Proof of Heaven

humans developed to cope with this so often painful and unfair world.
And they are. But in addition to being consolations, these qualities are
recognitions—brief, flashing, but all-important—of the fact that
whatever our struggles and sufferings in the present world are, they can’t
truly touch the larger, eternal beings we in truth are. Laughter and irony
are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but
voyagers through it.
Another aspect of the good news is that you don’t have to almost die to
glimpse behind the veil—but you must do the work. Learning about that
realm from books and presentations is a start—but at the end of the day,
we each have to go deep into our own consciousness, through prayer or
meditation, to access these truths.
Meditation comes in many different forms. The most useful for me
since my coma has been that developed by Robert A. Monroe, founder of
the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia. Their freedom from any
dogmatic philosophy offers a distinct advantage. The only dogma
associated with Monroe’s system of meditative exercises is: I am more
than my physical body. This simple acknowledgment has profound
implications.
Robert Monroe was a successful radio program producer in the 1950s
in New York. In the process of investigating the use of audio recordings
as a sleep-learning technique, he began to have out-of-body experiences.
His detailed research over more than four decades has resulted in a
powerful system to enhance deep conscious exploration based on an
audio technology he developed known as “Hemi-Sync.”
Hemi-Sync can heighten selective awareness and performance through
creation of a relaxed state. Hemi-Sync offers much more than this,
however—enhanced states of consciousness allow access to alternate
perceptual modes, including deep meditation and mystical states. Hemi-
Sync involves the physics of resonant entrainment of brain waves, their
relationship to the perceptual and behavioral psychology of
consciousness, and to the fundamental physiology of the brain-mind and
consciousness.
Hemi-Sync uses specific patterns of stereo sound waves (of slightly