THE GATEWAY PROGRAM

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1984
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Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences
PRESENTS
THE GATEWAY PROGRAM
In 1958, Robert Monroe, a New York broadcasting
.xccuti.ve, began having experiences that drastically
altered his life. Unpredictably, and without willing it,
Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel,
is a. "st cond body," to locales far removed from the
physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was inhabiting.
tia place unbounded by time or space. With some trepidation
ire wrote a book about his experiences. Doubleday
published Jourvoys Out of the Body in 1971. Anchor broug ht
curl a second edition in 1977.. Throughout the book Monroe
maintains the stance of a careful, objective reporter who
,atten reports his own confusion in this unusual area. He
.elivs upon personal experiences for interpretation rather
.ran any occult, religious or spiritual framework.
In the 1960's, Monroe became interested in the possible
i,'nnnection between non-verbal audio patterns and brain-
vave rhythms. From his long experience with sound, he
advanced from rotating disc circuit breakers to
,ophisticated, custom-built signal generators and the
roroduction of tape recordings in which he has as many as
-sixteen patterns of sound mixed together on stereo channels.
I irawing upon his discoveries and the work of others, he
1-1nploys a system of binaural beats to create a,l'r.cgvencif
,r)Ilorr big respon.5e (FF'R) by the brain-wave rhythms. The
'FR not only gives some control over the brainwave
'rrrission of each hemisphere, it also promotes brain-wave
4ynchronizat:ion between the two hemispheres. In May,
975, Monroe received a generic patent for this method.
In 19i1, the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences was
itn;nded and located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in
Virginia. After he shared his findings with others pursuing
he same interests, an Advisory Board representing several
major scientific disciplines formed around the Institute.
the Institute then. developed a highly . experimental
program for the training of consciousness itself.
conscious of one's particular inner resources, inner abilities,
and, most of all, of one's inner guidance.
From Samadhi and Satori to the "Vision Quest" and the
"Cloud of Unknowing," cultures in all times and all palaces
have harbored a few individuals who reached and practiced
profound levels of self-exploration. Most of these individuals
practiced within a mythology, an epistemological
groundwork by which they could interpret and give
meaning to their experiences.
Present (lay Western epistemology, just recovering from
an entrancing flirtation with materialism, provides little in
the way of a ladder toward other perceptual modes. What
investigation has been done within our current theory of
knowledge has centered on the physiology of the brain and
on the possible correlation between the brain's physical
state and the subjective state of the mind. First, brain-wave
profiles and then lateral brain specialization and
hemispheric synchronization have offered potential tools
for the description of the subjective state and the mind's
operational function.
Yet, in our work, we suspect that while the tremendous
variety of subjective states may each have physiological
correlates, the ability to determine these correlates lies
beyond our present techniques. It may well be, as Elmer
Green suggests in Beytrrtd 1iinf'ecrlhut?k, that the brain, as a
physical mechanism, cannot register "non-physical" events.
If this is the case, the Western idea of "knowledge" will have
to be enlarged. But how?
It is precisely this that we are investigating. First, we .are
training interested individuals to switch their perception to
areas or fields outside the realm of our physical matter
reality. We call these, "non-physical realities." Then we
examine the "data" they "bring back." Such examination
presents problems peculiar to this investigation. Often the
experiences in these non-physiNl realities appear to be in
and come from a qualitatively greater consciousness than
our usual consciousness in physical matter reality.
't'herefore, in order not to miss or misinterpret important
We are instructing and training individuals in the art of patterns and information, we need I. c. the qualitatively
~~witchi nt.r, perceptual modes, the art of becoming more Treater perspective into acco n w iil!e at the same time, in
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p)ei-spective of physical matter reality.
It would be easier, of course, if we all would switch I
, ierceptual modes and rise into a greater consciousness.
'F hat may be the only way we can enlarge our ideas about
knowledge itself; the only way we can create a "mythology"
sufficient for the coming years.
Our Gateway Program provides the instruction, the
training and the environment for making this transition. On
oo wide scale we have no idea how successful the program
v; ould be. On a small scale we do know that it is successful
bnr those who have the volition and courage and desire to rise
nto the "truly" unknown.
110W IT WORKS
In appearance the Gateway Program presents a puzzling
facade. A group of twenty people stand around talking,
stretching. Then they all enter a large room, lie down on
i ?idividual mattresses, pull blankets over them, put. on
:added stereo headphones, and become motionless. The
room is darkened. For the first five minutes slight coughs