Deep Dive: The Gateway Process

the sound of ocean surf of waves a natural sound most people find pleasing and relaxing it is a sound of Natural Energy a natural energy always present when the ocean meets the shore the sound of waves of energy in action we all know that government agencies can be somewhat Shady at times Through The Years countless Declassified documents shed light on the cia's interest in and their difficult relationship to Altered States of consciousness at least since the publication of the MK Ultra project that's no longer news recently I came across a Declassified document from the year 1983 titled analysis and assessment of the Gateway process and let me tell you it's something else to give you an idea before we dive into it let me outline the basic premise this document the so-called Gateway process or the Gateway tapes are discussed a technique with which one can achieve all that states of Consciousness out of body experiences and astral projection ascending through the fabric of reality and escaping space time itself these things are achieved by listening to a series of tapes by Robert Monroe and are based heavily on the theories of author inventor and Mystic it's like bantoff but before we go on I'll have to put out a disclaimer a lot of what is discussed in the Gateway files and this video is tinged heavily by mysticism spirituality and the theoretic framework built by basically one man bent off draws from many fields including quantum physics to back up his claims and it can get difficult to validate or discredit or simply follow any of his claims if you're not exactly an expert in these fields some of what he extrapolates is from a rational point of view a bit farther out regardless I think it's worth listening to what he has to say whether your belief is Theory or not in the end you'll have to decide for yourself which parts of his claims he'll buy into and which ones you don't also as you probably saw this video will be quite long and it gets a bit technical at times so just bear with me here maybe grab a few snacks and just settle in now let's start at the beginning to understand what makes the Gateway process unique we'll have to mention the the Altered States each Tech benthof describes and the things you can do with them can be achieved through other techniques as well that operate on somewhat the same principles it all starts with the brain or to be precise the brainwave patterns corresponding to different states of mind like or normal waking consciousness as well as sleep or meditative States Robert Monroe founder of the Monroe Institute is known for quote-unquote inventing the term out of body experience in his 1971 book Journeys out of the body even though the technique itself has been known to different Civilizations for thousands of years of course well Monroe discovered however is that you can induce a state of synchronized brainwave patterns of the right and left brain hemisphere he later called hemisink this concept is the underlying principle of the various Gateway tapes spawned from his research into awareness describing his technique he compared it to a ramp from the local road to the interstate of the exploration of consciousness compare that to Freud's notion of Dreams themselves an altered state of awareness as the royal road to the subconscious hemising and the Gateway tapes are meant to be a shortcut and a reliable way for untrained individuals to achieve trends like meditative states that would otherwise take methodical and prolonged practice in teachings like the Zen Buddhist tradition now let's get into the actual file that resurfaced in 2003 it starts off with outlining a few other techniques to give a better understanding of the underlying principles of the Gateway process the tunnel Colonel Wayne Mech oh shit digger Lieutenant Colonel Wayne and McDonnell the author of The Gateway paper States the most effective way to begin is to briefly profile the basic mechanics which underlay operation of the related methods it is easiest to effectively describe what Gateway is by beginning with a short description of those techniques that share some common aspects with the Gateway experience 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 these techniques include our brain's functions are subdivided between the right and left brain hemispheres the left hemisphere is described as the linear reasoning part of our brain its focus is to screen incoming stimuli and assign certain meaning before letting information pass on to the right hemisphere that one is responsible for intuition the non-verbal and pattern recognizing part of ourselves now under hypnosis the goal is to disengage or distract the Left Brain Cell stimuli including hypnotic suggestions can reach the right side of our brain there we can find a number of points that correspond with certain locations in the body here it's ominously called the homunculus and by targeting certain points combined with the right suggestion like a certain emotion or a sensation such as numbness that will trigger a response in the actual body Transcendental Meditation is all about concentration and drawing up energy through the spinal cord like benthof describes it through the altered heartbeat a kind of wave is created that reaches the brain and polarizes it in a way according to Bent off this bringing up the Kundalini is also possible under prolonged exposure to vibrations between 47 Hertz he Compares it to riding in a car with a seat belt in just the right position or standing under an air conditioning duct now if you really can't become enlightened by standing too close to an air-conditioning duct for too long I have no idea but the theory bentov draws from is a very real one the method of Kundalini Yoga has been practiced for countless Generations in the Eastern tradition the way the ancient texts describe it we have a vast repository of energy curled up at the base of our spine at the molotara chakra as it ascends through the different Gates the energy centers of our bodies it makes its way to the top of our head the crown chakra and we become enlightened at least that's the theory in a nutshell in reality there still seems to be a difference between the true Enlightenment or Moksha through the visarga which we'll get back to in a bit and the Kundalini Awakening some who were not guided properly describe symptoms of being almost mad or possessed by a kind of foreign energy but that's neither here nor there the last somewhat related principle the paper talks about is biofeedback instead of suppressing or bypassing the left hemisphere like in the previous methods it focuses on creating a path between the desired result and The Sensation to consistently activate the right hemisphere this largely works by relying on memory recall affirmations and repetition with this technique one can for example consciously increase blood flow in parts of their body raise or lower their own temperature and achieve a deep meditative State without having to train in special meditation techniques for a long time after having mentioned these principles we now get to what the techniques of the Gateway process actually involve 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 hemisphere so as to alter Consciousness moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately Escape even the restrictions of time and space that's the official statement the hemising technique employed by the Monroe Institute is Paramount to this process in ordinary Consciousness the state of synchronization between hemispheres is rare and short-lived however according to studies done by Alma and Ellis Greene at the meninga foundation people who for example have Long training and teachings like Zen meditation are able to induce this state of hamising consistently and sustain it for prolonged periods of time Melissa ayagar Chief instructor of the Gateway program at the Monroe Institute gives us a useful metaphor for understanding how hemising acts upon the brain she Compares normal waking consciousness to a lamp which gives off heat and light in a disorderly chaotic manner the energy is diffused of a wide area now with the help of synchronization we can focus that stream of energy into a narrow band and eventually we will end up with a kind of laser with a uniform frequency and amplitude once we achieve that Unison it's possible to accelerate both frequency and amplitude so the mind is dating at ever higher vibrational levels then it's possible to synchronize or tune into different energy levels that exist in the universe and when the mind is operating on these levels the theory states it's possible to retrieve process and assign meaning to information gathered on these planes 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 of scenarios involving both Visual and oral perception that kind of holistic intuition could also be described as a form of noetic insight the noet equality being one of the four Hallmarks of the mystical experience okay so how do we actually achieve the synchronization well to understand how it works we'll have to talk about what's called The Frequency following response or ffr for short long story short the brain has this capacity to emulate certain frequencies it hears that correspond to some of its own operational modes if you're awake for example and your brain hears frequencies on the Theta level which correspond to your brain with output when you sleep the brain will automatically try to mimic the frequency it hears and given you don't resist you can actually fall asleep or at least fall asleep faster that way thus the whole basis behind the YouTube trend of subliminal audio or data frequencies to fall asleep to now the problem is that the frequencies we want to produce are outside the Spectrum we can actually hear with our ears so the Gateway tapes exploit another brain function we have our ability to detect beat frequencies or the difference between two frequencies played at the same time when we play a frequency in the left ear that's 10 Hertz below the one on the right our brain doesn't hear the two different frequencies it hears the difference between them the goal here is to relax the left hemisphere and place the body into a hypnagogic sleep state where our body is functionally asleep but our mind is still awake besides the use in the Gateway tapes this method is used in the yogic tradition as a first step towards astral projection as well as the so-called wild technique in lucid dreaming or to return to the West hypnopedia that means learning through audio in your sleep which was all the rage in the middle of the 20th century and also one of the topics Robert Monroe studied before he came up with a Gateway premise the theory of different frequency levels in the universe is also a concept seen across cultures whether you look at it through the scientific lens of different vibrations corresponding to different states of Consciousness like wakefulness sleep and dreaming or if you go the spiritual route and see within the frequency levels the different chakra vibrations of the universe the culturally omnipresent um being the basic frequency of all things but why is this whole frequency thing relevant to the Gateway process specifically by achieving a physical state of rest within the body we eliminate what bentov calls the bifurcation Echo so the sound of the heartbeat travels harmoniously throughout the body about seven times per second it's a real hassle to visualize so to give you a quick rundown of what happens through bringing the body into a relaxed State the heart changes its Rhythm and instead of an interference pattern caused by the pulse we get irregular rhythmic sine wave pattern that travels through the body and resonates in the brain it makes the brain oscillate or vibrate in a specific way between the brain and the skull we got different layers of membranes and fluids so through achieving this regular pattern the brain moves about 0.005 to 0.010 millimeters now benthof says that this way our body becomes one vibrational system that transfers energy between 6.8 to 7.5 Hertz into the Earth's ionospheric cavity just imagine it as a layer around the earth and this layer through an absurdly complicated physical process resonates at seven to seven and a half Hertz itself I'd love to explain how that works but honestly I don't quite understand it myself it's been a few years since I've been to a physics class the way I understand it however is that our output of low frequency vibrations merges with the electrostatic field of the earth luckily bentoth himself gives us his interpretation this is occurring at a very long wavelength of about 40 000 kilometers or just above the perimeter of the planet in other words the signal from the movement of our bodies will travel around the world in about 1 7 of a second through the electrostatic field in which we are embedded such a wavelength knows no obstacles and its strength does not attenuate much over large distances it is the ideal medium for conveying a telepathic signal now if all that sounds awfully complicated just let me warn you it gets worse bentoff really likes his physics but in order to get to the good part just bear with me for a bit because it's important for understanding what he even talks about in the latter half of the paper now following the premise that we have entered into a homogeneous system with our surroundings according to the theory it should now be possible to move the seed of Consciousness into the surrounding environment because the two electromagnetic fields of us and the Earth are now a single energy Continuum what this means is Out of Body Experience to understand the more in-depth Concepts behind the gateway process it's important to establish a common understanding of how bentov describes reality and how he feels Consciousness in particular he tells us that the distinction between matter and energy is two distinctly different states of existence is misleading at best if you look closely there is no such thing as solid matter and in fact the sign seems to back him up on that as most of us today know when we get down to the realm of atoms we discover they aren't stuck in one place but rather exist in a probability wave function I don't think I have to explain the double slit experiment or schroding his cat to anyone we on the internet after all are making an educated guess that most of the people that watch this video are familiar with the basics of uncertainty now bentov describes it as everything being oscillating energy grids that interact with each other and that states of matter are actually variances in the state of energy following that he postulates Consciousness is merely a function of the interaction of energy in two opposite States motion and rest in what he calls the hologram the premise is also reminiscent of another theory the theory of coalescence in the framework of pan psychist philosophy it says that everything is consciousness to some degree in a certain amount of matter there is an exponential amount of energy that's also the reason atomic bombs work but then it goes one step further and suggests that in energy there is an exponential amount of Consciousness so matter is condensed energy and energy is condensed Consciousness the fact we haven't discovered it yet doesn't necessarily mean the theory is false it could just be we haven't discovered a scientific method to test for Consciousness yet just a quick side note the basis for most of the theory behind the gateway can be found in benthof's 1977 novel stalking the wild pendulum bentov himself claims that most of the insights and ideas he had for the novel as well as many of his inventions came to him from the universal hologram and what that is we'll discover now 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 the hologram to explain what he means bentoff gives us an example to understand what Holograms are we have a bowl of water in which three Pebbles are dropped as the ripples created by the entry radiate outward the surface of the water is Flash Frozen and removed then the ice is exposed to a laser what we'll get is a three-dimensional model or representation of the position of the three pebbles in mid-air the science behind the method of retrieving information in such a way stems from Dennis Gabor who won a Nobel Prize in physics 5's work in 1971. he's also called the father of holography he developed the theory in 1947 but it couldn't be verified for years until the invention of the laser in the Gateway paper another example is cited by biologist Lyle Watson 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 and read the record will be a hologram of the face the key to creating a hologram is that energy in a state of motion must interact with energy in a state of rest or non-motion the pebble and the surface of the water for example to retrieve meaning energy has to be passed through the interference pattern what implications does this hold according to Bent off bear with me this will get a bit confusing broadening our view the entire universe can be seen as a complex set of interacting energy fields it is in itself one gigantic hologram of unbelievable complexity the electrostatic field of the Mind receives energy passing through aspects of the universal hologram and creates a holographic image IT projects meaning in a sense that it reads the energy of the wave patterns passing through it it decides a factor of how the holographic image is perceived and interpreted by the mind is dependent on its own frequency one can imagine our brains as little radio antennas that pick up different frequencies and produce an output signal like a sound depending on what frequency we tune into we can perceive different images or sounds that are out there to return to the text 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 transmission of the universe personally I like my radio example better to interpret the meaning of what was just received the Mind compares the image with itself it Compares it to memory this touches on one of the biggest contemporary scientific debates whether Consciousness is emergent or created by the brain or if the brain is more like a receiver of Consciousness that exists outside of ourselves this draws after it a bunch of mystical baggage like the illusion of the self or the state of non-duality and it's outlining the basic divide between a materialistic and idealistic worldview in the paper psychologist Keith Floyd is cited contrary to what everyone knows is so it may not be the brain that produces Consciousness but rather Consciousness that creates the appearance of a brain The Proposal that we perceive by comparison only is one of the pillars of benthof's theory he says our mind functions in much the same way a computer does in a binary fashion that reduces a complex input into a two-dimensional form it can process and understand we compare incoming information with data stored in our own memory in Altered States the right hemisphere functions as the main receiver and the left one as the one processing the data the overlapping function can be visualized as a Consciousness energy grid and once again at face value this coincides with new scientific discoveries we now know that when we look at something we don't really process all the information most of the work is handed down to comparing the impression of our senses with past experiences and making a predictive model or educated guesses our mind is constantly making comparisons and jumps to the most likely solution instead of laboriously crunching the sensory data each second that's useful for conserving energy but may not necessarily be the most accurate representation of our reality one can see this distinction and comparison making ability break down in transcendental States or psychedelic experiences where we are once again reduced to a state of Wonder and a sense of newness and significance in everything concerning self-cognition the paper differentiates between the human consciousness and that of plants and animals we're not only aware but we are aware that we are aware that concept of matter awareness can be attributed to our ability to duplicate and project outward parts of our own Holograms which we can then perceive and compare to ourselves in our memory up to this point our discussion of the Gateway process has been relatively simple and easy to follow yeah now that we have all that boring stuff out of the way we can delve deeper into the world of different dimensions time travel the shape of the universe and even more quantum physics in other words now the fun begins but before we get to the juicy parts of transcending space time we gotta Define what time and space even are according to our good friend physics here time is nothing more than a measurement of energy or force and motion in other words it's a measurement of change and in order for energy to be in motion it must be limited to a certain range of vibrations that way we have a pretty good idea of the area or rough location it exists in one distinguishable from other locations that we call space in our current understanding thermodynamics and entropy dictate the flow of time it follows a path towards greater entropy if Newton's Laws can be violated however time may be able to be altered regarding the limitation of energy the Gateway paper gives us this block of information and I'll read it in full because it's critical for pretty much everything that comes after it 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 you know because no movement means no change no change no time it is also beyond space because that concept implies that a specific energy form is limited to a specific location and is absent from others but if energy is in the state of infinity There Are No Boundaries no here to differentiate from there no sense of area energy and 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 a state of infinite being this energy in a state of inactive Infinity is called Energy in its absolute state or simply the absolute what else do we know about it apparently this absolute Consciousness can still perceive passively whatever Holograms the energy in the universe create but it can be perceived by Consciousness in these lower levels or Dimensions according to bentov's Theory between the absolute and all material world there are layers we can gain access to in Altered States and we can continue to do so till we eventually reach the top the absolute but their perception would stop because the absolute generates no hologram off or about itself remember because it's in a state of total rest and can't exactly pass energy through itself if it's already everywhere and Beyond the concept of space-time itself when I first read this explanation of time and space I immediately had to think of the Buddhist concept of Brahman a kind of universal Consciousness which we are all parts of like little drops of water that got lifted from an ocean infinitely big and after we leave this life we'll merge with this Oneness again later bentov even describes the concept with the analogy of a sea but even more modern takes include this pan psychist vision of an all mind or a mind at large as famous English author Aldous Huxley described in his book doors of perception there we follow the writer's first experience with masculine a psychedelic compound opening him up to a mystical experience in which his eponymous doors of perception get blown wide open he adheres to Cambridge philosopher CD broad's view of the Mind as something limiting our perception of reality each person is in each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe the function of the brain is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge by shouting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful Huxley compares the mind to a kind of reducing valve that restricts the Abundant information to only the stuff necessary for our survival perception thus is rendered an evolutionary process during his experience Huxley also contemplates the teachings of the Buddha experiencing the non-duality that comes with gaining Enlightenment ascending to the absolute or the mystical experience in general as described by people as Meister Eckhart as far back as the 13th century or arguably even far earlier with the writings of ancient Greek Mystics like heraclit one thing that encapsulates this concept in Buddhist teachings especially is the Bindu visarga of falling drop it's a point at the very top of your head and the Buddhist law says it's a point of infinite density and energy the source of unlimited Consciousness the collapse of all things into one point which if reached by the ascending energy of for example Kundalini Yoga is released and Consciousness expands infinitely in other words you'll receive buddhahood or perfect permanent Enlightenment Moksha now how does ascending dimensions in the Gateway process work let's find out to enter these higher Dimensions between our physical world and the state of the absolute we have to accelerate our brain a brainwave to enter these higher Dimensions between our physical world and state of the absolute we have to accelerate our brainwave output to an intense degree this is critical for perception of non-time space dimensions and how is that possible are you winning son foreign what even is the plank length well the short answer is the smallest distance where physics still makes sense beyond that point it gets weird the problem with the different plank measurements is that they are somewhat describing nothing at all the length that light travels in a plank second is the plank length and the plank second is the time it takes for light to travel the plank length so what does that even mean the final details aren't that important to us but you could argue that here lies a definite weakness of the whole Gateway Theory anyway when you look at a wave like our brain waves it has two points of rest where it changes directions these are necessary because without these two limits a periodical waveform wouldn't be possible so for a brief moment the wave has to be in a state of rest just before reaching that point of infinity where it changes directions the waveform has to cross the barrier of Planck distance roughly 10 to the negative 33 centimeters beyond that our concept of time and space breaks down in benthof's world we enter a new world these moments of temporarily going beyond the limits of time and space adapt click outs now the trick is when you accelerate the wave to such an extent that these click outs occur so often and so close to each other that you reach a virtual Continuum beyond space time the paper acknowledges that this clicking out is a critical part of the whole Theory so it spends quite some time explaining and justifying it one example that is cited for exactly that principle of clicking out applying in nature is the concept of entanglement after two particles Collide or interact in any way even if they are separated by half the universe they can seemingly exchange information instantaneously faster than light according to Gateway this is because the exchange of information happens Beyond The Click out Point beyond space time and this way it doesn't violate Einstein's theory of relativity which only applies to Conventional time and space and nothing Beyond by the way these guys won last year's Nobel Prize in physics proving that quantum entanglement is indeed a real thing if that also validates other parts of bentos theory is up for discussion on a different note there is a theory in development that concerns itself with particles that travel faster than light tachyons from the Greek term Takis literally meaning fast however the existence would cause quite a bit of trouble opening the doors to time travel paradoxes and breaking Einstein's special relativity physicists don't like that going back to what we will actually find in these intermediate Dimensions it gets weird causality and proportionality between events in time and space breaks down and fluctuates movements become jerky rather than smooth time and space 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 the text skips over this rather important part but leaves us with one side note axis is open to both the past and the future when the dimensions of current time space is left behind before concerning ourselves with a much bigger scope of things the paper briefly returns to out-of-body experience mentioning the Merit of starting from a point higher up so to speak which allows your Consciousness to spend more time in the window Beyond space-time without needing to travel through the layers in between it leaves us with Penthouse analogy of the Consciousness as a sea the storm tossed waves on the surface are current reality the currents between the agitated surface and the depths of the absolute which are a total rest represent the energy and the process of either entering or coming out of that state of total tranquility what shape is the universe flat curved hyperbolic is it one giant ball growing ever larger into nothingness which doesn't even make sense well according to bentos the answer is simple the universe is a donut yeah you heard me all right the universe has the shape of a donut or Taurus to be exact an immense self-contained spiral an ovoid or egg-like shape which at its Center has a point of extremely compressed energy from which matter enters our universe through a white hole do white holes exist science says maybe we haven't got proof but in theory they are possible as they are the mathematical counterpart to black holes you know when you calculate a root and it has both a positive and a negative solution kinda like that so Bento saw that small things in nature mirror larger ones like the orbit of electrons around the nucleus and planets around the Sun so he looked at quizzes Which eject massive concentrated Jets of matter and energy called Quasar beams that could eradicate entire planets at light speed and he thought hmm I guess we can make that bigger make the jet of energy concentric and spread out in all directions and boom you got the big bang as caused by a white hole energy that comes into existence through that process becomes more complex and it moves towards the far end of the egg at which it exits the universe through a black hole time in this context is the measurement of change which occurs on this journey as energy travels along the shell of the egg in other words as energy expelled from infinity and confined within limits by the conscious of the absolute achieves form and motion following the 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 shadow of the egg on its Journey to the black hole at the far end as energy is in motion like this it creates an interference pattern which in turn creates the universal hologram or Taurus all of the movements of energy that make up the universe leave their Mark and tell their story throughout time the Hologram can be read and this way it becomes possible to obtain knowledge about the past present and future as they all exist simultaneously within the Taurus at all times as the future is dictated by past States philosophers have been trying to create a model for predicting the future reliably for Generations take for example laplace's demon who holds a kind of world formula by knowing the place and situation of all the particles in the universe it can predict the future perfectly however the uncertainty principle that is the basis of our current knowledge of quantum physics actually prevents any somewhat accurate predictions to be made Beyond an instantaneous moment the existence of the universe in this constant state of going from creation to destruction from a black white whole Duality eerily represents a modern theory of the big bounce the Big Bang happening over and over and over again and each time creating a new material reality a new universe with another you in it perpetually playing out the same endlessly repeating Game of Life [Music] where does all this put us our Consciousness our awareness our Consciousness is the basis for everything it is the organizing and guiding principle that brings and keeps energy in motion so a specific reality results we are parts of the absolute a drop in the sea of brahmana the absolute the Mind At Large we have self-awareness and so does the absolute but in case of the latter it is a function of energy and 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 our Consciousness accounts for our body but it goes Way Beyond it according to bento's Theory it exists quite a part and outside of reality Beyond space-time with no beginning or end reality has a beginning and end because it's contained within time and space but the fundamental energy and consciousness of it all doesn't it is eternal when reality ends its constituent energy simply returns to Infinity within the absolute now what does that actually mean like specifically it's a bit difficult to separate the Nuggets of information spread throughout the text but it's possible memory as a function and part of our Consciousness has the same Eternal character and is preserved the return of Consciousness to the absolute does not imply an extinction of the separate entity which the Consciousness organized and sustained in reality in other words as we merge and become part of the one we don't lose our self-knowledge and we continue to perceive what we do lose is the capability for individual will or Choice since the Hologram of thoughts can only be created by energy in motion while we exist in a state of Rest In the End there's only pure awareness and all-knowing infinite Continuum of consciousness [Music] the tapes are the primary method through which the people undergo their Journey Through The Gateway process it has to be said that the speed of which you make progress here is dependent on a variety of variables that are different for each person for example their sensitivity General State of Mind and if they already have experience with other techniques including some meditative practices from which the tapes borrow quite a few Concepts I'll highlight a few similarities but I'll try to keep it light on the spiritualism the first technique the participants encounter is something called an energy conversion box they're encouraged to isolate distracting thoughts and concerns and visualize putting them aside the next step is resonate tuning achieving a certain resonance throughout the body by the humming of a single note contained in the Gateway tapes that sense of tuning yourselves to a certain vibration reminded me of chanting the syllables corresponding to the different chakras or energy patterns of the universe the use of humming can also be seen in some practices like brahmari pranayam a meditation technique where you basically create a kind of sensory deprivation by adopting a certain hand gesture the shamoki mudra and then hum like a bee to draw your focus inward it's also called Beast breath you can find it pretty easily online now after these quote unquote warm-ups for your mind we encounter hemisync For the First Time The Listener is instructed to systematically relax his body while the tapes introduced forms of white and pink noise the goal is to reach a hypnagogic state to put us on the threshold of sleep not quite awake not asleep but this in between this liminal State of Consciousness then we're told to create a kind of energy balloon or force field that mirrors the shape of the cosmic egg it's supposed to not only improve the flow of energy but to and I quote protect against conscious entities possessing lower energy levels we might encounter later in our journey like that's sust but alright we'll get a bit more information on that at the end but before that let's take a look at the good stuff for all the Advanced Techniques you'll be able to pull off in theory the Gateway tapes have this weird power ranking of different levels of focus the higher your focus level the more advanced things you're able to do and the more techniques will be at your disposal they're described as tools for promoting self-discovery and personal growth Beyond Focus 10 you'll get into the Advanced Techniques some of these tools include but aren't limited to problem solving manifestation using the Earth as a charger to boost your energy and heal yourself creating a literal magic wand which you then can turn into a portal and few remote places astral projection and of course time travel because why the fuck not okay so let's go through some of them in a bit more detail first problem solving it sounds normal enough right well to start off you have to visualize and then project your problems outward towards the universe the way it's described in the paper at least your higher self then interacts with the universal hologram to find solutions that can come as a kind of holistic Vision or no addict Insight like you suddenly just know the answer to a problem without actually knowing why or how you know but you are certain that it is true knowledge can also come in the form of symbols or other forms which you just have to kind of get a feel for in the days following your sessions basically what this technique presupposes is the remembrance from a larger pool of knowledge we can gain access to in these Altered States and that's actually not that far off many people from across cultures have come to a similar kind of conclusion take the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung for example who wrote extensively on the subject of the collective unconscious he later developed symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia but instead of getting treatment he saw that as an excellent opportunity to research the mind of a mentally ill person that's also where one of his most famous works the red book comes from but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself this concept of gaining Insight from a hidden pool of knowledge also Bears resemblance to the akashic records a concept from 19th century theosophy the akashic records are a secret collection of all knowledge from every event thing or thought that has does or will ever exist in the universe metaphysical library of everything so to speak here too one can see this gaining Insight from a place outside yourself not exactly the same thing but one could even cite ancient Greek texts from Socrates he describes learning or gaining insight as a process of remembering Knowledge from within oneself gained of a countless past lives and the time the soul has spent in all planes of existence both Earthly and ethereal but that's enough of this tangent we gotta move on by the way if you want to hear more about any of the things I mentioned here just let me know and I'll maybe make a video about it I don't know color breathing has despite its name not so much to do with breathing as it has with different effects on the mind and body so they can be used to heal yourself or to replenish energy resources from the Earth's Own electromagnetic field that's why I described it as using the Earth as a kind of charging cable the paper gives us the example of using blue light to reduce swelling as opposed to red or yellow which have either the opposite or no effect in color breathing however it's not the use of an external physical light source but rather your mind's eye that has an effect to what extent that's actually practical I can't say I haven't tried it myself so you can just take that and anything I say basically with a grain of salt here the next one is a bit different I think the text has an interesting take on the theory so I just quoted here magic wands and Enchanted sceptries have been part of the folklore and occult practices of many cultures the scepters staffs and mazes carried by monarchs and high priests occur with such a frequency in history as to suggest that at the very least these items are an aspect of some type of archetypal symbol which the human mind seems to appreciate perhaps quite subliminally now what you do is you basically imagine a DOT of light and charging it up with energy then you extend it into the shape of a sparkling vibrating cylinder of energy which you then can Channel force from the universe in other related techniques it's also used to heal parts of your body it's also important for the next one which is remote viewing with this magic wand you can create a kind of portal or gate a whirling Vortex you step into and send your mind to the destination it wants to go to to gain specific information it's one of the points of interest of the CIA but I'll get more into that in just a sec when we talk about astral projection perhaps the most interesting and Elusive practice within the Gateway process is traveling into the past and future conveniently these two are also the most difficult things to achieve according to the gateway's weird power ranking scale they are also somewhat brushed over in the paper which is a bit annoying for time travel into the past you need a state of consciousness called Focus 15 which according to the Monroe Institute is only achieved by about five percent of the participants within the seven day time span of the experiment more subliminal suggestions and even more expanded Consciousness the paper stays very vague on the actual process of time travel and it gets even more sparse with traveling into the future for this you need the truly advanced S tier consciousness of focus 21. it's unlikely to occur and you need to have either prior conditioning through meditation or months to year-long practice in the Gateway tapes to even have a chance of experiencing this technique beyond that we get nothing no description of the actual process no hints whatsoever it's kind of like the shiny Pokemon of the Gateway process but without beating ourselves down even further let's get to something more accessible [Music] out of body movement OBM for short or astral projection is an interesting one it's the reason I came across the Gateway process in the first place and it seems to be the main reason why the CIA got interested in the Monroe tapes as well and for good reason if it actually worked consistently the military use of by location remote viewing and overall Espionage made possible by OBM would be remarkable missions could be carried out and assisted with accurate information on a target's location or others without having to physically endanger any personnel there was a rather obscure task force that acted under the name of the Stargate project which tried to employ some of the gateway's tools for military operations however the project was terminated and Declassified in 1995 after it yielded no useful information in a significant way according to the CIA information was often vague and unreliable that was confirmed by tests done by the Monroe Institute themselves where they tested the accuracy of OBM and remote viewing with an experiment in one location a participant would undergo the Gateway process and then with the use of astral projection moved to a second location where they had to read a sequence of 10 numbers on a screen they never got them quite right and the experiment was called a failure as to why the results were so unreliable the researchers at The Institute came up with the idea that when in this astral realm distortions from thoughts other energy patterns and the influence of other times overlapped with the participants experience now aside from all that historical context how does out of body movement actually work in theory when you have aligned your own electromagnetic field with that obvious surroundings through all of the frequency entrainment stuff we talked about at the beginning it's possible to detach from your body and move outside it without much resistance a couple of techniques can be used for that separation like rolling out sliding out of your body to one side or imagining pulling yourself up out of your body by an invisible rope fun trying that out the paper comes up with an interesting side note most of us are already able to perform out of body movement when we are in the stages of REM sleep that's because a few of the conditions for OBM in a waking state are already present in REM sleep firstly during that stage the body's motor cortex functions are deactivated only breathing and eye movement continue unimpaired the rest is like paralyzed it's an evolutionary Safeguard so we don't physically act out what we experience in our dreams we can talk and jump and run around without our bodies responding to the stimuli that intense relaxation also eliminates the bifurcation echo of the heart which is critical for achieving the right resonance or frequency that we need to achieve these Altered States the second condition for OBM that is met in REM sleep is the quieting of the left brain hemisphere the only thing missing is the synchronization of the right and left hemisphere during the Gateway process nevertheless the practice of lucid dreaming and consciously remembering your dreams helps to stretch lengthen your connection and the recollection of the experience of OBM replicating the state in waking consciousness is a different matter though the paper leaves us with a rather cryptic message 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 that plays a role in all of the Focus 12 15 and 21 states whatever that means is up to your interpretation [Music] most of the recent Revival of interest in the Gateway process has to do with the following section of the paper tucked away under 24 pages of laborious groundwork almost at the end of the paper the author McDonald discusses gateway's implications for different religious systems and comes to a rather tame conclusion the principles behind Gateway the universal Taurus and the symbolism contained within all the material is surprisingly or unsurprisingly compatible with many other world religions today both the image of the cosmic egg and the concept of our visible reality being a creation of some omniscient unseen Divinity is inferred in both Eastern and Julio Christian belief systems the Christian concept of the Trinity as well as the Hebrew Tree of Life are Concepts that harmonize with gateway's view of reality the description of energy totally addressed in Infinity fits the Christian metaphysical concept of the father while the infinite self-consciousness that provides the will to bring a portion of that energy in motion corresponds with the Sun the text builds up to its climax at the end of page 24. it ends with this passage and the Eternal thought or concept of self which results from this self-consciousness serves the and then it just stops page 25 nowhere to be found as if the author hadn't just revealed the ultimate secret to existence now the mystery of the missing page 25 was a point of much debate in the last years many people contacted the CIA and filed motions for the release of the page with no result the CIA wouldn't budge said they never had it in the first place some internet theories had it that the page was left out intentionally by McDonald's or Monroe himself a kind of litmus test whoever actually completed the training and transcended time and space would be able to locate the missing page but like so often in life things would end up being not so mysterious after all an excellent article written by Adobe champion from Vice came forth and it was revealed that they had received the missing page in the mail turns out the Monroe Institute has had it all this time and no one ever came up with the idea to just ask them after the topic and especially campion's first article on the Gateway process gained traction on Tick Tock and other social media The Institute reached out to them and arranged the publication of page 25. I recommend you check out the original article it's worth it in my opinion so what does the missing page tell us basically it continues the parallel to the Christian Trinity the soul or Holy Spirit creating time and space as a means to interact with the universal hologram the page also sets a focus on self-discovery know thyself the basic Axiom of all knowledge before confronting the world one has to look Inward and see what he can discover there in McDonald's words this would seem to be one of the real Promises of the Gateway experience its ability to provide a portal through which based on months if not years of practice the individual may pass in his search to find self personal effectuality and Truth in the larger sense and in that it may be a slow but ultimately rewarding process because you don't need to have infinite patience and faith in a certain belief system or deity even the impatient result-oriented skeptical pragmatists can achieve a better understanding of themselves and the world around them through the use of the Gateway method foreign this video I want to mention a few things the paper itself ends with a kind of anecdotal listing of a step-by-step guide for the most promising method of reaching Altered States and a few things I just have to mention it would be a waste not to that includes the multi-focus approach in which three people go into astral projection at the same time one stays in this space time and watches the bodies while the other two go into the past and future respectively if they all entered the altered state at the same time they would ideally share one energy grid and are supposed to be able to tune into each other's perception for more accurately receiving information the other two things are a bit ominous but I just found it hilarious how they were like hidden away at the very end of the paper number one be intellectually prepared to react to possible encounters with intelligent non-corporeal energy forms when time space boundaries are exceeded and number two arrange to have groups of people in Focus 12 State unite their altered Consciousness to build holographic patterns around sensitive areas to reports possibly unwanted out of body presences like my man what are you not telling us why do we have to build energy fields around us to protect us from intelligent non-corporeal beings where are the aliens are anyway I just found that was interesting now that concludes this whole Mega project of mine One Last Thing Before I sign off maybe I know all of this was a bit of a logical leap of faith but if you want to hear my opinion on the Gateway process I think it's not so much about understanding the concept from an intellectual point of view you know the left brain thinking the paper dumps on so much I'm not saying anything the Gateway paper discusses is real or fake or anything like that that wasn't my intention making this video it's more like hey look at this cool thing I found on the internet and yeah I hope you enjoyed this deep dive it was a bit longer than my usual stuff but if you want to see more of that kind in the future just let me know alright that's it have a safe trip [Music] [Music] good foreign