The Gateway waves Gateway's home course is a sequence of albums called waves that leads from Focus 10 to Focus 27. Each wave builds on the tools of the one before. The Gateway Experience, the Monroe Institute's home-study course, is organized into albums called waves. Each wave holds about six Hemi-Sync exercises, and each assumes you have absorbed the tools of the one before, which is why the publisher says the albums must be used in order. Wave I, Discovery, teaches Focus 10, mind awake, body asleep. Wave II, Threshold, adds Focus 12 and tools to use there: problem solving, patterning, color breathing, the energy bar tool and the living body map. From there the course widens. Freedom (Wave III) and Adventure (Wave IV) work in Focus 12 on perceiving and directing energy and on self-directed exploration. Exploring (Wave V) reaches Focus 15, the state the publisher calls no time. Odyssey (Wave VI) goes to Focus 21, and Voyager (Wave VII) runs from Focus 21 through Focus 23, 25 and 27. The publisher now sells the series as eight albums under the title Waves of Change, adding Union, which explores Focus 27 and beyond. Bob Monroe's recorded voice guides the first four albums, and A.J. Honeycutt's voice guides the last four.
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The albums are the home counterpart of the Institute's residential work. In his Gateway Voyage talks Monroe introduced exercises such as Lift Off, and the publisher says Voyager is based on the Lifeline program and Union on Exploration 27. An unsigned 2012 overview of the focus levels, archived with the Institute's web resources, describes the arrangement simply: the first wave establishes Focus 10, and the later series gradually move the listener further from ordinary physical awareness. Wave I, Discovery: Focus 10 and the basic tools Discovery is the foundation. Its exercises are Orientation, Introduction to Focus 10, Advanced Focus 10, Release and Recharge, Exploration Sleep and Free Flow 10. The publisher describes the album as introducing the mind awake, body asleep state and the basic mental tools, and lists Orientation as a Focus 3 exercise. Hemi-Sync Journal articles show how widely the album travels: a 1992 pilot study in experiential psychotherapy used tape two, Introduction to Focus 10, to help clients relax, and a midwife who wrote about birth support in 1996 had first met Hemi-Sync through Discovery. Wave II, Threshold: Focus 12 and its tools
Threshold moves from Focus 10 into Focus 12, the state of expanded awareness, and gives you tools to use there. The exercises are Introduction to Focus 12, Problem Solving, One Month Patterning, Color Breathing, Energy Bar Tool and Living Body Map. The unguided Free Flow 12, which group programs in the Journal pair with Threshold tapes, is listed by the publisher on Adventure, not Threshold. The 1983 Army assessment of the Gateway process describes the same techniques as tools used in Focus 12, along with remote viewing, which the publisher lists on the Freedom album. Patterning has its own page on this site. Wave III, Freedom: perceiving and moving energy According to the publisher, Freedom uses Focus 10 and Focus 12 exercises to teach you to perceive and control your nonphysical energy. The exercises are Lift Off, Remote Viewing, Vectors, Five Questions, Energy Food and First Stage Separation. Monroe described Lift Off plainly in a Gateway Voyage talk: it was not designed to get you out of your body but to give you the feel of the vibrational state he first met in 1958. A 1998 Hemi-Sync Journal guide to tapes by theme lists Five Questions, with Adventure's Five Messages, for readers asking who they are and why they are here. Wave IV, Adventure: directed exploration