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)
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“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
The publisher's current page numbers the albums as Gates 1 to 8 and calls the series Waves of Change. Hemi-Sync Journal articles use Roman-numeral waves up to Wave VII, and a 2012 overview refers to Wave II to VI. Track assignments can differ too: a 2002 Journal article files Introduction to Focus 21 and a Focus 21 free flow under Wave VII, while the publisher now lists both on Odyssey, Wave VI. When you compare or buy, trust the track list printed on the album you are holding. Albums and residential programs are not the same thing The Gateway Experience albums are an in-home training series. The Gateway Voyage, Lifeline and Exploration 27 are residential programs at the Institute. The publisher says Voyager and Union are based on Lifeline and Exploration 27, so the albums borrow their subject matter, but the publisher's page lists no residential prerequisite and does not claim the albums replace the programs. Higher waves are not a scoreboard In his welcome talk to a Voyage group, Monroe says Gateway does not guarantee an out-of-body experience, and the 1983 assessment observed that only one tape in the whole course is devoted to out-of-body technique. Read the later waves as new subject matter rather than ranks: energy and perception in Freedom, intuition in Exploring, other energy systems in Odyssey, and the states of Focus 23 to 27 that the publisher ties to the afterlife in Voyager and Union. What is and is not established