Robert and me in Virginia Beach, 2009
I heard today from Robert Bruce’s wife, Patricia Histed, that Robert Bruce, author of Astral Dynamics, made his transition to the non-3D on Monday morning, the 22nd. He died peacefully in his sleep, in the hospital where had was being cared for. Patricia said he died surrounded by friends and family, with more than 10 people crammed in the room. That would be fitting. Robert was one of those guys you loved as soon as you saw him, a wonderful man, so much heart, so willing to give, such a combination of idealism and practicality.
I gather that people have been sending testimonials about Robet’s influence on their lives through his books. That is certainly appropriate. Astral Dynamics was one of the most important and helpful books Hampton Roads ever published.
Robert and I must have been connected invisibly, because as soon as I received his manuscript, I had an instant reaction to it. As the manuscript stood, it was totally unpublishable – the material was wonderful, but the language was awful. Didn’t matter, I knew hat it must be published.
I spent days editing Astral Dynamics. First I marked up the manuscript, “clearing away the shrubbery,” as I used to say, then I entered the corrections in the computer file, and printed out the clean file and edited it all over again, at a deeper level. That was more work than I had ever put into a manuscript, and more than I ever did again. But I just had no doubt, this was an important book, worth the extra work even if it never made us any money.
Well, it did make us money, and it did change people’s lives. That book went around the world. One day I received a manuscript from someone who said he had come across a second-hand copy of Astral Dynamics, without a cover – in Katmandu! There is no guessing how much encouragement Robert spread. Nor any sign that the wave of influence is over, either, of course.
Then there was Robert himself, when we finally met, at a conference at the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach where he spoke. Here is this great bear of a man – I used to tease him, saying he looked like a biker – and he was as gentle and as funny and as sincere and intelligent a man as I have ever met. Lovely man.
Here’s a toast to your next career Robert: Well done, and bon voyage!
Astral Dynamics is sitting on my nightstand just now – and his book Energy Work was one of my favorites of all. I’m so glad he shared his experiences and knowledge before heading for new horizons.
Thank you Frank for sharing the news and for your efforts to bring Astral Dynamics to the world. The book was great, but more importantly and more personally, Robert provided me profound help and advice. For a while there my conversations with him shone the main guiding light as I navigated a very dark time in my life. I’m deeply grateful and will connect with him on the other side to convey my many thanks.
Excellent. And PEM me to tell me how you are doing, will you?
Yes, I would love testimonials so I can read them at the wake. They would be most appreciated. Thank you for all your hard work making Robert’s dream of publishing come true. His experiences in the astral were extraordinary and transformative. Am so glad you saw the gem and knew how to cut it so it shone and thank you for being a good friend to Robert as well. He always spoke very fondly and highly of you.
Although I never had the opportunity to meet Mr. Bruce, I heard of him often- always positively. I know that his departure is a great loss to many, and I wish him, and his friends and family a good adjustment to this new status. Many thanks for the many ways he helped and enlightened many good people. Thank you, Frank, for letting us know.
RIP Robert, the world has lost a great teacher, and an amazing human being.
I first heard about Robert’s work almost 20 years ago in 2005. In my early teens I started experiencing various lucid dreams and 1111 synchronicities as many others have. This led to a life time of fascination with astral projection and spirituality. Robert’s work was always there to help guide me and give me insight. This was during the height of the internet spiritual forum period. Where forus/BB boards were a major source of knowledge for individuals instead of Reddit and Facebook/discord. I would listen to his podcasts on various sites, the coast to coast shows, and interviews.
It was in early 2020 that I had the opportunity to speak with him on a almost nightly basis on the human experience podcast with Xavier katana, and became close enough to the man, the legend to kno that he enjoyed playing the borderlands game online, and was hilarious with his jokes and life stories. I would stay up all night speaking to him in the hxp discord chat with a few other good friends just soaking up all his experiences and stories, and secrets about the astral an and spirit worlds. What most people don’t kno is he almost passed away a few years ago by I think it was a heart attack, fortunately enough he said that a ambulance just so happened to be across the street and was able to save his life, I forget if he said he had to get pace maker installed. But those heroic first responders helped give this man another few years with us on this earth.
I’m truly going to miss him, I wish I had progressed with his teachings to meet him in the astral one day, or even visit him in Australia. Truly the world has lost an amazing teacher, and I hope his sons can carry on his legacy. I will try to do the same. The world has lost a great light,
Robert comes from a generation of people that are slowing passing away, they are the ones that bridged the gap spiritually. They crossed the void and got to explore the astral, grow spiritually, and attain some of humanities highest potentials, and retain that knowledge and teach it to others. Now sadly they are all slowly retiring/ passing away to the spirit world. And it is our mission to not let this knowledge and their names go down and be forgotten. We are the generation that had to pave the new way forward, to finally achieve those great spiritual promises of mastery and growth with our higher selves.
If anyone would like to talk message me, I’ll see you on his forums too
Well, you know, when we lose an inspiring presence, it is sometimes appropriate to ask, “What is my responsibility to this friendship? Do I have something to offer?” I suspect that you know you do, but of course it can be difficult to see the path ahead until we’re already on it. Thanks for the contribution here.
Some thoughts regarding Robert Simon Bruce upon his passing.
Robert once mused about visiting medium circles with his mother, Winnie in England where old ladies held him in awe. He was able to connect with the spirits effortlessly and found himself entertained by these outings when he was a very young child. But after many traumatic experiences years later, he was no longer enthused with that pursuit so he impaired and filtered his clairvoyance, intentionally. Robert chose to focus upon healing and astral projection, instead.
So, Robert was shocked when a beautiful young woman began to haunt him. She wore a mini skirt and go-go boots. She was there night after night disturbing his sleep. He had successfully prevented such ghostly visitations and he wondered who she was and how she kept getting to him. When he told his sister Ginny about this, she laughed aloud and identified the trespasser as their mum. The mother had not appeared like the fragile grandmother who had died but chose instead to appear as a healthy carefree youth, to his surprise.
Robert once tested me by passing the phone to his sister Ginny who is also a mystic. He asked me to remote view her and tell me where she was, and what she looked like, in Australia. But I was in the USA! My mentor told me to connect to the energy of her voice. I saw Ginny in her kitchen but everything I reported was backwards. Robert kept laughing at me in his good nature. Eventually he explained that this was an ‘Alice in Wonderland Effect’ which often occurs in remote viewing. Just as Alice peered through the Looking Glass and saw an enchanting opposite room, I could see Ginny’s kitchen the other way around. I could see her sitting at a small table and knew she was not wearing a bra beneath her comfortable oversized t-shirt. When I reported that ,her husband laughed audibly and then I could see him, too ! This was a profound experience for me as I had never remote viewed internationally. Robert taught me that this was accomplished because Ginny and he were catalysts acting like huge energy boosters because they both were practicing mystics.
Robert had a very strong energy body for most of his life. He was a brilliantly skilled healer. I sustained a CSF leak after spinal surgery and I coded repeatedly. But, I was discharged from hospital to bedrest. The headaches and dizziness were brutal. I was rushed to hospital too many times and had many NDEs. Robert came to visit and healed my spine when no doctor could. He placed a thick golden white rubber sheath of energy around my spine where the leak was. A few days later I was able to return to work. I had been bed bound five months, whilst doctors argued over whether or not I could have an epidural blood patch. I am ever so grateful that Robert saved my life.
Robert became aware that he had Diabetes while on tour presenting his books. He related that the doctors overseas planned to amputate both of his feet. He willed himself up out of that bed and came back to Australia where he lived with both feet for another fifteen years! The Diabetes eventually caught up to him, but Robert healed himself to live another decade and a half and that was marvellous. Robert was a stubborn fellow and he loved a challenge.
When the internet first became available to the public, Robert jumped on it. In 1995, Robert began offering pro bono online advice to parents of children with night terrors. Robert worked tirelessly to find solutions and was a hero to so very many. This was an invaluable service as very little help is available. His methods worked!
Inspired by the works of Franz Bardon, Robert completed the Ten Step Path of the Magician and a European Temple conveyed the title of Ippisimus on Robert Simon Bruce, which is he highest ranking. He encouraged others to read Initiation into Hermetics and to continue past their failures, until they succeeded. Unlike other teacher of the Hermetic Path, Robert was truthful and wrote concerning a few errors and the blinds in that amazing text.
Although Robert was greatly influenced by the works of Franz Bardon and Robert Monroe, most of Robert’s published works came from physical and mystical personal experience. In the short time, I lived with him, I would wake and find a maelstrom of spirits encircling his head while he sat in blissful meditation in the lounge. He could meditate anywhere and anytime. But he chose to meditate early in the morning before he ate breakfast or had a cuppa. His energy was so powerful that skeptics and the spiritually challenged would visit the home and incredulously see spirits for the first time! Robert did not care to speak with the spirits though, he went “straight to the source” connecting to his highest self, instead.
I went searching for his Wikipedia page and was saddened to find it was no longer there. However I found the Russian version lol. Robert would chuckle at that. Anyone who ever met Robert Bruce could never forget him.
Astral Dynamics was Robert’s Magnum Opus, if you have not read it yet, get a copy and begin your journey, today.
Many thanks for this.
¿Cuáles fueron las razones del deceso de Robert?
I believe he died of complications of diabetes. i know it wasn’t that simple, but that’s what it amounted to.