1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 The Gateway Experience, Brain-Hemisphere Synchronization in Perspective 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:06,820 1. Introduction 3 00:00:06,820 --> 00:00:12,360 In order to describe the Monroe Institute technique for achieving altered states of consciousness, 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:18,900 the Gateway Experience, involving brain-hemisphere synchronization or HEMISYNC, 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,920 the most effective way to begin is to briefly profile the basic mechanics which underlay operations 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:31,580 of related methods such as hypnosis, transcendental meditation, and biofeedback. 7 00:00:32,060 --> 00:00:37,860 It is easiest to effectively describe what Gateway is by beginning with a short description 8 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:43,180 of those associated techniques that share some common aspects with the Gateway Experience, 9 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:45,660 but which are nevertheless different. 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:52,260 In this way, we can develop a frame of reference at the outset which will provide useful concepts 11 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:56,760 to explain and understand Gateway by comparison as we proceed. 12 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,240 2. Hypnosis 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,620 According to the theories of psychologist Ronald Stone and the biomedical engineering models 14 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:10,820 of Itzhak Bentov, hypnosis is basically a technique which permits acquisition of direct access to 15 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:18,420 the sensory motor cortex and pleasure centers, and lower cerebral emotional portions, and associated 16 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:23,860 pleasure centers of the right side of the human brain, following successful disengagement 17 00:01:23,860 --> 00:01:28,480 of the stimulus screening function of the left hemisphere of the brain. 18 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,300 The left hemisphere of the brain is a self-cognitive, verbal, and linear reasoning component of the mind. 19 00:01:35,940 --> 00:01:41,880 It fulfills the function of screening incoming stimuli by categorizing, assessing, and assigning meaning. 20 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:48,320 Prior to allowing passage to the right hemisphere of the mind, the right hemisphere, which functions 21 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:54,060 as the non-critical, holistic, non-verbal, and pattern-orientated component of the brain, 22 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:58,180 appears to accept what the left hemisphere passes to it without question. 23 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:04,420 Consequently, if the left hemisphere can be distracted either through boredom or through reduction 24 00:02:04,420 --> 00:02:11,380 to a soporific, semi-sleep state, external stimuli to include hypnotic suggestions are allowed to pass 25 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:16,320 unchallenged into the right hemisphere, where they are accepted and acted upon directly. 26 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:23,300 The result may involve an emotional reaction originating in the lower cerebral region, 27 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:29,280 sensory-slash-motor responses requiring involvement of that cortex, and so on. 28 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:35,080 Both the sensory and the motor cortices of the right cerebral portion of the brain contains 29 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:40,580 a sequence of points known as the homunculus, which corresponds to the points in the body. 30 00:02:42,380 --> 00:02:47,840 Stimulation of the corresponding areas of the cortex causes intermediate responses in the 31 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,440 associated portions of the body. 32 00:02:50,220 --> 00:02:56,880 Consequently, induction of the suggestions that the left leg is numb, if it reaches the right 33 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:02,600 hemisphere, unchallenged, and is referred to the appropriate area of the sensory cortex, 34 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,600 will result in an electrical reaction being generated that will induce the feeling of numbness. 35 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:13,880 Similarly, the suggestion that the person is experiencing a general feeling of happiness 36 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:20,620 and well-being will be referred to the appropriate pleasure centers located in the lower cerebral portions 37 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:26,240 or in the cortex of the right hemisphere, thereby inducing the suggested feeling of euphoria. 38 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:32,480 Finally, suggestions such as the one that informs the hypnotic subject that he enjoys enhanced 39 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:39,080 concentration or powers of memory would be responded to in the right hemisphere by accessing 40 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:45,260 unused information storage capacities normally held in reserve as a result of left hemisphere 41 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:47,540 selection and control processes. 42 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:53,680 This aspect will become significant in the context of the gateway process when attention is given 43 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:59,420 to examining the way that hypnosis may be used to accelerate progress in the early stages 44 00:03:59,420 --> 00:04:01,120 of the gateway experience. 45 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,260 3. Transcendental Meditation 46 00:04:04,260 --> 00:04:09,460 On the other hand, transcendental meditation works in a distinctively different fashion. 47 00:04:09,460 --> 00:04:15,960 In this technique, intense and protracted single-minded concentration on the process of drawing energy 48 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:21,420 up the spinal cord ultimately results in what appears to be the creation of acoustical standing 49 00:04:21,420 --> 00:04:27,680 waves in the cerebral ventricles, which are then conducted to the gray matter in the cerebral 50 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,900 cortex on the right side of the brain. 51 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:37,480 As a result, according to Benthoff, these waves will stimulate and eventually polarize the cortex 52 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,860 in such a way that it will tend to conduct a signal along the homunculus. 53 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:50,800 Starting from the toes on up, the Benthoff biomedical model, as described in the book by Lee Salena, 54 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:58,960 MD, entitled Kundalini Psychosis or Transcendence, states that the standing acoustical waves are the 55 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,900 results of the altered rhythm of the heart sounds, which are occasionally by prolonged practice 56 00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:12,820 of meditation and which set up sympathetic vibrations in the wall of the fluid-filled cavities which 57 00:05:12,820 --> 00:05:16,200 comprise the third and lateral ventricles of the brain. 58 00:05:16,860 --> 00:05:22,680 In addition, according to Benthoff, the states of bliss described by those whose Kundalini symptoms 59 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:28,720 have completed the full loop along the hemisphere may be explained as a self-stimulation of the 60 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:34,520 pleasure centers in the brain caused by the circulation of a current along the sensory cortex. 61 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:40,140 Benthoff also notes that most of the described symptoms start on the left side of the body, 62 00:05:40,620 --> 00:05:44,320 means that it is most likely a development occurring on the right hemisphere. 63 00:05:45,180 --> 00:05:51,220 Although normally a period of meditation involves intense concentration and practice for five years, 64 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:58,680 or in some is required to bring up the Kundalini, Benthoff states that exposure to mechanical or 65 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:06,420 acoustical vibrations in the range of four to seven hertz cycles per second for protracted periods 66 00:06:06,420 --> 00:06:13,280 may achieve the same effect. Benthoff cites it as an example, repeated riding in a car whose 67 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:20,520 suspension and C combinations produce the range of vibrations or being exposed for a long period of 68 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:27,740 time to those frequencies caused, for instance, by the air conditioning duct. He also notes the 69 00:06:27,740 --> 00:06:35,780 cumulative effect of these vibrations may be able to trigger a spontaneous physio-kundalini sequence 70 00:06:35,780 --> 00:06:40,360 in susceptible people who have a particularly sensitive nervous system. 71 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:49,400 This is the end of part two. First of all, I want to thank you guys for taking the time and 72 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:57,680 listening to this audio. Again, as you notice, this is a very deep document produced by the CIA, 73 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:05,740 and I myself am still digging deeper into it and studying and trying to figure this stuff out. 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