Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell's 1983 Army assessment titles its section Focus 21: The Future, calling it the last and most advanced Gateway state, like Focus 15 but aimed at the future rather than the past, and probably attainable only after long meditation or sustained work with the tapes. Gateway participants who have read the report note that their programs described Focus 21 as a bridge between worlds, not as the future. Robert Monroe: “Now, from Focus 15, from Focus 15, you're going to move through the colors to the white of Focus 21. The white of Focus 21, which is a bridge to the energy systems. A bridge that can allow you to experience other realities. Move now to a pattern of blue in Focus 15. Beyond the blue. Beyond the blue of 15 to an expanded 15.” (Focus Levels - Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon — Focus Levels- Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon.pdf) “Focus 21, which your caller referred to, we call a bridge to other energy systems, to other non-physical realms where people can perhaps visit or gather information or get in touch with larger parts of themselves, or perhaps some people consider them things outside themselves.” (Art Bell, Dr. Robert Monroe & Skip Atwater - Out of Body Experience - Black Screen - Interview Only, 2025-07-15)
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Scott Taylor: “Focus 21 is the bridge state, that meeting place between the physical and non-physical worlds. And here it's all about communication. It's about now being in a place where communication can happen between physical and non-physical bodies. … We're talking about loved ones, people who have been physical or never have been physical.” (The Relationship Between NDEs and OBEs. Scott Taylor at Monroe Institute) “And Focus 21 is the bridge state. … It's the last vibratory state before you leave this physical universe. And so what happens is that those people who are non-physical, they'll lower their vibratory rate. We raise ours up to the bridge state, and it's here that we can connect. So, we can connect with dead relatives, entities that have never been human.” (How the Gateway Voyage Can Transform You) Eben Alexander: “And because I remember kind of asking on the way in, I just wanted some clue about the path I was on. Implication being that it's right path, wrong path, irrelevant, or something, but I just wanted some clue. And floating off of the white marble bridge at Focus 21 into the mist, and I kind of came down into this cafe dug in the side of the gorge.” (Eben Alexander MD Q&A at TMI Professional Seminar 2012.mp4)
A.J. Honeycutt: “In the old days he, with a smile [in] his eye, he would say, oh, this stuff is too powerful to let out to the general public, and we need to sort of like allow people to listen this in a controlled environment where they have a, you know, a safe structure to listen to it in.” (A.J. Honeycutt Q&A on Bob Monroe and Focus 21-27, 2019-01-07) Wayne M. McDonnell: “Focus 21: The Future. The last and most advanced of all the Focus states associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the boundaries of time-space as in Focus 15 but with attention to discovering the future rather than the past. The individual who has achieved this state has reached a truly advanced level.” ((TMI-ARMY Files) 1983 - Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process — 3 Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process(CIA).pdf, 1983) Robert Monroe: “Well, what you're looking at first of all are the multitude of, when you get into this non-physical area of being, states of being. The first thing you encounter, of course, is what we call the belief system territories, where one is attracted automatically after they exit here by this phasing process because it's something familiar to them. And these are, of course, all of the various religions have a belief system.” (Robert A. Monroe on Exploring Expanded Consciousness) Follow the sequence