My Phasing Journel

[blossom123]

Ok, I have recently acquired Hemi-sync Gateway CD's.  I am planning on using this area as a spot to document and and re-validate any OBE's experiences that might occur or that I might experience as I move through the numerous cd's.  

I have wave 1 through wave 7.  Plus Hemi-sync 5.

Wave 1 - Focus 10
Wave 2 - Focus 12 Threshold
Wave 3 -
Wave 4 - Adventures
Wave 5 - Missions
Wave 6 - Prospecting
Wave 7 - Odyssey Focus 21

Hemisync 5 - Advanced Focus 12 and 15 

I am reading the book that comes with it first.  I don't know what to expect.  I just want a means to document it as it might be of interest to someone else.

I am not a skeptic.  I have had one spontaneous OBE that was amazing but it was years ago and the experience in it's entirety has never left me.

So this is my own experiement.  Like the army says -- Be all that you can be.

I was a member here many years ago and at that time did not have the tapes but have shared many conversations with Frank as I read about his ideals and experiences with phasing.  So this experiment is with Frank as my silent mentor. When I got the tapes, even after all these years, Frank is the first person that crossed my mind.  It will take me a day or two to read the manual and then I will get started.  

Sincerely,
JC aka Blossom

p.s.  One last thought.  My husband "who is a skeptic" might actually do this with me.  He believes -that I believe- I have had an experience but he is not sure what it means.  He is very down to earth and his feet have never left the ground and so this should really be interesting from his point of view.  

[Xanth]

Hi Blossom!  Welcome back to the Astral Pulse. 

A Phasing Journal!  Goodstuff!

I look forward to reading it. 

[blossom123]

Thank you!  I'm very excited about it.  I am going to try to do a tape a night.  I am not sure if I need to do the same tape for a few nights before progressing to the next or not..... 

I'll just have to play it by ear I guess.

[blossom123]

I'll be through with round 1 of the manual tonight.  Tomorrow night I start..  I am super super excited!!!  I'll go back through the manual as I do things and see what I've missed.  I want to do this "sound" and in order and not jump ahead.  

I have also made my mind up to repeat any tape that I feel I did not quite get right.  I am not sure what to expect but from what I have read so far, you have to reach a certain level on each tape in order to progress to the next one and be successful.  I want to master each and every tape.

After my one truly spontaneous OBE years back, I have tried and tried following all the right books, following the rules and maybe that's why it has never happened again.  I have came close to out of body, such as feeling my etheric body shift slightly but never making it out.    

I have always expected it to be like before but it has never happened.    Before, when it actually happened, I did not believe in OBE's at all.  I was just meditating when it happened.  I must have had everything exactly right.  I did the roll out of my body back in forth in my bed.  I remember being amazed.  It was like I was two people and I had no control over the one.  It was just rolling around.  I heard the low droning tone in my ear.  I heard a loud pop.  I felt a blackness or a dark curtain quickly move very rapidly in front of my eyes.....It was like "a blackness came down and then lifted up in half a split second" and when it instantaneously raised --- I was somewhere else.....  I call it the blue place.  It was 360 blue and I had no body.  I was just there and I was awake and I  knew it.  I knew instantly what had happened.  It was not a dream of any sort because I was not asleep.  I knew I was in a bed in my room and this thought even went through my head while I was there.   

I just want to see it again....  This is my path and my quest.....

Jenn

[light487]

These "gateway" tapes.. are they the Monroe Institute tapes? I am trying to find which ones to buy.. I'd prefer if they were digital download rather than physical CDs though.. but can you share the link to them?

EDIT: Oh wait.. think I just found them... $499... Bit too rich for me.. I can barely scrape together enough to live on let alone 500 bucks for some CDs.. 18 CDs yes.. but.. yer too expensive for me

[Xanth]

You really only need the first set... which is, I believe, on sale right now for $79.
It's the Wave 1 set, which is three CD's I think.

[light487]

Oh.. I was looking at the description of that and it says it only works to get you to Focus 10.. not to Focus 21.. Maybe I just don't understand what is being done during the "guided meditation" sessions on the CDs..

I find "guided" works a lot better for me. I have the Pzizz Sleep app for iPod Touch, which is a guided sleep thing with Isotonic sounds and stuff.. works really well and then reinforces "good" stuff after you go to sleep etc.. but its intent is to cause you to sleep rather than to go deep into your mind but stay aware etc

[blossom123]

Last night I finished reading the guide.  Tonight I start.....  These will be my first guided meditations.  

I read a link that Ryan had in his profile about phasing vs obe's saying basically that they are exactly the same but just the methods are different.  I'm glad I read that because I was never sure exactly what phasing was..

My husband keeps teasing me saying these are my "devil worship" tapes....omg!  I hope he flies high and broadens his horizons...  It will be so awesome if he does.  I have not told him these might be a precursor to his own OBE.  He thinks the HEMI-SYNC are for relaxation only.  I am going to try to get him to keep a journal with me.

He has never meditated nor read any of my materials or tried. He has always been supportive of me however.  During my meditation attempts, he has let me be and kept the house quiet.  He has always told me "One of us needs to keep our feet on the ground" and that is his justification.  I nearly feel like I am being deceptive but I want his mind clear and not concerned with what might or might not happen.  He is a catholic and has no preconceived notions of anything regarding OBE's.

So my next entry will be right before I start and then afterwards when we both complete.  I'm going to let him go first. I want us to use headphones and not just plain speakers.  I have been looking around at different types of headphones.  They actually have pillows with headphones built into them.  (Nope, not going to buy that).

I can't wait to get home from work today!!

Jenn

[blossom123]

I just told him "honey, tonight we start" and he said "oh our devil worshiping?" and I said "omg".  I then kinda threw in the conversation that these tapes cost 699.00 and this blank look came upon his face and he said "ok, I will try"......

YEA!!!!

[Xanth]

I just told him "honey, tonight we start" and he said "oh our devil worshiping?" and I said "omg".  I then kinda threw in the conversation that these tapes cost 699.00 and this blank look came upon his face and he said "ok, I will try"......

YEA!!!!

"OH, devil worshiping economic capitalist geniuses!" 

I'm glad he's able to retain an open mind for it though.  It'll help immensely. 

[blossom123]

"OH, devil worshiping economic capitalist geniuses!"  

oh.........You must know us ryan!!!!!!!!!!    that is the funniest thing I have ever read......hahaha

..........But tonight we start.  We are both home now....  Doing a few animal chores and then the fun begins.  After he goes first, I will try to get him to post something here.  His name is Juan.  If not, I will post it for him.  Then I will do the same for myself.....  This is going to be so much fun!!

And you know, one thing that you hit right on the head of the nail is the fact he IS open-minded.  He is open minded about EVERYTHING, so I'm hoping this falls right into place for him...

[blossom123]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WAVE 1 - DISCOVERY INTRO

Discovery #1: Orientation

The tools, exercises, and experiences you will discover or each tape in the Discovery album build upon the tools, exercises, and experiences of the previous tape. Indeed, each tape and album in the Gateway Experience builds upon the same features of the previous tapes and albums. The more intimate and proficient you become with each tape, the more you will be able to explore and master the next tape or album. By carefully and patiently using Discovery, you will build a solid foundation within you that will enable you to get the most out of this in-home training system. It is also recommended that you perform each exercise as instructed at least the first time you listen to it. Then, you may choose to innovate and do something else. Let your experience during the tape guide you. Stay open to change and flow with your experience. Don't force anything. If you are curious about the content of each tape, you may first listen to it objectively, over speakers.

In Discovery, repetition of tapes is advancement. Each time you listen to a tape, you become stronger, clearer, and more masterful with it. Return to basic tapes for reinforce­ment; doing so will deepen your experiences and is strongly recommended. Various tools are developed in Discovery to create bridging as one begins to detect and focus the strong energies we call "non-physical." These are often perceived as electrical or vibratory sensations, as well as motion, heat, or pressure. These energies can flow in Focus 10, and can, depending on your choice, influence physical reality. To use these tapes effectively, please familiarize yourself with the Tape-Taking Recommendations on page 17. The following sections refer directly to processes on this tape: Hemi-Sync Hemispheric synchronization is demonstrated in a simple way by placing a steady tone in one ear, then a different steady tone in the other ear. As these different tones are blended together in the brain, the binaural beat or wavering sound you hear is a brain-produced phenomenon created as both hemispheres act in unison. Such signals can stimulate specific states of consciousness, which are automatically learned and then can be recreated from memory. Hemispheric synchronization focuses your attention, thereby enhancing creativity and problem solving, and providing a greater awareness of your overall environment. Consider light waves as an example of the Hemi-Sync process. Radiant light sources, such as sunlight or a lamp's tungsten filament, are incoherent in that energy is produced with random timing, and focusing directs an irregular stream of photons to a specific area. In turn, the laser (light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation) is uniquely pure (of the same wavelength) and coherent (waves are in phase or synchronized). Imagine the implications of our ability to focus con­sciousness using the lamp and laser metaphor: with training in consciousness, our minds have the potential to become lamps turned lasers. As a result, our abilities to learn, focus our minds, and direct our thoughts are automatically amplified. Using Hemi-Sync, the specific exercises in the Gateway Experience provide a means for laser-like focusing of human consciousness.

Volume Adjustment

Adjust the volume so that it is just within your hearing range. As you listen to the tape, your senses will become heightened, more sensitized. If the volume is too high, you may feel startled when you hear verbal instructions during different stages of the exercise. Do not readjust your headphones again during the tape. Shifts in volume of the Hemi-Sync frequencies are intentional. A high volume will not enhance the effectiveness of the FFR or masked sound patterns. In fact, it may reduce the benefits of the exercise. Surf Ocean surf-waves of natural energy in action is a symbol of the Monroe audio system: you will learn to perceive, tune, and control waves of your own natural vibrational energy. It is important to understand that you will be learning to control your energy better. As a result, you will be able to attune yourself to, or harmonize with, your environment in more varied and meaningful ways than ever before. This will enable you to establish resonance with, rather than control over, other people and nature.

Energy Conversion Box

Create in your mind a "box," a part of your personal space that, for the duration of any exercise, can be filled with all your worries and concerns, and then can be set aside, leaving you free and unencumbered. Create it in your mind, even if you don't see, hear, or feel it. Make it really yours, so it will work with you by giving you the space to detach yourself from whatever is holding you back. You may design your own box: perceive it as simple or ornate, conventional or high-tech, physical or non-physical. In other words, it may be an old, wood chest or an intricately designed marble container; it may be a vacuum cleaner or a nuclear particle collector; or it may be a lead-lined box or a sphere of light. You may also find that your box changes in size, shape, or colour as you progress. Allow it to change, and use it as a symbol of your changes and growth. Put concrete symbols of worries or distractions into your box. For example, use your billfold as a symbol for money concerns, your watch as a symbol for time concerns, or a photograph representing someone who is on your mind. Experiment. Gateway participants have discovered marvellous things to set aside: a tiny version of the physical world with themselves outside; lists of limiting words like can't, won't and isn't; anchors to both the past and the future; assumptions about both success and failure; symbols of defences resembling a series of masks. A man once spent a whole exercise trying to force his box open: he tore at it, pried, and ordered it to open, all to no avail. Baffled, he stopped and confronted his box, and in the sudden knowing of Focus 10, he realized force doesn't work, and with one gentle movement, he opened his box. You may also want to return to your box during an exercise. Place whatever you wish in your box whenever you feel like doing so.

The Gateway Affirmation

I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than physical matter, I can perceive that which is greater than the physical world. Therefore, I deeply desire to Expand, to Experience; to Know, to Understand; to Control, to Use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those who follow me. Also, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development, and experience are equal to or greater than my own. I ask their guidance and protection from any influence or any source that might provide me with less than my stated desires.

The Gateway Affirmation serves several purposes: It helps you focus your attention on what you want to accomplish during any exercise. It helps you focus your intent, thereby enabling you to become more aware of your expanding consciousness. It gives you permission to respond to, and work with, other energy and energy systems. Plus, it helps you stay, relaxed and open to a variety of helpful influences.

Resonant Tuning

Resonant Tuning is a breathing exercise to help you vitalize and charge your entire system. It promotes an accel­­erated gathering of your vibrational energy while reducing your internal dialogue. In addition to preparing you for these exercises, you may use Resonant Tuning for meditation or quieting your thoughts. What is referred to in this Guidance Manual as non­physical energy, Robert Monroe calls second-state energy. This vital energy flows along lines of force, operating on the principle that our bodies, as well as the universe, function bilaterally, and like batteries, have a positive pole, and a negative pole. Breathing exercises are a universal method of vitalizing and recharging your "battery," moving this energy through its natural channels in and around the body, loosening knots and blockages, and correcting imbalances. Within the tape exercises, this process can manifest as sudden jerks and twitches, or even as a sensation resembling pain. Odd as it may sound, resistance increases this phenomenon. But by confronting the experience and allowing it to work itself out, you will move beyond it.

During the breathing exercises, follow the pacing on the tape to the extent that it is comfortable for you. As the Resonant Tuning chant begins on the tape, continue the same breathing pattern, vocalizing with the "aaah," "oooh," and "uuum" sounds as you exhale. Set your own rhythm, your own pace. Use the sounds on the tape only as a guide. It is important that you actually make the sounds with your physical vocal cords. You will soon grow comfortable with this process and you may notice kinaesthetic responses as your body becomes aligned with resonant energy. As you inhale, imagine an infinity of sparkling, vibrant, vital energy around you. Pull it into all parts of your body and up into your head. Since energy continues to flow, allow the energy to move and swirl gently around in your head as you hold your breath. Exhale through your lips as if you were softly blowing out a candle, releasing any tired, stale energy out through your body and the bottoms of your feet. Breathing slightly deeper than you normally would is just as effective as explosive, championship breaths. Open your eyes as you inhale, and close them as you exhale. Coordi­nating your eye movement with your breathing is one way to become aware of your ability to control autonomic (automatic) behaviour. Typically, eye blinking and breathing are accomplished without the slightest thought on your part. Now, however, you will plant a seed that may grow into a full realization that you can assume voluntary control over these processes. In other words, you can recognize, change, and direct habitual behaviour and reflexes. Should you relax to the extent you seem to have lost contact with everything physical, simply breathe normally and open your eyes, or move the fingers of your right hand, and your entire body will respond and return to waking, physical consciousness.

Focus 3

Focus 3 is a signpost on the way to Focus 10, a Hemi-Sync state where your brain and mind are more coherent, synchronized, and balanced. You will move to Focus 3 by a conventional count of one to three. Return to Full Waking Consciousness At the end of every tape exercise, you will hear a strong audio signal designed to bring you to a state of full, waking consciousness (C-1 ). Despite the temptation to take off your headphones early, listen to this signal until it is withdrawn. It will bring you completely "back" from the exercise. The more you bring yourself back from an exercise, the further you can go into your next exercise.

[blossom123]

He has read the instructions and is doing it........ right now.

[light487]

Hehe.. he is like the "control group" in the experiment. He hasn't really been given any intent or knowledge of what to expect. So I think it will be good for both of you in this joint journey, as when things begin to happen, you can each validate one another's experiences. Everyone's journey is a little different though.. so Focus 2 experiences may not be really compared side by side...

[blossom123]

I know.  I am so excited by this too.  He has 5 more minutes.

[blossom123]

Ok, he said was relaxing and different.  Since I have not listened to this tape at all yet, ..when I was in the back room, I kept hearing an odd sound coming from the LR.  I went in there very very quietly and he was making an odd sound.  When he finished and I asked him about it, and he said "the voice" had told him to make this sound.  I had thought he was making an odd snoring sound.  He said he got into it and gave it his all.

He is outside sitting on the porch now with this odd little look...  He is very thoughtful right now.  Oops, he's back inside now.  

He said he is going to sit at the creek and think while I have my turn.  The creek is his "thinking spot".  Now my turn.

Jen

[Xanth]

That's wonderful!
It sounds like he's rather receptive and accepting of this new found knowledge. 

Goodluck to you now!

[light487]

Hee hee.. 

[blossom123]

That was awesomely wonderful.. Feel a little dazed right now.  I love this man's voice.  Several times during the portion where nothing was spoken, I went away off in my own thoughts but when he spoke he grabbed me right back.  But right now and even during the session, when I disappeared in my own thoughts, I cannot remember what they were.  Even now. 

Very interesting.

I did not itch.  I did not fidget.  I did not feel anything physical.  It was mental all the way.  This was focus 3.

Jenn

[light487]

And now of course you know what those sounds were that your hubby was making.. hehehehhehe.. The "Resonant Tuning" thing..

As per the instructions, "During the breathing exercises, follow the pacing on the tape to the extent that it is comfortable for you. As the Resonant Tuning chant begins on the tape, continue the same breathing pattern, vocalizing with the "aaah," "oooh," and "uuum" sounds as you exhale."

[blossom123]

Yes I will....  Do we repeat this tape or move to the next tomorrow?  I take it you've done this -- light487?

One other thing.  I am very blind.  My vision is horrible.  I went outside and I swear my vision is improved.  It seemed I could focus on leaves way off across the creek... The sun is going down but there is still light on top of the mountains and I noticed it.

I am, alas, also a smoker.  I even noticed the smoke drifting in the air and actually watched it drifting off and curling.  

I think I feel tuned.  Like a car..  Does that make sense?  I just feel "different"...  I am not sure in what sense I even mean that but I understand my husband's need to walk.  He walked way down the creek and back up.  I myself just feel aware.  Very aware.  I am noticing things I do not normally notice.

[Xanth]

You repeat it as many times as you can/want until you're comfortable doing it. 

[light487]

Well.. the first tape is the introduction.. you can move at your own pace.. use the first tape again if you like.. but the 2nd "tape" builds on the 1st, using the same methods and instructions from the 1st but in less detail. For example, with the "Energy Convergence Box" in the first tape, the narrator goes into detail about what you should be visualising.. it should be big enough to contain everything, be solid, have a heavy lid that will keep the things contained etc etc.. Whereas in the second tape, it will just say "Now focus on your "Energy Convergence Box" and put everything in there, do this now." and then there is a long pause while you do that. There's no detailed explanation of what you should be trying to visualise etc. It's the same with all the other parts, the 2nd tape uses those things but assumes that you are already familiar with them and doesn't waste time explaining them in detail.

So the "right time" to move on to the next one is completely individual but it would be at a point when you are comfortable with the material presented, so that when you move on to the next tape and the narrator assumes your knowledge and comfort with these techniques, you won't feel out of your depth. For example, if you have trouble visualising the box and doing the "offloading of physical matters etc", then you would not be "ready" to move on to the next tape, and so on.

[light487]

I should point out that being "comfortable" with and being "master" of something is completely different though. Just because you may have had a little difficulty getting a perfect visualisation of the "box" doesn't mean aren't comfortable with and have a firm understanding of the technique. It will take practise and time to "master" the technique of course. Anyway, yer.. if you listen to the next tape, at any point during the tapes, and find that it is all a bit too much because, while you thought you were fully understanding the previous tape's techniques, you realise you are not ready for it. Just finish the tape anyway, do your best to follow along with everything. Then the next time, just go back to the previous tape. It's best not to interrupt the tapes halfway through, if you can, just so that all the loose ends are all tied up, so to speak.

[blossom123]

I understand.  Thanks for that wonderful explanation.  I have discussed this with my husband and at this time, since he is new to this, we are going to do all tapes twice.  UNLESS we just feel ready. 

He is receptive to twice.  And I will pace myself according to his pace.  I have been meditating for years.  Today was his first time.

I am burning to move ahead however and I might listen to another tape tonight after he goes to bed.  And then tomorrow stay on course with him and listen to the first again... This is probably what will happen.  I can't run off and leave him in some other spot on the tapes or he will quit.  I told him today it probably take 3-4 months to go through them all and get a feel for all of them.

I have 48 individual lessons and if we listen to each one twice, that is 96 days if we don't miss a day.   The commitment to this program is 30 minutes each day if all lessons are 30 minutes like this one.  Or actually 33 minutes.

I am going to encourage him to stick with it.  I want him to enjoy it.  I made the living room very comfortable for him today.  Put the small dogs outside, dimmed the lights, gathered his favorite pillows, etc.... I bought some wonderful incense as well but forgot about it today.  Tomorrow I will light one for him.