A ‘workbook’ created by a secret US Army program claimed to have cracked the code for reducing pain signals in the body by repeating a five-digit number.
Drafted by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences in 1977, this ‘Gateway Intermediate Workbook’ was just one training aid that the private group supplied to US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) for metaphysical spycraft.
On page 14 of the 21-page document, which was declassified by the CIA in 2003, includes a section of ‘daily tools’ to reduce pain signals, remember life experiences and ‘charge the body for great speed and strength.’
While many people attempt to reduce pain with medication, the report states that it can be achieved in minutes using just your mind.
‘To reduce pain signals,’ the once secret training document advised, ‘look with your closed eyes at the part of your body which is the source of pain signals.’
‘As you look, repeat in your mind the number 55515.
‘When you do these two things, the pain signals will slowly reduce until they are no longer important.’
The meditation training was part of a series of top secret programs funded by the CIA from roughly 1972 to 1995, which explored methods of expanding consciousness and human potential for spies and special ops teams.
Drafted by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences in 1977, this ‘Gateway’ workbook was just one training aid the private group supplied to US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) for a metaphysical spycraft. Above, a diagram from the workbook
The document claims that if you close your eyes, look at where your pain is and repeat a five-digit number, the pain will leave your body
Many of these projects, with names like ‘Star Gate’ and ‘Grill Flame,’ focused on psychic espionage or the ‘remote viewing’ of distant areas of interest in time and space.
But others had more tangible, physical aims, like the workbook.
‘You are learning even greater ways to develop and control your physical self through the application of your total being,’ the document reads. ‘You will be able to use them whenever you desire.’
The workbook also described a method ‘to charge the body for great speed and strength,’ guiding US Army INSCOM personnel to ‘close your eyes, inhale deeply, think of the physical act to be performed and the strong energy of red.’
It would be as simple as that, according to the Monroe Institute’s team: ‘As you exhale, open your eyes and perform the act you wish to accomplish.’
Another ‘daily tool’ claimed to help subjects retrieve lost memories.
‘To remember any part of your life experience, close your eyes and touch softly the fingers of your right hand to the center of your forehead,’ reads the document.
‘When you do this, you recall and remember immediately that which you consciously desire.’
Today, the Monroe Institute’s unclassified approach to pain management still retains its focus on meditation — now assisted by tonal recordings it calls Hemi-Sync (short for Hemispheric Synchronization) which play sound at specific frequencies.
Hemi-Sync’s ‘audio-guidance technology’ promotes synchronization between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, the institute claims, to enhance consciousness.
Above, Monroe Institute founder Robert Monroe at a soundboard where he worked on the audio frequencies that are at the heart of his Hemi-Sync’s ‘audio-guidance’ tech, which synchronizes left and right hemispheres of the brain, he claimed, to enhance consciousness
Citing work published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2016, the institute now holds the position that ‘meditation can teach you to live in your discomfort which, ultimately, can teach your brain to override those messages of pain and allow you to feel relief.’
Six years after the 1977 ‘Gateway Intermediate Workbook’ was drafted, US Army INSCOM commissioned a report on the Monroe Institute’s Gateway process.
US Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M McDonnell, author of this mind-bending 1983 Pentagon study, recommended the then-secretive process as ‘a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus and coherence… to alter consciousness.’
‘There is a sound and rational basis in terms of physical science parameters for considering Gateway to be plausible in terms of its essential objectives,’ he reported.
Joe McMoneagle — a Vietnam veteran who served as Remote Viewer No1. in one of INSCOM’s psychic spy programs — now sits on the Board of Advisors and works as a ‘Gateway’ trainer for the Monroe Institute today.
The mind-bending official Pentagon study was commissioned to better understand what officials’ Army intelligence colleagues were doing by sending personnel to a small institute in Charlottesville, Virginia – The Monroe Institute – to study the group’s ‘Gateway Experience’
But, sometimes, according to McMoneagle, the Gateway techniques mastered at the Monroe Institute have caused the veteran psychic spy pain as well as relief.
In one unsettling instance, Remote Viewer No.1 was tasked with seeing a distant ‘UFO target’ with his mind’s eye, only to encounter an apparently equally psychic and hostile ‘entity.’
‘I had a sense that something reached inside my being and strummed a nerve ending that instantly made me ill,’ McMoneagle confessed in a 2021 interview.
‘I felt I was going to projectile vomit and found myself slam bang back in my body sitting bold upright and I collided heads with my monitor,’ he continued.
Looking back on the episode, which left him and a colleague both ‘holding our heads in pain,’ McMoneagle said his experiences with Gateway’s work have left him and his outlook on the nature of the world forever changed.
‘You have to start wondering where reality begins and ends when you get involved in these kinds of things,’ he said.
‘For me this experience was very real but I can only report it.’
