The Gateway Experience is an in-home training program for developing, exploring, and applying expanded states of awareness. Exercises in this series use specially blended Hemi-Sync frequencies combined with verbal guidnance and subtle sound effects to guide you into a focused, whole brain states of consciousness. While in such states, one has a broader range of perceptions available with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance. Wave II - Learn More Focus 10 "mental tools" and benefit from exercises which take you to a state of expanded awareness known as focus12. Threshold opens new perceptual channels for expanding and integrating personal awareness while developing creative insights which assist in dissolving fear barriers. This CD album features six verbally guided exercises.
Robert Allan Monroe has had wide career experience in communications, having written for newspapers and magazines, and worked in television and electronics.
Since the 1950s, Monroe researched the effects of various sound patterns on human consciousness, including the feasibility of learning during sleep. He often used himself as a test subject for this research and in 1958 he began experiencing a state of consciousness separate and apart from the physical body. He described the state as an “out of body experience”. This led to much more research into human consciousness. He chronicled his early explorations in the book, Journeys Out of the Body (1971).
Monroe's research led to the development of an audio-guidance technology called hemispheric synchronization or Hemi-Sync®.
In 1974, his research expanded to become The Monroe Institute which continued exploring expanded states of human consciousness and how to enhance human potential.
In 1985 he wrote a second book, "Far Journeys", which expanded upon his personal investigations of nonphysical reality.
In 1994 his third book, "Ultimate Journey" was released, exploring basic truths about the meaning and purpose of life and what lies beyond the limits of our physical world.
The Monroes lived on a farm near the Blue Ridge in Virginia, America. This is also the site of a Mind Research Institute opened by Monroe in 1971.