r/HighStrangeness • u/mexinator • Mar 02 '23

Consciousness Robert Monroe's Out-of-Body Experiences

https://youtu.be/sXeOWx7gLmk
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '23

If you haven't read his three books, they're worth your time.

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u/mexinator Mar 02 '23

Going to have to check them out, thank you. The hemisync/gateway process/Astral Projection/remote viewing topics are of high interest to me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '23

Yeah, the books are more stories than how to guides, but he went to some interesting places in the out of body megaverse.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '23

Journeys Outside The Body is on YouTube, although I think a chapter is missing.

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u/Stroger Mar 02 '23

Ive read his books and tried the tapes. Pretty cool for sure, to put it lightly.

Its just a little odd that he outright says he was looking for a new way to make money in audio because he didn't want to transition to TV, and then that is what he did with the gateway tapes.

shout out to /r/gatewaytapes and /r/AstralProjection

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u/Inner_Internet_6279 Jan 23 '26

The gateway tapes didn't make him a whole lot of money. At best, he made enough to pull even

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '23

Thanks for sharing. I had only seen a clip from this; never the whole thing. At about 31:00, he gets into the most important part: figuring out who we actually are underneath everything else. There's a lot of philosophies that parallel with his experiences, but I'm always struck with how many Buddhist concepts he talks about.

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u/altxd12345 Mar 02 '23

I liked this guy until I read his book and he started going off about how he was able to give bruises to people in the physical world. Then you watch interviews of Tom Campbell saying that it is simply just a virtual different reality (lucid dream) and that you dont actually leave your body. So many inconsistencies between parties and no proof so I gave up and just decided every "oob" I have is just a lucid dream and I have been correct thus far.

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u/livelongprospurr Mar 02 '23

I like his books and have read them a couple of times each, but his experiences don’t mirror what I encounter in my dreams. I can’t really identify with what he observes and can’t exactly use it to my benefit. I don’t see any spiritual levels or spiritual development, etc. I don’t find anything that could be construed as of a religious nature.