Comprehensive Technical Analysis and Assessment of the Gateway Process

Tasking and Research Methodology for the Gateway Assessment

• Wayne M. McDonnell, LTC, MI, Commander of US Army Operational Group, submitted this assessment on $9\,\text{June}\,1983$ to the Commander of US Army Operational Group at Fort Meade, MD.

• The primary objective was to assess the Gateway Experience in terms of its mechanics and ultimate practicality for US Army personnel.

• Supporting research and analysis involved delving into multiple disciplines to construct a scientifically valid model of consciousness:

  • Biomedical models developed by Itzhak Bentov were used to understand the physical aspects of the process.

  • Quantum mechanics was explored to describe the nature and functioning of human consciousness.

  • Theoretical physics was utilized to explain the time-space dimension and how expanded consciousness transcends it.

  • Out-of-body states were analyzed using the language of physical science to remove occult connotations and create an objective frame of reference.

• Conceptualizations in the physics of altered human consciousness are not easily grasped through ordinary "left brain" linear thinking; they require right-brain intuitive insight to achieve a complete grasp.

• The conclusions of the study are intended to be consistent with both Eastern and Western mainstream belief systems to avoid rejection based on perceived alien concepts.

Comparative Analysis of Consciousness-Altering Techniques

• Hypnosis:

  • Theory suggests it is a technique allowing direct access to the sensory-motor cortex and pleasure centers of the right brain.

  • It operates by successful disengagement of the stimulus screening function of the left hemisphere.

  • The left hemisphere is characterized as self-cognitive, verbal, and linear, acting as a filter for incoming stimuli.

  • The right hemisphere is non-critical, holistic, non-verbal, and pattern-oriented. It accepts screened information without question.

  • Distracting the left brain through boredom or a semi-sleep state allows suggestions to reach the right hemisphere unchallenged. For example, a suggestion of numbness in the left leg causes an electrical reaction in the right sensory cortex at the corresponding "homunculus" point.

  • Hypnosis can access unused information storage capacity held in reserve by left hemisphere control processes.

• Transcendental Meditation (TM):

  • Operates through intense concentration on drawing energy up the spinal cord.

  • Prolonged practice ($5$ or more years) creates acoustical standing waves in the cerebral ventricles, which eventually "polarize" the cortex.

  • This polarization conducts signals along the homunculus, starting from the toes upward, often causing self-stimulation of pleasure centers (the Kundalini effect).

  • Bentov states that mechanical vibrations in the $4-7\,\text{Hertz}$ range (e.g., from car suspensions or air conditioning ducts) can trigger a spontaneous physio-Kundalini sequence in sensitive individuals.

• Biofeedback:

  • Unique in using the self-cognitive powers of the left hemisphere to gain access to the right brain.

  • The left brain is taught to visualize a desired result and recognize associated feelings.

  • External monitoring devices, such as digital thermometers, provide objective affirmation. If a subject tries to increase blood flow in a leg, they monitor the temperature; once successful, the left brain associates the feeling with the result to strengthen the neural pathway.

  • It can suppress malignant tumors, block pain, and accelerate achievement of deep meditative states by displaying brainwave patterns on cathode ray tubes.

The Hemi-Sync Technique and the Frequency Following Response

• The Gateway Experience uses "Hemi-Sync" (brain hemisphere synchronization), a state where the EEG patterns of both hemispheres are simultaneously equal in amplitude and frequency.

• Elmer and Alyce Greene at the Menninger Foundation showed that Zen meditators with $20$ years of training could sustain Hemi-Sync at will for over $15\,\text{minutes}$.

• Frequency Following Response (FFR):

  • The brain adjusts its brainwave output to mimic an external sound frequency. If a subject hears sounds approximating the Theta level ($4-8\,\text{Hz}$), the brain shifts from Beta to Theta.

  • Since these frequencies are below the audible spectrum, Hemi-Sync uses "beat frequencies." A subject hears one frequency in the left ear and another in the right ear ($10\,\text{Hz}$ difference); the brain then "hears" the delta frequency via a subliminal "beat."

• Laser vs. Lamp Analogy:

  • Ordinary consciousness is like a lamp: chaotic, incoherent energy that diffuses over a wide area with limited depth.

  • Hemi-Sync consciousness acts like a laser beam: a disciplined stream of light with total coherence of frequency and amplitude. A laser beam contains billions of times the concentrated energy of a similar surface area on the sun.

  • Coherent brainwaves accelerate to higher vibrational levels, allowing the mind to synchronize with rarified energy levels in the universe.

Biomedical Factors: Resonance and Brain Stimulation

• Bifurcation Echo:

  • When the heart's left ventricle ejects blood, the aorta balloons. The pressure pulse travels down to the bifurcation in the lower abdomen (where the aorta forks).

  • A portion of the pulse rebounds. If a new pulse is traveling down, they collide, creating an interference pattern.

  • Deep relaxation in Gateway eliminates this echo, allowing the heartbeat to move synchronously in harmonious resonance approximately $7$ times a second.

• Body as a Tuned System:

  • The resulting sine wave in the circulatory system vibrates the brain within the dura membrane, moving it up and down $0.005$ to $0.010\,\text{mm}$.

  • The entire body becomes a tuned vibrational system transferring energy between $6.8$ and $7.5\,\text{Hertz}$ into the earth's ionospheric cavity.

  • The ionosphere itself resonates at $7-7.5\,\text{Hz}$. The 40,000 km wavelength of this signal allows it to travel around the world in about $1/7$ of a second.

  • This electromagnetic medium is considered the ideal medium for conveying telepathic signals.

The Physics of Consciousness and the Holographic Universe

• Energy and Matter:

  • Solid matter does not exist; atomic structure is composed of oscillating energy grids in orbiting motion.

  • Nucleus vibration: approximately $10^{22}\,\text{Hertz}$.

  • Atom vibration at $70^{\circ}\text{F}$: $10^{15}\,\text{Hertz}$.

  • Live human cell vibration: approximately $10^{3}\,\text{Hertz}$.

• Holography:

  • Holograms store information three-dimensionally by interacting moving energy with energy at rest to create interference patterns.

  • Dennis Gabor worked out the mathematical principles of the hologram in $1947$ (Nobel Prize winner).

  • Every individual piece of a broken hologram contains the entire image, though smaller pieces are fuzzier.

• The Consciousness Matrix:

  • The universe is one gigantic hologram of unbelievable complexity.

  • Pribram and Bohm posit the human mind is a hologram that attunes to the universal hologram via energy exchange.

  • Consciousness works on a binary "go/no go" system (like a digital computer) to compare holographic input with stored memories (geometric/frequency differences).

  • Humans possess self-cognition—the ability to know that they know—by duplicating aspects of their own hologram and projecting them for internal comparison.

Transcending Time-Space and the Planck Distance

• Time and Space:

  • Time is the measurement of energy in motion (change).

  • Space is the confinement of energy to a specific location.

  • Energy in infinity (The Absolute) has no limits, no dimension, no location, and is outside of time.

• The Planck Distance Threshold:

  • Every oscillation has two points of rest. When energy reaches these points, it "clicks out" of time-space and joins infinity.

  • This occurs when the distance of oscillation drops below Planck's Distance: $10^{-33}\,\text{cm}$.

  • High-frequency consciousness patterns create virtual continuity of these "click-outs," allowing a portion of consciousness to gather information between time-space and the Absolute.

• Subatomic Particles:

  • Entrained subatomic particles communicate instantaneously across the universe during the click-out phase.

  • This violates relativity's ban on faster-than-light velocities because it occurs outside the time-space dimension.

  • Hypothetical "tachyons" move at speeds higher than light, ranging toward infinite velocities.

The Torus Model and the Evolution of the Cosmic Egg

• The universal hologram is shaped like a "Torus" or a self-contained spiral (Cosmic Egg).

• The Big Bang and Quasars:

  • Taking cues from quasars ejecting matter, Bentov envisages matter ejected from a nucleus through a "white hole."

  • Matter travels along the shell of the ovoid and returns through a "black hole" to be reabsorbed.

  • Time counts the cadence of this evolution around the shell.

• Simultaneous Reality:

  • Since matter in all phases of time generates the Torus simultaneously, it reflects past, present, and future at once.

  • Galaxies to the North move away faster because they are in the downturn toward the black hole.

  • Consciousness outside time-space can perceive the future because the consequences of past and present exist simultaneously in the hologram.

Gateway Training Techniques and Focus Levels

• Preparatory Process:

  • Energy Conversion Box: Visualizing a container to isolate extraneous concerns.

  • Resonant Tuning: Protracted humming to align the body's vibration.

  • Gateway Affirmation: A statement realizing one is more than a physical body.

  • Focus 10: State of physical sleep with a wakeful mind.

• Focus 12 (Expanded Awareness):

  • Technique I: Problem Solving. Projecting a problem to the "higher self" (interacts with the universal hologram). Insights often arrive as holistic intuition or symbols.

  • Technique II: Patterning. Projecting specific physical/intellectual goals with the intention that they are already achieved. Consciousness, being the source of reality, reorients the time-space sphere.

  • Technique III: Color Breathing. Using colors to resonate with the body's energy for healing. Intense blue reduces tumescence (swelling); red/yellow increase it.

  • Technique IV: Energy Bar Tool. Envisaging a pulsating DOT of light extruded into a vibrating cylinder to channel universal force for healing.

  • Technique V: Remote Viewing. Turning the energy bar into a whirling vortex for the imagination to travel through.

  • Technique VI: Living Body Map. Applying colored energy flows to internal organ systems within a visualization of the body.

• Advanced Levels:

  • Focus 15: Travel into the past. Visualized as a wheel with spokes. Achieved by less than 5\,\text{%} of participants in the seven-day course.

  • Focus 21: Travel into the future. Requires months or years of practice with Hemi-Sync tapes.

Dynamics of the Out-of-Body State

• Out-of-body movement is a major focus for information collection.

• Bob Monroe uses Beta signals at $2877.3\,\text{CPS}$ to assist in separation (normal Beta is $30$ to $40\,\text{CPS}$).

• Techniques for Separation:

  • Rolling out.

  • Lifting out (like a telephone pole, standing at the foot of the body).

  • Sliding out through either end of the body.

• Role of REM Sleep:

  • Rapid Eye Movement (REM) involves motor cortex disengagement and left brain suppression.

  • Conditioning people to use Hemi-Sync in REM sleep may assist in remembering naturally occurring out-of-body movements.

• Information Collection and Distortion:

  • Experiments with $10$ digit computer-generated numbers resulted in participants getting some, but never all, digits correctly.

  • Distortion occurs because consciousness may encounter past energy patterns at physical sites, or independent thought forms.

  • Holograms may also be viewed pseudoscopically (inside out or backwards).

Philosophical and Operational Recommendations

• Synthesis with Religion:

  • The Absolute at rest fits the concept of the Father in Hebrew/Christian metaphysics.

  • The Son corresponds to the infinite self-consciousness/universal hologram projected by the Absolute.

  • The Holy Spirit corresponds to the eternal thought or concept resulting from this self-consciousness.

  • Hindu concepts of Indra's pearls and Tibetan Buddhist concepts of movement-constituted objects align with holographic theory.

• Operational Recommendations (Steps A-L):

  • Use a phased approach: Hemi-Sync followed by REM frequencies and hypnotic suggestion for focus.

  • Practice "multi-focus" data collection: One person viewing the target in the present, one at Focus 15 (past), and one at Focus 21 (future), with a debriefing comparison.

  • Group participants in Focus 12 to build protective holographic patterns around sensitive areas.

  • Prepare for interaction with non-corporal energy forms when boundaries are exceeded.

Document Bibliography

• 1. Bentov, Itzhak. Stalking the Wild Pendulum ($1977$).

• 2. Ferguson, Marilyn. "Karl Pribram's Changing Reality" ($1978$).

• 3. Gliedman, John. "Einstein Against the Odds" ($1983$).

• 4. Jager, Melissa. "The Lamp Turn Laser."

• 5. Monroe, Robert A. Journeys Out of the Body ($1971$).

• 6. Purce, Jill. The Mystic Spiral ($1980$).

• 7. Sannella, Lee. Kundalini-Psychosis or Transcendence ($1976$).

• 8. Stone, Pat. "Altered States of Consciousness" ($1983$).

• 9. Tart, Charles T. Altered States of Consciousness ($1969$).