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Yes, this is interesting. So, this is essentially, again, it's an outline of one of the very first things you do when you're doing the Gateway method and really you do this every time. You use this energy conversion box method, which is like, you know, you you put anything you don't want to bring with you into the meditation, you know, your fears, your anxieties, whatever it is, you you really visualize putting those things in the box and
leaving them there so they don't interfere with your meditation. Then you do this resonant tuning, which is, you know, imagine it's like chanting but you're not saying anything. You're just like following along with these like oh kind of tone intonations on the um tape.
And then the final part is this affirmation. You know, saying like, "I'm more than my physical body, and because I am more than my physical body, I can explore non-physical states, uh etc. etc." So, yeah. That's That's pretty much exactly what you learn in the retreat as well.
Uh Hemi-Sync introduced 29. After that, he is exposed for the first time to the Hemi-Sync sound frequencies and is encouraged to focus on and develop a perception of and appreciation for those feelings which accompany the synchronization of brain waves that results. Next comes the technique of progressive and systematic physical relaxation while the Hemi-Sync frequencies are expanded to include additional forms of pink and white noise
designed to put the physical body at a virtual threshold of sleep, as well as to calm the left hemisphere of the mind while raising the right hemisphere to a state of heightened attentiveness. Once all of this is achieved, the participant is invited to envisage the creation of a quote energy balloon comprised of an energy flow beginning at the center of the top of the head and extending down in all directions to the feet. The
energy involved in this flow then proceeds up through the body and back into the balloon pattern again. The energy balloon, which sets up a pattern very reminiscent of the cosmic egg discussed earlier, not only enhances bodily energy flow and encourages early achievement of a suitable resonant state, but it is also designed to provide protection against conscious entities possessing lower energy levels which the participant might encounter in
the event that he achieves an out-of-body state. It serves as a precautionary purpose in the unlikely event that the participant's first out-of-body experience involves direct projection outside the terrestrial sphere. Interesting. Interesting. So, again, all of these things are parts of what you learn at the Gateway retreat, um except they I don't recall them specifically ever discussing um so you So, let me back up. You definitely do
this resident energy balloon practice like just like those other things that you do at the beginning of every meditation, um but they never specifically say that this is like a protective bubble necessarily. So, that's interesting. Um and yeah, it really makes me think of my own experience with surprisingly uh going out of body.
But anyway, yeah, I'll I'll I'll put a pin in that there. All right, 30 advanced techniques. Having achieved focus 10, the participant is now ready to endeavor to achieve a state of sufficiently expanded awareness to begin actually interacting with dimensions beyond those associated with his experience of physical reality.
This state is called focus 12 and involves conscious efforts on his part while additional forms of pink and white noise enter the sound stream being directed into his ears from the Gateway tape. Once the participant has achieved the state of greatly expanded awareness, he is ready to begin employing a series of specific techniques or tools, as the Monroe Institute characterizes them, which enable him to manipulate his newly
found expanded awareness to obtain practical useful feedback of value for promoting self-discovery and personal growth. The specific techniques involved are described individually below. So, let's reflect on this really quick because now they're introducing this idea of focus levels, and they do specifically cover focus levels later, uh specifically focus 15 and focus 21 have their own kind of bullet points, but it it seems like they sort of skip over
explaining what focus 10 is. They just mention it. So, that's the first primary focus level that you work with when you do these tapes. Focus 10 is called the mind awake body asleep state and that's really what it feels like. And then as they say here, focus 12 is supposed to be expanded awareness. It's supposed to get you into this state where like it says you can begin to work with other energy systems.
I'm going to be blunt and say that to me that's kind of nebulous as a practitioner. Am I a super advanced to Gateway practitioner? I guess not. You know, I did I did do a Gateway retreat where we did dozens of meditations. We spent a lot of time in focus 12 relatively.
But to me that state largely feels like like there's this energetic rushing throughout the body. And yes, there are some, you know, uh things encountered in the mind's eye. So so maybe that so maybe that's what they mean by encountering other energy systems. And if you're interested in more on specifically what I experienced um in the video that I've been plugging at the beginning of all of these read-throughs, um I do have this sort of
journal entry um type shares that I was doing during the retreat in which I get into the specifics of what I experienced. All right, 30A now, problem solving. This technique involves identifying fundamental problems which the individual wishes to see solved.
Fulfilling his expanded awareness with his perception of these problems and then projecting them out into the universe. In this way the individual enlists the assistance of what Monroe calls his quote higher self. In other words, his expanded consciousness to interact with the universal hologram to obtain the information required to solve the problem. This approach may be used to solve personal difficulties, technical problems in the realm of
physics, mathematics, et cetera. 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 a sudden holistic perception in which the individual suddenly finds that he simply knows the answer in all of its and all of its ramifications and completely in
context, sometimes without even being able to put his newly found perception into words, at least initially. In some cases, the response may even arrive in the form of visual symbols, which the individual will quote see with his mind while he is in focus in the focus 12 state, and which he will have to interpret after he returns to normal consciousness.
So, this is interesting. And as And as I was reading this, this kind of just occurred to me. I don't feel like we specifically did this too much at the retreat. But then again, we did enter into certain meditations with questions or things we were interested in exploring. So, I think that's what this is alluding to here, but we didn't specifically, from my memory, get into this idea of interacting with the higher self in this
way. I know they do other, um, you know, more advanced retreats that seem to be more oriented toward connecting with the higher self or connecting with your guidance, uh, which I'm very intrigued in and I would really like to do one of those retreats, by the way. Um, so yeah, more that I would like to explore on this point. All right, patterning. This technique involves the use of consciousness to achieve desired objectives in the physical, emotional,
or intellectual sphere. It involves concentration on the desired objective while in a focus 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 a matter of established achievement, which is destined to be realized within the time frame specified. This particular methodology is based on the belief that
the thought patterns generated by our consciousness in a state of expanded awareness create holograms which represent the situation we desire to bring to an end. Or sorry, 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
destined objective which might not under other circumstances ever occur. In other words, the technique of patterning recognizes the fact that since consciousness is the source of all reality, our thoughts have the power to influence the development of reality in space-time as it applies to us if those thoughts can be projected with adequate intensity. However, the more complicated the objective sought and the more radically it departs from our current
reality, the more time the universal hologram will need to reorient our reality sphere to accommodate 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.
We did do a patterning exercise at my retreat. It's very similar to the more kind of modern idea of manifestation. I think there are some important differences. Viewers of the channel may have sort of intuited that I I don't think it's a stretch to say that I have a distaste for uh manifestation in a lot of its forms, you know, it it can kind of take on this vapid um sort of materialistic connotation a lot of the time.
And I guess that's on an individual by individual basis. And maybe I'm straw manning it here, but that's my two cents. All right, 30C color breathing. The next technique is called color breathing and is designed to use the expanded awareness and highly focused attentiveness associated with focus 12 state to imagine various colors in particularly intense and vivid manner so as to use them to resonate and in turn activate the body's own energies.
Fundamentally, in terms of practical application, it is a healing technique which is designed to restore the body and to enhance its physical capabilities by balancing, revitalizing, and re-attuning bodily energy flows. It is predicated on the principle that the body's electromagnetic field is capable of altering its resonance pattern so as to entrain energy from the Earth's electromagnetic field for its own use.
The various colors envisioned in the imagination as part of the technique cue the mind as to which frequencies and what specific amplitudes are desired in connection with this entrainment and the subsequent alterations in bodily energy flow patterns. That color has the capacity to affect the human mind is well known and the effectuality of color in certain kinds of healing is a demonstrable fact.
For example, application of an intense blue light to an area of physical tumescence leads to a relatively rapid and easily observable reduction in the swelling while red and to a lesser effect yellow have quite the opposite effect. However, in the Hemi-Sync application of the technique, external light sources are not involved, but rather the mind is the sole agent of the healing and revitalization.
Interesting. So, again, we did a little bit of this in the retreat, but this is really providing uh a lot more theory on it here. So, yeah, would like to know more about this, too. All right, D, energy toolbar. Fond memories of this one. and by fond memories I mean I definitely fell asleep, or uh if you want to be romantic about it, clicked out for most of this meditation.