"In 1958, Robert Monroe floated out of his body for the first time. It began “without any apparent cause,” he wrote. His doctor, finding no physical ailment, prescribed tranquilizers. A psychologist friend, meanwhile, told me him to try leaving his body again. After all, the friend said, “some of the fellows who practice yoga and those Eastern religions claim they can do it whenever they want to.” Monroe did try it again—and again and again. He recalls these experiences in his classic 1971 book Journeys out of the Body, which launched the phrase “out-of-body experiences” into the public conversation. Monroe died in 1995, but the fascination with out-of-body experiences endures."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Why People Have Out-of-Body Experiences, Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, (26 July 2017)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Out-of-body experience
8 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Out-of-body experience →
Related Quotes
"When writing, I often feel like I’m having an out-of-body experience in which I’m as ageless, sexless, classless, rac…"
"According to the literature of the psychic underground, the religious-mystical history of man constantly makes refere…"
"Early in the experimentation, a side effect began to manifest itself. It was not an out-of-body activity as such, but…"
"Often I wake up to myself, abandoning my body: foreign to everything else in my own intimacy, I see the most extraord…"
"I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people…"
"Most black men couldn't balance a checkbook But buy a new car, talking 'bout, 'How my neck look?' Well, it all looks …"
"I have seen a light; not in a near-death experience — I was just passing out. And what I perceived was the tiniest be…"