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Edit: wow, apparently some people here really don't like Gateway Hemisync. All I've tried to share source material on its claims and make a plea for keeping an

Edit: wow, apparently some people here really don't like Gateway Hemisync. All I've tried to share source material on its claims and make a plea for keeping an open mind. Perhaps those so virulently opposed can find that open mind with meditation. Recommend checking out the Koru system. It's an evidence-based mindfulness system out of the Research Triangle. Regardless, the Monroe Institute already performed groundbreaking research in this area 50 years ago. I don't have a source at the moment, but I remember reading that the Monroe Institute's binaural beat audio programs creates brainwave patterns similar to that of an advanced Buddhist monk in meditation. Apparently, the Monroe Institute discovered that the elevated mental states achieved by these monks is achieved with brain hemisphere synchronization, which they call "Gateway Hemisync." According to the Monroe Institute, "this process uses pulses of sound to create in both brain hemispheres electrical wave forms simultaneously equal in frequency and amplitude. The Institute was granted a patent in 1975 based upon the use of such sound pulses to induce a frequency following response (FFR) in the human brain. The FFR demonstrates that when you hear a certain type of sound, your brain tends to respond to, or resonate with, that sound...Each ear sends its dominant nerve signal to the opposite brain hemisphere...By sending separate sound pulses to each ear (using stereo headphones to isolate one ear from the other), the halves of the brain act in unison to “hear” a third signal, which is the difference in frequencies between the two signals in each ear" [1]. A group in the US Army performed a serious analysis of the Gateway Hemisync process, concluding that "there is a sound, rational basis in terms of physical science parameters for considering Gateway to be plausible in terms of its essential objectives", which include "out-of-body movement", "terrestrial information gathering trips", and "possible encounters with intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded" [2]. The article is talking about scientific validation of meditation and its outcomes. That's not to say we should blindly accept the claims of those scientists, the Monroe Institute, or the US Army. The key is to follow the evidence while remembering that greed and prestige is what's causing the "McMindfulness" effect. Smartphone apps will be most useful for personal guided meditations, but they should be freely available. [1] https://vdocuments.net/the-gateway-experience-guidance-manual.html https://vdocuments.net/the-gateway-experience-guidance-manua... [2] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...

jules22 3y ago
> A group in the US Army performed a serious analysis of the Gateway Hemisync process, concluding that "there is a sound, rational basis in terms of physical science parameters for considering Gateway to be plausible in terms of its essential objectives", which include "out-of-body movement", "terrestrial information gathering trips", and "possible encounters with intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded" They concluded a lot of woo around when they were looking into silly things such as Targ's Remote Viewing. All of that later was revealed to be nonsense. Army and CIA, while are generally rational, are not necessarily great at critical thinking or science.
- waterheater 3y ago
  Ah, you are referring to the SRI experiments, though I'm not sure who "they" are. You should, however, be aware that the Proceedings of the IEEE (Volume: 64, Issue: 10, October 1976) contain a paper presenting the results of a remote-viewing experiment with n=36 and p=0.0000006 [1]. Many people who purport to "love science" set aside how much of one's understanding of the universe is axiomatic. Now, I've never directly experienced time dilation, and I have heard that GPS satellites have been created to take time dilation effects into account. I have, however, experienced and validated Newtonian dynamics (physics classes). In either case, both Newtonian dynamics and time dilation were presented to me as axiomatic; that is to say, I haven't performed a full, independent derivation of these two ideas of physics. However, I still accept that the general ideas are sound. If a model of physics supports the idea of remote viewing, so be it. >Army and CIA, while are generally rational, are not necessarily great at critical thinking or science. That's funny to say, seeing as it's well-established that military technology across all domains is significantly more advanced than the average person's technology. As a small example, neither one of us could make a stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordinance anywhere in the world nor perform the required R&D to properly design one. [1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1454638 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1454638
  - fluoridation 3y ago
    A paper from 1976 claims to have detected ESP in its participants. The paper appears to have only been cited twice since, both in 1979, one to explain the 1976 results as experimental bias, and the other to report failure to reproduce. I wouldn't throw out my walkie-talkie just yet. >If a model of physics supports the idea of remote viewing, so be it. Okay. What's that model? Are brains RF transceivers?

jules22 3y ago

> A group in the US Army performed a serious analysis of the Gateway Hemisync process, concluding that "there is a sound, rational basis in terms of physical science parameters for considering Gateway to be plausible in terms of its essential objectives", which include "out-of-body movement", "terrestrial information gathering trips", and "possible encounters with intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded" They concluded a lot of woo around when they were looking into silly things such as Targ's Remote Viewing. All of that later was revealed to be nonsense. Army and CIA, while are generally rational, are not necessarily great at critical thinking or science.

waterheater 3y ago
Ah, you are referring to the SRI experiments, though I'm not sure who "they" are. You should, however, be aware that the Proceedings of the IEEE (Volume: 64, Issue: 10, October 1976) contain a paper presenting the results of a remote-viewing experiment with n=36 and p=0.0000006 [1]. Many people who purport to "love science" set aside how much of one's understanding of the universe is axiomatic. Now, I've never directly experienced time dilation, and I have heard that GPS satellites have been created to take time dilation effects into account. I have, however, experienced and validated Newtonian dynamics (physics classes). In either case, both Newtonian dynamics and time dilation were presented to me as axiomatic; that is to say, I haven't performed a full, independent derivation of these two ideas of physics. However, I still accept that the general ideas are sound. If a model of physics supports the idea of remote viewing, so be it. >Army and CIA, while are generally rational, are not necessarily great at critical thinking or science. That's funny to say, seeing as it's well-established that military technology across all domains is significantly more advanced than the average person's technology. As a small example, neither one of us could make a stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordinance anywhere in the world nor perform the required R&D to properly design one. [1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1454638 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1454638
- fluoridation 3y ago
  A paper from 1976 claims to have detected ESP in its participants. The paper appears to have only been cited twice since, both in 1979, one to explain the 1976 results as experimental bias, and the other to report failure to reproduce. I wouldn't throw out my walkie-talkie just yet. >If a model of physics supports the idea of remote viewing, so be it. Okay. What's that model? Are brains RF transceivers?