A.J. Honeycutt: “In the old days he, with a smile [in] his eye, he would say, oh, this stuff is too powerful to let out to the general public, and we need to sort of like allow people to listen this in a controlled environment where they have a, you know, a safe structure to listen to it in.” (A.J. Honeycutt Q&A on Bob Monroe and Focus 21-27, 2019-01-07) Wayne M. McDonnell: “Focus 21: The Future. The last and most advanced of all the Focus states associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the boundaries of time-space 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.” ((TMI-ARMY Files) 1983 - Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process — 3 Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process(CIA).pdf, 1983) Robert Monroe: “Well, what you're looking at first of all are the multitude of, when you get into this non-physical area of being, states of being. The first thing you encounter, of course, is what we call the belief system territories, where one is attracted automatically after they exit here by this phasing process because it's something familiar to them. And these are, of course, all of the various religions have a belief system.” (Robert A. Monroe on Exploring Expanded Consciousness) Follow the sequence
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The publisher says the Gateway albums are meant to be used in order, and the 2019 Hemi-Sync Q&A on Wave VII says the same: they do not recommend jumping in. Lifeline, the program Wave VII is built on, is a graduate workshop for people who have first done the Gateway Voyage. Focus 21 arrives on Wave VI, after Focus 10, 12 and 15 have become familiar. Why the Institute once held these tapes back On Art Bell's show an Institute guest said it seemed most appropriate to hear the higher focus levels within programs. Honeycutt, Monroe's stepson, recalled Monroe saying, with a smile, that the material was too powerful for the general public and belonged in a controlled setting with facilitators. Waves VI and VII now reach home listeners, so build your own structure: a quiet time, an unhurried setting, and someone to talk to afterward. Expect settings and stories Accounts of the bridge tend to arrive as places: a cafe, a white marble bridge, a gorge. Some participants keep a personal place they return to; Honeycutt named three of his own, an old farmhouse, an eagle's eyrie and a cave. Record the setting and what happened there, not just the number. Contact reports are reports
People describe meeting deceased relatives, guides or beings they call non-human. Taylor speaks of loved ones and of beings who were never physical; a YouTube host describes being intercepted by a being on the way to see a late family member. These are first-person accounts, and the sources offer no independent confirmation. Note what you were told, whether you could have known it, and what you do with it. Strong emotion is possible Wave VII includes Retrieval and Messages From Beyond, which deal with death and loss. If you are grieving, listen when you are rested, keep a friend or counselor in the picture, and stop if an exercise feels overwhelming. Health caution Focus 21 exercises are awareness practices, not therapy or medical care. With a seizure disorder or a serious mental-health condition, check the publisher's guidance and speak with your clinician before using audio entrainment, and do not change any treatment because of what you experience. What is and is not established Focus 21 is a described state, defined by what practitioners report. Other energy systems and vibratory rates are Monroe's model and trainers' language, not measured categories. The 2012 overview acknowledges controversy about separating Focus 12, 15 and 21, and Honeycutt called Monroe's development of the higher levels incredibly subjective: he listened until he found what he was looking for. Reports of contact have no independent verification. Check which Focus 21 you are reading about