It was indeed very eye opening, as this individual was an engineer by training, and military, with a very serious mission orientation. He had started out as a "hostile witness" who was part of a team chartered to debunk and defund the original Stargate program, and what started out as a journey to use scientific and "real world" methods and experiences (and in many case preconceived prejudices) turned into a personal intrigue and exploration with an eventual "conversion" of mindset. This earned him a lot of credibility with me. By no means did he paint any of it as perfect, a panacea, 100% proof, but he encountered enough evidence (as he claims many on his team did as well) to eventually support the program until it was discontinued.
The only caution I will issue if you are going to experiment with Hemisync or Equisync is to be patient and keep up the practice. Some people feel something within their first session, but many get bored, fall asleep, feel no impact. Like anything else, it is a slow and steady wins the race kind of effort. The first time I undertook the Gateway Experience CD's, I didn't follow directions, listened to all of them once, over the course of 3-4 weeks and went "well that was dumb!" I mean sure it was relaxing.... it's ocean waves and a calm deep voice giving you visualization instructions, but I didn't get any sense that the binaural beats "worked" to accomplish anything and I certainly didn't experience any of the "travels" the instructions claimed I would. Years later, I bought a Hemisync disc that just focused on one health matter (heart rate) and I listened to it for a solid month, every night. When I saw that it had an impact, I revisited The Gateway Experience and followed instructions explicitly with profound results.
BTW, The Gateway Experience
through The Monroe Institute is very expensive. You can download the first CD here for free and try it out for a month.
The institutes newer and improved Gateway Voyage Introductory Exercise is here:
This exercise is the introductory meditation used in Monroe Institute's flagship program Gateway Voyage. Begin to experience the power of Monroe Sound Science. Free meditations are made possible by generous donations by Monroe Institute participants, trainers and staff.
www.monroeinstitute.org
You have to use high end stereo headphones (do not use earbuds). If you do it and like it....let me know and I can refer you to an ebay site where you can download all of the CD Audio and instruction manual for a fraction of the cost.
Also, do consider starting with Equisync. Much more affordable and in my opinion more targeted and impactful.
Enjoy.....