Exploration 27, or X27, is the Monroe Institute's advanced five-day, six-night residential program for Focus 27, which the Institute says Robert Monroe defined as the area beyond the limits of the Earth Life System. It goes beyond the Park and its reception center, which participants explore earlier, and into four further areas the Institute names the Education Center, the Planning Center, the Healing and Rejuvenation Center and the Coordination Center. The Institute also describes I-There consciousness and optional visits to Focus 34 and 35. Skip Atwater asked 87 experienced graduates what was happening to them as they explored the Healing/Regeneration Center, and other graduates describe everything from feeling at home to meeting alien personalities. How is Exploration 27 different from Lifeline? Lifeline, open to Gateway Voyage graduates, covers Focus 23 through 27 and centers on retrieval and service: helping people who are stuck after death and visiting the Park. Exploration 27 requires an earlier advanced program such as Lifeline and concentrates on Focus 27 itself, going past the Park to four other centers and the I-There, with Focus 34 and 35 as follow-on destinations. The Gateway Experience albums mirror the pairing: Voyager is based on Lifeline and Union on Exploration 27. What do people experience in Focus 27?
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Accounts vary. One participant wrote that Focus 27 felt so much like home that, when instructions came to return, they reacted with an adamant no way. Skip Atwater describes asking a question in the Gathering and being told to look it up in the library in Focus 27. Susan Taylor met two alien personalities in Focus 35 and kept a doorway to them afterward. The Institute says participants can connect with creativity, information and healing, examine artifacts, and invite physical or emotional healing, release or forgiveness at their own choice. These are subjective reports, and the sources do not verify what was encountered. What is the Gathering, and do you go there in Exploration 27? The Gathering is Monroe's name for a region in Focus 34 and 35, which an Institute speaker said in 2000 he described in Far Journeys. The Institute's page presents Focus 27 as the destination of Exploration 27 and says it can serve as a springboard for visiting Focus 34 and 35, so a visit is something participants may do from there rather than the program's main subject. Susan Taylor went to Exploration 27 anticipating the great adventure of experiencing the Gathering and met two personalities there who later gave her a doorway back. What do I need before I can take Exploration 27?
You need to have completed one of the advanced programs the Institute lists as prerequisites, with Lifeline among them; only one is required. Lifeline itself requires Gateway Voyage, in its residential, virtual or online form. You must also submit an application and be approved. The program runs five days and six nights, so check the Institute's page for current requirements, dates and fees. Anyone with a history of seizures, auditory disorders or adverse mental health conditions should consult a physician before listening to Monroe Sound Science. Is there a Gateway Experience album for Exploration 27? Yes. According to its publisher, the Gateway Experience album Union, introduced as A Journey Beyond Time and Space, is based on the Monroe Institute's Exploration 27 program. It contains eight guided exercises, including a special tour of Focus 27, a healing center, and an experience of graduating from the Earth Life System. Union is a way to sample the territory at home; the residential week adds trainers, a group, the four named centers explored in detail, and the program's prerequisites. Far Journeys: At the 2000 professional seminar an Institute speaker credited Monroe's second book with the description of the Gathering in Focus 34 and 35, the region Exploration 27 graduates may visit from Focus 27.