Vice did an article in 2021 about how the CIA used this program to train their operatives to be more successful: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9qag/how-to-escape-the-confines-of-time-and-space-according-to-the-cia
I listened to some of these for a while years ago and really do like the gateway affirmation which is below:
“I am more than my physical body. Because I am more than physical matter, I can perceive that which is greater than the physical world.
Therefore, I deeply desire to: to expand, to experience, to know, to understand, to control, and to use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those who follow me.
Also, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development and experience are equal or greater than my own.
I ask for their guidance and protection from any influence or any source that might provide me with less than my stated desires.”
It does make me wonder what “protection” might be needed from “any influence or any source.” The origins of what we might call jinns or demons perhaps?
This YouTube video gives an interesting perspective from a skeptic turned believer after using the tapes for a year:
The more I look into the ”consciousness is fundamental” perspective and the “absolute unbounded oneness” or “abiding non-duality” worldviews, the more I’m open to stuff like this being “real” though I do think it has limitations, kind of like error correcting codes in software of physics rules programmed into a software simulation.
“What you must learn is that these rules are no different than the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken.” - Morpheus in the Matrix
I didn’t stick with the tapes for very long myself. Though I do have a deep desire to know “what is”, there’s a sense that working really hard to break out of this human experience is counterproductive to why I find myself here now having this human experience. At the same time, there’s part of me that thinks these “super powers” may actually be a forgotten part of what the human experience is “normally” supposed to include, but hasn’t for many thousands of years now. Esoteric knowledge interests me for sure, but I also have a deep sense of “Todo es Perfecto” in that this experience is already as it is meant to be, suffering and bliss and everything in between. I can’t explain that to others as it’s more of a personal understanding, but with it comes the idea that if I could change anything, would I? If things are already perfect, a change, a strongly intentioned manifestation, if you will, may make things less ideal, striving instead of effortless action. Now, of course, if everything truly is perfect, then even attempts to change things gets folded into that perfection also. I can’t pretend to fully understand the holographic fractal projection that is our universe in this way, but it does feel like breaking a perfectly good window in order to give new business to the window maker is a dumb idea.
To those who find this stuff interesting, I’m glad you found me, and I’m happy to discuss this type of stuff any time. I try to keep a “beginner’s mind” so as to not judge too quickly while at the same time not using categorizing or restrictive labels and identifications for myself as someone “who believes this stuff” or not. I see myself currently as an explorer, but a passive one. Admiring the unfolding as it happens.