r/gatewaytapes

Which one is better guys humming or aum during resonate tuning I am confused

Has the app pay walled focus 10 now? Mine is restricted.

hello fellow explorers! A few days ago someone posted asking for the manuals, I dragged my feet but I've finally compiled links and emailed them out to a couple people, if anyone else is still looking for the manuals please feel free to dm me your email address and I will forward them to you! Includes all wave manuals, intermediate workbook, what are focus levels and related fact sheets, and the sync creation manual.

Best of luck on your journey!

Disclaimer: I'm calling it "kriya" because doing some googling gave me that term.

I'm no stranger to these as I used to do some somatic processing stuff that I actually found quite helpful. If someone was to see me during, they might think I was having a seizure lol. It can get quite violent and becomes a full body thing.

So the impulse to move during the tapes is back. If I ignore it, my brain starts wandering and thinking and takes me away from the tape. If I consciously move, I'm shifting nonstop and I fidget. If I just let myself move unconsciously, see above. These are not small movements or little finger or eye twitches either (although they might start that way.)

I'm just curious because I'm finding different information. Some says it's suppressed energy/higher energy being allowed to wake up, some say it's the nervous system trying to protect me from something painful I've pushed down, and some say it's simply a lack of discipline and training in my practice.

I'm just curious if others have had this (again, these move into big, body shaking, head slamming, arm waving movements that take more effort to stop than to allow.) I did search symptoms and no, I do not think it is medical. Is it just how you are, or did they eventually stop? Either way I'm planning on putting on a free flow tape and letting myself flop around today. Will see what happens :)

Off and on for a few years
I don’t feel like I’m mastering or becoming proficient at 1-10
I just listen now while walking 4 miles

Since last December I started performing OBE regularly but after the beginning of April I did not do it again, neither with techniques despite trying many times nor spontaneously that it had also happened to me like this the first few times.

What happened yesterday is that I returned to Robert Monroe's Hemysinc audios, The Gateway Experience, specifically the free flow tape in focus 12. I listened to it before going to sleep, in fact I didn't finish it because I was already very relaxed and wanted to sleep, so I listened to it a little more than halfway through and then I went to sleep very relaxed.

Coincidentally, I hadn't listened to hemisync for almost two months and when I did listen to it almost daily it was the most prolific months in OBE, but I didn't think they would help me like that.

In the middle of the night, taking advantage of a microawakening, I became aware of trying to go out and felt strong vibrations, I began to push the second body against the physical one (it is a known sensation). It was difficult for me to get out, I had to press several times and I felt leather-like creaks and electric clicks. I pushed harder until I sat down and left. Out of bed I saw my body and felt like it was a worthless disguise. Then I walked and flew around the house seeing my wife and children. When I saw my wife I felt sexual desire and I returned to my body instantly (this happened a lot to Robert Monroe).

Consider hemisync not as a direct means for OBE but for preparation. I had had a headache and general malaise for days and with the tape it went away! I believe that the key is in the synchronization of the hemispheres and that this eliminates distortions and blockages that prevent OBE.

Hello everyone,

I’m writing this after finishing my One-Month Patterning practice (Focus 12). Instead of getting the smooth, positive results that I usually read about here, it seems that everything I pattered took me down completely different—and frankly, unpleasant—roads.

Instead of showing me the experiences I desired, the process brought a lot of heavy contrast, forcing me to face things that aren't working in my life right now.

Have any of you experienced this kind of intense contrast or reverse results during your practice? If so, how did you process it, and what do you think is the greater message or lesson behind these contrasting experiences when the patterning doesn't go the way you expected?

Thanks for reading.

Hello. Hoping for some insight here. I’ve been having a sort of difficult mental health time layered with some existential dread, grief, self doubt etc. It’s all somewhat interconnected and I don’t need to delve into the whole thing, but overall I suppose I’m seeking some answers to big questions like purpose in life, some guidance and also, perhaps, to get a few questions answered regarding the nature of consciousness and my fear of death.

I’ve tried the first 20 or so minutes of the gateway experience and definitely had some interesting body sensations, but haven’t dived deep yet at all.

I’m wondering if anyone else was in a similar boat to me and was able to find the gateway experience useful in your healing/question answering. To be clear I don’t expect this to be an overnight cure or even to ever have total clarity on these things. I just want to… feel something stuck in me move toward something true that is also good/positive.

Other than my own current life struggles I think my biggest fear is that of oblivion after death, and I’m looking for any first hand experience I can gain to show me that perhaps isn’t the case. Jury is out for me atm as all I’ve experienced of the world has been pretty materially explainable. Hope this makes sense! If you have any perspective or stories to share about your own experiences I’d love to hear!

In Wave 1, Track 1 and 2, Bob tells us to tap the fingers of our right hand behind our neck to remember things and on our forehead to stay awake.

When are we supposed to carry these actions out? When we want to recall something that already happened?

Or

Is it when something is happening in the present and we want to remember it forever?

Similarly, is the awake command for staying mind awake during the tapes?

Or

Is it to jolt ourselves awake during waking day when we are sleepy, say in a class?

New here. Im posting here because I'm blown away at how similar my meditation techniques are to the ones mentioned here, which I discovered after some google about my experience. Last night I had a really interesting experience, but I'm not sure if it was just a dream.

For years on and off, I have meditated by laying still (eyes closed with ear plugs) and visualize every thought popping into my mind, then "manually" pushing it away. Most times, I just fall asleep eventually, but every now and then I experience a sensory deprivation effect for a while first. That happened last night, along with something new. For what felt like the entire night, I laid there with my eyes open (after having fallen asleep), and i was completely still staring at the room around me. It was ALMOST correct, but some furniture and the size was off. I'm not sure if it was sleep paralysis, because I dont recall even wanting to move. I just wanted to lay there and observer. Eventually, I jolted awake and sat up, everything perfectly normal, maybe an hour later (although hard to say for sure). Has anyone experienced something similar?

P.S. I plan on listening to the tapes tonight and seeing if I get any further. Are the ones on Spotify ok?

Would like to share my first try experience

Usually i do normal meditation

Ive heard wave 1 track1 and i felt completely weightless , somehow happy or in peace , mid audio was also hearing tingling sensation ( i reacted with faster breath )

I was able to somehow see places but visually but just like is white and black more feel see rather than truly see super vividly , mostly it was really good beautiful places geomtric upside down worlds , curved cliffs , sands , pov moving around with it

In general completely lost sense of self and was really enjoying the moment

Now after the experience i regained control normally however the feeling of peace kinda remained and somehow i was doing small experiments

Is like there was 0 resistance to thoughts or intentions

Usually analytic mind goes in conflict normally

So ive started to set intention of moving my arm and somehow like unconsciously with 0 effort it moves , was weird oddly satifying , repeated it 5-10 times

I then somehow positioned my phone near wall on bed and from vertical was just repeating the intention that the phone has fallen

Somehow initially there is no resistance but you dont truly feel connection much, now after repeating for few minutes somehow i felt it more and more until somehow it fell down ( no body movements or bedsheet )

Then i tried to redo it and instead of minutes took half time

Repeated it 10 times and in the end it somehow became easier and easier until it took maybe 20-30 seconds each time

Somehoww im convinced that same thing could be done for events thoughts feeling etc

Super weird experience

Is like repetition put in some trance state where ego lowers to 0 and the intention changes probability completely based on whatever your intention is

Lot of intuitions comes in randomly too

Howewer if i just repeat it in one time nothing happens

Im thinking that a paradigm itself could be the state you are in

One could remain in that state where it influences reality if he stays there majority of time

Excited to go through all audios , was really interesting to see many of his interview

( shared few more intuitions after the experience in the comments )

i am SO excited

I've done gateway tapes on and off for about 3 years now but haven't made much progress. Last night, I spent about 30-40 minutes AUM chanting ("resonant tuning"). Then I moved onto the tapes and I FINALLY truly felt more than my physical body when I was saying the affirmation. Then, during the guided relaxation, I felt a wave of peace and light vibrations moving from the right side to the left side of my skull FOR THE FIRST TIME!! I usually struggle to relax everything above my neck.
After the guided relaxation, I experienced some vibrations, and I felt my focus shift inwards like in this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gatewaytapes/comments/1lc92if/my_simplified_image_of_focus_10_and_12/

I did get too excited though and I couldn't stay in it for too long, but I haven't felt this unburdened and free for such a long time, I am so grateful.
I think what really made a difference was the extended resonant tuning prior to starting the tape.

How great it is to be more than my physical body!!! (:

I haven’t done the tapes yet but I do have strong intuition and can pick up energies individual and collective. Let’s just say… the energy right now is not it… it feels like we are on the precipice of chaos and need to brace for impact- and soon. But I only pick up feelings and I cannot get anymore precise or vivid insights.

I know the tapes help with sharpening abilities, and many people have had “visions” I was wondering if anyone has developed insight on where things might be heading?

Hey all.

Very new to this, and find it fascinating. I have not yet properly listened to the tapes (at least not in an intentional "session"), but I have read Bob's first book, and listened to countless podcasts on OBE's, etc at this point.

My question:

When "you" leave your body, is this actually a conscious, lucid experience? As in, do you literally float out of your body and basically experience the Locales like a "first person player"?

Or is it more of a dream-state or impression, where it's more of a 3rd-eye impression?

Also, when you "return", do the memories persist? Or is like a dream where your brain basically discards it 60 seconds later?

Thanks

P.S. I couldn't find anything about this in the Wiki / Read First section

I'll be honest — I went down the Gateway rabbit hole pretty hard.

It started with the declassified report, like it does for most people here. But somewhere around Section IV, where McDonnell starts describing the physics of how binaural audio interacts with brainwave states, I stopped reading it as a historical curiosity and started wondering: what does this actually sound like when you build it properly?

So I spent a few weeks studying the technical specs. The Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync methodology, Budzynski's twilight learning research, the Focus state progression. Not to summarize it — there are plenty of summaries out there — but to try and implement it as accurately as I could with the tools available to someone working alone.

The result is a 60-minute Focus 10 session. Mind Awake, Body Asleep. Five layers of audio built from the ground up: binaural carriers, isochronic component, a dichotic element introduced once theta is stable — following Budzynski's timing protocol. No guided meditation. No voice. No music with melodies or rhythms that pull you out. Just the signal itself.

I uploaded it to a YouTube channel I started specifically for this project — The Numinous Signal. The idea is to build a series of 6 sessions following the Focus state progression, each one grounded in the documented research rather than the generic "528Hz healing frequency" stuff that floods this topic.

I'm not here to promote anything. I genuinely want to know what people who have actually worked with the Gateway tapes think. Is the structure right? Is something missing? Is there something in the original material I should be paying more attention to for the next sessions?

If you have the time and curiosity, I'd appreciate a listen and an honest reaction — good or bad. And if the project resonates with you, a subscribe on the channel helps me know it's worth continuing to build the remaining 5 sessions.

The channel is @thenuminoussignal on YouTube — easy to find by searching directly.

Thanks for reading.

Hi everyone! The instruction manual says that several functions can be combined, but how exactly to use them? Do I perform all the functions one after another in a single breath while holding it, or do I do each function with its own inhale and exhale, leaving about a 5-second gap in between?"

Hello,

I just listened to the first orientation tape. Not sure if anything was supposed to happen, and I was wondering if I should keep listening to that first lesson before going to the next or if I should go on to the next tape?