A couple years ago, if you wanted to attend a consciouness exploration retreat based on the Hemisync/Robert Monroe research, you had to save some money and book a flight to the Nancy Penn Center in Virginia, USA. If you didn’t live in USA then it was even more expansive to try to attend a retreat with the Monroe Institute.
But lately, they are some changes for instance, you can attend a Gateway Voyage retreat in Brazil this November 2010. There will be also a retreat in the UK in May, 2011. Here are the details:

Hemi-sync and Consciousness Exploration open weekend at www.ParsonageSideRetreat.webs.com. Some experienced workshop facilitators are going to be doing some workshops, talks, tasters and demonstrations on; out of body expriences, remote viewing and Monroe Products. Hemi-sync and monroe prodcuts for sale. Parsonage Side Retreat is set in the Somerset country side. It is a purpose-built residential centre equipped for brain-wave entrainment, out of body experiences and other related subjects. Dontations only to all workshops and a chance to be intrested in workshops in the very near future. More information to be posted on this event in the next coming months, B&B spaces available but going fast.

This CD fits in the same category than the Immrama Insight CD. It is a CD designed for deep relaxation. Hemi-Sync Transcendence CD doesn’t contain any music instead it has a pink noise in the background (pink sound is “white noise” (like the hiss sound from a television after a station has stopped transmitting) that has been equalized for human hearing to create a more pleasing natural sound)
The CD also contains some minimal verbal instruction, however, no real relaxation instruction. During the session you will be asked to relax but you better have a relaxation technique on your own. After a period of time, when you are supposedly relaxed you will receive some more instruction to feel and connect with the “Oneness”.

My personal opinion: If you have Gateway Experience : Wave 1 then the track called Advanced Focus 10 is perfect for the purpose of deep relaxation and stress reduction after a day at work. No need to invest in Transcendence

If you have Immrama Insigth CD sticks to Immrama , you will get nothing from Transcendence.

If you have nothing and if you are looking for a relaxation CD with pink noise then may be for the investment of 19.95 dollars, you could give Transcendence a try. It has also a non-verbal track , so if you don’t need the already minimal instruction then the non-verbal track can be the way to go. Transcendence is cheaper than Imramma Insight CD.

The Monroe Institute is lately doing good effort to keep the legacy of Robert Monroe alive. There was this book published in 2007 “The Journey of Robert Monroe: From Out-of-Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer“, about his life and his work on consciousness.
Last summer the Monroe Institute put online a series of video of Robert Monroe dating back the early 90′s.

About the videos: If you attended the Gateway Voyage residential program at The Monroe Institute in the last 10 to 15 years, you missed the evening talks with Bob Monroe. Prior to his death in 1995, Bob talked with Gateway Voyage participants on Saturday evenings, their first night at the Institute, and on Wednesday evenings after they had experienced the exploration of Focus 21, a bridge to other realities. Wednesdays talks were particularly precious to participants as they had experienced for themselves by that time the very realms Bob spoke of during those Wednesday evening discussions.

Here is a collection of nine clips that together constitute one of Bob Monroe’s Wednesday night talks in 1990. Bob didn’t like to be filmed, so we are fortunate to still have this classic footage.

My first Robert Monroe-style OOBE

Early this morning, I had a Robert Monroe-style out of body experience, it was long and memorable just like in the Robert Monroe two last books. Many people take up course in remote viewing or OOBE like the Bulhman course or the Monroe OOBE course to prove to themselves that they are more than their physical body.
An out of body experience is definitely the way to go especially if you manage to have a long one like the one I had this morning. It will remove all doubts you might have, genuine OOBE doesn’t feel like lucid dream , it is different. Let me tell you my story.
This morning, I woke up to find out that I was partially out of body, some part of my subtle body was still attached to my physical body, I tried hard to detach and go completely out of body, but it didn’t work, I finally gave up and fell back asleep.
A few minutes later, I woke up again but this time I was completely out of body, I didn’t know it, I saw no difference my room was just my room. It took me awhile to realise that I was out of body, I didn’t know how it came about. I decided to left my home and explore my surrounding.
Here I don’t remember how I did it, but I appeared in the stair of a high rise building, I saw a crowd of people trying to enter the elevator.
I decided to not go with them but to continue walking down the stair. It occurred to me that I could just go through walls. I tried but it didn’t work, I could only go a few centimeters into the wall no more than that. I assume here I have a limiting belief, I continued walking down the stair until I reached the underground level, I was surprised I saw no door, I turned my head around to look for a door, then a door was there, but strangely I thought that door wasn’t there a few seconds before, I walked in the grand underground parking of that building I could see a shining light from the sun coming from the entrance of the parking.

Here I decided to experiment with something, I focused on attracting a demon or negative entity. A so-called demon came from the entrance of the parking, he was on the form a very tall muscular guy very hostile. I think if I was in a lucid dream the entity would just appear at front of me instead of coming from the entrance like a resident of that “belief system territory” (Robert Monroe term for OOB-locations , areas)
The guy attacked me although he was tall and muscular he wasn’t very strong, I easily managed to put him down, I took the occasion to run away but in that environment I noticed it was difficult to run or even walk, it demanded me effort and coordination.
I think “navigating” is a more appropriate term. As I arrived at the level of the exit, I turned my head a last time in direction of the guy-demon , sat on the ground he looked at me like a child, he took a pair of nunchaku from his jacket and waved it like Bruce lee and he said “aurevoir” (good-bye) in a child like manner like a 3 years old kid.

Now, I do not understand the people fearing negative entities or demons, they cant arm anyone and they often are projections of inner beliefs. If you believe that the world is a hostile place you are more likely to manifest a representation of that when you are out of body. I personally welcomed this confrontation with the entity in my waking life I do not have occasion for fist fight like that, there is really nothing to fear.
Out of body, you either encounter your own creations (I believe this one was mine) or the creation of someone else compatible with your belief system. Either case there is nothing to fear just understand , you do create your reality in and out of body.

Once in the street everything looked so real and solid with no incoherence, I swear if I had died in my sleep and opened my eyes to be there, I would have believed that this place was my physical reality because they lookalike. It was very sunny like a summer day, people were everywhere, many cars around and many buildings. I asked myself what this place was, I didn’t recognize that city.

At one point, it seemed like my hometown of Brussels at another point I had the impression to be elsewhere.
I was very impressed, it was almost like physical reality with two notable differences, the color there weren’t as vivid as in physical reality. It was like in a Clint Easwood movies such as Mystic River or Flags of our fathers not too vivid colors. The second notable difference, is that I didn’t really walk or run, I navigated it is difficult to describe. At some point I could move with fluidity at another point I couldn’t I was going very very slow, I don’t know why, I have a lot to learn here.

Again I cant say it enough but the place was so real, I speculate that some people have an existence there when they are asleep where they work out some issues or explore creativity but they don’t have recollection of their experiences when they woke up in the so called physical reality. Probably for the native of that belief system territory our so called physical reality is the dream. I walked long time crossed large section of that unknown city. It was a nice walk during a very sunny day. I passed by a subway station then I got the idea to take the names of the streets so I can look online if this place exist, I took the name of two streets I passed. I continued my walk until the countryside. There I was stopped by a group of teenagers , they asked me for my help strangely they knew that I could speak fluently Spanish, they needed someone able to talk Spanish , one of guy asked me if I could try to talk to his girlfriend to convince her to talk to him again.
Here, I worried that if I got involved with those young guys I would forget the name of streets that I wanted to verify. These thoughts interrupted the experience I was back in physical reality, the experience was so long and I had a bit of doubt about being really in my physical reality. I got out of my bed and took notes of the streets and locations.
Later in the day, I was able to use Google Maps and find three of the places “Circus straat” , “Mechelse Straat” and the part in the countryside was on Woluwestraat in machelen, I have managed to find picture of Woluwestraat, it is indeed the countryside !!!
I was also able to locate the subway station near “circusstraat”. May be, I visited a probable parallel version of Belgium. Because those streets are in Brussels and Woluwestraat is in the small town of Machelen right outside Brussels. Why Belgium, why not Spain where I live ? I don’t know.
But, I’m happy with the experience I’m looking for more exploration. If you want to prove to yourself that you are more than your physical body I urge you to have a OOB experience either take up the reliable Robert Bruce course or the Monroe one or both Robert Bruce recommends to supplement his course with the Monroe course.

Have fun !

I got lucky again I managed to find another super relaxing music with a great slideshow of clouds. The music looks like Hemi-sync Cloudscapes.

What is Hemi-Sync ? Hemi-Sync helps you safely alter your brainwaves with multi-layered patterns of sound frequencies. When you hear these through stereo headphones or speakers, your brain responds by producing a third sound (called a binaural beat) that encourages the desired brainwave activity.

What is remote viewing ? Remote viewing is a mental faculty that allows a perceiver (a “viewer”) to describe or give details about a target that is inaccessible to normal senses due to distance, time, or shielding. For example, a viewer might be asked to describe a location on the other side of the world, which he or she has never visited; or a viewer might describe an event that happened long ago; or describe an object sealed in a container or locked in a room; or perhaps even describe a person or an activity; all without being told anything about the target — not even its name or designation.

Great video explains how binaural beat works and how it can help with remote viewing.

“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.

A large selections of 150 titles Hemi-Sync are available on iTunes. This includes their MetaMusic, some Human-Plus titles in English, German and Japanese, The Going-Home, The Gateway Experience and the Hemi-Sync In Motion.

Launch Itunes and do a search for “hemi-sync”

You will have a list of the 150 titles, if you click to view the directory, you will see the albums sold for € 9.99 euro a lot cheaper
than the CD price of about €20 euro.

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Note: This post is also relevant if you play with The Gateway Experience CDs
I have been playing with The Zapper MP3 and Brain Sync Ecstasy to reach deep trance, I did a few meditations with Dick Sutphen s The Zapper MP3 and a few with Ecstasy. I got better results with Ecstasy than with The Zapper, The Zapper was supposed to be the most powerful tool of the two ?
They both embed theta brainwave pattern, The Zapper is one track of 1 hour 13, it is dull , boring and repetitive the first night I couldn’t get into any deep trance state, the second night with The Zapper the trance was such that I fell almost asleep, the third night wasn’t successful.
I then switch to the Brainsync Ectsacy , 2 tracks both around 28 minutes with Brainsync, I was able to build the proper energy, I was able to reach the 3D blackness, I had a sense of bi-location (being in two locations in same time), I had also a sense of movement and being with someone else, I also saw images , it was like I was over a forest. I did the sending out love and it was a great experience, my last experience yesterday was even better in term of sending out love however, I didn’t reach the 3D blackness, I didn’t build to proper energy.

What I do during this meditation that I call Kundalini Love Meditation
During 7 minutes I do autogenic training to relax myself.
After, I count backward from 100 to 1, during the count I breathe and on the exhale I raise ying chi to my brain.
When I finish the count I continue raising ying chi , it takes about 40 minutes to reach the 3D blackness assuming I’m in the proper energetic state, (you cant reach the 3D blackness if you have a headache induced by too much time on the computer or too much television)
When you have that less than 3D feelings, you have I believe open some kind of door, they are many things you can do from experiencing unconditional love by sending out love, you can work with affirmations usually they manifest faster I had experience where they manifested immediately, you can jump into Focus 21 and explore other realities or you can contact and communicate with your soul , higher self, whatever you want to call it.
I have found that some activities demand a higher level of concentration than others.

My advices if you want to go that route, do not meditate with something in the stomach, don’t take a heaving meal the night you plan to meditate, remove yourself from any EMF (Electro-Magnetic Field) such as TV or computer screen at least 3 or 4 hours prior to meditate, this make sure EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pollution) will not prevent you to build the proper energetic state. It is relevant information, if like me you are sensitive to EMF, I cant hold a mobile phone in my pocket for instance, I feel like something is bubbling inside me and I can have the pain stay for weeks.

Now, if you are really hungry the night you want to meditate in deep trance, have a small meal made of fruits or may be fruit juice if you have the machine to do your own juice or try a salad. But by all mean, avoid sweet, bread, pasta , potatoes, meats. If you want to reach higher energy system then you need a body compatible with higher energy system.

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I managed to find a few video interviews of my all-time hero the great Robert A. Monroe (1915-1995), the man is an absolute pioneer in the field of consciousness exploration.

In the first interview he talks about overcoming the fear of physical death.

In this second part, Monroe talks about his first OOBE (Out Of Body Experience), he explains the vibrations and all phenomenons associated with OOBE and also explain how OOBE freed him of any fears.

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