Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-Of-Body Experience

Very good insight into one of the few people who speaks from a different time and angle. it is worth reading and thinking about. it does touch on the akasha and space time. You will gain more out of it if you have read more scientific studies from various other authors to collaborate the works of this man, and develop an understanding based on fact and intuition of how you deem it to be valuable. it is not for everyone, but I'm rating it a second time now, for clarity. it is a lot of information to grasp at once, but read this for an insight into something very few have written about so well.

Awesome book. So much research by Dr. Monroe and all the while he struggles not to keep his emotions and mind get involved and flavor up the information. In other words he works very hard to stick to the truth, describes only what he experienced through his sense and doesn't mix it up with a story from his head.

Trilogy. Great for non fiction AND fiction readers.

It Makes for an interesting read.

the accounts are truely insightful

Great book, lot of insights!

I had thought that this could be self help book. Most of the book is boring and waste of pages, for narrating some oobe experience. Mostly garbage. Actual techniques are discussed in just a few pages.

Good read, interesting insights and practical tipps.

This book is an eye-opener. I'm learning so much about my astral experiences and it's given me the courage to explore further.. with some trepedation. I take console in the fact that others have experienced something similar.

Robert Monroe's first book offers a critical and insightful introduction to working with OBEs. I highly recommend reading the whole trilogy.

This book documents Robert Monroe’s early explorations of out-of-body experiences, presented in a straightforward and personal way. I found it most valuable as a first-person account of altered states of consciousness rather than a technical manual or proof-based study. Some sections feel exploratory and tentative, which reflects the author’s process of discovery, and adds to its authenticity. The narration suits the reflective style well. Best for listeners interested in consciousness research, experiential accounts, and open-minded inquiry rather than definitive explanations.

If you are deep into the subject matter and have familiarity with Bob Monroe’s audio materials you may find this book a great read. He is very careful to assure the reader he doesn’t intend to impose a belief system on the reader as an absolute truth or directly claim to have answers. If you are a curious passerby, you may find some of the information a bit wordy and dry, subject matters not embellished for entertainment. It is the closest thing (I’ve read so far) to a 1950’s-70’s era scientist applying scientific method to something ultimately denied by the scientific community. A good portion will be his research notes organized by subject matter in an order designed to make some concepts easy to grasp (since the order of the experiences don’t always yield a great “teaching” order). You will see a lot of his thought process during these tests. It feels very honest without much push to believe him. Different than many other books that claim to teach the neophyte, there is no preditorial hooks attempting to manipulate any emotionally vulnerable readers looking for the secrets or short cuts. Right about the time I felt like this would be another book where the author is just beating around the bush and blowing smoke, he hits with a section all about his step-by-step processes and their importance. Having taken one of the entry level courses from the Monroe Institute already, I felt like this section was a great way to follow that class with “meat and potatos” and I realized so many things I was doing wrong (distractions that inhibit results) and he did such a thorough job to lay out expectations of what success looks like. As he gets into some theories later in the book, stating that it’s a very loose idea that is for consideration, I felt an eery correlation with a few other unrelated bodies of work. It seems like a good fragment of one’s seeking journey as long as it isn’t taken as a singular source of truth. If you combine it with a passionate seeking into many different “underground” subjects you may see this book as a Must Read. My personal addition to this book is that it did take place in a different era. He illustrates a small number of observations correlating the Second Body with electricity and magnetic fields (I think ghost buster traps). In a much more dense day and age with intensely charged magnetic fields, radio frequencies, wifi, Bluetooth etc. I started to get the impression that if you feel suppressed in your spiritual experiences, consider there may be a correlation to the density of computer equipment in your meditation space. A sylvan environment with as little wireless data as possible is my next test.