It is "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process," a 29-page US Army assessment of the Gateway Process training, dated June 9, 1983 and prepared by Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell for INSCOM. The CIA approved it for release on September 9, 2003, and the original is free to read in the CIA Reading Room as record CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5. As a work of the United States Government it is in the public domain — and it is one of four declassified documents bundled inside Lucid Dream Training & Journal.
Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell prepared the assessment for the US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), analyzing a consciousness-training methodology. The report's own terminology — Focus 10, Focus 12, the vibrational state, expanded awareness — is why those phrases now circulate far outside the archive it came from.
The CIA approved it for release on September 9, 2003. The assessment is record CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 in the CIA's CREST archive: 29 pages, dated June 9, 1983. The three companion documents bundled with it in the app come from two other CIA records, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200060018-5 and CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270006-0.
It was written as an internal military assessment and found a second life online decades later, passed around by readers who could hardly believe the letterhead. Whatever one makes of its subject, the paper trail is real — a genuine Army memo, genuinely released by the CIA, readable by anyone.
Yes. As a work of the United States Government it is in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105 — free to read, quote, and share.
The official copy is free in the CIA Reading Room: the record page for Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, with the original 29-page PDF. The companion items are CIA records CIA-RDP96-00788R001200060018-5 and CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270006-0. All four are also digitised page for page inside Lucid Dream Training & Journal, an offline Android app, readable with no signal and no account. The app is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any government agency or any institute.
Last updated September 16, 2026.