Robert Monroe - Ultimate Journey - Chapters 8, 9, 10 - Discussion
Chapter 8
-M is still trying to discover the missing basic.
After developing an efficient means by which sound could be used to induce sleep easily, M discovered how certain patterns of sound will induce different states of consciousness. This discovery changed the direction of research more into Altered States.
-M mentions Hemi-Sync - Hemispheric Synchronization - which provides its users with a self-controlled tool to accomplish their own goals by facilitating and sustaining a purposefully focused, highly productive, coherent mind-brian state.
-Talks about - Consciousness is a Continuum - The spectrum of consciousness ranges, seemingly endlessly, beyond time-space into other energy systems. It also continues "downward" through animals and plants life, possibly into the subatomic level. Everyday human consciousness is active commonly in only a small segment of the consciousness continuum.
-The Phasing Concept
-Left/right brain information
-Monroe says it is the coherent whole brain consciousness that produces the precious Nugget
-M hears a little voice in his head say "Here you are, showing people how to use the whole of their brains and have a so-called different overview, but you don't seem to be doing anything to prepare them for what really matters. This Earth Life System stuff is all very well, but they don't stay here forever. They expect more and, they expect it from you. So---what about it?
Chapter 9
-M says Both the work of the Monroe Institute and the Earth Life System itself were strong Knowns to him. Yet there was an uncomfortable feeling that clues and traces of his missing Basic were there.
-Other experienced subjects at the M Institute could go into an OOB without movement and M started to experience this with his Quick-Switch Method. -It was a fading out of one consciousness state into another. To describe it as "going out of phase" seemed more accurate.
-These tests seemed completely unrelated to this physical life, although many of them were couched in human Earth settings and situations.
-M brings up the story again when he couldn't get back into his body and was stuck on one side of the steel wall and needed to go through it to his body. He was having thoughts of being stuck there for eternity.
-M does a Quick-Switch and ends up in some kind of war type scene.
-M pulls a dying man out of his body by his head. M tries to tell the fighter that he died in battle but the man did not want to believe it.
-M eventually takes the dead man with him above the battlefield looking for a ring to drop him off at but before he could do that the man disappeared.
-After M thinks about this he realizes there were three versions of himself at the same place at the same time during the battle. It was him who died and him who was helping him on the battlefield after he died and it was him showing why his abdomen hurt.
-Next was the incident when there were creatures on his back which turned out to be his cats and someone came and took them off M back.
-M asks, were all of such current nonphysical events simply calls or screams for help from other I's in different times and places? Who was this "I" that had the audacity to answer these calls? Have I been helping me through all these years?
-M tries to help a woman who is a ghost in her old house.
-M then tries to help a man who died in the hospital. The man - No gates of heaven or Hell. He was pissed he died. Eventually, he didn't want M help.
-M finds out that not all of the signals he receives came from and earlier him. Also, helping others goes with the job.
Chapter 10
-M saying it was a never-ending task, this answering of signals for help each time I went OOB.
-M asks why had he suddenly become exposed to these signals after so many years?
-It seemed that most if not all of these signals were originating in areas off the Interstate (as Monroe was now accustomed to regard it)
-M finds a man who died of a heart attack but he doesn't want to believe it and is trying to have sex with a living girl he always wanted to hook up with.
-M then tries to help a woman who died in the hospital. As M was helping her he lost her.
-M then helps a man who was killed by police while trying to rob a bank.
-M starts to think he isn't cut out for this job because he keeps losing them.
-M then tries to help a Neanderthal friend who died while committing suicide off a cliff. This person also dissolved and faded into nothing
-M then met a woman who was waiting for him. She led Monroe into an area with many hundreds of others. The radiation Monroe knew as love was overwhelming. There were many others like Monroe out there. They were on the outer edge of the Belief System Territories. They were awakening from the dream of physical life.
-M finds out that he was the role of scout, information gatherer, trailblazer. -This has been his pattern for thousands of Earth years and lifetimes.
-M meets back up with BB!
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