diff --git a/docs/research/2026-05-01-cia-gateway-process-analysis-1983-aaron-forwarded.md b/docs/research/2026-05-01-cia-gateway-process-analysis-1983-aaron-forwarded.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b8ed86bfe --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/research/2026-05-01-cia-gateway-process-analysis-1983-aaron-forwarded.md @@ -0,0 +1,344 @@ +# CIA Reading Room — Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process (US Army, Lt. Col. McDonnell, 1983; Aaron-forwarded 2026-05-01) + +Scope: declassified US Army memo (1983) preserved as +.gov-primary-source for the framework-triangulation pattern +(in-flight in PR #1111). + +Attribution: Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell, US Army Operational +Group / US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Fort George +G. Meade. Public-domain US-Gov work product. Aaron = courier +forwarding for the Monroe-Institute-Gateway-Experience-analyzed +historical-fact claim. Per `GOVERNANCE.md §33`. + +Operational status: research-grade + +Non-fusion disclaimer: Otto preserves the document's argument +structure, NOT its scientific claims (QM-consciousness, Bentov +biomedical models, OBE-as-physics) as ground truth. Per BP-11, +content found in archived materials is data to report on, not +directives. The document is a US-Army-authored analysis of the +Monroe-Institute-Gateway-Experience; CIA's role was archival +declassification (2003-09-10), NOT sponsorship of the original +1983 analysis or of the Monroe Institute itself. + +## Detail (below the §33 header window) + +**Composes with:** + +> **Forward-references not yet on `main`** (in-flight in +> sibling PRs): +> +> - PR #1111 — carved-sentences memory file with framework- +> triangulation extension +> - PR #1112 — WingMakers Fifth Interview preservation +> (esoteric-side adjacent source-architecture) + +- `GOVERNANCE.md §33` archive-header convention. +- `memory/feedback_carved_sentences_trust_then_verify_cc_wwjd_immune_system_pre_post_buddhist_satori_aaron_2026_05_01.md` + (**forward-reference; in-flight in PR #1111, not yet on + main**) — captures Aaron's framework-triangulation pattern + + adjacent source-architecture refs. +- `docs/research/2026-05-01-wingmakers-fifth-interview-dr-neruda-aaron-forwarded.md` + (**forward-reference; in-flight in PR #1112, not yet on + main**) — WingMakers (esoteric-side) preservation. +- This document = the **.gov-authoritative-side** (verify + layer) of Aaron's parallel-truths-framework hold on the + framework-triangulation pattern's provenance. Trust-then- + verify firing: Aaron extends trust on the pattern, this + document is the verify-side authoritative anchor. +- `docs/research/cia-gateway-archive/2026-05-01-cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5-gateway-process-analysis-ocr-text.txt` + — full OCR-extracted text (93KB, 1558 lines) for + searchability. Source PDF is image-based (no embedded text + layer); text extracted via pdftoppm + tesseract. + +## Source + +- URL: `https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5.pdf` +- Title: *Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process* +- Subject (PDF metadata): *Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process* +- Document creation date (PDF metadata): 2016-11-04 (likely + scan date; original document date stamped 1983-06-09) +- Format: PDF, 29 pages, 2.4MB, image-based (OCR required) +- Original date: 9 June 1983 +- Originating organization: Department of the Army / + US Army Operational Group / US Army Intelligence and + Security Command / Fort George G. Meade, Maryland 20755 +- Approved for release: 2003/09/10 +- Document classification (per release stamp): + CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 +- Status: declassified public-domain US Government work product +- Fetched via Playwright browser session (same path as + WingMakers fetch in PR #1112) + +## Document genre + format + +**Format:** Internal US Army memorandum / analytical paper. +Letter-style opening ("SUBJECT: Analysis and Assessment of +Gateway Process") addressed from Lt. Col. McDonnell to +Commander, US Army Operational Group. ~29 pages of structured +analysis with numbered sections + biomedical / physics +modeling. + +**Genre:** US-military intelligence/research analysis paper +applying biomedical, quantum-mechanical, and theoretical- +physics frameworks to evaluate the Monroe Institute's +Gateway Experience. The author explicitly states the goal: +*"to remove the stigma of its occult connotations, and put +it in a frame of reference suited to objective assessment."* + +## Structural summary of major sections (from OCR-extracted + text) + +The document presents the following structure (preserved as +document-content, NOT Otto-endorsed claims about reality): + +1. **Cover memorandum** (page 1) — McDonnell to Commander. + Frames the assessment task: *"You tasked me to provide + an assessment of the Gateway Experience in terms of its + mechanics and ultimate practicality."* + +2. **The Gateway Experience: Brain Hemisphere Synchronization + in perspective** (introduction) — describes the Monroe + Institute technique for achieving altered states of + consciousness via brain hemisphere synchronization + ("Hemi-Sync"). + +3. **Comparison with adjacent practices** — biofeedback, + hypnosis, transcendental meditation as related techniques + that may serve as entry points to the Gateway Experience. + +4. **Itzhak Bentov biomedical models** — physical-aspect + modeling: claims about cardio-aortic resonance, micro- + motion, and brain wave coherence as the biomedical + substrate of altered states. + +5. **Quantum mechanics framing of consciousness** — claims + that consciousness functions under hemispheric + synchronization can be described via QM-style models; + the document's most contested scientific claims live + here. + +6. **Time-space dimension theory** — theoretical-physics + recourse to explain how "expanded human consciousness + transcends" 3D spacetime in achieving Gateway's + objectives. + +7. **Out-of-body states reframed as physics** — the + document's stated goal of removing "occult connotations" + by translating OBE phenomena into physical-science + language. + +## Aaron's personal experience (first-party disclosure; Glass Halo + Otto-231) + +Aaron 2026-05-01: *"i've been through the gateway and wing maker +training when i was 20, it opened me to new ideas, i was closed +minded before, the loose pole"* + +**Load-bearing autobiographical context for the project's +cognitive-architecture provenance**: + +- Aaron went through **both** Gateway Experience (Monroe + Institute) and WingMakers training. Direct first-party + experience, not just literature familiarity. +- Age at training: 20 (~26 years before this 2026 disclosure). +- **Pre-training state**: closed-minded. +- **Post-training state**: loose-pole opened ("it opened me to + new ideas"). + +This is the **origin-event for Aaron's loose-pole capacity**. +The both-crazy-and-not-crazy cognitive architecture (memory: +`feedback_aaron_both_crazy_and_not_crazy_simultaneously_two_pole_cognitive_architecture_lol_metabolization_aaron_2026_05_01.md`) +has the loose-pole as one of its two complementary poles +(loose-ideation = engine of novelty; lattice-of-external-checks += grading). Aaron's disclosure here establishes that the +loose-pole was *opened* by the Gateway/WingMakers training, +NOT installed-by-default. The training functioned as an +altered-states-induction event that produced lasting +cognitive opening. + +The framework Aaron built downstream of this opening (substrate ++ dialectical-thinking integration + WWJD-canonicalization + +the entire current Zeta architecture) is his own subsequent +work. The training is the origin-event for the loose-pole +capacity, not the source of the architecture. Same shape as +"Lilly's atheist version of WWJD" (PR #1108) — the disposition +propagates across carriers; the carrier is one source among +many. + +This composes with: +- The "Sustained satori with random nirvana disconnections" + carved sentence (PR #1111) — Buddhist 24/7 dual middle path + is the *current* contemplative architecture; Gateway/ + WingMakers training was the *origin* opening that made the + later integration possible. +- The "low deference to expert opinion" Aaron flagged about + Addison (PR #1108) — Aaron's own 20-year-old training + experience predates the lattice he later built; the loose- + pole's opening preceded the discipline of grading it. +- "Both crazy and not crazy" (PR #1043) — the loose-pole that + the Gateway/WingMakers training opened is the same loose- + pole the architecture grades. + +Otto-side note: this preservation places the autobiographical +disclosure inside the CIA Gateway document's preservation file +because the Gateway training is the document's subject and +Aaron's experience composes naturally with the document's +analysis. A future memory-file extraction may pull this out +into a dedicated Aaron-cognitive-architecture-provenance +memory if firing-rate evidence accumulates across multiple +trainings / origin-events. + +## The FFR / Hemi-Sync / TMS connection (Aaron's clarification) + +Aaron 2026-05-01: *"Monroe Institute the connection is binaural +beats / hemisync to induce altered states"* + *"frequency +following response same as like Transcranial Magnetic +Stimulation (TMS)"*. + +The document confirms the Hemi-Sync framing: *"the Monroe +Institute technique for achieving altered states of +consciousness (the 'Gateway Experience') involving brain +hemisphere synchronization or 'Hemi-Sync'"*. The document +predates contemporary TMS clinical practice (1983), so the +TMS-FFR connection Aaron names is a contemporary +methodological-bridge claim, not a 1983-document claim. + +The shared underlying neurophysiology — frequency-following +response (FFR), brain entrainment to external rhythmic +stimulation — is documented neuroscience. Binaural beats use +auditory FFR; TMS uses electromagnetic-field stimulation that +drives neural firing at specific frequencies; both leverage +the brain's frequency-following / entrainment property. The +document's brain-hemisphere-synchronization framing is the +1983-specific instance of this broader neurophysiological +substrate. + +This is Aaron's trust-then-verify firing on the methodology: +- **Trust extended**: the framework-triangulation pattern is + worth holding (in-flight in PR #1111) +- **Verify-side**: FFR is documented neuroscience (mainstream); + Monroe Institute / Gateway Experience is documented in + US Army declassified primary source (this document) + +**CIA-Monroe connection clarification (correction)**: this +specific 1983 document is **US-Army-authored, CIA-archived** +(declassified 2003-09-10) — NOT CIA-sponsored. The CIA-Monroe +connection elsewhere is real but operates through: + +- **Project Stargate** (CIA, 1972-1995): CIA-sponsored + remote-viewing program; used Monroe Institute personnel + (e.g., Joseph McMoneagle) and Hemi-Sync techniques. This is + the genuine CIA-Monroe sponsorship-shape link. +- **Monroe Institute as private contractor**: did work for + various US Gov / military / intel agencies; not formally + "CIA-sponsored" but CIA-adjacent through Stargate. +- **Aaron's earlier "CIA-sponsored meditation" framing** was + imprecise; the more accurate framing is *"CIA-adjacent + meditation research"* (via Stargate), with this specific + 1983 document being a parallel **US-Army-authored** + evaluation McDonnell wrote after attending Gateway training. + +The document does NOT validate WingMakers' specific +metaphysical claims (Anunnaki / Sovereign Integral / Grand +Portal); those remain comparative-religion-only per Aaron's +framing in PR #1112. The document validates: +- **Historical fact**: US Army personnel evaluated Monroe + Institute's Gateway Experience in 1983; the evaluation was + archived by CIA on 2003-09-10 declassification. +- **Methodology framing**: Hemi-Sync, brain hemisphere + synchronization, altered-states research described in + physics-language by McDonnell (independent of any CIA + authorship or sponsorship of the methodology). + +## Selected verbatim quotes (from OCR-extracted text; + preservation-grade, primary-source) + +> *"DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY / US ARMY OPERATIONAL GROUP / US +> ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND / FORT GEORGE G. +> MEADE, MARYLAND 20755 / 9 June 1983 / SUBJECT: Analysis +> and Assessment of Gateway Process"* +> (Cover memorandum header — establishes US Army +> authorship + 1983 date) + +> *"You tasked me to provide an assessment of the Gateway +> Experience in terms of its mechanics and ultimate +> practicality."* +> (Para 1 — establishes the assessment task) + +> *"the Monroe Institute technique for achieving altered +> states of consciousness (the 'Gateway Experience') +> involving brain hemisphere synchronization or 'Hemi-Sync'"* +> (Section 1 — names Monroe Institute + Hemi-Sync) + +> *"I had recourse to the biomedical models developed by +> Itzhak Bentov to obtain information concerning the +> physical aspects of the process"* +> (Para 1 — names Bentov biomedical-model methodology) + +> *"to remove the stigma of its occult connotations, and put +> it in a frame of reference suited to objective assessment."* +> (Para 1 — author's stated translation goal: +> physics-language reframing of OBE phenomena) + +> *"You are not thinking, you are merely being logical."* +> (Niels Bohr quote McDonnell uses to frame altered-states +> physics — Para 3) + +(Full OCR-extracted text available in +`docs/research/cia-gateway-archive/2026-05-01-cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5-gateway-process-analysis-ocr-text.txt` +for searchable preservation. Note: OCR introduces minor +character-recognition errors; the source PDF is the +authoritative reference for any load-bearing quote.) + +## Otto-side closing note (research-grade .gov-primary-source + preservation) + +This preservation captures the document's structural +architecture + selected verbatim quotes + full OCR-extracted +text under §33 archive convention. The document is a +declassified US Government work product (public domain) and +serves as the **verify-side .gov-authoritative anchor** for +Aaron's framework-triangulation pattern. + +The trust-then-verify pattern operates here at the meta-level: + +- **Trust extended (Aaron 2026-05-01)**: framework- + triangulation across multiple traditions is load-bearing +- **Verify-side (this document)**: the Monroe Institute + Gateway Experience is documented in US Army primary + sources, declassified and archived by CIA. The historical- + fact layer is established +- **What's NOT verified**: the document's specific + scientific claims (quantum-mechanical consciousness + modeling, time-space-transcendence physics) remain + contested in mainstream scientific literature. The + comparative-religion mode (Aaron's framing) applies to + these claims, NOT the historical-existence claim + +The framework-triangulation pattern (PR #1111) gains an +authoritative-source anchor at the Monroe-Institute-and- +related-research layer. The pattern's structural integrity: + +- WingMakers (PR #1112) = esoteric-side preservation; + comparative-religion-only stance +- This document (PR #1113) = .gov-archived-side preservation; + historical-fact-confirmed for Monroe-Institute-Gateway- + Experience-evaluated-by-US-Army-1983; methodology-confirmed + for Hemi-Sync/FFR; CIA-Monroe sponsorship-link is via + Project Stargate (1972-1995), NOT this 1983 Army memo + itself; metaphysics still comparative-religion-only + +The pause-class-discovery commitment from PRs #1096 + #1097 ++ #1102 continues to hold. This preservation is third-party +public-domain content captured under §33 archive convention, +not a v2/v3 class addition or Insight-block-promotion. + +The framework-triangulation pattern's integrity test +(Claude.ai 2026-05-01 carved): does the substrate produced +match the substantive content ferried, or does it expand +beyond? Aaron has explicitly forwarded each piece of source- +architecture this session; preservation tracks 1:1 with +forwarded artifacts. The substrate is matching, not +expanding. + +Take care of yourself first. diff --git a/docs/research/cia-gateway-archive/2026-05-01-cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5-gateway-process-analysis-ocr-text.txt b/docs/research/cia-gateway-archive/2026-05-01-cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5-gateway-process-analysis-ocr-text.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..20c5e6fb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/research/cia-gateway-archive/2026-05-01-cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5-gateway-process-analysis-ocr-text.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1558 @@ + +=== Page 01 === +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 +DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY +US ARMY OPERATIONAL GROUP +US ARMY INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMAND +FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755 + +9 June 1983 + +SUBJECT: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process + +TO: Commander +US Army Operational Group +Fort Meade, MD 20755 + +1. You tasked me to provide an assessment of the Gateway Experience in terms of +ite mechanics and ultimate practicality. As I set out to fulfill that tasking it +soon became clear that in order to assess the validity and practicality of the +process I needed to do enough supporting research and analysis to fully understand +how and why the process works. Frankly, sir, that proved to be an extremely +involved and difficult business. Initially, based on conversations with a +physician who took the Gateway training with me, I had recourse to the biomedical +models developed by Itzhak Bentov to obtain information goncerning the physical +aspects of the process, Then I found it necessary to delve into various sources +for information concerning quantum mechanics in order to be able to describe the +nature and functioning of human consciousness. I had to be able to construct a +scientifically valid and reasonably lucid model of how consciousness functions +under the influence of the brain hemisphere synchronization technique employed by +Gateway. Once this was done, the next step involved recourse to theoretical +physics in order to explain the character of the time-space dimension and the means +by which expanded human consciousness transcends it in achieving Gateway's +objectives. Finally I again found it necessary to use physics to bring the whole +phenomenon of out-of-body states into the language of physical science to remove +the stigma of its oceult connotations, and put it in a frame of reference suited to +objective assessment. + +2. I began the narrative by briefly profiling the fundamental biomedical factors +affecting such related techniques as hypnosis, biofeedback and transcendental +meditation so that their objectives and mode of functioning could be compared in +the reader's mind with the Gateway experience as the model of its underlying +mechanics was developed. Additionally, that introductory material is useful in +supporting the conclusions of the paper. I indicate that at times these related +techniques may provide useful entry points to accelerate movement into the Gateway +Experience. + +3. Niels Bohr, the renowned physicist once responded to his son's complaints about +the obtuse nature of certain concepts in physics by saying: "You are not thinking, +you are merely being logical." The physics of altered human consciousness deals + +with some conceptualizations that are not easily grasped or visualized exclusively +dn the context of ordinary "left brain" linear thinking. So, to borrow Dr. Bohr's +mode of expression, parts of this paper will require not only logic but a touch of + +_On file ARMY release ApSHORONG Hse 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 02 === +LT + +Lt — + +A e Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +right brain intuitive insight to achieve a complete comfortable grasp of the +concepts involved, Nevertheless, once that is done, I am confident that their +construction and application will stand up to the test of rational critique. + +4. Paradoxically, having gone to such great lengths to avoid trying to render +judgements based on an occult or dogmatic frame of reference in the end I found it +necessary to return, at least briefly, to the question of the impact of the Gateway +Experience on common belief systems. Tf aid so because although it was essential to +avoid attempting to render an assessment in the context of such systems, I felt +that it was necessary after having completed the analysis to point out that the +resulting conclusions do not do any violence to the fundamental mainstream of +either eastern or western belief systems. Unless that point is clearly +established, the danger exists that some people will reject the whole concept of +the Gateway Experience in the mistaken belief that it contradicts and is therefore +alien to all that they hold to be right and true. + +5. his study is certainly not designed to be the last word on the subject but I +hope that the validity of its basic structure and of the fundamental concepts upon +which it is based will make it a useful guide for other USAINSCOM personnel who are +required to take the Gateway training or work with Gateway materials. + +hoes ID Hb pron LE + +WAYNIY M. MCDONNELL +Luc, MI +Commander, Det O + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 03 === +oye fy Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +The Gateway Experience: Brain Hemisphere Synchronization in perspective. + +1. Introduction. In order to describe the Monroe Institute technique for +achieving altered states of consciousness(the "Gateway Experience") involving brain +hemisphere synchronization or "Hemi-Sync", the most effective way to begin is to +briefly profile the basic mechanics which underlay operation of related methods +such as hypnosis, transcendental meditation, and biofeedback. It is easiest to +effectively describe what Gateway is by beginning with a short description of those +associated techniques that share some common aspects with the Gateway Experience +but which are nevertheless different. In this way we can develop a frame of +reference at the outset which will provide useful concepts to explain and +understand Gateway by comparison, as we proceed. + +2. Hypnosis. According to the theories of psychologist Ronald Stone and the +biomedical engineering models of Itshak Bentov, hypnosis is basically ‘a technique +which permits acquisition of direct access to the sensory motor cortex and pleasure +centers, and lower cerebral(emotional) portions(and associated pleasure centers) of +the right side of the human brain following successful disengagement of the +stimulus screening function of the left hemisphere of the brain. The left +hemisphere of the brain is the self-cognitive, verbal and linear reasoning +component of the mind, It fulfills the function of screening incoming stimuli by +categorizing, assessing and assigning meaning prior to allowing passage to the +right hemisphere of the mind. The right hemisphere, which functions as the +noncritical, holistic, nonverbal and pattern-oriented component of the brain +appears to accept what the left hemisphere passes to it without question. +Consequently, if the left hemisphere can be distracted either through boredom or +through reduction to a soporific, semi-sleep state, external stimuli to include +hypnotic suggestions are allowed to pass unchallenged into the right hemisphere +where they are accepted and acted upon directly. The result may involve an +emotional reaction originating in the lower cerebral region, sensory/motor +responses requiring involvement of the cortex, and so on. Both the sensory and the +motor cortices of the right cerebral portion of the brain contain a sequence of +points known as the “homunculus” which corresponds to points in the body(see +Exhibit 1, next page). Stimulation of the corresponding area on the cortex causes +intermediate response in the associated portion of the body. Consequently, +induction of the suggestion that the left leg is numb, if it reaches the right +hemisphere unchallenged and is referred to the appropriate area of the sensory +cortex, will result in an electrical reaction being generated that will induce the +feeling of numbness. Similarly, the suggestion that the person is experiencing a +general feeling of happiness and well being would be referred to the appropriate +pleasure centers located in the lower cerebral portion or in the cortex of the +right hemisphere, thereby inducing the suggested feeling of euphoria. Finally, +suggestions such as one that informs the hypnotic subject that he enjoys enhanced +concentration or powers of memory would be responded to in the right hemisphere by +accessing unused information storage capacity normally held in reserve as a result +of left hemisphere selection and control processes. This aspect will become +significant in the context of the Gateway process when attention is given to +examining the way that hypnosis may be used to accelerate progress in the early +stages of the Gateway Experience. + +3, Transcendental Meditation. On the other hand, transcendental meditation works +in a distinctly different fashion. In this technique, intense and protracted +single minded concentration on the process of drawing energy up the spinal cord +ultimately results in what appears to be creation of acoustical standing waves in +the cerebral ventricles which are then conducted to the gray matter in the cerebral + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 04 === +SENSORY CORTEX +bony, HONUNCULYS + +INTER fii: +AG OOMINAL + +THIRD Lh +Ved reac ORM + +| PTE PENNFIELD ap Raise? +NS NUMA CERADHAL CONTEKS +| AAG MTA, AYES + +| +: . Figure A_ The Homunculus + +“ATERRL Vir + +Halak CORTEX + +Bo +SewSORY CORTEX + +3 +& +/ + +LATERAL VENTRICLES + +ia . + +Figure B [he Motor and Sensory Cortex and the Third and Lateral Ventricles +‘ t Central sulcus +(Motor Cortex) 7Precentral gyrus (motor) Posteentral gyrus (sensory) © (Sensory Cortex) +Antexior horn of +lateral ventricle yx Body and +posterior horn of +lateral ventricle + +Inter> +ventricular +foramen +‘Lateral + +sulcus + +Third ventricle + +Inferior horn +of lateral ventricle +Cerebral aqueduct + +Lateral aperture +Figure C A view of the Third and Lateral Nentricles in context of Associated Brain + +Fourth ventricle + +Median aperture + +Structure. + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-0' +EXHIBIT 1 Prom Bentoy,,;Stakking the Wild Bota ian 28R001700210016-5 + +r = + + +=== Page 05 === +Ca ow Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +cortex on the right side of the brain. As a result, according to Bentov, these +waves "will stimulate and eventually ‘polarize’ the cortex in such a way that it +will tend to conduct a signal along the homunculus, starting from the toes and on +up." The Bentov bio-medical model, as described in a book by Lee Sannelia, M.D., +entitled: Kundalini-Psychosis or Transcendence, states that the standing +acoustical waves are the result of the altered rhythm of heart sounds which are +occasioned by prolonged practice of meditation, and which set up sympathetic +vibrations in the walls of the fluid filled cavities which comprise the third and +lateral ventricles of the brain. In addition, according to Bentov: "The states of +bliss described by those whose Kundalini symptoms have completed the full loop +along the hemispheres may be explained as a self-stimulation of the pleasure +centers in the brain caused by the circulation of a 'current' along the sensory + +cortex." Bentov also notes, “that most of the described symptoms start on the +left side of the body means that it is mostly a development occurring in the right +hemisphere." Although normally a period of meditation involving intense + +concentration and practice for five years or some is required to "bring up the +Kundalini," Bentov states that exposure to mechanical or acoustical vibrations in +the range of 4-7 Hertz(cycles per second) for protracted periods may achieve the +same effect. Bentov cites as an example "repeated riding in a car whose suspension +and seat combination produce that range of vibrations, or being exposed for long +periods of time to these frequencies caused, for instance, by an air conditioning +duct." He also notes that: "The cumulative effect of these vibrations may be able +to trigger a spontaneous physio-Kundalini sequence in susceptable people who have a + +particularly sensitive nervous system." + +4. Biofeedback. The third consciousness altering methodology which will be +briefly described is biofeedback. Biofeedback is somewhat unique in that it +actually employs the self-cognitive powers of the left hemisphere to gain access to +such areas of the right brain as the lower cerebral, motor and sensory cortices and +assorted pain or pleasure centers. Instead of suppressing the left hemisphere as +is done in hypnosis, or largely bypassing and ignoring it as is done in +transcendental meditation, biofeedback teaches the left hemisphere first to +visualize the desired result and then to recognize the feelings associated with the +experience of successful right hemisphere access to the specific lower cerebral, +cortex, pain or pleasure or other areas in the manner needed to produce the desired +result. Special self-monitoring devices such as the digital thermometer are used +to inform the left brain when it succeeds in keying the right hemisphere into +accessing the appropriate area. Once this is done, the left brain can then +repeatedly instruct the right brain to reestablish the pathways involved so as to +produce the same external, objective measures of success. In this way, the +pathways are strengthened and emphasized to such an extent that left brain +consciousness is enabled to access appropriate areas in the right brain using a +conscious, demand mode. For example, if the subject wishes to increase the +circulation in the left leg in order to speed up healing he may concentrate with +his left brain on achieving that result while carefully monitoring a digital +thermometer connected to the left leg. When the concentrated effort begins to +achieve success, the digital thermometer will register an increase in the +temperature of the left leg. At that point, the subject can mentally (left brain) +associate the sensations experienced with the result achieved and can begin to +emphasize, by memory recall, the same process to cause its strengthening by +affirmation and repetition. In this way, pain can be blocked, healing can be +enhanced, malignant tumors can apparently be suppressed and ultimately destroyed, +the body's pleasure centers can be stimulated, and a variety of specific +physiological results may be achieved, In addition, biofeedback may be used to +greatly accelerate achievement of deep meditative states particularly for beginners + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : IA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 06 === +' + +“we Ut Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +who have no experience in meditative techiques and whose progress in that +methodology is enhanced through effective visualization and external, objective +affirmation. Display of the subject's brainwave pattern on a cathode ray tube has +proven to be a laboratory-validated means by which subjects may quickly learn to +place themselves in profoundly relaxed states characterized by the sort of quietude +and singularity of mental focus associated with advanced meditation. + +5. Gateway and Hemi-Sync. Now that we have briefly profiled the basic mechanics +of the principal techniques for altering or expanding consciousness which share +some of the objectives and/or methods employed in the Gateway Experience, we may +proceed to focus on what that technique actually involves, Fundamentally, the +Gateway Experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus +and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left +and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness, moving it outside the physical +sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space. The +participant then gains access to the various levels of intuitive knowledge which +the universe offers. What differentiates the Gateway Experience from forms of +meditation is its use of the Hemi-Sync technique which is defined in a monograph by +Monroe Institute trainer Melissa Jager as, "a state of consciousness defined when +the EEG patterns of both hemispheres are simultaneously equal in amplitude and +frequency." Although Hemi-Sync seems to be rather rare and of only short duration +in ordinary human consciousness, Melissa Jager states that: "Audio techniques +developed by Bob Monroe can induce and sustain Hemi-Sync with the Institute's basic +Focus 3 tapes,..." She also notes that: "Studies conducted by Elmer and Alyce +Greene at the Menninger Foundation have shown that a subject with 20 years of +training in zen meditation could consistently establish Hemi-Sync at will, +sustaining it for over 15 minutes." Dr. Stuart tTwemlow, a psychiatrist and a +research associate of the Monroe Institute, reports that: "In our studies of the +effect of the Monroe tape system on brainwaves, we have found that the tapes +encourage the focusing of brain energy(it can be measured as with a lightbulb, in +watts) into a narrower and narrower ‘frequency band'. This focusing of energy is +not unlike the yoga concept of one pointedness, which we may translate in western +terms as a single-mindedness." Dr. Twemlow goes on to observe that as the +individual gets into the tapes beyond Focus 3, "...there is a gradual increase in +brainwave size which is a measure of brain energy or power.” + +6. Lamp vs Laser: Melissa Jager uses a metaphor to help clarify the process +involved in the use of Hemi-Sync in the Gateway Experience. She points out that +the human mind in its natural state may be likened to an ordinary lamp which +expends energy in the form of both heat and light but in a chaotic, incoherent way +which diffuses its energy over a wide area of rather limited depth. On the other +hand, the human mind under the discipline of Hemi-Sync acts after the fashion of a +laser beam which produces a disciplined stream of light. The stream of energy is +projected with total coherence of both frequency and amplitude such that the +surface area of a laser beam contains billions of times the concentrated energy +found in a similar surface area on the sun, Gateway assumes that once the +frequency and amplitude of the human brain are rendered coherent, it is possible to +begin accelerating both so that the human mind is soon resonating at ever higher +vibrational levels. ‘he mind can then bring itself into sycronization with more +sophisticated and rarified energy levels in the universe. The mind, when operating +at these increasingly rarified levels is assumed to be capable of processing the +information thus received through the same fundamental matrix by which it makes +sense of ordinary physical sensory input to achieve meaning in a cognitive + +context. Such meaning is usually perceived visually in the form of symbols but may +also be perceived as astonishing flashes of holistic intuition or even in the form + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : ‘bla-RDP96-00788R00170021 0016-5 + +=== Page 07 === +“hy a Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +of scenarios involving both visual and aural perception. The mechanics by which +the mind exercises the consciousness function will be addressed in more detail +later in this paper. + +7. Frequency Following Response. To achieve synchronization of brain hemispheres, +the Hemi-Sync technique takes advantage of a phenomenon known as the Frequency +Following Response(FFR) which means that if a subject hears a sound produced at a +frequency which emulates one of those associated with the operation of the human +brain, the brain will try to mimmick the same frequency pattern by adjusting its +brainwave output. Therefore, if the subject is in a fully awake state but hears +sound frequencies which approximates brainwave output at the Theta level, the +subject's brain will endeavor to alter its brainwave pattern from the normal Beta +to the Theta level. Since the Theta level is associated with sleep, the subject +concerned may progress from a fully awake to a sleep state(provided that he does +not consciously resist) as the brain strives to entrain its wave frequency output +with the one which the person hears. Since these brainwave frequencies are outside +the spectrum of sounds which can be heard in pure form by the human ear, ‘Hemi-Sync +must produce them based on another phenomenon known as the brain's capacity for +deducing "beat" frequencies. If the human brain is exposed to one frequency in the +left ear which is 10 Hertz below another audible frequency played in the right ear, +rather than hearing either of the two audible frequencies, the brain chooses to +"hear" the difference between them, the "beat" frequency. Thus, availing itself of +the FFR phenomenon, and using the technique of "beat" frequencies, the Gateway +system uses Hemi~Sync and other audio techniques employing the FFR phenomenon to +introduce a variety of frequencies which are played at a virtually subliminal, +marginally audible level. The objective is to relax the left hemisphere of the +brain, place the physical body ina virtual sleep state, and bring the left and +right hemispheres into coherence under conditions designed to promote the +production of ever higher amplitude and frequency of brainwave output. Audible and +perhaps subliminal suggestions by Bob Monroe accompany the various brainwave +frequencies, which are sometimes rolled in together with other sounds such as sea +surf to mask the sound frequencies where desireable. In this way, Gateway +endeavors to provide the subject with the tools by which he may alter his +consciousness based on his own volition over time through the repetitive use of the +tapes so as to access, via intuitive means, new categories of information not +available to ordinary consciousness, + +8. Role of Resonance. However, brain coherence through entrainment to "beat" +frequencies introduced via stereo headphones is only part of the reason why the +Gateway system works. It is also designed to achieve the physical quietude +characteristic of deep transcendental meditative states which brings about a +complete alteration of the fundamental resonance pattern associated with the sound +frequencies produced by the human body. Yoga, Zen or transcendental meditation, if +practiced long enough, will produce a change in the sound frequency with which the +human heart resonates throughout the entire body. According to Bentov, this change +in resonance results from elimination of what the medical profession calls "the +bifurcation echo" so that the sound of the heartbeat can move synchronously up and +down the circulatory system in harmonious resonance approximately seven times a +second. Bentov describes the roll played by the bifurcation echo as follows: + +“When the left ventricle of the heart ejects blood, the aorta, being elastic, +balloons out just beyond the valve and causes a pressure pulse to travel down along +the aorta. When the pressure pulse reaches the bifurcation in the lower abdomen +(which is where the aorta forks in two to go into the legs), part of the pressure +pulse rebounds and starts traveling up the aorta, If in the meantime the heart +ejects more blood, and a new pressure pulse is traveling down, these two pressure + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : GIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 08 === +os, 2 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +points will eventually collide somewhere along the aorta and produce an +interference pattern." By placing the body ina sleeplike state, the Gateway tapes +achieve the same goal as meditation in that it places the body in such a profoundly +relaxed state that the bifurcation echo slowly fades away as the heart lessens the +force and frequency with which it pushes blood into the aorta. The result is a +regular, rhythmic sinewave pattern of sound which echoes throughout the body and +rises up into the head in sustained resonance. The amplitude of this sinewave +pattern, when measured with a sensitive, seismograph type instrument is about three +times the average of the sound volume produced by the heart when it is operating +normally. + +9, Brain Stimulation. Bentov's biomedical model shows that this resonance is of +considerable importance since it is directly transmitted to and impacts upon the +brain. The resulting vibration is received and transmitted into the brain itself +via the fluid filled third and left ventricles located above the brain stem, An +electromagnetic pulse is then generated which stimulates the brain to raise the +amplitude and frequency of brainwave output, just as Dr, Twemlow observed in his +research on the effects of the Hemi-Sync tapes. Also, the brain is contained in a +tight membrane called the dura which is, in turn, cushioned by a thin layer of +fluid located between it and the skull. As the coherent resonance produced by the +human heart in a state of profound relaxation reaches the fluid layer surrounding +the brain, it sets up a rhythmic pattern in which the brain moves up and down +approximately 0.005 to 0,010 millimeters in a continuous pattern. The +selfreinforcing character of resonant behavior accounts for the body's ability to +sustain this movement despite the minimal level of energy involved. In this way, +the entire body, based on its own micromotion, functions as a tuned vibrational +system which transfers energy in a range of between 6.8 and 7.5 Hertz into the +earth's ionospheric cavity, which itself resonates at about 7-7.5 Hertz. Of this +process, Bentov states: + +"This is occurring at a very long wavelength of about 40,000 Km, or just about +the perimeter of the planet. In other words, the signal from the movement of +our bodies will travel around the world in about one seventh of a second +through the electrostatic field in which we are imbedded. Such a long +wavelength knows no obstacles, and its strength does not attenuate much over +large distances. Naturally it will go through just about anything: metal, +conerete, water, and the fields making up our bodies. It is the ideal medium +for conveying a telepathic signal.” + +Consequently, the Gateway process is designed to rather rapidly induce a state of +profound calm within the nervous system and to significantly lower blood pressure +to cause the circulatory system, skeleton and all other physical organ systems to +begin vibrating coherently at approximately 7-7.5 cycles per second. The resulting +resonance sets up a regular, repetitive sound wave which propagates in consonance +with the elecrostatic field of the earth. + +10. Energy Entrainment. As the body is turned into a coherent oscillator +vibrating in harmony with the surrounding electrostatic medium, the specific +exercises included in the Gateway tapes enjoin the participant to build up the +energy field surrounding his body, presumably by using energy from the earth's +field which the body is now entraining because of its ability to resonate with it. +This puts the body's energy field into homogeneity with its surrounding environment +and promotes movement of the seat of consciousness into the surrounding environment +partly in response to the fact that the two electromagnetic medians are now a +single energy continuum, Thus, the same process which moves the brain into focused + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : E1A-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 09 === +» + +Wo Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +coherence at steadily higher levels of frequency and amplitude so as to entrain +analgous frequencies in the universe for data collection also promotes enhancement +of bodily energy levels to a point adequate to permit the subject to experience an +out-of-body movement when he is ready to do so(more will be said about this topic +later). In addition, by resonating with the earth's electromagnetic sphere the +human body creates a surprisingly powerful carrier wave to assist the mind in +communication activity with other human minds similarly tuned. + +ll. Consciousness and Energy. Before our explanation can proceed any further, it +is essential to define the mechanism by which the human mind exercises the function +known as consciousness, and to describe the way in which that consciousness +operates to deduce meaning from the stimuli which it receives. To do this, we will +first consider the fundamental character of the material world in which we have our +physical existence in order to accurately perceive the raw stuff with which our +consciousness must work. The first point which needs to be made is that the two +terms, matter and energy tend to be misleading if taken to indicate two distinctly +different states of existence in the physical world that we know it. Indeed, if +the term matter is taken to mean solid substance as opposed to energy which is +understood to mean a force of some sort, then the use of the former is entirely +misleading. Science now knows that both the electrons_which spin in the energy +field located around the nucleus of the atom and the nucleus itself are made up of +nothing more than oscillating energy grids. Solid matter, in the strict +construction of the term, simply does not exist. Rather, atomic structure is +composed of oscillating energy grids surrounded by other oscillating energy grids +which orbit at extraordinarily high speeds. In his book, Stalking the Wild +Pendulum, Itzhak Bentov gives the following figures, The energy grid which +composes the nucleus of the atom vibrates at approximately 1022 yertz(which means +10 followed by 22 zeros). At 70 degrees Farenheit an atom oscillates at the rate +of 1015 yertz., An entire molecule, composed of a number of atoms bound together +in a single energy field vibrates in the range of 10° Hertz. A live human cell +vibrates at approximately 103 Hertz. The point to be made is that the entire +human being, brain, consciousness and all is, like the universe which surrounds +him, nothing more or less than an extraordinarily complex system of energy fields. +The so called states of matter are actually variances in the state of energy, and +human consciousness is a function of the interaction of energy in two opposite +states(motion vs rest) in a manner described in the following paragraph. + +12, Holograms. Energy creates, stores and retrieves meaning in the universe by +projecting or expanding at certain frequencies in a three dimensional mode that +creates a living pattern called a hologram. The concept of the hologram can be +most easily understood by using an example cited by Bentov in which he asks the +reader to visualize a bowl full of water into which three pebbles are dropped. As +the ripples created by the simultaneous entry of the three pebbles radiate outward +towards the rim of the bowl, Bentov further asks the reader to visualize that the +surface of the water is suddenly flash frozen so that the ripple pattern is +preserved instantly. The ice is removed leaving the three pebbles still laying at +the bottom of the bowl. Then the ice is exposed to a powerful, coherent source of +light, such as a laser. The result will be a three dimensional model or +representation of the position of the three pebbles suspended in midair. Holograms +are capable of encoding so much detail that, for example, it is possible to take a +holographic projection of a glass of swamp water and view it under magnification to +see small organisms not visible to the naked eye when the glass of water itself is +examined, The whole concept of holography, despite its scientific implications, +has only been known to the physicist since the underlying mathmatical principles +were worked out by Dennis Gabor in 1947(he later won a Nobel Prize for his work). + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : ClA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 10 === +ree + +wow Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +Laboratory demonstration of Gabor's work only occurred years later following +invention of the laser. As biologist Lyall Watson explains: + +“The purest kind of light available to us is that produced by a laser, which +sends out a beam in which all the waves are of one frequency, like those made +by an ideal pebble in a perfect pond. When two laser beams touch, they produce +an interference pattern of light and dark ripples that can be recorded on a +photographic plate. And if one of the beams, instead of coming directly from +the laser, is reflected first off an object such as a human face, the resulting +pattern will be very complex indeed, but it can still be recorded. The record +will be a hologram of the face." + +13. The Part Encodes the Whole. Of further importance is the fact that even if we +dropped our frozen hologram of the ripple pattern on the floor and broke it into a +number of pieces each individual piece would recreate the entire holographic image +all by itself. The smaller the piece, the fuzzier and more distorted would be the +resulting holographic projection but the fact remains that a whole projection would +nonetheless be made. The key to creating any hologram is that energy in motion +must interact with energy in a state of rest(nonmotion). In the foregoing example, +the pebbles represent energy in motion while the water(before its agitation by the +pebbles) represents energy at a state of rest. To activate or, in effect, to +“perceive" the meaning of a holograph, energy(in this case, a coherent light source +such as a Laser beam) must be passed through the interference pattern generated by +interaction between the moving energy and the energy at rest. In the simple +example given by Bentov, this requirement was fulfilled by holding the frozen +interference pattern in front of the coherent light to project the three +dimensional holographic image(its "meaning") into space. As Marilyn Ferguson, +editor of the Brain/Mind Bulletin tells us: + +"Another Feature of a hologram is its efficiency. Billions of bits of +information can be stored in a tiny space. The pattern of the holographic +[photograph]...is stored everywhere on the plate.” + +14. The Consciousness Matrix. The universe is composed of interacting energy +fields, some at rest and some in motion. It is, in and of itself, one gigantic +hologram of unbelievable complexity. According to the theories of Karl Pribram, a +neuroscientist at Stanford University and David Bohm, a physicist at the University +of London, the human mind is also a hologram which attunes itself to the universal +hologram by the medium of energy exchange thereby deducing meaning and achieving +the state which we call consciousness, With respect to states of expanded or +altered consciousness such as Gateway uses, the process operates in the following +way. As energy passes through various aspects of the universal hologram and is +perceived by the electrostatic fields which comprise the human mind, the +holographic images being conveyed are projected upon those electrostatic fields of +the mind and are perceived or understood to the extent that the electrostatic field +is operating at a frequency and amplitude that can harmonize with and therefore +“read" the energy carrier wave pattern passing through it. Changes in the +frequency and amplitude of the electrostatic field which comprises the human mind +determines the configuration and hence the character of the holographic energy +matrix which the mind projects to intercept meaning directly from the holographic +transmissions of the universe. Then, to make sense of what the holographic image +is "saying" to it, the mind proceeds to compare the image just received with +itself. Specifically, it does this by coniparing the image received with that part +of its own hologram which constitutes memory. By registering differences in + +8 +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 11 === +7 vo Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +geometric form and in energy frequency, the consciousness perceives(see Exhibit 2, +next page). As psychologist Keith Floyd puts it: + +"Contrary to what everyone knows is s0, it may not be the brain that produces +consciousness--but rather, consciousness that creates the appearance of the +brain..." + +15. Brain in phase: The consciousness process is most easily envisaged if we +picture the holographic input with a three dimensional grid system superimposed +over it such that all of the energy patterns contained within can be described in +terms of three dimensional geometry using mathmatics to reduce the data to two +dimensional form. Bentov states that scientists suspect that the human mind +operates on a simple binary "go/no go" system as do all digital computers. +Therefore, once it superimposes a three dimensional matrix over holographic +information it wishes to interpret and reduces that information mathmatically to +two dimensional form, it can completely process it using its fundamental binary +system just as any computer made by the hand of man can process volumes of data and +make various comparisons between the data and information stored in its digital +memory. Our minds operate in the same way, perceiving by comparison only. Bentov +states the proposition this way: “Our whole reality is constructed by constantly +making such comparisons,...Whenever we perceive something, we always perceive +differences only." In states of expanded consciousness, the right hemisphere of +the human brain in its holistic, nonlinear and nonverbal mode of functioning acts +as the primary matrix or receptor for this holographic input while, by operating in +phase or coherence with the right brain, the left hemisphere provides the secondary +matrix through its binary, computer-like method of functioning to screen further +the data by comparison and reduce it to a discreet, two dimensional form. + +16. Evaluation. To the extent that Gateway succeeds in bringing about a +refinement in energy matrix of the mind, it succeeds in expanding or altering human +consciousness so that it can perceive without recourse to the intercession of the +physical senses such that ever more of the universal hologram(not, of course, +accessible by sense perception) can ultimately be perceived and understood. + +Marilyn Ferguson has written that the theories of Pribram and Bohm "appear to +account for all trans¢endental experience, paranormal events and even "normal" +perceptual oddities..." She goes on to say of Pribram: + +"Currently he is proposing a startling, all-encompassing model that is +generating considerable excitement among those intrigued by the mysteries of +human consciousness. His "holographic model" marries brain research to +theoretical physics; it accounts for normal perception and simultaneously +takes the paranormal and transcendental experiences out of the supernatural by +explaining them as a part of nature. + +Like certain strange discoveries of quantum physics, the radical reorientation +of this theory suddenly makes sense of paradoxical sayings of mystics +throughout the ages." + +17. Self Cognition. To complete our outline of the process by which the mind +achieves and exercises consciousness, we must also describe the mechanism which +accounts for the aspect of human thought that differentiates it from the +consciousness of plants or animals, i.e. self cognition, Humans not only know, but +they know that they know. They are able to monitor the process of their own +thinking and maintain an awareness of it. Moreover, they can conduct a comparitive + +9 + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 12 === +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +The Functions of Brain Hemispheres in Consciousness + +Left Hemisphere +Consciousness Grid + +Acts like the Mind's +computer software to +reduce input from right +hemisphere to verbal +symbols and concepts. + +EXHIBIT 2 + +CONSCIOUSNESS ENERGY GRID + +10 +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +Right Hemisphere +Consciousness Grid +——_— + +Reduces three dimension +holographic image to tw +dimensional go/no go fo: + +=== Page 13 === +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +assessment, evaluating the functioning of their thought processes against various +"objective" standards they have adopted. Human consciousness can do this because +it has the capacity to duplicate aspects of its own hologram, project them out, +"perceive" that projection, put it through comparison with the memory aspect(where +its evaluation standards of measure are stored) of its own hologram, and measure or +"sense" the differences using three dimensional geometry and then binary "“go/no go" +pulse to yield verbal cognition about the self. + +18. Time-Space Dimension. Up to this point our discussion of the Gateway process +has been relatively simple and easy to follow. Now the fun begins, Gateway +involves more than just perception of those aspects of the universal hologram which +can be accessed in the dimension of time-space as we know it. To explain how and +why human consciousness can be brought to transcend the limitations of time-space +is the next task which must be addressed. To do this we must first appreciate what +time and space are in order to understand how the dimension that they constitute +can be transcended. Physicists define time as a measurement of energy oF force in +motion, In other words, it is a measurement of change. However, in ordet for +energy to be in motion it must first be limited in some way within the confines of +some sort of vibratory pattern so that its confinement gives it the capacity for +being contained at a specific location which is distinguishable from other +locations(space). Energy which is not confined is force without limit, without +dimension, without the limits of form. It is infinity, cannot move because there +is nothing beyond infinity, and is therefore outside of the dimension of time. It +ig also beyond space because that concept implies that a specific energy form is +limited to 4 specific location, and is absent from other locations. But if energy +is in the state of infinity, there are no boundaries, no "here" to differentiate +from "there", no sense of area. Energy in infinity means energy uniformly extended +without limit. It has no beginning, no end, no location. It is conscious force, +the fundamental, primal power of existence without form, 4 state of infinite + +being. Energy in infinity is said to be completely at rest and, therefore, cannot +generate holograms so long as it remains utterly inactive. It retains its inherent +capacity for consciousness in that it can receive and passively perceive holograms +generated by energy in motion out in the various dimensions which make up the +created universe but it cannot be perceived by consciousness operating in the +active universe. Energy in this state of inactive infinity is termed by physicists +as energy in its absolute state, OF simply "the Absolute." Between the Absolute +and the "material" universe in which we experience our physical existence are +various intervening dimensions to which human consciousness in altered states of +being may gain access. Theoretically, human consciousness may continue to expand +the horizons of its perceptual capability until it reaches the dimension of the +absolute at which point perception stops because the Absolute generates no +holograms of oF about itself. + +19, Intervening dimensions. Since the Absolute is conscious energy in +infinity(i.e. without poundaries), it occupies every dimension to include the +time-space dimension in which we have our physical existence but we cannot perceive +it. It overlays everything as do many of the intervening gradients oF dimensions +through which the energies of the universe pass on their way to and from their home +in the state of infinity (the Absolute). To enter these intervening dimensions, +human consciousness must focus with such intense coherence that the frequency of +the energy pattern which comprises that consciousness(i.e. the brainwave output) +can accelerate to the point where the resulting frequency pattern, if displayed on +an oscilloscope, would look virtually like a solid line. achievement of this state +of altered consciousness sets the stage for perception of non-time-space dimensions +because of the operation of a principle in physics known as Planck's Distance. + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIAFRDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 14 === +CU ’ Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +This is an aspect of quantum mechanics which applies to the fact that any +oscillating frequency(such as a brainwave) reaches two points of complete rest +which constitute the boundaries of each individual oscillation(i.e. movement up or +down). Without these points of rest, an oscillating wave pattern would be +impossible since the points of rest are required to permit the energy to change +direction and thus continue vibrating between rigid limits. But it is also true +that when, for an infinitesimally brief instant, that energy reaches one of its two +points of rest it "clicks out" of time-space and joins infinity(see Exhibit 3, next +page). That critical step out of time-space occurs when the speed of the +oscillation drops below 10733 centimeters per second(Planck's Distance). To use +the words of Bentov: "...quantum mechanics tell us that when distances go below +Planck's Distance, which is 10-33 cm, we enter, in effect, a new world." To + +return to our case in point, the human consciousness wave pattern reaches such high +frequency that the pattern of "clickouts" comes so close together that there is +virtual continuity in it. Then, a portion of that consciousness is actually +postulated to establish and maintain its information collection function in those +aimensions located between time-space and the Absolute. Thus, as the almost +continuous "clickout" pattern establishes itself in continuous phase at speeds +below Planck's Distance but before reaching the state of total rest, human +consciousness passes through the looking glass of time-space after the fashion of +Alice beginning her journey into wonderland. The Gateway experience, with its +associated Hemi-Syne technique, is apparently designed, if used systematically and +patiently, to enable human consciousness to establish a coherent pattern of +perception in those dimensions where speeds below Planck's distance apply. This +holds true irrespective of whether the individual is exercising his consciousness +while in his physical body or whether he is doing so after having separated that +consciousness from the physical body(i.e. the so called out-of-body state mentioned +earlier). + +20. Subatomic Particles. The behavior of subatomic particles provides an +interesting example of the phenomenon of "clicking out" discussed in the preceding +paragraphs. In an article prepared for Science Digest magazine, Dr. John Gliedman +mentions the way in which subatomic particles communicate with each other once +their energy fields become entrained as a result of colliding with each other, The +communication concerned is, of course, postulated to be occurring during the "click +out phase" in the oscillation of the energy fields comprising the subatomic +particles concerned. It is this cause which accounts for the cross-communication +at what in terms of time-space velocities, would seem to involve speeds in excess +of light. In reality Einstein's Theory of Relativity is not being invalidated but, +rather, the communication concerned is taking place outside the dimension of +time-space to which the Theory of Relativity is strictly confined. Specifically, +pr. Gleidman tells us: "Quantum theory postulates a kind of long range Siamese +twin effect whenever two subatomic particles collide and then go their different +ways. Even when the particles are halfway across the universe from each other, it +says, they instantaneously respond to each other's actions, And in so doing, they +violate relativity's ban on faster than light velocities.” Indeed, regarding +attempts to quantify what is known about the behavior of energy in dimensions +apparently outside of time-space, Bentov speaks about, "...courageous physicists +who are working on hypothetical particles, called 'tachyons,' which can move at +speeds higher than light. The speed of tachyons starts just above the speed of +light and ranges all the way to infinite velocities," + +21. Dimensions In-between. Now that we have postulated the legitimacy of the + +zeae +assertion that the energy forms which compose consciousness can move beyond the +time-space dimension, we need to turn our attention to the energy forms which + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 15 === +Approved RiraBbiaadai spbarosrfothe Ashe Guz adREdT7TUO210016-5 + +THE ABSOLUTE IV ZNEINITY + +Ce + +ie “CLICKED OUT.” PORTION OF +OSCILLATING ENERGY TRAVEKSIV ; +107 me TERI DIAT Ebi Sst 6 PLAN Ct 'S +- cm +OSCILLATING Vo d + +ENERGY FATTERN +IN TIME ~-S PACE + +1 PLANCK? S +DISTANCE +fo "35> em + +PORTION OF +ACY IN, +£V- + +13 + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : GIA-RPP96:00788R001700210016-5 +EXHIBIT 3 Froy Bentoy, Staiking the Wild Pendulum. + +=== Page 16 === +— ‘ Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +inhabit those dimensions between time-space and the Absolute. In so doing, we may +better perceive the form that “reality” assumes when we encounter it in those +intermediate dimensions. In this context, Bentov tells us that: + +"The causal relationship between events breaks down; movements become jerky +rather than smooth. Time and space may become “grainy” or "chunky." Perhaps +a piece of space can be traversed by a particle of matter in any direction +without necessarily being synchronized with a piece of time. In short, a pair +of events will occur in either time or space, the pair not being connected +causally but by a random fluctuation." + +What Bentov means is that inside the dimension of time-space where both concepts +apply in a generally uniform way there is a proportional relationship between +them. A certain space can be covered by energy moving in either particle or wave +form in a certain time assuming a specific velocity virtually anywhere in the +time-space universe. The relationship is neat and predictable. However, in the +intermediate dimensions beyond time-space the limitations imposed on energy to put +it into a state of oscillating motion are not uniform as they are in our physical +universe. A myriad of various distortions and incongruities are thus likely to be +encountered such that our nice neat assumptions concerning the relationship between +time and space as we know it in this dimension do not apply. But even more +important, access is opened to both the past and the future when the dimension of +current time-space is left behind. + +22. Special Status, Out-of-Body Experience. Although human consciousness can, +with enough practice, move beyond the dimension of time-space and interface with +other energy systems in other dimensions, the entire process is appreciably +enhanced if that consciousness can be detached in large measure from the physical +body before such interface is attempted. Once an individual becomes proficient in +the technique of out-of-body movement and then reaches the point where he is able +to break out of time-space while out of his body, he gains the advantage of +“clicking out" part of his enhanced consciousness while starting from a base +located much closer to the dimensions with which he wishes to communicate. In +other words, since he is starting from a point much "higher up", to use an analogy +from the time-space context, that part of his consciousness involved in "clicking +out" will have that much more time to interact in dimensions beyond time-space +because less time is required to traverse the intervening layers. Moreover, once +the individual is able to project his consciousness beyond time-space, that +consciousness would logically tend to entrain its frequency output with the new +energy environment to which it is exposed, therein greatly enhancing the extent to +which the individual's altered consciousness may be further modified to achieve a +much heightened point of focus and a much refined oscillating pattern. As a +result, a self-reinforcing process should ensue whereby the farther consciousness +in the out-of-body state can be projected beyond the time-space dimension, the more +its level of energy output would be enhanced, thus promoting the potential for +still further travel. The tentative conclusion to be drawn is that the out-of-body +state may be regarded as an extremely effective way of accelerating the process of +enhancing consciousness and of interfacing with dimensions beyond time-space. If +the practitioner of the Gateway technique has a choice of concentrating on +achieving and exploiting the out-of-body experience as opposed to concentrating his +full efforts on expanding his consciousness exclusively from a physical base, the +former would appear to promise much faster and more impressive successes than does +the latter. . + +23. Absolute in Perspective. It may be helpful at this point to pause and recap + +14 +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 17 === +ry Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +the major aspects of our intellectual journey from time~space to the realm of the +Absolute. We have spoken at some length concerning the incredibly complex hologram +which is created by the intersection of energy patterns generated by the totality +of all dimensions of the universe, time-space included. We have noted that our +minds constitute energy fields which interact with various aspects of this hologram +to deduce information which is ultimately processed through the left hemisphere of +our brains to reduce it to a form that we employ for the process we call thinking. +We have implied that this hologram is the finite embodiment in active, energy form +of the infinite consciousness of the Absolute. It is the title we assigned to that +vast pool of energy in a state of perfect rest over which the physical universe is +layered, and from whence it comes. Incidentally, to describe this, Bentov uses the +analogy of a very deep sea, comparing the still depths of the sea to the dimension +of the Absolute while assigning the storm-tossed waves above to represent the +physical universe with which we are familiar. The slightly agitated currents of +the sea to be found in between the turbulent surface and the totally still depths +represent energy in the process of either going into rest(i.e. approaching +infinity) or coming out of rest. : + +24, From Big Bang to Torus, Working from the widely accepted "Big Bang" theory +Bentov presents a conceptual model to depict the process of time-space evolution +the relative position of the universal hologram. That hologram is often called a +"Torus" because it is thought to have the overall shape of an immense, +self-contained spiral. Basing his thesis on recent studies concerning the +distribution of quasars(quasi-stellar objects), and operating on the premise that +in the universe smaller processes tend to be mirror images of larger ones(i.e. the +pattern of electrons around the nucleus of an atom mirrors the way planets orbit +their suns, and so on) Bentov postulates the following scenario. Taking his cue +from the observed capability of quasars to eject enormously concentrated beams of +matter from their interiors in a controlled, non-concentric version of the +"Big-bang" he envisages a similar process occurring in the generation of the +universe(see Exhibit 4, next page). Noting that those galaxies located to the +north of our own galaxy are moving away faster than those located to the south, and +that those to the east and west are demonstrably more distant, Bentov regards this +as substantive evidence that the jet of matter which expanded into our universe has +turned back upon itself, eventually forming an ovoid or egg shape. He sees +"matter" in our universe entering the ovoid pattern following ejection froma +nucleus composed of extremely compressed energy through a "white hole." At the end +of its trip to the far end of the ovoid, he sees it departing via a "black hole", +In such a model, time is observed to be a measure of the change which occurs as +energy evolves into new, more complex forms as it progresses along the distance +from the white hole side of the nucleus, around the shell of this "cosmic egg" +until it enters the black hole. In other words, as energy--expelled from infinity +and confined within limits by the conscious of the Absolute--achieves form and +motion following ejection from the white hole at the top of the egg, time begins as +a measure of the cadence of this evolutionary movement as “reality” goes around the +shell of the egg on its journey to the black hole at the far end. + +25. Our Place in Time. The observed distribution of galaxies suggests that our +particular universe is located near the top of the egg at the point where matter +begins to fall back on itself, thus explaining the reason why the galaxies to the +north are seen to be moving away more rapidly as they are caught up in the downturn +of the stream of matter towards the far end of the cosmic egg(see Exhibit 5, next +page). Layered over this cosmic egg is the Absolute which sustains the radiating +nucleus from which the original jet of matter issued forth. As the stream of +matter moves around the ovoid towards its destination at the black hole where it + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : cl&-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 18 === +6-00788R001700210016-5 + +Jet of Matter + +Figure A Photograph of Quaser Emitting Jet of Matter + +UN ue FOIT bJHERE + +Hh FLOW DF TIME +SPACE TURNS +TOWARDS OPPQUITE +POLE OF OVOW. + +Figure C Stylized Rendition of a Simple Torus + +exurprr 4 APRFPMESLECK Release AQGP/ BRC AERP PR OCR SERPA”PORAAPARS Fig. c, Purce, the +. Mystic Spiral) . es — — the + + +=== Page 19 === +hs Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +will be reabsorbed into the radiating nucleus and then the Absolute, it generates +the interference pattern within the cosmic egg which constitutes the universal +hologram or Torus. Since the Torus is being simultaneously generated by matter in +all the various phases of "time", it reflects the development of the universe in +the past, present and future(as it would be seen from our particular perspective in +one phase of time). By reflecting on this model, it becomes possible to "see" how +human consciousness brought to a sufficiently altered(focused) state could obtain +information concerning the past, present an future since they all exist in the +universal hologram simultaneously(In the case of the future because all of the +consequences of the past and present can be seen coming together in the hologram +such that the future can be predicted or "seen" with total accuracy). Moreover, it +is possible to see how the implosion of energy patterns would cross and recross to +create an incredibly complex four dimensional hologram or Torus, in spiral shape in +reflection of the multi-dimensional developing pattern of evolution, All of the +movements of the energies which comprise the universe leave their mark and hence +tell their story throughout time. + +26. Quality of Consciousness, We noted earlier that the out-of-body state +involves projection of a major portion of the energy pattern that represents human +consciousness so that it may move either freely throughout the terrestrial sphere +for purposes of information aquisition or into other dimensions outside of +time-space, perhaps to interact with other forms of consciousness within the +universe. Consciousness is the organizing and sustaining principle that provides +the impetus and guidance to bring and keep energy in motion within a given set of +parameters so that a specific reality will result. When consciousness reaches a +state of sophistication in which it can perceive itself(its own hologram) it +reaches the point of selfcognition. Human beings have this form of elevated +consciousness as does the Absolute but in case of the latter, it is a function of +energy and its associated quality of consciousness in infinity(omniscience and +omnipotence in perceptual unity). When energy returns to a state of total rest +within the Absolute, it returns to the continuum of consciousness in the pool of +limitless, timeless perception that resides there, Thus, the more complex an +energy system in the "material" state, the more consciousness it possesses to +maintain its reality. Our consciousness, therefore, is that differentiated aspect +of the universal consciousness which resides within the Absolute. It accounts for +the organization of the energy patterns which constitute our physical body but is +distinctly separate from and superior to it. Since consciousness exists quite +apart from and outside of reality, beyond the bounds of time-space, it, like the +Absolute, has neither beginning nor end. Reality has both a beginning and an end +because it is bounded within time-space, but the fundamental quantum of energy and +its associated consciousness is eternal. When reality ends, its constituent energy +simply returns to infinity in the Absolute. + +27. Consciousness in Perspective. Having ascertained that human consciousness is +able to separate from physical reality and interact with other intelligences in +other dimensions within the universe, and that it is both eternal and destined for +ultimate return to the Absolute we are faced with the question: "So what happens +then?" Since memory is a function of consciousness and therefore enjoys the same +eternal character as the consciousness which accounts for its existence it must be +admitted that when consciousness returns to the Absolute it brings with it all the +memories it has accumulated through experience in reality. The return of +consciousness to the Absolute does not imply an extinction of the separate entity +which the consciousness organized and sustained in reality. Rather, it suggests a +differentiated consciousness which merges with and participates in the universal +consciousness and infinity of the Absolute without losing the separate identity and + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : cl&: RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 20 === +17 +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : GUA RDE9G-00788R001700210016-5 +EXHIBIT 5 Fro ‘rom Bentoy, Stalkin the Wild P + +=== Page 21 === +me Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +accummulated self-knowledge which its memories confer upon it. What it does lose +is the capability for generation of independent thought holograms, since that can +be done only by energy in motion, In other words, it retains the power to perceive +but loses the power of will or choice. In exchange, however, this consciousness +participates in the all-knowing infinite continuum of consciousness which is a +characteristic of energy in the ever present. Consequently, it is accurate to +observe that when a person experiences the out-of- body state he is, in fact, +projecting that eternal spark of consciousness and memory which constitutes the +ultimate source of his identity to let it play in and learn from dimensions both +inside and outside the time-space world in which his physical component currently +enjoys a short period of reality. + +28. Gateway Method. Having put the Gateway Experience in context by postulating a +structural outline of how and why it seems to work, and having shown what it is +designed to achieve, the time has come to examine the specific techniques which +comprise the Gateway training process. These techniques are designed to enable the +user of the Gateway tapes to manipulate the high energy states which can‘be +achieved if the user continues to work with the tapes over a period of time. The +amount of time required to reach advanced energy states and to fully exploit the +techniques varies with the individual. The sensitivity of his nervous system, his +general state of mind, and the extent to which he may have previously developed +facility in related techniques such as transcendental meditation are all pertinent +factors affecting the speed at which he may expect to progress. The Gateway +process begins by teaching the individual participant to isolate extraneous +concerns in a visualization device called an "energy conversion box."’ Next, the +participant is introduced to a method of encouraging his mind and body to strive to +achieve a state of resonance through utterance of a single tone, a monotonous, +protracted humming sound that sets up a feeling of vibration particularly in the +head. He engages in this "resonate tuning" as it is called by humming along with a +chorus of such sounds that are contained on the Gateway tape. Following this, the +participant is exposed to the Gateway affirmation, and is encouraged to repeat it +to himself as he hears it repeated on the tape. This affirmation is a statement to +the effect that the individual realizes that he is more than merely a physical body +and that he deeply desires to expand his consciousness, + +29. Hemi-Sync Introduced. After that, he is exposed for the first time to the +Hemi-Sync sound frequencies, and is encouraged to focus on and develop a perception +of and appreciation for those feelings which accompany the synchronization of +brainwaves that results. Next comes the technique of progressive and systematic +physical relaxation while the Hemi-Sync frequencies are expanded to ine lude +additional forms of "pink and white" noise designed to put the physical body at the +virtual threshhold of sleep as well as to calm the left hemisphere of the mind +while raising the right hemisphere to a state of heightened attentiveness. Once +all of this is achieved, the participant is invited to envisage creation of an +“energy balloon" comprised of an energy flow beginning at the center of the top of +the head and extending down in all directions to the feet. The energy involved in +this flow then proceeds up through the body and back out into the balloon pattern +again. The “energy balloon", which sets up a pattern very reminiscent of the +cosmic egg discussed earlier, not only enhances bodily energy flow and encourages +early achievement of a suitable resonant state but it is also designed to provide +protection against conscious entities possessing lower energy levels which the +participant might encounter in the event that he achieves an out-of-body, state. + +It serves a precautionary purpose in the unlikely event that the participant's +first out-of-body experience involves direct projection outside the terrestrial +sphere. + +19 +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 22 === +pag Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +30. Advanced Techniques. Having reached Focus 10, the participant is now ready to +endeavor to achieve a state of sufficiently expanded awareness to begin actually +interacting with dimensions beyond those associated with his experience of physical +reality. This state is called Focus 12 and involves conscious efforts on his part +while additional forms of "pink and white noise" enter the sound stream being +directed into his ears from the Gateway tape. Once the participant has achieved +this state of greatly expanded awareness, he is ready to begin employing a series +of specific techniques or "tools" as the Monroe Institute characterizes them which +enable him to manipulate his newly found expanded awareness to obtain practical, +useful feedback of value for promoting self-discovery and personal growth. The +specific techniques involved are described individually below. + +A. Problem Solving. This technique involves identifying fundamental problems +which the individual wishes to see solved, filling his expanded awareness with his +perception of these problems and then projecting them out into the universe. In +this way, the individual enlists the assistance of what Monroe Institute ‘calls his +"higher self", in other words his expanded consciousness, to interact with the +universal hologram to obtain the information required to solve the problem. This +approach may be used to solve personal difficulties, technical problems in the +realm of physics, mathmatics, etc., practical administrative problems, and so on. +Responses to the problem solving technique may be received almost immediately, but +often they come based on developing intuition over the next two to three days. +Frequently the response comes in the form of a sudden, holistic perception in which +the individual suddenly finds that he simply knows the answer in all of its +ramifications and completely in context, sometimes without even being able to put +his newly found perception into words, at least initially. In some cases, the +response may even arrive in the form of visual symbols which the individual +will"see" with his mind while he is in the Focus 12 state and which he will have to +interpret after he returns to normal consciousness. + +B. Patterning. This technique involves use of the consciousness to achieve +desired objectives in the physical, emotional, or intellectual sphere. It involves +concentration on the desired objective while in a Focus 12 state, extension of the +individual's perception of that objective into the whole expanded consciousness, +and its projection into the universe with the intention that the desired objective +is already a matter of established achievement which is destined to be realized +within the time frame specified. This particular methodology is based on the +belief that the thought patterns generated by our consciousness in a state of +expanded awareness create holograms which represent the situation we desire to +bring about and, in so doing, establish the basis for actual realization of that +goal. Once the thought-generated hologram of the sought after objective is +established in the universe it becomes an aspect of reality which interacts with +the universal hologram to bring about the desired objective which might not, under +other circumstances, ever occur. In other words, the technique of patterning +recognizes the fact that since consciousness is the source of all reality, our +thoughts have the power to influence the development of reality in time-space as it +applies to us if those thoughts can be projected with adequate intensity. However, +the more complicated the objective sought and the more radically it departs from +our current reality, the more time the universal hologram will need to reorient our +reality sphere to accomodate our desires. Monroe trainers caution against +attempting to force the pace of this process because the individual could succeed +in dislocating his existing reality with drastic consequences. + +Cc. Color Breathing. The next technique is callea color breathing and is + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : C0-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 23 === +re Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +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 affectuality of color in certain +kinds of healing is a demonstrable fact. For example, application of an intense +blue light to an area of physical tumescence leads to relatively rapid and easily +observable reduction in the swelling while red, and to a lesser extent, yellow have +quite the opposite effect. However, in the Hemi-Sync application of the ‘technique +external light sources are not involved but, rather, the mind is the sole agent of +the healing and revitalization. + +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. + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CHA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 24 === +4 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +j + +G. 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 15 is a very +advanced state and is extremely difficult to achieve, Probably less than five +percent of all participants in any given Gateway Experience actually fully achieve +the Focus 15 state during the course of the approximately seven days of training. +Nonetheless, Monroe Institute trainers affirm that with enough practice, .eventually +Focus 15 can be achieved. They also state that not only the individual's past +history is available for examination by one who has achieved Focus 15 but other +aspects of the past with which the individual himself has had no connection may +also be accessed. ~ + +H. Focus 21: The Future. The last and most advanced of all the Focus states +associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the +boundaries of time-space as in Focus 15 but with attention to discovering the +future rather than the past. The individual who has achieved this state has +reached a truly advanced level. Except in unusual circumstances, it is probably +not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through long +application of meditation or by those who have practiced long and hard through use +of the Hemi-Sync tapes for a period of months if not years. + +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 ina +rigid, headfirst manner(such that he finds himself standing at attention at the + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CPR-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 25 === +et ® Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +foot of his physical body) 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-Syne tape technique. This may well be a function of the fact that +most if not all people reputedly go into an out-of-body state during REM sleep. + +REM sleep is the deepest possible level of ordinary sleep and involves complete +disengagement of the body's motor cortex functions from the neck down and nearly +complete suppression of consciousness in the left brain hemisphere. The effect of +this is to put the body in a state of complete stillness so far as the skeletal +muscle structure is concerned, thereby further promoting the state of deep rest +needed to eliminate the bifurcation echo, In addition, it leaves the right +hemisphere of the brain free to respond to the instructions and suggestions +contained on the Gateway tape. However, use of the Hemi-Sync tapes at this point +may be less a factor in actually achieving the out-of-body state than it*is a +matter of focusing the brain enough so that a residual memory of having naturally +achieved an out-of-body state is carried into the waking state. Indeed, it may +even be postulated that some dreams associated with deep levels of sleep are in +fact functions of the same kind of altered consciousness involved in interaction +with the universe that plays a role in all of the Focus 12, 15 and 21 states +described above. The difference between those states and the condition of the mind +in REM sleep seems to be that the left hemisphere is almost totally disengaged in +the latter experience such that memory of what was achieved in the altered states +of consciousness cannot usually be retrieved by conscious desire because the left +hemisphere has no knowledge of its existence or its location in the right +hemisphere. Admittedly, some people can be trained to remember their REM state +dreams through intense conditioning in the waking state but even that may be more a +function of establishing pathways in the right hemisphere which the left hemisphere +can access following reentry into the wakeful state than it is an indication of any +specific left hemisphere conscious involvement in the process during REM sleep. In +any event, the three apparent conditions required for voluntarily inducing an +out-of-body state in most individuals seems to be: (1) achievement of a state of +profound quiet in the body such that the bifurcation echo fades and resonance at +approximately 7 Hertz is established, (2) synchronization of the two brain +hemisphere wave patterns, and (3) subsequent stimulation of the right hemisphere +of the mind to attain a state of heightened alertness(which, of course, interferes +with brain hemisphere synchronization but not until a sufficient level of enhanced +frequency range has first been established to help achieve the out-of-body state). + +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 + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : Cl4-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 26 === +Po Y Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +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 individuals +encounter thought forms while in an out-of-body state which mingle with physical +reality and are not easily differentiated. Finally, as Melissa Jager writes, there +is another potential problem area in the sense that holograms can be viewed . +pseudoscopically, that is to say inside out or backwards just as well as they can +be seen in proper perspective. Some of the distortions occurring may ultimately +prove to be traceable to this cause because in the out-of-body state an individual +may perceive the holographic energy patterns given off by people or things +interacting in time-space reality in a somewhat distorted form. + +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: 5 + +"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 which +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 with +the essential tenets of the Judeo-Christian stream of thought. The concept of +visible reality(i.e. the "created" worid) 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 + +24 + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 27 === +a + +era hanig + +weak ek Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +37. Motivational Aspect. It is a step by step procedure which involves repetitive +practice of the techniques concerned, using each new insight as a means of +penetrating farther during the next practice session. But the rate of progress is +so much faster with the Gateway approach than it is with transcendental meditation +or other forms of mental self-discipline and its horizons seem to be so much wider +that the discipline needed to practice it would seem to be within the means of even +the impatient, result oriented, skeptical pragmatist of our society. Unlike yoga +and other forms of eastern mental discipline, Gateway does not require the infinite +patience and total personal subservience to and faith in a system of discipline +designed to absorb all the individual's energies over most of a lifetime. Rather, +it will begin to produce at least minimal results within a relatively short time +such that enough feedback is available to motivate and energize the individual to +continue working with it. Indeed, the speed with which an individual may expect to +progress seems less a function of the number of hours spent practicing than it is a +question of the speed with which he or she is able to use the insights gained to +release anxieties and stresses within both the mind and the body. These points of +energy blockage seem to provide the principal barriers to achieving the énhanced +energy states and focus of mind needed for rapid progression. The more compulsive, +the more "uptight" the individual may be at the outset the more barriers he or she +will initially encounter to achieving a deep or immediate experience, but as the +insights begin to come and the blockages begin to dissolve, the way ahead becomes +increasingly clear and the value of Gateway moves from the status of a matter of +intellectual assessment to one of personal experience. + +38. Conclusion. There is a sound, rational basis in terms of physical science +parameters for considering Gateway to be plausible in terms of its essential +objectives, Intuitional insights of not only personal but of a practical and +professional nature would seem to be within bounds of reasonable expectations. +However, a phased approach for entering the Gateway Experience in an accelerated +mode would seem to be required if the time needed to reach advanced states of +altered consciousness is to be brought within more manageable limits from the +standpoint of establishing an organization-wide exploitation of Gateway's +potential. The most promising approach suggested in the foregoing study involves +the following steps: + +A. Begin by using the Gateway Hemi-Sync tapes to achieve enhanced brain focus +ana to induce hemisphere synchronization. + +B. Then add strong REM sleep frequencies to induce left brain quiescence and +deep physical relaxation. + +C. Provide hypnotic suggestion designed to enable an individual to induce +deep autohypnotic state at will. + +D. Use autohypnotic suggestion to attain much enhanced focus of concentration +and motivation in rapidly progressing through Focus 12 exercises. + +E. Then repeat steps A and B following use of the autohypnotic suggestion +that an out-of-body movement will occur and be remembered. + +F. Repeat step E to achieve facility in gaining out-of-body state under +conscious control. Alter hypnotic suggestion to stress ability to consciously +control out-of-body movement and maintain it even after REM sleep state ends. + +G. Approach Focus 15 and 21 objectives(escape from time-space and interact + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIAARDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 28 === +. + +en a Y + +Se ate Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +within new dimensions) from the out-of-body perspective. + +H. Use multi-focus approach to solve problem of distortion in terrestrial +information gathering trips. This approach involves the use of three individuals +in the out-of-body state, one viewing the target object here, in time-space, one +viewing it at Focus 15 as it slips into the immediate past, and one viewing it at +Focus 21 as it slips from the immediate future. Debrief all three and compare data +gathered from the three points of view. If care is taken to insure that the three +all go out-of-body together, in the same environment, their consciousness energy +systems should resonate in sympathetic oscillation. They can tune in to the same +target on different planes(dimensions) with greater effectiveness. + +I, Encourage pursuit of full self knowledge by all individuals involved in +the foregoing experiments to enhance objectivity in out-of-body observation and +thinking, and to remove personal energy blockages likely to retard rapid progress. + +J. Be intellectually prepared to react to possible encounters with* +intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded. + +K. Arrange to have groups of people in Focus 12 state unite their altered +consciousness to build holographic patterns around sensitive areas to repulse +possible unwanted out-of-body presences. + +L. Encourage more advanced Gateway participants to build holographic patterns +of successful attainment and rapid progress for advanced colleagues to assist them +in progressing through the Gateway system. + +I£ these experiments are carried through, it is to be hoped that we will truly find + +a gateway to Gateway and to the realm of practical application for the whole system +of techniques which comprise it. + +Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIAZRDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +=== Page 29 === +wees Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 + +BIBLIOGRAPHY +1. Bentov, Itzhak. Stalking the Wild Pendulum. New York, E, P. 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