Bruce Moen: “Within Focus 22 we often find those perhaps still physically alive who are in an unconscious state. These include people in comas, in drug-induced states, who are dreaming, who are insane or deranged. This is a very chaotic level.” (TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels — TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf, 2012) Robert Monroe: “That's—that's as good a definition as any. What we call Focus 22 is that—is that tunnel.” (Art Bell, Dr. Robert Monroe & Skip Atwater - Out of Body Experience - Black Screen - Interview Only, 2025-07-15) Robert Monroe: “When people were in past Focus 15, it was nothing so much [as] like walking through a morgue, because there was no breathing that you can detect. Absolute immobility. … This is the weird thing, is that they are responding even in that particular deep, deep state, very similar to a coma, for example.” (Robert A. Monroe - Lecture Series — Lecture Series 1 & 2 (Raw footage from VHS) (Transcript).pdf) “In fact, these levels are far less easily identifiable than you may assume, nor is it [an] area of a purely shared reality between inhabitants, and it is possible to meet various aspects of your own consciousness.” (TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels — TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf, 2012)
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Focus 22: outside ordinary waking awareness
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Bruce Moen: “In Focus 23, the human inhabitants tend to be those no longer physically alive who have become "stuck" for one reason or another. Often, they are confused about or unaware of their death.” (TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels — TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf, 2012) Treat the wording as historical, not clinical Moen's list includes drug-induced states and people described as insane or deranged. That is an explorer's shorthand inside a spiritual map, not diagnostic vocabulary, and it says nothing about what is happening to any actual person. Do not use focus numbers to label someone's medical condition or to guess at their awareness. If someone you know is unconscious or seriously ill The focus map offers one tradition's language and no information about your person. Questions about their condition, awareness or care belong with their clinical team. The Institute's Lifeline page tells anyone with a history of seizures, auditory disorders or adverse mental health conditions to consult a physician before listening to its audio. Keep the numbering systems apart
Compiled Explorer-series transcripts include a communicating entity's own numbered levels, with plants, animals and humans on successive ranges. In that scheme Levels 22 through 28 are called a bridge entered at death, and Level 22 is described as a time when the purposes of a life are brought out. Those descriptions differ from the 2012 overview, so do not read them as a second definition of Focus 22. Check which levels a program actually covers The Institute's Lifeline page describes exploring Focus Levels 23 through 27 and does not mention 22, and the overview calls the Gateway Experience a platform for exploring further on your own. A speaker on a paranormal radio show, recalling a television documentary on the Institute's Lifeline program, lists Focus 22 through 25 as the places participants visit, so popular retellings fold 22 in with the afterlife levels. Read a program's own description before assuming which levels it covers. What is and is not established Focus 22 is a label built from explorers' reports. The overview itself says the higher levels are far less easily identifiable than people assume, are not an area of purely shared reality, and can involve meeting various aspects of your own consciousness. Monroe's tunnel remark is a single answer on a call-in show, and the fuller description in the overview is Moen's. Nothing here independently confirms who or what an explorer meets. What is Focus 22?