Explorer Series

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References: Hemi-Sync® Journal 1999-3 (Summer) https://archive.org/details/hemi-sync-journal-1999-3-summer Explorer Series (Explorer program; Explorer tapes) · Accounts & ideas Recorded sessions in which volunteers describe their experiences to a monitor, often Robert Monroe. Monroe laboratory sessions in which volunteer Explorers reported experiences while monitored; the compiled 1–32 audio and transcript sets are parallel representations that require explicit alignment. Editorial definition: /terminology#explorer-series References: Explorer Series: Compiled Audio Files (1-32) https://archive.org/details/monroe-institute-explorer-series-1; Compiled Explorer Series Transcripts #1-32 https://archive.org/details/compiled-explorer-series-transcripts-1-32 Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) · Research & perception A remote-viewing approach intended to prolong fleeting impressions so a participant can notice and report them. The DIA protocols describe trained attention and an altered state as components of this method. ERV names that procedure, not a measured guarantee that the reported impressions identify the target. Usage: DIA protocol terminology Editorial definition: /terminology#extended-remote-viewing References: DIA protocols: glossary and methodologies (archive scan) https://archive.org/details/tmi-army-dia-protocols Extrasensory perception (ESP; extra-sensory perception) · Research & perception A label for claimed perception that is not accounted for by known sensory means.

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Explorer 5 introduces him, with SHE in Focus 12 and the first naming. Explorer 6, Miranon Levels and Planes of Existence, is the best place to hear the seven colors. Explorer 13, Human Existence, is a relaxed question-and-answer session, and Explorer 14 is titled The Brain and Higher Consciousness. The Institute's title for Explorer 9 names Miranon beside TC's contact Thor, and TC reports sessions with Miranon in other recordings. The recordings and transcripts are free in the Explorer Series collections on the Internet Archive, and the Monroe Institute's YouTube channel carries many of the tapes. Do Miranon's levels match the Focus levels in Gateway? They overlap in the lab, but they are not the same thing. In Explorer 6 Monroe counted SHE through levels 15 to 22, which Miranon had called the levels of human life on Earth, and she reported colors and changes of vibration as he counted. The seven-color structure, in which every plane repeats seven levels from blue to white, is Miranon's description. The home Gateway program is organized around Monroe's numbered Focus levels, such as Focus 10 and 12, and you do not need the colors to use it. Daniel Erickson's booklet lines the colors up with the Focus numbers and quotes a Monroe meditation that moves from the blue of Focus 15 to the white of Focus 21, with diagrams from Nancy McMoneagle's compilation.

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Explorers were volunteers, typically Gateway Voyage graduates, who showed their skill in the laboratory and were invited back. Monroe said the first ones were simply people who were available and willing, among them clinical psychologists, physicists and secretaries. In the last tape he concluded that anyone can be an Explorer if their value systems can be self-adjusted, which takes much work and patience, and that the core requirement is accepting the possibility that you are more than your physical body. The tapes identify Explorers only by code. Where can I listen to the Explorer tapes? The Monroe Institute's YouTube channel posts the Explorer Series as numbered episodes, many opening with an introduction by Monroe, Rita Warren or Martin Warren. The Internet Archive holds the Institute's compiled Explorer Series, a set of 32 tapes it says Monroe chose, with audio and transcripts, along with further collections of Explorer audio and transcripts. A good order is Tape 24 for the laboratory, Tape 1 for a complete early session, then the Miranon tapes 5 and 6. Who was the monitor in an Explorer session?

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Explorer sessions Trained volunteers described altered states aloud in a shielded booth while a monitor, often Monroe, asked questions. The recordings became the Explorer Series. The Explorer sessions were Robert Monroe's laboratory research with experienced volunteers at the Monroe Institute. An Explorer lay in total darkness on a waterbed in a soundproof, electrically shielded booth, wearing stereo headphones that carried Hemi-Sync tones, with electrodes attached to the body and a microphone close to the mouth. In the control room, a monitor, often Monroe himself, watched the instruments and asked questions through the sound system. Everything the Explorer said was recorded. The Institute's archive dates the Explorers Project from 1974 to 1991 and counts more than 70 Explorers and over 1,000 sessions. Explorers were typically Gateway Voyage graduates who had mastered the Institute's techniques, were tested in the lab and were invited back. From Focus 10 and Focus 12 and beyond, they described out-of-body travel, past-life scenes, the structure of the focus levels and, above all, meetings with nonphysical beings they called helpers, guides or friends. Monroe said the most common pattern was an Explorer meeting such a being and relaying the conversation while the monitor supplied questions. Less often, with the Explorer's consent, the being spoke through the Explorer's own voice. He stated flatly that no drugs or medication were used in any session.

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Monroe told listeners that the Explorer 5 recording was made for the file, not for sound quality, and that it would raise more questions than answers. A workable order is Explorer 5 for the first contact, Explorer 6 for the levels and colors, Explorer 13 for the question-and-answer sessions, and Explorer 14, The Brain and Higher Consciousness. Cautions inside the sessions In Explorer 13 the communicator says SHE should not enter very deep spaces or work with this material at home. Remarks about her physical condition in the early tapes are session content, not medical guidance. Treat the tapes as laboratory recordings made with monitors, not as exercises to copy alone. Who is Miranon? Miranon is the name of a communicator who spoke through an Explorer coded SHE in Robert Monroe's laboratory in the 1970s. He first appeared in Explorer 5, when a presence speaking through SHE gave the name in answer to Monroe's request for a way to identify it. Miranon describes himself as a consciousness on level 46 who once shared a distant existence with SHE, later became separated from her, and began to reach back after being told to gather the parts of himself that had separated. The Explorer series gives him several tapes, and other Explorers also report contact with the name. What are Miranon's seven colors?

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Monroe released selections as the Explorer Series, introducing each tape in his own voice and offering the material without evaluation. The original series ran to 24 tapes, and the Institute's YouTube channel now posts the recordings as numbered episodes, with later sessions from other Explorers identified only by code. The tapes are a small part of what happened in the booth: most session time went to routine testing of sounds and states, and the released segments were chosen for general interest. They are best heard as recorded conversations to compare, not as exercises to follow. Volunteers who trained first Rita Warren, who coordinated the Explorer work, defined an Explorer as a volunteer who has typically attended a Gateway Voyage and mastered the Institute's techniques. Candidates were tested in the laboratory and invited back. Monroe admitted the earliest Explorers were simply people who were available and willing, and that screening came later. His conclusion was that anyone can be an Explorer if their value systems can be self-adjusted, which takes a lot of work and patience that most people lack. A shielded booth, a waterbed, no drugs

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Several of the earliest tapes, numbers 4, 9, 16 and 20, include warnings about coming Earth changes. Those statements were made decades ago, so they can be compared with what has happened since. They are part of the record of what the communicators said at the time. Transcript quality varies Transcripts for tapes 1 to 24 are scans of typed pages. Those for tapes 25 to 32 are raw machine transcripts, so names and terms are sometimes garbled. When a line looks odd, check the audio. Health content is report, not advice Some sessions describe helpers working on an Explorer's body or recommending breathing, food or walking. Those are reports from the booth, not medical advice, and nothing in them replaces a clinician's guidance. What were the Monroe Institute Explorer sessions? They were laboratory sessions in which experienced volunteers, called Explorers, lay in an isolation booth at the Monroe Institute and described aloud what they perceived while a monitor in the control room asked questions. Sessions were recorded along with instrument readings. Explorers reported out-of-body travel, past-life scenes, descriptions of the focus levels and conversations with nonphysical beings. The Institute's archive dates the project from 1974 to 1991, with more than 70 Explorers and over 1,000 sessions. Monroe released a selection as the Explorer Series without evaluating it. Who were the Explorers, and can anyone become one?

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The monitor sits in the control room, hears the Explorer through the microphone and speaks back through the headphones. The job has four parts: guiding the Explorer into Focus 10, Focus 12 and beyond; asking for descriptions and relaying questions to whatever the Explorer meets; feeding Hemi-Sync signals and adjusting sounds; and watching the gauges and the Explorer's comfort. At the end the monitor brings the Explorer back with a count, sometimes a signal, and a debrief. Was Monroe always the monitor? On the original Explorer Series tapes the monitor is Monroe, who introduces them in the first person and describes the monitor as himself or another staff member. Rita Warren, who coordinated the Explorer work, and Martin Warren, who says he monitored many sessions, introduce and appear on later tapes. Transcripts of other sessions label the monitor's lines Monitor, with a first name, or not at all, so a name on a line is not enough to say who ran a session. What happened if an Explorer got into trouble in the booth?

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Miranon A communicator who spoke through an Explorer in Monroe's lab and described reality as levels in sevens, each with a color from blue to white. Miranon is the name of a communicator who spoke through an Explorer coded SHE in Robert Monroe's laboratory sessions in the 1970s. At the close of an early Explorer 5 session, Monroe asked the presence whether it could be given a name or a number to call it by, and the answer came: "The energy that would best describe me is Miranon." The Explorer series devotes several tapes to the exchange that followed: Explorer 5, an introduction; Explorer 6, levels and planes of existence; Explorer 13, human existence; and Explorer 14, the brain and higher consciousness. The material people remember most is his description of reality as levels grouped in sevens, each carrying a color: blue, red, yellow, rose, green, purple and white. Blue is a soothing, pulsing entry into a new plane, rose is the level of love where Miranon and SHE could meet, and white touches every other level and holds all color. Monroe called the Explorer 6 recording one of the most interesting descriptions of total reality his team had encountered. Nancy McMoneagle, a former director of the Institute, assembled transcripts and drew the diagram of the seven colors, and Daniel Erickson later collected them in a commented booklet, Focus Levels: Seven Resonant Colors Described by Miranon.

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“The fourth level of the seven is the one that both Leana and I are on, and it is one reason we can have contact with each other. It is the vertical plane. … This plane can either ascend or descend, and therefore we can meet. The color for this plane is a rose color. … The primary quality of this plane is what you call “love”. It is an openness to realities beyond this reality.” (Explorer Series: Compiled Audio Files (1-32) — Compiled Explorer Series #06 - Miranon Levels & Planes of Existence (Edited Transcript).pdf) “The color for this level is white. There is no color, or there is all color. And it is the highest level you can attain and still stay in the plane of reality upon which you exist. That is the basic understanding I have of these levels.” (Explorer Series: Compiled Audio Files (1-32) — Compiled Explorer Series #06 - Miranon Levels & Planes of Existence (Edited Transcript).pdf) Robert Monroe: “For this session, we will return to SHE and [visit] with Miranon for questions and answers. As you will note, the Miranon in these sessions is much more at ease, more able to communicate. The reason is, he is more familiar with the methods used, which evidently were as unfamiliar to him as they were to us.” (Explorer SHE Audio Files & Transcripts — 23 Compiled Explorer Series #13 - Miranon- Human Existance (Unedited Transcript).pdf)

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The Explorer recordings Listen to the Explorer conversations and follow their available transcripts, from the familiar 32-session series into the wider collection. Sources in this collection: Explorer Series: Compiled Audio Files (1-32); Monroe Institute Explorers Project (1974-1990) - Table of Contents; Explorer SHE Audio Files & Transcripts

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“Is there any means by which we can identify you? Can we give you a name, a number, so that we can use some point of identification, before you go. Energy-being: The energy that would best describe me is Miranon. Monroe: Miranon. Very good. This is much that we needed if we need to call you.” (Compiled Explorer Series Transcripts #1-32 — Compiled Explorer Tape Transcripts (Book) - from Robert Monroe.pdf) Robert Monroe: “One of these points of efficiency is to be able to reach back and speak, utilizing the physical vocal cords, while in … this expanded state of consciousness. Another is to reach a state of confidence where a blending takes place with another form of intelligence, so that this other intelligence can speak … As a result we met and became friends with one of our most favorite non-physical beings, whom you now know as [Miranon], due to popular request, as it were.” (The Brain and Higher Consciousness | Miranon & Robert Monroe #14) Robert Monroe: “I thought it was my own idea, but evidently not. When SHE arrived the following week for the next session, she presented me with a diagram, a chart as it were, of the 21 levels of physical matter existence here on this physical earth. She didn’t exactly say how she got this, except to say that it came to her. Also, she indicated that it was for me.” (Explorer Series: Compiled Audio Files (1-32) — Compiled Explorer Series #06 - Miranon Levels & Planes of Existence (Edited Transcript).pdf)