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Gateway Experience Manual

Experience; to Know, to Understand; toControl, to Use such greater energies and energy systems as may b ebeneficial and constructive to me and to those who follow

THE GATEWAY EXPERIENCE GUIDANCE MANUAL A GATEWAY TO SELF-EXPLORATION

me. Also, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development, and experience are equal to or

The Gateway Experience is a system of training in

greater than my own. I ask their guidance and protection

personal development. Itis not a form of psychotherapy,

from anyinfluence or any source that might provide me with

philosophy, religion, or medicaldiagnosis/treatment. It is a

less than my stateddesires.

means to acquire knowledge. The application and results

(Note: This Affirmation has evolved over time. On some

thereof are solely the responsibility of the trainee.

Gateway Experiencetapes it may be slightly different from

The Gateway Experience training series is sold for private

the way it is presented here. Both versions will help you

use only.

make the most of your experiences. Remember, it is the

Caution: These tapes must not be used while driving. Use

intent rather than the words themselves that is important.)

only with your doctor's permission if you are taking psychotropic medication or areengaged in therapy. Your

The Gateway Experience is a special version of the

doctor may call our Professional Division withany

Gateway Voyage Program.

questions. Do not use tapes with any indication of epilepsy.

Designed for in-home application, it incorporates methods and techniques of the Gateway, adapted so that you can

The Gateway Affirmation

benefit from it wherever and whenever you so desire.

I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than

Consisting of six exercises on tape cassettes, Discovery is

physical matter, I can perceive that which is greater than

the first album in this course. There are a total of sixalbums

the physical world. Therefore, I deeply desire to Expand, to

(thirty-six tapes) in the Gateway Experience. Sequentially,

the remaining albums are: Threshold, Freedom,

Discovery (Wave I)

Adventure, Exploring, and Prospecting. Each tape and

Encoding Instructions

album contain a specific pattern of training.

Energy Bar Tool (Threshold.#5)

Accordingly, it is very important that you work with them in

Energy Food (Freedom #5)

sequence.

Energy Walks

You can repeat eachexercise until you feel comfortable

Exploration, Sleep (Discovery.#5)

and proficient with its use. Do this,Then move to the next.

Exploring (Wave V)

The sound pattern you will hear on the tapes is a scientific

Far Reaches (Prospecting #6)

process that helps you develop and absorb these Gateway

First-Stage Separation (Freedom #6)

states of consciousness. The Gatewayforms of

Five Messages (Adventure #2)

consciousness show significantly different EEG brain-wave

Five Questions (Freedom #4)

patterns from those of hypnosis subjects. At present, there

Focus 12: Overview

is controversyas to what such patterns truly mean and how

Free Flow Methods of Exploration

to categorize them.

Free Flow 10 (Discovery #6) Free Flow 1 2 (Adventure #3) Freedom (Wave III)

Advanced Focus 10 (Discovery #3)

Gateway Affirmation, The

Adventure (Wave IV)

Gateway Entry

Bio-Body (Prospecting #2)

Gateway Experience, The

Brain Power

Horizons (Exploring #5)

Color Breathing (Threshold #4)

Introduction to Focus 10 (Discovery #2)

Comments from Robert A. Monroe

Introduction to Focus 12 (Threshold #1)

Compoint (Adventure #6)

Liftoff (Freedom #1)

Living Body Map (Threshold #6)

Remote Viewing (Freedom #2)

Metamorphosite (Prospecting #1)

Required Equipment

Mission Day (Exploring #3)

Resonant Energy Balloon (REBAL)

Mission Night (Exploring #4)

Tape-Taking Recommendations

Mission 10 (Exploring #1)

Threshold (Wave II)

Mission 12 (Exploring #2)

Vectors (Freedom #3)

Near Reaches (Prospecting #5)

What can you expect from the Gateway Experience? As

Need Grounding?

much or as little as you put into it. The exercises provide

Null Point (Prospecting #3)

you with a set of tools – how you use them and what you

NVC I (Adventure #4)

do with them is your responsibility. Some

NVC II (Adventure #5)

discoverthemselves for the first time, and thus live more

One-Breath Technique, The

completely, moreconstructively. Others reach levels of

One-Month Patterning (Threshold #3)

awareness so profound that only one such experience is

One-Year Patterning (Adventure #1)

enough for a lifetime. Still others becomeseekers-after-

Orientation (Discovery #1 )

truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily

Out-of-Body Experience

activities. There is one basic promise – that you seriously

Pathways (Exploring #6)

consider the Gateway Affirmation at the least a possibility:

Plus Polarity (Prospecting #4)

that you are more than your physical body, that you can

Preventing and Solving Cassette Problems

and do exist in energy systems that are not limited to time-

Problem Solving (Threshold #2)

space, that you can and do communicate with intelligence

Prospecting (Wave VI)

beyond your physical consciousness – call it what you will.

Questions & Answers Release and Recharge (Discovery #4)

WELCOME!

Brain Power

electrical signal created by bothbrain hemispheres acting

How, then, do we go about using more of our brain power?

and working together.If the 25-hertz signal (above) is one

There is a method and technique that offers much promise

that produces a certain type ofconsciousness, then the

and potential. It can be utilized with relative ease, does not

whole brain – both hemispheres – is focused in a coherent

require years of intensive training, and is not limited to a

state of awareness. Most important, the state of awareness

narrow band of application. It is called HEMI-SYNC, which

can be changed at will by changing the sound pattern. It

is short for hemispheric synchronization.

also can be learned and recreated from memory as

Developed by The Monroe Institute, this process uses

desired.

pulses of sound to create in both brain hemispheres

The Hemi-Sync process already has been tested and

electrical wave forms simultaneouslyequal in frequency

applied in many ways:for better sleep, stress-tension

and amplitude.

reduction, control of pain, accelerated learning, study and

Hemi-Sync takes the process an important additional step.

concentration, enhanced creativity, problem solving, even

Each ear sends its dominant nerve signal to the opposite

for playing a better game of golf. Furthermore, it has been

brain hemisphere, following the X pattern mentioned

one ofthe fundamental reasons for the success of the

earlier. By sending separate sound pulses to each

Gateway Programs. Thesounds you hear during the

ear(using stereo headphones to isolate one ear from the

Gateway Experience exercises are characteristic of this

other), the halves ofthe brain act in unison to „hear” a third

process.

signal, which is the difference in frequencies between the two signals in each ear. For example, if you hear a sound

The Gateway Experience

measuring 100 hertz (cycles per second) in one ear and

As are all Gateway Programs, the Gateway Experience is

another signal of 125 hertz in the other ear, the signal your

dedicated to the

whole brain will „generate” will be 25 hertz. This third signal

exploration and development of human consciousness

is the binaural beat. It is never an actual sound, but an

through a system of

exercises using Hemi-Sync. These exercises assist you to

surprising considering the wide dissemination of Mr.

know and better

Monroe's books and

understand your total self. They are designed so you may

the extensive media coverage of our work in this area. One

learn and

of the

experience profound areas of expanded awareness.

Institute's early goals was to develop and provide a training

Each exercise requires active concentration, volition, and

system in

sometimes

this technique. However, as more sophisticated methods of

courage, as you move by carefully controlled steps from

exploration were

deep relaxation to

developed, it became evident that participants were

those thresholds of consciousness apparently related to

entering discrete (distinct

deep meditation.

and separate) nonordinary states of consciousness. These

These thresholds become Gateways into different forms of

states facilitate a

perception:

great deal more than the OBE.

states of expanded awareness, of freedom. The tapes also

Each individual approaches this internal work with different

provide a

abilities,

structured environment in which you create your own

concepts, and dynamic processes. Each enters this area

experiences, your own

from a different

adventures.

place and goes to a different place. The Institute goal is to

Many who use the Gateway Experience, or participate in

provide

the Institute's

techniques for exploring your full potential and for

programs, are in search of the out-of-body experience

„travelling”; rather

(OBE). This is not

than to provide a destination. In a broad sense, the research has led to a

point where the OBE is far overshadowed by the

One method of perception is to feel differences

development of human

kinesthetically

potential on all levels. In addiction, the Hemi-Sync audio

(sensations that are, or seem to be, physical). Pay

stimulus is not

attention to your body

overpowering and can easily be rejected if it is not in

and feel subtle sensations. These sensations might feel

agreement with

like motion:

your conscious or unconscious desires. For these reasons,

rising and falling, rocking, sliding, and tipping. You might

The Monroe

feel

Institute does not guarantee an OBE. However, Gateways

„electric” sensations: tingling or vibrations. Perhaps you

are provided into

might feel

various levels of awareness.

twitches, pulsing, pressure, or changes in temperature.

Gateway Entry

Ask, „How does my

„Begin now.” Begin where you are, with an easy

foot feel?” rather than, „Is my foot relaxed” Those feelings

acceptance of who you are.

may change

To explore is to observe by discerning differences rather

and shift, come and go; creating subtle patterns which are

than by making

beautiful in

judgments.

and of themselves. And like the surf, never assume that

Assume that the Hemi-Sync audio techniques presented

the frailty of its

by The Monroe

foam is a measure of the ocean's power. In our language,

Institute will create different brain-wave patterns, and there

our concepts are deeply tied to the visual. We honor men

are various

and women of vision, and value insight. Do you see what

ways to perceive these differences within yourself.

we mean? Visual means of perception are important. At the same time, visual perception is often overemphasized

and considered essential to the control and use of energy.

around you. Value and build on your uniqueness: in it is

It's not necessarily so. One can get caught up in the

wholeness and unity.

entertainment value of the visual, and the endless

***WAVE I: DISCOVERY***

fascination of unfolding visualization can blind us to other

The Gateway Experience is a means to your selfdiscovery,

kinds of perception. Visualizations can be incredibly

a Gateway to your choice of an ideal or a destination. The

meaningful. However, an attachment to them can become

ultimate goal of the GatewayExperience is for you to no

a major block to other perceptual cues. An auditory

longer need the tapes. They are like trainingwheels on a

perception may manifest as verbal messages, voices,

bicycle: wonderful for practice, but inhibiting as you learnto

orimpressions of voices. lt may also occur as sounds such

ride far and free. Your journey begins with the Discovery

as static,buzzing, pops and clicks, tones, or even music.

album You will learn through direct experience, discovering

These perceptions have a delicacy, a quality difficult to

that words andtheories are only one way to obtain

convey in physical, waking consciousness(Consciousness

knowledge. As a result, as you performthese exercises,

One or C-1) terms. Too often, we close such beautiful

your experiences will take you beyond what you think

channels that were open to us by discounting our

orwhat you have read, to what you know There may be

impression as unreal rather than allowing them to be

times when you „click-out” of the exercise, especially

legitimate.

asbegin to move up to and beyond your level of

Gateway participants often report intuitive perceptions: a

experience. Clicking-outdifferent from falling asleep. There

suddenawareness, a gestalt, a whole-knowing, or „thought­

is a sense of having dropped out ofthe exercise. Upon

ball” as one persondelightfully described it. There are no

returning to or finishing the exercise, there is noperception

right or wrong ways to experience these exercises.

of time having passed. You will have stored the memory of

Whatever your method(s) of perception, getting deeply into

yourexperience, but will have no immediate recall.

yourself will enable you to appreciate more of that which is

Clicking-out is a common,frequently reported experience As you learn to cooperate with your own inner direction,

the paradoxicalnature of the Gateway itself emerges: your

playing, etc.), simply note the distraction and use it to go

desire to explore intensifiesas you become more willing to

deeper into

release any attachment to results.Expectations limit the

your experience. For example, each time you hear a dog

unknown by what you now know Any conflict between

bark, tell yourself

doing something and being there, or between active and

you are settling deeper within yourself, that the noise is

passive states, is resolved in Focus 10. Doing and being

allowing you to

merge,triggering what we call „synchronicity,” or a

explore further and further.

synergism between thoughtand action, between

Allow at least one hour after eating and avoid alcohol,

imagination and reality, between self and universe In

drugs, or

Focus 10, the serious and playful aspects of selfdiscovery

excessive caffeine, which may limit the effectiveness of the

also merge,effort and fun are no longer in conflict. You

Hemi-Sync

enter a flow. Burdens light.

exercises.

So seriously, have fun!

Get comfortable. Use the bathroom before each exercise,

Tape-Taking Recommendations

even if it seems

Locate a distraction-free environment where you can

unnecessary. Loosen any tight clothing and remove shoes

darken the room and

and glasses (or

remain undisturbed during the thirty to forty-five-minute

contacts). Listen to the tapes while lying down or in a

taped

seated position

exercises. Make sure you will not be interrupted by the

with your head supported, whichever is more comfortable

phone. However, if

for you.

you do experience noise (such as dogs barking, street

Shift positions as necessary, both before and during the

repairs, children

exercise.

If you itch during an exercise, scratch. You will be able to

imbalance).

move gently back into your pattern of relaxation.

Discovery #1: Orientation

There can be a metabolic drop as you enter an exercise,

The tools, exercises, and experiences you will discover or

producing a

each tape in

coolness or chill which can quickly change to a perception

the Discovery album build upon the tools, exercises, and

of heat,

experiences of

motion, or pressure. Have a loose blanket or cover handy,

the previous tape. Indeed, each tape and album in the

ready to pull up

Gateway Experience

or throw off as needed.

builds upon the same features of the previous tapes and

You may wish to keep a journal to document the details of

albums. The more

your experiences

intimate and proficient you become with each tape, the

such as: date/time, body position, medication or unusual

more you will be

diet,

able to explore and master the next tape or album. By

mood/attitude, energy level, moon phase, or any other

carefully and

unusual

patiently using Discovery, you will build a solid foundation

circumstance.

within you

Required Equipment

that will enable you to get the most out of this in-home

Stereo cassette tape player (do not use Dolby or other

training system.

noise-reduction

It is also recommended that you perform each exercise as

systems)

instructed at

Stereo headphones (with separate volume controls if you

least the first time you listen to it. Then, you may choose to

have a hearing

innovate

and do something else. Let your experience during the

Tape-Taking Recommendations on page 17. The following

tape guide you. Stay

sections refer

open to change and flow with your experience. Don't force

directly to processes on this tape: Hemi-Sync

anything. If you

Hemispheric synchronization is demonstrated in a simple

are curious about the content of each tape, you may first

way by placing asteady tone in one ear, then a different

listen to it

steady tone in the other ear. As

objectively, over speakers.

these different tones are blended together in the brain, the

In Discovery, repetition of tapes is advancement. Each

binaural beat

time you listen to

or wavering sound you hear is a brain-produced

a tape, you become stronger, clearer, and more masterful

phenomenon created as bothhemispheres act in unison.

with it. Return

Such signals can stimulate specific states

to basic tapes for reinforcement; doing so will deepen your

ofconsciousness, which are automatically learned and then

experiences

can be recreatedfrom memory.Hemispheric

and is strongly recommended.Various tools are developed

synchronization focuses your attention, thereby

in Discovery to create bridging as one beginsto detect and

enhancingcreativity and problem solving, and providing a

focus the strong energies we call „nonphysical.” These are

greater awareness of your overall environment. Consider

often perceived as electrical or vibratory sensations, as

light waves as an example of the Hemi-Syncprocess.

well as motion,heat, or pressure. These energies can flow

Radiant light sources, such as sunlight or a lamp's

in Focus 10, and can, depending on your choice, influence

tungstenfilament, are incoherent in that energy is produced

physical reality.

with random timing,and focusing directs an irregular

To use these tapes effectively, please familiarize yourself

stream of photons to a specific area. Inturn, the laser (light

with the

amplification by the stimulated emission ofradiation) is

uniquely pure (of the same wavelength) and coherent

headphones again during the tape. Shifts in volume of the

(wavesare in phase or synchronized).

Hemi-Sync

Imagine the implications of our ability to focus

frequencies are intentional. A high volume will not enhance

consciousness using the

the

lamp and laser metaphor: with training in consciousness,

effectiveness of the FFR or masked sound patterns. In

our minds have

fact, it may reduce

the potential to become lamps turned lasers. As a result,

the benefits of the exercise.

our abilities to

Surf

learn, focus our minds, and direct our thoughts are

Ocean surf-waves of natural energy in action is a symbol

automatically

of the Monroe

amplified. Using Hemi-Sync, the specific exercises in the

audio system: you will learn to perceive, tune, and control

Gateway

waves of your

Experience provide a means for laser-like focusing of

own natural vibrational energy. It is important to

human consciousness.

understand that you

Volume Adjustment

will be learning to control your energy better. As a result,

Adjust the volume so that it is just within your hearing

you will be

range. As you

able to attune yourself to, or harmonize with, your

listen to the tape, your senses will become heightened,

environment in more

more sensitized.

varied and meaningful ways than ever before. This will

If the volume is too high, you may feel startled when you

enable you to

hear verbal

establish resonance with, rather than control over, other

instructions during different stages of the exercise. Do not

people and

readjust your

nature.

Energy Conversion Box

or color as you progress. Allow it to change, and use it as a

Create in your mind a „box,” a part of your personal space

symbol of

that, for the

your changes and growth

duration of any exercise, can be filled with all your worries

Put concrete symbols of worries or distractions into your

and

box. For

concerns, and then can be set aside, leaving you free and

example, use your billfold as a symbol for money

unencumbered.

concerns, your watch as a

Create it in your mind, even if you don't see, hear, or feel it.

symbol for time concerns, or a photograph representing

Make it

someone who is on

really yours, so it will work with you by giving you the

your mind. Experiment. Gateway participants have

space to detach

discovered marvelous

yourself from whatever is holding you back.

things to set aside: a tiny version of the physical world with

You may design your own box: perceive it as simple or

themselves

ornate, conventional

outside; lists of limiting words like can't, won't and isn't;

or high-tech, physical or nonphysical. In other words, it

anchors to

may be an old,

both the past and the future; assumptions about both

wood chest or an intricately designed marble container; it

success and failure;

may be a vacuum

symbols of defenses resembling a series of masks.

cleaner or a nuclear particle collector; or it may be a lead-

A man once spent a whole exercise trying to force his box

lined box or

open: he tore at

a sphere of light. You may also find that your box changes

it, pried, and ordered it to open, all to no avail. Baffled, he

in size, shape,

stopped

and confronted his box, and in the sudden knowing of

your entire system. It promotes an accelerated gathering of

Focus 10, he realized

your

force doesn't work, and with one gentle movement, he

vibrational energy while reducing your internal dialogue. In

opened his box.

addition to

You may also want to return to your box during an

preparing you for these exercises, you may use Resonant

exercise. Place whatever

Tuning for

you wish in your box whenever you feel like doing so.

meditation or quieting your thoughts.

Affirmation

What is referred to in this Guidance Manual as nonphysical

The Gateway Affirmation serves several purposes: It helps

energy, Robert

you focus your

Monroe calls second-state energy. This vital energy flows

attention on what you want to accomplish during any

along lines of

exercise. It helps you

force, operating on the principle that our bodies, as well as

focus your intent, thereby enabling you to become more

the

aware of your

universe, function bilaterally, and like batteries, have a

expanding consciousness. It gives you permission to

positive pole,

respond to, and work

and a negative pole. Breathing exercises are a universal

with, other energy and energy systems. Plus, it helps you

method of

stay, relaxed

vitalizing and recharging your „battery,” moving this energy

and open to a variety of helpful influences.

through its

Resonant Tuning

natural channels in and around the body, loosening knots

Resonant Tuning is a breathing exercise to help you

and blockages,

vitalize and charge

and correcting imbalances. Within the tape exercises, this process can

manifest as sudden jerks and twitches, or even as a

Since energy continues to flow, allow the energy to move

sensation resembling

and swirl gently

pain. Odd as it may sound, resistance increases this

around in your head as you hold your breath. Exhale

phenomenon. But by

through your lips as

confronting the experience and allowing it to work itself out,

if you were softly blowing out a candle, releasing any tired,

you will

stale energy

move beyond it.

out through your body and the bottoms of your feet.

During the breathing exercises, follow the pacing on the

Breathing slightly deeper than you normally would is just

tape to the

as effective as

extent that it is comfortable for you. As the Resonant

explosive, championship breaths. Open your eyes as you

Tuning chant begins

inhale, and close

on the tape, continue the same breathing pattern,

them as you exhale. Coordinating your eye movement with

vocalizing with the

your breathing is one way to become aware of your ability

„aaah,” „oooh,” and „uuum” sounds as you exhale. Set

to control autonomic (automatic) behavior. Typically, eye

your own rhythm, yourown pace. Use the sounds on the

blinking and breathing are accomplished without the

tape only as a guide. It is important that you actually make

slightest thought on your part. Now, however, you will plant

the sounds with your physical vocal cords. You will soon

a seed that may grow into a full realization that you can

grow comfortable with this process and you may notice

assume voluntary control over these processes. In other

kinesthetic responses as your body becomes aligned with

words, you can recognize, change, and direct habitual

resonant energy. As you inhale, imagine an infinity of

behavior and reflexes.

sparkling, vibrant, vital energy around you. Pull it into all

Should you relax to the extent you seem to have lost

parts of your body and up into your head.

contact with

everything physical, simply breathe normally and open

Use this exercise after you are completely comfortable with

your eyes, or move

Discovery

the fingers of your right hand, and your entire body will

Exercise Tape #1.

respond and

Focus 10

return to waking, physical consciousness.

In Focus 10, the 10-State your mind remains awake and

Focus 3

alert; your body is

Focus 3 is a signpost on the way to Focus 10, a Hemi-

calmly, deeply, and comfortably asleep.

Sync state where your brain and mind are more coherent,

You will move into this state of total relaxation by first

synchronized, and balanced. You will move to Focus 3 by

moving to Focus

a conventional count of one to three.

3, and then by letting various parts of your face and head

Return to Full Waking Consciousness

progressively

At the end of every tape exercise, you will hear a strong

go limp and relax. This relaxation of your head will then

audio signal

„flow into your

designed to bring you to a state of full, waking

brain,” which will feel and understand such a state, and will

consciousness (C-1 ).

in turn

Despite the temptation to take off your headphones early,

allow such relaxation to flow through your whole body.

listen to this signal until it is withdrawn. It will bring you

Move along with the

completely „back” from the exercise. The more you bring

instructions, successively focusing upon and then totally

yourself back from an exercise, the further you can go into

releasing each

your next exercise.

body part. To „look with your closed eyes” at your foot is a way to view

Discovery #2: Introduction to Focus 10

it objectively, thus creating a sense of detachment. Your body knows how

to do this.

This is the beginning of the Health Affirmation that you will

The count to Focus 10 will continue. From four to ten, at

hear at the

each successive

end of these exercises. It will help you balance your

count you will relax another part of your physical body.

physical and

One of the paradoxes of „body asleep,” or total relaxation,

nonphysical energies. Know that the affirmation is working

and „mind

for you without

awake,” is the possibility of sudden heightened sensitivity:

effort on your part.

hearing the

Countdown

swish of arterial blood flow behind your ears, or feeling the

As you return from the tape exercise, move from the count

pores of

of ten to one,

your skin breathe. Spontaneous remote sensing is another

to full, physical, walking consciousness or Consciousness

possibility in

One (C-1 ).

Focus 10: audio material you would swear was actually on

Encoding (Please see Encoding Instructions on page 77.)

the tape this

Awake and Alert, and Memory.

time, but not last time, or the total presence of faraway, delicate odors.

Discovery #3: Advanced Focus 10

Health Affirmation

Use this exercise after you are completely comfortable with

When you return to full, waking reality, your body will be so

Discovery

equalized as

Exercise #2.

to overcome all those things that might hinder or prevent it

Resonant Energy Balloon (REBAL)

from being

You have recharged and revitalized your energy with

and giving its best mental, spiritual, and physical self...

Resonant Tuning. Now

you will use this energy to create a moving field, a

refined, vibration than yours will have access to your

Resonant Energy

energy field. As

Balloon (REBAL) around you. Create a flow pattern with

such, your REBAL is a shield from energy forms that you

your breath by

may not want to be influenced by at any particular moment.

letting energy flow out of the top or your head like a

The REBAL also acts as a magnet, attracting the

fountain, allowing

influences and guidance from higher energy forms. The

it to continue flowing gently down and around you, and

more you build your REBAL, the more your physical body

then reentering

will be able to sustain higher and higher energy levels, until

your body, through the bottoms of your feet. Then shift the

Focus 10 can become a launch pad from which you will

flow pattern

float or move into other energy states.

into a spiral, winding the energy down around you and

* For the purposes of this Manual, high energy state refers

coiling it back up

to an enhanced

inside you. You will automatically reabsorb this energy at

state of awareness that embraces methods of perception

the end of any

not ordinarily used in physical, waking consciousness.

exercise.

(Please see Gateway .)

Your REBAL is an intensification of your own energy,

While in a high energy state, one has available a broader

helping to create a

range of

high energy state* within and around you. Operating on a

perceptions with which to solve problems, develop

principle of

creativity, obtain

resonance, in accordance with the Gateway Affirmation,

guidance, or simply enjoy greater awareness of, and

your REBAL is like

interaction with, one's internal and external reality.

a sieve or filter: only, energy that is equal to, or of a higher,

A high energy state is not to be confused with

or more

hyperactivity, or excess

energy. Nor is it „higher” in the sense of „better” than any

it while in either C-1 or in Focus 10, much like you would

other state

switch on a

of awareness. It does, however, reflect the expansion and

flashlight; simply by using one resonant energy breath as

integration of

the switch.

personal awareness, enabling one to lead a more fulfilling

Inhale vital energy, and as you hold it, think of a bright

life.

moving circle

Your REBAL may spontaneously assume a different

with the number ten inside it. Let it move down, around,

energy flow form, such as having a delicate membrane, in

and over you as

contrast to being a force field, or

you exhale. You will automatically reabsorb your REBAL,

becoming radiant, like an intensified aura. Since we exist in

or you can choose to draw the circle back into yourself as

our own

you inhale.

energy field, like fish unaware of being in the water, the

Build and rebuild your REBAL, store the energy as you

actual

would in a charged

perception of your REBAL often becomes a function of

battery, then turn it on and use it. Experiment. Extend your

need. Although you

REBAL while

may not always perceive your REBAL, a good exercise is

you are in a group of people and see if its resonance will

to play with

create a

sensing it in some manner. For example, sense it through

response in people like yourself. Discover if doing so

visions,

draws their

feelings, and/or muscle sensations.

attention to you much as striking a tuning fork will activate

You can learn to „pop” your REBAL into place, turning it on

others in

or extending

harmony with it. For another experiment, extend it around your car while

you are driving. Find out if you experience better traffic

emotions. In Focus 10, you can work from an entirely

patterns, or if

different dynamic – a

it helps you find a parking space a little easier.

dynamic that may seem unconventional to some who are well-versed in various theories of psychological systems. That dynamic is

Return to Focus 10

one of energy,

You will count down to C-1 once, and then return to Focus

conversion, which operates on a paradoxical principle long

10 for

used in many

reinforcement of this exercise.

philosophies: you „raise yourself with the help of that which

Encoding

causes you

REBAL, Focus 10, and Return to C-1.

to fail.” Energy conversion is a process that allows you to release

Discovery #4: Release and Recharge

self-imposed

Use this exercise after you are completely comfortable with

limits resulting from the encrustation of fear and associated

tapes 1 through 3.

emotion.

This is an energy conversion exercise designed to clean,

Independent research has shown that when we are born,

balance, and

we have only two innate fears – fear of falling and fear of

revitalize your entire system gently. Use it daily in Focus

loud noises. If all other fears are learned, they can be

10, with or

unlearned. Fear is like pain: useful as a warning signal, but

without the tape.

once acknowledged, it is no longer needed. In the high

In C-1, we use a multitude of processes in order to deal

energy state of Focus 10, you can calmly identify and

with our

gently release fears, blocks, limits – anything that interferes with your growth or progress. You can then

reclaim the clean energy that existed before such limits

Here are some important points to consider: 1) You do not

were in place. Reclaiming the pure, natural energy which is

have to worry

an integral part of you can make you whole.

about, or plan for, what fears or emotions will come up for

You have been putting all your worries, anxieties, and

you when you

concerns in your

open your Energy Conversion Box. Simply open the box

Energy Conversion Box. In this exercise you will be asked

and see what comes up for you. Trust that a larger part of

to go back to

yourself knows what you are ready to

your Energy Conversion Box, open the lid, and perceive

uncover. 2) If you open the box and find nothing, bubble

the first radiation

„nothing” away.

of fear you encounter. You then pull the fear out of the box

The process can be working very effectively on deeper

and move it

levels. In this (or

away from you – allowing it to flow upward and away like a

any other) case, always pull clean energy into you as a

bubble floating

final step. 3)

upward in water. With the fear gone, you will be asked to

Please do not get into a semantic argument with yourself

perceive the

about whether or

emotion the fear covered and release it by bubbling it

not fear is an emotion. That's a trap that can interfere with

away. Free of the

successful

fear and emotion, you will perceive the clean energy that

utilization of this valuable and important exercise. For the

was hidden or

purpose of

covered by the fear and emotion, and be asked to pull that

this exercise, consider the word „fear” to denote the

clean energy

primary emotional

back into your being. This process will be repeated twice.

charge related to a particular self-imposed block or limit and the word

„emotion” to denote associated emotional charges related

of us have many layers of encrustation that hold us back.

to that limit. 4)

But if you

The verbal instructions for the final step suggest that you

deliberately choose to move beyond your limitations, you

perceive, „the

can. It's not

memory, the event that was hidden and covered by the

always easy and may require numerous efforts. Yet using

fear and emotion.”

this process can

You may find that a specific event in your life comes up, or

certainly smooth out a normally difficult path.

you may

By releasing self-imposed limits and recharging with the

discover a memory of what it was like before you

clean, pure

developed the

energy that is naturally yours, you may find a new freedom.

encrustation of fear and emotion that limit your potential.

With such

Here is an example of how the process of energy

freedom comes a new ability to explore and a sense of

conversion can work: You may go to your box and the first

limitless

fear you perceive is the fear of speaking up in groups.

possibilities.

Once you bubble that fear away, you might encounter the

Preparatory Process

emotion of embarrassment. Having released the emotion,

You will move to Focus l0 on your own. To do so, first use

you might perceive how you felt as a small child who was

your Energy

naturally willing to share the wonder of a new discovery

Conversion Box with careful consideration. Then, when the

with other people. You could then recapture, or reclaim,

chanting begins, do your Resonant Tuning. After the

your ability to communicate with and share your wholeness

Resonant Tuning sounds, pop your REBAL, state your

with others.

affirmation, and move to Focus 10.

This process is not intended to be a quick-fix or one-shot panacea. Most

Energy Conversion

Open your box and perceive the first radiation of fear you

sleep is a natural Gateway into other states of reality, other

encounter. Pull

energy

the fear out of the box and move it away from you like a

systems. Entering these nonphysical states requires a

bubble floating

nonphysical

upward in water. With the fear gone, perceive the emotion

consciousness which can move „out” of one's physical

that the fear

body. Therefore, for

covered, bubbling it away, releasing what you will not need

this exercise, you should be in a comfortable position for

again. Now,

sleeping.

free of fear and emotion, perceive the clean energy of the

Ecstasy, once meaning „to stand outside of oneself,” lost

memory, the

this literal

event hidden and covered by the fear and emotion. Pull

Greek translation long ago. It has come to be associated

that clean energy

with the feeling

back into your being.

of being transported; the feeling of incredible freedom and

Repeat this process twice again, close your box, and relax

rapture that

in Focus 10

accompanies a return to our most natural conditions.

before you return to C-1.

Reaching these conditions of being „outside of oneself” and of euphoria is

Discovery #5: Exploration Sleep

easy and effortless in sleep, although seldom

Use this tape after you are completely comfortable with

remembered. Bridging

tapes 1 through 4.

different levels of consciousness, this exercise will help

Out-of-body exploration in this exercise is based on the

you bring into

concept that

C-1 a common and natural process experienced during sleep.

Out-of-Body Exercises During Sleep In Focus 10, you will re-experience and remember the out-

natural sleep. Encoding Sleep.

of-body processes you have used before in sleep. Think how nice it would be

Discovery #6: Free Flow 10

to float out and

Use this tape after you are completely comfortable with

away. Then turn and slowly roll over like a log floating in

tapes 1 through 5.

water. Easily detached, float up, remaining calm and

Open Exploration

serene. Float down, turn and roll back, returning to your

This exercise is the culmination of Discovery: your energy,

starting point.

intent, and

Move into normal, natural, restful sleep by counting from

beliefs will determine both the intensity and the extent of

eleven to

your

twenty. Repeat and remember this exercise in the sleep

exploration. It is your opportunity to develop and perform

state.

your own

To work consciously with this and other out-of-body

purpose in Focus 10. It may be helpful to verbalize the

techniques, use

purpose to

Discovery #6: Free Flow 10, with its instructions, or refer

yourself, and write it in the most succinct, straightforward

back to this

manner

exercise. As you continue with the Gateway Experience,

possible. Have that purpose clearly in mind as you begin.

Freedom (Wave III)

The Gateway Experience is designed to provide

offers you additional out-of-body exercises.

participants with a variety

Fadeout The Hemi-Sync signals will fade at the end of the tape, leaving you in

of methods for consciousness exploration. Note that certain methods seem

to be intimately linked to specific means of perception, thus

of energy, symbols, or messages can be explored and

relying

clarified after this

heavily on one's perception of kinesthetic, visual, auditory,

exercise. You may do so by using some specific cue (such

and/or

as an emotional

intuitive cues. If you feel tingles and twitches, and there is

part of the experience) that stands out in your mind as a

very little

key to reopen

change in your perception of „blackness,” use your natural

the entire experience.

ways of

Explore from fresh perspectives. Even if you choose to re-

perceiving. For instance, allow your perception to move

examine a

kinesthetically,

previous experience, do so from a sense of wonder and

rather than being frustrated by a lack of visual imagery.

newness rather than

„Getting there”

from a sense of trying to recreate an identical situation.

is a misnomer. You are already there. Remain open and

Guidance

sensitive to

In Focus 10, seek only what you really want to know, and

available energy systems. As your commitment to self-

be responsible

discovery deepens,

for knowing, since whatever is received becomes a part of

your 10-State will also deepen, and many new types of

your life.

exploration will

You do not need to know the way to guidance. Choose

open for you.

only to be guided.

Whatever is discovered in Focus 10 can be returned to in

Expectations of when and by which path guidance should

Focus 10, since

come may block the knowledge you seek. A sense of

your energy has already located that place or pattern.

thanksgiving is an acknowledgement that you have

Feelings, patterns

received from a source outside your conscious boundaries

of self. Such thanksgiving has an antenna-like effect on

which you send out that desire, are keys to what you

energy and communication. Gratitude inspires a spirit of

receive and the way

communication and union.

you will receive it. A sense of thanksgiving seals the

Fast Re-entry

experience.

There is no actual countdown on this tape. You will return

Conventional C-1 relationships between questions and

to full;

answers, problems and solutions, tend to dissolve as new

physical, waking consciousness by simply thinking of the

Focus 10 perspectives change the very nature of the

number one.

original question or problem. For instance, in the case of

Free Flow Methods of Exploration

the Energy Conversion Box that wouldn't open, the

Answering Questions, Problem Solving, Messages

problem was the tendency to use force, rather than a stuck

In Focus 10, place your question or problem at the center

box-top. Recognizing and responding to this situation is a

of your

Focus 10 problem-solving dynamic. The C-1 problem is

consciousness, and push it out, or let it flow strongly and

often not the problem, decisions are seldom restricted to

surely out in

the apparent C-1 alternatives, and a different question

all directions and in all ways, and then release it.

frequently provides the answer. And the opposite can also

You can also use this method in C-1 with the One-Breath

be valid in Focus 10 – some answers or solutions appear

Technique. Inhale vital energy as you think „ten,” ask your

obvious or simple.

question as you „hold,” and then send the question or

Experiment with creative monologue techniques in Focus

problem out from your center of consciousness, and

10: give your box a voice and ask why it won't open,

release it as you exhale. Allow the answer to come to you

„become” your box and describe yourself, or let your box

in its own way, and in its own time.

speak to you in one ear at a time, and perhaps it will have

Your desire to know, the clarity of your intent, and the

a hidden mess¹ge for either the analytical or the creative

intensity with

you.

Our biggest problem may well be, „What is my problem?”

with her. Only later did she realize that the „pitcher” was

and our biggest

worth a

question, „What question should I be asking?” If guidance

thousand words about the kind of „aid” you get when, down

enters Focus 10

deep, you

from an energy system or reality more comprehensive than

consider your Guides to be „lemons.”

C-1, we severely limit the parameters of our resources by

Landscaping

framing our questions or problems from our C-1

Just as Focus 3 becomes a signpost on the way to Focus

perspective. So approach this in a more general manner

10, some people

and ask, „What is the most important message I can

landscape the path they travel, either deliberately or

receive and understand at this time?” Or be specific in a

spontaneously. As

big way. Ask, „Who am I?” or „What is my purpose here,

an example, one woman in a Gateway Voyage ran across

and how can I best accomplish it at this time?”

a hot beach at the

Humor can be an instant perspective-giver. Look for it in

count of two (undirected energy), balanced on a rock at

Focus 10,

three (Hemi-Sync),

especially manifesting as puns. (The sixth chapter of Ann

leapt into the air at four (new or different environment),

Faraday's book,

arched into a

Dream Game, on „Punny Things” is a wonderful resource.)

dive at five (turning point), grew a mermaid's tail and long

For instance, a

flowing hair

woman in a Gateway Voyage considered her Guides to be

at six (transformation), dove into the water at seven

without answers and real lemons. As she drifted deeply

(returning home),

into an exercise, she found a young man with a pitcher of

swam through dark blue-green water at eight (at home),

lemonade sitting near her. He looked extremely bored

plunged deep over

a sea-ridge at nine (going deeper), and at ten her body

structure energy, then build a pyramid or geometric

was numb, deep,

structure around you

and perfectly still (Focus 10). There are no right places for

and sense the energy pattern. Be creative. Use your

certain

REBAL to resonate, and

things to happen, only your places for different things to

perhaps communicate, with a tree or a flower. You may

happen within

also wish to

you. Landscaping may be consistent or not: as your 10-

explore, and communicate with, nonphysical energy or

State changes, so

energy systems.

will your perceptions, and perhaps your landscape.

Need Grounding? Try These Basic Techniques

Explore

A few people have not felt quite awake and alert after

Experience a deepening of your 10-State as you count

listening to the

from one to ten, and

exercises. If this ever happens to you, ground yourself by

let that point become one on a new scale, and move to ten

doing one or

again, and

more of the following:

again, and again.

· Slowly count yourself back to one.

You may explore various forms of energy. For example,

· Drink cool water immediately after the tape is over.

perceive yourself

· Take a cold shower or splash cold water on your face,

standing under a waterfall and then standing in the sunlight

neck, and

and note if

wrists.

you can perceive different forms of energy pouring down

· Weather permitting, walk barefoot outdoors, take deep

and over you. Or

breaths, and

consider merging with a rock or crystal and sense its

release all excess energy through your feet, letting the

power to pattern or

earth stabilize

your energy.

these exercises without such prior experience is not

· Let a tree help ground you. Place your back against a

recommended.

tree and

Focus 12: Overview

visualize energy flowing out of the top of your head to the

Focus 12 is a state of expanded awareness: a high energy

branches

state where you

above, then let the energy flow out of the soles of your feet

can become more conscious of inner resources and

to the

guidance. Many techniques discussed as part of Discovery

tree's roots.

may also be applied with specific Focus 12 tapes. Using *** WAVE II: THRESHOLD ***

these techniques at higher energy levels often produces

In Threshold you will be introduced to, and work with,

entirely new experiences.

Focus 12, the state

As with Focus 10, in Focus 12 you will find that you do not

of expanded awareness. You will also reinforce and

need to know

expand your Focus 10

the way to guidance. Choose only to be guided. Not

(mind awake/body asleep) skills.

everyone clearly hears

Each Wave of the Gateway Experience is based on the

voices, sees visions, or feels kinesthetic responses like we

Wave(s) before it.

hear, see,

Threshold builds directly on Discovery tools and

and feel in ordinary consciousness. Rarely do we perceive

techniques, as well as on

nonphysical

information in the Discovery instructions. Therefore, the

energy in exactly the same way we perceive in our

exercises in

physical, waking state.

Threshold are effective only if you have completed

Often, there is a knowing, a gestalt, or telepathic

Discovery. Any use of

comprehension that we normally translate into verbal language.

Through trust and patience, and continuing to invest

in many new ways.

energy in the process

Threshold #2: Problem Solving

of self-exploration, you will learn to perceive more clearly.

Take a problem or question into Focus 12, place it at the

Sometimes

center of your

this happens slowly, step by step, and sometimes this

consciousness (which, for example, may be in your heart,

happens dramatically and suddenly, like water breaking

abdomen, or

though a dam.

head), and push it out, or let it flow out into your total awareness. Then

Threshold #1: introduction to Focus 12

release it. The best answer or solution will come back to

Trust this exercise and let it happen – enjoy whatever

you in its own

comes to you.

way and in its own time. Frequently, this will happen during

Effort is often counterproductive, and analyzing the 12-

your tape

State is only

experience. Equally valid, however, is an answer or

appropriate after the experience and not during it.

solution that may come

„Getting there” is a misnomer. If you allow the experience

at some later time, in another place.

to unfold

To seek solutions in this high energy state is the essence

rather than work for it, the audio signals “take” you into

of this

Focus 12, as

exercise: receiving will come to those who have asked.

you count from ten to twelve.

Your desire to

Remain open and receptive to change, and as your

know, the clarity of your question, and the intensity of your

commitment to

asking are

self-discovery deepens, your 12-State will a cleepen, and

keys to what you receive and the way you receive it.

you will explore

Gratitude amplifies

the process.

the simple and the obvious. If, at first, you feel as if you're

Conventional relationships between questions and

creating

answers, problems and

your own answers, gently acknowledge that if guidance is

solutions, tend to dissolve as new Focus 12 perspectives

in any way

change the very

connected to a more complete or higher aspect of your

nature of the original question or problem. For instance,

total self, then

remember the man

guidance would naturally seem to be coming from yourself,

who couldn't open his Energy Conversion Box? (Please

and therefore

see Energy Conversion

would seem deeply familiar.

Box instructions on page 20.) The recognition of his

As you learned in Discovery, your biggest problem may

tendency to use force

well be, „What is my

in most situations allowed his box to open easily. Thus, the

problem?” and your biggest question, „What question

assumed

should I be asking?”

problem (a locked box) is often not the actual problem

If you remain puzzled about what to ask, approach this

(tendency to use

exercise from

force). Solutions are seldom restricted to ordinary

another point of view and ask, „What is the most important

alternatives, and a

information I

different question frequently provides the answer.

need to know at this moment?” And please remember, if

On the other hand, some answers and solutions appear so

guidance enters your

obvious or simple

awareness from energy systems or realities more

that you may tend to discount them. Don't. There is often

comprehensive than

great power in

ordinary consciousness, you severely limit the parameters of your

resources by framing all of your questions and problems

things, and that which we think, we become. Accordingly,

from your waking

it's not a matter

perspective. And remember the value of receiving

of whether we pattern, but of how intensely and how

guidance in the form of

deliberately we choose

humor and puns. (For review, please see Free Flow

what we think. As we deliberately make these choices in

Methods of Exploration)

high energy

Experiment with creative techniques. If something isn't

states, our patterns emerge around us reshaping our lives

working, change

with a speed and

what you are doing. Use Focus 12 problem-solving

intensity unavailable in ordinary consciousness. To learn

techniques to be

more about this

innovative, to be creative, and to find solutions that best

important tool, at least consider that the patterning process

suit you.

is a

Encoding Problem Solving

possibility. To create a pattern, think, feel, or imagine that which you

Threshold #3: One-Month Patterning

desire to

This exercise introduces you to a powerful tool for taking

become a part of your life. Patterning functions like

charge of your

problem solving:

life. You may have already encountered techniques similar

place the pattern at the center of your consciousness and

to this. We call

push it out or

it Patterning.

let it flow strongly and surely out in all directions and in all

This exercise works from the basic assumption that

ways.

thoughts manifest as

Then release it. Releasing your pattern is very important. Doing so will

assist the emergence of the pattern in your life. One way to

· Pattern only in the present tense. For example, „I am now

determine if

receiving...” If you pattern in the future tense, it can be' like

you have released your pattern is if you have a sense of

a sign

ease and

in a supermarket window that says, „FREE SODA

detachment regarding it.

TOMORROW” – a tomorrow that never comes.

You can use the patterning process to create or enhance

· Use „I” in your patterning statement and perceive yourself

many areas of your life: your physical self, your mental

as an

self, your emotional self, and your

active part of the pattern, so it doesn't wind up happening

total self; for where you want to be, what you want to be

all around you

doing, and what

and not to you.

you want to accomplish. There is nothing inherently wrong

· Pattern only for yourself.

with asking for

· Be clear about what you want. Do you want a new house

material things. It does require a change in concept if

or to be

you're from the

happy where you live? Do you want to lose ten pounds, or

school of economic thought that says this is a world of

to feel better

scarce resources.

about yourself?

If so, please consider a concept that's very different – that

· Be specific. The more detail you put into your pattern, the

this is a

more

universe of unlimited abundance – and there is nothing

likely you are to get what you're asking for.

wrong with asking

· Be sure to ask for what you really want, because you'll

for a share of that abundance.

likely get

Here are some key points that will help you make the most

exactly what you ask for!

of patterning:

· Put some feeling and conviction into it. Strong emotion

· Don't specify how your request will be fulfilled. Let the

will

universe

vitalize and reinforce your intention. Then let it go. Any

or your total self decide and direct that.

pattern set in

· It is always a good idea to qualify your pattern, asking

Focus 12 can be changed, reinforced, or cancelled in

that it work only for the good of your total self.

Focus 12. However,

This exercise is designed for a one-month patterning cycle.

don't keep checking on it or changing it because of doubts,

However, you

fear, etc. A

can override the time, requesting that patterns be fulfilled

fisherman has to leave his bait in the water for a while to

in other

get a bite,

cycles: a week, a year, by your next birthday. Or you can

just as when you plant a seed, you don't keep digging it up

simply release

to see how it

the pattern to be fulfilled in its own time.

is growing.

Please look at this exercise as an introduction to

· For starters, it might be a good idea to pattern smaller,

patterning. Then

reasonable requests. For example, if you pattern the first

carefully consider how you would like to use the process,

time for $10

strengthening it

million, at least a part of you is likely to doubt that it will

with the components of this exercise. The process of

really

patterning may turn

work. If you start by patterning for $50 to $100 and prove

some of your deepest assumptions into questions, which is

to yourself it

also a Gateway

works, then other, perhaps bigger, patterns are going to

to freedom.

come more easily. Threshold #4: Color Breathing

An ideal way to link psyche and soma, or mind and body,

emotion out and away from you, reducing all stress and

in Focus 10 is to

tension as you feel

explore the degree to which colors resonate with, and thus

calm and serene.

activate, your

Use the same process with vibrant red to recharge your

own energy. You can then quickly and easily develop and

physical body and

control your

for acts requiring speed, strength, and coordination.

physical and nonphysical energies. Once you are familiar

Perceive radiant, bright white light pouring down from a

with this

source above you

technique, experiment with other colors, and other

into the palms of your hands as you inhale, feeling it

purposes.

spread through your

There are many ways besides visualization to perceive

entire system. This is „energy, food,” which can nourish

color mentally. For

you on physical,

instance, you may perceive it as sound, as vibrations, or as

mental, emotional, and spiritual levels.

other

Use vibrant purple to heal, restore, and balance the

sensations. One Gateway participant, blind since birth,

physical body, by

experienced

sending purple to that part of your body requiring help as

different colors as different textures.

you say in your

During this exercise, you will inhale vibrant, sparkling

mind: „Heal, balance.''

energy. Perceive

In healing, you are creating or maintaining a healthy, body.

bright green as you hold this energy within you. Then

Therefore,

exhale, moving calm,

never energize the actual problem. Even when you

cleansing green energy down through your body. This will

energize a body area in

push any harmful

need of repair, end your healing process by visualizing, or

their purposes for them, even if you think that purpose is

otherwise

„getting well,”

perceiving, your body as well, whole, and perfect. By doing

simply offer the energy with the intention that it be

so, you are

beneficial and

not reinforcing the ailment; you are directing your

constructive to the person's total self. By doing so, you will

resources to build or

be

maintain sound health.

respecting their purpose, a purpose you may not be aware

Because we live in time-space, we typically, think in terms

of at the time.

of sending

At the end of the tape, you will move to Focus 12 and

energy. As you become familiar with „Color Breathing,”

reinforce the

consider that this

process of patterning, affirming that the patterns you build

method of healing is a merging of energy. Furthermore,

in your mind

assume that you can

and release into your expanded consciousness will

gather energy from an inexhaustible source; therefore, you

immediately begin to

can

form and develop around you.

purposefully and freely expend energy.

Encoding Stress Reduction, Physical Strength and Agility,

It is also possible to merge your energy with the energy of

Energy Food, Healing, and Patterning

someone else. Remember that when providing energy for another person,

Threshold #5: Energy Bar Tool (EBT)

it is their innate

„Power sticks” abound in both our history and mythology

right to choose whether or not, or how, to use it. Rather

as links between

than intend

human and spiritual forces, or as connectors between physical and

nonphysical energies. Moses turned his staff into a

disassociate yourself from the words „on” and „off,” and

serpent. Kings,

from the pace of

queens, pharaohs, and high priests carried symbolic

your breathing. Then begin to make your EBT thicker and

maces and scepters.

thinner. No matter how vague it may seem at first, simply

Excalibur led King Arthur into battle, and Merlin focused his

concentrate and focus on your EBT and feel it develop.

power

Sense the charged, electrical vibration of warmth.

through a wand. Diana, the Roman goddess of the moon

You may feel it as a total body sensation, as localized, or

and of hunting,

as moving and

carried her bow and arrows. And in the Star Wars films,

spreading. Allow this pulsing, vibrational energy to build in

light sabers

intensity.

linked the Jedi Knights to The Force.

Excess energy, such as a sense of heat, can be released

Find or create your own Energy Bar Tool (EBT) in Focus

by moving it out

10 – one that is

and away with Resonant Tuning.

personal enough to share your identity, and through which

Many people simply use their hands as energy bar tools,

you can induce

building and

or gather, focus and direct nonphysical energies.

sensing the pulse patterns within themselves. You can also

To create and charge your EBT, you will extend a dot of

direct energy

light into a bar,

from any other body location.

turning it on and off as you allow the process to speed up

Notice that you control only your own energy, and you can

until the bar

attune to, or

is pulsing like a strobe. As the speed increases,

harmonize with, external, energies. Thus, you establish

deliberately

resonance with,

rather than control over, other people, animals, plants, and

that its power is reciprocal: as you recharge it, it will

even the

recharge you.

earth itself.

Encoding Memory, to Focus 10, and Return to C-1

As you explore energy systems, you will find many uses for your EBT. In

Threshold #6: Living Body Map (LBM)

Wave III, Freedom, you will explore its potential for Remote

By creating a Living Body Map (LBM) as an energy tool,

Viewing. You

you can learn to

can also let it grow large enough to become a vortex or

balance and strengthen your physical body, as well as

tunnel and dive

recharge and

through it to explore further. You can place one end in your

energize it. In this exercise, you use energy to influence

Energy

energy,

Conversion Box and see what happens; or use it as a

assuming that the physical will automatically respond.

beacon or antenna to attract guidance or other intelligence.

Since maps

Give it a voice, or allow it to

represent the territory objectively, you create both the

shift shape. Even though you lead it in the beginning, you

perspective and

may find it

the detachment useful in healing.

leading you before long. These are intended to be

Think about or visualize the outline of your physical body in

suggestions, not

sparkling

limitations. With practice, the forms and uses of your EBT

white light, as if it were a map of you – a totally

are limitless.

nonphysical,

Find a place to keep your EBT so it will always be there for

pure-energy „you.”

you, knowing

To think an image, even a color, is to create it, and that thought-image

can have as much power as any visual-image. To be a

Repeat this procedure as you charge your LBM in

visualizer means you

sequence from sparkling

have a nice feedback system, but one that is not a

white to red, blue, yellow, and orange, healing and

necessary condition for

recharging each system

working with energy states.

independently.

You will change your bright white energy map to red,

Encoding Relax

representing your

The One-Breath Technique

circulatory system, blue to represent your nervous system,

With practice, each of the energy tools you create, explore,

yellow for your

and use in

organs and glandular system, and finally orange for your

the Gateway Experience can become available to you

muscle and bone

quickly and powerfully

structure. By placing your LBM over your physical body,

in ordinary consciousness. The more you use them, the

you will be able to sense any dim or flickering places. As

more effective they

you do this, let bright purple healing energy flow from your

become.

Energy Bar Tool to any such places, thereby merging

Simply inhale vibrant, sparkling energy, and activate your

these energies. Do so until your whole energy body is even

desired energy

and balanced, sparkling and white.

tool on the exhale. You can do this without anyone

Then, starting at the top of your LBM, wash and bathe it

noticing. To go to

completely with

Focus, think „ten” or „twelve” as you inhale vital energy,

bright purple energy, washing out all impurities and

and move to

recharging every part

Focus 10 or Focus 12 as you exhale. Extend your REBAL,

of your body.

then ask a question, or create a pattern with one breath.

For example, at the first sign of any unwanted energy,

The exercises in Freedom are effective only if you have

inhale and send

completed both the

calm, soothing green surging through your body.

Discovery and Threshold Wave exercises. Any use of

Experiment. If you're

these exercises without such prior experience is not

sleepy while driving at night, breathe the vibrant red light of

recommended.

tail

Out-of-Body Experience

lights or stoplights, sending the strength and vitality of red

During an out-of-body experience (OBE), consciousness is

throughout

localized or

your system. If you need energy at any level – physical,

separated away from one's physical body. Occasionally

emotional,

this awareness is

mental, or spiritual – breathe energy food from a source

localized in more than one place. For example, it is

above you into

possible to remain

your palms, allowing it fill your entire body.

aware of one's physical body as well as the nonphysical, or second, body.

*** WAVE III: FREEDOM ***

It is also possible to separate from the second body, thus

Freedom provides you with exercises specifically

having a third

developed to make the

localized awareness (for further information, please refer to

methods for perceiving your nonphysical energy a

Robert

comfortable and joyous

Monroe's book, Far Journeys).

experience. Completion of this Wave will be a major step in

Often characteristic of an OBE, one may experience

gaining

distant locations

conscious control of the energy system that is you.

(from one's physical body) by actually having one’s nonphysical body at

that location. By contrast, with Remote Viewing (Freedom

link your thought with your intent, you will travel instantly to

#2), one's

the

consciousness is expanded directionally, toward a certain

person or location reflecting your thought.

goal. Hence,

Furthermore, since so much of our thinking is influenced by

within one's immediate awareness, one may envelop – and

habit, during

thereby become conscious of – people, places, and/or

an OBE we're apt to find ourselves looking and behaving

events that are physically distant.

as we do while in

Other variations between physical and nonphysical reality

our physical bodies. That is, you might perceive your

are readily

second body as

apparent. For example, in C-1, you can choose whether or

having arms, legs, a head, etc. At the same time, it is

not a thought

possible to

results in action. On the other hand, during the early

experience the second body as another physical (possibly

stages of

nonhuman) form, as a sphere of light, or even as a

developing the OBE, a thought becomes the action itself. If

nondescript mass of energy.

you so much as

Thinking habits also apply to fear. If one's consciousness is

have a passing thought about a person or location, you are

still

apt to find

attached to physical reality during an OBE, one may

yourself at that precise spot – probably within the blink of

experience a reality

an eye. With

shock, or a fear of being separated from the physical self

experience, you will learn to distinguish between thought

or body.

and intent. As a

However, if one has let go of physical habits to some

result, you can pause during an OBE to think and reflect.

extent, and is

Then, when you

directed more toward experiencing nonphysical energy, an

The next step is to practice various separation techniques.

OBE typically

The exercises

feels very natural and offers a sense of unbounded

in Freedom will help you learn more about OBE separation

freedom.

processes. Using

Theoretically, we can go out-of-body during sleep (please

these techniques, you will discover more distinctions

„refer to

between physical and

Discovery #5: Exploration, Sleep). As such, the goal would

nonphysical energies. Perceiving the separation between

then

these energies is

be learning how to perform this natural process

a major step in learning more about your personal makeup,

consciously. Some people

in addition to

never know how they separate from or re-enter their

learning more about how to induce an OBE. Then, through

physical bodies: they

patience and

simply find themselves out or back. Others use specific

relaxed effort, you can explore these energies – gaining

techniques. In

experience and

both instances, our research indicates that a conscious

knowledge regarding how to use them.

OBE may be one

Experiment until you find a technique that feels good and

result of achieving a high energy state. Therefore, we

then practice

recommend that you

it. If you feel stiff, find yourself unable to move, or feel as

begin developing OBEs by learning to create high energy

though

states. One

you've lost complete contact with your physical body, you

effective way to do this is to incorporate into your daily life

can always

what you

return to C-1. To do so, say in your mind or think the

learn by using the Gateway Experience.

number one, moving

the fingers of your right hand, and you will be in C-1,

comfortable from a perspective that has little or nothing to

physically wide

do with your

awake and alert. This process is like putting fire under a

physical body. Repeat it until the process is so familiar that

kettle: water will convert to

you can

steam and expand or rise. When the energy builds

perform it at will when you reach Focus 10.

suddenly, separation can

At this point in your training, you should be completely

occur with incredible speed and possibly with roaring or

familiar with the

rushing sounds.

Resonant Energy Balloon (REBAL). As a refresher, go

From this point, the action, the adventure, the experience

back to the Discovery

are totally,

instructions on page 25 and review the REBAL. The

solely yours. You may wish to explore the solar system,

REBAL is such a valuable

map the terrains

tool that once you understand its possibilities, its use will

of and between physical and nonphysical realities, develop

become an

friendships

automatic procedure. This exercise demonstrates how the

with nonphysical entities, or simply fly over the nearest

REBAL relates to

treetops. The

you-not simply to your physical body.

possibilities are endless, governed only by who you are

„Liftoff” guides you through the process of getting your

and how you wish

REBAL well

to grow.

formed, and then floating a short distance away from your

Freedom #1: Liftoff

physical body,

This exercise is designed to help you become completely

with your awareness inside. This does not necessarily

calm and

imply that you are

actually separating from your physical body, but it does

Remote Viewing

give you the

One method of extending your consciousness in order to

perspective of such action and movement. Thus, „Liftoff”

perceive distant

offers you

people, places, and events, is to place your Energy Bar

something very important – that perspective.

Tool at the center

Floating up is often associated with thoughts of flying,

of your consciousness and let it stretch or flow to the

gliding, or

person, place, or

soaring. Like standing in an elevator, you rise without effort

event you wish to perceive. The perception of space is

by feeling

different in Focus

as though you were relaxing or „settling down.” Center

10 such that the awareness of a location or person can

yourself in the you

flow into, or merge

that is nonphysical energy, rather than the you of your

with, your awareness. This is almost like calling that

physical body.

person or place to

Use this exercise until it is very familiar to you. You will

you, or having your awareness reach out to that person or

also find

place.

that it provides the assurance of your ability, to return

Focus 10 is not subject to the C-1 concepts of time and

safely and

space. Therefore,

easily. Once you are secure with this knowledge, it is quite

reference to time and space while Remote Viewing is

easy to move

necessary only in

away farther than the exercise provides.

order to determine the appropriate time and place in which

Practice with „Liftoff” – and have fun!

to immerse

Freedom #2: Remote Viewing

your awareness. At a Gateway session in Richmond,

about the things you perceive? What are the core feelings?

Virginia, a young man „saw” a very distinctive red car in

Does an object's function affect your ability to resonate

front of the building. Quickly going

with it (for example, can you perceive apples but not

outside after the tape, he was crushed not to find the red

cigarettes)?

car. After

Scientists Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ define the

lunch, as he was walking back to the building, the red car

hazards of interpreting versus describing in their book,

was there,

Mind Reach. In it, they reported that one subject

exactly as he had seen it. This shows the ease of Remote

interpreted a cement rectangle filled with water as a

Viewing, and also establishes the need for being time

swimming pool, and scored a miss. The cement rectangle

conscious.

with water in it was a sewage processing plant.

Experiment. Nave a friend select a specific location in their

Gateway stories concerning Remote Viewing are legion. A

home or

man reported being stuck in a dark, dank, underground

office where a target object can be placed. It can be a

cave, thereby thinking he missed the exercise. The target

window sill, an

was an old shoe. A woman got lost in a blizzard when we

empty table top, or an out-of-the-way counter. Ensure the

used an almost empty flour sack in which to place our

object stands

target. A man felt silly to report finding a quarter moon in

alone as a target. As you envelop the object with your

daylight when he tried to see in a paper bag. The target

awareness, explore

was a lemon wedge in a teacup. As you see, Remote

how you perceive, how your perceptions work. Are you

Viewing has much to teach us about our assumptions, as

more apt to sense

well as our perceptions.

geometric shapes, colors, or textures? What makes you

This exercise provides you with the means by which you

say specific words

can perform actual demonstrations utilizing the energy

tools you now have available. Once you have acquired the

several thousand miles away since distance makes no

technique, you can develop your own ways of using it.

difference in Remote

To become familiar with this technique, you may first want

Viewing. Have your friend describe the location of the

to listen to

white bag. And

the tape prior to actually performing this experiment. Then,

ensure that you can verify by phone or otherwise the

in order to

results of your

prepare for this experiment, you will need to do the

experiment with this person.

following:

4. Arrange with your friend to select a small object, or

1. Obtain a clean, white paper bag. The bag should be

target; to

large enough to

place in the bag. This can be a specific object or a

hold small objects.

photograph of a

2. Arrange with a friend to have a small table or cleared

person, place, or thing. It is important that the object

area set up

selected remain

at a distance (at least not in the same room) from where

unknown to you.

you will be

5. The experiment should be set for a specific time agreed

listening to the exercise.

upon by you

3. Your friend should be someone with whom you can

and your friend, and should have a specific or set duration

verify the

– usually the

experiment. This person should also be separated by

length of the exercise. Until you are proficient, you might

some distance from

want to allow

you. Again, this means not in the same room. In fact, your

more time to make notes of your experiences following the

friend can be

exercise and prior to contact with your friend.

6. Remember the Energy Bar Tool (EBT) that you have

verification. As with most learning, prompt feedback

developed. This is

accelerates the

a technique that will enable you to perform Remote

development of Remote Viewing skills.

Viewing. Begin this

8. Review your notes. You may find yourself more

exercise with the knowledge that you will use your EBT,

proficient in one part

and with the idea

of the exercise than another. If so, by all means repeat the

of the target already having been placed inside the white

process and

bag by your

concentrate on the section that is most effective and build

friend.

from there.

7. At the conclusion of „Remote Viewing,” write down the

The entire pattern may not work well for you the first time.

perceptions

Review your

that you have concerning the target. Explore why you feel

inaccurate æonclusions and try to understand why they

the way you do a

may have be in

bout those perceptions. Pay particular attention to why you

error. Be sure to make special note of your accurate

arrived at any

conclusions.

conclusions about the target. Write down the information

9. Always log your results. Patterns will emerge over time.

you will give to

Try to look

your friend. Finally, get in touch with your friend and

at, and understand, why these patterns are a part of your

determine if your

life.

results are accurate. If you cannot reach the person

As you work with „Remote Viewing,” try to integrate your

immediately by phone,

newfound

request that your friend forward you a written report of the

strengths into your daily life. And remember, there is no

target for

failure in

psychic functioning, only a greater understanding of our

are naturally developed by the „Vectors” system. Many of

awareness.

these you will

Encoding Memory

develop on your own, utilizing what is convenient for you. The exercise guides you in conceptualizing the face of a

Freedom #3: Vectors

clock. Twelve

„Vectors” provides reference points to enable you to repeat

o'clock is always just above the top of your head. Six

any

o'clock is always

explorations with or without using these exercises. It helps

just below the bottoms of your feet. In the first step of the

you go and

exercise,

return with a sense of direction.

three o'clock is just outside your left hip, and nine o'clock is

This exercise uses three-dimensional space for such

just

reference points,

beyond your right hip.

which may be a little misleading when working with

During the first section, you learn to extend or move your

nonphysical energy.

perception

Perception utilizing nonphysical energy is not limited to

around the face of the clock. You begin at twelve above

ordinary

your head, move

concepts of time and space. However, it is a good way to

out and around to your left side at three o'clock, then to

learn this

below your feet

process of establishing direction – by relating it to the

at six o'clock, then around to nine o'clock just beyond your

location of your

right hip.

physical body. As you progress, you will begin to perceive

Notice the feelings associated with perceiving beyond your

extensions that

physical body.

Detect any interesting or unusual features while focusing in

return to the original position. As these maneuvers are

a particular

performed, note

direction.

any significant changes in your personal awareness and

The second part of the exercise rotates the face of the

remember this

clock ninety degrees. The number twelve still remains

change in relation to the position on the clock. Also, as you

above your head. However, number three on the face is

become

directly out in front of your hips and abdomen. The number

proficient, you will learn to establish new vectors, such as a

nine, therefore, is directly behind you, just beyond your

three

hips and waist.

o'clock position halfway between the three to the side and

Starting at twelve o'clock above your head, for the third ,

the three to

part of this

the front. Thus, you can have many points of exploration in

exercise, you are guided forward and outward to the new

this

three o'clock

three-dimensional pattern. It is important that you

position just in front of your feet, then outward and upward

remember and log in

to the new

your notes a vector that you find easy, comfortable,

nine position which is just beyond and away from the back

stimulating, or even

of your waist

as a source of information.

and hips. From there the movement is upward and inward

„Vectors” may require several repetitions before you

to the twelve

become proficient

position at the top of your head.

with the method. Certainly, the more you utilize it, the more

In each of these steps, you move around the face of thc

effective it

clock and then

will become. Eventually, it can become a very automatic pattern in any

exploration.

The answers to these questions will most likely not be perceived as a

Freedom #4: Five Questions

spoken or written word. They will probably be in the form of

This exercise will be the start of a process that you will

a series of

utilize often

pictures, a sense of feeling or knowing, or other methods

on your own. It poses five questions for which you seek

of perception

answers. These, of

you have been working with. Keep in mind that these kinds

course, are only the beginning. Beyond this, you can

of responses,

provide your own

whether they are from your total self, or from an external

questions of a more direct and specific nature.

source, are

Here are the five questions that you will ask in Focus 12.

natural. It is then up to you to translate this nonverbal

They are given

communication

to you during the exercise, but it is helpful to review them

into time/space words and visual representations.

in advance.

Repeat „Five Questions” if you need to understand a

1. Who am I?

particular answer

2. Where and who was I before I entered this physical

better, or for clarification, or if you did not obtain an answer

being?

in the

3. What is my purpose for this existence in physical matter

first run-through. Effectively performing this exercise will

reality?

guide you to

4. What action can I now take to serve this purpose best?

a deeper understanding of your total self.

5. What is the most important message that I can receive and understand at this point in my existence?

Freedom #5: Energy Food

This exercise trains you in a method to restore depleted

session. Others may require two or three sessions. In

energy. You will

order to evaluate

obtain energy in a way other than the ordinary method of

your progress proper conduct tests with the method shortly

eating.

after each time

Nourishment will come from the very energy that you have

you take the exercise. Notice if you feel better, if you feel

been using and

more

exploring during these exercises.

energized. Once you begin to achieve results, you no

The method you will learn is designed to be applied in C-1

longer need to use

after you

the tape. This ability will then have become a part of you.

return from this exercise. Thus the exercise, itself, is simply practice,

Freedom #6: First-Stage Separation

an encoding of the process, rather than actual application.

„First-Stage Separation” enables you to take a major step

What you will

in having

learn is that by simply extending your hands outward,

conscious control of the total energy system that is you.

palms up, you will

Many of the

perceive, absorb, and store energy. It is as simple as that,

previous exercises have been aimed at making this

and can be

particular exercise more understandable, comfortable, and

used frequently as the desire arises.

joyous.

The application of this new tool is similar to many of the

This exercise guides you through five different methods o

others in the

disassociation

Gateway Experience. Some people will retain and utilize it

from your physical body. That is, you will learn to make

after only one

more distinctions

between your physical and nonphysical energies. This will

The moment you feel such release, it is important to

better enable

release the pressure

you to separate your awareness of these energies, thereby

that you have been putting upon such rotation. If you fail to

localizing your

do this, you

awareness in either your physical or second body. As with

might continue spinning. If you release the pressure too

other tools, it

early, you might

is your option to select the method most comfortable for

have only a partial rotation, perhaps only 90 to 180

you. In your own

degrees.

way, you may wish to combine one or more of these

Once you have stabilized this „out of phase” condition

methods. Each has been used successfully many times by,

between your

participants through the years.

physical and nonphysical energies, it is possible to „peel”

As you learn these methods, you will be guided through

out of your

the following

physical body, moving outward and turning over as you do

processes:

so. Reorientation

1. Focus on the nonphysical energy within your physical

with the physical is quite simple: you rotate until your

body. Much like

second body is in

a log floating in water, slowly and easily rotate and roll this

alignment with the physical again. At that point you might

energy. Do

perceive

so until what seems to be „surface tension” releases and

something akin to a little click, and you are then

you rotate freely

reintegrated.

as if there were an axis running directly through the length

2. The second method is one where you conceive of your

of your body.

second body as a rigid pole. Using your feet as a pivotal point, you move your second body

slowly out of your physical body – head first, then

feel yourself moving down through whatever you are lying

shoulders, then chest,

on. Again, once

then waist and abdomen, then your legs, until you are

this is achieved, turning away and moving to a more

standing or are

distant position from

rigidly at 90 degrees from your physical body. At this point,

your physical body can become a daily practice.

your only

4. The fourth method involves moving out of the top of your

connection is where your energy feet are still in proximity

head as if

to your

you are a thin spray of gas or fog. Once you have removed

physical feet.

your second body from your physical self, it often re-forms

Then, desire itself is sufficient to enable a complete

quite naturally into a replica

separation of your

of your physical body. From that point, you are free to

second body from your physical body. ,1s with all

behave as you

exercises, you may

desire.

return to your physical body using the „Return to C-1”

5. The fifth method involves attaching an emotional value

encoding. Or, if

to the

you are still connected with your physical body, simply

concept of floating and/or soaring. You begin to

reverse your

contemplate how pleasant

intent and tilt backward into your body.

it is to float upward, like a cloud, and your second body

3. The third technique involves „backing away from the

responds to this

physical.” That

emotional wish. Once you have achieved this, it is possible

is, you slowly back out and away from your physical body.

to remove or

You may even

control the emotion gradually so that other parts of your total self can

direct your experiences for the best possible outcome.

your physical body. You always have such control. In

All of these methods and techniques require practice.

addition to the

Practice will assist

methods already mentioned, whenever you want to

you in becoming more aware of processes to go out-of-

reintegrate completely and

body. (For

immediately with your physical body, all you need do is

descriptions and elaboration of these and other

think of some

techniques, please refer

part of your physical body, such as the fingers on your right

to Robert Monroe's book, Journeys Out of the Body.)

or left

Often when one becomes aware of a separation of the

hand, and start to move that part of your body. Stimulating

second body, a sense

your physical

of excitement shifts one's attention back to the physical

awareness immediately initiates the return process.

body. As a

Continued stimulation

result, one tends to re-enter the physical body immediately.

(such as walking, doing chores, or taking a cold shower)

This natural

ensures a

reaction is especially true for one's first OBE. Therefore, to

complete reintegration. The knowledge that you have this

help you

„quick return”

reduce the chance of this possibility, use these techniques

procedure will only increase your sense of freedom.

to develop

Remember, the effects of working with these various

patience and relaxed effort. Then, when you do have an

energy tools are

OBE, you'll be able

cumulative. The learning and application of one enhances

to experience the occasion fully.

and improves the

Always bear in mind that you have an immediate means to

use of another. The most important factor is patience. To

return fully to

become a superb

concert pianist requires many hours of practice. To

the pattern you wish to establish.

become proficient in

Please see Threshold #3: One-Month Patterning on page

the Gateway Experience requires much the same

40 to review all

commitment.

recommendations for patterning. The process is identical,. You .will

*** WAVE IV: ADVENTURE ***

simply be working with a different time period.

In this series of exercises you are provided a dynamic

Adventure #2: Five Messages

expression of

The Five Messages are arranged in order of importance.

consciousness beyond Freedom – that of a personally

You will first ask

controlled and

for the fifth most important message, then ask for the

directed Adventure. The title implies new experiences, new

fourth, third,

ideas, new

second, and finally the first most important message for

places, new friends, and new excitement.

you at this time.

It is important that you have completed all previous

Rarely are the messages simply verbal. Often information

Gateway Experience

appears in

Waves of Change exercises. Any use of these exercises

nonverbal form utilizing the means of perception that you

without such prior

have been

experience is not recommended.

cultivating throughout the Gateway Experience. It is

Adventure #1: One-Year Patterning

important not to try

This is an opportunity to design exactly how and what you

to analyze the messages as you receive them, but to

desire to be one

interpret them after

year into the future. Before working with this exercise, plan

the exercise.

carefully

Adventure #3: Free Flow 12

This is an exercise that you will utilize again and again. It is

where intelligence has a specific level of awareness.

a

NVC is not to be confused with body language, or physical

background against which you can move into planned,

responses

systematic

without words, either consciously or otherwise. Such

explorations in whatever direction you choose. It is better

communication does

to decide on

take place continually, but it is not NVC. Please keep in

your purpose before you begin so as not to fail into a sleep

mind that the

or dream

process of NVC is different from the process of C-1

state during the exercise.

communication. Both

You will perform the preparatory process, move to Focus

forms of communication require perception of some kind of

10, then to Focus

data, and then

12. After you arrive at Focus 12, you will be introduced to

translation of that data to establish meaning. NVC is total

the beacon

expression. It

guidepost. This is a noninvasive sound that will gently

occurs in the mind, and in mind-to-mind communication.

remind you of

Dreams are principally NVC. You have also encountered it

where and who you are. As a result, it will enable you to

many times in

roam free and

your Gateway Experience exercises – in vibrations, light,

far without concern of drifting and forgetting your purpose.

living action,

Adventure #4: NVC

emotion. These and other unique forms of perception you

NVC is short for Non-Verbal Commmication. NVC appears

develop will

to be a primary

comprise your NVC vocabulary. Allow yourself to establish

method of conscious interaction in and among energy

new meanings for familiar perceptions.

systems, or realities,

To fully enjoy your adventures, begin to learn and use

energy or energy systems, or simply observe events and

NVC. This exercise

activities

is your primary lesson in NVC. In previous exercises, you

occurring there. It can also serve as an agreed-upon

developed tools

meeting place with

and methods of perception. Now you will develop a form of

friends.

total

*** WAVE V: EXPLORING ***

communication. Work with it until you obtain results. Then

When you listen to these exercises, your first impression

practice

may be that of

without the tape.

simply listening to musical sounds. But the music and

Adventure #5: NVC II

Hemi-Sync sounds you

This is additional instruction in NVC. You will continue to

hear are actually the Focus 10 and Focus 12 processes in

recognize

a new form. This

translation and conceptualization techniques. The more

Metamusic has been specifically composed to help you

advanced you become in NVC the broader your perception

further develop

will be in all states of being.

Non-Verbal Communication (NVC). The Metamusic guides

Adventure #6: Compoint

you through these

Compoint is our abbreviation for Communications Point – a

exercises as you use the methods for reaching Focus 10

state of

and Focus 12 that

consciousness that you can establish and return to

you have already learned. There are no verbal instructions

whenever you desire.

– the process

Here, through NVC, you gather information, meet, and

is controlled solely by your mental direction.

associate with other

With these exercises you will learn to achieve goals and create

experiences without instructions from the tape. You will

Focus level that is most comfortable for you for any

direct yourself –

particular exercise.

where you want to go, and what you want to experience.

For example, you may find that Focus 10 works best for

Changes in the

you for Remote

frequencies of the Hemi-Sync signals automatically guide

Viewing, using your Energy Bar Tool, or practicing out-of-

you in creating

body techniques.

different states of consciousness. With this help, you will

In turn, Focus 12 might work best for you for patterning,

sense your

problem solving,

progression through the now-familiar preparatory process

or asking for guidance.

(Resonant Tuning

It is important that you have completed all previous

sounds remain on each tape), and then on to states of

Gateway Experience

expanded awareness

Waves of Change exercises. Any use of these exercises

and self-exploration.

without such prior

You no longer need your verbal „training wheels.”

experience is not recommended.

Furthermore, by this

Exploring #1: Mission 10

time in your Gateway Experience training, you have the

This Focus 10 exercise is similar to „Free Flow 12” in that

expertise to

you should

regulate which Focus level you experience. In the first two

have a specific purpose in mind before beginning. The

Exploring

difference is that

exercises, you will use Focus 10 and Focus 12 Hemi-Sync

there are no verbal instructions that may detract from your

signals to help

experience.

you arrive at those levels; after that you will deliberately

Here, the direction is totally yours. With no verbal

establish the

reminders of C-1, you

may explore a more powerful and effective Focus 10

12. Again, the change in Hemi-Sync frequencies will

experience.

automatically signal

Begin with the preparatory process, and move on to Focus

when it is time to move through each phase.

10. Carry out

Accomplish whatever purpose you have selected

your stated purpose using tools you've learned in previous

(patterning, problem

Gateway

solving, asking questions, or exploring a new idea or

Experience exercises. (See Free Flow Methods of

locale, to name a

Exploration on page 33.)

few), then come back to C-1 when it is time to return.

When you sense a change in the sound patterns, return to

Exploring #3: Mission Day

C-1 using the

This fifteen-minute exercise is designed to help you make

method(s) most comfortable for you.

the most of your

Exploring #2: Mission 12

day. Use it in the morning before you begin your activities.

This is a Free Flow 12 exercise-NVC style. The

After the

possibilities are

preparatory process, go to Focus 10 or to Focus 12

unlimited. On the surface, „Mission 12” may sound the

(whichever is best for

same as „Mission

you) and express that which you want to achieve during

10,” but the underlying audio signals will assist you into

the day. Express

Focus 12.

your goal not in words, but in active mental pictures and in

Have your purpose firmly in mind before you begin the

feelings.

tape. After you have

Actually see and feel the accomplishment of the day's goal.

completed the preparatory process, proceed to Focus 10

This is a patterning process, so you may want to review

and then to Focus

Threshold #3:

One-Month Patterning on page 40. This exercise can help

during this exercise may be different each time or they may

set the tone for a successful day.

build upon one another. Record your experiences. Over

Exploring #4: Mission Night

time you will notice threads of continuity connecting your

Listen to this thirty-minute exercise as you go to sleep at

experiences, or you may determine that each is unique.

night.

Exploring #6: Pathways

Complete the preparatory process and move on to Focus

Like „Horizons,” this exercise can help open doors to

10 or to Focus 12, whichever is most comfortable for you.

unexplored places

Pattern to direct your sleep

within you. After completing the preparatory process, just

experience. You may want to have an out-of-body

listen and

experience, solve a

allow the sounds to lead you along new paths, or down old

problem, receive a message, or remember your dreams

ones you may

more accurately. This exercise will not bring you back to

have long ago forgotten. Just for fun, shift between Focus

wakefulness, but lead you into restful sleep, from which

levels

you will awake refreshed.

randomly, whenever you want. What changes do you

Exploring #5: Horizons

notice?

Here is an opportunity to look inward and explore. The

When the Hemi-Sync signals change at the end of this

sound patterns on

thirty-minute

this thirty-minute exercise are intended to evoke memories,

exercise, return to C-1 by the method(s) you choose.

feelings, and

Energy Walks

events, and to allow you to experience them in new ways.

Your growing knowledge and understanding of NVC is

As usual, perform the preparatory process and choose

preparing you for the infinite possibilities of personal

your desired Focus level. Then just relax and let it happen

exploration and development. To help

– there is no need for a specific purpose. Your perceptions

you generate your own ideas for exploring, here are a few

vitality, and life forces swirling a round you, and flowing

suggestions:

deeply within

· Travel in and through time by asking, “Who or what was I

you.

before

· Trust in and build your NVC as you travel beyond the

this life?” and then, “Who or what will I be during my next

familiar

life

time/space/physical matter reality. What do nonphysical

experience?” Ask, “Where do I feel more at home?”

systems of energy

Explore connections

feel like? What is the landscape? Are there inhabitants?

between past, present, and future. “Does the future

· Imagine yourself reaching out and touching a tree. Feel it

influence the past?”

rooted

“Does the past influence the future?” Then perceive

in both the earth and sky, and then feel the flowing of

yourself growing in a

energies from

way you want to grow, and notice if this awareness affects

above and below gathering within you.

what you have

· Allow a breeze to move gently around you. Sense the

thus far experienced.

energy that

· Perceive and communicate with the unique

gives you freedom – freedom to move, to be light, to float,

consciousness of all life

to fly.

forms. How do you perceive the energy of a cloud? Can

· Imagine yourself going deep within the earth. Travel to its

you communicate with

core.

a flower? What NVC does a dog use?

What do you experience? Imagine yourself going deep

· Perceive yourself in ocean surf and feel the energies of

within yourself.

movement,

Again, what do you experience?

*** WAVE VI: PROSPECTING ***

still included to help you complete the preparatory process.

Everyone has their own mine in which to dig for elusive

Then the

treasures; a „mine

Hemi-Sync frequencies will gently guide you in creating

of the mind.” The Prospecting tapes provide the tools to dig

different states

for that

of consciousness.

diamond of thought, golden recognition, emerald feeling, or

It is important that you have completed all previous

artifact of

Gateway Experience

knowledge which is important to your personal growth. As

Waves of Change exercises. Any use of these exercises

in the old gold

4vithout such prior

rush days, you can experience „the find” and capitalize on

experience is not recommended.

your unique and

Prospecting #1: Metamorphosite

inborn treasures. The hunt can he almost as much fun as

The prospecting is good at this site. You're hunting the

the discovery.

gems of

Prospecting will provide you with further experiences in

metamorphosis, of change. This tape is designed to create

Non-Verbal

at the mental

Communication (NVC). The Metamusic is designed to take

level the changes that you desire. Therefore, mentally set

you one step

your goals

further with NVC. But don't take our word for it – stake your

before you begin the tape. After completing the preparatory

own claims

process, go to

and find the rich veins waiting for you as you go

Focus 10 or Focus 12 (whichever seems right for you).

prospecting. As with

Use patterning to

Exploring, there are no verbal instructions. Resonant

bring about the changes you have set for yourself. The

Tuning sounds are

Hemi-Sync sounds

will assist you in returning.

subjects have found that the Null Point provides a useful

Prospecting #2: Bio-Body

„window” for

With this exercise, you will explore the treasure trove that

heading in any direction of mind activity. At the Null Point,

is your

you may

physical body. Perform the preparatory process, and go to

purposefully decide exactly what to explore.

the Focus level

To reach this state of pure potential, after completing the

that is most comfortable to you. Then, begin a thorough

preparatory

examination of

process, go to Focus 10, then to Focus 12. Then the Hemi-

your physical body and its rhythms using the appropriate

Sync signals can guide you beyond Focus 12 to the Null

tools (such as

Point.

your Living Body Map and Energy Bar Tool). The more you

Prospecting #4: Plus Polarity

use this exercise the more familiar you’ll become with your

Strike it rich! The purpose of this exercise is to lead you

physical being. As a result, you’ll be better able to maintain

through the

or restore optimum physical balance and well-being.

Null Point to the opposite polarity from where' you started.

Prospecting #3: Null Point

Various

This exercise can lead you to a rich and lasting gold vein in

studies indicate there is reason to believe that the body's

the mine of

polarity

your mind. This vein was unearthed in our laboratory while

routinely shifts from positive to negative and back again in

working with

cycles. Our

test subjects. Our laboratory, instruments suggest that the

research suggests that a deliberate shift in polarity

Null Point is

indicates that one

where the body's electric polarity shifts into a neutral

is experiencing a change in consciousness. We have

phase. Our

observed that such a

shift indicates a substantial change from C-1 awareness to

infinite nonphysical energy systems that go beyond time

nonphysical

and space. From

awareness.

the preparatory process, Focus 10, and Focus 12, pass

Go from the preparatory process to Focus 10, then to

through the Null

Focus 12. Allow the

Point and begin your hunt. Dig deep. Soar high. You're

frequencies to assist your shift in polarity. Pay attention to

now beyond words.

subtle

All that you have learned through your Gateway

changes in your awareness. Notice if you recognize more

Experience has prepared you for your journeys.

aspects of

ENCODING INSTRUCTIONS

nonphysical energy. As with all the tapes in this home-

To encode is to establish a specific signal, or trigger, that

study course, the

brings about

Hemi-Sync signals will bring you back to your starting

a specific occurrence. During the tape exercises, you will

point.

mentally create

Prospecting #5: Near Reaches

a trigger (a thought pattern) that symbolizes the desired

Stake your personal claim in the physical universe.

outcome. Most of

Complete the preparatory process and go on to Focus 12.

these encodings incorporate a specific physical action,

Passing through the Null Point in this exercise

such as a breath

can lead, you to discover untold treasures in and of time

or hand movement, that reinforces the mental trigger. This

and space.

encoding

Prospecting #6: Far Reaches

signal is inserted into, and works with, various levels of

What's farther than the vast reaches of the physical

your

universe? The

consciousness. As a result, your total self responds to the signal,

bringing about the desired effect. The more you use these

in Focus 10.

encodings in

Focus 10 (Threshold #5)

C-1, the more powerful and effective they become. Awake and Alert (Discovery #2) To become physically wide awake and alert, touch the

To move to Focus 10, close your eyes and count slowly from one to ten. You will then be in Focus 10.

fingers of your right

Focus 12 (Threshold #1)

hand to the back of your neck and repeat the number one

To be in Focus 12 (expanded awareness) from Focus 10,

in your mind.

count from ten to

Energy Food (Threshold #4, Freedom #5)

twelve, and you will be in Focus 12.

To receive, convert, and store fresh new energy, close

Healing (Threshold #4)

your physical eyes,

To bring any part of your physical body to a normal,

extend your physical hands outward palms up, then inhale

healthy, balanced,

deeply and hold

operating condition, close your eyes and inhale. Hold your

your breath for a moment. Think of pure, white energy

breath and

flowing from above

think of the cool energy of purple. Send that energy to that

into your palms, through your arms into your total self.

part of your

Exhale and open

physical body requiring help and say in your mind, „Heal,

your eyes.

balance.” Focus 10 (Discovery #3)

Memory (Discovery #2, Threshold #5, Freedom #2)

To move to Focus 10 (mind alert and body deeply asleep),

To remember any part of your life experience, close your

inhale sparkling

eyes and softly

energy, say in your mind or think the number ten, exhale,

touch the fingers of your right hand to the center of your

and you will be

forehead.

Patterning (Threshold #4)

To relax and remove all harmful tension and emotion from

To set a pattern, go to Focus 12 (see „Focus 12” encoding)

your mind and

and think of

body, think of the number ten, inhale deeply and exhale as

the pattern you desire. Build it carefully in your mind. Then

if you were

release it

blowing out a candle.

strongly and surely into all areas of your expanded awareness.

Resonant Energy Balloon: REBAL (Discovery #3) To create your REBAL, inhale, and as you hold your

Physical Strength and Agility (Threshold #4)

breath, think of a

To perform a physical act with far greater strength, speed,

bright moving circle with the number ten inside it. Exhale,

and agility,

letting the

close your physical eyes, inhale deeply, hold your breath,

circle move down, around, and over you. You will

and think of

automatically reabsorb

the physical act to be performed, and then the strong color

your REBAL upon completion of any exercise, or by

energy of red.

inhaling deeply and

Problem Solving (Threshold #2)

thinking of the circle moving back into your body.

To receive the best answer or solution to a problem, inhale

Return to C-1 (Discovery #3)

deeply,

To return to full, waking C-1 consciousness, think the

pulling fresh energy into your physical head. Hold your

number one, and

breath, think of

move the fingers of your right hand. You will immediately

the number twelve, then the question or problem. Exhale

be wide awake

and receive the

and refreshed.

answer or solution.

Return to C-1 (Threshold #5) Relax (Threshold #6)

To return to full, waking C-1 consciousness, close your

Here are questions frequently asked by Gateway

physical eyes and

Experience participants. In addition to the formulation of

breathe deeply as you count slowly from ten to one, and

the Guidance Manual, the answers are the

you will be wide

result of years of experience, inquiry, and research.

awake and refreshed.

„Questions &

Sleep (Discovery #5)

Answers” will supplement and reinforce your Manual

To go into normal, natural, restful sleep, count slowly in

instructions.

your mind from

During an exercise ...

one to twenty: When you reach the number twenty, you will

Q: What should I do when various images or dream-like

be in normal,

thoughts interfere

natural, restful sleep.

with what I'm trying to do on a tape?

Stress Reduction (Threshold #4)

A: Do not suppress or force the images away; rather,

To reduce any emotional pressure throughout your total

acknowledge them

system, close your

without getting involved with them, otherwise you may fall

eyes and inhale deeply. Hold your breath and think of the

into a sleep

calming,

state. Look at them, then let them go. You can always go

cleansing energy of green. Exhale, pushing all excess and

back to them

harmful

later.

emotional charges down through your body and out

Q: I'm not able or willing to vocalize with the Resonant

through the soles of your feet.

Tuning. I go into

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

a very deep relaxed state and my mouth doesn't seem to want to work. I

either sing along in my head, click-out, or start some kind

experiencing a great degree of discomfort, you may have

of thought

the volume too

dream: What should I do?

loud. For best results, the volume should be just loud

A: It is important to discipline yourself to participate in

enough for you to

Resonant

hear the verbal instructions. Remember, you are

Tuning because this is a method which will help you

expanding your state of

perceive nonphysical

awareness; consequently, you are more conscious of your

energy, so that you can later control and use it. Resonant

heartbeat,

Tuning promotes

breathing, etc. This is a phenomenon common to the shift

an accelerated gathering of your vibrational energy while

in energy levels

reducing

such as the shift from Consciousness 1 to Focus 10.

internal dialogue. Discomfort about vocalizing with the

Q: I don't seem to feel the high energy states and have

tapes will

trouble

eventually wane.

visualizing what they should feel like.

Q: When using the tapes, I am aware of a buzzing or

A: Everyone perceives his/her experiences in a different

pressure in my

way, so these

forehead and also an acceleration of my heartbeat. Is this

high energy states will not necessarily be visual. Some

normal?

people report

A: A light buzzing or pressure happens frequently to some

seeing light, color, and form, but others quite frequently

people. It means

perceive

that you are responding to the Hemi-Sync process.

sensations. You may experience vibration(s), or what

However, if you are

seems to be an

electric tingling or a shaking of your body, bed, or room.

and sleep.

Some people

Q: I’m having difficulty forming and controlling my Energy

hear a rushing sound, buzzing, voices, verbal messages,

Bar Tool (EBT).

or even music.

Sometimes it switches to a triangle or seems to be an

Others may just „know” when they have achieved these

extension of my, own

states. Just relax

arm. Is this normal?

and observe your own perceptions without judging how

A: The Energy Bar Tool can take any shape which comes

you should feel.

to your mind. It

Q: I continually fall asleep during the taped exercises.

doesn't have to be the same each time you use it and it

What can I do

can switch forms

about this?

while you are using it. The purpose of the EBT is to focus

A; First, make sure you are rested before doing the

and direct

exercise. Second,

nonphysical energy. There are many uses for the EBT:

stretch lightly and splash your face and neck with cold

healing (Threshold

water. Third, put

#6: Living Body Map on page 45), perceiving distant

the idea of sleep into your Energy Conversion Box. Fourth,

events and people

if you are

(Freedom #2: Remote Viewing on page 53), or entering

still falling asleep, try, sitting up during the exercise. And

other energy systems

fifth,

(Threshold #5: Energy Bar Tool on page 44), to name a

practice, practice, practice! It is through patience and

few. Your

continued

imagination is the only limit.

practice that you learn to maintain the balance between

Q: Sometimes during a tape I feel. so much energy in my

deep relaxation

body that it

actually gets uncomfortable and I want to come out of the

while listening to the tapes. Some people report that they

tape. What

prefer sitting

should I do about this?

up because they're less likely to drop off to sleep. Also, if

A: Realize that the energy you are feeling is second-state

you have a

energy, the

comfortable set of „ear-bud” headphones, you might be

nonphysical energy which you first need to perceive before

able to arrange some pillows so that you can „ride the

you can control

Waves” while lying on your side or stomach. Ear-buds are

and use it. Try to move the energy through your whole

readily available at stores carrying stereo products.

body – see if you

Q: Even while in Focus 10, I am aware of my breathing.

can speed it up or slow it down; in other words, start

This makes it

controlling it. The

impossible for me to detach myself, or otherwise perceive

fact that you are perceiving this energy is indicative that

the high energy

you are

states. Any suggestions?

reaching an expanded state of awareness, of

A: This is a very normal reaction. Actually, it can enhance

consciousness – which is

your

exactly what you are striving for.

experience if used in a positive way. It's your breathing that

Q: I usually sleep on my side or stomach and feel insecure

helps

sprawled out on

charge you with energy (hence, the Resonant Tuning

my back. Also, I cannot remain on my back very long

exercises) and prepares you for moving to high energy

without getting

states. Be aware of what is happening to you and just let it

restless. What should I do?

be – don't fight it. You can be aware of your breathing and

A: You might try sitting upright in a comfortable chair or in

of the taped exercise. You can always put the worries

your bed

about your breathing in your Energy Conversion Box if it

really bothers you. Once you convince yourself that

everyone is adept at mental images. Perhaps you can feel

breathing is a normal process and not a problem, the

or know that you are forming your Resonant Energy

awareness of breathing should disappear by itself. Some

Balloon (REBAL). Imagine that you are surrounded by and

even find their breathing or their heartbeat a comforting link

filled with tingling, sparkling, brilliant bursts of

to physical reality and then can move more confidently into

energy. If you have practiced the technique often, you are

other states of consciousness.

possibly

Q: During „Focus 12 Free Flow” I had a peak experience.

forming the REBAL without even being aware of it.

How can I have

„Popping” your REBAL

this experience again?

frequently without using the tapes will strengthen it. The

A: Focus 12, the state of expanded awareness, offers

REBAL is an

many valuable

invaluable tool; use it often. (Please refer to Discovery #3:

insights. We recommend that you do not seek to repeat or

Advanced

regain peak

Focus 10 on page 25, for complete instructions.)

experiences and make them „ordinary.” These experiences

Q: I would like a more extensive explanation of Non-Verbal

are precious, and are to be treasured rather than captured.

Communication

They are unique events.

(NVC). I believe I'm beginning to understand it, but at first I

Rediscover their uniqueness in many forms.

felt quite

Q: Thus far, I have not been able to visualize my REBAL

frustrated.

energy coming from my head and bending around to my

A: Your frustration is understandable. Most of us are left­

feet. I'm stuck.

brained

A: Remember that visualization is only one way of

(linear, verbal, etc.) in our orientation. NVC addresses

perceiving. Not

right-brain

functions (intuition, gut feelings, images) and is a way of

phone calls, one of the clearest messages that comes

communicating

across to all of us

or understanding beyond verbalization. NVC implies a

is that no two individuals’ experiences are alike. They

holistic

range from the

communication based more on feelings and impressions.

cosmic to the mundane, and yet are almost invariably of

For example, a

real meaning and

beautiful sunset could be described endlessly in words (the

significance to the person having the experience. If the

colors; the

instructions

interplay of light, shadows, clouds, and landscape) without

described what you should experience, you might discount

ever capturing

an experience

the feeling it brings. With NVC, you can instantly

because it was not mentioned. Yet that experience might

comprehend all the

be a most

physical, plus nonphysical information. Words never

meaningful event for you.

capture an NVC

Q: While listening to your tapes, I experienced a flood of

„thought-ball” without losing much of its essence in the

light. Is this

translation.

light God?

Q: I have been using the tapes and do get some

A: The light (often accompanied by feelings of euphoria, a

interesting things, but I

oneness with

would be more pleased if I knew that I was getting what

the universe, a sense of overwhelming love) is an

was intended.

experience that has been

A: As we review the mail that comes to the Institute and

widely reported by explorers of higher consciousness and

listen to your

people who have

had near-death experiences. A Buddhist might indicate he

practice or exposure to a more advanced tape. Of course,

has seen Buddha;

don't hesitate to

a Moslem, Allah or Mohammed; a Christian might interpret

review any of the tapes for reinforcement.

this as the light

Q: Can my children use the tapes?

of Christ. The Institute, understandably, does not endorse

A: Many parents have had good results using Gateway

any particular

Experience tapes with

religious interpretations. Whatever your religious

their children. We encourage parents to work with their

background or training,

children and to

seeing such a light can be a meaningful experience that

monitor their progress. Again, we leave it to the discretion

may indicate that

of the

you are developing your potential on nonphysical levels.

parents whether or not to use the tapes with family

On using the tapes...

members.

Q: How many times should I use each tape before going

Q: I understand that after a while we really do not need the

on to the next one?

tapes to

A: That can vary greatly with the individual. You should be

achieve different states of consciousness. How do I

familiar and

remember the Hemi-Sync

comfortable with a tape before advancing to the next one.

signals?

However, don't

A: It is true that with practice, you do not need the taped

feel you must master it completely. There may be

exercises to

challenges for an

reach expanded states of consciousness. After you

individual with a specific technique that can diminish or

become proficient with

disappear with

an exercise, all you need to do is recall the sensations you experienced

during what you consider to be your best, most effective

doesn't understand. Do you have any suggestions on how

response in the

to convince

desired state. Simply take a deep breath and remember

someone who doesn't want to experience the tapes that

the state to trigger

they are worth

the change in consciousness. The more you perform this

trying, or at least that they are not harmful?

technique, the

A: Whether we are talking about the tapes and programs of

easier and more effective it will become. (Please refer to

The Monroe

the One-Breath

Institute or about any other self-awareness/

Technique on page 47.)

consciousness-expansion

Q: Have any people reported obtaining worthwhile results

system or program, the rule seems to be that you cannot

with the use of

„force feed” the

marijuana or other drugs in conjunction with the tapes?

information. It is the individual's own interest and desire

A: We have had some reports from people who have used

that creates

mind-altering drugs with the tapes. The results they have

the enthusiasm for exploration that leads to success. With

reported have been mixed, neither indicating that drugs

anyone

added to nor aided their experiences. In any event, we

(spouse, friends, children), what you demonstrate by your

strongly recommend not using drugs with the tapes. The

actions is much

tapes are training you to take control over your states of

more forceful than any words you can say. You can show

consciousness Drugs

the benefits

interfere with that control. In other words, the two are not

through your behavior if your spouse doesn't want to

compatible.

discuss your

Q: The Gateway Experience tapes have changed my life,

experiences in depth. When you do talk about what you

but my spouse

are doing, emphasize the nonthreatening aspects, see if

you can find ways to relate your experiences to

The differences, however, are found in (1) the ease of

experiences your spouse has had, or those you have

attaining that

shared in the past. Perhaps you can find an individual tape

state (you put on the headphones and there you are); (2)

such as

the ease of

Concentration, Catnapper, or Love Tennis that you can

maintaining the state (the Hemi-Sync signal is constant

both use and then

and does not waver with outside interruptions, so noises

be able to talk about the benefits of Hemi-Sync in everyday

distract less and the attention is

life situations.

immediately refocused by the signal); and finally (3) the

Q: I have a friend who has been meditating, practicing

Hemi-Sync tapes

yoga, and working

provide tools and guidelines for exploration.

with other disciplines for years. Would the Monroe Institute

Out-of-Body Experience ...

tapes and

Q: I'm currently working with the Discovery album. What if I

programs have anything to offer him, or is he too

can't get out

advanced?

of my body on tape #5 („Exploration, Sleep”)? Should I

A: We have had people with a wide variety of backgrounds

continue with tape

enroll in both

#5 until I do, or after a reasonable time move on to the next

the Gateway Experience and the week-long Gateway

tape?

Voyage. Long-term

A: Not everyone will have a conscious out-of-body

meditators may find that the Hemi-Sync signals produce

experience (OBE). It

states quite

takes a lot of practice for most, and , many of us have

similar to or even identical with states that they have been

hidden fears that

experiencing.

hold us back. Also, if you try too hard for an OBE, the intense effort can

become the very distraction that holds you back. Be

than to attempt arriving at a geographic destination. Any

nonchalant about OBEs.

time you wish

They are just a small part of our program of personal

to return, think of returning to your body and/or move a

exploration and

finger or toe and

learning to expand consciousness. As long as you're

you will be back.

thoroughly familiar

Q: If I have an out-of-body experience, can I cause my wife

with tape #5, by all means go on to the next tape.

to have one?

Q: Do you have any suggestions as to how to better

A: We have had reports that individuals have helped

control an out-of-body

another person to get

experience? Once I get out, I don't know how to steer my

out-of-body. The method to accomplish this is unclear. It

thoughts.

might be

A: You can practice control of an OBE by setting a goal

worthwhile to remember that it is Rober Monroe's

before you begin.

experience that most

Then you won't need to decide what to do once you are

people probably have at least one out-of-body experience

out. You may want to

each night during

„float,” see a particular person, go to a destination, or

their sleep, but they do not remember the experience in

contact a

waking

nonphysical entity. If an OBE happens spontaneously,

consciousness. You and your wife might both try patterning

remember that

for

thoughts are action in the second-state (whatever you

synchronicity in your OBEs.

think, you do). At

Q: Does astral projection/second body equal

first it may be easier to think of a person and reach their

death/hereafter? What does a

energy rather

second body look like? Can one's second body see

„pink sound” and provides a bed for the HemiSync signals.

another's second body?

Pink sound

A: Astral projection and death appear to have similar

contains all the tones the human ear can perceive. The

qualities. You might

higher and lower

want to read Raymond Moody's book, Life After Life, where

portions of the sound have been compensated for in

many near-death

volume so you hear the

experiences are related. The second body can take on

entire sound equally-it helps the mind create or select

different forms. It

sound to complete

can look like a ball of energy, misty form, or appear to have

the Hemi-Sync process. DO NOT use Dolby or other

a human

noise-reduction systems

form. People perceive it differently. It will usually appear to

as they interfere with the Institute's sophisticated Hemi-

you in a

Sync mastering

form that you are comfortable with. Your second body can

process.

perceive

Q: There’s no indication of right or left ear on any of the

another's second body.

later tapes.

On the technical side...

It is still important to have the headphones on correctly?

Q: There's noise on my tapes. They all have a hissing

A: No. On the earlier tapes, we make a distinction because

sound which I can

of the design

only partially filter out with the Dolby switch an my stereo.

of those tapes. However, the techniques and sound

Are my tapes

combinations on the

defective?

latter tapes are more sophisticated, and do not require any

A: No. The hissing or „tape noise” sound is intentional. It's

right-ear/left-ear adjustment.

known as

Q: Is the „clicking” sound on some of my tapes normal?

A: No. If you are hearing disconcerting clicking or popping

is better to have the volume too low than too high.

sounds on a

Q: What is the difference between hypnosis and Hemi-

tape (versus the „tape hiss” or „tooth brushing” of the pink

Sync?

sound), it

A: The term „hypnosis” is open to many interpretations.

may be defective. First, be sure the clicking is on the tape

People often

and not

regard hypnosis as a process of being led into a state of

coming from your tape player. If you have a defective tape,

high

return it to

suggestibility and relinquishing control to the hypnotist. On

us for replacement. As soon as we receive it, we will send

the other

you a

hand, Hemi-Sync is designed to allow the individual to

replacement at no charge.

consciously control

Q: I find the recording level on the tapes is high and the VU

and manipulate his/her own states of awareness. With

needle on

self-, or auto-,

our cassette deck often kicks into the red area. Is this

hypnosis the individual relaxes him/ herself, moves to a

okay?

desired state of

A: Most recorded material will peak in the red area. This

awareness, and consciously directs the exercise. Although

will occur more

similar in this

frequently with some cassette deck players than with

regard, Hemi-Sync, with its special frequencies, assists the

others. As long as

listener in

there is no distortion of the sound, it presents no problem.

achieving the desired state of consciousness much more

However, we

quickly. (For more information on Hemi-Sync, please refer

do suggest that the Hemi-Sync exercises be listened to at

to Brain Power on page 8.)

a low level. It

Q: Are Hemi-Sync tapes subliminal?

A: No. „Subliminal” implies that a specific verbal message

Q: What are the differences in the Gateway Experience,

(in the case of

the Gateway Voyage, and Guidelines?

audio cassette tapes) is recorded below audible level and

A: The Gateway Experience is the home-study course

often at high

based on the week-long Gateway Voyage. It is also used

speed. The intention is to imbed a particular thought in the

by those who have taken the Voyage and would like a

mind of the

refresher and/or reinforcement of the techniques learned –

listener. By comparison, Hemi-Sync signals, although

as well as for continued exploration. Many of the Gateway

recorded at a

Experience and

subaudible level, are not verbal messages and are not

Gateway Voyage tapes are the same. Both programs

recorded at high

assist you in a wide

speed. The intention of the Hemi-Sync signals is to assist

exploration of consciousness. However, Gateway

the listener

Experience tapes implement Focus 10 and 12, while

into a state of awareness conducive to the development of

participants in the Gateway Voyage also experience

a self-directed

Focus 15 (No Time, No Space) and Focus 21 (Other

experience. Several Hemi-Sync tapes contain sleep

Energy Systems) as well.

periods during which

Guidelines, a six-day Gateway graduate program is open

verbal guidance is recorded at a very low level so as not to

only to those who

awaken the

have completed a Gateway Voyage. Guidelines utilizes all

listener. The script during these periods is a repetition of

Focus levels,

the

with a concentration of Focus 15 and Focus 21. At

information heard previously on the tape.

Guidelines, the emphasis

I nstitute programs ...

is on learning more about guidance – in whatever manner guidance manifests

to you personally.

practicing the techniques you have learned. Just as

Q: When will Focus 15 tapes be made available?

people's experiences

A: (For those of you who have not experienced the week­

with Focus 12 vary greatly, so does the experience of

long Gateway

Focus 15. The intent

Voyage, Focus 15 and Focus 21 tapes, which open areas

and desire to go beyond Focus 12, to continue to expand

of „no time” and

and experience is

beyond, are a highlight of the program.)

what is needed more than a specific tape.

At this time there are not even rumors that Focus 15 tapes

Q: What is the Personal Resource Exploration Program?

might be made

A: The Personal Resource Exploration Program (PREP)

available outside the Institute. Those of you who have

provides individual

experienced them

sessions for self-exploration utilizing the Institute's

are undoubtedly aware of their potency, and remember the

research

carefully

laboratory isolation booth. These sessions, like the

controlled environment in which you listened to them here

Explorer Program

at the

sessions, are facilitated by trained monitors and

Institute or other training facility. We remind you also that

technicians. The

once having

combination of Hemi-Sync, the sensory-deprivation booth,

used those tapes, the information and signals are in your

biomonitoring

mind; you can

equipment, and trained monitors guiding the exploratory

return to that level at any time you like, simply by

process, all

remembering what

converge to produce a personal growth tool, par

Focus 15 or Focus 21 felt like. Equally important is to

excellence. For more

continue

information, call or write the Institute.

Q: I’m going to be in Virginia on my vacation and would like

off the beaten track and therefore conducive to quiet and

to stop by

working with

and see the Institute and find out what's happening there.

sensitive equipment. After considering the above, if you

Where is Faber,

would like to drop by for a visit, please phone ahead so we

Virginia?

can schedule you an appointment with a staff member.

A: The Institute is located in Nelson County, Virginia, about thirty miles south of Charlottesville. While we are always happy to meet our many friends of the Gateway Experience, there is not a lot for you to see here because of the nature of our work. Our administrative building is simply a very busy office as we process your orders, correspondence, and course registrations. Just up the road, the Residential Center, Laboratory, and Conference Center are restricted areas while programs are in progress. (As I am sure you can understand by this time, silence is important.) One of the reasons for locating the Institute in this area is the fact that it is

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