Campbell says Monroe got the property in a land swap offered during a course, and that he and Monroe drove out in a Jeep to see it. The Institute’s 1978 newsletter, The Explorer, reported New Land construction under way: fireproof, energy-efficient buildings heated by solar, methane and wood; an organic farming division; a community center for the archives and meditation rooms; and cabins for solitude in hidden valleys and on Robert’s Mountain. From the M5000 workshops to the Gateway Voyage After Monroe saw the effect of the first binaural tapes, Campbell, Mennerich and Nancy McMoneagle toured with a portable sound system, giving weekend programs to groups lying on air mattresses. McMoneagle says they were called the M5000 because Bob wanted to train 5,000 people and hoped to find some gifted psychics among them. Atwater says the 5,000 mark was passed within a couple of years, and in a video posted in 2010 he put the Institute's own numbers at about a thousand people a year. The residential Gateway Voyage, with participants listening in private CHEC units (controlled holistic environmental chambers), became the main way in. Programs: Gateway first, then the advanced track
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As of 2026 the Institute lists the residential Gateway Voyage as five days and six nights, with virtual and online versions, and calls it a prerequisite for many advanced programs. Those include Guidelines, a classic for more than 40 years; Lifeline, conceived in 1991; Exploration 27; Peak Week; and Starlines I and II. Entry-level options also include OBE Spectrum, Lucid Dreaming and Remote Viewing Basics with Joe McMoneagle. The research laboratory and the Explorers In the lab, Explorers lay in booths wearing headphones while a monitor guided them by microphone and the sessions were recorded. McMoneagle says Bob used them to test his sound formulas, seeing how deeply people could go while staying awake, then sent them out to ask what the nature of reality is. A 1988 article says research director Rita Warren and her staff had run more than 800 sessions with over 130 people since she moved to the New Land three years earlier. Joe McMoneagle also worked with Monroe there on tapes. The Professional Division and the journals A host at the 2015 Professional Seminar said Bob founded the Professional Division in 1982, with the first seminar in 1983. Members, including clinicians, researchers and educators, apply the Institute’s sound technology in their fields and report in its journal, which was called Breakthrough, then the Hemi-Sync Journal, and from 2009 the TMI Journal. Leadership after Bob
Laurie Monroe took over after her father’s death on March 17, 1995, and was director until about 2006, according to Nancy McMoneagle, with Skip Atwater then filling in. By March 2008 Paul Rademacher was the new executive director, and other directors followed. A 2014 magazine profile calls Nancy McMoneagle the recently appointed executive director and president, her second term after 1983 to 1991. The Institute’s website now lists Allyn Evans as chief executive officer and Luigi Sciambarella as chief R&D officer. Robert Monroe: “That is that the Institute today is not just one man. I'm just one small part of the process that, through those 35 years, beginning in 1958, various types of people got involved, because there was no scientific base to try and determine what an out-of-body is or was. But, all the most important thing is that all through these intervening years up to now, and there have been hundreds, literally hundreds of people from all disciplines participating … making the Institute what it is now. And the, these are engineers, a lot of engineers, physicists, psychologists by the ton, psychiatrists, MDs, professors in various colleges and universities.” (A Rare Conversation with Bob Monroe | Exploring Expanded States of Consciousness | EOC (Ep. 3), 2023-08-02)