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The Monroe Institute was founded by Robert A. Monroe, a former broadcasting executive who in 1958 began to undergo spontaneous experiences that drastically altered his life. One night, he found himself floating over his physical body via a “second body.” He soon learned to explore locales beyond conventional concepts of time and space. Robert Monroe documented these experiences in Journeys Out of the Body, (Doubleday, 1971; published in eight languages worldwide), in Far Journeys (Doubleday, 1985), and in Ultimate Journey (Doubleday, 1994).
Robert Monroe formed a research group and began investigating methods and techniques of accelerated learning in the late 1950s. That investigation led to remarkable discoveries dealing with the very nature of human consciousness, and in 1975 the first of three Hemi-Sync® patents was awarded to him. Hemi-Sync®, an audio-guidance technology, provides its users the opportunity to achieve personal goals by facilitating and sustaining a focused, highly productive, coherent mind-brain state. |
In the early 1970s, The Monroe Institute evolved from the original research group and began conducting learning seminars in the exploration of consciousness using the Hemi-Sync® technology. These seminars were held at various sites in the United States and abroad until 1979, when a permanent facility was built in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Thousands of people have attended the Institute’s life-enhancing residential seminar programs and workshops. Worldwide, millions more have benefited from “Outreach” workshops and Hemi-Sync® educational materials, learning exercises available for home-use in a variety of audio formats.
As with any credible educational curriculum, participants develop new approaches to ways of thinking and being, a different overview, a changed perspective from which life itself takes on a new significance. |
