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When, unpredictably and against his will, Robert Monroe began to have out-of-body experiences, he was frightened and disbelieving. He found that he could leave his physical body to places far removed from the material and spiritual realities of life on earth. He came to inhabit a world unbounded by death…

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I love how Journeys Out of the Body initiates; Robert got out of bed one night to go to the restroom, and his hand passed through the doorknob. His perplexity then turned into terror when he spotted his physical body still lying on the bed.

Dr. Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute, mapped out other realities he defined as Locale I, II, and III. His adventures included him inadvertently possessing a man in a parallel world. He also encountered astral creatures such as parasitic thought forms that consume thoughts, a kind of astral dog that attacked him on one occasion,…

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