The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Robert Monroe.md

category	tags	summary	born	died	location	relations
Psychics & Remote Viewers	Psi Person RemoteViewer Military Stargate	American businessman who founded The Monroe Institute, known for Hemi-Sync audio technology and out-of-body experience research used by Stargate remote viewers.	1915-10-30	1995-03-17	Lexington, Kentucky, USA	type with start fn founded Monroe Institute 1971 1 type with role start fn head_of Monroe Institute Executive Director 1978 7 type with start end role fn contractor_to United States Army Intelligence and Security Command 1980 1984 Hemi-Sync training for remote viewers 8 type with start end fn participant_in Gondola Wish 1978 1978 7 type with start end fn participant_in Center Lane 1983 1984 9

Robert Monroe was an American businessman and explorer of human consciousness. He is known for his extensive personal experiences with out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and for founding Monroe Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness through various techniques, including Hemi-Sync audio technology.¹ While not directly involved in the Stargate Project, his work and institute became a post-military career path for figures like Frederick Atwater, who became president of the Institute.²

An INSCOM information paper of January 5, 1984, gave his particulars: "Born on 30 Oct 1915, in Wabash, Indiana, Robert A. Monroe received a BA degree from Ohio State University in 1937," was "the author of the book Journeys Out of the Body, published in 1971," and "has a DoD SECRET security clearance based on a NAC completed on 18 January 1980." The Army's association with his institute dated from 1978, and by 1984 its Hemi-Sync process was in use in the Center Lane unit's training and collection missions.³

Monroe created and produced some four hundred radio and television network programs and became owner and operator of a radio network and cable television system in Virginia.⁴ The psychologist Charles Tart met him in the fall of 1965 at the University of Virginia Medical School and recorded him in eight late-night EEG sessions between December 1965 and August 1966, and in a two-hour session at the University of California, Davis in 1968; Tart wrote that the results left "only weak evidence that Monroe was actually 'out'" on the occasion in which he named the laboratory technician's location, and Tart wrote the introduction to Monroe's Journeys Out of the Body, dated January 10, 1971.⁵⁶

A 902d Military Intelligence Group assessment of August 25, 1978 records that Monroe, interviewed at the Institute on April 6, 1978, received a security indoctrination on May 3, 1978 and agreed to train three military intelligence personnel for a fee of $2,000.⁷ In a trip report of September 30, 1980, Frederick Atwater wrote that Monroe held a SECRET clearance, "has signed a consultant security agreement" and had been dealt with on a "shallow cover" basis, with no other Institute personnel aware of the agreement.⁸ The Center Lane chronology records a contract signed with Monroe on July 19, 1983 for one-on-one training of a Center Lane operative, and the fiscal year 1983 budget lists $24.4K for a consultant services agreement with him.⁹ On October 5, 1983 and January 5, 1984 the Secretary of the Army, John Marsh, was briefed on Monroe and the Institute.¹⁰

A patent granted on May 20, 1975, US 3,884,218, "Method of inducing and maintaining various stages of sleep in the human being," names Monroe as inventor and Monroe Industries Inc. as original assignee. A later patent, US 5,356,368, names him as inventor and Interstate Industries as original assignee, filed March 1, 1991 and granted October 18, 1994.¹¹¹²

The INSCOM information paper of January 5, 1984 gives his birthplace as Wabash, Indiana; the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia gives Lexington, Kentucky.³¹³

Footnotes

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1. Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences, The Gateway Program, promotional text. CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270006-0, CIA reading room, STARGATE collection. ↩︎

2. Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers. Dell, 1997. ↩︎

3. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, information paper "The Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences," ITAGPA-F-SD, January 5, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270004-2.. ↩︎

4. Monroe, Robert A., Journeys Out of the Body, updated edition (Main Street Books, Doubleday), author note. https://archive.org/details/journeys_out_body ↩︎

5. Tart, Charles T., "Six Studies of Out-of-Body Experiences," Journal of Near-Death Studies 17, no. 2 (1998): 73-99, pp. 83-90. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799368/ ↩︎

6. Monroe, Robert A., Journeys Out of the Body, Tart introduction dated Davis, California, January 10, 1971. https://archive.org/details/journeys_out_body ↩︎

7. 902d Military Intelligence Group, GONDOLA WISH assessment report, August 25, 1978. CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160001-3, CIA reading room, STARGATE collection. ↩︎

8. Atwater, Frederick H., memorandum for the record, "Trip Report, 18-28 September 1980," September 30, 1980. CIA-RDP96-00788R001200060028-4, CIA reading room, STARGATE collection. ↩︎

9. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Center Lane Information Papers for Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, March 7, 1985. CIA-RDP96-00788R000400060001-2, CIA reading room, STARGATE collection. ↩︎

10. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, memoranda of October 12, 1983 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270014-1) and January 6, 1984 (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700270003-3), CIA reading room, STARGATE collection. ↩︎

11. US Patent 3,884,218, granted May 20, 1975. https://patents.google.com/patent/US3884218A ↩︎

12. US Patent 5,356,368, granted October 18, 1994. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5356368A ↩︎

13. Wehrstein, KM, "Robert Monroe," Psi Encyclopedia, Society for Psychical Research. https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/robert-monroe ↩︎