The publisher's current edition adds an eighth album, Union, based on the Institute's Exploration 27 program. It describes a journey beyond time and space through the infinite space of Focus 27 and areas outside the Earth life system. Union is the one album with eight exercises: Special Tour, Meeting the Entry Director, Educational Opportunities, Healing and Regeneration Center, The Planning Center, Coordination Area, Inner Earth and The Absolute. How the waves build on each other The structure is a ladder of Focus levels: Focus 10 in Discovery, Focus 12 in Threshold through Adventure, Focus 15 in Exploring, Focus 21 in Odyssey and Focus 23 to 27 in Voyager and Union. The publisher states the rule directly: the albums are meant to be used in order because each builds on the tools and techniques of those before. A facilitator at a 1993 Institute seminar gave a small example, saying participants got less from Color Breathing and the Living Body Map if they had not first reached Focus 12. “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.” (TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels — TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf, 2012)
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Robert Monroe: “Tonight you're going to do an exercise called Lift Off. And this particular exercise is not designed to help you get out of your body, but to get you the feel of what happened to me back in 1958.” (Robert A. Monroe GATEWAY VOYAGE Talks - Monday Nights — 1987-01 Monday Night GATEWAY Talk (Transcript).pdf) Robert Monroe: “Gateway helps you explore the borders, the edges of human consciousness, as we know it. The tools we provide, again, help you do and perform that exploration.” (Robert A. Monroe - Welcome to Gateway Voyage — Welcome to Gateway Voyage (Transcript).pdf) Joseph Felser: “Part of me cringes at the thought. Am I afraid of hearing something? Is that “something” my own [inveterately] self-critical voice? Or is it rather that I'm afraid of hearing nothing at all—that I'll discover there's only emptiness inside, the same silence that we are supposedly cultivating this morning on the outside. I'm not a little apprehensive. As the exercise begins, I can feel myself flinch, as if ducking a feigned punch, as I invite messages from my unnamed source.” (Magazine Article 2000 (EHE News) My Gateway Experience - Joseph M. Felser — Magazine Article 2000 (EHE News) My Gateway Experience - Joseph M. Felser.pdf, 2000)
“More recently, my work while reabsorbing identity has extended into explorations in Locale II, Focus 21 and 27 (Gateway Experience, Wave VII, Free-Flow 21, and Lifeline).” (Hemi-Sync® Journal 2002-4 (Fall) — 1 Hemi-Sync® Journal 2002-4 Fall.pdf, 2002) “I think that they do not get as much out of Living Body Map and Color Breathing if they don't get into Focus 12. And one, it is a beautiful experience with these people to have them go, 'Oh my gosh, there is more than my physical body.' It's a really interesting event to be with them.” (1993 Professional Seminar: Walking the AIDS Circle - Healing Through Hemi-Sync® (Barbara Bullard, Kat Carroll) — 1993 Professional Seminar- Walking the AIDS Circle - Healing Through Hemi-Sync® (Barbara Bullard, Kat Carroll) (Transcript).pdf, 1993) Use the waves in order, and repeat exercises The publisher's rule is that the albums be used sequentially, and the structure supports it: Introduction to Focus 12 comes before the tools that depend on Focus 12, and Intro to Focus 15 before the Focus 15 exercises. Repetition is normal. A group program described in the Hemi-Sync Journal in 1994, for example, encouraged participants to keep using Release and Recharge, Exploration Sleep, Problem Solving and One Month Patterning on their own over the following weeks and to record their insights. Names, numbers and track lists differ between sources