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

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Robert Allan Monroe has had wide career experience in communications, having written for newspapers and magazines, and worked in television and electronics.

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.”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. This isn't so much a review as it is an anecdotal story about actual incident involving my reading of this book. Monroe's research led to the development of an audio-guidance technology called hemispheric synchronization or Hemi-Sync®. Pero bueno, creo que no tengo nada más que mencionar por el momento (el tema en sí abarca bastante), solo que este libro no se basa en la religión, sino que también tiene una base científica analizada por el autor, para las personas más incrédulas. No digo que solamente los que han pasado por una situación similar tengan que leer ese libro, sino que en sí encierra a un público general y que es capaz de romper barreras de pensamiento si uno mismo lo permite. In 1975, Monroe registered the first of several patents [17] [18] [19] concerning audio techniques designed to stimulate brain functions until the left and right hemispheres became synchronized. Monroe held that this state, dubbed Hemi-Sync (hemispherical synchronization), could be used to promote mental well-being or to trigger an altered state of consciousness. Monroe's concept was based on an earlier hypothesis known as binaural beats and has since been expanded upon a commercial basis by the self-help industry. [20]

For different reasons now, related to my creative work, I wanted to learn more about OOBEs, and, discovering that Robert A. Monroe's book is considered a major work in this line, I got myself a copy. I found it quite fascinating, even though it is much different from Moody's and Eadie's books, in that it is not concerned so much with death and the spiritual aspects of OOBEs. Rather, Monroe, an American businessman who had had a successful career in radio, discovered in the late 1950s that he could exit his physical body, and decided to develop his own experimental program to learn about this strange state. His book is an account of his findings, expressed in language that seeks to remain factual, neutral, and scientific. Hemi-Sync is short for Hemispheric Synchronization, also known as brainwave synchronization. Monroe indicated that the technique synchronizes the two hemispheres of one's brain, thereby creating a 'frequency-following response' designed to evoke certain effects. Hemi-Sync has been used for many purposes, including relaxation and sleep induction, learning and memory aids, helping those with physical and mental difficulties, and reaching altered states of consciousness through the use of sound. SÚPER INTERESANTE aunque un tanto retorcido de leer, en el sentido de que está all over the place y que es un tanto complicadete. Aún así eso me gusta, porque me hace sentir que es un testimonio sincero y que entonces está cerca de la realidad, que también es retorcida y compleja. Otra cosa que me gusta es que el autor, Robert Monroe, hoy en día conocido como el gurú de los viajes astrales y con centro de especialización propio, empezó su camino místico casualmente un día cualquiera, desdoblándose sin querer. Era un hombre de negocios sin interés especial por investigar el tema, cuarentón, casado, un american man cualquiera de las series antiguas... y le pasó todo lo que le pasó. Eso también me hace creer que es cierto, porque muy inesperado. no es como algo que estuviera buscando. Aun sentí esa sensación de vibración más que nada en la frente, y esto me sirvió como un recordatorio al día siguiente.

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In 1985 the company officially changed its name, once again, to Interstate Industries, Inc. This reflected Monroe's analogy of how the use of Hemi-Sync serves as a ramp from the "local road" to the "interstate" in allowing people to go "full steam ahead" in the exploration of consciousness, avoiding all of the stops and starts. Bob Ortega, "Research institute shows people a way out of their bodies", The Wall Street Journal, September 20, 1994, pp. A1, A8. 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. The people in Locale III were not aware of Monroe’s presence and on several occasions he automatically “took over” someone’s body.

To me, this guy seems to be telling the truth. The possibilities and experiences that he talks about excites me and makes reality more mystical and unknown. Somehow that feels better than telling to myself that he is full of shit, just because some scientists said that OBEs are not possible. 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 A ground breaking work into the mystery that is the out-of-body experience by a leading researcher in the field. Ultimately, Journeys Out of the Body left me with more questions than answers, but, for the most part, I enjoyed the ride. So you think you're just gonna open your third eye and go flying around the universe? Sounds a bit like you'd need some training. At the end of the book, Robert explains procedures to conduct your own astral projection experience. He then provides statistics showing which techniques worked best, the circumstances in which experiments succeeded, which senses were existent in the second body, and etc.Fue por esa razón que solo lo intenté una vez y después de comprobar que definitivamente estaba fuera de mi alcance y que era una pérdida de tiempo, me rendí. Pasó como un mes y ocurrió lo impensable.

Claro que esta es una suposición propia, ya que el autor solo se limita a contar su experiencia a través de notas. Por eso digo, la mentalidad humana, jajaja. Espiritualmente todavía soy como las guaguas que, después de nacer, necesitan estar en brazos o con esa mantita que las aprieta, para tener límites tangibles y sentirse seguros. Monroe developed ulcers in young adulthood and so was classified 4F (unfit for service) during World War II. He spent the war years working for a manufacturing company that designed a flight-simulator prototype. He wrote for an aviation column in Argosy magazine and was given a job with the National Aeronautic Association (NAA), for whom he produced a weekly radio show called "Scramble!", the primary purpose of which was to interest youth in aviation. Monroe developed Hemi-Sync which he claimed could facilitate enhanced brain performance. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Every experience was written in his detailed journal no matter how absurd they were. He made sure to even include journeys that didn't make sense at the moment, assuming their interpretation might be easier later on.

Well-written, compelling, made me want to buy the sequel (but I probably won't) and deserves the credit for helping to trailblaze an entire niche genre of fiction and area of metaphysical study.