Astral Traveler Weary of Answering Distress Signals on Highway Beyond Death

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A second chapter in the recollections of Robert A. Monroe, republished by the Unarius Academy of Science on its Unariun Wisdom site, finds the author contemplating the limits of his own usefulness as a traveler beyond the physical body.

According to the text, each excursion out of the body had begun to bring requests for help in the form of signals. Mr. Monroe writes that the task seemed never-ending and inefficient, and that he could spend the remainder of his physical life on it without making a perceptible dent in the volume of calls.

Two questions troubled him, the author states: why he had suddenly become exposed to such signals after so many years, and why they appeared to cause distress in his physical body. He reports that most of them seemed to originate in areas adjoining the termination of physical existence, which he describes as lying off a route he had come to think of as the Interstate.

Resolving to investigate, the author says he began at about three o'clock the next morning, feeling rested and relaxed. He describes phasing out of the physical into the blackness of the out-of-body state while keeping what he calls his left brain mode on full alert, and arriving at what he termed his entry ramp.

As he prepared to bypass the nearby exit ramps, as was his habit, one of the signals pulled hard at him, the account says. Reluctantly, he followed it, and was flashed to a city and then to an apartment building. There the excerpt ends, with a prompt to continue reading on the Unarius site.