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?
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The publisher presents the albums as an in-home training series and lists no residential prerequisite. The Gateway Voyage is the Institute's separate residential program, where Monroe gave evening talks and introduced exercises such as Lift Off, and the home albums carry versions of that material. The later albums, Voyager and Union, are based on two other residential programs, Lifeline and Exploration 27. Hemi-Sync Journal articles show therapists, midwives and listeners working with the home albums on their own, so the Voyage is a choice rather than a requirement for using the tapes. What is the difference between Discovery and Threshold? Discovery teaches the state; Threshold teaches what to do in a deeper one. Discovery centers on Focus 10, mind awake, body asleep, with Release and Recharge and Exploration Sleep as applications and Free Flow 10 for unguided time. Threshold moves to Focus 12, which the Institute's materials describe as expanded awareness, and adds the tools: problem solving, patterning, color breathing, the energy bar tool and the living body map. An unsigned 2012 overview puts the whole arrangement this way: the first wave establishes Focus 10, and the later series gradually increase the shift away from the physical.
References: Gateway Experience: publisher’s program guide https://hemi-sync.com/gateway-experience/; Hemi-Sync Journal 1998-1 (Winter) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-1998-1-winter; Hemi-Sync Journal 1992-1 (Winter) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-1992-1-winter; Hemi-Sync Journal 2002-4 (Fall) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-2002-4-fall; TMI Web Resources 2012: An Overview of Focus Levels https://archive.org/details/tmi-web-2012-focus-levels; Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process (1983) https://archive.org/details/1983-analysis-and-assessment-of-gateway-process