Lifeline is open only to people who have completed Gateway Voyage, in its residential, virtual or online form, and attendance requires an application and approval. A.J. Honeycutt calls it a graduate workshop: you begin with Gateway Voyage and work upward. The Institute links the Focus 23 to 27 range with the afterlife experience and with contact with people who have made the transition. The route runs from Focus 23 to the Park in Focus 27 Monroe said the aim was to help people become thoroughly familiar with moving from Focus 23, which he placed right after physical death, up to Focus 27. At the top of that range sits the Park. Skip Atwater says Monroe drew the picture of a general welcoming area from his own experiences, from conversations with other people and from the reports of near-death experiencers. Atwater adds that Lifeline lets participants visit territories purportedly experienced after death, including the Healing and Regeneration Center. Retrieval: guiding someone who is stuck
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The Institute calls the central practice soul retrieval or soul rescue. Some people who have died, including those who had a real or near-death experience, may not realize it and may feel confused. Participants learn to make contact and gently guide them toward the Light. Bruce Moen, an author who teaches retrieval workshops, describes escorts who come to offer a better place, and rescues of people killed so abruptly that they never noticed: a woman struck by a car after stepping off a curb, a pilot who, since probably early 1945, was still in his mind diving on an American ship. Retrieving lost parts of yourself The Institute adds that retrievals can include reclaiming lost aspects or fragments of yourself. A Hemi-Sync Journal contributor in 2002 described Lifeline advancing to Focus 23 and 25 and culminating in the retrieval of a part of the self constrained in Focus 23, after which older limiting questions began to dissolve. Moen tells of a psychotherapist who, during an ordinary retrieval exercise, was guided by her helper to bring back the childhood innocence she had spun off. The Park: a way station, designed without dogma
Monroe described the Park as a way station where people cool off from the trauma of dying and decide what to do next. In a Monroe Institute video he said it looked like a park created by human minds before recorded history, and that it is not religiously based at all, simply a place of rest and recuperation. Honeycutt says these environments were designed to be comfortable, without dogma or judgment, so everyone can create their own space within them. Service to the dying: from Lifeline to Going Home A 1994 Hemi-Sync Journal contributor took Lifeline a few months after their mother's death and learned to help those who had left the physical find their way to a parklike reception center in Focus 27. They then gathered a circle of Lifeline graduates, modeled loosely on the Institute's Dolphin Energy Club, willing to help from a distance when people request assistance near the end of life. During that same Lifeline week Monroe unveiled plans for special Hemi-Sync tapes for dying persons and their families, now the Going Home series. The home version: Voyager, based on Lifeline