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which we have sorted is overwhelming in its import. The fact of consensus and agreement from six different explorers—each unaware of the other's experiences except in joint operations—has had a formidable impact upon those who have examined the material. The details will be reported in another book which is in preparation. A lot of action to pack into four years. It only strengthens the concept of accelerated change at work—especially the change in human needs. I have reviewed JOURNEYS again carefully for this new edition. I'm happy to say that nothing has to be altered in the light of later experience. The basics are still the same. From the point of my experimental level at that time, it is still accurate. One item we do know: the reality of your reading these words with your left brain hemisphere is the first stage of filtration. Robert A. Monroe Afton, Virginia 1977 For those interested in the activities of the Institute or who have had spontaneous out-of-the-body experiences, write: Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences P.O. Box 57 Afton, Virginia 22920 INTRODUCTION In our action-oriented society, when a man lies down to sleep, he is effectively out of the picture. He will lie still for six to eight hours, so he is not "behaving," "thinking productively," or doing anything "significant." We all know that people dream, but we raise our children to regard dreams and other experiences occurring during sleep as unimportant, as not red in the way that the events of the day are. Thus most people are in the habit of forgetting their dreams, and, on the occasions when they do remember them, they usually regard them as mere oddities. It is true that psychologists and psychiatrists regard the dreams of patients as useful clues to the malfunctioning of their personalities; but even in this application dreams and other nocturnal experiences are generally not treated as red in any sense, but only as some sort of internal data processing of the human computer.