(TMI Web Resources – 2012) OVERVIEW OF FOCUS LEVELS The following Focus level descriptions are taken from Monroe Institute literature. Focus 1 (or C1, Full, Physical Waking Consciousness) This is the level of awareness in which most of us spend our normal, waking lives. Because it is the everyday, ordinary reality of the physical world in which we live, C1 changes with life’s experiences. We learn to move beyond this physical level of consciousness using Monroe audio-guidance programs. Focus 3: (Basic Hemi-Sync®) This level is usually one’s first exposure to the concept and technology of Hemi-Sync. Focus 10 (Mind Awake/Body Asleep) This is the level at which the physical body is asleep, but the mind is awake and alert. Consciousness is fully retained without dependence upon signals from the physical body. Conceptual tools are developed that the participant may use to reduce anxiety and tension, for healing, for remote viewing and for establishing resonance with other individuals. In Focus 10, much like the dream state, we learn to think in images rather than in words. Focus 12 (Expanded Awareness) This is a state where conscious awareness is expanded beyond the limits of the physical body. Focus 12 has many different facets, including: exploring nonphysical realities, decision making, problem solving and enhanced creative expression. Focus 15 (No Time)
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The state of "No Time" is a level of consciousness that opens avenues of the mind, which offer vast opportunities for self-exploration beyond the constraints of time and place. Focus 21 (Other Energy Systems) This level offers the opportunity to explore other realities and energy systems beyond what we call time-space-physical-matter. For those unfamiliar with the focus levels a little background is in order. The story goes back to Robert A. Monroe, who began to experience involuntary Out of Body Experiences (OBE) in 1957. These early experiences have been documented in his first book “Journeys out of the body” (Monroe, 1971). It was also during this time that Monroe discovered that sound patterns could induce certain states of consciousness, which eventually led to the creation of the Monroe Institute and patented sound technology called Hemi-Sync. While the early experiences of Monroe were often characterized by a sensation of leaving the body his development took a different turn in later years. Monroe discovered the “quickswitch”, which allowed him to move from one “location” to another in an instant by stretching or reaching out with his consciousness. Eventually, this led Monroe to consider the “second body” to be no more than “local traffic” – mere habit due to the physical experience (Atwater, 2001). Thus, the implicit philosophical background behind ‘phasing’ is that there is no such thing as
“leaving the body” since consciousness is never really ‘in the body’ to begin with. Rather, all experiences which constitute things such as “trance”, “hypnosis”, “altered states”, “meditation”, “OBEs”, and “astral projections” are simply variations on the same theme where consciousness is focused in different ways and in different degrees away from the physical. The term phasing is a metaphor derived from physics, which conceptualizes consciousness as a waveform that can either be aligned or not aligned with physical reality. For example, when we are 100% phased into the physical, we are considered perfectly aligned with normal physical input and waking reality. In Monroe speak, this is called C-1 consciousness or primary phasing. As consciousness moves further away from the physical (and the senses) consciousness is said to phase into other “focus levels”. Achieving various focus levels can be facilitated by tapes or CD’s, which utilize binaural beats to influence brain wave patterns in the person listening to them. These tapes are sold as part of a set of tapes/CDs called The Gateway Experience by the Monroe Institute. In particular, the set of tapes (Wave I) of the Gateway Experience is geared towards establishing the focus 10 state, while subsequent series (Wave II to VI) gradually increase the phase shift away from the physical. The first set of these focus levels (and the focus levels the Gateway Experience pertain to),