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realm of physics, mathmatics, etc., practical administrative problems, and so on.
Responses to the problem solving technique may be received almost immediately, but
often they come based on developing intuition over the next two to three days.
Frequently the response comes in the form of asudden, holistic perception in w h i c h
the individual suddenly finds that he simply knows the answer in all Of its
r a m i fi c a t i o n s a n d c o m p l e t e l y i n c o n t e x t , s o m e t i m e s w i t h o u t e v e n b e i n g a b l e t o p u t
h i s n e w l y f o u n d p e r c e p t i o n i n t o w o r d s , a t l e a s t i n i t i a l l y. I n s o m e c a s e s , t h e
response may even arrive in the form of visual symbols v/hich the individual
will"see" with his m.rnd while he is in tlie Focus 12 state and which he will have t o
interpret after he returns to n o r m a l consciousness.
3. Patterning. This technique involves use of the consciousness to achieve
desired objectives in the physical, emotional, or intellectual sphere. It involves
concentration on the desired objective while in aFocus 12 state, extension of the
individual's perception of that objective into the whole expanded consciousness,
and its projection into the universe with the intention that the desired objective
is already amatter of established achievement which is destined to be realized
w i t h i n t h e t i m e f r a m e s p e c i fi e d . T h i s p a r t i c u l a r m e t h o d o l o g y i s b a s e d o n t h e
belief that the thought patterns generated by our consciousness in astate of
expanded awareness create holograms which represent the situation we desire to
bring about and, in so doing, establish the basis for actual realization of that
goal. Once the thought-generated hologram of the sought after objective is
established in the universe it becomes an aspect of reality which interacts with
the universal hologram to bring about the desired objective which might not, under
other circumstances, ever occur. In other words, the 'technique of patterning
r e c o g n i z e s t h e f a c t t h a t s i n c e c o n s c i o u s n e s s i s t h e s o u r c e o f a l l r e a l i t y, o u r
t h o u g h t s h a v e t h e p o w e r t o i n fl u e n c e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f r e a l i t y i n t i m e - s p a c e a s i t
a p p l i e s t o u s i f t h o s e t h o u g h t s c a n b e p r o j e c t e d w i t h a d e q u a t e i n t e n s i t y. H o w e v e r,
the more complicated the objective sought and the more radically it departs from
o u r c u r r e n t r e a l i t y, t h e m o r e t i m e t h e u n i v e r s a l h o l o g r a m w i l l n e e d t o r e o r i e n t o u r
reality sphere to accomodate our desires. Monroe trainers caution against
attempting to force the pace of this process because the individual could succeed
in dislocating his existing reality with drastic consequences.
C. Color Breathing. The next technique is called color breathing and is
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designed to use the expanded awareness and highly focused attentiveness associated
v/ith the Focus 12 state to imagine various colors in aparticularly intense and
vivid manner so as to use them to resonate with and in turn to activate the body's
o w n e n e r g i e s . F u n d a m e n t a l l y, i n t e r m s o f p r a c t i c a l a p p l i c a t i o n i t i s a h e a l i n g
technique which is designed to restore the body and to enhance its physical
c a p a b i l i t i e s b y b a l a n c i n g , r e v i t a l i z i n g a n d r e t u n i n g b o d i l y e n e r g y fl o w s . I t i s
p r e d i c a t e d o n t h e p r i n c i p l e t h a t t h e b o d y ' s e l e c t r o m a g n e t i c fi e l d i s c a p a b l e o f
altering its resonance pattern so as to entrain energy from the earth's
e l e c t r o s t a t i c fi e l d f o r i t s o w n u s e . T h e v a r i o u s c o l o r s e n v i s a g e d i n t h e
imagination as part of the technique cue the mind as to which frequencies and what
s p e c i fi c amplitudes are desired in connection with this entrainment and the
s u b s e q u e n t a l t e r a t i o n s i n b o d i l y e n e r g y fl o w p a t t e r n s . T h a t c o l o r h a s t h e c a p a c i t y
to affect the human mind is well known, and the effectuality of color in certain
kinds of healing is ademonstrable fact. For example, application of an intense
blue light to an area of physical tvimescence leads to relatively rapid and easily
observable reduction in the swelling while red, and to alesser extent, yellow have
q u i t e t h e o p p o s i t e e ff e c t . H o w e v e r, i n t h e H e m i - S y n c a p p l i c a t i o n o f t h e ' t e c h n i q u e
e x t e r n a l l i g h t s o u r c e s a r e n o t i n v o l v e d b u t , r a t h e r, t h e m i n d i s t h e s o l e a g e n t o f
the healing and revitalization.
D . E n e r g y B a r To o l . M a g i c w a n d s a n d e n c h a n t e d s c e p t o r s h a v e b e e n p a r t o f t h e
folklore and occult practices of many cultures. The scepters, staffs and maces
carried by monarchs and high priests alike occur with such frequency in the history
of bygone eras as to suggest that at the very least these items are aspects of some
type of archtypical symbol which the human mind seems to appreciate, perhaps quite
s u b l i m i n a l l y. I n a n y c a s e , t h e e n e r g y b a r t o o l t e c h n i q u e i n v o l v e s e n v i s a g i n g a
small, intensely pulsating dot of light which the participant charges in his
imagination with enormous energy until it is virtually pulsating. The participant
then extrudes the dot into the shape of asparkling, vibrating cylinder of energy
which he then uses to channel force from the universe to selected parts of his body
for purposes of healing and revitalization.
E. Remote Viewing. In addition, the energy bar tool is used as aportal for
initiating afollow-on technique called "remote viewing, In this context, the
participant turns his bar of energy into awhirling vortex through which he sends
his imagination in search of new and illuminating insights. The apparent purpose
of the sym±>olism involved in the vortex seems to be to cue the subconscious and
convey to it instructions as to what the participant wishes to do but in terms of
nonverbal sym.bols which the right hemisphere of the mind is capable of
understanding.
F . ^ L i v i n g B o d y M a p , T h i s t e c h n i q u e p r o v i d e s a m p l i fi c a t i o n f o r a p p l i c a t i o n o f
t h e e n e r g y b a r t o o l a s a m e a n s o f h e a l i n g s p e c i fi c a r e a s o r s y s t e m s o f t h e h u m a n
b o d y. The c o n fi g u r a t i o n of the participant's body is im.agined and then the various
major systems such as the nervous and circulatory systems are envisaged in
a p p r o p r i a t e c o l o r s w i t h i n t h e c o n fi n e s o f t h e o u t l i n e b e i n g h e l d i n t h e
imagination. The energy bar tool is then applied to energizing, balancing and
healing in whatever manner the participant desires. In the process, the
p a r t i c i p a n t v i s u a l i z e s v a r i o u s s t r e a m s o f c o l o r e d e n e r g y fl o w i n g o u t o f t h e t o o l
into the organ system or area upon which the revitalizing or healing application is
being made. Since colors are the result of differing wavelengths of light, which
is to say energy at various frequencies, this technique operates on the assumption
that as the human body is composed of energ;^' it can be vitalized and healed through
the additive application of additional energy provided that the energy is applied
in the appropriate form.
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G, Focus 15: Travel into the Past. All of the preceding techniques are
conducted at the level of expanded awareness known as Focus 12. However, the
technique of time travel into the past involves further expansion of consciousness
through the inclusion of additional levels of sound on the Hemi-Sync tapes, S o m e
of the
s o u n d i s p r o b a b l y m e r e l y a n i n t e n s i fi c a t i o n o f t h e b a s i c H e m i - S y n c
frequencies, being designed to further modify brainwave frequency and amplitude.
Other aspects of the added sound patterns appear to be designed to provide subtle,
almost subliminal suggestions to the mind as to what is desired by way of further
expanded consciousness so as to support the verbal suggestions and instructions
also contained on the tape, Even the instructions are highly symbolic, with time
being visualized as ahuge wheel in the universe with various spokes each of which
gives access to adifferent part of the participant's past, Focus 15 is avery
a d v a n c e d s t a t e a n d i s e x t r e m e l y d i f fi c u l t t o a c h i e v e , P r o b a b l y l e s s t h a n fi v e
percent of all participants in any given Gateway Experience actually fully achieve
the Focus 15 state during the course of the approximately seven days of training.
N o n e t h e l e s s , M o n r o e I n s t i t u t e t r a i n e r s a f fi r m t h a t w i t h e n o u g h p r a c t i c e , . e v e n t u a l l y
Focus 15 can be achieved. They also state that not only the individual's past
history is available for examination by one who has achieved Focus 15 but other
aspects of the past with which the individual himself has had no connection may
also be accessed.
H , Focus 21: The Future. The last and most advanced of all the Focus states
associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the
boundaries of time-space as in Focus 15 but with attention to discovering the
future rather than the past, The individual who has achieved this state has
reached atruly advanced level, Except in unusual circumstances, it is probably
not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through loiig
^PP-^ication of meditation or by those who have practiced long and hard through use
of the Hemi-Sync tapes for aperiod of months if not years.
3 1 . T h e O uTt -ho if -sB o dry e M
moav er m
kae nbt .l e phenomenon has been saved for
discussion in detail until la.st because of the interest which it occasions and
special circumstances involved in its attainment. Monroe Institute stresses that
the Gateway program was not established solely for the purpose of enabling
participants to obtain the out-of-body state nor does the program guarantee that
most participants will succeed in doing it during the course of the training at the
Institute. Only one tape out of the many which make up the Gateway Experience is
d e v o t e d t o t h e t e c h n i q u e s i n v o l v e d i n t h e o u t - o f - b o d y m o v e m e n t . B a s i c a l l y, t h e s e
techniques are merely designed to make it easier for the individual to achieve the
out-of-body state when his brainwave pattern and personal energy levels have
reached apoint that he is in apparent ha.rmony with his surrounding electrom.agnetic
environment such that he feels that he has reached the threshhold where separation
i s a p o s s i b i l i t y. To f a c i l i t a t e a c h i e v i n g t h e o u t - o f - b o d y s t a t e , B o b M o n r o e , t h e
founder of Monroe Institute, is quoted in arecent magazine article as saying that
in order to assist the participant the particular Hemi-Sync tape concerned with
that technique employs Beta signals of "around 2877,3 CPS."(cycles per second).
Since 30 to 40 CPS is considered to be the normal range for Beta brainwave
signals(those associated with the wakeful state), it is apparent that the Monroe
Institute is convinced that the same heightened state of brainwave frequency output
which promotes altered states of consciousness is also an important consideration
in assisting in achievement of out-of-body states. The actual techniques employed
for separating from the body involve such simple maneuvers as rolling out, lifting
out after the fashion of atelephone pole wherein the individual separates in a