Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-Of-Body Experience (Journeys Trilogy)

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Before I begin, I'd like to say just a couple of things about myself, my attitude toward the supernatural, and my general relationship with subjects of the supernatural. Simply put, I am just a 50 year old man with a wife and son, and haven't been interested in anything having to do with the supernatural to any strong degree ever in my life, except for the time that I involved myself deeply with this book. I have never been interested in astrology, numerology, the tarot, crystals, or anything else of the kind. R. Russell, Journey of Robert Monroe: From Out of Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer, Deep Books, July 2007, p105. ISBN 978-1-57174-533-0

For me, Moody's book was a convincer. As I read the accounts of people who had died and then revived, and the profound emotional effect it had on them, notably in changing their values to be much more concerned with the welfare of others, I felt sure that their experiences were authentic, and I wanted to let their experience change my life as it had changed theirs. It was a major motivator in my decision to seek out training in the Buddhist teachings, which I did soon after reading Moody's book. Dabu-Bondoc S, Drummond-Lewis J, Gaal D, McGinn M, Caldwell-Andrews AA, Kain ZN (September 2003). "Hemispheric synchronized sounds and intraoperative anesthetic requirements". Anesthesia and Analgesia. 97 (3): 772–5. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000076145.83783.e7. PMID 12933400. S2CID 31719837. He married Jeanette, a graduate student and daughter of a lawyer, in 1937, and divorced her in 1938 or 1939. He married Mary Ashworth, a divorcee with a daughter Maria, in 1950 or 1951. They had Bob's only biological child together, daughter Laurie. They divorced in 1968. He then married Nancy Penn Honeycutt, a divorcee with four children. They remained married until her death from breast cancer on August 15, 1992. According to his third book Ultimate Journey, [8] he dropped out of Ohio State University in his sophomore year due to a hospital stay for a facial burn that caused him to fall behind in his studies. During almost a year away from college, a desire to find work led him to become a hobo who rode freight trains. He returned to Ohio State to graduate after having studied pre-med, English, engineering, and journalism.Munroe talks about going to an alternate dimension in his explorations. He quotes a college professor about the possibility of this: “Dr. Leon M. Lederman, professor of physics at Columbia University, has stated: “Basic physics is completely consistent with the cosmological conception of a literal antiworld of stars and planets composed of atoms of antimatter, which is to say negative nuclei surrounded by positive electrons. We can now entertain the intriguing idea that these antiworlds are populated by antipeople, who antiscientists are perhaps even now excited by the discovery of matter.” pg 100 Locale II is a non-material environment with “laws of motion and matter only remotely related to the physical world”. “It is an immensity whose bounds are unknown …, and has depth and dimension incomprehensible to the finite conscious mind. In this vastness lie all of the aspects we attribute to heaven and hell.” Time is non-existent and past and future seem to exist “coterminously” with “now”. Locale II is a state of being where what we label thought “is the wellspring of existence”. “As you think, so you are”. Monroe's research led to the development of an audio-guidance technology called hemispheric synchronization or Hemi-Sync®. There was very little written about the subject at the time Robert began having these experiences and the phrase "out-of-body experience" didn't even exist yet. Being the logical, scientific person that he was, Robert set out to document what was occurring when it seemed he was exiting his body with the hope of coming to understand as much as he could about this phenomenon.

Si en el s. XX el mundo no estaba listo para esto, creo que cada vez se vuelve más escéptico, y yo podría incluirme si es que no me hubiera sucedido lo mismo.The people in Locale III were not aware of Monroe’s presence and on several occasions he automatically “took over” someone’s body. In 1956 the firm created a Research and Development division to study the effects of various sound patterns on human consciousness, including the sleep state. Monroe was especially attracted to the concept of sleep-learning. This was a natural direction to take, applying to this new area the audio production methods used in the firm's commercial activity. The purpose was to find more constructive uses for such knowledge than was ordinarily available, and the results of this research have become internationally known. I'm not saying I'm fully behind it because I'm not. I haven't experienced it myself (despite all prior attempts), but parts of the book resonated with me (literally) so why not dive in and see if it resonates with you too? Algo entendible de todo esto, tanto los casos presentes en este libro como el de otras personas, es que la gente no cree. O simplemente no quiere creer.

He presents many accounts of specific "trips" he made from his body, taken directly from the notes he made right afterwards each time. I don't want to say too much about what he found, in case I spoil the experience of reading this book for yourself, but I was intrigued with certain aspects of his experience. One aspect was that while he was in his "Second Body," in the disembodied state, his emotions were especially powerful and hard to control, and his conscious mind was relatively weak and ineffective. Another aspect was that his experience out of the body appeared to be divided between 3 separate realms or, as he terms them, "locales." Locale 1 is the physical world that we know, which the disembodied person can move through at will (with some interesting exceptions). Locale 2 is a vast, nonphysical realm that appears to be the usual habitat of the disembodied person; it is filled with all kinds of other beings in all kinds of situations. Monroe suggests that it is in this locale that we might find the "places" we call heaven and hell. Such places are defined not by location, but by the emotional state of those who are in them. Locale 3 is a separate realm that is much like Locale 1, except that its geography, technology, and societies are different from the ones we know: they're like "alternative history" versions of our world. Since the 1950s, Monroe researched the effects of various sound patterns on human consciousness, including the feasibility of learning during sleep. He often used himself as a test subject for this research and in 1958 he began experiencing a state of consciousness separate and apart from the physical body. He described the state as an “out of body experience”. This led to much more research into human consciousness. He chronicled his early explorations in the book, Journeys Out of the Body (1971). In 1985 he wrote a second book, "Far Journeys", which expanded upon his personal investigations of nonphysical reality. The Monroe Institute ( TMI) is a nonprofit education and research organization devoted to the exploration of human consciousness, based in Faber, Virginia, United States. [9] Upwards of 20,000 people are estimated to have attended TMI's residential Gateway program during its first thirty years. [10] TMI claims a policy of no dogma or bias with respect to belief system, religion, political or social stance. The institute is housed in several buildings on 300 acres (1.2km 2) of land south of Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The definitive work on the extraordinary phenomenon of out-of-body experiences, by the founder of the internationally known Monroe Institute.

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Robert Monroe, a Virginia businessman, began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a “second body” to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was inhabiting a place unbound by time or death. The areas of Locale II “nearest” the physical world are peopled mostly with insane or near-insane, emotionally driven beings. This near area is not a pleasant place to be, since you meet here all sorts of “disjointed personalities” and animate beings. An event where the experiencer 1) seems to perceive some portion of some environment which could not possibly be perceived from where his physical body is known to be at the time and 2) knows at the time that he is not dreaming or fantasizing.” Very, very bleak and, it just didn’t feel right to me. However, Munroe believes this is true and I felt very sad for him. That statement reminded me of the near death experiences described in Wisdom of Near Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs Can Help Us Live More Fully. OOBEs, like NDEs, are a human experience rather than a cultural one.