Gateway Process: The Military Program That Studied Consciousness to Find Exceptional People

In 1983, an officer in U.S. Army intelligence wrote a report titled *Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process*, now held in the CIA's declassified archive. The U.S. military wanted to know whether a method built on sound, relaxation, and visualization could change a person's state of consciousness, and whether that method could help them find people with unusual mental responses.

The document is not an advertisement for the Monroe Institute and not a record from an occult group. It is a military assessment, written to judge whether a technique connected to consciousness could be useful for intelligence work.