Monroe Institute

The Blind Spot

CIA Gateway Program Explained: Consciousness & Secret Research

Why Intelligence Agencies Studied Human Consciousness In the early 1980s, a quiet and unusual document circulated inside the U.S. intelligence community. It wasn’t about weapons systems, foreign governments, or satellite surveillance. It was about human consciousness—and how altered states of awareness might allow the mind to access information beyond space and time. This document, later declassified, became known as the Gateway Program. Its existence raises an uncomfortable question:Why would an intelligence agency study consciousness at all? What Was the Gateway […]

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