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Anyway, energy bar tool. Magic wands and enchanted scepters 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 at the very least that these items are aspects of some type of archetypal symbol which the human mind seems to appreciate, perhaps quite subliminally.
In any case, the energy bar tool technique involves envisioning a small, intensely pulsating dot of light which the participant charges in his imagination with enormous energy until it is virtually pulsing. Pulsating.
The participant then extrudes the dot into the shape of a sparkling, vibrating cylinder of energy which he uses to channel force from the universe to selected parts of his body for purposes of healing and revitalization. I mean, from the sound of it, you'd think this would be something I love, and I do love the idea of it.
But it was a Yeah, anyway. Anyone who's done the meditation, you probably know what I mean. All right, E, remote viewing. In addition, the energy bar tool is used as a portal for initiating a follow-up 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 in terms of nonverbal symbols which the right hemisphere of the mind is capable of understanding.
Interesting. We did not do this at the retreat. No remote viewing. Again, that is something that there are like whole retreats dedicated to, but yeah, obviously a very interesting topic and one that I've explored on the channel, but not personally, at least yet.
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 of the nervous and circulatory systems are envisioned 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 the human body is composed of energy. It can
be vitalized and healed through the additive application of additional energy provided that the energy provided I guess there should be a comma that the energy is applied in the appropriate form. Cookin, page 22. Just a few pages left. Uh focus 15, travel into the past.
So, interesting right off the bat. They don't say focus 15 is travel into the past. At the retreat, they refer to it as a I believe like a realm of timelessness where you are beyond time.
So, there is talk of time, but not specifically travel into the past. So, this is interesting. This is something that must have evolved since this was written or they want to diverge from that explanation for some reason, I don't know. 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 Hemi-Sync tapes. Some of the sound is probably merely an intensification of the basic Hemi-Sync frequencies being designed to further modify brain wave 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 in 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 it is extremely
difficult to achieve. Probably less than 5% of all participants in any given Gateway experience actually fully achieve the Focus 15 state during the course of the of the approximately 7 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. Super interesting. Our Focus 15 meditations, to my memory, did not investigate this multi-spoked time wheel thing.
But, this is really cool. And it also, drives home the core idea that you do have to practice these focus levels many, many times to really achieve what they're talking about here. So, useful information.
And now, once again, moving on to focus 21, the future. They, again, at the retreat do not describe focus 21 as the future. They refer to it as a bridge between worlds, which is equally kind of esoteric and cool, but different.
Focus 21. The last and most advanced of all focus states associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the boundaries of space-time, 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. And if you're wondering, okay, so then what is it like to do these techniques if you're not attaining the state? Um, deep relaxation feels like deep meditation. You're definitely on the precipice of waking and sleeping a lot of the time. There are often times like mind's eye qualitative
um visuals coming in. Not on the intensity of like taking a trip to mean or a psychedelic or something, but it's still in that direction. It's very dreamy, it's very relaxed, subtle, with occasional punctuations of things that really uh reveal themselves to you. I'll just leave it at your mind is like this huge M.C. Escher fractal labyrinth, and unless you get in there and really get in the lab, really explore the uh mind
forest, you have no idea what's possible. All right, 31 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 many which make up the Gateway experience is devoted to the technique 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 brain wave 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 threshold where separation is a possibility. To facilitate achieving the out of body state, Bob Monroe, the founder of the Monroe Institute, is quoted in a recent magazine article saying that in order to assist the participant, the particular Hemi-Sync tape concerned with that technique employs beta signals of around
2,877.3 CPS cycles per second. Since 30 to 40 CPS is considered to be the normal range for beta brain wave signals, those associated with the wakeful state. It is apparent that the Monroe Institute is convinced that the same heightened state of brain wave frequency output which promotes altered states of consciousness is also an important consideration in assisting in 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 the rigid head first manner such that he finds himself standing at attention at the foot of his physical body and sliding out through either end of his body.
Yep. Going out of body, as out there as it sounds, um it is possible. It did happen to me. It's not because I'm some you know, deeply qualified person who really earned it. Ever since it's happened, I've been saying it's sort of like I slipped on a banana peel into the state. Was I doing tons of meditation? Yes. Was I playing with the borders of my consciousness and wakefulness and you know, all of the things that are being talked about in
this? Yes, I was. Did I achieve the out of body state purposefully and through deliberate effort? No, it just kind of happened. Um I won't go into that whole story now. Again, watch the same video that I've been referring to if you want to see everything that led up to it and what happened. All right, 32 roll of REM sleep. This one's a chunk.
It is interesting to note that Bob Monroe informed the Gateway class that finished on the 7th of 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 to a rapid eye movement state of sleep and then use of 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 hemisphere of the brain. 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 the residual memory of having naturally
achieved the out-of-body state is carried into the waking state. Again, 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 the 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