Compiled Explorer Tape Transcripts (Book) - from Robert Monroe

EXPLORER (ROMC): I am coming up now... in my balloon... It is still the same balloon but it has changed shapes a little bit ... it's a little closer around me... it still doesn't touch me... I have enough room to float inside... there is nice breathing space... I'm on top of the balloon now... there is no limitation up there... the balloon has got a little helmet with a 12 on it. And now I'm going to be put through some fast-speed type of programs... I'm going to be shot into different types of objects, of different consistency... I'm being told that, even though I'm being shot into different objects —like into metals, and probably the Earth and different things— I'm going to be completely in control. I'm going to be completely the same... My breathing level will be the same, nothing is going to be changed, even though things outside of me are going to be going very, very rapidly. But inside this capsule —it is like a capsule, now. It has sort of gone from a balloon to a type of capsule— the balloon is still there, but it's like I'm being put into a capsule... So I'm going to be shot into rapid speed in certain areas... I'm just going to see now where I'm going to go and what's going to happen.

EXPLORER: It's all... like I can see through like a plastic; I'm supposed to be observing everything I'm going to be