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Summary: anwsers to your questions
Review: I have researched many obe books and this one seems to give geniune descriptions of this phenomenom. However I was dissappointed to hear that Monroe's religious beliefs were squashed. I still can't accept Monroe's conclusions-its all a matter of interpretation.Nevertheless this book gives you the chills, with its accuracy in describing the actual process of the out-of-the-body experience. Only those who have experienced this "burden" or "gift" can really appreciate what Monroe has written. I recommend those who have had this experience to read this book, and to understand what is happening to your body. Maybe this book will anwser some of your questions.
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Summary: Good book for it's time. Wrong conclusion by author.
Review: I read this book many years ago. I thought it was the answer to some of the things that I had experienced (sleep paralysis, floating/flying, extreme reality, etc.). However I believe I now know that "Lucid Dreaming" was really what was happening to me. After reading Dr. Stephen LaBerge's 1st book on the subject, I became convinced that OBE's are really Lucid Dreams. Check out www.lucidity.com for more objective info. Then make up your own mind!
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Summary: I read it years ago
Review: I read this book years ago, when I was only about 12 years old. Monroe's experiences are intriguing, and have influenced me to this day. He writes about mystical experiences (as another reviewer wrote, in a very non-spiritual way). Sometimes, I will admit, Monroe can be somewhat dry, but he doesn't fill his book with pages of unnecessary words like some writers do. Monroe treats what some people would call "lucid dreams" or "astral projections," as if they could really be journeys out of the body in THIS world, almost as if he were a ghost. (Occultists would call this the etheral body). For example, he writes that he obtained knowledge of things in the physical world, that he couldn't have possibly known if his experiences didn't actually take him to real places. Years after reading this book, I experienced some of the things Monroe wrote about were true to my own life. Not until a first-person experience did I understand what Monroe meant by "vibrations" (the first step toward an out of body experience). Monroe is classic reading on this topic, and I recommend "Journeys Out of the Body" to anyone interested in such things.
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Summary: Is Robert Monroe Full Of Astral Poop?
Review: I started having hundreds of spontaneous OOBEs everynight when i was eleven and i was terrified but then i read journeys out of body and now i travel all around the cosmos saving lost souls that are trapped in hells of their own creation... did you notice that everyone who writes about this book writes mostly about themself? do you wanna know why? its just that kind of book. is robert monroe so full of astral poop his astral eyes are brown? no. im afraid not. simply synchronize the frequencies of both hemisperes of your brain with eachother and...pop! their you are. floating around tweaked parallel dimensions and going forward or backward through time and visiting heavens and hells and entering other peoples bodies and making them do things...i take that last part back. this book is amazing. i sense that you think im being a little sarcastic. ask yourself why you think that. then read Journeys Outofbody and ask yourself more important questions.
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Summary: It will change your mind about everything you though you new
Review: I was only 17 years old when I first read this book, I had a keen interest in the occult from a very early age much to the dismay of my parents but was becoming rather disheartened with the whole thing, so many questions and very few if any, concrete answers. I am now 33 years old and still cannot forget the overall impact this book and it's author had on my life and my religious understanding. I found this book covered in dust in the back of a friends car 16 years ago and they said I could borrow it. I read it cover to cover, over and over again, it really fascinated me, there was defiantly something different about the way the author conveyed his experiences, somehow you new these things were really happening to him just as he described them and I suppose I must have willed my first out of body experience which started as a very normal dream. I stumbled and knocked my head in this dream which I suppose triggered something. Suddenly there was a very loud whistling and crackling sound in my ears and a rush of consciousness and I stood up in my dream more awake than I had ever felt before, everything that had been present in my dream was still there, buildings, streets and gardens, none of which I recognised. What the hell was going on? I remember the shire disbelief and shock that this was actually happening to me, I was wide awake in a dream, conscious of all my faculties and able to make conscious decisions about where I would go and what I would do, although something attached to me from behind was definitely pulling me back as if I was wading through Ink. I clearly remember looking down at the clothes I was wearing and then at my hands, I got really scared at that point because I thought I had died in my sleep. Suddenly without warning there was a huge tugging from behind and I was pulled backwards through some lavender bushes, I remember the smell and branches scratching in my face and the loud whistling and crackling sound in my ears again. I was pulled up in to the air and watched the streets and strange gardens pass by under me, I lost my vision and all went dark but I could still hear the whistle and then I felt a definite transition in consciousness from higher to lower, I think? I opened my eyes and was back in my bed at home my night light was still on, my heart was racing and my usually docile cat was going crazy, staring right at me, growling and hissing as if she had seen a ghost. I think I would have been happy with just one Out of body experience, but that night I opened a door I have never been able to shut and for many years afterwards they continued almost every night sometimes two or three times a night, sometimes beautiful sometimes terrifying but always different. I have many times been turned and guided by the invisible hands he described in his book and talked at length with someone and yet no one, I am not crazy!, I am not a liar! But who honestly could I tell? I quickly realised that it was not something you can mention in passing conversation, even to ones own parents and at the risk of being branded a nutcase or a fraud, I decided to keep it to myself for many years. Yes! it was a lot for a young lad to carry. They still happen to me now 16 years on, although they are rare and they don't bring the fear that they used to, I think I have just learnt to live with it now although I still don't really know what was happening to me. I would give anything to be able to speak to, or send a message to Dr Robert A Monroe the author of this enlightening book, to thank him for the most mind broadening experience a man could ever have and to tell him that he is not alone in this strange world. I do not know where you are or even if you are still alive but wherever you are, Thank you.
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Summary: This has made me question most of what I believe
Review: I'll keep this short. A while back I borrowed a book about austral projection from a friend so that I could read the small part on meditation. I ended up reading the whole book, and have been interested in the subject since, which was about 3 or 4 months ago. Reading this has completely altered my belief system. I was an atheist before, and now I'm not completely sure what I believe. I believe in an austral world, but not in a god as such. Reading this book has opened so much up to me, and is definately worth reading. I'd recommend it to anyone, atheist or religious.
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Summary: Best out of body book out there
Review: If you are looking to find out what out of body experiences are, this is THE book to get. He talks about his documented experiences that he had and took a very scientific approach in understanding what was happening to him. The stories are facinating to read and they give you a good idea of what to expect if you were to have an OOBE. Robert Monroe's trilogy of OOBE books are an excellent introduction to the subject. If you would like to delve deeper into OOBE, I would suggest that you get his Gateway Voyage program on CD, it is awesome.
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Summary: Best out of body book out there
Review: If you are looking to find out what out of body experiences are, this is THE book to get. He talks about his documented experiences that he had and took a very scientific approach in understanding what was happening to him. The stories are facinating to read and they give you a good idea of what to expect if you were to have an OOBE. Robert Monroe's trilogy of OOBE books are an excellent introduction to the subject. If you would like to delve deeper into OOBE, I would suggest that you get his Gateway Voyage program on CD, it is awesome.
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Summary: Pretty damn good
Review: It was a pretty good book. I thought it would be a lot better than it was though. Monroe is VERY scientific about it which is very good. I wish more of the book was spent on How To rather than Heres What I Did. It was still a great book and I recomend it to anyone intrested in OOBEs (out of body experieces).
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Summary: The best OBE book I have read!!
Review: Monroe gives clear explanations to OBEs. His feelings, and thoughts make the book very easy to read and relate to. After reading this book I have changed my views on many subjects of life. It is a classic and should be read by anyone who is interested in OBEs.
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