"We lay on mattresses with our eyes closed – and suddenly, I vanished. What’s going on here?"** By Lior Ben Ami. Published on YNET (translated fro Hebrew).

Here is the translation of the text to English:

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**On the third and final day of the course, the gate opened. On the other side of the gate, metaphorically, there were a few strange things. Here’s what people – not one, not two – describe:**

"I was on a journey," says the young woman with the curls. "At first on a ship, then on a plane. And I'm not sure if it was me there, or someone else. And around me, people are speaking languages I don’t understand."

"I'm glad you said that," interrupts the woman in the orange dress. She's happy because it eased her: it turns out she hasn’t gone crazy. In her experience, there is a tunnel with no beginning and no end, and inside, she’s flying, "and around her, turtles, snakes, and whales." And then the young man with the cropped hair tells about the strange figures he encountered, and they always came in pairs. "It was a place without time," he describes, "and I had a body, but I didn’t."

I listen to them, and in the meantime, I try to reconstruct what happened. We lay, ten people, on mattresses in the living room of a house in Gedera. Eyes closed. We took breaths. The bald man with the soft voice instructed us to follow him. Something along the lines of: "Show me how it feels if I receive the energy from Mother Earth." And the same thing, only from "Father Sky," or another type of familial closeness. In the background, calming river stream music played. I thought, who composes such things? And suddenly, I vanished: no turtles, no creatures in pairs. The next moment I remembered was when the bald one instructed us to open our eyes, and I was as alert as an iPhone 12 straight out of the box.

What happened here, I demand to know, and he’s not really cooperating. He answers quietly: "My explanation won’t satisfy you."

"'The Gate' is a rational method, but it has a metaphysical part," he continues. "It means that when the gate opens, whatever needs to happen, happens. There is no space, body, or time. Things outside the intellect. That’s part of the method."

Then he asks: "Did I answer?" I reply, "No." And, as if nothing happened, he’s already onto the next thing.

Welcome to the 'Gate' method. It was devised by Yohai Israeli, the bald man with the soft voice. Put aside the descriptions of wandering through other worlds. In the other things that happen in this workshop, there is more logic, and they are more important. "The Gate" combines mindfulness and subconscious management techniques, and Israeli explains that it’s based on the idea that all knowledge about us, both physical and mental, exists in the operating system, the "Windows" inside us, which records every experience that ever occurred. The course I'm joining, "The Key to the Gate Within Us," offers tools and an approach to that system, to the limiting patterns inside us, and to the defense mechanisms in the subconscious.

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