Older commentary, including the 1983 Army report, treats Focus 21 as the future. Institute material and the later albums call it the bridge. When an account says Focus 21, check whether it means a view of the future, a meeting place, or a threshold to the levels beyond. What is Focus 21? Focus 21 is the Gateway state Monroe placed at the edge of time-space, the point from which other energy systems can be contacted. The Institute calls it the bridge. A Monroe-voiced meditation sends the listener from Focus 15 through a sequence of colors to the white of Focus 21, a bridge to the energy systems that can allow you to experience other realities. On Art Bell's show an Institute guest described it as a way to visit other non-physical realms, gather information or get in touch with larger parts of yourself. Home listeners meet it on Wave VI, Odyssey. Why is Focus 21 called the bridge? Because it is presented as the meeting place between the physical and non-physical worlds. Scott Taylor calls it the bridge state, where communication can happen between physical and non-physical bodies, with loved ones and with beings who were never physical. Another Institute speaker called it the last vibratory state before you leave the physical universe: non-physical beings lower their vibratory rate, we raise ours, and the two meet there. In Monroe's phasing model it is the edge of time-space, the farthest level earlier Institute programs had reached before the levels added for Lifeline.
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What do people experience at Focus 21? Reports are mostly of settings and meetings. Dr. Eben Alexander described floating off a white marble bridge into mist and coming down into a cafe in a gorge on the last day of his February 2011 Gateway Voyage. Scott Taylor talks about the bridge cafe under a yellow umbrella. One YouTube host who attended a Gateway program describes going to meet a late family member and being intercepted by beings he calls non-human, and calls the bridge one foot in physical reality and one foot past it. All of these are personal accounts, and what appears varies widely. Can I do Focus 21 at home? Yes. Wave VI, Odyssey, includes Intro to Focus 21 and Free Flow Journey in Focus 21, and Wave VII, Voyager, includes more journeys to the bridge. That was not always the case. An Institute guest on Art Bell's show said it seemed most appropriate for people to hear the higher focus levels within programs, and A.J. Honeycutt recalled Monroe saying with a smile that the material was too powerful for the general public. The albums are meant to be used in order, so Focus 10, 12 and 15 come first. Is Focus 21 about seeing the future?
Only in one early description. The 1983 Army assessment titled its section Focus 21: The Future, calling it like Focus 15 but aimed at discovering the future rather than the past, and reachable only after long practice. Monroe's definition and the Institute speakers quoted here say edge of time-space, bridge and other energy systems, and YouTube hosts who went through Gateway programs say they were taught the bridge, not the future. Monroe's definition leaves room for information-gathering, but a view of the future is not the core of the state. What comes after Focus 21? Beyond the bridge lie the levels Monroe developed for the Lifeline program, starting with Focus 22. The publisher says Wave VII journeys to Focus 21 and then Focus 23 through 27, which relate to afterlife states, with the aim of guiding people to a reception center, and its exercises include Intro to Focus 23, 25 and 27, Retrieval and Messages From Beyond. Monroe said the first thing you meet in the non-physical states of being is the belief system territories, where people are drawn to what is familiar and each of the various religions has a belief system.