Compiled Explorer Tape Transcripts (Book) - from Robert Monroe

EXPLORER 3 14 in a likeness that she was familiar with... and whether these likenesses were similar, mine and hers... there was no way to tell, so we left that question. Then I got an itch of some intensity on my neck, and I tried to explain that I existed in another reality besides the one I was sharing with her, and that I had a physical body elsewhere, and that that phy- sical body had an itch on its neck which was disturbing the focus of my attention. And that is why I seemed to be fading in and out as my attention wavered. She seemed to think that was quite incredible... I don't believe she believed be at all. She just kind of ignored that statement, like anyone would ignore somebody who says an irrational thing... I asked her about her physics. She took me to another place where there was another entity, this one male, and there was a writing surface much like a blackboard —but not a black- board— whereupon he attempted to explain the nature of things there. We had no success at all with his writings. The marks he was making on this surface were totally unintelligent to me. After a few efforts, we gave up and tried to go to pictures. All the time we could communicate telepathically. The pictures were Ok. He drew some pictures, and from the telepathic ex-

EXPLORER 3 15 They had a physical science as much as we do, in that the object in their reality obeyed very specific laws... I tried to see if any of their laws were similar to ours, such as gravitation, which was hard to tell. I could not point out what their concept of reality was. All I could do was trans- late into my own concepts, meaning, I did not see them floating around in air, but whether that was because they experience a thing like gravity like we do, or whether that was a function of my own experience —visualizing humanoids not floating in the air— I could not tell... I did feel that they had a basic physical science that ruled the objects of their reality. They did not move things around by thought processes or anything like that... it seemed sort of like an Earth-type physical reality to them, although I don't recognize many of their devices and structures, which seemed very foreign to me. They seemed to be fixed and isolated with these devices and structures. Somehow I appear to them as one of their own kind —whether that is humanoid or not, I don't know— maybe I should have tried to find out where they think I came from, or who they think I might be... END OF RECORDING