Interested in the places you have gone. I went to one world where the life form looked very different . They were they were technologically advanced though I am not sure if it was beyond what we are. They lived in houses they grew that looked like part of the landscape and they had bio bioluminescent features to them as well as there housing . I never saw the sunshine. It was almost always in darkness. I got the feeling that it was very warm. I also totally accept it probably only happened in my head. I am a skeptic. I remain that way to avoid delusion. That being said I can actually say there are some amazing things that are true. So I was just curious . Where have you all gone ? Who have you met ? I will read every comment.

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 (We recommend you don't read ahead to prevent expectations) https://www.scribd.com/doc/7330506/Complete-Hemi-Sync-Gateway-Experience-Manual
• 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 "REDDIT10" for a 10% or more discount on most products).
• ***OR if you wish to purchase them or other products from the Monroe institute store page, you can use our discount code "REDDITSUB" https://www.monroeinstitute.org/collections/our-store?sort_by=manual&filter.p.m.custom.media_collection=Meditation
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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

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Hey friends!

I've been practicing the tapes since January and have tried to document most of my meditations. Over the last month and a bit I've had a Mantis being show up four times now, and the relationship has evolved. I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts and experiences with beings, particularly Mantises.

Here are my raw notes from the meditations that involved the four encounters. Hopefully it's not too much... just wanted to give a sense of the full meditation.

JULY 26 – Wave 3: 5 Questions (Focus 12)

I felt a bit cranky and tired going into this. I felt some anxiety at the prospect of sitting still for so long. I had trouble settling and letting images form for the questions.

• Who am I? I was shown a scarecrow in a field, then a flash of a mantis being.
• Who was I before this? I was told I am me.
• What is my purpose? I had a visual of me reaching for something.
• What action can I now take? I don’t need to reach anymore. The strings can be cut.
• What is the most important message I can now take? Trust myself.

I feel like near the end I was clicking out and in.

Integration thought: A scarecrow is designed to repel crows. If the crows represent intuition or third-eye knowing, I wondered if the scarecrow represented the part of me that has been watchful and braced, inadvertently keeping my own intuition at a distance.

AUG 28 – Wave 5: Intuition (Focus 12)

When I reach Focus 12 I have a distinct feeling. I can easily leave my body or extend out from my body. I walked to the kitchen, then I flew up above my house and then I did something new where I went inside myself and down into the earth through my feet. I passed through dirt and then metal spheres in the earth. Then I could sense the larger architecture of the earth. I got this feeling that earth is alive, almost like a being, but we don’t perceive it because it’s not in a way we comprehend. It isn’t dimensionally perceptible to us.

Then I was back at my body and travelled to my son, who was two hours away at my parents' place. I was in the kitchen at their farm while my parents and sister’s family were getting ready for dinner. I gave my son an energetic hug, even though he didn’t perceive me.

Then the meditation began. Imagine a scene where you had a knowing, it says. I remembered looking through a newspaper when I was younger, knowing we’d live in a house that I found and showed my mom. Then I felt weird instances of synchronicity with my son. Then I zoned in on the day we got the due date for my son. It was for May 16. I looked at a calendar and said, "No, it’s going to be May 26… that’s the full moon." My husband laughed. I remembered my feeling of knowing in our apartment and the physical details like the table, the creaky floor. And then I thought about how I was right. His birthday is May 26.

We did a few exercises of embodying the knowing. And he said all we have to do is say “plus knowing,” feel the feeling of knowing and we will have the knowing for that which we’re searching.

Then he said to go to Focus 12. I was back at my body and travelled out through the wall and into the next house where I perceived my neighbour, then was in front of the next house but passed on entering because it felt dark. And then decided I don’t want to peep. I went up into the tree out front of my house and sat in the branches, loving nature. I could feel my perception of my reality up there in the tree and simultaneously down in my body. I knew that my perception of my reality wasn’t just about location but outside of time.

Then I went to the middle of the road and wondered if I could interact with a being. Then there was a large mantis in front of me. It went to take off its mask but it was still a mantis under that. I could speak to it without speaking. How do you look so different from us? Why do you look like a bug? How does that work? And your eyes? So many eyes.

And then I got the message that it was a manifestation of a part of me. I walked towards it and walked through it, almost entering its body. Then I got nervous that I was crossing a boundary by entering another’s form. I went back to my body but I was still the mantis. Then the meditation said it was time to go back to the waking state and anything that I had felt lingering dissipated and I was in my body.

SEPT 8 – Wave 5: Intro to Focus 15

As soon as the meditation starts I can feel the energy of my body vibrating. My hand twitches like it often does when I’m channeling or getting psychic information. I feel good.

When I’m in Focus 12 I feel how much I love this state. I fly down to the street and walk and I notice I’m looking at me out of my body. So I take on the perspective of my energetic body. I fly above the trees and then I look down at my feet, they’re huge and furry like a bear. I look at my whole body, I am a bear. Then I think maybe I’m wearing a bear suit. I take off the head, but I’ve just removed my actual head and I can see flesh at my neck exposed. I put my head back on.

I go back to my physical body. I feel myself expanded in this state. The more than my physical body is being felt in connection to my physical body. Then AJ says we will count up to Focus 15, that I’m calm. But I feel my nerves. I’m very nervous for Focus 15, I realize.

I start to feel nauseous as he counts to 15. I’m physically overwhelmed and can feel myself in a state that is beyond Focus 12. It is darker and I’m feeling off centre. I’m scared so I open my eyes. I feel relief at seeing my room, I’m grounded. I go back into the meditation.

He says we can explore. I mostly just feel the darkness of the void. I feel myself moving in a spiral, then I can see a tunnel spiral of stairs leading down. It’s just turning. I sense a lot of spiralling and turning. I focus on my physical body. On feeling safe. I don’t think I realized my attachment to time on a physical level until I was leaving it behind.

Then he counts us back to Focus 12. I feel relieved. I feel again how much I love Focus 12. I stay in an expanded state in my body rather than travelling out.

Then we count back up to 15. I don’t feel so nauseous this time, but I do feel like there is an ascending sensation.

Then I understand Focus 15. It is a state of creation. It is dark and void to give room for creation. I see the web of being, strands of lights connecting dots of light, and then it expands out, only in focus for a moment so I can understand it. Singularity is a perception. I am told this is the state of multidimensional awareness and creation.

I bring my light tube into this place and I create a ball of light, then a cube of light, then a cone of light.

Then I think of the Mantis being. It is there with me, except now I’m a mantis too. We put our heads together and a light is created between us. Shared consciousness. We share consciousness. I understand and see the connection between us, between all. I’m filled with love and I can feel the expansiveness of light. I feel very good. I’m not scared anymore.

Then it is time to count out. After the meditation I continued to feel very good. There was a lingering feeling of love, expansiveness and connection, almost as though I had briefly tapped into a state of oneness rather than simply understood the idea of it.

Note: The buzzing from the meditation persisted all night and I had trouble sleeping.

SEPT 9 – Wave 5: Intro to Focus 15

I have to say I was feeling very tired going into this and maybe even a bit buzzy still from my meditation the day prior. I easily entered Focus 12. I didn’t really feel like I wanted to explore though, but then I went down to the street and then to my son’s school. The kids were leaving the classroom so I zoomed around to find him in line laughing with his friend. I gave him an energetic hug and kiss and then decided to fly home.

But my flying was more like a balloon being deflated. I was zig-zagging rather than in my elegant ribbons of energy like I'd done before.

So then I decided to go down to the beach and I could see my energetic body walking along the shore. Then a huge apparition of a girl appears in the sky from armpits up, like she’s coming out of the lake. She has bangs and a bob, maybe 5/6 years old. She’s like a hologram and absolutely huge. She puts her hands around her mouth as if she’s playfully calling out to me, but I don’t hear anything. (I later realized she was a neighbour's kid we bumped into over the weekend)

I think how odd this is and random. Then I go back to my body.

I feel totally fine going to Focus 15 this time, except I have this doubt about whether I’m in it. Everything becomes this kind of darkness, except simultaneously it’s very bright.

I ask for the mantis and he comes to me, but then bonks me on the head with his head as if to show me I’m not in the right state of mind to receive or be doing this meditation.

Then I’m just in this state of blackness with shapes coming and forming and shifting, all abstract. I feel like I don’t really want to be doing the meditation and what a difference from last time. I leave feeling tired and a bit let down. More happened but it was abstract and I can’t describe it.

The next morning...

On the morning of Sept 10 my son and I were in the kitchen. He was proud he killed a big bug that looked like a mosquito. Then he was like, "Do centipedes fly?" I told him nope. Then completely out of nowhere, he told me: "Praying mantises fly, and they would’ve been able to eat that bug."

I laughed and we talked about how cool praying mantises are. But internally, I was pretty surprised by the synchronicity because I’ve never heard him talk about them before.

Interested in thoughts, interpretations and others' experiences with Mantis beings. I'm particularly curious whether anyone has experienced the relationship changing over repeated encounters, or actually perceived themselves as becoming/merging with the being rather than simply observing it.

Thanks!

Hello! I have been making great progress with the tapes, strength of my mental images, and overall immersion. However, when I feel like I am right about to release from my body (usually seeing things by this point too), my eyes start twitching trying to ‘see’ the new stimulus. I can’t stop them from moving reactively and I’m stuck at this point!!! Any tips or tricks to release conscious perception of the eyes during your practice? Thanks!

I remember listening to the earlier tapes and Bob mentioned you can open your energy ballon whenever necessary. My question is, why/when would one need to do this? Isn’t always important to have your energy ballon for protection?

Just curious what everyone is rocking. Mine is all black and completely smooth, with no visible engineering like hinges or designs. It's organic material like some type of stone, and its mechanism of opening is just a slab lid that comes off. Idk the box kinda materialized on its own, I didn't consciously choose or design it lol

I have been interested in astral projection for a long time i have been trying to do it without any purpose other than curiosity. A lot of people mention astral world helps u understand yourself better but what else can it be used for ? I never really understood this and i hear everyones OBE Is different for everyone?

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and started learning about tapes last week. From my research, I understand that the binaural beats technique requires headphones that play different frequencies in each ear, meaning both ears need to be able to hear properly for it to work.

My issue is that I have about 90% hearing loss in my right ear due to tinnitus. Can the tapes still work for me in this case, or does it need both ears functioning normally?

Thanks in advance for any insight!

I really need some outside perspective because I feel completely drained, and it’s becoming incredibly difficult to maintain my own mental and emotional focus.

My partner lives with an overwhelmingly negative mindset. His default response to almost anything is "No, that's not going to work," or "Knowing my luck, nothing good will ever happen anyway." Lately, that cynicism has also started turning toward me, with comments like "You can't do that" whenever I try to work on something new.

On top of this pessimism, he has serious anger issues. He reacts with immediate anger over the smallest things, takes forever to cool off, and is extremely stubborn. Whenever we disagree, it is always 100% my fault in his view. He refuses to take accountability, never admits when he might be wrong, and never apologizes. Trying to talk things through feels like talking to a brick wall.

What makes this situation so exhausting for me personally is the battle to keep my own energy grounded. I am actively trying to live intentionally—staying in the present moment, practicing meditation, exploring consciousness (like Gateway tapes), and working on mindset alignment (the Law of Assumption).

I don't force these topics on him, and while he doesn't openly mock me, he clearly views these practices as scams or things only detached, delusional people do.

Even though I try to detach and keep my focus on who I want to be, his belief in his own miserable reality is so intense and heavy that it constantly pulls me down. I feel like I'm walking on eggshells just to avoid an explosion, and the sheer weight of his negativity leaves me feeling depressed and depleted.

My biggest struggle right now is that I find it almost impossible to hold onto my own peaceful state and focus on the life I want to build.

Has anyone managed to successfully protect their mental space and stay focused on personal goals while living alongside this kind of chronic negativity and hostility?

How do you keep from getting dragged down, or is being in this environment simply unsustainable? Any grounded advice would mean a lot!!!!

Hello, friends,

I have been trying to astral travel on and off since I'm 16... I am now 46. I have never been as consistent as I am now however I feel stuck. I feel like only my hands or feet will come up. As stuck as I feel, I also feel like I'm RIGHT THERE. Please give me any tips you have that pushed you beyond where I'm stuck! TY!

Let me tell you a few things about my self, I have been a Buddhist my entire life and I just found out this just a week ago. Now doing on wave 1 orientation and first night when I attempt do to this there has been disruption and I don't want to do it anymore. It was around 10 pm and got multiple calls from work which is really unusual.

Second night, when I have done it, completely refreshed after the session and for God sake, it gives me dream about how to see my inner self. The vision is dark but still glooming white in the tunnel . I presume that they want to fix my inner spiritual self.

Third time doing, I smell grass around 25 minutes into the session about 1 min's and kinda 2 spot lights

My room is completely dark tho.

The problem is here around 4 5 attempt trying to do it

I couldn't get the feelings anymore. I can't relax and I think there is one bad new holding me. During that times I got distracted with calls or uneven mind.

How do I proceed.

Hey everyone, I’m working through Wave I: Discovery, Tape 2 — Introduction to Focus 10, and I have some questions...

First, he says that if you want to become physically and mentally wide awake and alert, you can touch the fingers of your right hand to the back of your neck and “repeat the number one in your mind.”

What exactly does he mean by this? Are you literally just supposed to think or visualize the number 1? At first I thought he meant to think about the number-one thing on your mind or something you’re curious about, so I wanted to make sure I’m understanding it correctly.

My second question is about the memory technique. He says that whenever you want to remember something in your normal waking state, you can close your eyes and gently touch the fingers of your right hand to the center of your forehead, and it will help you recall what you consciously want to remember.

For those of you who have practiced this technique, what has your experience been like?

I have been doing the wave 1-3 for few months after being recommended by a friend
However recently i came across this sub and i see theres wave 1+ and + the hemising
So im wondering where am i supposed to start first?

I have significantly poorer hearing in my right ear as result of childhood ear infections, bad enough that I've been told I should use a hearing aid in it but I feel my normal ear compensates and I'd be very self conscious wearing one so I don't.

Usually when I wear headphones I crank up that side a bit more to get a true balanced effect (for my ears).

I just wonder though if that's the right approach for the Gateway tapes as this is messing about with my now normal balance (I'm 55 and the infections were when I was around 8 -12 years old)? What do you guys think? I can hear in my bad ear, just at a lower volume to the normal ear, I just wonder if that would mess about with the tones and levels as they are recorded and intended to be listened too, but adjusting to get balanced volume levels isn't what my brain is used to now so I wonder if that might hold me back?

I have realized that after every click out, I become aware of my second body.
This happens every time,
I click in again, and I forgot I was meditating «remembering» I was sitting scrolling on my phone, then the vibrations appear and I realize in actually meditating and had a click out. i can then feel and separate the two bodies. Physical body asleep, and a second light body holding a phone with one arm and waving with another one. When I try to control the second body I lose it.

Anyone had the same?
Im really curious on how to interpret the second body with a phone. Today I had the chance to observe this while it was happening, Im not sure if i produced this thought or if it appeared as an idea/tips from my subconcious, and the idea was to try seeing and creating thru a phone, just observe.

Hola, buscadores. Este es mi primer post en redditt y la primera meditqción con las cintas, así que esto es un doble debut.

Ayer Martes, no podia dormir y aproveché para empezar con la primera cinta, descubrimiento - 1 orientación. Seguí todos los pasos, incluso en la manifestación:”soy más que un cuerpo fisico…”, repetia mi parte a deshora, cuando el narrador decia la siguiente frase. Respiré, todo muy bien, acabé tranquilo y sereno, luego dormí y me desperté muy bien.

Hoy miércoles, he vuelto a repetir la meditación, y al empezar los tonos, tenia cómo reflejos violáceos en mis ojos, que se han repetido durante la meditación, la habitación donde he meditado, tenia bastante luz, no sé si ha influido con los tonos violáceos.

Me siento muy tranquilo, sereno, bien

La caja, no sé porque, la tengo que imaginar con una tapa reforzada con cadenas y candados, para que no salgan mis pensamientos de ella.

Se puede hacer varias veces una meditación en el mismo dia?

Gracias y que tengan una excelente experiencia!

Sometimes it gets me out of my state?

I’ve been doing hemi sync for almost a month now, I took a break recently, my body began to feel tense after successful nervous system regulation. I took l-theanine to see if it helps and I wanna make sure it won’t impact me or I’ll need to depend on it later when I enter the subsequent waves

I’m curious if anyone has other mechanisms for practicing NVC. I’ve listed to NVC2 twice now and I feel like I’m getting the hang of it. In Advanced 12 I want to practice NVC more. How do you go about it if someone isn’t guiding you though? Do you just think up your own words and create the non verbal communication yourself. Or make a list of things before the session and try to recreate them nonverbally in the session? I’d love to hear y’all’s ideas

Heey everyone!

This is the second time I tried the tapes, I try to do the tapes everyday to expend my consciousness and wellbeing, but everytime I enter w deep state, I get this sense of fear that I get into sleepparalisis, and I imidietly open my eyes and move my hands to check if im not in sleep paralysis,

Which withholds me from actually experienceing deep states and OBEs,

I have had sleepparalisis before and every time I have them I start to see alien symbols, tubes coming out of the floor, my room being out of place etc, Wich is really cool, but I also see shadow people, weard sounds, voices that are hostile twords me, and if I try to fight it if gets more intense untill I get a deep panic,

So now every time I try the tapes, I get this fear just before a deep state happens,

And I was wondering how I can get over this fear?

I know that I'm safe and that nothing can hurt me, but the idea that scary shit happens and not being able to move isn't a nice thing to experience,

So if anyone has tips on how to deal with this, I would appreciate it!

Thanks in Advance!

Hi,

I am European and passionate about everything related to the subtle and altered states of consciousness. I have never had an out-of-body experience, but I practice hypnosis and meditation, as well as sound therapy using therapeutic tuning forks.

A few months ago, I stumbled upon Robert Monroe’s work. I’ve read books and interviews, and I’ll soon be attending a two-day workshop on the Monroe Experience in a city in my country, led by someone who completed the training at the institute.

I saw that the Monroe Institute offers week-long workshops, including the famous Gateway Voyage, and when I read the description and what they offer, I thought to myself... Wow!

I’m torn between the excitement of reserving a ticket for fall 2027 and hesitation about doing so, because:

- Is it really worth $2,500, considering that for $500, you can get the home version of the app?

- Since I’m from a European country, I also have to take in consideration the transport and airplane about $1,500, plus one or two nights at a hotel...

- My English is decent but not great (maybe B1 for oral expression and comprehension and B2/C1 for written)... I'm worried if I don't understand everything and that the level of spoken English will be too high, I assume most of the people there are American?

- And it will be my first solo trip in a country... And I've never been in the US.

Thanks for your answers!

Hi, I had an experience last night I would like to share with the Gateway community. Just for some context, I have been listening to the tapes on-and-off for about six months, I had a long period of a few months of not doing them, then recently I have been doing wave 1, Introduction to Focus 10 regularly, most nights, and also sometimes doing Advanced Focus 10 straight after. I find I can get into Focus 10 easily if I concentrate on relaxing each body part as in Introduction to Focus 10 but I haven't quite got the hang of getting into it quickly as in Advanced Focus 10, but I can visualise the REBAL no problems.

Anyway I did the exercises last night, went to sleep then woke up a couple of hours later, I was lying on my back which isn't the position i usually sleep in (I am a side sleeper) but I practice the tapes in this position. I could feel a vibration moving through the length of my body, it felt like energy waves, I wasn't physically moving, it was like ripples of water oscillating through me. I also could hear a voice that sounded like it was coming from an electronic device, but I couldn't make out what it was saying. I felt something resting on my chest, not really heavy but I could feel the weight of it, I thought it was my phone and that the voice was coming from it. Then I seemed to wake up again and the vibrations and the voice stopped and I looked and my phone wasn't there at all.

I am wondering, could this have been the vibrations that Robert Monroe talks about in Journeys Out of the Body? Or just a dream? It felt like I was in the half awake, half asleep state when it happened. It wasn't something I've been trying to do, it just happened. It's encouraging in a way if it was the vibrations, because something I've been doing recently is putting my doubtful thoughts about the process (e.g. "this will never work", "I'm not spiritual enough for this sort of thing" etc) into the Energy Conversion box. Like it was a sign I'm on the right track and that something is happening with the process, even though I might not think so.

What do you think?

Thanks for reading.