lol Carolyn, love your Pe.  do u mean Robert Monroe maybe? there is another Robert here.

uhmm, I reread your post and missed some details that match with yours: the ground did look velvety to me, and beige like, almost mustard color. I saw some dust too. my PE was like two seconds but I still remember the ground.

Spooky that u saw a flag counts because think of all the many things we could have seen but didn't.
and I also saw a lot of barren land like u did.
one other thing Corolyn. the darth vader guy. I saw someone looked like this magician type fellow, but that was in the other PE to the moon. and he lived in a moon cave.

Spooky said no caves, so I might have to return someday and find out. one thing was it was not a deep cave, more surface, with an opening close by letting in sunlight. a very small cave then.
at the time I took this figure to be a sort of elemental spirit, some sort of moon custodian. I don't think he expected me.

Einstein also said another similar thing "imagination is more important than knowledge."

sometimes have to throw away what I know, so I can get something new and fresh. it's a fine PE Carolyn you did. I especially like the singing part freres, mean brothers in french.

love, alysia