Compiled Explorer Tape Transcripts (Book) - from Robert Monroe

EXPLORER: ...at first, I didn't really think there would be any contact. The light... the vortex.... were very attract- ing. And I see that the pattern... (inaudible...) and then when I was saying the name (Miranon) over and over, I just became aware of a feeling that I was separating from my body, and when you said «Good evening» (to Miranon) it was very clear and seemed just as much me than it was him. Then I went into a kind of cocoon as experienced once before, and was quietly there, just listening to what you were saying. And when you started talking about the child, I sort of started crying and I wanted him to go away, but did not seem able to... so I just laid back and the cocoon turned into a big vortex and I felt I was being sick to my stomach. And that is when I felt able to come back. I was totally dis- oriented at first when the light came on. I did not have any spatial relationship to the room. Comment: It 4s interesting to note the concern Méinanon has for the well-being of our Explorer. This gradually gave us a greater sense of congidence, to say the Least. To give you an ikkustnration, here are portions of the folowing SeSSLiON...

EXPLORER 5 33 up and up... and there is a very beautiful purple space above me... (Long pause...) ah... it's very dark... I am floating. {another pause) ... the light in front of me keeps expanding; I'm going to go towards that... It feels like I'm dividing... I feel like I've staid in a cold (inaudible) of ice cream... I do perceive a pulsing of the colours... but I can't visua- lize the colours... (Minanon enters SHE'S body.)