David-

I find that most "souls" do indeed find their guides and actually end up where they are supposed to be. Certainly Bob Monore and Bruce, and for that matter, my own experience is more structured and is in itself a belief system called "Focus 27." Michael Newton write about similar levels or areas, but not in the same terms. Such terms are both a blessing and a prison, as the mere act of descrption in words is a problem. Now we are trying to do the impossible, which is to describe the indescribable... I digress. I see my TMI work as a valuable roadmap to "out there" but my actual experience has been different from Bob Monroe's and different from Bruce's as described in his books. More like michael Newton's stuff, actually. Less distinct, less stuff like 3-D C-1 conscioussness out there, and not like a movie.....

Anyhow, I have posted several times about how I find that fewer and fewer territories between here and what Monroe and Bruce call Focus 27, or The Park at the end of the tunnel of light so common in near death experiences. It is like the exits have been blocked and marked "ROAD CLOSED" and certainly the way to Focus 27 is very much more well-marked now that is is difficult to imagine how anyone could not find the way over.... at least the earnest seekers who are watching and awake. Likewise, there are fewer folks out at 23 to retrieve, fewer in the Hollow Hells, fewer in the less hollow ones. And with fewer "people" there, the thought forms are dissolving back in to the quantum field, becoming less and less substantial.....

My expereince, anyhow. I agree. Most folks seem to make it to 27 without much difficulty.

Thomas