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Rademacher says those who come here with the highest expectations usually find the least success. By Monroeβs estimates, 15 percent of participants will have an out-of-body experience, but Rademacher says people can focus so much on that that they fail to perceive other developments.
On a sheet of general guidelines for the program, the first line reads: βMost importantly .β.β. donβt try, donβt force anything.β
***
A bell rings, indicating another exercise. We slip on our headphones as usual, and, per Monroeβs instructions, try to feel vibrations flowing through us.
βFollow the sound, let yourself follow the sound and the change in the pulse,β Monroe tells us. βNow let the vibration move upward more and more.β.β. .β
When we meet later to discuss the exercise, Broadman speaks first. Until now, he has said little during group discussions. βThe vibe flow for me was almost a shattering experience,β he says, sounding both awed and bewildered. βI vibrated. I donβt vibrate. It started at my toes and went right through my body.β
βBesides feeling shattered, was there any other emotion it brought up for you?β Stone, the facilitator, asks.
Broadman holds his empty palms upward. Before meeting with the group, he tried to analyze what happened. How could putting on a set of headphones make him vibrate?
Broadman looks at Stone and Kortum. They have been telling the group for days that there is more than can be seen, more than logic can prove. βJust, thank you,β he says.
The next day, the group takes a silent walk. Kortum explains that the purpose is to show us how states beyond our everyday consciousness can be accessed from anywhere. We donβt need a bed cut into a wall.
Several people walk slowly down the gravel road, aware of each pebble underfoot. Others lumber between the trees, eyeing falling leaves. Chary pays attention to the wind, later saying that he could hear the Hemi-Sync in it.
Afterward, when the group gathers, Broadman speaks first.
βIβve taken thousands of walks,β he says. βBut I will never forget that walk.β
All eyes are focused on him.
βI took my time,β he says. βI followed a grasshopper, and I said, βIβm not going to move until the bell rings or the grasshopper moves.βββ
A few people lean forward. βAnd I watched,β he says, βa grasshopper [defecate].β His entire body shakes as he laughs at the absurdity and profundity of this, and everyone in the room joins in. βI may not be seeing Jesus, but that was a great walk.β
***
The last full day comes quickly, ushering in a surprising heaviness. βItβs not uncommon to have some post-Gateway blues,β Kortum tells the group. A few people swallow their tears.
The week has been intense, somehow relaxing and exhausting at the same time. As I look around the room, it occurs to me that while some people had profound moments during the recordings β one woman described channeling a spirit, and a man talked of sharing dinner with his late parents and brother β the programβs power, in part, lies in the opportunity for reflection. Everyone came here with the hope of expanding their view of the world, and for six days opened themselves up to possibilities they may not have otherwise considered. To different degrees, I think we will all leave changed, maybe awakened. Not because we traveled outside our bodies β most of us didnβt β but because we were forced to look deeply inside ourselves.
For the last time, we form a circle and, one by one, say
our goodbyes.
βI think I could learn to love blank walls,β the insurance
adjuster says.
βI used to let my mind control me, and now I control my
mind,β says the betrayed wife, who will later say that she has decided to leave her husband.
Charyβs eyes water as he speaks. Though he never had his out-of-body experience or saw any relatives, the payoff was still substantial. βI traveled 13,000 kilometers to be here,β he says. βI came with an open mind, and I think I received a lot more than I expected. All the scriptures of all religions talk about the βUniversal Soulβ or the unity or oneness of all souls. After this program and meeting all of you guys, I donβt need any proof of that. Thank you. All of you.β
Broadman tells the group that he has decided to start walking to work. He will also have to rethink, as an atheist, the last of his three mantras in life: And then you die.
βI think,β he says, βIβm going to have to change it to, βAnd then you die. Or maybe you donβt.βββ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/an-out-of-body-experience-could-just-be-a-beat-away-in-virginia/2012/01/27/gIQA9RdrXR_story.html