In my post on “Bob Monroe’s Journey,” I recounted what I learned in marathon readings of his three books back in 1997, when I was writing what became Muddy Tracks. My friend Charles Sides reminds me that I ought to write about what I learned and how it affected me. He should talk, but he has a point.
Perhaps the easiest way to describe what I found important is to resort to bullet points.
- Monroe made a conscious decision to let his whole self drive (rather than merely his 3D ego-consciousness), and immediately everything changed.
- He found himself in “an apparent educational program that I am absorbing bit by bit.”
- Most of what he learned, he was unable to relate to “life here on time-space earth.”
- Initially he divided his experiences into those in what he called Locale I (“The Here-Now”), Locale II (“Infinity, Eternity”), and Locale III (“Reverse Image”).
- In Far Journeys, he describes his experiences with INSPEC, and with BB and AA. He gets the rote on Loosh, and later gets INSPEC’s view of the rote. He is given a vision of a probable future, a description of The Gathering, and a schematic outline of what he has learned.
- In Ultimate Journey, he gives us his analysis of human existence, including H Band noise and M Field interaction.
- He describes a trip to “the emitter” that establishes and maintains physical-matter reality. He shows that we are one, and that we are re-uniting
- He also – be it remembered – discusses curious experiences that he couldn’t get a handle on. People seem inclined to pass this by in silence.
These points are worth considering.
Monroe let his whole self drive and everything changed. There is a distinction between the ego and the Self that seems to elude people.
The Self is more than just the ego-self combined with unconscious content. I think the Self is the ego level, 3D and non-3D, plus our non-3D components that exist prior to and superior to our 3D self. That is, not merely is the Self everything we are at this level (unknown as well as known) but it is also other layers of ourselves, including the Strands with all their connections. Slightly a bigger deal than one bounded 3D life, wouldn’t you say?
He found himself in “an apparent educational program that I am absorbing bit by bit.” This says to me that his completed Self was leading him through the experiences necessary for him to be able to act as translator for his contemporaries and those who would follow.
But he was unable to relate most of it to “life here on time-space earth.” Could this statement be more important? He said that everything he was telling us was a translation of a translation of a translation. In short, we need to seek to find the spirit of what he was saying, not letting ourseves get hung up on the letter. In short, we must remember that the spirit gives life and the letter kills.
Initially he divided his experiences into those in what he called Locale I (“The Here-Now”), Locale II (“Infinity, Eternity”), and Locale III (“Reverse Image”). Later he realized that these were more like hasty impressions than reliable roadmaps. His books were an explorer’s logs, conveying initial impressions of new terrain, not topographical maps. It’s going to take a lot of exploration, perhaps by generations of explorers, before such topos can be produced. Everything in the meantime is provisional.
Thus his experiences with INSPEC, and his adventures with BB and AA we may consider to be his best attempt to tell us what happened. We must remember his descriptions of “hearsay evidence” and Loosh and a vision of a probable future, and his description of The Gathering, are translations of translations of translations: careful reporting hampered by difficulties in terrain. Similarly, his trip to “the emitter.” I found that description moving; it felt true, and right, but it’s still a translation.
Also, we should remember to not blank out those experiences he couldn’t get a handle on. We may not know what to make of them; that doesn’t guarantee that they aren’t important; it doesn’t mean we won’t figure them out someday – provided that we don’t forget about them.
As important as anything else is his descriptions of H Band noise and M Field interaction. He called H Band noise “the peak of uncontrolled thought that emanates from all living forms on Earth, particularly humans…. The amplitude of each segment of the band is determined by the emotion involved in the thought.” He believed that it contained every time pattern that ever existed, sounding like a mob screaming in many tongues. But what sheer volume of energy! Monroe says the lure of that energy is what draws us here and usually keeps us here.
But bear in mind, his description of AA and BB is written as if they were separate individual entities, not as if they were part of all one thing. Thought-experiment: Tell yourself the same story thinking of AA and BB as interconnected with everything else, and see how your view of life changes.
As to Loosh, Monroe tried to reason it out:
“Loosh was an energy generated by all organic life; the purest form comes from human activity that triggers emotion. The highest emotion is love. But how can Loosh be love? It is produced when pain occurs, anger, hatred, etc.” He looked deeper, and concluded that interactive experience taught us to express various emotions until finally we grew into love. And, remembering the Guernsey cow, he thought: if she didn’t give her milk away, what would she do with it? And if she didn’t produce, why would she be taken care of? “He thought: neither the bull, nor water nor grass, the minerals that fed the grass, etc., produced Loosh, but without them, no Loosh. So, they could be considered indirect producers. They play a vital role.” [FJ-172-177]
This bears pondering in the context of BB being told, “Emotion is the points, the score” of the game of life in physical matter reality.
“Emotion is what makes the game seem so wild, but it is the game, the one game in which all other games are played. The others feed score to the big game in the form of emotional energy. The big game is to control and develop this emotional energy to its most effective condition, which is vaguely set by us humans as love, until we graduate. The more we score, the more fun it becomes. Most of us here–where you are now–we spend our energy going in to help other humans, however and whenever we can, to improve their score–and so have more fun.”
Ultimate Journey seems to have been motivated by one underlying belief:
“It may help to accept, as a belief to be converted into a Known, that we, as Human Mind-Consciousness, have both an individual and a species purpose, or purposes, for being in the Earth Life System which is not usually an understood part of our physical waking awareness. Conflict arises when the Human Mind demands an action and the Earth Life System self has trouble handling it. ” [UJ-75]
Y’ think?