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Title: Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe ISBN: 0-385-00861-9 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great work on spirituality
Comment: Monroe has written 3 books on O.B.E and this is the first. Written decades ago, it records his experience and findings with OBE. This book contains more details about the astral planes nearer to the vibration of the physical plane we live in physically. It does however contain other dimensions and planes which he labels "Locale 2" and "locale 3".
His second book "Far Journey" is still my all time favourites, as it contains a lot of spiritual findings he has about the meaning of human life, etc. Is there reincarnation? Is there a God? Read all of his books and find out. The reason I like Monroe's book is that he use himself as a guinea pig to explore and investigate. He doesnt try to use religion and his beliefs and try to put it on you.
Monroe was a business man, and ever since he had the OBE experiences since the age of 42, he has been exploring it to find out more about it. After years of experimentation with soundwaves, he finally came up with his Hemi-Sync audios, which are able to induce OBE and altered states suitable to change habits, addictions, etc. In response to one of the review (below or above) who questions Monroe's sanity, Monroe has been doing many experiments about his OBE with the famous Dr Charles Tart, and Tart wrote the introduction to his book!
OBE is a very subjective experience, it cannot be proven objectively unless you experience it yourself, therefore people who have never experienced it will try to reason and use logic (which is limited only to their own ignorance/knowledge). Their (the psychologist's) reasonings and logic then becomes their belief (which they will try to prove is the only correct one- hmm, isn't that what they say about people's belief system?).
I have personally tried Monroe's technique outline in this book, and it works. Try it if you have the courage! It will prove to you once and for all that you are more than your body. (But of course, you may have a hard time convincing YOUR psychologist!)
Rating: 4
Summary: the very last words of the book
Comment: The book is great in that if you keep an open mind but also an open eye out for what could be....making up things, you just cant figure it out. Could be a hoax, but the guy sounds credible, at least sober. I also suppose that nobody could have pre-guessed that this book would go through so many printings at the point of writing. So why, I wonder, should he have gotten through all this without having a guarantee for success. Why bother? So there seem to be two more possibilities, he is either very different in the head than most of us. Or he is right.
Maybe this is an unusual place for a question, but if you have read the book, maybe you wanna share your opinion. The very last chapter of the book is not by Monroe, but by a psychiatrist, who fills in the reader on who Monroe has actually been(as a business man etc) in his lifetime. This chapter seems to have been added after Monroe died. On the very last page of the book this pschiatrist quotes somebody else. This quote, more or less, says the following: a person will always believe in his own reality, and every view interfering with it will not alter it.
My question: what is he trying to say? That Monroe was indeed "insane" and generated all his experiences because he was desperate for meaning in this world? Or that he was bold, defending his claim that his experiences were real to the very end?
Rating: 4
Summary: An outdated "classic"
Comment:
When Robert Monroe began leaving his body decades ago he couldn't just hop on the web to locate others with this ability, or one hundred books that expound on this phenomina. Thus, his experiences here are those of a pioneer of sorts trying to figure things out more or less on his own. Consequently, his terminology and ideas are a bit outdated. And oddly enough, his experiences themselves seem different than those typical of todays astral projectionists(?!).
For someone who has read a bit on OBEs I recommend this book for its perspective and for its status as an early classic. But for those new to this topic I'd recommend something more current such as Buhlman's "Adventures Beyond the Body" or Bruce's "Astral Dynamics".
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Title: Far Journeys by Robert Monroe ISBN: 0385231822 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe ISBN: 0385472080 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Adventures Beyond the Body: How to Experience Out-of-Body Travel by William Buhlman ISBN: 0062513710 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 27 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-Body Experiences by Robert Bruce ISBN: 1571741437 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Out of Body Experiences: How to Have Them and What to Expect by Robert Peterson, Charles Tart ISBN: 1571740570 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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