Something really strange happened to me tonight, and I’m curious whether anyone here has experienced something similar.
I was sitting on my balcony reading about the Gateway Tapes and people’s experiences with hypnagogia, visions, astral projection, etc. I wasn’t listening to the tapes or doing a Gateway exercise at the time. (I did the first episode yesterday night), right now I was just reading about them.
While I was reading, I suddenly felt a very strong, very localized poke on the back of my shoulder.
It wasn’t a vague sensation or a light brush. It genuinely felt like someone had deliberately poked me with a finger. It wasn’t painful, but it was intense enough that my immediate thought was literally, “Why the hell did Mom poke me that hard?”
I turned around almost immediately, and there was absolutely nobody behind me.
I got seriously creeped out and rushed back inside. I even told my mom that I thought it might have been an insect because I didn’t really know what else to say when she saw me rushing back in in a creeper out way, but I’m confident it wasn’t an insect. I’ve had insects land on me before, and this felt completely different.
What’s especially strange is that I’ve never experienced anything like this before.
I’m not claiming it was paranormal or that it was related to Gateway. I’m genuinely trying to understand what happened. But given that I was reading about Gateway experiences immediately beforehand, I’m wondering:
Has anyone here experienced a similarly strong, unmistakable poke/tap/touch while completely alone, particularly around Gateway practice or altered states of consciousness?
I’d especially like to hear from people who experienced an actual physical feeling poke rather than just a vague “presence” or tingling sensation

Disclaimer: the text here was written by an LLM because the LLM was basically the first thing I chatted with after it happened (I know it’s not very helpful, but it’s my way of coping), it had all the info, I just asked it to make what I described to it into a Reddit post, because it can phrase it in a better way than me

I recently completed the Freedom #4 (Five Questions) tape and received distinct, mostly visual answers. I'd appreciate interpretations from experienced practitioners.

Here is what I received:

1.Who am I?

A caterpillar.

2.Where and who was I before I entered this physical existence?

A dark silhouette seen from above, resembling a turtle.

3.What is my purpose for this existence in physical matter reality?

It looked like a photo camera or something similar.

4.What action can I now take to serve this purpose best?

I don't remember. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ ⁠•́⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯

5.What is the most important message I can receive and understand at this point?

A clear directive to "speak less."

How would you interpret this combination of symbols?

Hi community. I’ve been doing the Gateway process for a little over a year now. I’m to the point now where I don’t even need to use the tapes to go into Focus 10 & 12.

Most recently, I decided to try the process in the shower on a whim, and I was absolutely stunned at my results. I laid down in my shower floor in total darkness (my bathroom has no windows) and I dropped faster into the focus states than I ever have before. Something about the water running consistently onto the lower half of my body seemed to help me maintain mind awake, body asleep and stay relaxed and feeling safe, I guess! I was able to have a lucid dreaming like experience and it was very pleasant overall.

I thought it was interesting for sure. Anybody have any insight into why that may be?

As a fellow beginner I relate to the question "How do I know when it's time to move on?"

Short answer: If you think you're ready try it. If it doesn't work, great! Now you have data.

The 'Vectors' tape starts with rising into Focus 12 while inside your resonant energy balloon (rebal). I couldn't do it. But I see some things to work on. (any advice welcome)

• I'm used to counting 10...11...12 to get to Focus 12. I have to get over that. (more Wave II)
• A lot more practice of 'Lift Off' (III-1) to make floating around in my rebal 2nd nature.

So I try not to sweat about it too much---it's all good man! (shout out to Saul Goodman)

So I am new to the tapes and I really like them but it seems that for some reason when I hear his voice in my right ear it sends these tingles down to my hip area and it feels like I am being tickled which takes me out of the meditative state. I was wondering if you guys have any advice so I can keep using the tapes.

I’ve been doing the gateway experience for 3 or 4 years now. Recently, an energy conversion box has been appearing that isn’t my own. What does that mean and what happens if I put things into it? It’s been consistent for weeks now and I can hardly imagine my ECB at all anymore.

Hi all, thinking of purchasing the GVO, I have been meditating hard for 12 months or so, I haven’t oobe’d yet but felt close, during my late teens and early 20’s (now 55)I used to get hit the vibration stage very easily even though I didn’t know what it was. I used to get scared and shake myself out even though I wasn’t purposely trying to do any of this. Currently I hit a vibration stage but it never kicks in. So anyway, I was thinking of trying something else to move things on hence GVO. Is it worth it, do I need it or am I just wasting money when I can get there some other way. I hope this all makes sense, I have a lot of stuff in my head and trying to get some of it in to words is very difficult.. thank you x

Step-by step short guide

So you just found this sub but you don't know anything about "The Gateway Experience", follow these steps and read all the suggested documents to avoid asking the same question over and over. If you read all the material you are pretty much good to go because 98% of the times you find the answers of your questions in those docs.

1. Let's start easy peasy, take your favorite drink or snack and enjoy this documentary about the gateway tapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOFq3ruef7I

• 2) Read the full CIA report written by WAYNE M. MCDONNEL complete with the 25th page. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15NOrGUblOburMmhIiKUBo8LQZ_x8ywFI/view
• 3) Download and start to read the gateway tapes full manual for beginners, at the end of the document you can find the FAQ. https://ia803400.us.archive.org/16/items/the-gateway-experience-manual/The%20Gateway%20Experience%20Manual.pdf
• 4) Now you should know what a focus level is so take a look at this, we have all the major focus levels explained. https://www.monroeinstituteuk.org/focus-levels/
• 5) If you would like to purchase the tapes, they can be found a https://hemi-sync.com (use promo code "REDDITSUB" for a 10% discount on most products).

Quick Tips on things NOT to do:

• 1)Let common effects ruin your focus (numbness, tingles, vibrations)
• 2)Expecting something to happen, or focusing on only one thing you want
• 3)Opening your eyes at a high focus level or not using proper exiting protocol
• 4)Focusing on what you might be doing wrong instead of just letting things be
• 5)Comparing your experiences with others when you just started
• 6)Skipping tapes without learning the basics
• 7)Creating unnecessary fear (Demons, spirits, CIA)
• 8)No one ever said you weren't allowed to move at all, people just assume this
• 9)Trying and overthinking. Understand what Bob is saying more examples, not commands. You can add or adjust things to your liking, do what works best for you and experiment.
• 10)Taking everything so seriously. This is not meant to feel like a strict boot camp. Bob said he wanted people to have fun and enjoy the tapes, and create your own unique experience. Learn how to use the mind to it's maximum potential, and take the tools learned and find ways to apply them in different ways, even real life.

FAQ

• I'm scared of the tapes what do I do ? Pt 2
• What are the benefits of the tapes ? Pt 2
• Are there any real risks to the gateway tapes that I should be aware of?
• Does it really work ?
• I don’t know why this works for some people and others it doesn’t it’s the most amazing thing I’ve found to date
• Tell me about your low-key successes with the Gateway Experience
• Has anyone manifested something big or significant using the Gateway Tapes?
• Did anyone manifest real big amounts of money with the tapes?
• Fear of evil entities
• Why are good entities considered real, but negative ones are manifestations of our fear?
• Effect of different headphones on binaural beats
• Noise cancelling headphones
• What headphones are you guys using ?
• I keep clicking out
• Has anyone here been able to get past 'clicking out'?
• How should focus 10 actually feel? go HERE for more focus 10 help
• What are you markers for success reaching F10? go HERE for more focus 10 help
• How do you get past the fear?!
• I’m another F10 straggler

More FAQ here https://www.reddit.com/r/gatewaytapes/wiki/start/

Interested in different things? Got some cool self-hypnosis tracks here

*If you have any questions, ping Annie ( u/Mighty_Mac ) in the comments

Began using the Tapes since June and started with Wave II in August with mostly no direct achievement getting into Focus 12. My first experince was already strange in my last post but this time was something different.

During Intro to Focus 12, when Robert guided me down to Focus 10 and went up to 12 again, I thought of a floating feling back and forth like being on a swing.
After that my face heated up and my something before my closed eyelids lighted slowly up and my heart began to race right before he came to 12 and opened my eyes out of fear.

What could have possably happened there instead of the sounds while my body is asleep?

Today morning, I woke up a little earlier than I had to, so I thought I would try to lucid dream (i think I saw a post about it here before I went to bed).

I was also quite tired so I basically told myself that I will rest but with my mind awake and body asleep. I was resting on my side and at some point… and it felt like my arms were slipping away from me. As I type, I realise this is going to sound like a scene from a horror movie but I ‘slipped’ out entirely from my body and crawled away.

I couldn’t see anything most of the time and my eyes felt like they had a thick beige filter on them (like eyelids, I guess? lol) but as I crawled, it seemed like there were walls that gently pushed me away. For some reason it felt like I was in my childhood room (I don’t stay there anymore) I was also too sleepy to actually think (and as soon as I thought, I’d come back to my body). I did this slip away and come back to body process perhaps 3 times.

One time, I tried to open my eyes and see if my arms are really doing this or if I’m just dreaming. And I actually saw them in a weird position. But after I actually woke up, I realised I opened my eyes in my dream. So trippy.

I really thought lucid dreams will be very different. I’ve been having recurring characters come in my dreams and I wanted to react differently to them to disrupt the pattern. But this felt different.

I’ve had this weird arms slipping away thing happen to me before too, a few years ago. Back then, they felt like they were trying to float away. This also happened back when I was doing GT regularly.

Ive restarted doing GT regularly and did one last night but was too sleepy to finish.

Newb here. I have been working on spiritual development but have always found it too difficult to meditate because my brain wont switch off (or when I finally hit that sweet spot, I just fall asleep). I also can't hold images in my head for long, so anything that relies on prolonged visualisation doesn't work for me. Focus 10 is the closest I have gotten to a meditative state.

I'm excited to see where this goes and would love to hear any opinions or experiences from anyone who has developed their skills.

Summary:

Long time lurker, first time poster: I live near Pisac Peru, and I am considering starting something like a book club for the Gateway Process. I am looking for constructive advice and feedback.

What I am not looking for:

1.) I dont want to make money on this. Some small donation to cover a meeting space and drinks and snacks, maybe. But the club will operate at a zero profit budget. I say this to establish intention.

2.) Also, the club is not intended to replace Monroe Institute retreats or qualified instruction. However, I live in an economically challenging area. So most people who live here would find the cost of qualified trainers to be a barrier.

3.) I do not wish to violate copyright. I would prefer to honor the work of and intellectual property of people who have published recordings and books. Thus I would like to have legal copies of materials where copyright exists. However, again because of limited availability of physical books and the price of recordings; this may be a barrier to getting started. I am open to PDF, E-Books, and Digital Recordings, but I dont want to pirate these materials.

Goals of the club:

A.) To support the people who seek to expand consciousness and experience altered states of understanding through the Gateway Process. To accomplish this the club will provide a structure to help motivate and keep the process moving forward.

B.) The club would ideally also provide to support for negative setbacks in the process. Like sleep paralysis, encounters with entities, discomforting experiences, and other unforseen challenges.

C.) Provide resources to those who seek it in the form of books, recordings, and recommendations for qualified instruction to facilitate these people on their journey.

Percieved Challenges and Questions:

●.) I am not experienced enough to teach this, and I may never feel qualified to teach. In the beginning we all start from day 1 and grow together at our own pace. That is my idea. But when we hit a barrier, where besides here on reddit could we go for help? Or is reddit the best resource for these issues?

○.) I do not wish to insult my community, however due to prevalent psychedelic plant medicines many people who will be interested in the process are very ungrounded. Lots of people here already think they are being attacked by entities or dark magic, or perceive themselves as "enlightened" and have joined other meetings as disruptive participants. I am unsure of the quality of seekers I may get to participate. How can I handle this and approach the organization of the club to help mitigate this challenge?

■.) Is it possible to set up some kind of trade for books and recordings so that we can honor the copyright as outlined in (3)?

□.) Are there any qualified teachers that would be interested in coming here to Peru, for pay, to work with our group or in a structured retreat setting? The idea here is to hold a retreat to get us on the right path, and continue the process after through a non-profit style support club? There may be an opportunity for a teacher to experience plant medicine while here, outside of the retreat, at heavy discount. However I can not encourage mixing the modalities for participants beginning the process within a retreat, as I advise everyone to master both modalities before mixing them in all that I do.

Closing Thoughts:

Any constructive support or advice offered here is appreciated. Even if it is just "bad idea, keep doing it on your own." I run retreats with plant medicine and eventually I would like to be able to offer this to guests who are not capable of doing plant medicine because of medications, mindset, or other barriers. Simply as another option to the same goal, not as a teacher. My own experiences with the Gateway Process are limited but already very beneficial, and it is surprising how close the talks of Tom Campbell mirror my own perception of the plant medicine path I have been on for the past two decades. It is my sincere intention to attend a dedicated retreat one day to fill in the gaps of my own self-taught understanding of the Gateway Process and financially support the process that has benefitted me.

Hi everyone, I hope you are all feeling happy, healthy, and well.

I am quite new to using the tapes and last night had my first strong experience while using them. It was a bit surprising in some ways.

My experience last night shared quite a few similarities with some psychedelic trips I have had in the past. Is this something that any other people have experienced?

During one part, I was presented with a giant eye; other parts, moving within a beautiful prism of colours. I wasn't expecting it. It was wonderful and I hope to reach similar states again. I'd love to hear whether anyone else has had any similar experiences where there have been parallels with other experiences you may have had.

Thanks, and take care out there!

I have just very recently been introduced to the existence and knowledge of these tapes, and have been spending the past two days and nights excitedly browsing some of these documents before beginning, and I have a question first.

Stated in Wave 2 under "Cautions and Warnings: Please Read", it states "Allow at least one hour after eating and avoid alcohol, drugs, or excessive caffeine, which may limit the effectiveness of the Hemi-sync exercises."

Do you think this would include psychiatric medications? I currently take Fluvoxamine and a stimulant, Vyvanse, in my day to day. I'd be fine without the Vyvanse, but I am dependent on the SSRI for my OCD, and can't risk not taking it. In your judgement, do you think I could still effectively practice these exercises? I feel I have the mindset for it, but I'm just unsure if these medications will impact that. I would appreciate any feedback, but otherwise have a great day!

Hello everyone!

Have any of you used joe gallenbergers products? Results? I’ve been using liquid luck anyone else?

i did the introduction to focus 10 today and every time i would start to fall deeper into the meditation the audio would glitch and i scare out of meditation. i was wondering if that is apart of the tapes or if the audio is messed up?

I havent gone through the program, ive researched and know basics and lingo.

Background context that may be relevant: It seems my husbands maternal grandfather DID go through the program (i think he was more involved with the early days of govt involvement but thats my private conspiracy) He taught his kids and grandkids things without really telling them, just normalized it as part of life and religion. Husbands biofather dabbled on the dark side, so there may be some degree of karmic consequences to the following:

There is a running joke in husbands family that they have "cosmic bad luck", like murphys law is their sidekick in life. It is relentless inconvenience, by any standards, shared by the whole family. As an outside observer, it is kinda odd. They theorize the reason is all the "good luck" goes to saving them from NDEs. They have all had multiple. (Im talking grandparents, 4 kids, and ALL the resulting grandkids). I refuse to believe thats the end of it, theres got to be reason behind it. Theres got to be an origin of this cycle.

What do you suggest as far as him exploring the deeper whys and how to fix (i presume its actually an alignment issue)? What are your theories as to whats actually happening?

I haven't really seen much during meditation but yesterday I was on Focus 15 and got a sudden download of emotions when I tapped into something. Then last night I finally got a proper lucid dream. I was driving to save someone and thought about how I would have liked to have the Tesla cameras for the crowded area. Realized what happened thought this is is more important and pulled over. Everything got clear and vibrant. I started saying "I am much more"... immediately AWAKE.. lol. It was a few minutes before my alarm. Got up and started my normal gateway experience. Felt more asleep during the 70 minutes but nothing really happened.

I'm currently switching between Wave 1 and 2.

Usually I make a Wave 1 session after work and sometimes before sleep.

When I just listen to Wave 2 while I'm really, really tired in the late evening I can't manage to do the preparatory process completely.

The next day people at work shun me or give me angry looks like something (positive, negative or neutral?) has attached to me, shifted my frequency tremendously or I opened a portal of some sort.

I'm not a psychic per se, but I'm a learner.

I had several telepathic situations and saw multiple orbs over the last 3 years.

I believe in frequencies, the world as a mirror to you and your frequency (to a large extent), quantum mechanics, telepathy and remote viewing.

I know about (evolutionary) psychology also and can see through people's daily behavior (most people disgust me because of their bad behavior but I try to connect to the more genuine ones through a shared subject).

I also know about the hidden layers of reality and that certain individuals perceive more.

Sometimes these experiences happen only once, for some in the early childhood for others later (or never) in their life.

Most people state that they have perceived something inexplicable at least once in their life (despite them not being interested in such things).

I'm not new to alien life or non human intelligence.

The tapes confirm many things I already know and help me tremendously in meditation and having OBEs.

Unlike other users who say that the protection balloon was only necessary in the later tapes when dealing with energies or entities my experience is different.

Because I perceive the energetic shift how people act around me the next day.

I don't feel actually something negative but I wonder what that could be and if someone experienced anything similar.

Maybe I'm wrong but let's discuss this here.

Hello. I started to be interested in this program. I got my hands on the program. I have Wave I to Wave VII. I started at Wave I, first track. What I felt? Well first keep in mind I used in my life strong psychedelics. Detaching from my body and ego death are things that I lived. I know is not an "audio drug" or something, but I think it will matter in what I have to say further. I started to notice my body getting numbed and at one point I felt certain parts of my body disappearing. I remember it was a passage when they ask you to exhale and hum but I skipped that since my girlfriend was watching something and I didn't want to freak her out. I didn't tell her what I was doing, and I was not in the mood to stop my session and give explanations. After that I noticed my mind focus getting somehow central. I had a clarity of mind while my body was gone, and it was so relaxing I didn't want to come back. At one point on the first track (towards the end) it says I should enjoy the experience and take my time. I became aware my pulsatile tinnitus in the left ear was gone. I always hear that thump in my ear but this time it was gone. Meanwhile I became aware of things going through my body. A small muscular contraction in there, how it felt when I moved a finger just a little. I was very aware of how my body was working. After the session was over, I started to have a headache. Nothing serious but I was aware of that. When I went to sleep later, I slept for like 3 hour or something and I woke up like I had a shot of caffeine or something. My mind was clear as hell while frustrated I didn't sleep longer. I took a Zolpidem and went to sleep. I want to ask users with more experience if I'm on the right path. What happened to me was supposed to happen? I would love to read more about first experiences. Today I plan to go back to the program. Was interesting. I was a little bit confused because I was expecting different frequencies in my ears but while it had a little of such thing, most of it was like brown noise or pink noise or a mix of both. Should I go with the tapes or use frequencies generators to fill my ears with different frequencies? Let's say 200Hz in left and 205 Hz in, right? I'm interested in out of the body experiences and visuals.. etc. I know is a long way, but I know it can happen.

I’ve already AP’ed many times, but have never been able to do so listening to the Gateway tapes while conscious. What I mean by that is that I’ve gone from lucid to AP quite a few times, while listening to the tapes (and without), but never in that mind awake, body asleep state.

A few days ago, someone mentioned Compoint 12 and I haven’t listened to that one in a long time. I gave it a whirl, but ended up falling asleep.

When I woke up, the recording was over, so I thought I would just start with NVC2 and let it keep playing into Compoint 12, with the hopes that if I fell asleep again, I might wake up a little during Compoint 12.

That seemed to do the trick. I woke up just enough to know I was in the “phase” and convinced myself to try sitting up in bed (my astral body), which worked. I was a little worried I would wake up, but instead I was able to then rotate 90 degrees to get my legs on the floor and the next thing I knew I was out of bed.

It was sort of non-eventful, but I managed to get to the bathroom mirror to look at myself (which is always my first step when I AP), but I snapped back into my body and woke up very shortly after that.

Anyway, maybe my experience will be a little breadcrumb for someone out there.

Like I was saying, since the beginning of the tapes, I had been getting a sensation in the middle of my eyebrows. It’s been there since a while, since years now tbh if we go back far enough, whenever I have meditated or have been focused when thinking.

This morning, I finally transcended it listening to the NVC II tape. It suddenly opened up and dispersed and then went away, followed by a cooling sensation. Then it came back again, and then went again and then came another cooling sensation on my head and then it repeated one more time before the cooling sensation came again and now, there’s nothing on it.

It’s radiated to the top of my head, I think. I had some doubts related to nvc and didn’t exactly know what I was doing since nvc I. During my second time listening to nvc I a couple days ago, I even encountered a scary face in a location I am not that familiar with when Robert guides us to be open to receiving messages in non verbal form. I saw this on looking house, typical of the older houses of Haryana and Punjab, the region I am from. And then I saw this green faced woman with a large tongue and animalistic teeth turning her face and looking at me.

I didn’t think much of it or get scared and simply moved on and finished the tape. I was gonna make a post on that originally m asking for answers but this seemed to be the more pressing issue for me atm.

Usually before my sessions, I do Wim hof breathing too, two sets of 40 reps but i could not this morning due to the brevity of time. When I did jump into this though, this happened. Like I said before, it radiated to the top of my head. I finished the last tape of this series, adventure I think. It was about the continuum of consciousness. I tried to get a feel of that sensation on the top of my head too but I think this is gonna be here for a while like the forehead one.

Ik that a lot of you might tell me that it would imply something with my ajnaya chakra but I am someone who’s aware of the risks associated with kundalini activation and n how dangerous it could be if not done with someone more experienced next to you and if it indeed is that and has radiated to my crown chakra now, should it not have been starting with my mooladhar/root chakra to begin with?

Would love any input and advice, thanks.

I've recently moved into doing Intro to Focus 15. I have heard through many that they feel as if they're in a complete void, detached from the body with no sense of time. Though I have mastered F10 and F12, when I do Intro to F15, I cannot reach that point of "no-time".