In 1983, a Lt. Colonel in the United States Army submitted a classified intelligence assessment to his chain of command. 29 pages. 38 sections. It concluded that human consciousness can transcend space and time, that the universe is a hologram, that out-of-body experiences are real and achievable, and that the U.S. military should train people to do it. This was a formal evaluation of the Gateway Experience at the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, where active-duty Army intelligence officers were being sent on classified orders to learn how to separate their consciousness from their bodies using a patented audio technology called Hemi-Sync. The program was funded through intelligence community accounts specifically designed to hide the Army's involvement. Nobody in Congress knew. Nobody in the press knew. The report, written by Lt. Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, walks through quantum mechanics, holographic universe theory, the work of physicist David Bohm and biomedical researcher Itzhak Bentov. It concludes that the universe is an infinite hologram. Consciousness is a vibratory system that can tune itself to different frequencies of reality. And the Gateway technique provides a reliable method for doing it. The document was declassified through FOIA in 2003. But when it came out, a page was missing. Page 25. The CIA said they didn't have it. For 18 years, every FOIA request was denied. In 2021, the page was finally released after a Canadian researcher forced the issue. It wasn't redacted. It wasn't classified. It described the point at which human consciousness, projected outside the body, reaches the boundary of space-time and enters what the report calls "the Absolute." Meanwhile, the program wasn't theoretical. The Army's operational unit, INSCOM Detachment G at Fort Meade, was running remote viewing missions using Monroe-trained personnel. Chief Warrant Officer Joe McMoneagle participated in over 450 missions between 1978 and 1984. The broader program, eventually known as Project STARGATE, ran for over 20 years before being shut down in 1995 after an external review concluded the phenomenon was real but hadn't produced intelligence useful enough to justify continued funding. SOURCES: CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (RDP96-00788R001700210016-5), Lt. Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell's "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process" (June 9, 1983), INSCOM operational records, DIA STARGATE program files, American Institutes for Research evaluation (1995), Robert Monroe's "Journeys Out of the Body" and "Far Journeys," Monroe Institute operational records, Skip Atwater's "Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul," Joe McMoneagle's "Mind Trek" and "The Stargate Chronicles," Jim Channon's "1st Earth Battalion Operations Manual," David Bohm's holographic universe model, Itzhak Bentov's "Stalking the Wild Pendulum." SUBSCRIBE for new deep dives into America's strangest history every week. Read the full declassified report: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5.pdf #GatewayProcess #CIA #CIADeclassified #MonroeInstitute #HemiSync #RemoteViewing #OutOfBody #Consciousness #ProjectSTARGATE #Page25 #TrueCrimeDocumentary #AmericasStrangestHistory #MilitaryIntelligence #HolographicUniverse #DeepDive 👉 Connect with us: Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@AmericasStrangestHistory Website: http://www.americasstrangesthistory.com/ Email us: ash@americasstrangesthistory.com © America’s Strangest History