The Gateway waves

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.