I originally posted this in r/occult but it was removed for some reason, so I guess this kind of discussion isn't welcome there. If you can help me find any occult/esoteric sources that describe these techniques--particularly older works that the Gateway Process document could have drawn from--I'd appreciate you letting me know. The document has a ton of overlap with theosophy as well.

If there's interest, maybe I can make a series of posts about the Gateway Process document. The original version is 29 pages. With all of the additional reference text that I've pulled in mine is about 80 pages long. It's a lot of material, obviously.

I think that the reason that the UFO topic hasn't come out for so long is because we all have these abilities to some extent and having 8 billion wizards flying around the planet would be very destabilizing. Anyways, here's the original post.

Not that long ago, I was a dogmatic materialist and absolutely thought that everything that couldn't be explained by science was bullshit. I have had no personal experiences, but since the government has started opening up about the reality of UFOs (now called UAP--there's another public congressional hearing this week if you haven't heard), I started looking into UFOs for the first time in my life without being outright dismissive. Very quickly it became clear that the phenomenon is not simply "flying discs in the sky", "aliens from a distant galaxy", or whatever other mundane explanation you can think of along those lines--specifically, folks that were deeply involved in the government's UFO programs know that there's a consciousness aspect involved. The further you get into research, the more the materialist view becomes irreconcilable with UFO reality.

This research eventually led me to the government's studies on paranormal abilities. The CIA was using psychic spies to remote view places and events separated from them by time, space, or both, and reportedly had some stunning operational successes. This led them to try to explain how this was possible and a document titled "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process" was generated in 1983 and declassified in the 2000s. In it, the author describes a holographic universe in which we are all active participants. I'll not recount the entire document here, but it's absolutely fascinating and I have spent a ton of time reading all of the references and a bunch of ancillary things that I found along the way and collecting notes and information that support what it says. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it...this VICE article is decent and has a link to the full document including page 25, which was missing until they asked for it. This version on cia.gov is the same thing minus that page so you can confirm that's actually a declassified document.

As I mentioned before, I have no personal magickal practice and haven't had any experiences outside of "normal" human experience--at least nothing that I caused to happen, as far as I know. There are a few sections and I'm looking for references to look up if you have any. Towards the end of the document, things that are possible using the methods described are enumerated:

Problem Solving
Patterning
Color Breathing
Energy Bar Tool
Remote Viewing
Living Body Map
Travel Into The Past
The Future
Out of Body Movement

I have some contemporary resources for what is described in problem solving and remote viewing, but not much on the others. Patterning sounds a lot like the new-age concept of manifestation, for example. I'm looking for specific search terms I could use to find more information about these techniques, especially if it's from older esoteric or occult materials. The Gateway Process document really seems to be an attempt to put magickal tradition that has been talked about for as long as we have recorded history into a modern framework and via that reframing avoid some of the biases that prevent people from studying these abilities. Anything at all you can suggest for me to dive into would be fantastic and I really appreciate it. Some things I've read are:

Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzhak Bentov
Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
Real Magic, Entangled Minds, Supernormal by Dean Radin
Decoding Jung's Metaphysics by Bernardo Kastrup
The Seeker's Guide to the Secret Teachings of All Ages by Mitch Horowitz
The Book of the Law and The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Gifts of Unknown Things by Lyall Watson
Kybalion
Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe

The text (from the Gateway Experience doc linked above) for these techniques is below...thanks for reading this wall of text! Again, if this sounds like any description from some old occult texts or whatever, please let me know. I don't have many references for these yet, although this stuff can be traced back to tantric traditions and shamanism before that.

A. Problem Solving

This technique involves identifying fundamental problems which the individual wishes to see solved, filling his expanded awareness with his perception of these problems and then projecting them out into the universe. In this way, the individual enlists the assistance of what Monroe Institute calls his “higher self”, in other words his expanded consciousness, to interact with the universal hologram to obtain the information required to solve the problem. This approach may be used to solve personal difficulties, technical problems in the realm of physics, mathematics, etc., practical administrative problems, and so on. Responses to the problem-solving technique may be received almost immediately, but often, they come based on developing intuition over the next two to three days. Frequently the response comes in the form of a sudden, holistic perception in which the individual suddenly finds that he simply knows the answer in all of its ramifications and completely in context, sometimes without even being able to put his newly found perception into words, at least initially. In some cases, the response may even arrive in the form of visual symbols which the individual will see” with his mind while he is in the Focus 12 state and which he will have to interpret after he returns to normal consciousness.

B. Patterning

This technique involves use of the consciousness to achieve desired objectives in the physical, emotional, or intellectual sphere. It involves concentration on the desired objective while in a Focus 12 state, extension of the individual’s perception of that objective into the whole expanded consciousness, and its projection into the universe with the intention that the desired objective is already a matter of established achievement which is destined to be realized within the time frame specified. This particular methodology is based on the belief that the thought patterns generated by our consciousness in a state of expanded awareness create holograms which represent the situation we desire to bring about and, in so doing, establish the basis for actual realization of that goal. Once the thought-generated hologram of the sought-after objective is established in the universe it becomes an aspect of reality which interacts with the universal hologram to bring about the desired objective which might not, under other circumstances, ever occur. In other words, the technique of patterning recognizes the fact that since consciousness is the source of all reality, our thoughts have the power to influence the development of reality in time-space as it applies to us if those thoughts can be projected with adequate intensity. However, the more complicated the objective sought and the more radically it departs from our current reality, the more time the universal hologram will need to reorient our reality sphere to accommodate our desires. Monroe trainers caution against attempting to force the pace of this process because the individual could succeed in dislocating his existing reality with drastic consequences.

C. Color Breathing

The next technique is called color breathing and is designed to use the expanded awareness and highly focused attentiveness associated with the Focus 12 state to imagine various colors in a particularly intense and vivid manner so as to use them to resonate with and in turn to activate the body’s own energies. Fundamentally, in terms of practical application it is a healing technique which is designed to restore the body and to enhance its physical capabilities by balancing, revitalizing and retuning bodily energy flows. It is predicated on the principle that the body’s electromagnetic field is capable of altering its resonance pattern so as to entrain energy from the earth’s electrostatic field for its own use. The various colors envisaged in the imagination as part of the technique cue the mind as to which frequencies and what specific amplitudes are desired in connection with this entrainment and the subsequent alterations in bodily energy flow patterns. That color has the capacity to affect the human mind is well known, and the effectuality of color in certain kinds of healing is a demonstrable fact. For example, application of an intense blue light to an area of physical tumescence leads to relatively rapid and easily observable reduction in the swelling while red, and to a lesser extent, yellow have quite the opposite effect. However, in the Hemi-Sync application of the technique, external light sources are not involved but, rather, the mind is the sole agent of the healing and revitalization.

D. Energy Bar Tool

Magic wands and enchanted scepters have been part of the folklore and occult practices of many cultures. The scepters, staffs and maces carried by monarchs and high priests alike occur with such frequency in the history of bygone eras as to suggest that at the very least these items are aspects of some type of archetypical symbol which the human mind seems to appreciate, perhaps quite subliminally. In any case, the energy bar tool technique involves envisaging a small, intensely pulsating dot of light which the participant charges in his imagination with enormous energy until it is virtually pulsating. The participant then extrudes the dot into the shape of a sparkling, vibrating cylinder of energy which he then uses to channel force from the universe to selected parts of his body for purposes of healing and revitalization.

E. Remote Viewing

In addition, the energy bar tool is used as a portal for initiating a follow-on technique called “remote viewing.” In this context, the participant turns his bar of energy into a whirling vortex through which he sends his imagination in search of new and illuminating insights. The apparent purpose of the symbolism involved in the vortex seems to be to cue the subconscious and convey to it instructions as to what the participant wishes to do but in terms of nonverbal symbols which the right hemisphere of the mind is capable of understanding.

F. Living Body Map

This technique provides amplification for application of the energy bar tool as a means of healing specific areas or systems of the human body. The configuration of the participant’s body is imagined and then the various major systems such as the nervous and circulatory systems are envisaged in appropriate colors within the confines of the outline being held in the imagination. The energy bar tool is then applied to energizing, balancing and healing in whatever manner the participant desires. In the process, the participant visualizes various streams of colored energy flowing out of the tool into the organ system or area upon which the revitalizing or healing application is being made. Since colors are the result of differing wavelengths of light, which is to say energy at various frequencies, this technique operates on the assumption that as the human body is composed of energy it can be vitalized and healed through the additive application of additional energy provided that the energy is applied in the appropriate form.

G. Focus 15: Travel into the Past

All of the preceding techniques are conducted at the level of expanded awareness known as Focus 12. However, the technique of time travel into the past involves further expansion of consciousness through the inclusion of additional levels of sound on the Hemi-Sync tapes. Some of the sound is probably merely an intensification of the basic Hemi-Sync frequencies, being designed to further modify brainwave frequency and amplitude. Other aspects of the added sound patterns appear to be designed to provide subtle, almost subliminal suggestions to the mind as to what is desired by way of further expanded consciousness so as to support the verbal suggestions and instructions also contained on the tape. Even the instructions are highly symbolic, with time being visualized as a huge wheel in the universe with various spokes each of which gives access to a different part of the participant’s past. Focus 15 is a very advanced state and is extremely difficult to achieve. Probably less than five percent of all participants in any given Gateway Experience actually fully achieve the Focus 15 state during the course of the approximately seven days of training. Nonetheless, Monroe Institute trainers affirm that with enough practice, eventually Focus 15 can be achieved. They also state that not only the individual’s past history is available for examination by one who has achieved Focus 15 but other aspects of the past with which the individual himself has had no connection may also be accessed.

H. Focus 21: The Future

The last and most advanced of all the Focus states associated with the Gateway training program involves movement outside of the boundaries of time-space as in Focus 15 but with attention to discovering the future rather than the past. The individual who has achieved this state has reached a truly advanced level. Except in unusual circumstances, it is probably not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through long application of meditation or by those who have practiced long and hard through use of the Hemi-Sync tapes for a period of months if not years.

31. The Out-of-Body Movement

This remarkable phenomenon has been saved for discussion in detail until last because of the interest which it occasions and special circumstances involved in its attainment. Monroe Institute stresses that the Gateway program was not established solely for the purpose of enabling participants to obtain the out-of-body state nor does the program guarantee that most participants will succeed in doing it during the course of the training at the Institute. Only one tape out of the many which make up the Gateway Experience is devoted to the techniques involved in the out-of-body movement. Basically, these techniques are merely designed to make it easier for the individual to achieve the out-of-body state when his brainwave pattern and personal energy levels have reached a point that he is in apparent harmony with his surrounding electromagnetic environment such that he feels that he has reached the threshhold where separation is a possibility. To facilitate achieving the out-of-body state, Bob Monroe, the founder of Monroe Institute, is quoted in a recent magazine article as saying that in order to assist the participant the particular Hemi-Sync tape concerned with that technique employs Beta signals of “around 2877.3 CPS.” (cycles per second). Since 30 to 40 CPS is considered to be the normal range for Beta brainwave signals, (those associated with the wakeful state), it is apparent that the Monroe institute is convinced that the same heightened state of brainwave frequency output which promotes altered states of consciousness is also an important consideration in assisting in achievement of out-of-body states. The actual techniques employed for separating from the body involve such simple maneuvers as rolling out, lifting out after the fashion of a telephone pole wherein the individual separates in a rigid, headfirst manner, (such that he finds himself standing at attention at the foot of his physical body) and sliding out through either end of his body.

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EDIT: I started expanding on this here

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I just started the series and I must say, it's amazing 😂no pun intended. I

Let people guess it......

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Magick and the CIA (the Gateway Process)