Robert Monroe was one of the founders of the Jefferson Cable Corporation, the first cable company to cover central Virginia.
20 Facts About Robert Monroe
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Robert Allan Monroe was born in 1915 in Indiana and grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio.
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Robert Monroe's mother was a non-practicing medical doctor, cellist, and piano player.
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Robert Monroe's father was a professor of Romance Languages who led summer tours to Europe.
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Robert Monroe returned to Ohio State to graduate after having studied pre-med, English, engineering and journalism.
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Robert Monroe married Jeanette, a graduate student and daughter of a lawyer, in 1937, and divorced her in 1938 or 1939.
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Robert Monroe married Mary Ashworth, a divorcee with a daughter Maria, in 1950 or 1951.
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Robert Monroe then married Nancy Penn Honeycutt, a divorcee with four children.
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Robert Monroe developed ulcers in young adulthood and so was classified 4F during World War II.
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Robert Monroe spent the war years working for a manufacturing company that designed a flight-simulator prototype.
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In 1953, Robert Monroe formed RAM Enterprises, a corporation that produced network radio programs, as many as 28 programs monthly, principally in dramatic and popular quiz shows.
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Robert Monroe went on to say that this occurred another nine times over the next six weeks, culminating in his first out-of-body experience.
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Robert Monroe recorded his account in his 1971 book Journeys Out of the Body and went on to become a prominent researcher in the field of human consciousness.
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Robert Monroe later authored two more books on his experiments with OBE, Far Journeys and Ultimate Journey.
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The Robert Monroe Institute is a nonprofit education and research organization devoted to the exploration of human consciousness, based in Faber, Virginia, United States.
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In 1975, Robert Monroe registered the first of several patents concerning audio techniques designed to stimulate brain functions until the left and right hemispheres became synchronized.
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Robert Monroe held that this state, dubbed Hemi-Sync, could be used to promote mental well-being or to trigger an altered state of consciousness.
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Robert Monroe's concept was based on an earlier hypothesis known as binaural beats and has since been expanded upon a commercial basis by the self-help industry.
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Robert Monroe indicated that the technique synchronizes the two hemispheres of one's brain, thereby creating a 'frequency-following response' designed to evoke certain effects.
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The presentation demonstrated that EEG changes did not occur when the standard electromagnetic headphones of Robert Monroe's setup were replaced by air conduction headphones, which were connected to a remote transducer by rubber tubes.