Bruce Moen: “In Focus 23, the human inhabitants tend to be those no longer physically alive who have become "stuck" for one reason or another. Often, they are confused about or unaware of their death.” (TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels — TMI Web Resources 2012 - An Overview of Focus Levels.pdf, 2012) Treat the wording as historical, not clinical Moen's list includes drug-induced states and people described as insane or deranged. That is an explorer's shorthand inside a spiritual map, not diagnostic vocabulary, and it says nothing about what is happening to any actual person. Do not use focus numbers to label someone's medical condition or to guess at their awareness. If someone you know is unconscious or seriously ill The focus map offers one tradition's language and no information about your person. Questions about their condition, awareness or care belong with their clinical team. The Institute's Lifeline page tells anyone with a history of seizures, auditory disorders or adverse mental health conditions to consult a physician before listening to its audio. Keep the numbering systems apart
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Focus 22: outside ordinary waking awareness
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Compiled Explorer-series transcripts include a communicating entity's own numbered levels, with plants, animals and humans on successive ranges. In that scheme Levels 22 through 28 are called a bridge entered at death, and Level 22 is described as a time when the purposes of a life are brought out. Those descriptions differ from the 2012 overview, so do not read them as a second definition of Focus 22. Check which levels a program actually covers The Institute's Lifeline page describes exploring Focus Levels 23 through 27 and does not mention 22, and the overview calls the Gateway Experience a platform for exploring further on your own. A speaker on a paranormal radio show, recalling a television documentary on the Institute's Lifeline program, lists Focus 22 through 25 as the places participants visit, so popular retellings fold 22 in with the afterlife levels. Read a program's own description before assuming which levels it covers. What is and is not established Focus 22 is a label built from explorers' reports. The overview itself says the higher levels are far less easily identifiable than people assume, are not an area of purely shared reality, and can involve meeting various aspects of your own consciousness. Monroe's tunnel remark is a single answer on a call-in show, and the fuller description in the overview is Moen's. Nothing here independently confirms who or what an explorer meets. What is Focus 22?
In the map used by the Monroe Institute's explorers, Focus 22 is the level where people who are still physically alive but unconscious or in altered conditions are said to be met. Bruce Moen's description, quoted in a 2012 focus-levels overview, lists people in comas, in drug-induced states, who are dreaming, and who are insane or deranged, and calls it a very chaotic level. It sits between Focus 21, the edge of time and space, and Focus 23, where people who have died and become stuck are said to be found. Unlike Focus 10 or Focus 12, it is described mainly by who explorers say they find there, not as a state a listener is trained to enter. Are the people in Focus 22 alive or dead? Alive, in Moen's description, though he hedges with the word perhaps: those perhaps still physically alive who are in an unconscious state. That is exactly what separates Focus 22 from Focus 23. The same overview describes Focus 23's inhabitants as people no longer physically alive who have become stuck, often confused about or unaware of their death and typically isolated from other people. Moen's Focus 22 group is defined by unconsciousness, whether from a coma, drugs or dreaming, rather than by death. The overview adds that the higher levels are far less easily identifiable than people assume. What did Monroe say about Focus 22?