Gaia: Monroe Institute

Re: Questions re Gateway experience

http://qi.gaia.com — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:09:45 GMT

Thank you for your answers. I'll try to experiment more with Advanced Focus 10 and Wave 2.

Btw, I found a very nice article about Focus 10: FOCUS 10: MIND AWAKE/BODY ASLEEP

And this guy has a nice blog about Hemi-Sync: Louis Yagera's blog

Re: Questions re Gateway experience

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:53:04 GMT

I have been to the institute for the Gateway experience and all 21 discs from Wave I through Wave 6 are covered over a 5 day period. It really is all individually driven, but I would suggest that there are different focus levels that work better for different people. For instance, some people have alot of activity in 12 and not in 10 other people have greater activity in 15. So, it really is personal preference.

I would suggest listening to each disc 2 - 3 times until you have gone through them all and go back to hte ones that you feel the most comfortable in.

The medidative process is a learned skill and your mind is becoming trained in dealing with thoughts that tend to pull you out of the meditative state. At the institute, they tell you, when you have an itch - to itch it and then go back. I guess if you are constantly swallowing you need to find a relaxation position for your mouth that does not activate the saliva response. If it is distracting...then don't do it.

As far as what to concentrate on, I would suggest trying to get to that state that you are in right before you fall off to sleep...that period of awake and sleep. Quite your mind and concentrate on nothing...

Questions re Gateway experience

http://qi.gaia.com — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:19:26 GMT

I've just started playing with Wave I of the Gateway Experience series, and have a few questions:

- I understand that the excercises should be done in the given sequence, but how long should I stay with each exercise? Should I just continue to the next when I don't feel any progress, or should I wait for 'something' to happen first?

- When I do the "Intro to Focus 10" exercise, where all the facial muscles should be relaxed, my mouth fills with saliva and I feel like I have to swallow, frequently. This of course makes it harder to concentrate.

- Hmm, what should I concentrate on by the way (apart from the instructions)?

Anyone with experience in these matters?

Best regards,
Arne

Re: Gateway Program

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:52:58 GMT

Hi Candy,

Please let us know how the Program went for you. I'd love to attend as well. I've gone through the Gateway Experience cds but would like to take it a step farther.

Enjoy your visit,
Journeys

Gateway Program

http://yorkie.gaia.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:02:06 GMT

Hello everyone - I am very excited I sent my $500.00 deposit to attend the Gateway Program in 2008. I noticed on my bank account that they cashed my check, so I guess I am approved to attend. I chose to attend at the Ion's Institute on the west coast as I live in Salt Lake City, Utah and never travel. I am nervous that I might not find my way having to fly to Atlanta, Ga. then find the other gate to catch another flight. I know that is silly but I really am not confident enough in my ability to do so. Pitiful. Hopefully going to this program will help me get a better idea of who I really am and to stretch my boundaries. This is one of the most daring things I have ever done for myself.

Thanks for listening.

Candy

Re: Hello Everyone:

http://yorkie.gaia.com — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:12:02 GMT

David - thank you for replying to my post. I will try your suggestion. How wonderful for you that you were able to attend those programs. I feel envious, but glad for you.

Sincerely,

Candy

Re: Hello Everyone:

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:16:57 GMT

Candy, I have been to the institute...I have gone through the gateway and guidelines programs. They would probably tell you that if you were checking out every session (it is called "Checking out" because it feels like you fall asleep) you should probably try the meditations sitting up. When I attended Gateway there was a gentleman who came all the way from London and checked out every session. He was quite frustrated. They had suggested that he was still exploring in 10 or 12 or 15, but that he lacked recall. Good luck

Hello Everyone:

http://yorkie.gaia.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:26:39 GMT

This sounds incredibly stupid, but I have no idea what a pod is. I was invited to join several months ago, and have been unable to find my way back to this area until today. I am ignorant of chatting or corresponding with people over the computer, as you can plainly see. My name is Candy, I am 57 years old. I have read Robert Monroe's books several times and have his Gateway Voyage on cd, also sleeping through the rain, and the visit. I keep falling asleep while listening to any of the recordings. I am in despair of ever progressing through the cd's. I do plan on going to the Institute if they will have me during 2008. I am hoping I can find my way back here to participate in any conversations you have going and what everyone's experience has been.

Thank you,

Candy

Re: Suddenly Psychic

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:39:54 GMT

Hi Karl,

Thanks for the heads up on the book - it is in my Amazon wish list for a next read.

There is a podcast interview with Maureen that I highly recommend giving a listen to:

Suddenly Psychic with Maureen Caudill

"What happens when a non-believing scientist suddenly finds herself psychic? An amazing journey from the clear, questioning mind of a scientist (trained in physics, computer sciences and research in artificial intelligence) who undergoes a metaphysical awakening that is truly Beyond Reason. A must for the skeptics among us."

Play Now - (podcast feed)

Re: Mind Over Machine

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:27:44 GMT

Hi Karl,

I just checked out the GCP website. I'm familiar with it through authors Lynn McTaggart, (The Field and The Intention Experiment), and Dean Radin, (Entangled Minds), but was glad to visit it first hand. It was very interesting to see the graphs of global-scale impacts. How exciting about the Fire the Grid correlation. I participated in the event at 4:11 am Pacific Time and was just able to stay awake for an hour to meditate and send peaceful and healing intention to the grid.

Are you familiar with Lynn's The Intention Experiment website?

Blessings,
Dave

Tuned in to Enlightenment (Through Hemi-Sync)

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:08:27 GMT

"Most of us believe that the path to enlightenment is an entirely spiritual journey, without a biological component. However, study into the neurophysiology of the enlightened state shows that there are not only certain physical characteristics common to all who claim a higher state of being, but also certain physical means of attaining it.

The common state of all altered states of consciousness is what the US-based Monroe Institute characterizes as ‘body asleep, mind awake'. The brain slows to the point where the cortex is not aroused and the parasympathetic nervous system dominates, yet the mind is still aware-a state that is often termed ‘restful alertness'.

The Transcendental Meditation organization characterizes this ‘transcendental', or ‘fourth' state of consciousness- after waking, sleeping and dreaming-as consciousness ‘unbounded', aware of itself, beyond the division of subject and object.1

TM researchers have demonstrated that during TM, the brainwaves show a more regular pattern of slow frequencies- an average of 8.5 Hz-which are closer to the extremely slow delta waves typical of stage 3 and 4 sleep, rather than the mixed frequencies of stage 1 sleep.

Others who have studied altered states of consciousness have found that a greater proportion of lower- frequency brainwaves are produced. Likewise, researchers have recorded circulatory and metabolic changes-increased central nervous activity and cerebral blood flow, reduced or ceased carbon dioxide production by the muscles, and a fivefold elevation of arginine vasopressin (a hormone thought to play a role in memory and learning) in the blood-features consistent with the idea that, at this stage of higher consciousness, the body is extraordinarily relaxed with a heightened state of awareness.2

Another key physiological change during the altered state appears to be an enhanced synchrony between the two hemispheres of the brain.

Ordinarily, the two sides of the brain process information independently and ‘communicate' only when strictly necessary. However, in the altered state, or even during sessions of ESP (extrasensory perception), the two hemispheres work much more coherently.2 There are also more low-frequency cortical brainwaves.

After repeated out-of-body experiences, gifted American sensitive Robert Monroe and colleagues at his Institute began to experiment with using sound to produce an altered state of consciousness. The result of these studies was the development of Hemi-Sync, a way to produce ‘binaural beats' (see box, page 184). The Monroe Institute has available a number of CDs and tapes that use binaural beats to produce particular states of consciousness.

Other studies carried out at the Monroe Institute have also shown that binaural beats can lead to profound alterations in consciousness, depending upon the speed of the frequency. For instance, binaural beats in the alpha range (8-12 Hz) can lead to an increased percentage of alpha waves in the brain, similar to the state of light dreaming or meditation,3, 4 or slower ones in the theta-wave (4-8 Hz) or even delta-wave (1-4 Hz) ranges, which have reportedly aided meditation and even creativity.4

Binaural beats in the beta-wave range (16-24 Hz), the frequency of ordinary waking consciousness, have been used to improve concentration and general brain function.

The Department of Psychology at West Georgia College has even successfully experimented with binaural beats as a method of improving memory.

F. Holmes Atwater, the director of the Monroe Institute, cautions that the effectiveness of binaural beats depends upon the willingness of the listener to relax and focus, as well as other types of meditative practices, such as biofeedback or breathing exercises. Nevertheless, the Institute is one of the first to show that modern technology, as well as ancient practices, can provide a map to enlightenment.Lynne McTaggart

You've got the (binaural) beat

When a pair of human ears hears a sound, each ear hears the sound's frequency at a different phase. This is because the waves, on approaching the ears, have to curve around the head, so each ear hears the sound at a different point of the wave's peak or trough.

German researcher H.W. Dove discovered the concept of ‘binaural' beats: when a different frequency is played in each ear via headphones or speakers, the brain distinguishes the phase differences of each sound and integrates the two waves. The brain senses this ‘third frequency' as the frequency between the two being played in each ear. As the two signals move in and out of phase, the brain perceives an increasing and decreasing difference of phase, thus creating a ‘standing wave'.

As the Monroe Institute (www.monroeinstitute.org) has found, when these are played continually in the ear, brainwaves are entrained to speed up or slow down, depending on the frequency of the binaural beat.

This is largely because each hemisphere of the brain receives signals from each ear. But when a binaural beat is produced, two separate standing waves (one in each ear) are ‘heard' at the same frequency and sent to each hemisphere. It is this unique situation that helps the two brain hemispheres to become synchronous."

Excerpt from the Living the Field course.

Re: Mind Over Machine

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:54:59 GMT

Wow! Thanks for posting that, Dave. I hadn't heard of the Peo'ch experiments.

On a related note, have you looked at the Global Consciousness Project? It operates a network of random number generators and tries to correlate episodes of coherence with events that have some kind of global-scale impact, like 9-11 or Princess Diana's death. The recent Fire the Grid event is another example; the GCP did find a correlation.

Karl

Mind Over Machine

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:52:19 GMT

Hi Karl,

I found an excerpt from Lynn McTaggart's Living the Field course that talks about mind over machines and random event generators that may be helpful to this discussion. http://www.livingthefield.com/

"Mind Over Machine

The simplest way to test the power of human intention is to see if human consciousness can affectmachinery that is governed by a probabilistic system.

In the 1970s, Helmut Schmidt, a physicist and researcher at Boeing Aeronautics, produced the first ‘random number generator', a 20th-century version of the flip of a coin, the movements of which were based on a system of random radioactive atomic decay. These are machines with an output consisting of perfectly random activity that, in physics, is viewed as a state of ‘disorder'.

If it can be shown that participants in a study have altered some element of the machine's output-even ever so slightly-they would have shifted the odds of something happening or altered the tendency of a system to behave in a certain way. Some information transfer or ordering mechanism would be going on-what physicists term ‘negative entropy', or negentropy' for short-the move away from randomness or disarray.

It's like persuading a person at a crossroads, momentarily undecided about taking a walk, to head down one road rather than another. They would, in other words, have created order. The most persuasive of these studies has been designed and carried out by former dean of engineering Robert Jahn, at the Princeton Anomalies Engineering Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University. Jahn refined and improved Schmidt's original equipment, determining that his random event generators, or REGS (pronounced with a hard ‘G'), should be driven by an electronic noise source rather than atomic decay. The random movement of these machines (to either heads or tails) is controlled by a randomly alternating frequency of positive and negative pulses. Their output is utterly random and without any inherent order so, according to the laws of probability, they can be expected to produce either heads or tails approximately 50 per cent of the time.

The most common configuration is a computer screen that is randomly alternating two images-say, cowboys and Indians. Over hundreds of thousands of studies, Jahn has decisively demonstrated that human intention can influence these random electronic devices to produce more of one image, as specified by the participant (more Indians than cowboys, say).1

In 1987, a combined analysis of all the REG experiments-more than 800- carried out by some 68 investigators showed that experimenters could affect the machine so that it gave the desired result 51 per cent of the time instead of the expected 50 per cent. In some of Schmidt's experiments, certain individuals had shifted the odds to 54 per cent.2

Although 51 or 54 per cent doesn't sound like much of an effect, statistically speaking, it's a giant step. If you combine all the studies into what is called a ‘metaanalysis', the odds of this overall score occurring are a trillion to one.3 The US National Research Council also concluded that the REG trials could not be explained by chance.4

An ‘effect size' is a figure which resembles the actual size of change or outcome in a study. It is arrived at by factoring in such variables as the number of participants and the duration time of the test. The overall effect size of the PEAR database was 0.2 per hour.5 The PEAR effect sizes are considered small, whereas the overall REG studies are considered small-to-medium. However, these effect sizes are far larger than those of many drugs deemed to be highly successful in medicine. For instance, the effect of aspirin in preventing heart disease is 0.032-about 10 times smaller than the PEAR effect size.

A simple way to understand effect sizes is to convert it into the number of persons surviving out of 100 people in a medical emergency. An effect size of 0.2 means that 20 more people than expected out of 100 will survive.

To give some hypothetical idea of the magnitude of the PEAR effect size, let's say that, with a certain type of heart operation, one-third of patients usually survive. Now, say that patients undergoing this operation are given a new drug with an effect size of 0.3-about the size of the PEAR effect. Offering the drug on top of the operation would virtually double the survival rate, so that two-thirds of patients undergoing the procedure will live. An additional effect size of 0.3 would turn a medical treatment that had been lifesaving less than half the time into one that worked in a majority of cases.
Lynne McTaggart

1 Behav Brain Sci, 1987; 10: 600-1
2 Broughton RS. Parapsychology: The Controversial Science. NY: Ballantine Books, 1991:177
3 Radin D. The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. NY: HarperEdge, 1997: 140
4 Found Phys, 1989; 19 (12): 1499-514
5 PEAR Technical Note 94003, 1994; September

The mothers of intention

Humans are not the only living beings with influence over the physical world. Using a variation of Jahn's REG machines, a French scientist named René Peo'ch carried out an ingenious experiment with baby chicks. As soon as they were born, a movable REG was ‘imprinted' on them as their ‘mother'. The robot was then placed outside the chicks' cage and allowed to move about freely while Peo'ch tracked its path. After a time, the evidence was clear - the robot was moving toward the chicks more than it would do if it were wandering randomly.

The desire of the chicks to be near their mother was an ‘inferred intention' that appeared to be having an effect in drawing the machine nearer.

Peo'ch carried out a similar study with baby rabbits. He placed a bright light on the movable REG that the baby rabbits found abhorrent. When the data from the experiment were analyzed, it appeared that the rabbits were successfully willing the machine to stay away from them."

Re: New biography of Robert Monroe

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:24:25 GMT

I finished the biography a couple of days ago. It's pretty much a warts-and-all account of Bob's life. Anyone who's interested in Bob's life or the history of the Institute would get a lot from reading it.

Karl

Re: New biography of Robert Monroe

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:08:41 GMT

I got my copy of The Journey of Robert Monroe yesterday, and I'm well into it. It's a good read, so far. I'm up to the point where he wrote Journeys Out of the Body.

Karl

Suddenly Psychic

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:25:52 GMT

I recently finished reading Suddenly Psychic, by Maureen Caudill. It's an account of Maureen's experiences at Monroe programs and how they've affected her life. It's a good read. Maureen comes from a background in computer science, and she originally was a skeptic.

Karl

The Gateway Experience

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:58:23 GMT

Here is a link to some Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience discussions in another website that may be helpful for anyone interested. I went by the name Journeys in the post thread.

Enjoy!

Dave aka Journeys

Re: Hi TMI friends!!!

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:18:21 GMT

Karl,

Thanks for the helpful tips and links. It makes sense to attempt starting off "micro" with PK dosesn't it? Here are a few more article and websites links that may be helpful: Spoon Bending Party, Telekinesis Test and Jack Houck Founder of PK Parties.

Jack Houck has written many articles on remote viewing and PK. In one of his articles he details some research work that has been done with EEG feedback. He found that when we listen to frequency ranges between 7.81 to 7.83 Hz, we open up a "mental access window" that induces out of body experiences. Further on in the article he mentions Hemi-Sync as another "technique for inducing selective brain wave frequencies."

Robert Monroe says in his Gateway Affirmation, "We are more than our physical body." Human consciousness can expand or extent beyond the physical confines of the organic brain and body while in a "mental access window" brought on by relaxing the body through meditation, REM dream cycles, hypnosis, binaral beat hemispheric brain synchronization, and various other trance state techniques ultilized by shamans and mystics of indigenous and wisdom traditions.

MTF

Dave

Re: Hi TMI friends!!!

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:09:46 GMT

Dave, I don't know of anyplace where Bob talks about PK in any of his books, or any earlier intro to PK than the Gateway Experience tapes. From what I understand, doing PK with substantial material objects often requires lots of group energy, a PK party. There are other ways to play around with PK, via micro-PK, PK done on things like random-number generators. See, for example, the IONS Psi Arcade, GotPsi, and the RetroPsychoKinesis Experiments.

Karl

SyncCreation and PK

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:10:23 GMT

Ricardo's post has left me darn curious for the last month, as it may have for other posters here in the pod. Robert Monroe talked about OBE and remote veiwing in his books but how about PK or psychokinesis?

I've gone through the Gateway Experience cd home series and remembered the exercise in remote viewing where the listener is guided to "connect" consciously with the consciousness of a friend or loved one and then try to "see" what six numbers he or she wrote on a card in an envelope... and next see where he or she hid some cotton balls. Robert Monroe leads the voyager to heat up the cotton balls in the quest to "locate" the balls position. As far as I can tell, this is TMIs first introduction to PK?

I would like to purchase SyncCreation but I can't justify the $700 at this time in our family budget. I just purchased a $15 PK hypnosis cd and will see how that goes.

I've found that Pk is a bit intimidating, as it requires a rewiring of the subconsious that has been conditioned by a highly skeptical western society in regards to the psychic manipulation of physical matter, let alone, precognition, clairvoyance, and OBE. I'm going to step way out of the box and give this one a go.

Any others here in the pod who would like to give this a try as well? MTF

Best wishes,

Dave