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Compiled Explorer Tape Transcripts (Book) - from Robert Monroe

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ful smell... fantastic... makes me float just to smell that smell. As I walk inside this flower I can see the insides of it, beautiful... I just brush against the different parts of the flower... just so soft... and as I touch it, it gives me energy, it's refreshing... I feel so light... sliding down a stem... lower stem like a cave... water inside... sliding down rapidly inside the base of this par- ticular flower... down at the bottom, looks like I'm down

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EXPLORER 2 9 in the Earth, brown... dark black soil... colours are so vivid... floating around in this soil... soil is turning dif- ferent colours... orangist brown... changing colours... vibration... it pulsates... As it pulsates it is changing colours... the Earth is doing that... it is pulsating. It is like I get into the rythm of the pulsating and it's just a good feeling to be in the rythm of it... coming up... down on the ground... walking in this huge, huge garden... most mag- nificent place I have ever seen... walking around... the greens are crystal green and when there is a drop of water on the leaves it is like a crystal ball... I look into this drop of water... it sparkles... like looking into a crystal ball... it is pulsating, and I can see myself... From looking into this drop of water, which is a crystal clear... and pulsating a little bit... I can see a city, a glowing kind of a city, back in the hills, just glowing... beautiful texture of light... it's like a light, but it's so bright that I have to look at it through this little drop of water... like looking at the future and the past... it's pulsating with life and light... I can see different parts of myself. I can see and feel all the excitement around me.

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I see a beautiful girl, I'm watching and following... she is playing a Greek instrument and singing... for several Greeks in Greek outfits, sitting out in the garden... She sings.. I can see like a different kind of harp instrument —but not quite— it has long strings... it's not like a harp... you can hold it in your hand... she is singing... working. She is part of this temple... she is sort of favoured... She is a servant, and has special privileges. I think she might be a temple prostitute, one of the more privileged because she