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2021 Professional Conference & Seminar:
TMI Explorers Tape Program
(Dan Erickson)
(Transcript)
NOTE: This is an unedited transcript – it is exactly as created by otter.ai.
Susan Smily 00:14
We now have great pleasure of introducing a friend of mine who have come to know quite well,
over the last year, when I started a little bit over a year ago, setting up the Explore tape project
and invited members of the professional association to come on board. One of the people that
jumped on early in the game was Dan Erickson, who reviewed a few tapes for me and then
took on another Explorer, and he had reviewed a few of the IMEC tapes, Murray COBOL. And
I was new to the whole explorers gig. And I had given all of my volunteers phi phi phi phi five of
the IMEC tapes, not realizing there was going to be a sequence. But when Dan came back to
IMEC, he recognized the sequence and the need to look at the sequence. And one of the
things he's done over the last year, is not only coordinate the compilation of the reports of
these other people, but he has himself listened to all 232 tapes by this explore. And today, Dan
is going to take us on a most remarkable journey into the energy field that the friends brought
through Marie COBOL, during her time in the lab. And with that, I would like to invite Dan, to
join us and to take it away.
02:04
Well, thank you, Susan. I, I've prepared a video and we'll run that in just a minute. And I've just
got a short statement on May kind of introducing it. You know, the purpose of the Monroe
Institute is the global awakening of human consciousness. And this is the fundamental
message that the friends come through with the Monroe Institute provides us with tools for
meditation. And then the friends tell you what to do with it, how to move past what's the next
step. And it's all about the exploration of the soul and moving on and transcending the physical
existence. And it's very exciting to bring this information forward. And with that, we'll just run
the video. Hi, my name is Dan Erickson. I'm here today to discuss the friends channeled
material. In May of 2019, I became involved with the research efforts with the Monroe Institute
to transcribe channeled material from the Explorers program. And the Explorers program
lasted from 1982 to 1991. Susan smily asked me if I'd be involved. And I met her during my
gateway program. There at the Monroe Institute. I really feel fortunate to be a part of the effort
to bring this material forward. Thank you, Susan, for the opportunity. And it's really been a
growing experience for me, the explorers would would have headphones and a microphone so
that they could communicate back and forth between the booth and where the Explorer was.
And the way the sessions proceeded is the Explorer would go into a deep meditative state, I
suspect it was focused 12. And from there, then, specifically, the Explore would channel an
entity I settled upon the material from Marie Cabo. The material from Marie was was really
quite extensive. She had up to 232 hours of recorded sessions, and the primary entity that she
channeled was called the friends and the friends described themselves as not a single entity,
they claim to be an organized energy which exists outside of our material universe. In other
words, their existence is outside of creation. The Friends do not have physical bodies, though
they do claim that some parts of their energy field did materialize on the earth. Plain, I'll talk a
little bit about the concepts that they use the different wordings that they use. And I'll just
review them at this time, I'd like to share an interesting event that happened, it was a little
different than all of the other sessions that I had listened to. And in this particular session, the
friends stated they wanted to share some of their energy with the personnel doing the
recordings. And so just a, for a few seconds here, I'd like to try to recreate what it was that they
did. And what I'll do is kind of lead you through the exercise that they proposed. And we'll see
if it has some, some kind of a bearing or impact, and it's fairly simple. The Explorer is already
in a very deep meditative state. So I'm not going to ask you to get to that same deep
meditation. But just for a few minutes here, let's just close our eyes. Take a deep breath, let it
out. And we're just going to do a few deep breaths. And imagine that there is a mist, and as
you take a deep breath, you breathing it in and letting it out. And this mist has a color to it. And
you just notice what the color is.
06:44
And it comes into your presence, and you just breathe it out. And just note, any color that
comes into your mind, into your mind's eye. Okay, we're just gonna take one more deep
breath. And we'll be done with the exercise. So you can open your eyes now. And if you want
just write down the color that was most predominant, that came into you. And a little later in the
video, I'll let you know what the color was that the friends sent the color of the energy that they
were projecting. When I initially started listening to the channeled material, it was like being
dropped into the middle of a conversation took many hours to become accustomed to the
words that they used and the meaning of the words that they used. And after a year of working
with these tape sessions, I began to assemble a short glossary for myself simply as a key for
what the words meant and the concepts and what they were expressing. It was my hope that
in assembling the glossary, I'd begin to understand kind of in larger terms of what they were
saying, creating a glossary, however, it proved to be difficult. Some of the words they use were
very complex. They had multiple meanings. And unfortunately, they could really only be
expressed in the terms of a story, simply expressing the meaning without putting it into context.
Left, the definition lacking. And several times they expressed this they specifically say using an
expressed definition of a word is not understanding because they're using language, but
they're saying the meaning is beyond what we're capable of understanding even in the
language. The friends explained that many times by discussing the limitations of the English
language, they would simply be glossing over the true meaning. And part of the discussion is
for them to explain how to learn in a way that isn't filtered through our language. And they said
that the vast majority of what they are trying to explain cannot be translated into language and
so a lot of the material it for someone to just simply listen to a simple one session. It sounds
meaningless It sounds like there are English words, but it sounds meaningless. It sounds like
you're you're simply dropped into a fishbowl and there's all these different words that are being
used. And it's it's, it's somewhat frustrating because you think you know what they're saying.
And then you find out that it wasn't what they actually meant. When asked what the intent was
of the friends for contacting humans, their AI answer was to free the human spirit from Earth
Plane energies. They say that they wanted to make contact, and to freely exchange ideas. But
they'd say that's not possible because of our limited language. And they propose ways, and
they do teach some methodology to overcome this language barrier. So early on, I wanted to
keep an open mind, but also be skeptical. And don't endorse anything as truth. I typically don't
endorse anything as truth unless I've experienced it personally. And even that, I understand
that I can misunderstand stuff. So my only advice is to be informed and take this as a form of
entertainment, it may be revolutionary in some ways. And I did have a chance, I was prepared
to give this presentation last year at about this time. And so I've had a whole other year now, to
place this material into context with both Eastern and Western philosophies on meditation and
and what has happened is, I've been able to put this into context. And what I'll do is I'll bring
out with the friends say, that is different than these traditional methods. So I'm expressing
some of the key concepts, and what's required to understand the material. Each of the core
ideas address a common belief or fundamental layer in how an individual thinks. The core
question that keeps being addressed are, who are we? What are we as a person. And as you
read and understand each concept, these definitions you have of yourself continue to be
challenged. And hopefully, I'll be able to write them in a gentle and understandable fashion.
Many of the words used by the Friends have their initial meaning in the English definition.
When you hear them spoken or read, you think you know what's being said. But how it's
actually being used has a much broader definition. The word aspect, for example, is a good
place to start as it's one of the keys to understanding the friends. aspect is a part of a greater
whole. For example, if I say that bench is a typical aspect of a park, it's understood that you
find benches in a park, or when looking at a crystal, and you see a facet that smooth, and has
a surface and you can view the surroundings through the crystal. It's understood that you're
looking at an S spective view. This view is not the only view, but a part of the view that is
available. What's fundamental about understanding the friends is their perspective. They are
an energetic entity. From their point of view, everything is energy. They're only looking at our
new energy. Initially, they discussed how they were attempting to contact sentient life here on
the earth plane. And they started with atoms. They moved their way up to small organisms
than to lower life forms. And eventually they got to us. And they actually moved on to higher
life forms. Higher than than human beings, which I'll get to a little bit later, but it was very
interesting to hear the point of view of energy. How does Energy Community He came back
and forth. And for this, the the friends again see themselves as a conglomeration of like
energies. Bob called this a soul group. But they don't necessarily describe themselves as a
soul group. But again, an energetic a number of energetic life forms which vibrate at a similar
frequency. And I would assume have similar values. One of the interesting things that Martin
Warren pointed out, he asked the friends, are they a part of the channeled material, the
Course in Miracles. And the friend said that, yes, that was a part and aspect, a part of their
group. But the, what they want him to really convey was at any given point during the
channeled sessions, is there may be multiple entities which come through. And it's not always
the same energy that is being expressed in the channeled material. But for the most part, I
found them very consistent. And but they were very specific if there was a different entity being
channeled. But they, for the most part, had the same view.
16:56
For the friends, this concept of a part of the whole is representative of how they view us as
humans. So when the friends look at a human being, they are looking at a collection of
conscious energy. And the bulk of their material is trying to explain to us humans, what we are,
and key to their understanding of us. And what they want us to understand about ourselves is
that we have a part of ourselves which is very similar to them. And they call this the observer,
or the true self. And their entire methodology here is to learn to separate this true self from all
of the other energies that they call aspective. And they model this form of communication,
based on their observation of the human psyche. Some energies are stronger than others in
the human psyche, and have more capabilities to control the physical body, and they see the