Quote:Someone recently said in a post here that TMI limits how far its participants can explore
Yes, it was Thomas(tgecks) who said this, and it is true. There is always a limit on each excerise.. some of them stop at focus 10, some stop at focus 21, some stop at focus 27, ect... The brainwaves they generate get progressively deeper to a certain point, and they stay at that point until the end of the excerise, when they then bring you back to normal consciousness. So say you want to explore "farther" than focus 27... well, if the frequencies being pumped into your cranium are influencing your brainwaves to stay at the focus 27 level, it will be much more difficult to go beyond that level.
When I explore I tend not to compare my experiences to the Monroe model of focus levels. Sometimes the experiences match what would be attributes of, say, focus 27, but I think it may be best to forget about the numbers and levels, for they really can limit your experience. If one concentrates too much on going through each focus level, and reaching the "top", focus 27, this can influence one's expectations and shut out any possible experience that does not allign with those expectations.>>
Hi All: Just for the record… to my personal knowledge and through direct memory of discussion of the above issues… no TMI trainer ever said the focus levels established for the TMI training regimes are the be all end all of the Universe and what there is to discover… what they do say is that the focus levels are arbitrary demarcation bands established by reverse engineering with a small but reliable sampling… Monroe and later researchers at TMI are confident in the approximate validity of the demarcation areas… it is my understanding that the training seminars are designed to handle the “common denominator” of any group coming in… this is to maintain a kind of experiential equivalency that does not dump beginners and newbies in to a toilet of wild concepts far beyond their ability to comprehend or relate to… (as OBD and his ilk are wont to do… no disrespect intended… I want to make it clear I love OBD… and respect his extraordinary abilities… but he is in the stratosphere and most of us are still at the bottom of Mount Everest and wondering if we can climb it.) <<I've had experiences which cannot be described by Monroe's focus levels, as Thomas has as well. He shared an experience with me where he questioned the teachers at TMI in a group meeting during one of the programs there, regarding the limitations that the TMI exercises set and his experience in going far beyond these limitations, and he was thrown out!>>
As to the “excommunication” of St. Thomas I can’t speak to but I do know that TMI went to extraordinary lengths to make a safe place for some people who were made very uncomfortable by others in a past group because of their sexual orientation… so I do know that TMI has no particular prejudice that I know of… but, they are concerned about creating a safe environment for the “least” among us… <<I believe that the TMI exercises are great tools to help explore nonphysical dimensions, but once you get the hang of it, they are not really neccessary, and can actually hinder progression into deeper levels.