THE GATEWAY PROGRAM

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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