Also by Robert A. Monroe                                    Ultimate 
                  JOURNEYS OUT OF THE BODY                                           Journey 
                        FAR JOURNEYS 
                                                                               Robert A. Monroe 
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                                                                                                                                           Nancy Venn Monroe 
                                                                                                                                  Co-founder, The Monroe Institute 
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            A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1994 by Doubleday.                                      the Hundreds of Supporting Friends 
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              Ultimate journey / Robert A. Monroe, 
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                                                                                                                          Contents 
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                                                                                                     Foreword ix 
                                                                                                 1   The Variable                                                  1 
                                                                                                 2   The Long, Long Trail                                        15 
                                                                                                 3   Along the Interstate                                        29 
                                                                                                 4   Hail and Farewell                                           47 
                                                                                                 5   Recoup and Regroup                                          59 
                                                                                                 6   Inside and Outside                                          71 
                                                                                                 7   Tour Guide                                                  83 
                                                                                                 8   Recall and Review                                           97 
                                                                                                 9   The Hard Way                                               105 
                                                                                                10  Detached Retinue                                            125 
                                                                                                11  Turning Inward                                              141 
                                                                                                12  Inside the Inside                                           163 
                                                                                                13  Fine Tuning                                                 179 
                                                                                                14  The Sum and the Parts                                       191 
                                                                                                15  Long Trail A-Winding                                       201 
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                              Contents 
     16 The Roadside View                                 223 
     17 More Work in Progress                              231 
     18 The New Direction                                  245 
     19 Taking Timeout                                     265 
                                                           271                                     Foreword 
          Glossary 
          The Monroe Institute                             277 
          Research Papers and Reports                      285 
          Going Home Series                                299 
                                                                                   Robert Monroe is a mapmaker. In Ultimate Journey he 
                                                                              seeks to chart that area which lies "over the edge," beyond the 
                                                                              limits of the physical world. He presents us with a map of the 
                                                                              "Interstate"—the route that opens to us when we leave our 
                                                                              physical lives, with its entry and exit ramps, its signposts and 
                                                                              its hazards. This he is able to do because he has traveled the 
                                                                              route himself; he writes from knowledge, not from belief. 
                                                                                   Monroe's first book, Journeys out of the Body, was pub-
                                                                              lished in 1971. Since then, according to Dr. Charles Tart, one 
                                                                              of the leading experts on consciousness and human potential, 
                                                                              "innumerable people have found comfort and help in the 
                                                                              knowledge that they weren't alone and weren't crazy just be-
                                                                              cause they had had out-of-body experiences." In that book 
                                                                              and its successor, Far Journeys, Monroe recorded his out-of-
                                                                              body experiences over three decades and established a reputa-
                                                                              tion as a trailblazer in the exploration of the far reaches of 
                                                                              human consciousness. Now in Ultimate Journey he takes the 
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