For many years, my main professional focus has been the advancement of methods for applied intuition, visioning, and attainment of expanded conscious awareness. If interested, you can learn about this at Futurpod EP 125: exploring higher consciousness – Oliver Markley.
For years, Robert A. Monroe’s “Gateway Experience® has been on my bucket list of things I hope to do before I die. It is an extraordinary program of training for extended capacities of consciousness, such as out-of-the body journeying and exploration of subtle dimensions of reality beyond the physical realm.
By of background, Robert A. Monroe, the foremost pioneer of out-of-body exploration, wrote his first book, Journeys Out of the Body (1971), describing the story of how this extraordinary experience first happened spontaneously, and how he later learned how to voluntarily trigger it himself. In his second book, Far Journeys (1987), Monroe tells the story of how he created a novel “Hemi-Synch®” technology, leading to research and development of the Gateway Experience through which others can learn these skills. Originally presented in a six-day residential program at the Monroe Institute, the program has been made available in eight CD packages, one for each of “Waves I – VIII” that you can do at your convenience at home; you can also learn how to do these experiences without any audio sounds.
The Gateway Experience uses a “Focus Level” typology created by Monroe, that is important to recognize:
- Focus 1: “C-1” (waking consciousness)
- Focus 10: “Mind Awake/Body Asleep” (exactly as it sounds)
- Focus 11: “The Access Channel” (access to Total Self)
- Focus 12: “Expanded Awareness” (expanded beyond the five physical senses)
- Focus 15: “No Time – No Space” (the void, all potentiality)
- Focus 18: “The Heart Level” (unconditional love vibration)
- Focus 21: “The Bridge State” (access to nonphysical energies and intelligence)
- Focus 22: “Here and There” (a locale where you encounter people who are physically alive but unconscious, such as those in a coma or drug-induced state)
- Focus 23: “New Goners” (a locale where you encounter people who are no longer physically alive but haven’t realized it yet)
- Focus 24, 25, 26: “Belief System Territories” (afterlife expressions of spiritual traditions)
- Focus 27: “The Park” (an afterlife area created by humans often resembling earth environments)
- Focus 34-35: “The Gathering” (allows communication with intelligences gathered to observe happenings on Earth)
- Focus 42: “The I-There Cluster” (allows awareness of even more aspects of Self)
- Focus 49: “Infinite Sea of Bonded I-There Clusters” (higher order guidance, “The Cluster Council”)
I, myself, began doing the Gateway Experience program at home in early 2024 as a continuation of the explorations documented in my journal essay, Lucid Dreaming and Beyond. Three months later I completed all of the exercises in Waves I – VIII of the Gateway Experience. Overall, this program has proven so powerful and effective for me that I want to spread the good word about it.
This page is intended to: 1) introduce the Gateway Experience, 2) tell how it can be accessed inexpensively, 3) share some of the main items that I have found useful in doing the process and 4) share a few of my own experiences as something of a “proof of concept.” It will be revised from time to time was new things are added.
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Accessing The Gateway Experience Inexpensively Rev. 2.5 is a resource-loaded introduction through which to both learn about and to get inexpensive access to all you need to acquire and do the Gateway Experience instructional programs on your own. It also includes links to Bob Monroe’s The Gateway Experience Guidance Manual, as well as to scanned liner notes for each of the eight wave-specific CD packets that detail what the exercises in each of the eight waves is about. These items are essential aids to doing the program at home.
About Robert Monroe’s “Loosh Story” As a Radical Evolutionary Myth for Life on Earth is a compelling narrative that illustrates the power of the Gateway Experience® technology, and also offers much for serious thinkers at this time in history.
Gateway Experience Wave III-Freedom, Exercise #4 – Five Questions is a February 15, 2024 journal entry documenting my personal experience doing Robert Monroe’s “Five Questions” exercise. Gateway Experience Wave IV-Adventure #2, Five Messages is a February 29, 2024 journal entry documenting my personal experience doing Robert Monroe’s “Five Messages” exercise. Both illustrate the transcendental reach of the “Focus 12” level of consciousness for personal exploration, as well as my own persona as something of a “consciousness wonk.”
Gateway Experience, Wave VI, Exercise #4, Non-physical Friends (March 5, 2024) and Gateway Experience, Wave VII, Exercise #1, Explore Total Self (March 8, 2024) are two of my most recent journal entries that document how I am getting much more that what initially hoped for. For example, having Bob Monroe fulfill my request for help, and learning some really surprising things about my reincarnational history and additional clarity about my current life mission.