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what if you could prove to yourself that you're more than your physical body and I don't mean just accepting the idea intellectually I mean experiencing it knowing it as some of you know I did just attend a Gateway experience a Gateway process retreat at the famous Monroe Institute and I really think that experience may have given me that knowing but what does that mean how is that possible what is the almost mythical history behind the Institute
they ties to shadowy intelligence organizations how does it work and how did I and I really can't believe that body so first my friends we need some lore and we're better to start than with the man himself Robert Monroe his just remarkable experiences and his ties to shadowy government agencies and classified projects despite what you might think he was not into the esoteric this is not somebody who was interested in Consciousness or out of body
experiences he wasn't into meditation or psychedelics or even philosophy he was a successful broadcasting executive who began having strange experiences I had been encountering a a phenomenon that was like a vibration in the body and I had gone to my doctor about it and he had said oh that's just nerves and so on and one night I was lying in bed waiting for this vibration to cool down or fade away as it were so that I could simply roll over and go to
sleep because I didn't feel I should go to sleep or couldn't I suddenly uh felt something bumping against my shoulder and I looked and here was this what looked to be the floor bumping against my shoulder and I thought that's strange I don't remember going to sleep and I looked across and I said there's no rug on the floor and there was something sticking up out of the floor that shouldn't be there and trying to perceive what this was I got a real
close look and it was the chandelier and in desperation I realized that I was not bumping against the floor I was bumping against the ceiling and I flopped around in the air and looked down and there below me was the bed and here was my wife in bed and here was a man in bed with my wife oh and my first response is well this is an odd kind of Freudian type dream and I thought well I better get a good look at this man who was in
bed with my wife and with a great shock I discovered that the man in bed with my wife was me and uh then I went through this great emotional surch I don't want to die let me get back in there and so I swam down to the body popped in and how I don't know and then I sat up in bed and looked around everything was quiet and needless to say I did not sleep the rest of that night as terrifying as this experience was Monroe was deeply
intrigued he's able to achieve this outof body State again and again and he begins to experiment he goes on to have hundreds and hundreds of experiences that he meticulously captures in his journal and some of these experiences are wild very ontologically uh recontextualizing he's an other what he calls Energy Systems he's communicating with other consciousnesses other locals as he calls them and on the back of these experiences he eventually writes
his best-selling book Journeys out of the body which is honestly a fantastic really entertaining read highly recommend it skipping ahead just an irresponsible amount this eventually leads to Monroe helping to invent this hemisync technology this sound technology aimed at helping individuals achieve not just an of body state but exploring and expanding Consciousness in general with this technology and with this method this Gateway process in
place Monroe eventually founds the Monroe Institute and with that just incredibly uh kind of nutshell chalk outline of Monroe's story now we can get into one of the most tantalizing bits of this whole story the connections to the why would the intelligence community be interested in this technology and this technique aimed at Consciousness expansion and outof body experiences well in this time the cold war is still raging we're looking at any Edge we can
get over the Soviets we're looking at every possible vulnerability that we have and one of those potential edges in vulnerabilities is psychical in nature and if this is new to you this Is Not Mere lore in 1972 the DIA issued a report underscoring the threat of Soviet psychic spies they feared they could learn the contents of classified documents mold the thoughts of key US military and civilian leaders even cause instant unal living of us officials at a
distance our response to those threats is the now Infamous project Stargate a US Army program based at Fort me run by the defense intelligence agency through a contractor SRI International which investigated the efficacy of psychic spying they found particular success with remote viewing a psychic technique which permits a quote viewer to transcend space and time to view or perceive people places or objects without the viewer being physically
present and as we're about to see this was not a one-off there were numerous projects spanning from the 1970s through the 1990s that went by various Cod names Gonda wish Grill flame and center lane for instance but what does this have to do with Monroe the Monroe Institute and Gateway well as far as I can tell the details and timeline are a bit foggy but it's safe to say Monroe was involved well before the now famous Gateway
process paper that was published in 1983 here he is in 1974 at SRI with remote viewers Russell tar and Pat price so with that in 1983 as an extension of these secret programs we arrive at why intelligence agencies are interested in exploring Monroe and the Gateway process so what actually happened here well in 1983 Army intelligence commissions this now famous paper written by a really fascinating figure Lieutenant Colonel
Wayne McDonald the report explores Monroe's techniques from a multitude of angles scientific practical philosophical even metaphysical in this report McDonald links the practice and Consciousness itself to quantum physics holographic universe theory and yes they say that SpaceTime the way we perceive reality is an illusion a matrix that can be escaped at least to a degree by a trained practitioner of the Gateway method Gateway involves more than just
perception of those aspects of the universal hologram which can be accessed in the dimension of SpaceTime as we know it between the absolute and material Universe in which we experience our physical existence are various intervening Dimensions to which human consciousness in Altered States of being May gain access theoretically human consciousness may continue to expand the horizons of its perceptual capacity until it reaches the dimension of the
absolute at which point perception stops because the absolute generates no Holograms of or about itself and it's worth noting that the report is heavily influenced by the philosophy and science of polymath and autodidactic genius itok bentov and his book stalking the wild pendulum it's still definitely a worthwhile read and while we don't have time to get into his lore and his philosophy fully benof was squaring the circle between science and spirituality
in a really interesting and modern way and it really resonated with the ethos of Robert Monroe because he wanted to approach this phenomena in a way that went beyond the philosophical and metaphysical he wanted it to resonate harmonize with what science is telling us about reality these are people who have expanded perception and hence they can see a reality which ordinary people at this stage of evolution are not able
to see what is the nature of that reality which they're able to see well that is the classified as a non-physical reality sometimes the techniques to do this the Eastern uh people the yogis have developed systems to to do this to push the nervous system rapidly but it happens very often spontaneously without someone trying to do anything about it and just happen and speaking of techniques for expanding Consciousness back to the Gateway paper McDonald takes
this technique seriously he does recommend that the agency go on to study it further and potentially use it with agents and it pains me to just summarize this because this is a really fascinating document we could make multiple videos on this thing read it yourself my friends it will still get your Wonder whiskers popping even after 40 years it does spawn just so many interesting questions clearly this goes Way Beyond psychic spying this report
implies they want to know about Consciousness itself that they want to understand some of the deepest truths about reality and by the way it's really hard to find anything on this guy I can't find a picture I can't find information definitely let me know in the comments if you've seen or found anything about McDonald was the agency trying to understand the nature of Consciousness and the potential Power Of Consciousness more broadly what did they
find out not just in this study but in whatever else they were doing because it's hard to imagine that this was a one-off I have a feeling that they were onto truths too big for them to ignore what if anything did they take away from these studies what did they take away from their work with Monroe are they still using any of these techniques any of this knowledge clearly Lieutenant Colonel McDonald was really interested
and I think it's safe to say that he himself must have really been something of a Seeker based on this report of course I'm not holding my breath on ever finding out what the CIA knows about Consciousness if they and the intelligence community in general are actively using saigh technology or techniques for who knows what nefarious or uh clandestine ends but it doesn't mean questions like that don't just live red free in my mind
officially uh Research into Sai phenomena the psychic spy program um this supposedly stopped in the early 90s but we know how these organizations operate they could easily be transferred to other black budget programs change names if this stuff works which it seems like it did to some degree it's hard to believe they wouldn't just do the same thing again change the name Shuffle it into an even darker deeper part of a
black budget program and to thicken this plot even more some whistleblowers and participants like Ango Swan like Joe mcmonagle we don't have time to get really into their lore but these are key participants key figures in the remote viewing programs that the intelligence agencies were doing they openly say that their work revealed realities about human consciousness that were not fully disclosed and on the note of Joe MCM
monagle again unfortunately we can't get too deep into his lore but he's known as probably the greatest living remote viewer he was involved in these programs personally he claims that they had massive wins and that a skilled remote viewer can be highly accurate and highly valuable so when I got to Sri I did uh six remote viewings and uh out of the the six room viewings five of them were first place matches uh Ed May Dr May told me that it
was like very easy to match my remot viewings so what's a first place matching uh what does that mean well there's four places first place through fourth place fourth place is no similarity to the Target at all uh third place maybe 20% similarities which is Chance second place is uh produced uh some valuable information but it's is not good enough to say it's actually the Target first place no doubt that's the Target and it's practically drawn and in