the report entitled analysis and assessment of the gateway process was penned in 1983 by u.s army lieutenant colonel wayne m mcdonnell mcdonald described the gateway experience as a training system designed to bring enhanced strength focus and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness moving it outside the physical space so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space in simpler terms the gateway experience uses sound to manipulate brainwaves with a goal of creating an altered state of consciousness in which a person can interact with non-physical aspects of reality practical uses of the technique according to the cia report include manifesting goals converting energy to heal one's body and even traveling across space and time to access new information the report was quietly declassified by the cia in 2003 and largely went unnoticed one introduction in order to describe the monroe institute technique for achieving altered states of consciousness the gateway experience involving brain hemisphere synchronization or hemisink 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 [Music] 5. gateway and hemisink 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 hemisink technique which is defined in a monograph by monroe institute trainer melissa jaeger 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 jagger states that audio techniques developed by bob munro can induce and sustain hemisync with the institute's basic focus 3 tapes she also notes that studies conducted by elmer and alice greene at the henniger foundation have shown that a subject with 20 years of training in zen meditation could consistently establish hemisink at will sustaining it for over 15 minutes dr stewart twemlow a psychiatrist and research associate of the monroe institute reports 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 light bulb in watts into a narrower and narrower frequency band the focusing of energy is not unlike the yoga concept of one-pointedness which we may translate in western terms as 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 this is the first step along your path to a gateway a gateway beyond which is discovery your own discovery of reality of truth of who and what you are because of the special audio techniques used it's important that certain sounds reach your right ear and others your left ear to be sure of this you should be hearing my voice in your right ear at this moment if you are not hearing my voice in your right ear turn your headphones around now so that you are hearing my voice in your right ear 6. lamp versus laser melissa jaeger uses a metaphor to help clarify the process involved in the use of hemisink in the gateway experience she points out that the human mind in its natural state may be likened to an ordinary lamp which expands 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 hemisink acts in 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 the mind can then bring itself into synchronization with more sophisticated and rarefied energy levels in the universe the mind when operating at these increasingly rarefied 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 of scenarios involving both visual and oral 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 hemisink 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 mimic the same frequency pattern by adjusting its brainwave output therefore if the subject is in a fully awake state but here's sound frequencies which approximate 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 providing that he does not consciously resist as the brain strives to entrain its wave frequency output with one which the person hears since these brainwave frequencies are outside of the spectrum of sounds which can be heard in pure form by the human ear hemisink 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 hemisync 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 in a 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 c surf to mask the sound frequencies were desirable 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 bring 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 the 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 benshov describes the role 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 into 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 points will eventually collide somewhere along the aorta and produce an interference pattern by placing the body in a sleep-like 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 sine wave pattern of sound which echoes throughout the body and rises up into the head in sustained resonance the amplitude of this sine wave 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 nine brain stimulation bentoff'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 brainstem 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 hemisink 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 .005 to .01 millimeters in a continuous pattern the self-reinforcing 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 micro motion functions as a tuned vibrational system which transfers energy in a range between 6.8 and 7.5 hertz into the earth's ionospheric cavity which itself resonates at about 7 to 7.5 hertz of this process bentav states 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 long wavelength knows no obstacles and its strength does not attenuate much over large distances naturally it will go through just about anything metal concrete 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 to 7.5 cycles per second the resulting resonance sets up a regular repetitive sound wave which propagates in consonance with the electrostatic field of the earth 10. energy entrainment as the body is tuned into a coherent oscillator vibrating in harmony with the surrounding electrostatic medium the specific exercises included in the gateway tapes enjoy 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 in training 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 coherence at steadily higher levels of frequency and amplitude so as to entrain analogous frequencies in the universe for data collection also promotes the 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 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 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