My Journey to The Monroe Institute in America, October 2013.
I have been using Hemi-Sync and binaural products for over 25 years, first introduced by my father when I was around 11 years old, he wanted to help me with my learning difficulties at a young age and allowing more awareness of myself and my potential, he had introduced me to using mind machines, such as the audio strobe Procyon when I was a child as well as Hemi-Sync.
In 2013 I had the pleasure of experiencing the Gateway Voyage, it was my first long trip abroad on own across seas. Located in the blue ridge mountains, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Created by Robert Monroe the Pioneer of consciousness exploration via binaural beats called Hemi-Sync and his world-famous accounts of Out Of Body experiences in three of his books.
He was the first to term The Out-Of-Body Experience (OOBE) in the 1950s due to his countless of out of body experiences, which shocked the world.
Robert Monroe a radio presenter and sound engineer on a number of radio shows including the twilight zone, started experiencing spontaneous OOBEs you can read about his experiences in his three books. After many years of research along side with Tom Campbell and another researcher, they tried everything to explore different frequencies to stimulate whole focused brainwave states.
Robert Monroe and his team devised 250,000 case studies across Virginia and America to have feedback on the Hemi-Sync audio, Hemi-sync (hemispheric synchronisation) the process of balancing the left and right parts of the brain for an array of applications for exploring human potential.
Robert Monroe eventually created the Gateway Voyage programme exploring a number of focus states for consciousness. He was a true explorer in this field which gave him the awareness and tools bringing it to a modern day audience.
Such levels include focus 10 (mind awake body asleep)
Focus 12 expanded awareness
Focus 15 a sense of time...
Focus 21 Beyond the body
there are other focus levels that go up to focus 27
but for now let’s focus on focus 15. the state of "no time," where time does not exist for you.
Upon arrival at the Monroe institute, I had the pleasure of seeing Robert Monroes home. he has passed away now, 18 years prior to my visit, but there was a strong sense of a legacy that he had left behind.
I attended the Gateway Voyage programme, this was a week-long intensive... it was amazing and what inspired me to create my own retreats and adventures with groups at our retreat centre in Somerset "Parsonage Side Retreat"
It was a week-long programme where no time exists, you had no sense of time. we didn’t know what time it was, we were completely detached from the outside world, so we could go within ourselves.
The days consisted of talks and roughly 5-6, 45-minute exploration sessions daily. It was a powerful and beautiful experience to go within.
We had our own CHEC unit each where we slept and also had a choice of headphones or speakers on either side of the wall. The CHEC unit is an acronym for "CONTROLLED HOLISTIC ENVIRONMENT CHAMBER"
There was a privacy curtain to blank out light and it was your chamber for exploration and meditations as well as sleep.
I remember one lady there who slept the whole way through the week. She didn’t remember anything. However, upon returning home I heard that it helped greatly.
Another great experience was going to the research lab at TMI and experiencing the isolation chamber
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Previously for many years having past experiences and practice with binaural beat technology, I have already had a sense of how it works. But the whole experience for 6 days was an intense and deep programme.
There was a lot of rest, a lot of meditations (sessions), interactions, exercises, great food and surrounded by countryside with like-minded people.
There were quite a handful of experiences I had, one of which was me travelling back in time, wheres when I thought I had woke up, I had actually arrived back in the past. I was in my CHEC unit, upstairs in the left-hand corner of the building, overlooking the garden and huge rose quartz stone. This was one of the very first CHEC units in there. Surrounding its walls was a Faraday cage, and coloured lights, with your usual blackout curtain.
The experience I had was going back in time, and vaguely seeing Robert Monroe and his wife then waking up again, however when I first woke up in that experience, I noticed a microphone sticking out of the wall. I pushed it to the side, and that is when I saw Robert Monroe. Shortly after I physically woke up and reported my experience downstairs with the others.
The facilitators were interested in my experience, because the room I was in, was one of the very first CHEC units that Monroe had put in, and originally he started with Microphones connected to their audio room, However, people wouldn’t report back because of going so deep, so the microphones got removed.
There were many more experiences within the CHEC unit, but the one above was my most rememberable.
I stayed one more week at TMI attending the Remote viewing course with Jo McMoneagle, then travelling back home to the UK where I had a new sense of understanding, as my father went to TMI back in 2003, and I had a wider understanding of the reason why he was interested in OOBEs and setting up a retreat in the UK.
For over 40 years, thousands of people who participated in Hemi-Sync's audio-guidance programs have experienced exceptional states of consciousness and life-enhancing benefits. Many of our past participant’s report:
Greater present time focus
- Enhanced self-awareness and self-empowerment
- A profound inner wisdom and a deeper understanding of oneself
- Stress-reduction and better problem-solving skills
- Sharpened awareness of synchronicities
- Ability to realign emotions
- Ability to set and achieve goals for the future
- Obtaining a state of lucidity which enhances all aspects of daily life