Robert Monroe

Founder and director of the Monroe Institute. Robert Monroe died in 1995.

Former Vice President and Board Member of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and founder of Monroe Industries, which owned and operated several radio stations. In 1956, he began investigating sleep-learning. His research in out-of-body experiences began in 1958. He founded the Monroe Institute in 1974.
(Biography of Robert Allan Monroe)

The earliest account I have found of Monroe's experiences is in Andrijah Puharich's book Beyond Telepathy (Dartman, Longman & Todd, 1962). According to this account, Monroe (under the name Bob Rame) triggered his out-of-body experiences by huffing cans of cement containing ether (pg 67-78). Later accounts exclude this detail, but the rest of the story is essentially the same (see Blackmore, Susan, Beyond the Body, Granada Publishing, 1982, pg 40-44, excerpt)

Note: I have heard that James Monroe is the father of Robert Monroe, but I have been unable to confirm it. The two seemed to be too close in age, and Monroe's father is described as a University professor. But here is some info anyway:

James Monroe studied North Korean brainwashing victims for the Air Force. Later, he became Executive Director of the Human Ecology Society, which was a primary funding conduit for the CIAs MK-ULTRA mind control program, and received 90% of its funds from the agency. James Monroe personally supervised the work of Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose psychic driving and coma "therapy" techniques were among the worst of MK-ULTRA's legacy.
(Marks, John, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Times Books, 1979, pg 155)

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