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brain waves, we have found that the tapes encourage the focusing of brain energy. It can be measured with as with a lightbulb 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 brainwave size,
which is a measure of brainwave 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 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 achieving states of consciousness in which we can tap into what did he say? Like the intuitive knowledge that the universe offers.
And now and 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 Yeager 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. Hmm. 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 the more the higher states of consciousness we are able to achieve. I I I really don't understand that point about the it's
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 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.
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 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.
This is an important point here that we definitely should review when I'm done reading this. Since the theta level is associated with sleep, the subject concerned may progress from a fully awake to sleep state provided that he does not consciously resist as the brain strives to entrain its wave frequency output with the one which the person hears.
Since these brainwave frequencies are outside the spectrum of sounds which can be heard in pure form by the human ear, Hemi-Sync must produce them based on another phenomenon known as the brain's capacity for deducing {quote} beat frequencies. If the human brain is exposed to one frequency in the left ear which is 10 hertz below another audible frequency played in the right ear, rather than hearing either of the two audible frequencies, the brain chooses
to {quote} hear the difference between them, the {quote} beat frequency, thus availing itself of the FFR phenomenon. And using the technique of the {quote} beat frequencies, the Gateway system uses Hemi-Sync and other audio techniques employing the FFR phenomenon to introduce a variety of frequencies which are played at a virtually subliminal, marginally audible level.
The objective is to relax the left hemisphere of the brain, place the physical body in a virtual sleep state, and bring the left and right hemispheres into coherence under conditions designed to promote the production of ever higher amplitude and frequency brainwave output.
Audible and perhaps subliminal suggestions by Bob Monroe accompany the various brainwave frequencies uh which are sometimes rolled in together under sounds such as sea surf to mask the sound frequencies where desirable. In this way, Gateway endeavors to provide the subject with the tools by which he may alter his consciousness based on his own volition over time through repetitive use of the tapes so as to access via intuitive means new
categories of information not available to ordinary consciousness. So yeah, this frequency following response is a really important point, a really important part of the theory of how Gateway and also by neural beats in general work. So again, to summarize it, if you want to entrain the brain with a 10 hertz frequency, that is actually not audible. So how do you do that? What you have to do is you create a 10 hertz difference by say
playing 100 hertz in one ear and then 90 hertz in the other ear, and then using this frequency following response uh phenomenon of the brain, you are able to entrain your brain with a non-audible uh brainwave that gets you into a desirable state for meditation basically. And of course, I was laughing because I said I don't think he's uh implanting anything subliminal in the tapes, but it sounds like he's readily admitting to that
being part of it. And again, I know there's going to be some of you that find that to be nefarious out of the gate, but I spent enough time doing these meditations now that I I truly can't detect anything that I would be worried about. Home stretch for this one, my friends. Um role of resonance.
However, brain coherence through entrainment to {quote} beat frequencies introduced via stereo headphones is only part of the reason why the Gateway system works. It is also designed to achieve the physical quietude characteristic of deep transcendental meditative states which brings about a complete alteration of the fundamental resonance pattern associated with the sound associated with the sound frequencies produced by the human body.
Yoga, Zen, or other transcendental meditation, if practiced long enough, will produce a change in the sound frequency with which the human heart resonates throughout the entire body. According to Bentov, this change in resonance results from the elimination of what the medical profession calls the {quote} bifurcation echo so that the sound of the heartbeat can move synchronously up and down the circulatory system in harmonious
resonance approximately seven times a second. Bentov describes the role played by the bifurcation echo as follows. When the left ventricle of the heart ejects blood, the aorta being elastic balloons out just beyond the valve and causes a pressure pulse to travel down along the aorta. When the pressure pulse reaches the bifurcation in the lower abdomen, which is where the aorta forks to go into the two legs, part of the pressure
pulse rebounds and starts traveling up the aorta. If in the meantime the heart ejects more blood and a new pressure pulse is traveling down, these two pressure pulses, pressure points, will eventually collide somewhere along the aorta and produce an interference pattern. End quote.
By placing the body in a sleep-like state, the Gateway tapes achieve the same goal as meditation in that it places the body in such a profoundly relaxed state that the bifurcation echo slowly fades away as the heart lessens the force and frequency with which it pushes blood to the aorta. The result is a regular rhythmic sine wave pattern of sound which echoes throughout the body and rises up into the head in sustained
resonance. The amplitude of the sine wave pattern, when measured with a sensitive seismograph type instrument, is about three times the average of the sound volume produced by the heart when it is operating normally. So this is something I remember reading in Itzhak Bentov's book, this idea of basically creating coherence throughout the body and eliminating this bifurcation noise or whatever the um bifurcation echo.
So again, just to summarize this, by entraining the brain with a binaural signal um and going into deep meditation and getting really relaxed, you bring more resonant coherence to the whole body. You eliminate this interference pattern um that happens at this bifurcation point in the descending aorta where it splits into the legs, and it creates this resonant pattern. Um what does he say that's like seven times?
I'll just read it again. The result is a regular rhythmic sine wave pattern of sound which echoes throughout the body and rises up into the head in a sustained resonance. The amplitude of the sine wave pattern, when measured with a sensitive seismograph instrument, is about three times the average of the sound produced by the heart when it is operating normally.