Robert Monroe is perhaps most famous for his books Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys and Ultimate Journey. A true pioneer in terms of the evolution of human consciousness. The notable work in terms of investigations into the future of man appeared in Far Journeys. In that book, Monroe details his discovery that the Earth is surrounded by "bands" in which individuals congregate after physical death, for varying lengths of time, based on their individual resonant vibration and belief systems. This idea is also quite evident in the work War in Heaven, which details the manipulative control structures related to religious belief systems in some of these interdimensional bands. Monroe's discoveries about these rings/bands are important because of what he discovers later about them around the time period of 3,000 AD.
Monroe discovered that the Earth was surrounded by several rings, or bands, that appeared deep grey or brown in color, and that these bands were occupied by discarnate or exteriorized entities who either still occupied physical bodies or who had recently left their bodies as a result of the death of the body.
These bands, described in order of their placement and progression away from the planet, appeared to be broken out as follows:
这些环带，按照它们距离地球的位置和级数而被描述为以下情形：
The First Band: The first band appeared to be occupied by entities who appeared to have a preoccupation with distortions of the original survival imprint, and were still bound conceptually to time-space materiality. From the viewpoint of advanced entities Monroe was in regular communication with, this first band reflected "a mass of discordant, undirected thought radiation". The first band is composed of several distinctly different SUB-BANDS. The first sub-band was occupied by exteriorized entities who still attempted to participate in physical life, albeit with no success, and seemed to be aware of nothing beyond the physical existence they had left.
The second sub-band was occupied by exteriorized entities who were still attached to the physical body in current Earth space-time who were evidently in an out-of-body state, attempting to continue with a physical waking activity. Because of this mode of action, from an more expanded perspective they would seem to disappear from view right in the middle of their activity (on that level) as they awoke back into their physical body.
The third sub-band is occupied by exteriorized entities who have permanently left their physical existence but do not realize it, and are trying to continue a habitual physical existence, often remaining around familiar occupied bodies (still embodied friends and acquaintances) while acting out emotionally-based drives and fears. Monroe viewed this sub-band is one of the major blockages to the flow of human learning experience, and stated that the number of entities in this area will keep increasing as long as specific kinds of "human values" exist on Earth.
The fourth sub-band is occupied by exteriorized beings who are still attached to the "reality of physical matter" (on the third density), although they do realize that they have become exteriorized. These entities have adopted an "anything goes" attitude and mental framework in which they express themselves through "replicas" of physical reality in unusual and bizzare ways. Monroe illustrated one example of a bizzare manner of expression when he told of coming across a seething, squirming pile of human forms trying to sexually stimulate each other to no avail, since they did not in reality still have a physical body capable of such interaction.
The Second Band:The Second Band consists of exteriorized beings who realize they are no longer in physical form in physical human life, but left their physical life with no awareness or concept that any other possibility for existence exists. Monroe observed that entities in this band appeared to remain motionless and passive, but retained an air of expectancy.
The Third Band:The Third Band, or ring, consists of exteriorized beings who know they have passed through physical death, and still retain a "belief system" relativeto "what to expect" after physical death. It is this area that was mentioned in War in Heaven. Because of this, the Third Band was broken down into innumerable sub-bands coincident with belief-system orientation. From another viewpoint, if a number of people have a similar belief (as propagated in religious belief systems, for example) they all end up creating a "facsimile reality structure" where they all congregate.
This band is perhaps the largest band, and is also a very manipulative place with all the same game-playing and power struggles that went on in physical embodiment on Earth. This band is also the source for the comment "there are many mansions in heaven". It is also worthy to note that those to "believe" that "there is one life to live and then nothing" congregate at their own resonant level within this band. Monroe described seeing billions of entities, lying in stasis, side by side, in rows. UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT CONSCIOUSNESS, ENERGY AND INTENT CREATE THE NATURE OF REALITY, welcome to a long stay in this area within the Third Band.
The Fourth Band: The fourth band consists of exteriorized entities who are more "advanced" in consciousness than those on the bands below, and have arrived from outside the band areas to prepare for their final human experience on the Earth "below". From the perspective of those within this band, when an entity on Earth who is advanced in consciousness "dies", they quickly pass through all the the bands and disappear from perception "in a wink".
But, why come to Earth in the first place? Earth is not the only place in the universe where there is a time-space reality system, nor does it lie on the only vibratory level where there are space-time realities, but life here (because of the nature of life on Earth and the extreme dualities and polarities involved) represents one of those places that represents a unique challenge to any entity who has problems to work out that require such a location.
According to Monroe, any time-space scenario (of which Earth is a whopper!) has unique aspects which contribute interesting ways to the development of both intelligence and consciousness itself. You won't find an entity like 6th level Jehovah entities who are even willing to through such experience. Because of that, many entities who reside on other vibratory levels have not developed knowledge of what love, compassion and empathy really are -- that's why they feel the need to be obeyed, worshipped, and identify with CONTROL and MANIPULATION. Going to a level where the NORMAL non-physical rules of existence are suspended is beyond their willingness to give up their identity with control.
Next, it requires that you select a propitious birth entry point with appropriate genetic, environmental, social, political and economic patterns that you calculate will ensure realization of the very purpose for your entry into 3rd density, despite the existence of variable that could severely impact the realization of ones purpose, and the whole journey may involve taking certain actions to realign the probable/possible income. Since there are many who seek embodiment experiences (and many who seek to avoid it at all cost), very often a specific kind of birth entry point is not available, and one is presented with less than ideal circumstances. It's sort of like bungee-jumping without the cord.
Bam! Out of the tube with previous memories veiled and into the light. No longer in your natural state, you suddenly discover that the physical body has severe restraints. A while is spent playing with your toes and other strange appendages, trying to obtain control over them before they obtain apparent control over you (that happens later when "body consciousness" is reinforced to the maximum through social conditioning). In your natural state, energy simply flowed to you. Now you have this overwhelming desire to consume nourishment for the body, amidst a cacophony of sensory overload, genetically-programmed drives (and later, raging hormones), genetically (and later culturally) programmed response patterns which become habit, and genetic memories from anyone who ever had anything to do with the DNA patterns the body is composed of. Combine all of these with pain, pleasure, sexual stimulation and body-driven emotional complexes. What a bungee jump! Where IS that cracker, anyway?
Since you are seemingly stuck in the body, you are subject to various brain learning mechanisms. Primary learning occurs when you focus on something. What you do not have a focus on (when you have a focus on something else) is the "stuff" involved with secondary learning processes, and a third form of input occurs while your body is sleeping and you end up in a brief, non-functional void. Initially, and probably throughout a good part of your life, your attention is motivated by virtue of the pain-pleasure cycle. Then, you go to cultural "school".
"School" is a process of non-educational programming stressing low-order repetitive experiences and the physical senses, which results in an unnatural situation centered around the knowledge, manipulation and control of physical matter and low-order energy systems geared toward reinforcing survival imprints and social ego-orientation, as well as BELIEF patterns, many of which are not at all based on actual experience, which results in the establishment of a secondary psychological drive in society to "look for what is true". The process also eliminates any remaining threads of contact with essence-memory and knowledge of your actual origin and identity. Then, you "interact in society".
Society is where the individual is conditioned to identify with the body and then the ego/image, in that order, and accumulate emotional attachments relating only to expression in a time-space reality, to the degree where a compulsive need develops to re-enter the time-space continuum (trapped on the lower rings, again?) solely for the purpose of satisfying the need to complete physical agenda. "Human" existence can become addictive. The original genetic survival drive of the body becomes further distorted through cultural programming and results in distorted patterns which focus on body protection (where is that gun?), body maintenance (what IS that new aftershave?), sexuality and reproduction, and the need to "protect things" that "one owns" in order to "support the body". As if that is not enough, sex as a creative act is distorted to the point where it results in irrational and restrictive "attachments" and "commitments" based on cultural ideas that are actually unattainable. But, they don't tell you that, do they?
The focus on all of this is further reinforced (especially if the skin of the body you inhabit is of a shade that provokes judgement among the unenlightened who identify with the body) by cultural importation of opiate drugs by the controlling powers of society, inundation with neurologically mind-bending pharmaceuticals and the rest of it, all of it designed specifically to keep the attention of your consciousness bound within the purview of the lower three structural areas of the brain, as well as to financially sustain cultural and economic infrastructures based on ego, security, image, sensation and power --- all of which have absolutely NOTHING to do with WHO the entity really IS or WHY the entity is here on Earth in the first place. All of this results in the "search for the meaning of life", because the creative energy within the essence, the spirit, is functionally diminished to where the SOURCE and ones true identity, is forgotten.
All of this transforms the previously benign, all-knowing being into a chaotic mixture of reaction-based judgemental complexes, promoting psychological projection (instead of assuming personal responsibility for one's actions) and synthetic cultural reality to the exclusion of all else. Are you sure you want to come to Earth?
Now you understand why the bands/rings Monroe discovered exist. Don't worry, we'll eventually get to the discussion of the future, but we must preface that discussion with the following: How can you escape being tied to the rings once you leave your body? You must realize, truly realize, that you are not your body, that emotional attachments relate ONLY to space-time reality (the cultural enviroment), you must retain the idea of love and release the idea of sexuality, divest yourself of sexual ties, and "lighten the load" by refusing to bond lasting emotion to any physical act or the actions of other beings, and make an effort to conduct yourself in the eternal NOW.
Furthermore, physical objects exist in space-time to be USED, not owned. We actually "own" nothing and no one --- even the body we use is borrowed material (even if the State decides to establish a chattel mortgage on the body by virtue of the "birth certificate" and its associated cultural adhesion contract, creating a synthetic reality structure it programs us to "buy in to"). The next items to be addessed concerned with "not being ring-bound" are the following:
Store the memory, experience and wisdom in life and leave the emotion connected with the experience behind. , experience and wisdom in life and leave the emotion connected with the experience behind.
积聚生命的记忆、经验和智慧，抛弃和经验有关的感情。
Recognize that you are responsible for the results of your actions within a space-time continuum.
Enjoy the cosmic humor in life.
认识到，在一个时空连续体中，你对你的行动后果负责。享受生活中无处不在的幽默。
Seek to remove emotional energy from your being connected with pain/pleasure connected memory patterns. Maximize sleep periods, promoting tertiary learning processes, creating a break from left-brain throught patterns and "physical input".
Can you imagine going to a school where you leave your body?
你能想象你到一所学校去上学，你在那里会离开自己的身体？
Not only that, but leave your body to go to an adjacent dimension--one where the spirits of the dead are waiting, confused, to find out where to go?
不光如此，你还离开自己的身体去一个邻近的维度——一个亡魂等待、困惑、寻找去处的维度。
And your assignment is to escort those spirits of the dead to another level of reality, called the Park, where they relax and are prepared for the next step outward?
你的任务是护送这些亡魂前往另一个现实的层次，一个叫做公园的地方，他们在那里休息，并准备再往前行。
There actually is such a school. It's called the Monroe Institute, and it's located near Lovingston, about 25 miles south of Charlottesville in Virginia. Helping the dead to find their way to heaven is a graduate program called Lifeline that is on the curriculum of that school. The course is one that can be taken only by those who have already gone through the Monroe Institute's undergraduate program, called Gateway--the one where you learn how to leave your body.
Sound kooky? The man in charge, Robert A. Monroe, is a formidable figure. He was a highly successful producer of radio shows in the fifties. At about that time, he discovered that he could journey "out-of-his-body." Another, non-physical, "spirit" body would slip out of his physical body, slip through the walls, and begin to journey over the countryside--and into other dimensions.
For awhile, Monroe thought he was crazy. Or that he was dying. Terror assailed him as he struggled to get back to his "body." Doctors told him he was suffering from hallucinations.
Monroe set up his own foundation, the Monroe Institute, to try to understand his experiences. He became more and more adept at having "out-of-body experiences," which he called OBEs. He invented a technology, called "hemi-sync" which consisted of feeding sound into the two hemispheres of the brain to facilitate altered states of consciousness--especially OBEs.
For more than two decades now, people from all walks of life have been coming to his Institute to learn how to travel out of their bodies. Often, they have been successful--though there can hardly be scientific proof for this kind of journey. Monroe's sound technology has also helped people to control pain, strengthen their immune system, hasten their recuperation, lower their blood pressure, enhance recovery of speech and motor skills after a stroke, and much more.
Monroe has written three books in which he has described what he has seen and experienced while traveling in his out-of-body state through what appear to be other dimensions of reality. "Journeys Out of the Body," was published in 1971, and created a sensation. It was the first book to deal with such experiences in detail. "Far Journeys" was published in 1985. It continued Monroe's odyssey. He spoke of his contacts with benevolent non-physical entities whom he called INSPECS (Intelligent Species). He recounted his journey to the year 3500. He told of beneficial contacts with his former lives, all of these lives existing simultaneously in the parallel dimensions which he visited.
He alluded mysteriously to contingents of physical and non-physical beings who appear to be waiting poised just beyond our earth to help us in our coming difficulties. He talked also about "Loosh," loosely translated as love. Loosh, Monroe says, is a substance that is created in the souls of humans through the agency of self-sacrificing love. It is harvested by, and it is necessary to the welfare of, beings in higher spiritual reaches of the universe--or so Monroe suggested in his book.
Monroe's latest book, "Ultimate Journey," was published in April, 1994. It carries on the account of Bob Monroe's astonishing saga. His out-of-body experiences continue. And he discovers that his favorite INSPEC guide was-- himself, from his own future, which is now his present. He learns that, close to the end of his life, it is he who will conduct the conversations with himself that helped him, 40 years earlier, to first navigate other dimensions of our universe.
In "Ultimate Journey," Monroe journeys into the very core of his soul. He encounters the "I-There," that place where everything we have ever experienced in all our lives, in this and every other dimension, is gathered together to help us through our individual lives. We are not alone, says Monroe. We have ourselves--a company infinitely greater than we ever thought.
Monroe journeys to what he will later, in his Institute work, call Focus 23-- the place where the confused spirits of the newly dead gather to sort themselves out. And he comes upon the Park--the place to which those spirits are taken and where they will rest and prepare themselves for the next step. This second stop Monroe calls, in his Institute work, Focus 27.
Monroe tells us, in his latest book, that, in the Lifeline program at his Institute, he has trained hundreds of people to help guide the dead to the Park. Lying in tiny cubicles in darkness, wearing earphones, his students are able to leave their bodies and embark on their adventures. In a number of cases, Monroe's voyagers beyond the physical have been able to obtain names, addresses, and other information about the spirits of the dead whom they have helped. Monroe has been able to find corroboration.