Hemi-Sync® Journal 1991-4 (Fall)

custom-written in 1990 by Robert Rosenthal, MD, are given to the participants. This guided imagery journey through the body's cells is specifically designed to help increase the body’s T-4, or helper, cells which are instrumental to the immune system’s functioning. Participation in PI has been limited to ten people per workshop and begins with an evening orientation and two tapes. The next day includes the remaining five tapes and discussion. A full two-day program is desirable when possible. Once the group has completed the first seven tapes, I recommend using H-PLUS tapes on an as- needed basis. (A weekly or semimonthly support group to introduce each tape was difficult to maintain, but the potential value and benefits of this type of group support are obvious.) The H-PLUS tapes include: Relax, Let Go, Restorative Sleep, Regenerate, Contempla- tion, Immunizing, Sweet Dreams, De-Discomfort, Circulation, and Eight-Great. Bob Monroe's assistance in selection again proved to be extremely helpful. Numerous tapes in the H-PLUS catalog are useful because people who contract the virus may develop problems to which they are genetically predisposed. They can then structure a more individu- alized program for themselves. The feedback on PI has been essentially upbeat. Some participants do not use the tapes after the workshop nor do they use Hemi-Sync tools. However, those who do experience very encouraging results. To our knowledge, the T-cells of at least three participants have increased. Reaching HIV-positive persons before their T-cell counts plunge to a low level, and before they develop opportunistic infec- tions, seems to increase the chances of maintaining the integrity of the immune system and perhaps strengthening it. The most difficult problem I have is determining exactly how beneficial the tapes are. A diagnosis of HIV-positive is almost always a life-and-death issue, making it virtually impossible to develop the participant’s confidence to the extent that he or she is willing to use Hemi-Sync tapes and tools exclusive of other systems. All participants are under the care of at least one physician and are using numerous prescribed therapies. Thus, unless the facilitator is also the partici- pant’s physician or is working directly with his/her physician, it is unlikely that the efficacy of Hemi-Sync can be determined. My hope is that the PI program will be expanded and facilitated by physicians or certified nonmedical professionals in association with physicians, which would enable us to compile more comprehensive data. Additionally, PI could become an adjunct therapy integrated with the primary healthcare services being received by the participant. I believe that the correct H-PLUS tapes prescribed for the specific individuals in the early stages of immune system dysfunction can affect the longevity of afflicted people. Perhaps even more important, the quality of their lives can be improved through developing an understanding that they are more than their physical bodies. “.... [Positive Immunity] has played a significant role in my continuing state of overall well-being.” Perhaps the only way to evaluate PI honestly is to put the question to the participants and trust their judgment. The testimony of one of our original participants brings this message vividly to light. “What are the things am doing to stay well? One major thing is using The Monroe Institute Hemi-Sync tapes. I find a combination of the H-PLUS and GATEWAY tapes to be optimal. | believe this is because the /H-PLUS] tapes work for me as a direct mind-to-body experience while the GATEWAY tapes provide me with spiritual nourishment. Jim Greene and Bob Monroe obviously recognized the benefits of both when they developed the Positive Immunity pilot project. Of the H-PLUS series, Restorative Sleep is my favorite. From the GATEWAY series, One Month Patterning is my tape of choice. All, however, have something to offer, and I believe each person who uses them regularly will develop a combination that works best for him or her. Initially used one or two tapes every day at 4:00 PM. Now I listen --- PAGE 10 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC™ JOURNAL when I feel the need and don’t have a regular schedule. The tape I use and the time is determined by my own sense of hunger. I do, however, keep the tapes handy at all times. Although the tapes are excellent in and of themselves, I believe the most important thing I’ve gotten from them is the ability to go into Focus 10 and Focus 12 without them, and to put my “altered state” to good use. Recently, for example, while in the dentist’s chair, Iwas able to close out pain using Focus 10. No tapes were involved; I merely used the technique. What I hope I have just described is a process wherein the tapes are a support mechanism, playing a dominant training role in the beginning anda less frequent, but important, refresher role when one becomes familiar with the techniques. Has the Positive Immunity project of The Monroe Institute saved me from sickness or death? No one can know that, but I do believe it has played a significant role in my continuing state of overall well-being.” [For more information on Positive immunity, contact Jim Greene, 4011 South 7th Street, Arlington, VA 22204.] @ HEMI-SYNC AND ARCHETYPE EMERGENCE IN JUNGIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY by Laura A. Batchelor, MA Laura Batchelor, an educational therapist practicing privately in St. Louis, Missouri, specializes in creativelvocational expression, spiritual development, Jungian theory, and transitions. She began introducing Hemi-Sync into her work with clients in 1990 as a tool for accelerating the therapeutic process. In this excerpt from her presen- tation, Ms. Batchelor discusses the impact of Hemi-Sync on archetype emergence. [Ed.: Also see HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL, Winter 1991, Vol. IX, No. L.] The clients I work with are ordinary people from all walks of life who have chosen to explore not only the social and cultural influ- ences of their outer world, but the dynamics of their inner worlds, of their psyches. Within Jungian psychotherapy, this type of work is termed the “individuation process.” Individuation occurs naturally and spontaneously within the psyche, The more aware one can be of his or her individuation process, the more one can begin to achieve a sense of wholeness. As a psychotherapist, I work with people who want to stretch their awareness beyond old ways of understanding — toward wholeness. In this presentation I will discuss archetypal structure, my thera- peutic methodology, and the influence of Hemi-Sync on archetypal emergence. Archetypal Structure Archetypal structures are instinctual behavioral patterns com- mon to everyone—psychic processes transformed into and perceived as images. As we each have physical organs, so do we contain nonphysical psyche organs, or archetypes. There are four basic archetypal structures, termed by Carl Jung: 1. Animus. The conscious mind incorporating the masculine principle; 2, Shadow. The unconscious mind, seat of emotion; 3. Anima. The intuitive mind incorporating the feminine principle; 4. Self. The universal mind incorporating the androgynous principle. The animus and the shadow archetypes reflect the five-sensory personality. They are the closest to, and pertain to, social and cultural influences. The anima and the self reflect the multisensory personal- ity, which is aware beyond the five physical senses. By observing and recording psychic imagery, particularly dreams, one is better able to understand the productive or nonproductive role that an archetypal structure plays within one’s life. There are often considerable differences in the types of imagery experienced. Some are simple, impersonal, and myth-like in form, which usually springs from a deep stratum of the psyche, the collective unconscious. Here symbols are present only as structure, not yet filled with individual content. The collective unconscious pertains to humankind as a whole. When the imagery is elaborate and complex, its source is usually the personal unconscious, the stratum of the psyche which is filled with individual experience and content. Identification of the archetypes in imagery provides valuable information on the current state of one's awareness or lack of awareness, individual needs which may be stifled or repressed by the conscious mind, and areas of conflict, nonconflict, and dysfunction. Archetypal imagery also indicates when the individuation process has. reached the “midpoint,” as Carl Jung called it. At this point, tremen- dous change begins to occur within a person. As the intuitive mind, or anima, provides more opportunities for growth and development, a kind of archetypal parenting of the mind begins. With the emergence of this parenting, or self-governing principle, comes a sense of the relationship of all things—the universal mind. To the conscious mind, or animus, the consequence of this emergence is an entirely different attitude. One is no longer a touchy, egotistical bundle of personal wishes, fears, hopes, and ambitions which must be compensated for with countertendencies. Instead, life becomes a function of relationship to the world at large, bringing the individual into absolute, binding, and indissoluble communion with the Universe. Therapeutic Methodology Most clients enter the therapeutic relationship without an aware- ness of internal imaging. To begin archetypal work I have the client record in a journal all emotional, memory, intuitive, and sensate material, including dreams, visions, and fantasies. We then work with this information to educate the client about how s/he processes internal data, to differentiate emotional from intuitive responses, to observe archetypal behavior, to foster understanding about how dysfunction on the five-sensory level can block emerging archetypes, and to encourage the client’s individuating process. The Influence of Hemi-Sync I tend to introduce the Hemi-Sync tape, The Way of Hemi-Sync, into the individuation process when a reduction of stress and anxiety is called for. This tape is nonthreatening; gives information and instruction simply and easily, guiding the listener through an auto- genic exercise and into gentle stillness. ‘My experience with Hemi-Sync has shown me that it very effec- tively and gently accelerates processing within the psyche, first between the conscious and unconscious minds. Then, as the psychic environment is cleared of old internal conflict, the presence of the intuitive mind, or anima, begins to emerge quickly, When the 10 --- PAGE 11 (OCR) --- Fall 1991 presence of the intuitive mind is recognized by the conscious mind, the intuitive mind is able to introduce the conscious mind to the most confronting archetype of all: the universal mind, or self. Before | introduced Hemi-Sync as a therapeutic tool, most of my work with clients was on the personal, five-sensory level of conscious- ness. Since using Hemi-Sync to aid their individuation processes, all but my new clients work on the intuitive level, in the multisensory arena. With the lessening of the repression of the intuitive and Since using Hemi-Sync . . . all but my new clients work on the intuitive level, in the multisensory arena. universal levels of consciousness, those engaged in the individuation process are now able, with their newly discovered multisensory personalities, to explore progressively farther reaches of the poten- tials of their physical and nonphysical beings. In the last three months many clients have expressed to me that dreams, never thought possible a year ago, are now coming true—thanks to much hard work and a new-found tool called Hemi-Sync. As Jung said, and | feel, “Many of my cases are not suffering from any clinically definable neurosis, but more from the senselessness and aimlessness of their lives.” As Jung suggested, this state of being