Gateway

Robert Monroe died and had an out of body experience, which he recounts in his book Journey Out of the Body. He later devoted his time to creating technology to recreate that experience using sound frequencies.

Newly declassified documents detail the CIA's research into Robert Monroe's research and Gateway Experience meditative programs, finding that it does much more than elicit a state of mind-awake-body-asleep and hemispheric synchronization.

In 1971 Doubleday published a book called Journeys Out of the Body, a Virginia businessman's memoir of his weird and wonderful adventures on other planes of reality. That book, which has sold more than a million copies, and that man, Robert Monroe, helped cement the concept of astral travel into the American psyche and made the "out-of-body experience" a household word. Monroe not only helped others understand this state of being, but through his research on binaural beats and his development of the technology known as Hemi-Sync, he made the OBE accessible through programs at The Monroe Institute, which is attended by thousands of people each year. However, Monroe made consciousness research more than an esoteric thrill ride. He put his technology to practical use by creating frequencies that have helped people with everything from meditation and learning, to insomnia, quitting smoking, and pain control.

I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than physical matter. I deeply desire to expand, to experience, to know, to understand, to control, to use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those near and close to me. also I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding, of those individuals who’s wisdom, development and experience are equal or greater than my own. I ask for their guidance and protection against any outside influences that might try to keep me from my stated desires.