By David Biello — 2007
By providing wrong but matching views and feelings, scientists mentally "teleport" people outside their own bodies.
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This segment filmed during the 1970s features Bob Monroe's welcome talk to a Gateway Voyage program group.
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Robert Monroe is known for his extensive research into altered states of consciousness, and is considered to be a pioneer of the western world in 'Out of Body Experiences', also known as 'Astral Projection'.
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.
In 1971 Doubleday published a book called Journeys Out of the Body, a Virginia businessman's memoir of his weird and wonderful adventures on other planes of reality.
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In 1958, a successful businessman named Robert Monroe began to have experiences that drastically altered his life.
Robert Monroe, a Virginia businessman, began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a "second body" to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life.