RE/ Robert Allan Monroe
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Mr.
Monroe
is
a man of many talents.
More important,
he has the abil-
ity
to explore and experience
these different facets
that make up an unusual
personality.
The son of
a college professor and
a medical doctor mother,
he received
his degree
from Ohio State University after studies
in engineering and
jour-
nalism,
and entered
the radio broadcasting
industry
as
a writer and director
of programs.
He went
to New York in
1939,
where he was
the creator and pro-
ducer of
some
400 radio and TV network programs
in the ensuing twenty year
period.
In addition
to directing and writing,
he composed all of
the orches
tral music
for his programs,
much of which
is still
in use
in television and
motion pictures.
His first radio network programs was
ROCKY GORDON,
a railroad adventure
series which
for several years preceeded
the
famous LOWELL THOMAS
- AMOS
N'
ANDY program block on NBC.
Some of
the other network program series he cre-
ated and produced were HIGH ADVENTURE
{George Sanders)
,
NIGHTMARE
{Peter
Lorre),
STARLIGHT THEATRE
(Madeleine Carroll),
SCRAMBLE
(Bob Ripley),
MGM
SCREEN TEST,
and
the quiz shows TAKE A NUMBER and MEET YOUR MATCH.
After an early sojourn at Donohue and Coe,
Advertising,
he
formed Rob-
ert Monroe Productions, which
at its peak operation,
was producing as many
as
28 network shows weekly.
He later became Vice President of Programs
and
Director of Mutual Broadcasting System,
Inc.,
a position he held until mid-
1956.
He
then became President
of Laury Associates,
which brought him into
ownership and operation
of
radio stations
in North Carolina and Virginia.
He also formed Jefferson Cable Corporation,
which
as President,
he guided
in
the construction and operation of cable-TV systems
in Charlottesville and
Waynesboro,
Virginia
-
a position he held until April,
1976.
Mr.
Monroe's major avocation in recent years
has been exploration and
research into practical methods
of accelerated
learning through expanded
forms of consciousness.
To augment such
activity,
he founded
the Monroe In-
stitute of Applied Sciences
in
1973, with facilities and
laboratories
at
Af ton,
Virginia.
With his
long and varied experience in sound,
it was nat-
ural
that he utilized' this medium for investigation.
One of the results of
his work was
a method and technique of
inducing relaxation and
sleep,
which
was
granted
a generic patent in
1975.
The technique employs
a
system of
audio pulses which create
a frequency-following response
in
the human brain.
By
this method,
it
is now possible
to hold
and maintain specific
stages
of
sleep for any depth and duration
in the average person.
A later development
at
the Institute has utilized
the same method and technique
in
a form of
"binaural beats"
to create syncronization of both
left and right hemispheres
in
the human brain.
This discovery also
permit's external control of the
degree of activity of either right or
left brain.
These
two patterns, when
employed in
an ordered sequence
to achieve specific effects,
offer
a
sig-
nificant gateway
to new understanding and application of human thought and
endeavor.
Along with others ,
the Monroe Institute
is exploring
the potent-
ials
of such methods
in all areas of
individual and cultural activity.
Mr.
Monroe,
as Executive Director of
the
Institute he
founded,
still
plays
an active part
in this educational-research organization.
He also
is
author of
the book,
"JOURNEYS OUT OF THE BODY"
{Doubleday),
which has
been
publi shshed
in
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farm
in Nelson
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