TO: Commander
US Army Operational Group
Fort Meade, MD 20755
1. You tasked me to provide an assessment of the Gateway Experience in terms of its mechanics and ultimate practicality…
— from a 1983 report for the U.S. Army
Two curious stories were floating around on various media outlets last week, that probably didn’t seem, to the average reader. too closely related to each other.
Fortunately, the readers of the Pagosa Daily Post are not ‘average’, according to the statistics tracked by our editor. He won’t say whether our readers are ‘above average’ or ‘below average’… but does that really matter? Just so long as they aren’t ‘average’.
The first story dealt with the release, by the Pentagon, of some formerly classified information. As we all know, one of the most important assets in developing an effective military strategy, is secrecy… whenever you’re planning to engage in government-financed mass murder… better known as “war”.
America got itself involved in a “Cold War” shortly after the end of World War II, which didn’t involve much in the way of killing people, but still required lots of secrecy and government funding.
One of the secrets, which remained classified until 2003, was an effort to develop psychic powers within military personnel, apparently so the U.S. Army could train people to “see” — through clairvoyance — what the enemy was doing without having to rely on spies and satellites and other types of undercover information-gathering and analysis, all of which have certain financial and logistical implications.
Your typical “out-of-body” experience is practically free, and something a person could do in their sleep, with their eyes closed. So to speak.
The 29-page report from 1983, written by Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell (which you can download here) had the following subject line:
SUBJECT: Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process
The “Gateway Experience” was developed by former radio executive Bob Monroe, starting in the 1950s, when he discovered that varying sound frequencies could alter human consciousness and produce “out-of-body” experiences. In 1971, he founded the Monroe Institute to further study how these frequencies could induce profound states of being, and thereby generate a comfortable income stream.
In the late stages of the Cold War, the U.S. Army — worried that the Soviets were researching psychic abilities for espionage — tapped the Monroe Institute to explore some psychic methods of our own.
LTC McDonnell dug deeply into the science of human consciousness and discovered that the entire universe is, in essence, nothing but “consciousness”…
The universe is composed of interacting energy fields, some at rest and some in motion. It is, in and of itself, one gigantic hologram of unbelievable complexity… the human mind is also a hologram which attunes itself to the universal hologram by the medium of energy exchange thereby deducing meaning and achieving the state which we call consciousness…
LTC McDonnell learned that “human consciousness is able to separate from physical reality and interact with other intelligences in other dimensions within the universe, and that it is both eternal and destined for ultimate return to the Absolute…”
Which was a relief for me to learn. That my consciousness is eternal. I had previously been worried about that.
He also determined that, by using Monroe Institute tapes and a set of headphones (this was back before CDs and Spotify) Army personnel could advance through several levels of training and ultimately tap into this gigantic hologram. At the level known as Focus 10, they could develop the ability to “see” objects in real time from a distance. In the deeper Focus 12 state, participants reported meeting their “higher selves”. In Focus 15, they could travel backwards or forwards in time, which is especially useful if you play the Lotto.
Mainly, a person needs to “synchronize” their brain’s left and right hemispheres using the correct sound frequencies. This involves something called, appropriately enough, “Hemi-Sync”. Here’s a picture from the report:
The Monroe Institute still offers the Gateway training. You can visit their website here. The Residential Program (5 days and 6 nights) will set you back $2,495. (I’m not clear if you need to bring along a tape player.). The U.S. trainings are currently booked up though the end of April. You can also get trained in Switzerland, France, Spain and Greece. But not in Russia.
The fact that the U.S. Army has released this report suggests that they’re no longer worried about the Russians learning about the Gateway Process. From what I see in the news, the Russians currently prefer missiles, bombs and tanks.
The other story bouncing around the new media last week dealt with a vote by the Montana House of Representatives Rules Committee. Legislators need rules, and I guess the Rules Committee is responsible for making them. Apparently, making rules about bathroom use was a high priority for certain Republican committee members. They wanted to make sure that any legislator who was born male, but had transitioned into being female, was forbidden from using the women’s bathroom in the state Capitol.
The only legislator to whom this rule would apply was Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a transgender lawmaker who was re-elected in November.
Weeks ahead of her return to the House floor, Rep. Zephyr’s colleagues on the Rules Committee rejected the bathroom measure in a 12-10 vote. Three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against it, characterizing it as “a rule that would not add value to their work”. They were probably worried about which of them would have to stand outside the women’s bathroom to make sure Rep. Zephyr didn’t use it.
Rep. Zephyr, who is a Democrat, told the news media she was grateful to her GOP colleagues who voted ‘No’. She reported having a “good working relationship” with them, and added that their votes against the measure showed they were “able to recognize this for the distraction that it is.”
I totally agree, that bathrooms can be a distraction. If you let them. Get in and out as quickly as possible, is my general approach.
I bring up this curious story about Montana, because the Army’s 1983 report on the Gateway Process makes it pretty darn clear that the entire universe consists of a singular holographic energy called the Absolute, with which we will all become united when we die… and the bathroom that Rep. Zephyr uses, or doesn’t use, shouldn’t make a whole lot of difference.