A sequence the institutional explainer describes as transitional states, recently deceased people, belief-organized environments, and the Park at Focus 27. Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-22-27 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels Focus 23 (F23) · Focus levels In Bruce Moen’s afterlife map, an isolated or confused condition attributed to people who have died. Moen describes inhabitants as unable to move beyond familiar concerns without help. This supplies the setting for many retrieval accounts. The source records an interpretation of experiences, not independently established facts about death. Usage: Bruce Moen, quoted in the archived overview Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-23 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels Focus 24–26 (Focus 24; Focus 25; Focus 26; F24; F25; F26) · Focus levels The group of Focus levels called the Belief System Territories in Bruce Moen’s map. The quoted account describes communities organized around shared afterlife beliefs. It treats 24, 25 and 26 together, so this reference does not invent a separate function for each number. Usage: Bruce Moen, quoted in the archived overview Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-24-26 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels
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Focus 27 (F27) · Focus levels A shared afterlife setting in Monroe-related accounts, described as a place of reception, learning and assistance. The overview’s Moen quotation describes centers for adjustment and continuing development. Lifeline accounts connect it with a park-like reception area. These are reported experiences and interpretations. Usage: Moen’s map and Lifeline participant accounts Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-27 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels; Hemi-Sync® Journal 1994-4 (Fall) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-1994-4-fall Focus 3 (F3; basic Hemi-Sync) · Focus levels The introductory Hemi-Sync state in the archived Focus-level overview. The overview describes this as an initial encounter with Hemi-Sync and associates it with greater mental coherence and balance. It precedes the mind-awake, body-asleep description of Focus 10. Usage: Archived Focus-level overview Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-3 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels Focus 34/35 (Focus 34; Focus 35; F34; F35) · Focus levels The region called the Gathering in the archived Focus-level overview.
The account places it beyond the familiar human frame and describes nonhuman intelligences gathering there. These numbers belong to that reported map; they do not demonstrate contact or identify physical locations. Usage: Archived Focus-level overview Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-34-35 References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels Focus level (focus state; Focus) · Focus levels A numbered signpost for a state of awareness in Monroe’s work. A numbered label used by Monroe and the Monroe Institute for repeatable subjective states or territories associated with particular exercises and experiences; the archive does not support one standardized meaning for every integer. Editorial definition: /terminology#focus-level References: TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels Frequency Following Response (FFR; entrainment) · Research & perception A response that follows a stimulus’s frequency pattern; the Gateway report invokes it to explain how sound might influence brain activity. The report connects this proposed mechanism to its Hemi-Sync explanation. Its broader claims about consciousness do not follow merely from naming a frequency-following response. Focus-level numbers are not frequency measurements. Usage: Mechanism proposed in the 1983 Gateway report Editorial definition: /terminology#frequency-following-response