How it works
The ideas behind your sessions, where they come from, and how solid each one is. Every claim is tagged established, emerging or speculative.
- 1How Gateway Manifest works in 4 minutesRelax the body, focus the mind, rehearse the goal, repeat daily.
- 2The 1983 Gateway report: what it saysA US Army officer's assessment of the Monroe Institute's training, and how we use it.
- 3Binaural beats and hemispheric coherenceTwo tones, one perceived beat, and what the evidence says about it.
- 4Focus 10 to 12: the descent your session followsFrom alert beta to relaxed alpha and drowsy theta, then back again.
- 5Where attention lives: prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulateHolding one intention in mind, and noticing when you drift.
- 6Visualisation: occipital and parietal cortex, and the default mode networkWhy vivid, first-person scenes feel real, and why the mind wanders.
- 7Why affirmations use feeling: amygdala, hippocampus, ventral striatumFeeling tags what matters; memory and reward keep it coming back.
- 8Interoception and the insulaSensing the body from the inside, used in the Health and Body & Habits topics.
- 9Basal ganglia, and why daily sessionsRepetition in the same context is how actions become automatic.
- 10What's established, what's contested, what's speculationEvery claim in this wiki, sorted by how solid it is.
- 11Headphones? Sleep? Missed days?Practical answers about listening.
Inspired by a 1983 US Army assessment of the Gateway program, released via the CIA's FOIA reading room. Binaural-beat entrainment is not settled science; the articles say where the evidence is strong and where it isn't.