Summary

Robert Monroe was an American radio broadcasting executive who, beginning in 1958, began experiencing involuntary out-of-body episodes and spent the rest of his life documenting and systematizing them. His 1971 book 'Journeys Out of the Body' coined the modern term 'out-of-body experience' and his invention of Hemi-Sync - a patented binaural beat technology that induces altered states reproducibly - drew formal CIA and Army interest. The 1983 declassified 'Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process' is a CIA document formally evaluating Monroe's methods for intelligence applications and concluding they are 'plausible in terms of physical science.' His institute became the primary training ground for government remote viewers, and his framework directly influenced the Stargate program that produced Remote Viewer #001 Joe McMoneagle. His later books describe contact with non-human intelligent entities encountered during OBE sessions.

Roles

• -Founder, The Monroe Institute
• -Inventor, Hemi-Sync Technology
• -Author - Journeys Out of the Body (1971)

Organizations

Education

• -Ohio State University - B.A. (English and Dramatic Arts, 1937)

Early Career

• -Worked as a writer and director for radio broadcasting in New York City in the late 1930s and 1940s
• -Founded Monroe Industries, a successful radio broadcasting and production company, eventually owning multiple stations
• -Began experiencing involuntary out-of-body episodes in 1958; documented them systematically over several years before publishing
• -Collaborated with researcher Dr. Charles Tart in the 1960s on early scientific attempts to verify OBE phenomena