The wave descriptions come from the publisher, the Institute and participants. The retrieval, messages and contact exercises in Voyager and Union concern reported nonphysical contact, which the Institute presents as exploration rather than demonstrated fact. Hemi-Sync Journal articles that use single exercises in therapy and counseling are case reports, not controlled trials, and nothing in these sources promises a particular result from any wave. Health and listening basics The publisher advises consulting a medical professional before starting if you have any medical condition, a tendency toward seizures, an auditory disorder or an adverse mental condition, or if you take medication that affects your ability to relax. Hemi-Sync uses binaural beats, so use stereo headphones, and never listen while driving or doing anything that needs your full attention. What are the Gateway Experience waves?
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The Gateway waves
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The Gateway Experience is the Monroe Institute's in-home course, and its albums are called waves. Wave I, Discovery, teaches Focus 10. Wave II, Threshold, adds Focus 12 and tools such as problem solving and patterning. Wave III, Freedom, covers perceiving and moving energy, including Lift Off and Remote Viewing. Wave IV, Adventure, is self-directed exploration with One Year Patterning and Five Messages. Wave V, Exploring, introduces Focus 15 and intuition. Wave VI, Odyssey, works in Focus 21. Wave VII, Voyager, runs from Focus 21 to Focus 27 and is based on the Lifeline program. The publisher also lists an eighth album, Union, based on Exploration 27. Each album holds about six exercises and builds on the one before. In what order should I use the Gateway albums? In order, starting with Discovery. The publisher states that the albums must be used sequentially because each builds on the tools and techniques of the previous ones. Inside Discovery, begin with Orientation and spend time with Introduction to Focus 10 and Advanced Focus 10 before moving on, since everything later starts from that state. Within Threshold, take Introduction to Focus 12 before the tools: a facilitator at a 1993 Institute seminar said participants got less out of Color Breathing and the Living Body Map when they had not reached Focus 12 first. The publisher gives no schedule, so how long to stay with each exercise is your call. Which wave teaches patterning, remote viewing and the out-of-body feel?
Patterning first appears in Threshold as One Month Patterning, returns in Adventure as One Year Patterning, and Exploring includes Mission 15 Creation and Manifestation, which the publisher describes as exploring Focus 15 as a state of creation and manifestation, without calling it patterning. Remote Viewing is an exercise in Freedom, and so are Lift Off and First Stage Separation, the exercises closest to out-of-body territory. Monroe was explicit that Lift Off is not meant to get you out of your body; it gives you the feel of the vibrational state he first met in 1958. Gateway as a whole does not promise an out-of-body experience, and the 1983 assessment noted that only one tape in the course is devoted to that technique. Are there seven Gateway waves or eight? It depends on the source. Hemi-Sync Journal articles in the archive name waves up to Wave VII, though one 2002 article files Focus 21 exercises under Wave VII that the publisher now lists on Odyssey, and a 2012 overview speaks of Wave I followed by Wave II to VI. The publisher's current page lists eight albums, called Waves of Change and numbered Gate 1 to Gate 8, with Union as the eighth. Union is based on the Exploration 27 program, while Voyager is based on Lifeline. If you are buying, count the albums the publisher currently sells; if you are reading older accounts, you may find them naming fewer. Do I need to attend the Gateway Voyage to use the albums?