Quote:And yet a few years ago, his own daughter, Laurie, the President of TMI, repudiated claims that RAM is still manifesting hiimself to astral explorers. Laurie made this claim at Bruce's Virginia workshop! It is hard to believe that RAM can be contacted by outsiders and not by insiders at TMI. This is an old controversy, but I want newbies to be aware of it because it calls into question the astral abiities of some on this site to contact the dead.
Don,
Newbies and others should also know that your beliefs are based on very outdated information, misunderstanding of some of the facts and mistatement of other facts. And that just because you find it hard to believe that Bob could be contacted by "outsiders" does not make that a fact. As recently as two weeks ago Frank DeMarco (who lives near TMI and is in regular contact with Laurie Monroe) published a series of conversations he was having at the time with Bob Monroe. (I'll post a few samples as a separate thread on this forum for those who might be interested) This was published to an online TMI Explorer Group and became a running series of posted conversations. These conversations were about the formulas Bob often used when he signed copies of his books for people. Over a period of more than a week members of the online TMI Explorer Group emailed the formulas Bob had signed in their books to Frank. Frank would then visit with Bob to get his explanation of the formula and post the resulting conversation, with Bob, to the Explorer Group. So, contact with Bob continues to this day, whether you find it hard to believe or not.
What I think you are confused by, Don, is the difference between "channeling" and "contacting." What Bob said while he was physically alive was that he would not allow himself to be "channeled" after he died. He did not say he would not allow contact. I suggest you do some research to learn the difference between channeling someone and just communicating with someone. It appears that in your zeal to call into question and discredit anyone or anything you don't agree with or believe in you are letting your misunderstanding of the difference become an excuse for stirring up controversy where none exists. This is a fairly consistent pattern in your posts on these forums and probably the reason, along with your intimidating, bullying style and personal attacks, that many visitors find it difficult to understand why you haven't been banned from this site. Personally, I find many of your posts to give thoughtful voice to the skeptical side discussion.
Quote:A serious contradiction calls into question Bruce Moen's claims of ongoing contact with RAM. During one of these alleged contacts, Bruce claims to learn of his status as a parallel incarnation of RAM. But in "Ultimate Journey," RAM contradicts this and claims to have only one parallel incarnation---"a female one." So I think all claims to have contacted RAM in the past few years are bogus.
Don, what you say here is a mistatement of the facts and downright misleading, but again perhaps it is just that you don't understand the concepts. First, your statement that I claimed to be a "parallel incarnation of RAM" is not true as I have never claimed to be a "paralllel incarnation" of Bob Monroe. I find it irresponsible of you to mistate the facts and then claim that your mistatement of the facts indicates that a "serious contractiction" exists in what appears to be just another of your attempts to discredit me or my work. Shame on you Don.
In his book Bob claimed to have discovered that he had a parallel incarnation (as you put it) and that this was a woman. He explained that she had incarnated in the same time frame as Bob as a sort of backup in case he was unable to complete the tasks he'd incarnated to do. In other words, she incarnated with the mission of accomplishing the same thing he had come here to do. In the event Bob couldn't do it or complete it she would undertake to accomplish the same mission. I have never made any such claim.
What I said in my book is that I discovered that Bob and I are connected to the same Disk. That is, that we are parts of the same Higher Self, or as Bob put it, the same I/There. This is not all that unusal an occurance. Bob personally felt that many of those who came to the Monroe Institute to participate in its programs were parts of that same I/There.
While you are certainly entitled to your belief that "all claims to have contacted RAM in the past few years are bogus" your misleading mistatements of facts and personal attacks go beyond mere statement of your beliefs.
Bruce