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which will be briefly described as biofeedback. Biofeedback is somewhat unique in that it actually employs the self-cognitive powers of the left hemisphere to gain access to such areas of the right brain as the lower cerebral, motor, and sensory cortices and and assorted pain or pleasure centers. Whoo, this this this next sentence is a doozy. Let's let's let's give it a rip. Instead of suppressing the left hemisphere as is done in
hypnosis or largely bypassing and ignoring it as is done in transcendental meditation, biofeedback teaches the left hemisphere first to visualize the desired result, then to recognize the feelings associated with the experience of successful right hemisphere access to the specific lower cerebral cortex, pain or pleasure, or other areas in the manner needed to produce the desired result. Special self-monitoring devices
such as as digital thermometer are used to inform the left brain when it succeeds in keying the right hemisphere into accessing the appropriate area. Once this is done, the left hemisphere can then repeatedly instruct the right brain to reestablish the pathways involved so as to produce the same external objective measures of success.
In this way, the pathways are strengthened and emphasized to such an extent that the left brain consciousness is enabled to access appropriate areas in the right brain using a conscious a conscious demand mode. For example, if the subject wishes to increase the circulation of the left leg in order to speed up healing, he may concentrate with his left brain on achieving that result while carefully monitoring a digital thermometer
connected to the left leg. When the concentrated effort begins to achieve success, the digital thermometer will register an increase in the temperature of the left leg. At that point, the subject can mentally left brain associate the sensations experienced with the result achieved and can begin to emphasize by memory recall the same process to cause its strengthening by affirmation and repetition. In this way, pain can be blocked, healing can be
enhanced, malignant tumors can apparently be suppressed and ultimately destroyed. The body's pleasure centers can be stimulated and a variety of specific physiological results may be achieved. In addition, biofeedback may be used to greatly accelerate achievement of deep meditative states, particularly for beginners with no experience in meditative techniques and whose process and whose progress in that methodology is enhanced through
effective visualization and external objective affirmation. Display of the subject's brain wave patterns on a cathode ray tube has proven to be a laboratory validated means by which subjects may quickly learn to place themselves in profoundly relaxed states characterized by a sort of quietude and singularity of mental focus associated with advanced meditation.
All right, so now we're getting into some territory that I think has a lot to do with what's happening using Gateway, using Hemi-Sync. This biofeedback sort of angle. Clearly, you are creating relationships between states of consciousness and achieving certain things. Of course, when you're doing Gateway, it's not expressly to achieve any uh physiological effect necessarily, but it is associated with achieving different states of
consciousness. You know, these focus levels, focus 10, focus 12. We'll get specifically into those as this goes on, but I think that there is a lot of similarity between um what's happening with Gateway, with Hemi-Sync, and the same reason biofeedback works. You know, creating this psychophysical relationship between a stimulus and response.
All right, here we go. Gateway and Hemi-Sync 0.5. And by the way, we've got a long way to go, my friends. We're only on page four. So, this is definitely going to have to be in maybe three parts. I I didn't want to go more than three parts, but we'll we'll see. Now that we've briefly profiled the basic mechanics of the principal techniques for altering or expanding consciousness, which share which share some objectives
and or methods employed by the Gateway experience, we may proceed to focus on what that technique actually involves. Fundamentally, the Gateway experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brain wave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness moving it outside of the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the
restrictions of time and space. I'm going to say that again because that's an insane statement right there. Fundamentally, the Gateway Experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of space
and time. Crazy. And these run-on sentences are absolutely bonkers, Mr. McDonald. Don't get me wrong. I love I've loved what you've done, sir. If you're still around, reach out. The participant then gains access to the various levels of intuitive knowledge which the universe offers. What differentiates the Gateway Experience from forms of meditation is its use of the Hemi-Sync technique which is defined in a monograph by Monroe Institute
trainer Melissa Yeager as a quote state of consciousness defined when the EEG patterns of both hemispheres are simultaneously equal in amplitude and frequency, end quote. Although Hemi-Sync seems to be rather rare and only for a and of only short duration in ordinary human consciousness, Melissa Yeager states that quote audio techniques developed by Bob Monroe can induce and sustain Hemi-Sync with the institute's basic focus three focus three tapes. She
also notes that studies concluded by Elmer and Alice Green at the Menninger Foundation have shown that a subject with 20 years of training in Zen meditation could consistently establish Hemi-Sync at will sustaining it for over 15 minutes, end quote. Dr. Stuart Twemlow, a psychiatrist and research associate of the Monroe Institute reports that quote in our studies of the effect of the Monroe tape system on brain waves, we have found that the
tapes encourage the focusing of brain energy. It can be measured with as with a light bulb in watts into a narrower and narrower frequency band. This focusing of energy is not unlike the yoga concept of one-pointedness, which we may translate in Western terms as single-mindedness." Dr. Twemlow goes on to observe that as the individual gets into the tapes beyond focus three, there is a gradual increase in brain wave size, which is a measure of brain wave
of brain energy or power. So, this is interesting. When they said focus three, I thought maybe they meant like the three waves or something. But, we never even did focus three. We jumped straight into focus 10, which is the mind awake, body asleep state. So, I'm not even sure. I'm going to have to go back and check what focus three is, and I will pop it up on the screen here, some kind of graphic uh, indicating focus three.
All right, so that is our basic summary of Gateway. And now we're getting in to the juice because we're beginning to talk about a achieving states of consciousness uh, in which we can tap into what did he say? Like the intuitive knowledge uh, that the universe offers?
And now I I mean, we're we're already bumping up against some questions, right? Like, according to what? According to whom? What did he experience that gave him that knowing? Anyway, now we move on to point six, lamp versus laser. Melissa Yager uses a metaphor to help clarify the process involved in using Hemi-Sync in the Gateway experience. She points out that the human mind in its natural state may be linked to an ordinary lamp, which
expands energy in the form of both heat and light, but in a chaotic, incoherent way, which diffuses its energy over a wide area of rather limited depth. On the other hand, the human mind under the discipline of Hemi-Sync acts after the fashion of a laser beam which produces a disciplined stream of light. The stream of energy is projected with total coherence of both frequency and amplitude such that the surface area of
the laser beam contains billions of times the concentrated energy found in a similar surface area on the sun. I'm going to I got to read that again. The stream of energy is projected with total coherence of both frequency and amplitude such that the surface area of a laser beam contains billions of times the concentrated energy found in a similar surface area on the sun.
Gateway assumes that once the frequency and amplitude of the human brain are rendered coherent, it is possible to begin to begin accelerating both so that the human mind is soon resonating at a ever higher vibrational level. The mind can then bring itself into synchronization with more sophisticated and rarefied energy levels in the universe. The mind when operating at these increasingly rarefied levels is assumed to be capable of processing the
information thus received through the same fundamental matrix by which it makes sense of ordinary physical sensory input to achieve meaning in a cognitive context. Such meaning is usually perceived visually in the form of symbols but may also be perceived as astonishing flashes of holistic intuition or even in the form of scenarios involving both visual and oral perceptions. The mechanics by which the mind exercises the consciousness
function will be addressed in more detail later in this paper. Hm. So, now we're getting into some more really intriguing territory. One, the sort of theory behind this, the notion that the more we focus the brain's energy, the more we focus our consciousness on a single-pointed literal, I guess, energy spectrum, um um, the more the higher states of consciousness we are able to achieve.
I I really don't understand that point about this its relation to the surface of the sun, but that's fascinating. And I guess we're also starting to touch on some of the phenomenology involved here, right?
Like um, like he says at the end here, "Scenarios involving both visual and oral perception, the mechanics by which the mind exercises the consciousness function will be addressed in more detail." So, yeah, that was definitely my experience. You know, um, just sudden visions, basically. So, sometimes they would be very brief, sometimes they would be very random. Um, I didn't talk a lot in the video about hearing voices or anything,
but now that the topic has come up, I do feel like I have I do have memories of chatter. And this is something I've experienced, too, just on my way in and out of sleep, you know, in hypnagogic and hypnopompic states. I sometimes experience almost this like radio-y chatter.
And And it's not telling me anything profound. Don't Don't get me wrong. It's mostly like almost just like background noise or something. Um, drop a comment if this is something you've experienced. All right, frequency following response.
To achieve synchronization of brain hemispheres, the Hemi-Sync technique takes advantage of a phenomenon known as the frequency following response, FFR, which means that if the subject hears a sound produced at a frequency which emulates one of those which emulates one of those associated with the operation of the human brain, the brain will try to mimic the same frequency pattern by adjusting its brainwave output. Therefore, if the
subject is in a fully awake state, but hears sound frequencies which approximates the brain output at the theta level, the subject's brain will endeavor to alter the brainwave pattern from the normal beta to the theta level.