The Monroe Institute Psychic Spy Camp

Or, how I met a man who traveled to a Pyramid on Mars a million years ago

Time and space are fake and death is an illusion.

This is the big takeaway from my week at the Gateway Experience, a meditation retreat at the Monroe Institute.

I get it. Bold claims. You might be skeptical. I was.

Turns out though, now I’m sure ESP is real, something we all have the capability to do, and I think that I can project my energy body out from my regular body, something some of us do from time to time during dreams anyway.

All from a week in the mountains of Virginia. I’m going to bring you along on my week there and try to show you what I saw, to the best extent I am able.

The Monroe Institute calls itself “The world's leading education center for exploring expanded states of consciousness” — here’s a promotional video from them.

One of the things that struck me when first looking into the remote viewing studies from the Stanford Research Institute (conducted in the 1970s) was how the language and pattern of coordinate remote viewing anticipated the language of cyberspace (and indeed may have influenced).

When a remote viewer was in the proper headspace — similar to that that sort of edge of consciousness area we get when we daydream or are just waking up or falling asleep, or are in the zone and driving on autonomic reflex alone— they called that “going online.” The way remote viewers used a series of numerical coordinates to pinpoint targets was similar to IP addresses

It is set on two campuses about a mile apart—each anchored by a giant quartz monolith mined somewhere in Central America—in the bucolic Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

This is where the Army used to send soldiers to train as psychic spies for the Stargate Program, a remote viewing intelligence collection operation that ran out of a dilapidated old mess hall on Fort Meade.¹

Army Analysis and Assessment

This declassified Army Intelligence memorandum, besides being one of the wildest government documents I've ever read, also does a pretty good job outlining the way the Gateway Experience works

Why not go, myself, I thought this spring.

A couple years before, during the pandemic, I became acquainted with the military’s psychic spying program through the declassified documents available on CIA’s CREST website. This was after Luis Elizondo, the UFO guy, told me he’d started out his Army career as a remote viewer until that program got scrapped

(you can read about that in this Hunt for Tom Clancy dispatch)

While doing that research, I discovered that while the *take*, that is, the information gleaned from the remote viewing is classified, the *process* the psychic spies used to get in the zone was not, itself, classified.

I am referring here to the Gateway Experience, a series of audio recordings developed by a telecommunications executive named Bob Monroe after some freaky shit happened to him in the 1950’s. He was experimenting with sleep learning (they were doing all sorts of insane shit in the 1950’s, you have no idea) and, as a result of the auditory stimuation, began to have spontaneous out of body experiences.

Bust of Bob Monroe in the half-timber cabin where they do yoga, which adjoins the copper-lined pyramid with a giant crystal on top (and hanging down from inside the apex of the pyramid) inside which they do ESP studies. You lay on a waterbed when you’re the subject of these ESP studies. I got to lay on the waterbed. I was not a subject.

Thus was born — the Gateway experience.

I figured you'd want to see the stuff I mentioned in the last caption so here's the pyramid and the waterbed

I decided to give it a try—I ordered the full set of Gateway Process CDs (which are in my attaché case as we speak)—and set to work in the mornings.