Reseña del libro "Beyond the Body (en Inglés)"
What if the most extraordinary journey of your life began the night you felt yourself leave your own body?Robert Monroe was not a mystic, a guru, or a man searching for the occult. He was a successful American radio executive when, in 1958, a series of terrifying vibrations and out-of-body experiences changed the course of his life. What began as fear became a lifelong investigation into consciousness, altered states, the nature of reality, and the possibility that the mind may be more than the brain.BEYOND THE BODY reconstructs Monroe's remarkable story with the pace of narrative nonfiction and the rigor of a serious investigation. From his earliest spontaneous OBEs to the creation of the Monroe Institute, from Hemi-Sync and the Gateway Experience to the mysterious Focus levels, nonphysical realities, encounters with the dead, I-There, Loosh, Home, and his final ideas about death and survival of consciousness, Richard Mitchell follows Monroe's journey without turning belief into proof.Along the way, the book examines the questions that made Monroe famous-and the evidence behind them. Could consciousness really function outside the body? Can out-of-body experiences be explained by sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, hypnagogia, dissociation, body-schema distortions, expectation, and memory? What can neuroscience explain today? What remains uncertain? And what should we make of the unusual cases in which Monroe believed he had obtained information he should not have known?You will discover:• the true origins of Robert Monroe's out-of-body experiences;• the development of Hemi-Sync, binaural beats, and the Monroe Institute;• the Gateway Experience and the famous military investigation of the Gateway Process;• the meaning of Locale I, Locale II, Locale III, Focus 10, Focus 15, Focus 21, and the later Focus levels;• Monroe's encounters with nonphysical entities, the dead, INSPECs, retrievals, and the Belief System Territories;• the controversial Loosh theory-and what Monroe actually wrote versus what the internet later turned it into;• the evolution of his ideas about time, reincarnation, I-There, Home, death, and the afterlife;• what modern neuroscience, sleep research, near-death studies, and consciousness science can-and cannot-tell us.This is not a book of blind belief, and it is not a skeptical dismissal. It is an investigation for readers fascinated by Robert Monroe, out-of-body experiences, consciousness, lucid dreaming, near-death experiences, the Gateway Process, Hemi-Sync, life after death, altered states of consciousness, and the mystery of human identity.If you have ever wondered what happens when the sense of "I" seems to move beyond the body-and whether death is truly the end of consciousness-this book will take you to the edge of what we know.Buy BEYOND THE BODY today and enter the extraordinary world of Robert Monroe with curiosity, rigor, and an open mind.
