Robert Monroe: “This is Robert Monroe speaking. The following is made up of material taken directly from the voice tracks of Explorer sessions held here at our research facility. We offer them without our evaluation or comment, so that you can learn from them as we did and form your own interpretation or analysis of what took place.” (GROUNDBREAKING Session with Robert Monroe & ROMC | Communication with Non-Physical Entities #01) Rita Warren: “An Explorer is a volunteer subject who has typically attended a Gateway Voyage and has mastered our techniques for the exploration of consciousness. Such individuals are tested in our laboratory and, at our invitation, come back for Explorer sessions.” (Importance of Thought Forms #25, 2024-09-12) Robert Monroe: “The first ones were a product of typical subject selection … those who were available and willing. In other words, we used what we had. In terms of background they included a wide variety, from clinical psychologists and physicists to secretaries … Later we began to use various testing procedures to eliminate unlikely prospects, which may or may not have been valid.” (Laboratory Procedures with Robert Monroe #24, 2024-09-05)
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Robert Monroe: “No drugs or medication was used during any of the sessions. The thing you need to understand now is that the Explorer tapes, as you know and heard them, are but a small part of the total. Most of the session was another kind of exploration, usually very tedious and tiresome.” (Laboratory Procedures with Robert Monroe #24, 2024-09-05) Robert Monroe: “There were these three ways that this communication pattern began to organize itself. One was, and by far the most common, where our Explorer would meet this third-party being and communicate with it and report it back in communication. So one of us [in] the monitoring and control room would communicate to this and say, “Well, ask him about gravity.”” (Robert A. Monroe GATEWAY VOYAGE Talks - Monday Nights — 1983-10-10 Monday Night GATEWAY Talk (Transcript).pdf) “Like four, four people, four just presences came on—one on each foot and one on my, my hands—and they sort of lifted my etheric body just up above my physical body. It just sort of lifted me out, and I was just sort of hanging up over my physical body. And they each were, they were working. They had like a purple energy bar. They were working on my energy body, my etheric body, and just re-energizing it.” (GROUNDBREAKING Session with Robert Monroe & ROMC | Communication with Non-Physical Entities #01)
Robert Monroe: “What struck us as truly profound was the [evidence] of a technology being used, the product of a science, knowledge, training, intellect, call it what you will, so far beyond or different from any present level of our understanding that we felt inadequate and challenged at the same time.” (Laboratory Procedures with Robert Monroe #24, 2024-09-05) Robert Monroe: “To accept at the least [the] possibility that you are more than your physical body, that you can and do exist in energy systems that are not limited to time, space, physical matter, that you can reach and communicate with intelligence beyond your physical consciousness. Call it what you will: another part of you, your higher self, your soul, your helpers, guides, angels, non-physical friends and loved ones, God and intermediaries. That is for only you to determine in your own ultimate truth.” (Laboratory Procedures with Robert Monroe #24, 2024-09-05) Listen to Tape 24, then Tape 1 Tape 24 is Monroe's own tour of the laboratory and the best orientation to how the sessions worked. Tape 1 gives a complete early session with his introduction. After those two, the Miranon tapes (5, 6, 13 and 14) and the numbered episodes on the Institute's channel are easier to place. These are lab conversations, not exercises