CIA Documents on 'Fringe' or 'New Age' Topics

The CIA publically released documents revealing that a lot of 'fringe' topics that most people consider mumbo-jumbo, hoo-ha, New Age bullshit are actually utilized in government-ordained, laboratory settings. 

The Gateway Process was a program spearheaded by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences in an attempt to find out the true potential of human consciousness. In conjunction with the CIA, the Stanford Institute, and other prestigious scientific and military institutions, this project aimed to scientifically understand and utilize, among other things, various Eastern techniques that had been described but never empirically tested.

By reframing meditative and spiritual practices in the presently-accepted terminology of science and quantum physics, even the most rational thinkers are forced to consider possibilities hitherto considered preposterous.

  • 1983 - ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF GATEWAY PROCESS.
  • This is the 'big whammy' document that describes the CIA's understanding and usage of Transcendental Meditation, biofeedback, astral projection, Hemi-Sync (a meditative tactic used by the CIA that syncs the two hemispheres of the brain to boost human capacity), frequency matching, higher consciousness, holograms, time-space manipulation, dimensional interference / "in-between" dimensions and how subatomic particles can communicate in a non-local manner (via quantum entanglement).
However, this has also proven to me that some people are truly determined to keep the wool pulled over their eyes. There tends to be one two responses to this information: either some combination of awe, excitement, and reverence, or a flat-out rejection. One may not be able to form a solid argument as to why they think these esteemed scientists and their experiments are wrong, but that does not stop them from ignoring such information and refusing to acknowledge it.

The people opposed to these ideas are usually adherents of material science: logical thinkers who rely on scientific studies and objectivity to make their decisions. 

This is, of course, a sound practice that ensures consistency in one's endeavors. Scientific thinking has brought about radical transformation in medicine, technology, transportation, and every other area encompassed by the physical. However, scientific thinking is just that - one particular mode of thought, and a rather limiting one which prevents us from considering non-physical, non-local and non-linear phenomena.
  • 1973 - MEDITATION INVESTIGATION
  • This is an issue of SCIENCE NEWS and I'm not quite sure why this is available on the CIA website, but all the authors are reputable scientists and psychologists. The aim of the meditation-based article was to produce an objective framework within which people could understand the benefits of meditation.  While most of the information in this article is now widely-accepted by the scientific community, this article created a bit of a shock when it was first published. For the first time, the 'spiritual' benefits of meditation were reduced to a series of biological and physical processes, allowing those bound by the rational-analytic framework to appreciate the benefits of such a practice.
A study published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology reports that limiting oneself solely to rational-analytic thinking at the expense of affective-intuitive thinking significantly reduces the human's cognitive potential. It is this secondary mode of thought that allows us to explore phenomena that do not fit strictly within the rational-analytic framework.

Affective-intuitive thinking is the cognitive process that has driven the study and experience of the nonphysical; rational-analytic thinking is the process that allows us to dissect and comprehend it.

It is of utmost importance to remember that science is a means, but not the end-all. Meditation, which was originally claimed by adherents of science to be nonsensical, is now understood in terms of its biological mechanisms. This shows us that a lack of scientific evidence is not enough to discredit something - rather, this merely indicates that we lack the technology or testing methods to properly test something. (Of course, a lack of evidence is not the same as evidence against something).

But I digress. No matter which mode of thinking you employ, the information in these documents remains clear-cut, sensible, and obviously the product of strong cognition. The first report, written by Wayne McDonnell to his commander in the US. Army Intelligence and Security Command, reveals the internal workings of the Gateway Process and sheds some light on the various practices which were harnessed and utilized by the scientific community in some of the most prominent institutions in the world.

I've shown these same links to a few of these such people. And, yet, even when some of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions show evidence of topics that they don't 'want' to believe, they still refuse to accept them.

It's strange. The rational-analytic mode of thought governs scientific thinking, and has its benefits. But it's also very limiting in that it prevents, or at least makes very difficult, the research of subjective & nonphysical phenomena.

So here's a document that explains these subjective nonphysical phenomena in the framework of rational-analytic thought, and rather than consider the information as valid, people seem to just 'glean over it.' They can't provide a rational counter-argument, as is usually the case when someone brings up some sort of unproven metaphysical concept, so instead, they freeze up and pull the wool back over their eyes as if they'd never seen a thing.

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