Well, by this time people had heard about Bob and his out of body experiences and Esalen, if you've heard of Esalen before, they asked him, "Could you come give a workshop? Our people would love to know what you do to get out of your body." So in 1973, Bob gave his very first workshop on the out of body experience. In 1974 I had just graduated from college, and now Bob was getting tons of fan mail from his "Journeys Out of the Body" book which, by the way, was published in 1971, so you can imagine it built up quite a bit. So I'm out of college, and I started answering his fan mail for him.
And I also started working with him in the lab, and working on developing this program. He had given a weekend group at Esalen, again, very successful. So we started having more and more programs. And I started going around the country taking sound equipment with me, and the sound that he was using became known as hemisync, short for hemispheric synchronization, it gives us binaural beats, pink sound and other complex layers of sound. And what he found was he was able to elicit different very deeply relaxed states of consciousness. Taking people into these same states that he had found. And these are what turned into our programs, of course.
We do not promise people out of body experiences because I know that's one of the things you'll probably want to ask. But we do give techniques to people as we get them into these very deeply, deeply relaxed, very expanded states of awareness. Some people do have out of body experiences. Many people find that they're in a place where they learn better problem solving, creative problem solving and decision making at levels they've never before experienced. People also find ways of dealing with stress that they've never had before.
These are mindful meditative states that are gotten much more quickly than many meditators who have found just meditating on their own, let's say for 20 years, when they use the sound, I've gone way back to hemisync, they have found it helps speed up the achievement of those states. So for all these years, and it has been over 40 years now that we have been giving these programs. People from all walks of life, it doesn't matter if you're a religious person, or if you worship God or Allah or you're an atheist, it doesn't matter.
Well, by this time people had heard about Bob and his out of body experiences and Esalen, if you've heard of Esalen before, they asked him, "Could you come give a workshop? Our people would love to know what you do to get out of your body." So in 1973, Bob gave his very first workshop on the out of body experience. In 1974 I had just graduated from college, and now Bob was getting tons of fan mail from his "Journeys Out of the Body" book which, by the way, was published in 1971, so you can imagine it built up quite a bit. So I'm out of college, and I started answering his fan mail for him.
And I also started working with him in the lab, and working on developing this program. He had given a weekend group at Esalen, again, very successful. So we started having more and more programs. And I started going around the country taking sound equipment with me, and the sound that he was using became known as hemisync, short for hemispheric synchronization, it gives us binaural beats, pink sound and other complex layers of sound. And what he found was he was able to elicit different very deeply relaxed states of consciousness. Taking people into these same states that he had found. And these are what turned into our programs, of course.
We do not promise people out of body experiences because I know that's one of the things you'll probably want to ask. But we do give techniques to people as we get them into these very deeply, deeply relaxed, very expanded states of awareness. Some people do have out of body experiences. Many people find that they're in a place where they learn better problem solving, creative problem solving and decision making at levels they've never before experienced. People also find ways of dealing with stress that they've never had before.
These are mindful meditative states that are gotten much more quickly than many meditators who have found just meditating on their own, let's say for 20 years, when they use the sound, I've gone way back to hemisync, they have found it helps speed up the achievement of those states. So for all these years, and it has been over 40 years now that we have been giving these programs. People from all walks of life, it doesn't matter if you're a religious person, or if you worship God or Allah or you're an atheist, it doesn't matter.
