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)
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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
A monitor's prompt was meant for one Explorer in one session, in a shielded booth with staff and instruments. The recordings document what happened; they are not a method. The Gateway Experience and the Gateway Voyage are the Institute's structured routes into the same states. Codes are labels, not identities Explorers appear under assigned codes such as ROMC, SHE or IMEC, and the tapes do not name them. A code identifies a run of recordings, not a person. Matching codes to real people from similar initials is guesswork, so treat each code simply as the label for one Explorer's sessions. Know who is speaking Transcripts mix three voices: the monitor, the Explorer reporting in the first person, and a communicator speaking through the Explorer's voice. Labels such as Monitor, Bob Monroe or the Explorer's code help. The communicator's words are reported statements from the contact, not the Explorer's own views. The tapes are a selection, and evidence has limits Monroe chose segments of general interest and called them a small part of the total. The booth produced recordings and instrument readings, but names, histories, cosmologies and forecasts cannot be verified from them. Monroe admitted he had no proof when the gauges went dead and an Explorer reported being elsewhere. His safeguard was comparison: Explorers mostly did not know one another, so he judged the chance of cross-contamination between their reports to be low. The early forecasts are dated