Robert Monroe: “Gateway does not guarantee that you will have an out of body experience. Now, of course, I know you, a lot of you perhaps can say, 'Oh, I will have an out of body experience, per se.' Percentage wise, I would say that … 15% of the people who attend a Gateway session have an [out of body] experience during the session.” (Robert A. Monroe - Welcome to Gateway Voyage — Welcome to Gateway Voyage (Transcript).pdf) “Now the room is where we have our check units. Check units are CHEC, which stands for Controlled Holistic Environmental Chamber. Robert Monroe loved acronyms. And the check units have a black-out curtain that are used for two reasons. One is for privacy and the other is to allow you to be in total darkness while you listen to [Hemi-Sync].” (The Monroe Experience - The Monroe Institute and Gateway Voyage (Martin Taylor)) Joseph Felser: “After the introductions, the trainers ceremoniously collected our wristwatches in a strongbox that resembled a treasure chest. From now on, bells would be rung to indicate times for assembling in the white-carpeted room where we would be debriefing tapes or other activities, such as meals or morning exercise. We were to enter into the right-brain zone of No Time as far as possible. Linear, left-brain anxieties were to be minimized as much as possible.” (Magazine Article 2000 (EHE News) My Gateway Experience - Joseph M. Felser — Magazine Article 2000 (EHE News) My Gateway Experience - Joseph M. Felser.pdf, 2000)
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Joseph Felser: “As is customary, the trainers provide some inspirational music in our CHEC unit speakers while we voyagers are attending to emptying our bladders and putting on our ready lights to indicate all systems go. The music, I realize, is the old spiritual, Going Home, which has numerous associations for me. The music itself and the thought of “home” trigger an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, loss, and sadness. Tears flow down my cheeks. I cannot stop sobbing.” (Magazine Article 2000 (EHE News) My Gateway Experience - Joseph M. Felser — Magazine Article 2000 (EHE News) My Gateway Experience - Joseph M. Felser.pdf, 2000) Skip Atwater: “In our four programs that we do here, the later days [in] the programs are about weaning you off of tapes. And we have this famous thing called the non tape exercise, where you go out to your check unit and you put your earphones on and we don't give you a tape to listen to. So that there's this idea that I am not dependent. My exercise isn't on the tape, it's in me. I've just learned with the tape how to get to this place.” (1993 Professional Seminar: F. Holmes ' Skip' Atwater — 1993 Professional Seminar- F. Holmes 'Skip' Atwater (Transcript).pdf, 1993)
“So, people who really were coming to please someone else, some of them had dramatic experiences because they had no expectations. So, they were fully open to whatever occurred. And some, only two, I think, who left the end of the week and they said, you know, 'I never got out of my left brain. Nothing happened.' And with them, I checked with them later and found that even though they did not feel they had seen angels or touched God or had these incredible magnificent luminous experiences, they felt that their life was calmer, that they were happier.” (How the Gateway Voyage Can Transform You) Robert Monroe: “What we do in Gateway is we put a beacon, signpost, guideposts [there]; we call that Focus 10. We then, in turn, help [your] consciousness consciously, willfully move from here to Focus [10] and back and forth, back and forth, until going in, being in Focus 10 and returning is as well known as your path of getting up and getting out of bed or going to the bathroom in your own home. It's that simple, and that prosaic, and the boredom of that knowledge of getting from there to there, you feel tremendously safe.” (Robert A. Monroe GATEWAY VOYAGE Talks - Saturday Nights — 1988-09-17 Saturday Night GATEWAY Talk (Transcript).pdf) Expect a group process