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

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Lewis AK, Osborn IP, Roth R (February 2004). "The effect of hemispheric synchronization on intraoperative analgesia". Anesthesia and Analgesia. 98 (2): 533–6, table of contents. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000096181.89116.d2. PMID 14742401. S2CID 25176260. Monroe, Robert (1985). Far Journeys (1sted.). Garden City, New York: Doubleday. p.290. ISBN 978-0385231824. OCLC 11755227. 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.

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 100For 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. As science conquers the physical world there leaves only the quantum, or 'spiritual' realms left to explore, and until we advance in sufficiently our 'tangible technologies' it may only be studied by the 'psychonauts' brave enough to go there. Russell, Ronald (2007). "1". The Journey of Robert Monroe: From Out-of-Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer (Hardcover). Hampton Roads Publishing Company. p.3. ISBN 9781571745330. Monroe provides extremely detailed accounts of many of his OBEs. The book contains much, much more valuable information on the subject than I have touched on, including preliminary exercises and advice on how best to exit the body.

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. 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. I enjoyed this early account of Robert Monroe's "discovery" of astral projection=remote viewing=out-of-the-body phenomena and his description of his own experiences, but I wouldn't confidently recommend it to anyone not already committed to and seriously interested in the phenomenology of such things. The book is seriously flawed insofar as it intends to provide any sort of proof, it being constituted primarily by a bunch of personal anecdotes and stories. Like a good first person ghost story, one can suspend disbelief and go for the ride as I did, but, on reflection, it boils down to how willing you are to believe the storyteller. That was why Munroe believes that out of body experiences are so hard to substantiate. When explorers are looking for evidence from the physical world, it isn’t the natural place for that consciousness to be.

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Over time he wrote three books on his experiences and along the way he invented an audio technology to assist others who wish to have the same experience. 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. After being assured by his physician that he was in perfect health and not suffering from a brain tumor, he went to see a psychiatrist, because surely he must be losing his mind. The psychiatrist also gave him a clean bill of health and advised him to look into Eastern religions to see what he might find. a b c Stephen Barling, " Cosmic degrees: Out of body at the Monroe Institute". The Hook. February 13, 2003. Barling, Stephen (2003-02-13) "Cosmic degrees: Out of body at the Monroe Institute", The Hook (Charlottesville), Issue 206

Accessing Anomalous States of Consciousness with a Binaural Beat Technology", F Holmes Atwater, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 1, No 3, 1997, p263-274 [ unreliable source?]Esto se relaciona abiertamente con la religión, y ese es un tema demasiado complicado porque el ser humano está formado a base de creencias sea cuales sean. 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 this environment there are no cars, boats or other means of transportation. You think movement, and it occurs. No telephones, radio or other communication aids exist, communication being instantaneous. There are no farms, gardens, etc, since no food energy needs are indicated. Thought is the force that supplies any need or desire. Like attracts like. 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.