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designed to use the expanded awareness and highly focused attentiveness associated
with the Focus
12 state to imagine various colors in
a particularly intense and
vivid manner so as to use them to resonate with and in turn to activate the body
s
own energies.
Fundamentally,
in terms of practical application it is
a healing
technique which is designed to restore the body and to enhance its physical
capabilities by balancing,
revitalizing and retuning bodily energy flows.
It is
predicated on the principle that the body's electromagnetic field is capable of
altering its resonance pattern so as to entrain energy from the earth's
electrostatic field for its own use.
The various colors envisaged in the
imagination as part of the technique cue the mind as to which frequencies and what
specific amplitudes
are desired in connection with this entrainment and the
subsequent alterations
in bodily energy flow patterns.
That color has the capacity
to affect the human mind is well known,
and the effectuality of color in certain
kinds of healing
is
a demonstrable
fact.
For example,
application of an intense
blue light to an area of physical tumescence leads to relatively rapid and easily
observable reduction in the swelling while
red,
and to
a lesser extent,
yellow have
quite the opposite effect.
However,
in the Hemi-Sync application of the technique
external light sources are not involved but,
rather,
the mind is the
sole agent of
the healing and revitalization.
D.
Energy Bar Tool.
Magic wands and enchanted sceptors have been part
of the
folklore and occult practices
of many cultures.
The scepters,
staffs and maces
carried by monarchs and high priests alike occur with such frequency in the history
of bygone eras as to suggest that at the very least these items are aspects of
some
type of archtypical symbol which the human mind seems to appreciate,
perhaps quite
subliminally .
In any case,
the energy bar tool technique involves envisaging
a
small,
intensely pulsating dot of
light which the participant charges in his
imagination with enormous energy until
it is virtually pulsating.
The participant
then extrudes the dot into the shape of
a sparkling,
vibrating cylinder
of energy
which he then uses to channel force from the universe to selected parts of his body
for purposes of healing and revitalization*
E.
Remote Viewing.
In addition,
the energy bar tool is used as a portal for
initiating
a follow-on technique called "remote viewing."
In this context,
the
participant turns his bar of energy into
a whirling vortex through which he sends
his imagination in search of new and illuminating insights.
The apparent purpose
of the symbolism involved in the vortex seems to be to cue the subconscious and
convey to it instructions
as to what the participant wishes to do but in terms
of
nonverbal symbols which the right hemisphere
of
the mind is capable of
understanding
.
F.
Living Body Map.
This technique provides amplification for application of
the energy bar tool as
a means of healing specific areas or systems
of
the human
body.
The configuration of
the participant’s body
is imagined and then the various
major systems such as the nervous and circulatory systems
are envisaged in
appropriate colors within the confines
of
the outline being held in the
imagination.
The energy bar tool
is then applied to energizing,
balancing and
healing in whatever manner the participant desires.
In the process,
the
participant visualizes various streams of colored energy flowing out of the tool
into the organ system or area upon which the revitalizing or healing application is
being made.
Since colors are the result of differing wavelengths
of
light, which
is to say energy at various frequencies,
this technique operates on the
assumption
that as the human body is composed of energy it can be vitalized and healed through
the additive application of additional energy provided that the energy
is applied
in the appropriate form.
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Focus
15:
Travel into the Past.
All
of
the preceding techniques are
conducted at the level
of expanded awareness known as Focus
12.
However,
the
technique
of time travel into the past involves further expansion of consciousness
through the inclusion of additional levels of sound on the Hemi-Sync tapes.
Some
of
the
sound is probably merely an intensification of
the basic Hemi-Sync
frequencies,
being designed to further modify brainwave frequency and amplitude.
Other aspects of the added sound patterns appear to be designed to provide subtle,
almost subliminal suggestions to the mind as to what is desired by way of further
expanded consciousness
so as to support the verbal suggestions and instructions
also contained on the tape.
Even the instructions are highly symbolic, with time
being visualized as
a huge wheel in the universe with various spokes each of which
gives access to
a different part of the participant’s past.
Focus
is
a very
advanced state and
is extremely difficult to achieve.
Probably
less than
f ive
percent of all participants in any given Gateway Experience actually fully achieve
the Focus
state during the course of the approximately seven days
of training.
Nonetheless, Monroe Institute trainers affirm that with enough practice, .eventually
Focus
15 can be achieved.
They also state that not only the individual's past
history
is available for examination by one who has achieved Focus
15 but other
aspects
of
the past with which the
individual himself has had no connection may
also be accessed,
H.
Focus
21s
The Future.
The last and most advanced of
all the Focus states
associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the
boundaries of time-space as
in Focus
15 but with attention to discovering the
future rather than the past.
The individual who has achieved this state has
reached a truly advanced level.
Except
in unusual circumstances,
it
is probably
not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through long
application of meditation or by those who have practiced long and hard through use
of the Hemi-Sync tapes for a period of months
if not years.
31.
The Out-of-Body Movement.
This remarkable phenomenon has been saved for
discussion in detail until last because
of the interest which it occasions and
special circumstances involved in its attainment.
Monroe Institute stresses that
the Gateway program was not established solely for the purpose of enabling
participants to obtain the out-of-body state nor does the program guarantee that
most participants will succeed in doing it during the course
of the training at the
Institute.
Only one tape out of
the many which make up the Gateway Experience
is
devoted to the techniques involved in the out-of-body movement.
Basically,
these
techniques are merely designed to make
it easier for the individual to achieve the
out-of-body state when his brainwave pattern and personal energy levels have
reached
a point that he
is
in apparent harmony with his surrounding electromagnetic
environment such that he feels that he has reached the threshhold where separation
is
a possibility.
To facilitate achieving the out-of-body state,
Bob Monroe,
the
founder of Monroe Institute,
is quoted in
a recent magazine article as saying that
in order to assist the participant the particular Hemi-Sync tape concerned with
that technique employs Beta signals
of
"around 2877.3 CPS ."( cycles per second).
Since
30 to 40 CPS
is considered to be the normal range for Beta brainwave
signals (those associated with the wakeful
state),
it
is apparent that the Monroe
Institute is convinced that the same heightened state of brainwave frequency output
which promotes altered states
of consciousness
is also an important consideration
in assisting
in achievement
of out-of-body states.
The actual techniques employed
for separating from the body involve such simple maneuvers
as rolling out,
lifting
out after the fashion of
a telephone pole wherein the individual separates in
a
rigid,
headfirst manner (such that he finds himself
standing at attention at the
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and sliding out through either end of his body.
32.
Role
of REM Sleep.
It is interesting to note that Bob Monroe informed the
Gateway class that finished
7 May 1983 that an ex-trainer of his operating
in
Charlottesville, Virginia found that he could guarantee out-of-body movements by
bringing participants down into a rapid eye movement (REM)
state
of
sleep and then
use the Hemi-Sync tape technique.
This may well
be
a function of
the fact that
most
if not all people reputedly go into an out-of-body state during REM sleep.
REM sleep is the deepest possible level of ordinary sleep and involves complete
disengagement of the body’s motor cortex functions from the neck down and nearly
complete suppression of consciousness in the left brain hemisphere.
The effect
of
this
is to put the body in a state
of complete stillness so far as the skeletal
muscle structure is concerned,
thereby further promoting the state of deep rest
needed to eliminate the bifurcation echo.
In addition,
it leaves the right
hemisphere of the brain free to respond to the instructions and suggestions
contained on the Gateway tape.
However,
use
of
the Hemi-Sync tapes at this point
may be less
a factor in actually achieving the out-of-body state than it is
a
matter of focusing the brain enough so that
a residual memory of having naturally
achieved an out-of-body state is carried into the waking state.
Indeed,
it may
even be postulated that some dreams associated with deep levels of
sleep are in
fact functions
of the same kind of altered consciousness involved in interaction
with the universe that plays a role in all of the Focus
12,
15 and 21 states
described above.
The difference between those states and the condition of the mind
in REM sleep seems to be that the left hemisphere
is almost totally disengaged m
the latter experience such that memory of what was achieved in the altered states
of consciousness cannot usually be retrieved by conscious desire because the
left
hemisphere has no knowledge of its existence or its location in the right
hemisphere.
Admittedly,
some people can be trained to remember their REM state
dreams through intense conditioning in the waking state but even that may be more
a
function of establishing pathways
in the right hemisphere which the
left hemisphere
can access following reentry into the wakeful state than it is an indication of any
specific left hemisphere conscious involvement in the process during REM sleep.
In
any event,
the three apparent conditions required for voluntarily inducing an
out-of-body state in most individuals seems to
be:
(1)
achievement of
a state
of
profound quiet in the body such that the bifurcation echo fades and resonance at
approximately
7 Hertz
is established,
(2)
synchronization of the two brain
hemisphere wave patterns,
and
(3)
subsequent stimulation of
the right hemisphere
of
the mind to attain a state of heightened alertness( which,
of
course,
interferes
with brain hemisphere synchronization but not until a sufficient level of enhanced
frequency range has first been established to help achieve the out-of-body state).
33.
Information Collection Potential.
The information acquisition potential
associated with the out-of-body state seems to attract the most attention from the
standpoint of developing practical applications for the Gateway technique.
Unfortunately,
although the out-of-body state can apparently be achieved by many
people without excessive expenditure of time or effort,
the purposes to which it
can be put are currently limited by the fact that although individuals in that
state may travel anywhere on an instantaneous basis in either the terrestrial
or in
other spheres,
information distortion in the former context remains
a major
concern.
To date,
according to one of the trainers at Monroe Institute,
numerous
experiments have been conducted involving persons moving from one coast to the
other in the out-of-body state to read a series
of ten computer generated numbers
in a university laboratory.
Although most have aquired enough of
the digits to
make clear that their consciousness was present none have ever succeeded in getting
all ten correct.
This seems to be
a function of
the fact that physical reality
in
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the present is not the only holographic influence which the individual may
encounter in an out-of-body state.
There are also energy patterns left by people
or events occurring at the same physical site being viewed,
but from the past
rather than the present.
In addition,
since thoughts are the product of energy
patterns,
and energy patterns are reality,
it may also be possible that individua
s
encounter thought forms while in an out-of-body state which mingle with physica
reality and are not easily differentiated.
Finally,
as Melissa Jager writes,
there
is another potential problem area in the sense that holograms can be viewed
pseudoscopically,
that
is to say inside out or backwards just as well as they can
be seen in proper perspective.
Some of
the distortions occurring may ultimately
prove to be traceable to this cause because in the out-of-body state an individual
may perceive the holographic energy patterns given off
by people or things
interacting in time-space reality in a somewhat distorted form.
34.
Belief System Considerations.
In 1967, Alexandra David-Neel and Llama Yongden
wrote
a book entitled Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects ,
from which
the following quote
is taken:
"The tangible world is movement,
say the Masters,
not a collection of moving
objects,
but movement itself.
There are no objects
"in movement,"
it is the
movement which constitutes the objects which appear to us:
They are nothing
but movement.
This movement
is
a continued and infinitely rapid succession of flashes of
energy( in Tibetan "tsal"
or "shoug").
All objects perceptible to our senses
all phenomena
of whatever kind and whatever aspect they may assume,
are
constituted by
a rapid succession of instantaneous events."
The classic description of the universal hologram is to be found in
a Hindu sutra
which says:
"In the heaven of Indra there
is
said to
be
a network of pearls
so arranged
that
if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it."
I have cited this quotation because
it shows that the concept of
the universe whic
at least some physicists are now coming to accept is identical in its essential
aspects with the one known to the learned elite in selected civilizations and
cultures
of high attainment in the ancient world.
The concept of the cosmic
egg,
for example,
is well known to scholars familiar with the ancient writings of
the
eastern religions.
Nor are the theories presented in this paper at variance wit
the essential tenets of the Judeo-Christian stream of thought.
The concept of
visible reality (i.e.
the "created" world)
as being an emanation of an omnipotent
and omniscient divinity who is completely unknowable
in his primary state of
being.
The Absolute at rest in infinity is
a concept straight out of Hebrew
mystical philosophy.
Even the Christian concept of the Trinity shines through the
description of the Absolute as presented in this paper.
The description of energy
totally
at
rest,
in infinity fits the Christian metaphysical concept of the Father
while the infinite self-consciousness resident in that energy providing the motive
force of will to bring a portion
of
that energy into motion to create reality
corresponds with the Son.
This
is so because in order to attain
self-consciousness,
the consciousness
of
the Absolute must project
a hologram of
itself and then perceive
it.
That hologram is a mirror image
of
the Absolute in
infinity,
still exists outside time and space,
but
is one step removed from the
Absolute and is the actual agent of all creation(all reality).
And,
the eternal
thought or concept
of self which results from this self-consciousness serves the
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