In the 1983 Army report on the Gateway Process, Focus 21 is "the last and most advanced of all the Focus states" (page 22). It is described like Focus 15, as movement outside time and space, but aimed at the future rather than the past. The report says it is probably reachable only by long-time meditators or by people who have worked with the tapes "for a period of months if not years." The Monroe Institute's bulletin labels it a state of other energy systems.
What page 22 says
Why the report thinks the future is readable
Focus 21 in the proposals, and the Monroe label
Where to read it
What the documents say, and what people claim
What page 22 says
Focus 21 is item H, titled "Focus 21: The Future." It is the shortest technique entry in the report, five sentences. The state "involves movement outside of the boundaries of time-space as in Focus 15 but with attention to discovering the future rather than the past."
The author is blunt about reach: a person who has achieved it "has reached a truly advanced level," and the state is "probably not attainable except by those who have conditioned themselves through long application of meditation" or by long practice with the tapes. He does not say he reached it.
Why the report thinks the future is readable
The model is on pages 15 and 18. The universe is pictured as a spiral "Torus" generated by matter at every phase of time, so it "reflects the development of the universe in the past, present and future." On page 18 the author adds that the future can be "predicted or 'seen' with total accuracy" because all consequences of the past and present meet in the hologram. That is the strongest claim in the report, and it rests on Itzhak Bentov's cosmology, not on any experiment.
On pages 26 and 27, step G of the author's proposed program is to approach "Focus 15 and 21 objectives (escape from time-space and interact within new dimensions) from the out-of-body perspective." Step H puts one of three viewers "at Focus 21 as it slips from the immediate future." Step J advises being "intellectually prepared to react to possible encounters with intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded."
The Monroe Institute bulletin GW22280, in the same CIA collection, lists Focus 21 last, with a label about other energy systems rather than the future. The two documents describe the same level differently: the Army officer frames it as the future, the Institute as contact with other realities. Both are descriptions of a training goal.
The documents: Focus 21 is the top of the Gateway ladder, described in five sentences as an attempt to perceive the future, reachable by very few. The report's reasoning is a cosmological model it borrows from a 1977 book. It reports no prediction made or checked.
The claims: that Focus 21 is proof of precognition, or that the government used it. Nothing in the Star Gate collection read for these pages records a Focus 21 result. The remote-viewing program was assessed separately in 1995; see Is remote viewing real?
Last updated November 4, 2026.
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