“Where do I go after I die ?” is a question Bruce Moen author of the explorirng the Afterlife book series. Bruce Moen was an engineer who asked himself “Who I’m, where do I come from, why am I here” type of questions.. his quest for knowledge leads him to learn lucid dream and out of body travel as way to find answers to his questions.
In the early 90s, Bruce Moen attended a 6 days Gateway Voyage program at the Monroe Institute.

According to The Monroe Institute (TMI) website the organisation is devoted to the premise that focused consciousness contains definitive solutions to the major issues of human experience. Greater understanding of such consciousness can be achieved through coordinated research efforts using an interdisciplinary approach.
The results of such research efforts are meaningful only if there are practical applications—something of value for our contemporary culture. The Monroe Institute proposes to introduce, at all levels of human endeavor, abilities that will constructively change humankind’s direction and destiny.

During his Gateway Voyage program he had the opportunity to listen to the Patrick Tape recorded in the late 70s by Robert Monroe and Rosalind McKnight. The “Patrick Tape,” the account involves retrieving the male victim of a mishap at sea who did not realize that he was already dead.
At that time in the 70s, Robert Monroe was experimenting with the Hemi-sync system and Rosalind McKnight was explorer , she was in an isolation booth where she could communicate with Monroe via microphone. The experiments involved exploring beyond the physical consciousness during one the session that took Monroe by surprise they entered in contact with a guy who died more than 100 years ago. The “retrieving” of that man called Patrick did a lot to help Bob Monroe to understand the possibility of a life after the physical one end.

Below is the account and impressions of Bruce Moen has he listened to the “Patrick Tape”, there is a longer more details account by Rosalind McKnight in her book “
Cosmic Journeys: My Out-Of-Body Explorations With Robert A. Monroe ”

The Patrick Tape – excerpt from Bruce Moen book - Exploring the Afterlife: Voyages Into the Unknown

In the Patrick tape, the explorer was functioning as a channel, that is allowing a
nonphysical person to use her vocal cords to speak. Monroe was the outside monitor for the session. After some preliminary information, the person using her vocal chords said they wanted to try something new. After getting assurances that the explorer would not suffer any ill effects Monroe gave the go-ahead to proceed. What followed was a conversation with a person named Patrick who, it turned out, had been dead for about 100 years. I listened in utter fascination as the story unfolded. I could feel the implications for getting answers to the third of my three great questions. I could feel I was being exposed to a method that would allow me to explore and possibly learn answers to the question, where do I go after I die?Patrick had been a cook on a small steam powered ship in the middle eighteen hundreds.
His ship hauled lumber from Scotland and Ireland to the southern part of England. After dark one night the ship’s boiler exploded and Patrick was thrown into the sea. He swam around until he happened on a timber from his destroyed ship floating in the water. He held onto that timber in the icy cold water hoping that when daylight came he would be spotted by a passing ship and rescued. The tone and emotion in Patrick’s voice gave a very real, genuine feel to the words he spoke through the explorer. I remember in my skepticism thinking, if this is a fake story it’s a very good, realistic fake.
As I listened to Monroe’s voice on the tape and Patrick’s responses it became clear that Patrick didn’t know he was dead. As far as Patrick knew it was still that first night of the explosion. He was still waiting, over a hundred years later, for the sun to rise that next morning with the hope of being found and rescued.

The shiver in Patrick’s voice and his comments about being so cold gave a clue as to what had happened. I got the impression that Patrick had hung on to that timber until he gradually lost consciousness due to hypothermia. He had probably faded in and out a few times before he died.
During one of those fade outs he had slipped beneath the icy water and drowned. When he became conscious again it was after he had died. The hope of hanging on to that floating timber
until daylight had brought him back. He was still clinging to that timber.

I have to give Monroe credit. Using the suggestions he was given beforehand, channelled through the explorer in the booth before Patrick came through, Monroe rescued him. The suggestions had been to get Patrick’s attention, join him in his present reality and then somehow inform him that he had died. Monroe accomplished this and in the process learned where Patrick had lived, about his family and other details. It was clear that information Patrick gave about his life and death might be usable to verify that he had once been alive on this earth as the experience proposed.
Other suggestions were to bring Patrick up to a place that felt safe and tell him to look forthe light.
Monroe succeeded in getting Patrick to float up and out of the water. When Patrick told
Monroe his mom had died during an epidemic it gave an opening to explain to Patrick that he was dead. After first carefully skirting around the issue, Monroe told Patrick he was like his mom now, he had died. There were a few moments between Patrick’s incredulous disbelief and his acceptance of the possibility.
Patrick looked for the light and eventually saw it. That started the most emotionally
moving part of the experience. Moments after Patrick saw the light his mother appeared to him and a very emotional reunion took place. Patrick’s mother had been waiting there to take him home and shortly after she arrived they left together. This was a very emotionally moving experience for me and I found myself trying, as it ended, to hide the fact that tears were streaming down my cheeks.

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