 MONROE INSTITUTE `FOCUS LEVELS'
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The scripts included here are based on a document that appeared on
USENET, from someone who appears to have measured the frequencies used
on some of the Monroe Institute tapes.  Although the frequencies were
measured, the relative amplitudes of the tones were not, so the
results may not be identical to that of the Monroe Institute tapes.
Also I believe that the Monroe Institute uses a guiding voice that
leads the subject through the experience, along with supporting
materials.

Despite that, these tone-sets (or Focus levels) may be useful for
experimenters to base their own tone-sets on.  This information also
gives us a much better idea of what frequencies the Monroe Institute
is working with, and what they are using them for.

Included is a binary of sbagen, my binaural-sequencer for Linux.  If
this binary doesn't work for you, then you'll just have to pick up the
source TGZ and build your own.  It's here for convenience, so that you
can try the scripts straight away, that's all.

USE AND EXPERIMENT WITH ALL OF THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK !!  

The scripts are as follows:

  t-wave-1   Tones from a series of tapes apparently called "Wave 1"
  t-wave-2   Tones from a series of tapes apparently called "Wave 2"
  t-focus-1  The set of `Focus Levels' as measured in the document
  t-focus-2  The set of `Focus Levels' measured in a document from 
               another anonymous source, almost identical to the first 
               set, with a few additional tones in some of the focus
               levels.
  t-seqall   An experimental 2-hour sequence that goes through the 
               focus levels 10,12,15,21,22,23,24,25,26,27 in order, 
               giving 10 minutes on each.

A quick note to those new to binaurals - to really explore the effect
of these tones, you need to relax into the sounds, sink into them.
Don't play them too loud - they can be played just above the level of
the background noise (20dB above according to the document).  The
stereo effect must be present for them to work - mono output is
useless !  If using headphones, you can mix in some pink noise to give
background noise by editing the scripts (see the comments).

Another source of information on the effects of the Focus Levels is
one of the books by Ken Eagle Feather.  He participated in several of
the Monroe Institute programs, and at one stage was a test subject in
their labs.  He describes several different Focus Levels that he
experienced in his book "Tracking Freedom", pages 170-176.  Below is a
summary of the focus levels that he mentions, and their effects.  This
may be useful as a starting-point to understanding the effects of the
frequencies selected by the Monroe Institute.

 Focus 10 - brain awake, body asleep
 Focus 12 - expanded awareness, in the mood to head out and explore
 Focus 15 - no time, 3 hours seems like 2 minutes
 Focus 21 - alternate energy systems, bridge into worlds with non-human
              entities
 Focus 22 - place where people with `loose, chaotic thoughts' go after 
              death
 Focus 24 - belief system territories, place where dogmatically
              inclined people go when dead
 Focus 27 - the park, a way-station, a place of high creativity, a
              stepping stone to areas beyond.

For more information, see the Monroe Institute web-site:
  
  <http://www.monroeinstitute.org/programs/hemi-sync.html>

There are also more notes on my web-site, and some additional notes
are included in the source TGZ file:

  <http://www.aguazul.demon.co.uk/bagen/>

Happy experimenting -

Jim

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