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to know, either.
“I’ve heard 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
i
do
little to change the institute’s
-local
image,
although
they
wel-
i
•come visitors.
;
“You
start
talking
about
the
,
brain or the mind, and it’s cloaked
i
in all this old-fashioned occult type
of approach,” says Nancy Honey-
i
cutt, Monroe’s step-daughter and
director of programs at the insti-
,
tute.
,
"You wouldn’t believe the mis-,
,
conceptions,” she said. “It saddens
i
me that it should be so mystified.”
'
i
After conducting consciousness
|
programs and research across the
country, Monroe moved the
insti''
.
fcute jn 1979 from bis Afton farm in
j
Albemarle County to Nellysford.
Just west of the institute’s three
educational
buildings,
about
families
will
live in a community
Monroe
calls the New Land.
Al-
,
ready, about 20 New Landers have
noved
into
the
energy-efficient
i
tomes, and five more houses are
inder construction.
I
In
seven-day
seminars
offered
i
Death Notices
CLARENCE R. FARRAR
Clarence Russell Farrar of 702
South 1st. St. died Jan. 13, 1984,
n
McGuire
Veterans
Hospital,
lichmond, Va.
He is survived by three sisters,
dies Grace Farrar, Mrs: Ida Wha-
ey and Mrs. Annie Loddey and
me brother, Thomas Farrar.
Funeral service will be held at 1
.m. Thursday in Mt. Zion Baptist
-hurch, the Rev. Alivn Edwards
fficiating. Burial will be in Oak-
rood Cemetery,
Arrangements
are
by
Fergu-
s's Funeral Home.
LILLIE K. MOON
teach visitors how to explore high-
er states of consciousness.
“We don't advertise,” Ms. Hon-
eycutt said. “People find out about
us through word-of-mouth.”
For $850, participants use a se-
ries of tapes and exercises designed
to
explore
higher
states
of
con-
sciousness.
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 mat-
tresses and lights.
Called
the Gateway
Program,
the seminars use Monroe’s paten-
ted sound process called hemi-syn-
chronization, or "hemi-sync." The
technique involves sending audio
pulses to create electrical signals in
'
the brain. Monroe says the process
enhances communication
in both
halves of the brain.
“Ideally, at the very least, the
person learns bow to relax so deep-
ly without any kind of help,” Ms.
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. Oth-
Kirby of Florence, S.C.; one sister,
Mrs. Bessie G. Peregory of Char-
lottesville;
one
granddaughter,
Mrs, John (Deborah! Grady and
two
great
grandchildren,
John
Travis
and
Robert Matthew
Grady.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m.
Wednesday
at
Cherry Avenue
Christian Church,
Mr. Ralph
S.
Carter will officiate, interment will
be in Monticello Memory Gardens.
Those who wish may make con-
tributions to Charlottesville
- Al-
bemarle Rescue Squad
or
Coronary Care Unit U.Va. Hospi-
The family will receive friends
tonight from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hill
and Wood Funeral Home.
Lillie Kirby (Tillie) Moon, 73, of
Wood Funeral Home.
32 Altavista Ave., died Jan. 16,
pi?moma
964 in a local hospital
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3, 1910 , Approved
elaon County, daughter of the
Mrs. Remona Farish McNeil of
-te Lewis Calvin Kirby and Irens
Charlottesville died Jan. 16, 1984
“Some
people
actually
have
found
it increases their
ability
in
physical
coordination
and
speed
and their control over emotions,”
Ms. Honeycutt said.
Monroe says about 25 percent of
the
participants have an
out-of-
body
experience during
the
pro-
gram, although that is not the 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,
at least two executives are using
his “Catnapper” tape to help them
avoid jetlag. The 30-minute tape
“seems to help them create a bi-
ological clock and fame shift," he
said.
He 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
aid the brain in developing the nec-
geijsary patterns for sleep.
Among the more famous peopi
to pass through the Monroe Insti
tute
include
actor
Eddie
Albei
and death-and-dying author Elis
beth
Kubler-Ross,
a
Highlar
County resident. Actor Jon Voig
participated
in
one
of Monro*
sessions in California.
The Gateway program attra<
mostly professional people from
i
ross
the
country
and
oversei
says Ms. Honeycutt, with relati\
ly few from Virginia participatii
in the program. Many of the ps
chologists,
medical
doctors,
ac
demies,
teachers
and
professo
who attend later apply their expe
ences to their work, she said.
The institute’s research, for
«
ample, has enabled first-grade pvi
lie
school
students
in
Tacon
Wash., to master reading skills
most a year earlier than they woi
without
listening
to Monro
hemi-sync process while they lea
according to a philosphy profess
at
Tacoma
Community
Colie
who has participated in Monro
programs.
Monroe’s ideas have
also be
used to control pain in illness a
surgery, help stroke victims rec<
er, and tennis and golf players pi
better. Those who wish to impre
their
concentration
and memc
can buy
a “super learning pa<
age” of two tapes for $22 from t
institute.
Obituaries
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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
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