The language behind the archive. Explore 95 definitions, from the first Gateway exercises to Explorer accounts and remote-viewing research. Follow the connections, then read the source.
Accounts & ideas
Also: three-dimensional blackness · 3-D blackness
A description of darkness experienced as having depth or space during inward exploration.
Usage: Phasing commentary in the archived overview
Context & sources
The archived overview discusses this in its phasing material, including forum-derived descriptions. It is an experiential phrase, not an official test proving that someone has reached a particular Focus level.
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Also: Absolute
The 1983 Gateway report’s term for a proposed unbounded state beyond ordinary time and space.
Usage: Speculative model in the 1983 Gateway report
Context & sources
The report develops this idea as part of its speculative model of energy and consciousness. Its appearance in an Army document archived by the CIA does not make the model an established result in physics.
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Also: Gateway affirmation · more than my physical body
A statement of purpose or orientation used in Monroe-related practice.
Usage: Journal discussion of practice
Context & sources
The 2000 journal identifies the idea of being more than one’s physical body as a basic affirmation shared across the practices it compares. An affirmation expresses a participant’s starting intention; it is not evidence that the statement has been demonstrated.
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Also: AOL · analysis overlay
Interpretation or guessing added to an impression before it is reported, in remote-viewing discussions.
Usage: Mike Turner’s retrospective session commentary
Context & sources
Mike Turner’s Explorer commentary contrasts observing and reporting with analyzing what an experience must mean. This is his comparison with remote-viewing language, not a verbatim term attributed to the original Explorer speaker.
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Also: BST · belief territories
Afterlife environments said to be shaped by shared beliefs, in Bruce Moen’s descriptions of Focus 24–26.
Usage: Bruce Moen, quoted in the archived overview
Context & sources
Moen contrasts shared communities here with isolation in Focus 23. The term names a feature of his reported map, rather than a judgment about a reader’s beliefs.
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Also: binaural beat stimulation · BBS
A perceived beat associated with presenting slightly different tones separately to the two ears.
Usage: Gateway explanation and archived research abstract
Context & sources
The Gateway report uses a difference-frequency explanation for this audio technique. A 1990 journal abstract reports a study of binaural stimulation and alpha biofeedback. The audio phenomenon and claims about its broader effects should be evaluated separately.
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Also: alpha biofeedback
Using measurements of bodily activity as feedback while learning to influence that activity.
Usage: Archived experimental abstract
Context & sources
The 1990 research abstract describes visual feedback about alpha brainwave activity and compares it with audio stimulation. Biofeedback supplies a measured signal; a participant’s report of a Focus level is a different kind of evidence.
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Also: click out · click-out · memory gap
In exercise reports, a period the participant cannot consciously remember afterward.
Usage: Two distinct uses in the journal and Gateway report
Context & sources
The 1990 journal discusses this as a memory gap and offers state-dependent memory as an explanation. The 1983 Gateway report also uses “clicking out” for a speculative account of moving beyond time and space. These are different uses; a gap in recall alone does not establish either explanation.
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Also: colour breathing
A Gateway visualization that associates vivid colors with intended changes in energy or bodily experience.
Usage: Technique described in the 1983 Gateway report
Context & sources
The 1983 report places it in Focus 12 work and makes claims about balancing and healing. The definition describes the exercise’s imagery and purpose without treating those proposed effects as demonstrated.
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Also: CRV · controlled remote viewing
A structured remote-viewing methodology described in the DIA protocols as developed through SRI-related research.
Usage: DIA protocol terminology
Context & sources
This scan uses the name Coordinate Remote Viewing and says the method was intended to improve repeatability. Controlled remote viewing is included as a lookup variant; it should not silently replace the document’s own wording. The archive item’s date label and the scan’s references to 1993 differ.
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Also: double-blind · blinding
A condition in the DIA protocols where the people in the session with the viewer have no knowledge of the target.
Usage: DIA protocol glossary
Context & sources
The purpose is to prevent target information from being passed through ordinary cues. This describes a control in a particular protocol; a source calling a session double blind is not, by itself, verification that the control was maintained.
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Also: ELS
Monroe’s name for the system of human physical existence and experience, as discussed in the archived philosophical commentary.
Usage: Journal commentary on Monroe’s philosophy
Context & sources
The journal article connects the phrase with learning through human experience and questioning assumptions. It is a term within Monroe’s worldview rather than the name of a scientific model.
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Also: encoding · verbal cue · state recall
Learning a cue intended to recall a previously practiced state or function.
Usage: Human Plus research report
Context & sources
The Human Plus research report uses the Access Channel phrase as its example. Here encoding refers to a learned practice cue, not file compression, encryption or a guaranteed brain response.
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Also: EBT · energy bar
An imagined, concentrated bar of light or energy used as a visualization tool in Gateway exercises.
Usage: Technique described in the 1983 Gateway report
Context & sources
The 1983 report describes building the image from a point of light and directing it toward parts of the imagined body. Its proposed healing effects are claims in the report, not established outcomes of the visualization.
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Also: ECB
An imagined container in which a participant sets aside worries and distractions.
Context & sources
A preparatory visualization used to set aside distracting concerns before an exercise.
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Also: session assessment · target assessment
A written assessment of a remote-viewing report against the intended target or task.
Usage: DIA protocol glossary
Context & sources
The DIA glossary assigns evaluation to different people in training and operational work. This is distinct from simply telling the viewer what the target was, which it calls feedback.
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Also: Exploration twenty-seven
A program centered on further exploration of Focus 27, discussed in archived participant accounts.
Usage: Historical participant account
Context & sources
A 1999 journal contributor describes taking the first Exploration 27 and feeling at home in the Focus 27 experience. The account illustrates the program’s subject and the participant’s response, not a promised experience.
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Also: Explorer program · Explorer tapes
Recorded sessions in which volunteers describe their experiences to a monitor, often Robert Monroe.
Context & sources
Monroe laboratory sessions in which volunteer Explorers reported experiences while monitored; the compiled 1–32 audio and transcript sets are parallel representations that require explicit alignment.
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Also: ERV
A remote-viewing approach intended to prolong fleeting impressions so a participant can notice and report them.
Usage: DIA protocol terminology
Context & sources
The DIA protocols describe trained attention and an altered state as components of this method. ERV names that procedure, not a measured guarantee that the reported impressions identify the target.
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Also: ESP · extra-sensory perception
A label for claimed perception that is not accounted for by known sensory means.
Usage: DIA protocol glossary
Context & sources
The DIA glossary uses ESP as a broad category. Remote viewing is a more specific task and procedure; calling an experience ESP does not rule out ordinary explanations.
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Also: target feedback
Information about the intended target given to the viewer after a session.
Usage: DIA protocol glossary
Context & sources
The DIA protocols distinguish training feedback from operational work, where information may be delayed. Giving feedback after recording impressions helps keep the original report separate from later knowledge.
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Also: C1 · C-1 · F1 · waking consciousness
Ordinary waking awareness of the physical world in the Monroe Focus-level map.
Usage: Archived Focus-level overview
Context & sources
The archived overview uses C1 and Focus 1 for the everyday starting point and return point of exploration. Focus numbers name experiences in this framework; they are not brainwave frequencies.
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Also: F3 · basic Hemi-Sync
The introductory Hemi-Sync state in the archived Focus-level overview.
Usage: Archived Focus-level overview
Context & sources
The overview describes this as an initial encounter with Hemi-Sync and associates it with greater mental coherence and balance. It precedes the mind-awake, body-asleep description of Focus 10.
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Also: mind awake body asleep · F10
Remaining mentally awake while the body is described as asleep.
Context & sources
An operational state described as the body asleep while awareness remains awake and alert.
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Also: F11 · Access Channel · Eleven Access Channel open
A state-recall cue associated with Human Plus exercises in the archived training and research material.
Usage: Human Plus research report
Context & sources
A 1990 journal report describes the spoken Access Channel cue and a recorded brainwave response. This is the Human Plus use of eleven; the report does not establish a universal frequency or an obligatory step between Focus 10 and 12.
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Also: expanded awareness · F12
Awareness described as extending beyond the usual sense of the body.
Context & sources
A Monroe Institute operational state of awareness expanded beyond ordinary physical-sense limits.
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Also: no time · F15
A state described as having no ordinary sense of time.
Context & sources
A state described as outside ordinary time, used for stillness and exploration of memories, patterns, and possibilities.
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Also: bridge state · F21
The described edge between familiar physical experience and other kinds of experience.
Context & sources
The Monroe Institute's described edge or bridge between physical and nonphysical experience.
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Also: F22
In Bruce Moen’s account, a region associated with people who are still physically alive but outside ordinary waking awareness.
Usage: Bruce Moen, quoted in the archived overview
Context & sources
The archived overview quotes Moen on dreaming and other altered or unconscious conditions. This is his experiential map, not a clinical classification or a way to determine another person’s condition.
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Also: Here and There · New Goners · Belief System Territories · the Park
Labels used in accounts of transitional awareness, afterlife experiences and belief-shaped environments.
Context & sources
A sequence the institutional explainer describes as transitional states, recently deceased people, belief-organized environments, and the Park at Focus 27.
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Also: F23
In Bruce Moen’s afterlife map, an isolated or confused condition attributed to people who have died.
Usage: Bruce Moen, quoted in the archived overview
Context & sources
Moen describes inhabitants as unable to move beyond familiar concerns without help. This supplies the setting for many retrieval accounts. The source records an interpretation of experiences, not independently established facts about death.
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Also: Focus 24 · Focus 25 · Focus 26 · F24 · F25 · F26
The group of Focus levels called the Belief System Territories in Bruce Moen’s map.
Usage: Bruce Moen, quoted in the archived overview
Context & sources
The quoted account describes communities organized around shared afterlife beliefs. It treats 24, 25 and 26 together, so this reference does not invent a separate function for each number.
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Also: F27
A shared afterlife setting in Monroe-related accounts, described as a place of reception, learning and assistance.
Usage: Moen’s map and Lifeline participant accounts
Context & sources
The overview’s Moen quotation describes centers for adjustment and continuing development. Lifeline accounts connect it with a park-like reception area. These are reported experiences and interpretations.
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Also: Focus 34 · Focus 35 · F34 · F35
The region called the Gathering in the archived Focus-level overview.
Usage: Archived Focus-level overview
Context & sources
The account places it beyond the familiar human frame and describes nonhuman intelligences gathering there. These numbers belong to that reported map; they do not demonstrate contact or identify physical locations.
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Also: focus state · Focus
A numbered signpost for a state of awareness in Monroe’s work.
Context & sources
A numbered label used by Monroe and the Monroe Institute for repeatable subjective states or territories associated with particular exercises and experiences; the archive does not support one standardized meaning for every integer.
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Also: FFR · entrainment
A response that follows a stimulus’s frequency pattern; the Gateway report invokes it to explain how sound might influence brain activity.
Usage: Mechanism proposed in the 1983 Gateway report
Context & sources
The report connects this proposed mechanism to its Hemi-Sync explanation. Its broader claims about consciousness do not follow merely from naming a frequency-following response. Focus-level numbers are not frequency measurements.
Find more uses in the archive →Definitions are editorial summaries of the archived material. An exercise instruction, a participant’s account and a research hypothesis have different kinds of support. Source notes identify whose usage you are reading. This independent reference is not affiliated with the Monroe Institute.