Exploring Consciousness with the Hemi-Sync Process
F. HOLMES ATWATER
Research Director
The Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938-2317
Abstract — Altering consciousness to provide a wide range of beneficial effects (stress-reducing relaxation, improved sleep, intuitive, creative, meditative, healing, and expanded-learning states, out-of-body experiences, etc.) necessarily involves either changing levels of arousal or cognitive content or both. Although we are not in the ultimate sense composed of our physical bodies or our brains, the extended reticular-thalamic activating system model suggests a neural mechanism responsible for regulating generalized levels of arousal (basic rest-activity cycle, sleep cycles, ultradian rhythms, etc.) as well as behavior- or cognition-specific patterns of arousal. From a brain/body perspective the cortical attributes or contents of consciousness are the result of social-psychological conditioning and elemental cognitive acuity. These ambient factors of physical consciousness (arousal and content) provide us with a first-person experience or awareness. Effective induction of propitious states of consciousness, therefore, requires a multidimensional approach involving sensory-information stimuli, social-psychological conditioning, and education. Hemi-Sync®, a sensory-information stimulus, provides potential consciousness-altering information to the reticular-thalamic activating system, which in turn alters arousal states, attentional focus, and level of awareness (crucial elements of consciousness itself). Integrated with other sensory-information techniques, social-psychological conditioning tools, and educational curriculum, Hemi-Sync can provide access to a variety of beneficial applications and first-person experiences of expanded states of consciousness including the out-of-body state and the realization that consciousness survives the process of physical death.
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