Initiated Man’s Research
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-
ious 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
in 1973, few Nelson residents know much
about it. Some of its neighbors don’t want
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The Department of Health and Human
Services also said pregnant women are
cutting down on smoking and drinking
and that a large majority worked outside
the home in the 12 months before their
children were born.
The report, “Health — United States,
1983,” cited a series of recent studies by
the department that show life expectan-
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the report said. But
it noted that final
data for 1980 listeddhe mortality rateior,
black
or nearly twice as high as for white in-
fants.
Even though
the
fertility
rate
rose
slightly between 1979 and 1980 to 68.4
..births
for each
1,000 women
of
child-
bearing age, provisional data for follow
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said only at a later stage should members move on to
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beverages. But of those who had the
habit,
18 percent quit smoking during
pregnancy and 30 percent stopped drink-
ing.
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f this objective is to be reached,
it is essential
that an atmosphere of confrontation and exaggerated
polemics are avoided,” Palme said.
Officials said Shultz will endorse such proposals as
mandatory advance notice of military exercises, ex-
tending from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains in
Russia.
Out-Of-Body Experiences
Progress Photo by Jim Carpenter
Robert Monroe At Control Panel For Sound Equipment
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Serious Crime Decreases In County
By DANIEL W. LEHMAN
of The Progress Staff
Serious crime in Albemarle County de-
creased by 9 percent in 1983 — despite a
startling increase in the number of rapes
— according to statistics provided by the
county sheriffs department to Virginia
State Police.
The yearly statistics showed that hom-
icides dropped 75 percent, robberies were
down
percent,
aggravated
assaults
were off by 52 percent, burgiariQ#>f)Eftve
down 2 percent and larcenies decreased
by 8 percent from 1982.
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it
reflects
a national
trend, but crime
dropped
a
little more here than most
places. It was a good year for us.
“But everyone will have to try a lot
harder to let these people who are com-
mitting these rapes know that it won’t" be
tolerated in Albemarle County.”
Bailey said several of the 16 rapes re-
ported in the county have been reclassi-
fied as lesser crimes in subsequent court
marle-Charlottesville
Joint
Security
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.
$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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