My Out of Body Experience at The Monroe Institute: A Paradigm-Shifting Moment!

Unlock the secrets of consciousness and transformation through Dr. Chris Walton's profound out-of-body experience at The Monroe Institute. In this captivating video, I share my personal journey during the Gateway Voyage program, where I encountered a profound shift in perception and understanding of reality. 👉 Subscribe to my channel to stay tuned:    / @drchriswalton8743   In the year 2000 I went to a training program at The Monroe Institute in Virginia (U.S.A) after I heard a friend of mine explain that using their techniques helped you experience how ‘you are more than your physical body’. So, I went off to a six-day retreat. The Monroe Institute has a patented sound technology called Hemi-Sync® that enhances awareness and consciousness. Each participant goes into a private sound-proofed booth called a CHEC unit (which stands for Controlled Holistic Environment Chamber) for between four and six hours a day and uses the Hemi-Sync technology which sends different frequencies into each ear, frequencies that are masked by either pleasant music or a guided meditative journey. The two different sounds alter your brain waves and thus your state of consciousness. For each session, you have a theme and set an intention, such as to retrieve early memories, heal a past wound, access heightened creativity, and more wild stuff. My experiences were dramatic. I felt my sense of self expand and my consciousness enlarges and shift, such that I had access to information and thoughts—which would just pop spontaneously into my mind—that I had never had before and never imagined having. In a few sessions I felt I healed some emotional childhood wounds, accessed buried childhood memories, and generally came to realizations and understandings of my current unresourceful behavioral patterns. In other sessions I experienced a huge magnification of ‘self’, feeling a huge expansion in which I was connected to everyone in my life in a new and deeper way, and to everything in nature and in the cosmos. The boundaries of myself evaporated, and I experienced a profound unity consciousness. After a few days of undertaking these sessions, I was feeling extremely relaxed and calm. I felt an exquisite sense of inner peace and happiness. I felt I had touched my true nature and essence. After about fifteen sessions, I was flying! This sense of unboundedness felt nothing like a caffeine or adrenalin high—I simply felt filled with light and freedom. In one of my last sessions, I felt myself going very deep within, losing all sense of my physical boundaries. I’m not sure how much time passed, but suddenly I realized that I was above my body looking down on it! I was observing myself reclining on the bed in the CHEC unit, yet my consciousness was freed from my body. This felt nothing like a dream or my imagination. The consciousness of ‘the me’ that was looking down was far more real than the me’ on the bed. I know this sounds bizarre and possibly very hard to believe, yet there I was, out of my body and still fully conscious and aware, seeing my physical body in all its details. Everything felt natural and in order. Nothing felt strange. Yet, after a while, I seemed to ‘wake up’ to what was happening, and I felt a surge of shock and fear. As soon as I did, I shot back into my physical body with a jolt. It felt like I had been dropped as a dead weight from a two-foot height. I cannot tell you in words what the next moments were like as I tried to piece together what had just happened.  

I knew that in some way I was more than just a physical body and had just experienced being what I am in my essence an unbounded spirit. That realization really shook me up, and the entire experience changed my view of reality. Talk about a change of belief!