Robert Monroe: “I waited. I watched. Not a single flicker came from the gauges. It was very, very tense for a moment, and then one minute passed, and then two minutes. In about 2 minutes and 30 seconds I got up and started to leave, thinking, well, I better get into the control—from the control room—and into the booth to see if I could do anything to resuscitate that body that should be there. I was up and on my way when suddenly all of the gauges came back to life and everything appeared normal. I sat back down again with a great sigh of relief.” (Laboratory Procedures with Robert Monroe #24, 2024-09-05) “Okay, excellent. Now take yourself farther and farther out to your highest source of information. Tell me when you're feeling yourself to be there.” (Explorer GEH Audio Files & Transcripts — GEH-5 (Raw Transcript).pdf) “In communicating about these very basic ideas, the questions have to be redirected in order to, for the answer to make sense.” (Explorer GEH Audio Files & Transcripts — GEH-5 (Raw Transcript).pdf)
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The monitor's role in an Explorer session
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“Now, as you come back to ordinary waking consciousness, you will feel alert and full of energy. All your physical senses will be working brightly and beautifully. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, you'll be feeling in balance and in the state of harmony. Can you count yourself down now from 10 to one, and I'm going to give you a little beta signal to help you out.” (Explorer HBW Audio Files & Transcripts — HBW-05 Directions on how to work with explorers (Raw Transcript).pdf) “You should try to make him experience, and not just let him lay there in silence, you see, because when he lays there he starts to wonder: Do I experience something? Am I an Explorer? Maybe these people out there get bored. Nothing is happening. The tones still seem to be the same. Maybe I should never have gone into the booth. You know, all these thoughts come [across] his mind. We've heard all of those. Yes. Now it is important that you stop the Explorer from getting close to those concepts by asking him to do certain exercises, by moving the arms, the hands, the toes. Get him involved in what was going on [in] the booth.” (Entities, Energy Streams & Information #31, 2024-10-24) “Thank you. This, this is very helpful in the case of working with what I call new Explorers. And this resistance occurs as you've described, and it is projected onto the monitor.” (Navigating Inner Blockages | Explorer MDG #72, 2025-11-11)
“My, my thing in the session was that you were in all a really good flow. You were just going through all kinds of things. And so, I didn't want to really interrupt … and, and maybe stop the flow or, you know, throw a wrench in there.” (Beyond Focus 21 | Explorer FSW #84) Check the question before the answer When an Explorer names a person, a place or an idea, look at the monitor's preceding line. A question like what do you notice invites a free report, while one that names a subject supplies a frame. A minute of context often changes what a statement means and shows which ideas the Explorer brought. Sessions followed the Explorer, not a script Monroe changed course mid-session when an Explorer could not stabilize, and later monitors followed what each Explorer's contacts asked for. Expect pauses, restarts and side trips. Counting, grounding signals and reminders in monitor lines were chosen for one Explorer in one session. A lab standard, not a home method Booth work had staff, instruments and someone ready to enter the room, and that is the standard to respect. The Gateway Experience and the Gateway Voyage are the Institute's structured routes to similar states, and the Voyage's CHEC units, controlled holistic environmental chambers, are the residential cousin of the lab booth. Advice to monitors is reported communication