A monitor's judgment included knowing when not to speak. After one session, a monitor explained that the Explorer was in a good flow and they had not wanted to interrupt it, even though other questions could have been asked. A communicator speaking through an Explorer gave monitors related advice: keep encouraging a new Explorer who feels nothing, treat silence as something to explore and suggest small movements of the arms, hands and toes. In another session a monitor said the resistance of new Explorers is projected onto the monitor. Who held the role On the original series the monitor is Monroe, and he describes the role in the first person. Rita Warren, who coordinated the Explorer work, and Martin Warren, who says he monitored many sessions, introduce later tapes and appear on them. Other staff ran the equipment and went into the booth to help Explorers out. Monroe said that attempts to monitor sessions at the Institute's center without full instrumentation were like flying an airplane blind. Robert Monroe: “She is wearing a modified set of headphones to give broad-frequency sound in each ear. Thus she can hear us and we can hear her. I or another monitor is sitting in a control room nearby, and we feed different types of audio hemispheric synchronization signals directly to the subject.” (Responsibility to Self #11)
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The monitor's role in an Explorer session
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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)
“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)