making effec- ing leaders and management teams to revision future direction and opportunity tiveness, outlook on life, interaction with others, job amid the turbulence of personal, organizational, and societal change. His research and career satisfaction, stress management, alignment of has appeared in the Academy of Management Executive, Human Resource actions with personal values, work-life balance, ongoing Development Quarterly, Business Horizons, and the American Benedictine Review. He has designed or conducted executive development programs for companies personal development, etc. such as 3M, AT&T, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Crédit Agricole, Dow Chemical, • Keirsey-Bates Temperament Sorter (optional – 70 EDS, ExxonMobil, Ingersoll-Rand, Lucent Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra, items) – assessing personality characteristics Manitowoc, NASA, The Nature Conservancy, Philips Electronics, Prudential More than 350 participants from the GATEWAY Only group (London), Rolls-Royce, Saudi Aramco, Shell International (London), Sara Lee, completed the 132-item questionnaire and more than 330 SUEZ, Whirlpool, and Xerox. Cam’s background includes twenty years of leading the office of executive educa- participants from the Multiple Program group completed the tion at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He also was a speechwriter questionnaire. for the president of Indiana University and a member of the faculty at the U.S. Air Findings Force Academy. Cam received a BA in classical studies from the University of Kansas and a medieval studies certificate and an MA in English literature from Indiana Demographics & Psychographics Analysis University. He is an alumnus of The Monroe Institute’s GATEWAY VOYAGE®, Demographic data noted some statistically significant differ- GUIDELINES®, LIFELINESM, and EXPLORATION 27® programs (1994 ences between the two groups. A summary of the differences is through 2006). Cam attended both the VOYAGE and GUIDELINES twice. He noted in the graph below: also participated in the American Center for International Leadership U.S.-USSR Exchange Program (1985). The Monroe Institute (TMI), through its patented sound Gender N.S. technology, has demonstrated changes in focused states of Age S younger consciousness for thousands of individuals over the last thirty Employment S more unemployed years. While ongoing research at the Institute on the nature of M more retired different states of consciousness is yielding rich insights into Education M more educated human development, a continuing challenge for the leadership Individual of TMI is to understand how repeated exposure to Hemi-Sync® Income M higher technology in controlled workshop environments affects the Partner Income N.S. quality of individual lives. Does it have any bearing on the degree Marital Status S significantly more single of self-efficacy, life satisfaction, and job and career satisfaction? In M marginally more widowed other words, does repeated exposure to TMI programs increase the capacity of the participants to deal with the demands of Time Married / their lives in terms of doing meaningful work, developing and Cohabiting N.S. supporting mutually rewarding relationships, and acquiring skills Time Divorced / M more years divorced or and attitudes that provoke continual growth and development? Widowed separated To address these questions, a study was undertaken to look at Race S more Hispanics the long-term benefits of participation in TMI programs. The Key: S = Single Key:Program Sample; S = Single Program Sample; study looked at two groups of individuals: M = Multiple Program Sample; M = Multiple Program Sample; N.S. = No Significant Difference N.S. = No Significant Difference ii Individual Income M higher Partner Income N.S. Winter/Spring 2008 Marital Status S significantly more single From a psychographic standpoint, a characteristic M marginally more widowed of the TYPE GLOBAL MULTIPLE Time Married / Multiple Program respondents Cohabiting is their N.S. higher degree of curiosity INDICATOR NORMS ONLY PROGRAMS and desire for self-knowledge. This Time Divorced / is M evident more yearsindivorced their reasons or for Sample Size 4,586,300 208 210 attending TMI, illustrated in the table Widowed below. From among the list separated Dominant of choices, respondents were instructed Race to indicate S more Hispanicsall that applied Function to them.The two choices that clearly Key: indicated S = Single Programa difference Sample; between S 28% 9.1% 7.7% M = Multiple Program Sample; N 24% 46.1% 49.5% the two groups were “curiosity” N.S. and = No“understanding myself better” Significant Difference T 18% 15% 14.3% (together with “learn new skills,” which was marginally higher in F 30% 29.8% 28.5% Auxiliary that group). Function S 27% 5.8% 7.2% “My reasons for attending Percentage of Multiple Percentage of N 21% 39% 35.7% TMI were”: Program Respondents Only Respondents T 21% 16.8% 16.3% Curiosity 65.48 56.20 F 31% 38.4% 40.8% Source of Understanding myself Energy better 63.10 53.30 E 51% 59.7% 64% Solve a problem or issue in I 49% 40.3% 36% my life 16.07 17.94 Rejuvenation and renewal 27.68 26.91 Number of Recommendation from Inconclusive 87 77 another 22.62 26.91 Type Indicator Learn new skills 51.79 47.23 Part of a professional development plan 7.14 5.01 Implications for this study are as follows: Part of a personal development plan 41.67 39.31 TMI graduates as a group are primarily different from Other 24.40 21.11 global norms in terms of how they like to acquire informa- tion. They strongly depend on intuition as the means of discovery and meaning-making, for both their favorite and The combination of a higher curiosity and self-development auxiliary function. One consequence of this orientation is the mind-set is a theme I will return to in the conclusion. value placed on imagination and inspiration, which means Psychological Typology Analysis that TMI graduates tend to be more idealistic and less tol- The Keirsey-Bates Temperament Sorter (KBTS) is one of erant of “the way things are.” To reference Robert Pirsig’s several instruments used to measure personality type preference. Metaphysics of Quality, TMI graduates strongly gravitate Modeled after the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the toward Dynamic Quality, “the pre-intellectual cutting edge KBTS provides a framework for determining predispositions of reality, the source of all things, completely simple and toward favored or natural tendencies in human behavior. Both always new.” instruments seek to determine how people consciously prefer Further, given their higher extroversion as a group than to attend to the world, how they choose to perceive that to the general population, this intolerance is more often direct- which they attend, and how judgments are made about those ed to the outside world. The resulting friction is the impetus perceptions. for what Carl Jung described as the transcendent function, Overall, the two groups are similar in terms of personality “a tension charged with energy that creates a movement out on a per-dimension basis. The Multiple Program group is mar- of the suspension between opposites, a living birth that leads ginally higher on extroversion. Below is a table illustrating the to a new level of being.” TMI graduates have a predilection distribution of Dominant Function within the KBTS results for transformational growth—the radical, vertical leaps in compared with global norms. Dominant Function describes being as opposed to the less risky, more pragmatic, horizontal