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
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References: (TMI-ARMY Files) 1983 - Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process https://archive.org/details/1983-analysis-and-assessment-of-gateway-process Function command (H-PLUS command; PLUS-FOCUS) · Practice A named cue associated with a particular Human Plus exercise. The archived booklet pairs each exercise with a command and intended application. For example, its attention exercise uses PLUS-FOCUS. These are descriptions of the training system, not evidence that every listed application is effective. Usage: Archived Human Plus exercise booklet Editorial definition: /terminology#function-command References: Human Plus Function Exercises - Complete Booklet https://archive.org/details/hfunction-exercises-complete-booklet Ganzfeld (uniform field) · Research & perception A research setup that presents relatively uniform visual and auditory input. The archived remote-viewing protocols describe a laboratory example using diffuse light and noise. It is a sensory setup used in research, not another name for Hemi-Sync or a numbered Focus level. Usage: Archived comparison of research procedures Editorial definition: /terminology#ganzfeld References: (TMI-ARMY Files) 1984 - Remote Viewing Protocols https://archive.org/details/tmi-army-rv-protocols Gateway Experience (Gateway; Gateway tapes; Gateway audio) · Programs & audio An organized audio-training program for learning and exploring Focus levels.
The archived FAQ describes Gateway Experience as an audio series organized into Waves, and distinguishes it from the facilitated Gateway Voyage program. These related names refer to different formats. Usage: Audio-training series · archived Gateway FAQ Editorial definition: /terminology#gateway References: Gateway Experience Essays https://archive.org/details/monroe-institute-programs-about-gateway-experience-online; TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels; Far Journeys - Robert Monroe (bibliographic reference only) Gateway Voyage (residential Gateway; Gateway residential program) · Programs & audio The Institute’s foundational experiential program, described in the archive as a residential introduction to expanded awareness and practical exploration tools. The archived Institute introduction presents Gateway as the starting program before further courses. Gateway Voyage is the facilitated program; Gateway Experience is the related audio-training series. Historical descriptions of prerequisites and formats should be read in their original period. Usage: Residential program · archived Institute introduction and FAQ Editorial definition: /terminology#gateway-voyage References: Introduction To TMI (Laurie Monroe) https://archive.org/details/introduction-to-tmi-laurie-monroe; Gateway Experience Essays https://archive.org/details/monroe-institute-programs-about-gateway-experience-online