Gateway Project - Key Techniques

Summary
The most promising approach suggested in the foregoing study involves
the following steps:

A. Begin by using the Gateway Hemi-sync tapes to achieve enhanced brain focus
and to induce hemisphere synchronization.
B. Then add strong REM sleep frequencies to induce left brain quiescence and
deep physical relaxation.
c. Provide hypnotic suggestion designed to enable an individual to induce
deep autohypnotic state at will.
D. Use autohypnotic suggestion to attain much enhanced focus of concentration
and motivation in rapidly progressing through Focus 12 exercises.
E. Then repeat steps A and B following use of the autohypnotic suggestion
that an out-of-body movement will occur and be remembered.
F. Repeat step E to achieve facility in gaining out-of-body state under
conscious control. Alter hypnotic suggestion to stress ability to consciously
control out-of-body movement and maintain it even after REM sleep state ends.
G. Approach Focus 15 and 21 objectives(escape from time-space and interact
within new dimensions) from the out-of-body perspective.
H. Use multi-focus approach to solve problem of distortion in terrestrial
information gathering trips. This approach involves the use of three individuals
in the out-of-body state, one viewing the target object here, in time-space, one
viewing it at Focus 15 as it slips into the immediate past, and one viewing it at
Focus 21 as it slips from the immediate future. Debrief all three and compare data
gathered from the three points of view. If care is taken to insure that the three
all go out-of-body together, in the same environment, their consciousness energy
systems should resonate in sympathetic oscillation. They can tune in to the same
target on different planes(dimensions) with greater effectiveness.
I. Encourage pursuit of full self knowledge by all individuals involved in
the foregoing experiments to enhance objectivity in out-of-body observation and
thinking, and to remove personal energy blockages likely to retard rapid progress.
J. Be intellectually prepared to react to possible encounters wi th·~
intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded.
K. Arrange to have groups of people in Focus 12 state unite their altered
consciousness to build holographic patterns around sensitive areas to repulse
possible unwanted out-of-body presences.
L. Encourage more advanced Gateway participants to build holographic patterns
of successful attainment and rapid progress for advanced colleagues to assist them
in progressing through the Gateway system.

Techniques

Hemi-Sync Introduced.
After that, he is exposed for the first time to the Hemi-Sync sound frequencies, and is
encouraged to focus on and develop a perception of and appreciation for those feelings
which accompany the synchronization of brainwaves that results.

Next comes the technique of progressive and systematic physical relaxation while the Hemi-
sync frequencies are expanded to include additional forms of "pink and white" noise
designed to put the physical body at the virtual threshhold of sleep as well as to calm the
left hemisphere of the mind while raising the right hemisphere to a state of heightened
attentiveness.

Once all of this is achieved, the participant is invited to envisage creation of an "energy
balloon" comprised of an energy flow beginning at the center of the top of the head and
extending down in all directions to the feet. The energy involved in this flow then proceeds
up through the body and back out into the balloon pattern again. The "energy balloon",
which sets up a pattern very reminiscent of the cosmic egg discussed earlier, not only
enhances bodily energy flow and encourages early achievement of a suitable resonant state
but it is also designed to provide protection against conscious entities possessing lower
energy levels which the participant might encounter in the event that he achieves an out-of-
body,state.

It serves a precautionary purpose in the unlikely event that the participant's

first out-of-body experience involves direct projection outside the terrestrial
sphere.

Advanced Techniques.
Having reached Focus 10, the participant is now ready to endeavor to achieve a state of
sufficiently expanded awareness to begin actually interacting with dimensions beyond those
associated with his experience of physical reality. This state is called Focus 12 and involves
conscious efforts on his part while additional forms of "pink and white noise" enter the
sound stream being directed into his ears from the Gateway tape. Once the participant has
achieved this state of greatly expanded awareness, he is ready to begin employing a series of
specific techniques or "tools" as the Monroe Institute characterizes them which enable him
to manipulate his newly found expanded awareness to obtain practical, useful feedback of
value for promoting self-discovery and personal growth. The
specific techniques involved are described individually below.

Problem Solving.
This technique involves identifying fundamental problems which the individual wishes to see
solved, filling his expanded awareness with his perception of these problems and then
projecting them out into the universe. In this way, the individual enlists the assistance of
what Monroe Institute~calls his "higher self", in other words his expanded consciousness, to
interact with the universal hologram to obtain the information required to solve the problem.
This approach may be used to solve personal difficulties, t~chnical problems in the realm of
physics, mathmatics, etc., practical administrative problems. and so on.
Responses to the problem solving technique may be received almost immediately, butoften
they come based on developing intuition over the next two to three days.
Frequently the response comes in the form of a sudden, holistic perception in which
the individual suddenly finds that he simply knows the answer in all of its refications and
completely in context, sometimes without even being able to put his newly found
perception into words, at least initially. In some cases, the response may even arrive in the
form of visual symbols which the individual will"see" with his mind while he is in the Focus
12 state and which he will have to interpret after he returns to normal consciousness.

Patterning.
This technique involves use of the consciousness to achieve desired objectives in the
physical, emotional, or intellectual sphere. It involves concentration on the desired objective
while in a Focus 12 state, extension of the individual's perception of that objective into the
whole expanded consciousness,and its projection into the universe with the intention that
the desired objective is already a matter of established achievement which is destined to be
realized within the time frame specified. This particular methodology is based on the belief
that the thought patterns generated by our consciousness in a state of expanded awareness
create holograms which represent the situation we desire to bring about and, in so doing,
establish the basis for actual realization of that goal. Once the thought-generated hologram
of the sought after objective is established in the universe it becomes an aspect of reality
which interacts with the universal hologram to bring about the desired objective which
might not, under other circumstances, ever occur. In other words, the technique of
patterning ecognizes the fact that since consciousness is the source of all reality, our
thoughts have the power to influence the development of reality in time-space as it applies
to us if those thoughts can be projected with adequate intensity. However, the more
complicated the objective sought and the more radically it departs from our current reality,
the more time the universal hologram will need to reorient our reality sphere to accomodate
our desires.

Monroe trainers caution against attempting to force the pace of this process because the
individual could succeed in dislocating his existing reality with drastic consequences.

Color Breathing.
The next technique is called color breathing and is designed to use the expanded awareness
and highly focused attentiveness associated with the Focus l2 state to imagine various colors
in a particularly intense and vivid manner so as to use them to resonate with and in turn to
activate the body's own energies. Fundamentally, in terms of practical application it is a
healing technique which is designed to restore the body and to enhance its physical
capabilities by balancing, revitalizing and retuning bodily energy flows. It is predicated on
the principle that the body's electromagnetic field is capable of altering its resonance
pattern so as to entrain energy from the earth's electrostatic field for its own use. The
various colors envisaged in the imagination as part of the technique cue the mind as to
which frequencies and what specific amplitudes are desired in connection with this
entrainment and the subsequent alterations in bodily energy flow patterns. That color has
the capacity to affect the human mind is well known, and the affectuality of color in certain
kinds of healing is a demonstrable fact. For example, application of an intense blue light to
an area of physical tumescence leads to relatively rapid and easily observable reduction in
the swelling while red, and to a lesser extent, yellow have quite the opposite effect. However,
in the Hemi-Sync application of the~technique external light sources are not involved but,
rather, the mind is the sole agent of the healing and revitalization.
Energy Bar Tool.
Magic wands and enchanted sceptors have been part of the folklore and occult practices of
many cultures. The scepters, staffs and maces carried by monarchs and high priests alike
occur with such frequency in the history of bygone eras as to suggest that at the very least
these items are aspects of some type of archtypical symbol which the human mind seems to
appreciate, perhaps quite subliminally. In any case, the energy bar tool technique involves
envisaging a small, intensely pulsating dot of light which the participant charges in his
imagination with enormous energy until it is virtually pulsating. The participant then
extrudes the dot into the shape of a sparkling, vibrating cylinder of energy which he then
uses to channel force from the universe to selected parts of his body for purposes of healing
and revitalization.

Remote Viewing.
In addition, the energy bar tool is used as a portal for initiating a follow-on technique called
"remote viewing." In this context, the participant turns his bar of energy into a whirling
vortex through which he sends his imagination in search of new and illuminating insights.
The apparent purpose of the symbolism involved in the vortex seems to be to cue the
subconscious and convey to it instructions as to what the participant wishes to do but in
terms of nonverbal symbols which the right hemisphere of the mind is capable of
understanding.

Living Body Map.

This technique provides amplification for application of the energy bar tool as a means of
healing specific areas or systems of the human body. The configuration of the participant's
body is imagined and then the various major systems such as the nervous and circulatory
systems are envisaged in appropriate colors within the confines of the outline being held in
the imagination. The energy bar tool is then applied to energizing, balancing and healing in
whatever manner the participant desires. In the process, the participant visualizes various
streams of colored energy flowing out of the tool into the organ system or area upon which
the revitalizing or healing application is being made. Since colors are the result of differing
wavelengths of light, which is to say energy at various frequencies, this technique operates
on the assumption that as the human body is composed of energy it can be vitalized and
healed through the additive application of additional energy provided that the energy is
applied in the appropriate form.

Travel into the Past.

All of the preceding techniques are conducted at the level of expanded awareness known as
Focus 12. However, the technique of time travel into the past involves further expansion of
consciousness through the inclusion of additional levels of sound on the Hemi-Sync tapes.
Some of the sound is probably merely an intensification of the basic Hemi-Sync frequencies,
being designed to further mOdify brainwave frequency and amplitude. other aspects of the
added sound patterns appear to be designed to provide subtle, almost subliminal
suggestions to the mind as to what is desired by way of further expanded consciousness so
as to support the verbal suggestions and instructions also contained on the tape. Even the
instructions are highly symbolic, with time being visualized as a huge wheel in the universe
with various spokes each of which gives access to a different part of the participant's past.
Focus 15 is a very advanced state and is extremely difficult to achieve. probably less than
five percent of all participants in any given Gateway Experience actually fully achieve the
Focus 15 state during the course of the approximately seven days of training. Nonetheless,
Monroe Institute trainers affirm that with enough practice,~eventually Focus 15 can be
achieved. They also state that not only the individual's past history is available for
examination by one who has achieved Focus 15 but other aspects of the past with which the
individual himself has had no connection may also be accessed.

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. Except in unusual circumstances, it is probably
not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through long application of
meditation or by those who have practiced long and hard through use of the Hemi-Sync
tapes for a period of months if not years.

The Out-of-Body Movement.

This remarkable phenomenon has been saved for discussion in detail until last because of
the interest which it occasions and special circumstances involved in its attainment. Monroe
Institute stresses that the Gateway program was not established solely for the purpose of
enabling participants to obtain the out-of-body state nor does the program guarantee that
most participants will succeed in doing it during the course of the training at the Institute.
Only one tape out of the many which make up the Gateway Experience is devoted to the
techniques involved in the out-of-body movement. Basically, these techniques are merely
designed to make it easier for the individual to achieve the out-of-body state when his
brainwave pattern and personal energy levels have reached a point that he is in apparent
harmony with his surrounding electromagnetic environment such that he feels that he has
reached the threshhold where separation is a possibility. To facilitate achieving the out-of-
body state, Bob Monroe, the founder of Monroe Institute, is quoted in a recent magazine
article as saying that in order to assist the participant the particular Hemi-sync tape
concerned with that technique employs Beta signals of "around 2877.3 CPS."(cycles per
second).
Since 30 to 40 CPS is considered to be the normal range for Beta brainwave
signals(those associated with the wakeful state), it is apparent that the Monroe
Institute is convinced that the same heightened state of brainwave frequency output which
promotes altered states of consciousness is also an important consideration in assisting in
achievement of out-of-body states. The actual techniques employed for separating from the
body involve such simple maneuvers as rolling out, lifting out after the fashion of a
telephone pole wherein the individual separates in a rigid, headfirst manner(such that he
finds himself standing at attention at the foot of his physical body) and sliding out through
either end of his body.

Role of REM Sleep.

It is interesting to note that Bob Monroe informed the Gateway class that finished 7 May
1983 that an ex-trainer of his operating in Charlottesville, Virginia found that he could
guarantee out-of-body movements by bringing participants down into a rapid eye
movement(REM) state of sleep and then use the Hemi-Sync tape technique. This may well
be a function of the fact that most if not all people reputedly go into an out-of-body state
during REM sleep. REM sleep is the deepest possible level of ordinary sleep and involves
complete disengagement of the body's motor cortex functions from the neck down and
nearly complete suppression of consciousness in the left brain hemisphere. The effect of this
is to put the body in a state of complete stillness so far as the skeletal muscle structure is
concerned, thereby further promoting the state of deep rest needed to eliminate the
bifurcation echo. In addition, it leaves the right hemisphere of the brain free to respond to
the instructions and suggestions contained on the Gateway tape. However, use of the Hemi-
Sync tapes at this point may be less a factor in actually achieving the out-of-body state than
it~is a matter of focusing the brain enough so that a residual memory of having naturally
achieved an out-of-body state is carried into the waking state. Indeed, it may even be
postulated that some dreams associated with deep levels of sleep are in fact functions of the
same kind of altered consciousness involved in interaction with the universe that plays a role
in all of the Focus 12, 15 and 21 states described above. The difference between those states
and the condition of the mind in REM sleep seems to be that the left hemisphere is almost
totally disengaged in the latter experience such that memory of what was achieved in the
altered states of consciousness cannot usually be retrieved by conscious desire because the
left hemisphere has no knowledge of its existence or its location in the right hemisphere.
Admittedly, some people can be trained to remember their REM state dreams through
intense conditioning in the waking state but even that may be more a function of
establishing pathways in the right hemisphere which the left hemisphere can access
following reentry into the wakeful state than it is an indication of any specific left
hemisphere conscious involvement in the process during REM sleep. In any event, the three
apparent conditions required for voluntarily inducing an out-of-body state in most
individuals seems to be: (1) achievement of a state of profound quiet in the body such that
the bifurcation echo fades and resonance at approximately 7 Hertz is established, (2)
synchronization of the two brain hemisphere wave patterns, and (3) subsequent stimulation
of the right hemisphere of the mind to attain a state of heightened alertness(which, of
course, interferes with brain hemisphere synchronization but not until a sufficient level of
enhanced frequency range has first been established to help achieve the out-of-body state).

Information Collection Potential.

The information acquisition potential associated with the out-of-body state seems to attract
the most attention from the standpoint of developing practical applications for the Gateway
technique.
Unfortunately, although the out-of-body state can apparently be achieved by many
people without excessive expenditure of time or effort, the purposes to which it
can be put are currently limited by the fact that although individuals in that state may travel
anywhere on an instantaneous basis in either the terrestrial or in other spheres, information
distortion in the former context remains a major oncern. To date, according to one of the
trainers at Monroe Institute, numerous experiments have been conducted involving persons
moving from one coast to the other in the out-of-body state to read a series of ten computer
generated numbers in a niversity laboratory. Although most have aquired enough of the
digits to make clear that their consciousness was present none have ever succeeded in
getting all ten correct.
This seems to be a function of the fact that physical reality in encounter in an out-of-body
state. There are also energy patterns left by people or events occurring at the same physical
site being viewed, but from the past rather than the present. In addition, since thoughts are
the product of energy patterns, and energy patterns are reality, it may also be possible that
individuals encounter thought forms while in an out-of-body state which mingle with
physical reality and are not easily differentiated. Finally, as Melissa Jager writes, there is
another potential problem area in the sense that holograms can be viewed pseudoscopically,
that is to say inside out or backwards just as well as they can be seen in proper perspective.
Some of the distortions occurring may ultimately prove to be traceable to this cause because
in the out-of-body state an individual may perceive the holographic energy patterns given off
by people or things interacting in time-space reality in a somewhat distorted form

Comparing Techniques
Instead of suppressing the left hemisphere as is done in hypnosis,or largely bypassing and
ignoring it as is done in transcendental meditation, biofeedback teaches the left hemisphere
first to visualize the desired result and then to recognize the feelings associated with the
experience of successful right hemisphere access to the specific lower cerebral, cortex, pain
or pleasure or other areas in the manner needed to produce the desired result.