US Army Intelligence – Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process (1983) [pdf]
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https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788...
So is this just the type of stuff that the CIA intentionally leaks to throw off foreign governments and make conspiracy theorists look crazier? Or do / did higher-ups at the CIA actually believe it?
So at least some people believe that the current US gov, on the crazy scale, beats out UFO-chasing. But to be fair, 3-letter agencies and police departments have also done UFO-chasing, talking to psychics, etc.
That said I am at the future level by the quick scanning of this doc, there is some partial truths within its muddle and baroque construction. The next level stuff is always arrived at after much confusion. In the 3D spatial world we live in you can view the non-spatial dimensions in some ways most are not aware of. Commonly time is viewed locally as motion and looking outward with a telescope is looking backwards in time. The universe is shaped as a sphere, within the universe the largest objects (black holes) appear as spheres, and the smallest particles appear as spheres. If you smash into either, you see what looks like superfluid vortices.. you poked a hole in a sphere and now.. I will go eat a donut.
A lot of UFO sightings back in the day in the northeast were cruise missiles testing terrain comparison technology for navigation.
It involved listening to audio recordings through headphones while immersed in a sensory deprivation tank. This was claimed to cause synchronization between the brain's hemispheres, leading to altered states of consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe
It seems the Monroe Institute is still offering the program, and has some free audio downloads:
https://www.monroeinstitute.org/gateway-voyage-audio
For the avoidance of all doubt: I have not drunk the Kool Aid. I was just curious about the back story to this article.