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Robert Monroe

Experiential author and Monroe Institute figure

Also known as Bob Monroe · Robert A. Monroe

Who they are

Robert Monroe wrote Journeys Out of the Body, a first-person account of experiences he interpreted as travel beyond his physical body. His name is also associated with the Monroe Institute and the Gateway training approach. The timeline follows the cultural and institutional history of those claims, including an Army assessment, without treating the accounts as independently established mechanisms.

He links first-person anomalous-experience literature with the later Gateway assessment and institutional training history.

Selected contributions

Published Journeys Out of the Body in 1971.Source ↗Source 2 ↗
His institute’s Gateway approach became the subject of McDonnell’s 1983 Army assessment.Source ↗

Selected works

Book · 1971
Journeys Out of the Body
Author · Doubleday, original edition; later edition listed by Penguin Random House
Monroe recounts experiences he interpreted as leaving his physical body and explores their meaning. The book provides a first-person route into the experiential background of his later institute and Gateway work.
1971 is the original publication year. The linked publisher listing concerns a later edition; this revision does not assign it an unverified exact edition date.
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Indexed publisher description and ISBN; original 1971 date also checked in WorldCat search metadata. Publisher description retrieved in search. Direct opens failed; no book text was inspected and no exact date is assigned to the currently linked edition.
ISBN: 9780385008617

Primary records

Report · 1983
Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process
Originator associated with the approach assessed; not the report’s author · U.S. Army INSCOM; archival copy
Army officer Wayne McDonnell evaluates the Gateway training approach using a mixture of technical explanation and speculative models. The memorandum documents that assessment; its presence in released CIA files is not independent scientific validation.
June 9, 1983 is the memorandum’s creation date; the date of first public release is not established.
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Reused prior inspected evidence: Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone