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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 divert from that explanation for some reason I don't know all of the proceeding 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 hemisync tapes some of the sound is probably merely an intens speci ification of the basic hemisync 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 on 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 seven days of training nonetheless Monroe Institute trainers affirm that with enough practice eventually Focus 15 can be achieved they also state that not only 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 uh investigate this multi-spoked time wheel thing but this is really cool and it also um 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 uh refer to it as a bridge between worlds which is equally kind of esoteric and cool but different Focus 21 the last and most most advanced of all Focus States associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the boundaries of SpaceTime 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 hemisync tape 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 tryptamine or a psychedelic or something but it's still 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
mcer 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 outof 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 outof 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 outof body movement basically these techniques are merely designed to make it easier for the individual to achieve the outof body
State when his brain wave pattern and personal energy levels have reached a point that he is an 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 outof 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
hemisync tape concerned with that 28773 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 height and state of brain wave frequency output which promot Altered States Of Consciousness is also an important consideration in assisting in outof body States the actual techniques employed for
separating from the body involves 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 outof 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 198 three that an ex-trainer of his operating in Charlottesville Virginia found that he could guarantee outof body movements by
bringing participants down to a rapid eye movement state of sleep and then use of the hemisync tape technique this may well be a function of the fact that most if not all people reputedly go into an outof 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 next down a 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 hemisync tapes at this point may be less a factor in
actually achieving the outof body State then it is a matter of focusing the brain enough so that the residual memory of having naturally achieved the outof 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 establishing Pathways in the right hemisphere which the left hemisphere can access following re-entry into the wakeful state then it is an indication of any specific left hemisphere conscious involvement in the process during REM sleep in any event the three
apparent conditions required for voluntarily inducing an outof body state in most individual seems to be one achievement of a state of profound quiet in the body such that the bifurcation Echo Fades and resonance at approximately 7 Hertz is established two synchronization of the two brain hemisphere wave patterns and three subsequent stimulation of the right hemisphere of the mind to attain a state of heightened alertness which of course
interferes with brain hemisphere synchronization but not until a sufficient level of enhanced frequency range has first been established to help achieve outof body State the outof body State all right yes REM sleep deeply seems to be important for going out of body a few quick notes to emphasize and touch on here um yeah Robert Monroe does say um that people go out of body unconsciously often if not every night during really really deep sleep States
um so deep that you have no conscious memory of doing it and you know they also touch on here the importance of basically having the physical body completely shut down so that this other body um or whatever you want to call it is online and that when you try to move the physical body it's not the physical body that moves it's this other body and that's what happened to me like I was in this extraordinarily Vivid so I guess
I'm going into the story now um during the meditation where I slipped into the outof body State I was in an extraordinarily Vivid kind of lucid dream or clicked out state where I felt like I was in this room like I'm just chilling in this meditation you know very relaxed having a really lovely relaxed time nothing particularly strange happening though um and then suddenly I'm just like a finger snaps and I am literally feel like I'm
standing in a room looking out a window and it feels incredibly real incredibly um you know just tactile everything but I realized like no I'm not in this room I'm meditating in the check unit in the bed at Monroe Institute and then my awareness goes back to my physical body I'm fully like okay I'm yeah I'm here I am meditating again but I'm feeling this intense rushing of energy that they that they talk about that Robert Monroe talks
about that's probably been touched down in this paper and you know that intense rushing is almost uncomfortable so I try to move my physical body my physical body doesn't move I feel the separation of the non-physical self come off my body lift off the body it's absolutely surreal it's absolutely just indisputable you know it's not one of those things it's like yeah you know maybe I went out no it's like you got in a car accident it's like
someone slapped you in the face it's as real as anything you can experience I'll leave it at that 33 information collection potential the information acquisition potential associated with the outof body State seems to attract the most attention from the standpoint point of developing practical applications for the Gateway technique unfortunately although the outof body State can apparently be achieved by many people without excessive expenditure of