The monitor watched the gauges and could send staff in. Monroe describes a session in which every life-support reading dropped to nothing for about two and a half minutes and he was heading into the booth when the readings returned. Smaller interventions appear too: monitors add a grounding signal to help an Explorer return, and in one session an Explorer who asked for someone to come in was told staff would be right there. The Explorer had a microphone close to the mouth and could speak to the control room. How did the monitor bring an Explorer back? By count and by voice. A typical closing asks the Explorer to come back to the region of Focus 10, take their time and let the monitor know when they arrive. The monitor then guides a return to ordinary waking consciousness, alert and full of energy, with a count from 10 to one and sometimes a short beta signal to help. Some monitors also offer a grounding signal, check that the Explorer feels centered and ask where the Explorer would like to hold the debrief. Did the monitor's questions shape what Explorers said?
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The monitor's role in an Explorer session
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Often, and the transcripts show it. In one 1984 session a communicator told the monitor that a question about how life entered the universe was built on a false distinction, and the monitor restated it. The communicator said such basic ideas require questions to be redirected for the answer to make sense. A monitor may also hold back: one explained that the Explorer was in such a good flow that they chose not to risk stopping it. Reading what the monitor said just before an answer shows what the Explorer was responding to. Do I need a monitor to explore consciousness myself? Not for the Gateway Experience, which is self-guided: recorded narration and Hemi-Sync do the monitor's guiding. Explorer sessions were laboratory work with a monitor because the Explorer was talking to the control room, being measured and sometimes in contact with other beings. The Institute's lab still runs personal resource exploration sessions in the booth with a monitor in the control room, a Monroe Institute leader said on a 2017 podcast. A communicator in one 1985 session said progress without the equipment is possible. Is an Explorer monitor the same as a remote viewing monitor?
The name is shared, the job is not. In Institute remote viewing training, as described in a 1984 procedures document, the viewer and monitor sit at opposite ends of a table in a plain room. The monitor gives the target coordinates, repeats them at intervals and gives feedback that reinforces the viewer's contact with the site without cuing the answer. An Explorer monitor works from another room, guides the Explorer's state, asks open questions and watches the instruments while the Explorer reports aloud. Far Journeys: Monroe pictures the monitor, himself or another staff member, in a control room down the hall, talking with the volunteer by sound system, feeding Hemi-Sync into the headphones to test new frequencies or help the volunteer reach a state, and watching the physiological readouts, often with an assistant. Far Journeys: He adds a practical rule: volunteers visited the bathroom before each session, because too many sessions had been cut short when a full bladder was mistaken for a problem in the physical body. References: Compiled Explorer Series Transcripts https://archive.org/details/compiled-explorer-series-transcripts-1-32