Table Read - GATEWAY 3 & 4

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

The deeper we go, the stranger it gets.GATEWAY: Three & Four is now live.A missing scientist.A military experiment losing control.A government program based on real declassified files that suggests the human mind may not simply imagine other places, other times, or other dimensions.It may be able to reach them.At a moment when UAP disclosures, intelligence programs, government secrecy, and the unknown are no longer living at the edge of the conversation, GATEWAY feels less like science fiction and more like a classified question we were never supposed to ask out loud.Inspired by the real declassified Gateway Process, Three & Four push Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell beyond investigation and into something far more dangerous.Itzhak Bentov is pulled into the Monroe Institute to help McDonnell move deeper through the Gateway.General Addis wants control.Nurse Fields may know more than she is saying.McDonnell’s mother reaches across a line she should not be able to cross.And somewhere between the physical world and the Gateway realm, the experiment stops being theory.Because once consciousness leaves the body, the question is not where it can go.The question is who else is already there.The past is not quiet.The future is not safe.And the Gateway is no longer waiting to be opened.It is open.Starring Zeke Alton, Petri Hawkins Byrd, Ashley Platz, Cam Clarke, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, and Shaan Sharma.Written by Dave Pirinelli.Story by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Dave Pirinelli.Produced by Table Read Podcast and Manifest Media Productions, LLC.Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell.GATEWAY: Three & Four is live now on Table Read Podcast.Listen now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to the Gateway. Last time I finally got my wish and was remote visiting France. I went back to 1944 to try to find out what happened to my father. This was thanks to a surprise visit from the world-renowned scientist I Tzhak Bentov, who had come by at great personal risk. I'm here. I can't believe it. I expected to be an observer. Turns out I was a participant. Hunch, fight a hunt! No! Wait!

Wait, you can see me? And here we are, back to the tail. Me in France in 1944, and you, the listener, on the edge of your seat, wondering what happens to me back there. Well, I ducked just in time. The machine guns missed me, but the mortar didn't miss them. Hello! Germans? Okay, I guess not.

In the distance, I saw a group of Americans. I knew I could find my father if I could just talk to them. I started running. Hey! Americans! Friendly! Friendly over here! McDonald! Wake up! That's an order. General? General? Wait! No, I... I was just in France! The next time you do that, you will actually be aboard a C-130. Do you understand?

Sir? All further exploits on this mission will conform to a carefully planned schedule. Am I clear? Crystal clear, sir. What about it's up? Mr. Bentov. You ought to have no further contact with him. Do not attempt to have contact with him.

Do not even mention his name. Do you understand, soldier? Roger that, sir. He flew out of here on one of three helicopters that just took off. Those helicopters will land at three different airports where he and multiple decoys will then take off on several different planes going on to different destinations.

nations. Sir? Not even I know which one has the real bent off. The decoys don't have any idea either. Nobody does. Is that all really necessary, sir? Ask the families of the dead from that crash flight. You have your orders. Follow them or you'll be counting icebergs in the Arctic Sea. Copy? Your orders will be followed to the letter, General. And you will file a full report every Friday. Yes, sir. Today's activities won't ever be mentioned in those reports. Are we clear? Crystal clear, sir.

Dismissed. I indeed had a small piece of a German artillery shell removed from my shoulder. General Addis took control of our program. The next week I saw Monroe and the lovely Nurse Fields again, but they were restrained. Monroe's wings had been clipped, as had his ego. Today we'll be working our way into Focus 3. and starting hemisink. Again? Come on.

Look, please, please do not push me. I'm trying to get you where we need you within our new guidelines. I understand, but we keep doing the same low-level tapes. I'm going nowhere. We will follow the schedule as directed by General Addis. He'd been brought to heal by the general. The general signed the checks, not me.

How was your wound healing? It was minor. Next time, wear body armor. There isn't going to be a next time. Not anytime soon, anyway. Beside that, they could see me. Whatever Bentov did had me really there. I can't go back in modern equipment. I'd stand out. Enough! You can't go back at all.

A lieutenant, Colonel McDonald, there was a call for you from your mother. Please note it's against protocol to give out the law. lab phone number in the future, please use our residential facility number for personal calls. Wait, I never give them. I mean, her, this number. Wait, what was the message? She requested a return phone call, something about a visiting friend. She keeps thinking that my old... Is there a phone I can use? After the session? My mother isn't well. She gets confused. I got to call her now. You can use the phone in my office. Follow me.

Five minutes. You have a schedule to keep. You have a charming office. Thanks for letting me use it. Of course. Hit nine for an outside line. Thank you. We'll be ready for you in the lab. Akers, do you know your party's room or extension? Connect me with Mrs. McDonald and 403, please. Nurse Williams? It's Wayne McDonald. Is my mother available?

She's resting now. Lost again. Confused. I got a message that she called. Friends wanted her. She's experiencing lucid dreams, convincing herself she's seeing people more. That's unfortunate. She was quite insistent. Wouldn't rest until we put the call through.

We thought you might be able to talk her down. Sorry for the disruptions, sir. No problem. I shouldn't be receiving calls at the Institute except in emergencies. Use my answering service through the base. 301-55-2293. Captain Parsons can reach me 24-7.

Seven. And thanks for taking care of her. I'll be out to visit again in two weeks. Is everything okay? She has bouts of confusion. I think it's under control. You know, you get a very comfortable office. Thank you, Nurse Fields. I hope you told her not to call the lab directly again. I don't know. I left my contact number from Fort Meade. How did General Addis drag me back from France that day? It's unimportant. Look, before we take...

you into the next session, Nurse Fields will bring you some tea. I'll get it now. What's in it? Okay. You haven't been progressing recently, so we're going to give you some assistance, a mild sedative to help you relax. That tape that Bentov had seemed more effective than your tea. Now look what you made me do. Can you please orient yourself to the provided schedule? We'll be following that. The one general Addis dictated to you. Nurse, is the tea ready? Yes, sir, right here.

A variety of herbal tinctures. He knows. With some codeine and my dazzle am. Sounds great. Lemon? We'd been trying, but it wasn't working like before. I found the tape soothing and relaxing, but often they just put me to sleep.

I recalled some dreams, but not clearly. Mostly just wandering empty fields and buildings. Boring. Nice nap time, though. Mr. Monroe, we have a visitor. No visitors are... General Addis, uh, a pleasure. What can we do for you today?

Where's McDonald right now? Uh, here on the table? You know what I mean. I need to speak with him. He's 10 minutes into the session. We really shouldn't bring him out at this point. Do it! extreme situation. Nurse, fade the tape down. Are you certain we shouldn't just... Out of the way. What the... The tape stopped. You're dismissed, Nurse Fields. I don't take orders from you.

Leave now. This is a matter of national security. You men sure enjoy playing with your guns. I hope you You know what you're doing. Time to have her investigate. You already did? She drinks too much, reads pornographic romance novels, and listens to subversive radio stations, blah, blah, blah, that's it. The CIA will check her out again. Hold on.

What the hell is going on here? Bentoff is gone. What? Come on. What? Did IQ drop suddenly while I was away? Bent off just vanished, as did four of his decoys around the country. all at the same time.

Well, you can't blame us for that. He left days ago, and no one here has any idea where you took him, your people... Okay, okay, okay, the blame game isn't going to help. What can we do, General? I don't know. What can you do? Turn on your mumbo-jumbo machine and figure out who took him and where.

Just tell me where he is, and we'll get him back. Do I have your permission to deviate from your schedule, General? We've been at Focus 3 for two weeks now. Don't bore me with your trivial details. Do whatever it takes to get Bentov back. Now. Enter. General Addis, we have an urgent, scrambled comm from the president.

He's waiting. Get to it, Munro. I'll be back, expecting progress. I'm certain we can... Get answers. Give me a minute. I'm going to find Nurse Fields. We need to find Benthoff.

Do you have that tape he was using? I felt it was different, unique in some way. It was a special recording he made just for you. Had it with him when he left. Do you have a copy? I recorded it as he played it, but it has heavy room tone and some generation loss. I actually used it earlier this week.

I didn't tell you. Did it help? It's not working right yet. I think it lost some of the higher, frequencies. Great. A catch-22. We need Bentov's tape to find Bentov, who has the tape. Drink your tea. We're going to go back and get you into Hemisink with our tape. Fundamentally, the Gateway Experience is a training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus, and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right

hemispheres so as to alter consciousness, moving it outside the physical sphere so as to ultimately escape even the restrictions of time and space. The participant then gains access to the various levels of intuitive knowledge which the universe offers. Just let go, listen, and elevate into Focus 5 to get started. I'll return. What differentiates the gateway experience from forms of meditation is its use of the hemisink technique, which is defined in a monograph by Monroe Institute trainer Melissa Yeager as a state of consciousness defined when the EEG patterns of both hemispheres are simultaneously equal in amplitude. And although hemisink seems to be rather rare and of only short duration in ordinary human consciousness, Melissa Yeager states that audio

techniques developed by Bob Monroe can induce and sustain hemisink. Bravo, you got through that paragraph. Mother of Pearl. Please don't tell me it's Jaeger. It's Jaeger, right? Okay. I am not worthy. I attained hemisink and had an incredible moment of clarity conversing with my higher self. I connected the dots, as it were. I realized that my mother's message might hold some valuable information,

not just the peripatetic ramblings of a flailing mind. I needed Nurse Field's phone again, Pronto. Next time on Gateway, I connect the dots. dots on my mother's mysterious call and find a lost friend, but I don't know exactly where he is. To the gateway. Last time, my visit to 1944 was cut short when General Addis came and yanked me back to present day. He was furious that Hitzhak Bentov had come out of hiding to help me. Sadly, his efforts to keep Hitzok safe failed.

Bentov and several of his decoys were taken simultaneously. General Addis ordered Monroe and... and I to focus on finding Izzak before his captors could extract all of his secrets. A cryptic phone message from my mother got my attention, which led me to call her care facility. Nurse Williams, Wayne MacDonald here. Is she awake now? The friend that she said visited her, did she mention a name? Oh yes, over and over. Could it have been... Never mind. Did you put the call through for her? I was hoping you'd call my number at the base. My answer was service. That's the funny thing changed in years, huh? Not exactly. Thanks again, Nurse.

Sitting next to her phone was a complete World War II uniform, complete with a flack jacket. My name already sewn on. Whatever other agendas she had, Fields wanted me alive. His technique involves identifying fundamental problems which the individual wishes to see solved, filling his expanded awareness with his perception of these problems and the then projecting them out into the universe. In this way, the individual enlists the assistance of what Monroe Institute calls his higher self, in other words, his expanded consciousness. To interact with the universal hologram, to obtain the information required to solve the problem.

This approach may be used to solve personal difficulties, technical problems in the realm of physics, mathematics, etc. Practical administrative problems, and so on. Responses to the problem-solving technique may be received almost immediately, but often they come based on developing intuition over the next two or three days. Frequently, the response comes in the form of a sudden, holistic perception in which the individual suddenly finds that he simply knows the answer. Many of my early missions started with me walking around a seemingly abandoned factory, empty white spaces, empty white light and silence.

I tried again to use the hemisink program. Monroe's tapes still had power. I was walking through a diffused coda-chrome glow of nothingness in the factory. I decided to try to find Sunset Acres on Staten Island, the place my mother had run into a mysterious friend of mine named Isaac. It took a while, but I ultimately found Sunset Acres. At first, I could only see the usual sea of white, of nothingness, but then I concentrated on my mother, on her love for me,

the smell of Sunday morning breakfast when I was a boy, her tears of pride when I graduated from West Point, the five-minute hug I got the first time I came back from battle. I thought about the person who loved me more than anyone else on earth, and with that thought, I saw a beacon. It was her. I went toward the beacon. As I got closer, I recognized the tall oaks lining the driveway of her facility.

I floated down and wandered the grounds and made my way to her building. At first, I saw no one. But then I saw an entity floating in the hallway. An entity with an odd East European accent. Itzak Bentov. Mr. Bentov? Possibly. Who is inquiring?

Lieutenant Colonel McDonald. Indeed. Who. I relieve. Are you all right? What happened to you? Where are you? One should concentrate on a single inquiry in a given moment.

Your reference, my actual physical body, I believe. Not just mental presence, correct? People are very concerned. Where are you? In point of fact, I do not know where I am currently. I believe. I am being held in a secure facility of some sort, but I can be certain of my physical reality. Sir, we are extremely motivated to locate you.

I maintain some interests in that as well, but I simply have no direct knowledge of the location. Okay. What do you remember? Uh-huh. I was with you at the left. There was a hub-up where General Eddie showed up. He cleared the room and I was ordered to a helicopter. Do you know what city you landed in? I was walking quickly to the helipat when I found myself here. To come see my mother, this is her nursing care home.

I did not consciously choose this place. Is that her I've been speaking with? Oh, a lovely woman. Yes, but she has severe Alzheimer's. she thinks you are really and truly here in person. Indeed. And I believed this manifestation was your creation. How can that be?

It's a real place. Yet, I felt you here before you came. It has your energy. Perhaps because of her feeling toward you. And your recent visit. We should go visit her. Let's not. And please stop talking to her.

It causes her great confusion. She had an episode today because of this. In your mind, you are visiting a safe place. I must have sense that somehow I was removed from my conscience world. They retreated into your safe place. I don't think it could be that simple. Nothing ever is. I imagine you agree.

Can you use your energy, believe? to ascend the levels. Enough with the word puzzles. I need to know how to find you. And I would like nothing more than to tell you. But all I know is that I walked out of your facility and am now existing in this place. How can you be here in an instance?

It's like I took a nap on the helicopter and am dreaming this. A dream I can navigate, but not wake from. How are we to find you? How did you find my consciousness here? My mother called the Institute with a message from you.

The tricky part was finding this place in the gateway, but I concentrated on her, on her feelings for me. I was amazed to discover the connection. Can you try to use the same process? Concentrate on your own life. Think of your being, your physical body. Um, okay. I am going to try.

Sir? Mr. Benton. And with that, he vanished. I had no control over his appearance in my gateway travels. I came to realize he didn't have much either. But we were learning. I waited at Sunset Acres for a while, hoping he would come back. I eventually gave up and returned to the lab. He is exposed for the first time to the Hemisink sound frequencies

and is encouraged to focus on and develop a perception of an appreciation for those feelings, which accompany the synchronization of brain waves that results. Next comes the technique of progressive and systematic physical relaxation. While the hemisink frequencies are expanded to include additional forms of pink and white noise designed to put the physical body at the virtual threshold of sleep, as well as to calm the left hemisphere of the mind, while raising the right hemisphere to a state of heightened attentiveness. Once all of this is achieved, the participant is invited, to envisage creation of an energy balloon,

comprised of an energy flow beginning at the center of the top of the head and extending down in all directions to the feet. Excuse me, is this going to be on the test? I believe so. You have to take notes. And it will be closed book. The energy involved in this flow

then proceeds up through the body and back out into the balloon pattern again. This is incredible. You've found him already. Not really. To be accurate, he found me by finding my mother and getting her to call me. And we still have no idea where his physical body is. But you reasoned out a way to find him, to find your mother's facility. Brilliant, by the way. Whoever the enemy is, they would have great difficulty following his thoughts to her facility.

But I'm not sure how to do that again. You need to work on how to locate your own body here in Virginia. There must be a homing signal or something. Then teach him how to locate his. Was he in pain? I don't know. He seemed to have no connection whatsoever to his current physical reality. They probably have him sedated.

They don't know that Gateway works while he's unconscious. We need to keep that info in this room. If they find out, they may be forced to kill him. I think you're right. We keep this quiet for now. I'll tell General Addis in person. I have to answer to people. Some of whom were clearly part of the conspiracy to take Itzak.

If he shows up in a ditch because you fail to act prudently, what happens to your funding? I could possibly wait a day or two? Enough time for me to find him again and get a better idea where they took him. And get the word to the general. Should we consult Dr. Alexander? Only if you want Itzak returning in a body. bang. Who is Dr. Alexander? He works at this facility. He's frequently an RVD clinic. I could sense some drama here. I decided I'd ask Nurse Fields later. There was a secret. I just

wasn't convinced it was an important one. I was wrong. Did you see your mother when you were there with Itzuck? No, but I didn't look either. She's confused enough as it is. I can't add to that. It's very interesting to note that she seems to be able to access the upper gateway levels without any training or effort. Only because she can't always identify real reality. It's accidental and incidental to my presence. And still quite intriguing. Possibly a breakthrough. I mean, is there any chance we could...

She is not going to become your lab rat. No contact with her or her doctors. Do you understand? I just asked Bentov to avoid her as well. She's fragile. I understand your trepidation, but I absolutely will have to report where and how you found Benton. Are you completely certain it's truly it's up? Should I have checked his ID?

You know what I mean. I'd hate for you to report this to the general and have it turn out to be nothing but a coding dream. Yeah. It certainly felt like I was talking to the real Bentov. Your construct of Bentov would naturally conform to your impression of him. Standard confirmation bias. Excuse me? It'd be easy for you to convince yourself to see things you expected to see.

How can we be sure? You have to ask him a question that he would easily know the answer to, but you, McDonald, would not. His date of birth or an old phone number. Uh, hold on, phone number. Somehow my mother called this lab, even though I never gave her the number. Bentov must have given it to her. Pretty good sign it was really him.

Hmm. Make it a certainty. His birthday and birthplace would be enough. I assume you don't know them. Ready to go back? Let's do it. All right. It's Parsons.

a message for me at Fort Meade. Nurse? A phone here in the lab? I had it wired here. No bell, just a white. It won't disturb you. Whiskey Fox Trot, 3831. But,

Robbie, are you sure that was the name? Quite certain. Robert Allen. Did you record him? Well, it is now. You're in a room full of tape recorders. Dedicate one to all my future calls. I want them recorded.

Yes, sir. And, uh, Thank you, Captain Parsons. Yes. Someone claiming to be my long-dead friend gave us a tip on where to find Itsoc. Let's get me to the headphones. We meant well, but it didn't go well. You'll need to check out the next episode for details on that.

But I can give you some hints. I meant to go looking in Baton Rouge, but that isn't where I ended up. And the entity I met there wasn't Itsoc Bentov. Not even close. See you next time Here at the Gateway We need to pick up a few things We need to grab Cam reading some

Some of the Ted Monroe stuff Yes Sean Grace is this most present You were doing fabulous by the way Thank you sir So Cam this is You know when they put the headphones on When they put the headphones on them have a little pre-recorded material

you have. It'll play in and fade out under music. So just give me a little more than I need is, you know, I mean. I'm sorry, is this, is this narrative? This is your, yeah, this is your character basically directing through the program kind of, right? Yeah, yeah. So the guy, he puts on the headphones, but audio, and this is what helps him get in. So, you know, relax and think of the sunny. So it's what he's hearing when he puts on the headphones, and I'm not going to use the whole thing.

You're almost being hypnotic. You're saying, ah, good that. So use that point. Yeah, like you're calming someone into this experience, helping them achieve the states of consciousness. Or the shit out of me. Yeah. Easily done. That's right.

This is Monroe's hypnotic report. Okay. Wish me a lot, people. God's feet. What can you expect from the Gateway experience? As much or as little as you put into it. The exercises provide you with a set of tools, how you use them, and what you do with them is your responsibility. Some discover themselves for the first time and thus live more completely, more constructively.

Others reach levels of awareness so profound that only one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers after truth and add ongoing adventure to their daily activity. There is only one basis that you seriously consider the gateway affirmation at the least a possibility, that you are more than your physical body, that you can and do exist in energy systems that are not limited to time, space. That you can and do communicate with intelligence beyond your physical consciousness. Call it what you will. The gateway affirmation. I am more than my physical body.

Because I am more than physical matter, I deeply desire to expand, to experience, to know, to understand, to control, to use such greater energies and energy systems as may be beneficial and constructive to me and to those near and close to me. Also, I deeply desire the help and cooperation, the effect. assistance, the understanding of those individuals whose wisdom, development, and experience are equal or greater than my own. What is Hemisink? Great. One more time. Amen. Thank you, Cam.

Thank you, Cam. Are we going to get posh to a bit? And then we'll have to eat the trailer. You were wrapped. Okay. So this is what I'm telling you. We'll see you in the Hemisink. It's a lot of the same word.

You're never going to be front and center. This isn't going to be the only thing. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I think he's ready. All right. Settle. Sean, Charm.

Yeah, Sean. Yeah, Sean. Sharma. I know. It's a tool for your use. Allow it to change and return to it. Whatever you wish during the exercise to place inside any new destruction.

Affirmation focuses your intention and attention. You may use the words as spoken in the exercise, modify them to maximize personal relevance and significance or substitute your own version. Experiment, make it yours. Breathe only slightly deeper than you normally would end as you inhale, imagine pulling sparkling, vibrant energy into all parts of your body. Allow it to move gently around in your head as you hold your breath. Try releasing tired, stale energy through the soles of your feet with each exhalation. You can return at any time to full walking consciousness by simply breathing normally,

opening your eyes or moving the fingers. of your right hand. Focus 10 is a level in which your mind remains awake and alert while your body sleeps calmly and comfortably. Follow the instructions, focusing upon and then totally releasing each body part. Your body knows how to do this and to look with your closed eyes. as you move towards profound relaxation. Nice job. That was awesome.

I'll go out to pick us in a weekend. Should we do a group photo? Should we get a picture of everyone and then you might shoot those trailers quick? Yeah, no problem. I just have a 30 second and 60 second. Rock and roll. Why don't we hop out in the back courtyard and we'll take a quick pick, cast photo and then you can all, with the acceptance of Zeke,

go on your merry way. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sean, you are. Oh yeah, good point. If you want to take the binders, you'll take the binders, can if you'll actually use them if you're just gonna like waste them and leave them for us I'm gonna waste mine anyway I'll take your great job man okay thank you

or waste or mine you're gonna be in the picture great thank you all right in the back everybody oh my gosh aye where should I are not losing my career I need some name credit. So what we're going to do... You know the roll it'll do it, though. Exactly. This is a 30 second promo, and they just have two different endings we're going to read as well. So we're going to do it all solid like this, and then you're just going to read this sentence,

and you're going to read that sentence. And then the same thing with this 60 second. We'll just do that one all the way through, and then just do this last sentence as well. Okay. Why do we doing what's... And have fun, you know.