The Institute's description also introduces I-There consciousness, Monroe's term for an energetic composite of all your personalities and experiences from other lifetimes, and says Focus 27 can serve as a springboard for visiting Focus 34 and 35, the region Monroe called the Gathering. Graduates describe both ends of that range. One participant felt so at home in Focus 27 that, told to return, they reacted with an adamant no way. Another met two personalities in Focus 35 so alien that they would have been terrifying outside the security of an Institute booth, and developed a mutual sense of trust with them over a couple of days. Institute researcher Skip Atwater studied the Healing and Regeneration Center in Focus 27 with 87 experienced participants. The publisher of the Gateway Experience says its album Union, A Journey Beyond Time and Space, is based on Exploration 27, so part of the territory can be approached at home. Everything reported from Focus 27 and beyond is first-person experience, and the researcher who studied it framed the open question himself: is it out there, or is it in here? Where X27 begins: past the Park
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Lifeline brings participants to the Park and its reception center in Focus 27. The Institute says Exploration 27 takes you beyond the Park and Reception Center, which participants will have explored earlier, and into four further Focus 27 areas, the Education Center, the Planning Center, the Healing and Rejuvenation Center and the Coordination Center, which it says participants explore in detail. It describes Focus 27 as a state that opens access to creativity, information, healing and a universal love energy. Who can take it, and how the week runs The Institute lists Exploration 27 as an advanced five-day, six-night residential program. Admission requires an application and approval, and graduation from one of several earlier advanced programs, with Lifeline among them; only one is required. The days run from about 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in morning, afternoon and evening exercise blocks supported by Hemi-Sync audio, with breaks between. Graduates describe listening in individual chambers, which they call CHEC units, with trainers and friends nearby. I-There: Monroe's term for the larger self
The Institute describes I-There consciousness as Bob Monroe's term for an energetic composite of all your personalities and experiences from other lifetimes, and says it is readily available in Focus 27. Participants may, it says, take away insights for their consciousness journey, past, present and future, retrieve historical data, examine artifacts, develop ideas for new creations and connect with nonphysical intelligences. It adds that graduates return with experiences they can anchor in daily life. Focus 34 and 35: the Gathering The Institute says Focus 27 can serve as a springboard for visiting Focus 34 and 35. At the 2000 professional seminar, an Institute speaker introducing Skip Atwater said he speaks to the Beyond Exploration 27 group just when they are exploring those levels, the area Monroe described as the Gathering, and that Atwater concludes there is no separation and that love is the force binding it all. Susan Taylor, an art teacher and Institute outreach trainer, wrote that she went to Exploration 27 anticipating the great adventure of experiencing the Gathering in Focus 35. The Healing and Regeneration Center, the most studied place