Lenina Rosenweg
25th July 2011, 00:47
Recently, due to a complicated variety of reasons, including the death of my father two months ago, I've developed an interest in areas of parapsychology and offbeat cosmology.
This may get shot down or laughed at but here goes. I've been reading Robert A. Monroe. He was a US businessman apparently was a pioneer in introducing cable TV. In the late 1950s he had an experience where he felt he was leaving his body. Needless to say this weirded him out. He began experiencing this often and eventually was able to reproduce it at will. Monroe preferred to call this ab "Out of the Body Experience" OOBE, rather than the occult sounding "astral projection".
In the 1970s Monroe wrote a book on his experiences, "Journeys Out of the Body". He started a research institute, the Monroe Institute in Virgina to study this. Growing numbers of people from around the world claim to have experienced an OOBE. Researchers studying this say there's no evidence people literally "leave their body", verification of external markers seen in an OOBE such as time on a clock face are different than in the real world. Something seems to be happening though, no one knows what.
Monroe later wrote "Far Journeys" in which he develops a Buddhist/Gnostic type cosmology. It makes for interesting reading, if nothing else.
I think something may be going on and I think it has a material cause.
Any thoughts?
This may get shot down or laughed at but here goes. I've been reading Robert A. Monroe. He was a US businessman apparently was a pioneer in introducing cable TV. In the late 1950s he had an experience where he felt he was leaving his body. Needless to say this weirded him out. He began experiencing this often and eventually was able to reproduce it at will. Monroe preferred to call this ab "Out of the Body Experience" OOBE, rather than the occult sounding "astral projection".
In the 1970s Monroe wrote a book on his experiences, "Journeys Out of the Body". He started a research institute, the Monroe Institute in Virgina to study this. Growing numbers of people from around the world claim to have experienced an OOBE. Researchers studying this say there's no evidence people literally "leave their body", verification of external markers seen in an OOBE such as time on a clock face are different than in the real world. Something seems to be happening though, no one knows what.
Monroe later wrote "Far Journeys" in which he develops a Buddhist/Gnostic type cosmology. It makes for interesting reading, if nothing else.
I think something may be going on and I think it has a material cause.
Any thoughts?