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external light sources are not involved but, rather, the mind is the sole agent of
the healing and revitalization.
D. Energy Bar Tool, Magic wands and enchanted sceptors have been part of the
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
subliminally. In any case, the energy bar tool technique involves envisaging 4
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 a sparkling, 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 a portal for
initiating a follow-on technique called "remote viewing." In this context, the
participant turns his bar of energy into a whirling vortex through which he sends
his imagination in search of new and illuminating insights. The apparent purpose
of the symbolism 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 symbols which the right hemisphere of the mind is capable of
understanding.
F, Living Body Map. This technique provides amplification for application of
the energy bar tool as a means of healing specific areas or systems of the human
body. The configuration of the participant's body is imagined and then the various
major systems such as the nervous and circulatory systems are envisaged in
appropriate colors within the confines of the outline being held in the
imagination, The energy bar tool is then applied to energizing, balancing and
healing in whatever manner the participant desires. In the process, the
participant visualizes various streams of colored energy flowing out of the tool
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 energy 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. Some
of the sound is probably merely an intensification of the basic Hemi-Sync
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 a huge wheel in the universe with various spokes each of which
gives access to a different part of the participant's past. Focus 15 is a very
advanced state and is extremely difficult to achieve. Probably less than five
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.
Nonetheless, Monroe Institute trainers affirm that with enough practice, .eventually
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. a
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 a truly advanced level. Except in unusual circumstances, it is probably
not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through long
application of meditation or by those who have practiced long and hard through use
of the Hemi-Sync tapes for a period of months if not years.
31. The Out-of-Body Movement, This remarkable phenomenon has been saved for
discussion in detail until last 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
devoted to the techniques involved in the out-of-body movement, Basically, these
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 a point that he is in apparent harmony with his surrounding electromagnetic
environment such that he feels that he has reached the threshhold where separation
is a possibility. To facilitate achieving the out-of-body state, Bob Monroe, the
founder of Monroe Institute, is quoted in a recent 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 a telephone pole wherein the individual separates in a
rigid, headfirst manner(such that he finds himself standing at attention at the
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foot of his physical body) and sliding out through either end of his body.
32. Role of REM Sleep. It is interesting to note that Bob Monroe informed the
Gateway class that finished 7 May 1983 that an ex-trainer of his operating in
Charlottesville, Virginia found that he could guarantee out-of-body movements by
bringing participants down into a rapid eye movement(REM) state of sleep and then
use the Hemi-Sync tape technique. This may well be a function of the fact that
most if not all people reputedly go into an out-of-body state during REM sleep.
REM sleep is the deepest possible level of ordinary sleep and involves complete
disengagement of the body's motor cortex functions from the neck down and nearly
complete suppression of consciousness in the left brain hemisphere. The effect of
this is to put the body in a state of complete stillness so far as the skeletal
muscle structure is concerned, thereby further promoting the state of deep rest
needed to eliminate the bifurcation echo, In addition, it leaves the right
hemisphere of the brain free to respond to the instructions and suggestions
contained on the Gateway tape. However, use of the Hemi-Sync tapes at this point
may be less a factor in actually achieving the out-of-body state than it‘is a
matter of focusing the brain enough so that a residual memory of having naturally
achieved an out-of-body state is carried into the waking state. Indeed, it may
even be postulated that some dreams associated with deep levels of sleep are in
fact functions of the same kind of altered consciousness involved in interaction
with the universe that plays a role in all of the Focus 12, 15 and 21 states
described above. The difference between those states and the condition of the mind
in REM sleep seems to be that the left hemisphere is almost totally disengaged in
the latter experience such that memory of what was achieved in the altered states
of consciousness cannot usually be retrieved by conscious desire because the left
hemisphere has no knowledge of its existence or its location in the right
hemisphere. Admittedly, some people can be trained to remember their REM state
dreams through intense conditioning in the waking state but even that may be more a
function of establishing pathways in the right hemisphere which the left hemisphere
can access following reentry into the wakeful state than it is an indication of any
specific left hemisphere conscious involvement in the process during REM sleep. In
any event, the three apparent conditions required for voluntarily inducing an
out-of-body state in most individuals seems to be: (1) achievement of a state of
profound quiet in the body such that the bifurcation echo fades and resonance at
approximately 7 Hertz is established, (2) synchronization of the two brain
hemisphere wave patterns, and (3) subsequent stimulation of the right hemisphere
of the mind to attain a state of heightened alertness(which, of course, interferes
with brain hemisphere synchronization but not until a sufficient level of enhanced
frequency range has first been established to help achieve the out-of-body state).
33. Information Collection Potential. The information acquisition potential
associated with the out-of-body state seems to attract the most attention from the
standpoint of developing practical applications for the Gateway technique.
Unfortunately, although the out-of-body state can apparently be achieved by many
people without excessive expenditure of time or effort, the purposes to which it
can be put are currently limited by the fact that although individuals in that
state may travel anywhere on an instantaneous basis in either the terrestrial or in
other spheres, information distortion in the former context remains a major
concern. To date, according to one of the trainers at Monroe Institute, numerous
experiments have been conducted involving persons moving from one coast to the
other in the out-of-body state to read a series of ten computer generated numbers
in a university laboratory. Although most have aquired enough of the digits to
make clear that their consciousness was present none have ever succeeded in getting
all ten correct. This seems to be a function of the fact that physical reality in
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the present is not the only holographic influence which the individual may
encounter in an out-of-body state. There are also energy patterns left by people
or events occurring at the same physical site being viewed, but from the past
rather than the present. In addition, since thoughts are the product of energy
patterns, and energy patterns are reality, it may also be possible that individuals
encounter thought forms while in an out-of-body state which mingle with physical
reality and are not easily differentiated. Finally, as Melissa Jager writes, there