OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCES INITIATED MAN S RESEARCH (CHARLOTTESVILLE DAILY PROGRESS-JAN 17, 1984)

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 pregnancy and 30 percent stopped drink- Officials said Shultz will endorse such proposals as
 ing.                            mandatory advance notice of military exercises, ex-
 tending from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains in
 Please See HEALTH, Page A10      Russia.
 Out-Of-Body Experiences
 Initiated Man's Research
 Progress Photo by Jim Carpenter
 Robert Monroe At Control Panel For Sound Equipment
 Institute In Nelson County Studies Various Levels Of Conciousness
 By KATHY HOKE
 of The Progress Staff
 NELLYSFORD - In 1958, New York
 City radio broadcaster Robert A. Monroe
 began to leave his body.
 The unexplained experiences of his mind,
 via a second body, traveling across the
 country and to parts unknown initiated his
 studies into human consciousness -,a pur-
 suit that eventually drew him from a suc-
 cessful broadcasting career to full-time
 research at his 800-acre institute along the
 Blue Ridge in Nelson County.
 Monroe said the response from his 1971
 book, Journeys Out of the Body, encour-
 aged him to devote more time to his re-
 search. More than. 200,000 copies of the
 book have been sold in six languages.
 Monroe, who wrote the prime-time radio
 program "Rocky Gordon "in the early 1940s,
 said he began his research when "a strange
 series of events started happening to me
 some years ago."
 The events, his out-of-body experiences,
 or "OOBEs" prompted him to explore var-
 .4ous levels of consciousness.
 "In order to learn to control my own out-
 of--body experiences, I had to learn what it
 was;" he said. "It was a form of energy. The
 greatest use of that energy, is 'conscious-
 ness."
 Although the studies at the Monroe Insti-
 tute of Applied Sciences. have attracted
 more than 4,000 people since it was formed
 J n 1973, few Nelson residents know much
 about it. Some of its neighbors don't want
 Please See RESEARCH, Page A10
 Serious Crime Decreases In County
 By DANIEL W. LEHMAN               it reflects a national trend, but crime
 of The Progress Staff. dropped a little more here than most
 Serious crime in Albemarle County de-   places. It was a good year for us.
 creased by 9 percent in 1983 - despite a "But everyone will have to try a lot
 startling increase in the number of rapes harder to let these people who are .com-
 - according to statistics provided by the                mitting these rapes know that it won't be
 county sheriff's department to Virginia tolerated in Albemarle County."
 State Police.                           Bailey said several of the 16 rapes re-
 The yearly statistics showed that hom-                     ported in the county have been reclassi-
 icides dropped 75 percent, robberies were                     fied as lesser crimes in subsequent court
 down 55 percent, aggravated assaults   a tion. The stati  r~sI   oMOM
 were off by 52 percent, burglari }61veC1 5          le    b~
 down 2 percent and larcenies decreased   marle-Charlottesville Joint Security
 by 8 percent from 1982.                 Complex, he said,
 most common crimes in the county -,to
 the addition of five police officers to the
 sheriff's department in July.
 "I feel sure that we were helped by the
 additional personnel," he said. "I'm very
 pleased to see that the property crimes
 dropped that much." In addition to the
 lower rates of burglaries and larcenies,
 motor vehicle theft declined by 44 per-
 cent.
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 t  ported a
 Tee thefts at
 $636,000, and said it recovered $247,188
 worth of property during the investiga-
 Inside
 Michael Jackson Show
 Michael Jackson dominated the
 American Music Awards Monday
 night, capturing seven awards, in-
 cluding best pop-rock and soul
 album for "Thriller." See Page A8.
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 .to know, either. "            teach visitors how to explore high-     Some people actually have  to pass through the Monroe lnst;
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 d
 ve
 ear
 different people talk
 about how they think there's some
 kind of a cult religion over there,
 said Betty Ann Duncan, who lives
 about three miles from the insti-
 tute.
 "You never see any. of them
 out," she said. "They mind their
 own business, whatever their busi-
 ness is."
 Monroe and his staff admit they
 do little to change the institute's
 =local image, although they wel-
 come visitors.
 "You start talking about the
 -brain or the mind, and it's cloaked
 in all this old-fashioned occult type
 'of approach," says Nancy Honey-
 'cutt, Monroe's step-daughter and
 director of programs at the insti-
 itute.
 "You wouldn't believe the mis-
 conceptions," she said. "It saddens
 me that it should be so mystified."
 After conducting consciousness
 programs and research across the
 country, Monroe moved the insti?
 Itute jn 1979 from his Afton farm in
 Albemarle County to Nellysford
 Just west of the institute's three
 educational buildings, about 60
 families will live in a community
 Monroe calls the New Land. Al-
 ready, about 20 New Landers have
 moved into the energy-efficient
 .owes, and five more houses are
 under construction.
 In seven-day seminars offered
 Death Notices
 or states of consciousness.       found it increases their abty in     Lute include actor Eddie Albers
 "We don't advertise," Ms. Hon-  physical coordination and speed      and death-and-dying author Elis
 eycutt said. "People find out about and their control over emotions,"  beth Kubler-Ross, a Highlar
 us through word-of-mouth."        Ms. Honeycutt said.                  County resident. Actor Jon Voig
 For $860, participants use a se-    Monroe says about 25 percent of  participated in one of Monroe
 ries of tapes and exercises designed the participants have an out-of?. sessions in California.
 to explore higher states of con-  body experience during the pro-    The Gateway program attrac
 sciousness.                       gram, although that is not the in.   mostly professional people from i
 They begin their days at 6 a.m.
 listening to a tape in a paneled
 chamber or -alcove called a Con-
 trolled Holistic Environmental
 Chamber. The CHEC units are fur-
 nished with sophisticated stereo
 speakers and headphones, air m$-
 tresses and lights.'
 Called the Gateway Program,
 the seminars use Monroe's paten-
 ted sound process called hem!-syn-
 chronization, or "hemi-sync." The
 technique involves sending audio
 pulses to create electrical signals in
 tent of the program.
 "We're dealing with a simple
 thing called sound," Monroe said.
 "We do not use any chemicals
 they either distort or dull con-
 sciousness."
 Monroe, who founded Jefferson
 Cable in Charlottesville in 1962 but
 sold his interest in it in 1976, said
 his research has been "infiltrating
 the main stream -seeping is a bet-
 ter word."
 In an interview last week,, he
 said that somewhere in the world,
 the brain. Monroe says the process at least two executives are using
 enhances communication in both   his "Catnapper" tape to help them
 halves of the brain.            / avoid jetlag. The 30-minute tape
 "Ideally, at the very least, the id  nis to 1~slP them create a bi-
 ly without any kind of help," Me.
 Honeycutt said. "Eventually, they
 don't use the tapes anymore.
 "Beyond that, the person learns
 to achieve and control various lev-
 els of consciousness, or you could
 say expanded states. of aware-
 ness," she said.
 Some participants increase abili?
 ties in creative problem-solving,
 concentration or pain control.. 0th
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 CLARENCE R. FARRAR                 Kirby of Florence, S.C.; one sister,
 Clarence Russell Farrar of 702 Mrs. Bessie G. Peregory' of Char
 lottesv
 :ouch 1st. St. died Jan. 13, 1984, lottesville; one granddaughter,
 McGuire e Veterans Hospital, two great (Deborah) Grady and
 n mond                         great grandchildren, John
 ich
 and Robert Matthew
 He is surviVa. ved by three- sisters, Grady.
 dies Grace Farrar, Mrs. Ida Wha- Funeral service will be 11 a.m.
 By and Mrs. Annie Lockley and Wednesday at Cherry Avenue
 me brother, Thomas Farrar. Christian Church, Mr. Ralph S.
 Funeral service will be held at 1 Carter will officiate, interment will
 m. Thursday in Mt. Zion Baptist . be in Monticello Memory Gardena.
 =hurch, the Rev. Alivn Edwards Those who wish may make con-
 wood Ificiating.
 Cemetery; Burial will be in Oak- tributions to Charlottesville - Al-
 rood
 Arrangements are by Fergw bemarle Rescue Squad or
 an's Funeral Hogue.       Coronary Can Unit U.Va. Hoapi-
 tal.
 Th The family will receive friends
 LILLIIE K. MOON,        tonight from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hill
 Lillie Kirby (Tillie) Moon, 73, of and Wood, Funeral Home.
 32 Altavista Ave., died Jan. 16,          REMONA
 384 in a local hospital.
 She`was born. Fob. 3, 1910, approved R     OMML09/10
 elson County, daughter of the Mrs. Remona Farish McNeil of
 As Lewis Calvin Kirby and Irene' Charlottesville died Jan. 16, 1984
 said.
 ,Me also.hopes. to begin commer-
 cial marketing his "Sound Sleeper"
 tape, which is now available only
 through the institute. Monroe says
 the tape helps insomniacs to sleep
 by using the hemi-sync process to
 the brWn in developing the nec-
 ,rose the country and oversee
 says Ms. Honeycutt, with relater
 .ly few from Virginia participatii
 in the program. Many of the p                                                                                          chologists, medical doctors, ac
 demics, teachers and professo
 who attend later apply their expe
 ences to their work, she said.
 The institute's research, for e
 ample, has enabled first-grade pt
 lic school students in Tacon
 Wash., to master reading skills
 most a year earlier than they wa
 without listening to Monro
 hemi-sync process while they lea
 according to a philosphy profess
 at Tacoma Community Colle
 who has participated in Monro
 programs.
 Monroe's ideas have also be
 used to control pain in illness a
 surgery, help stroke victims reci
 or, and tennis and golf players p                                                                                          better. Those who wish to imprc
 their concentration and memc
 can buy a "super learning pal
 age" of two tapes for $22 from t
 institute.
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 Obituai R'ia
 MCNEIL - Remona Farish
 McNeil, of Charlottesville, died
 Monday in a Staunton hospital.
 Teague and Hawkins Funeral
 Home, Ivy Road, is in charge of
 arrangements..
 MOON - Lillie Kirby "Tillie"
 Moon, 73, of Charlottesville, died
 Monday in a local hospital. Hill
 and Wood Funeral Home is in
 charge of arrangements.
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