“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
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The monitor's role in an Explorer session
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Several sessions include a communicator advising the monitors how to run sessions. Treat that as the contact's recommendation, as the Institute does for all Explorer material, rather than as lab protocol. The Institute takes no stand on its validity. Monitor means different things elsewhere In remote viewing, a monitor sits at a table with the viewer, supplies target coordinates and gives feedback. In the Institute's personal resource exploration sessions, a person in the booth has a monitor in the control room, as Explorers did. The word is the same, but the jobs differ. Names on transcript lines Raw transcripts label lines Monitor, Bob Monroe, a first name or nothing, and some mention staff by first name. A first name alone does not establish who monitored a session. This site uses roles and Explorer codes. Machine transcripts blur speakers Auto-generated transcripts often run the monitor's and the Explorer's words together, as in many 1970s sessions. When who said what matters, listen to the audio. What does the monitor do in an Explorer session?
The monitor sits in the control room, hears the Explorer through the microphone and speaks back through the headphones. The job has four parts: guiding the Explorer into Focus 10, Focus 12 and beyond; asking for descriptions and relaying questions to whatever the Explorer meets; feeding Hemi-Sync signals and adjusting sounds; and watching the gauges and the Explorer's comfort. At the end the monitor brings the Explorer back with a count, sometimes a signal, and a debrief. Was Monroe always the monitor? On the original Explorer Series tapes the monitor is Monroe, who introduces them in the first person and describes the monitor as himself or another staff member. Rita Warren, who coordinated the Explorer work, and Martin Warren, who says he monitored many sessions, introduce and appear on later tapes. Transcripts of other sessions label the monitor's lines Monitor, with a first name, or not at all, so a name on a line is not enough to say who ran a session. What happened if an Explorer got into trouble in the booth?