The American writer and creator of the teachings of the mental development of the ETC Robert Monroe is a pioneer in his direction. Books, which set out the theoretical and practical issues of out-of-body travel, brought him worldwide recognition. However, as you might guess, not everyone is interested in such specific esoteric practices.
In our article, we are going to introduce you to the personality of this outstanding writer, as well as briefly describe his work. Perhaps, after the new non-standard information, we all wish to learn a little more about traveling outside the body.
Robert Monroe Biography: Milestones
Let's get acquainted with the topic, starting with biographical information about the writer. Robert Allen Monroe was born in the small town of Lexington, Kentucky, on October 30, 1915. Parents of a future researcher in the field of out-of-body travel are a doctor and a college professor. In addition to Robert, the family had three more children. Most of the childhood of the future writer was spent in Kentucky and Indiana, then the time came for the next stage of training.
Entering Ohio University, Robert Monroe graduated in 1937 with an engineering degree. His first professional successes were at radio stations, where he worked as a director and screenwriter. With his assistance, the stations began to produce successful shows one by one. This made Monroe a popular composer in radio and television broadcasting.
Having traveled a very impressive path and achieved many victories, the future writer became vice president of the Mutual Broadcasting System network, a member of the board of directors. It was included in the lists of successful people by various publications. The Monroe company after some time became the developer of cable television in Virginia and North Carolina.
The first studies of human consciousness
Since 1956, Robert Allen Monroe and his company began their research in the field of the properties of human consciousness. So, in particular, he studied the issues of learning during sleep and other aspects in this direction. Most often he acted as an object for testing.
The year 1958 was significant: once again a subject of his own research, Monroe went into a state where his mind and physical body were separated. At that time, the term "astral projection" was applied to such a state, but the scientist called it differently - VTP (out-of-body experience (travel)). The latter option then became traditional for the scientific literature on this issue.
The results of that experiment and the first tested state of VTP became crucial for all further activities of the scientist. Now he directed his forces precisely into the channel of experiments with his own consciousness.
Further developments
After receiving the first stunning result, Monroe continued to work in the field of studying human consciousness even more actively. He recorded his initial experiments and their results in the smallest details. Somewhat later, they were displayed in his book Traveling Outside the Body.
The first work of the author on this topic contained a description of experiences while staying outside the boundaries of the physical body. It has become significant, important for thousands of people in the world who have experienced this experience, but they did not know about its essence. Now they could be calm, because before them were answers to disturbing questions.
The success of Traveling Out of the Body
The book attracted the attention of not only readers. Representatives of various fields of science (in particular medicine) were also interested in the results of Monroe's experiments.
The leadership spirit of the author was only fueled by the success of the first book. Around Robert Monroe began to gather students and followers. Already in the team, they were developing new methods for influencing consciousness in laboratory experiments.
Research results
The significance of everything that the author of the concept and books about VTP has revealed to us can be imagined by familiarizing himself with the methods of influencing human consciousness. So, the Hemi-Sync technology was created, designed to synchronize the work of the cerebral hemispheres. The pioneer personally conducted seminars and trainings at which he helped participants to experience the experience of out-of-body travel.
Over the next 20 years, Monroe actively continued his search for new boundaries of knowledge about the potential of the human brain. The techniques created during that time are audio stimulation of stress relief, concentration of attention and concentration, improvement of thinking, control of pain. Robert Monroe, whose reviews of books are very ambiguous due to the specific direction of the issues addressed, has earned with his developments the recognition and respect of specialists studying similar topics.
New Achievement - Second Trilogy Book
After such significant advances in research after the publication of the first book, Distant Travels, published in 1985, they gave a new portion of amazing knowledge. Here, new experiences have already been described beyond the boundaries of the familiar vision of the world and the person in it. Deservedly the book has become a bestseller.
One of the important points is the amazing results of the synchronization of the brain. In fact, the book has become an extraordinary cognitive journey for readers to unknown corners of consciousness and beyond. Thanks to it, you can make sure that the capabilities of our brain are much wider than we can imagine. Robert Monroe, whose books we are discussing now, gives us this from his own practice.
Compared with the first edition, this book provides much more details and experiences. A witty and exciting presentation of the material brings true cognitive pleasure.
The great significance of the book lies in the fact that it provides answers to the eternal questions of human being: "Who are we?", "Where and where are we going?", "For what?" This is a real find for both a follower of a religious worldview and an atheist. The book teaches that having studied your brain, you can find opportunities that are not limited by anything. And humanity has all this ahead. The book is a kind of pointing sign. In addition, the things described in it serve as a source of inspiration.
The final work "The Final Journey"
Monroe created this book with the results of his own searches and experiments on himself a year before his death. It describes in the form of a fascinating journey beyond the boundaries of a person’s internal habitual consciousness all that the author has come to for decades of work.
In The Final Journey, the veil of a secret, hidden by the will of fate, is hidden behind the material envelope of the world. Monroe’s absolutely amazing view of a person, his place in this world, his life and what follows after physical death are described in the book as the final stage of all the author’s creativity and research.
Robert Monroe died, whose books and techniques so excited the world in 1995, when he was almost 80 years old. The formulation of even this event is interesting: it is often found in the form of the phrase "after physical death." And again, we are given food for thought, an occasion to take one of the works of the author and plunge into it.
So, after the physical death of Monroe, his research passed under the guidance of his daughter. She was for a long time the main follower of the doctrine of out-of-body experience, led the creation of new methods of working with consciousness.
Monroe Institute: continuing research
The development of new methods of influencing human consciousness did not stop either with the death of Monroe in 1995, or with the death of his daughter in 2006. Since 1974, the Monroe Institute has been operating, which to this day conducts seminars, lectures, and trainings on the development of the abilities of consciousness and its control.
This institution is a non-profit organization, the direction of which involves exclusively self-development, the use of developed technologies. The issues he is considering today include lucid dreaming, meditation, distant vision, pain management, and many other areas that have great potential and benefit humanity.
Conclusion
Today we examined an outstanding personality and an equally unusual topic - VTP (out-of-body experiences). This concept appeared in the last century, at the same time the Monroe Research Institute was formed. The latter works today, engaged in new developments and conducting lectures, seminars, and trainings.
The Monroe Institute deals with various issues. All of them are associated with the impact on human consciousness with the goal of development, the discovery of new abilities. The organization remains non-profit.
We can only be surprised that so far mankind knows so little about its capabilities. We have a powerful tool - the brain, and, developing it, we will get amazing abilities.