And the author of this book- "Journeys Out of the Body"- would you welcome Robert Munroe.
It is indeed a problem. How does one follow
And the author of this book, Journeys Out of the Body. Would you welcome Robert Monroe?
It is indeed a problem. How does one follow...
From body to out of body. What is an out of body experience?
Well, an out of body experience is a state of being, a state of awareness, a state of action, separate and apart from the physical body. About twenty five percent of the population throughout the world, I guess, has this spontaneously take place that they are aware of at least once in their lifetime.
Male host: What happens?
Robert Monroe: Well, what happens is you as an individual suddenly find yourself, for one reason or another, apart from your physical body and yet you can think, you can be, you can act. But your physical body is in some other location. It may be only two inches away or two thousand miles away.
Male host: Now we have heard about people who have supposedly died and then have come back to life. That is also an out of body experience?
Robert Monroe: That is indeed an out of body... a rather extreme way.
Male host: You believe in that then?
Robert Monroe: Oh, yes...
Female host: So if someone is in an awful automobile accident, and the next thing they know, they're... kind of... floating above it, watching...
Robert Monroe: That's what we mean by a spontaneous one, as it were. It is very, very common. And also, and a very important thing is that, everyone does this. The fact that you do not remember it does not infer that it does not happen. For example, during what we call delta sleep at night--which everyone goes through-- is quite probably according to our researches the time when everyone goes into this out of body state. You don't remember it, but it does take place.
Male host: Now is that like a dream?
And that began the search. I fearfully tried to avoid letting this take place and as things do happen it takes place again and you have to fight the surge of panic about it.
I have gone to sleep many times and not remembered going to sleep. I have had what I guess we know as dreams or even nightmares and I guess they are probably different. So how do you know it wasn't that or isn't that when you go and have an out of body.
It took me almost a year of various cautious exploration to determine that it was not a dream.
How do you explore it?
Well first you go just a little bit and you look round and you duck back in, then you go a little further as I did in the initial stages.
So you have complete control out of body?
When you go through this in a careful process you do.
I would be afraid of getting lost. I know that sounds silly but what if you went out and went round the block or something and couldn't get back.
I did that.
Did you? Well, see, it's not so silly. You could get lost.
It's amazing. For example, unless you have been in a helicopter for example, over San Fransisco, at night. Let's see(?) you'll find yourself if you're only a hundred feet over, a whole bunch of rooftops trying to find yourself and see where you are.
Questions from the audience about this ? Jill.
When did this start? How old were you? I mean was it like when you were a kid?
No, it did not start... when I was about, hmm, about 40 years old
Is it still happening today? I mean do you...
Yes in a different form.
But you control it completely today, is that right?
You mean, wait, wait you know when gonna come out, you say ok tonight I'm gonna go for a- around the block.
Well I've gotten tired of going around the block.
Do you go far? ...
Far? The farthest is about, well I've gone around the world once.
Oh you do go quite far. (?)
It's a... This time space gets very boring after a while.
So you don't only go around the world but you actually go out of the world.
How many times can you go from Virginia to San Fransisco, which has been one of my common runs, before it gets boring.
You like that huh?
No, I just have a lot of friends here.
Do you meet anybody else up there?
Well, yes we do.
Now, can this help people if they learn this out of body experience? Can it help them when they die, or they think they're going to die or their time's up in this life?
There's a major discovery that comes with the result of such activity or practice. Without any equivocation, without any...going past hope, belief, faith, you know that you do survive death. This changes your overview, your perspective. You have that knowledge. And it's not a religious thing. It's not a philosophic thing. It's a very, very pragmatic thing that you do survive physical death.
Robert Monroe: Yes-No, i should give you one illustration that is important to me. Um, i've passed the 20-year mark in this exploration, and I think that I have done this for two reasons: one, to prove that you can do this and still stay physically alive, and the second is that you can do this and still stay reasonably sane.
Female Host: Ha ha, two important points I might add...
Thanks. for all !