Hi BillB,
I have a lot of respect for Bob Monroe, TMI, and that whole scene/history. I went to the Gateway program back in 07 i believe, and the long time Explorer Rosalind McKnight was a friend of mine. But, i've come to consider that there is a fundamental flaw in Monroe's affirmation.
In Monroe's affirmation, it states the desire to obtain guidance/help etc. from those beings equal to or greater than our own development etc. As we are all not "He/She's", this is perhaps short sighted, because we may, at times, attract "guidance" from beings who don't have our highest intent in mind.
When i meditate, seek guidance, i always ask to connect only to the most expanded, mature, constructive/helpful, and Love attuned in nature. Since i started to do this, and live in a way that affirms this, a lot has opened up for me. In my earlier days, when i opened up willy nilly, i at times was deceived/mislead by unfriendly beings.
It's a really big Uni/Multi-verse out there, and there are some beings and groups whom are in some ways much more advanced than humans, intellectually and technologically, but not necessarily more so spiritually. All spiritual development, essentially comes from attunement to Love.
Doesn't matter what corner or dimension of the Universe you come from, as we all come from the same Source and a big part of that Source is what Bruce labels PUL.
Anyways, there are deceptive beings out there that are roughly at a similar wavelength in a sense as humans in some ways, but they are negative in intentions towards us, very intellectually advanced, and they love misleading us and as they are control freaks par excellence, they would like us to look up to them as Gods. It's one of their infamous lines as you will see later.
It would be like some greedy, control freak corporate group from America or Britain with advanced technology, going into an Amazonian jungle, meeting the technologically primitive people there, and trying to convince the natives that they are gods, blah blah blah, because one they like the ego high they get, and more over they have sights on their resources and to control same they need to control the people.
It's true that strong emotions tend to lessen the farther one gets away from the human experience, but feelings do not. Meaning, no matter how expanded you get, the feeling sense is a very important one, and the truly expanded beings that i have met, all share some things in common--they palpably radiate love and have deep wells of empathy and compassion.
Your experience, in some ways, has some similarities to the below:
http://deoxy.org/shamanway.htm Note how they try to convince him that they are Creator beings. Note the blind shaman was well aware of that common trick, and what they really were and where they came from.
I've received direct guidance about these beings--they do not want their real nature known about, and they are ever active in deception. They are very involved with your typical, run of the mill, new age channeler type or otherwise non discriminating folks opening up their perception to the larger reality.
They give just enough truth to hook people, but truth laced with deception.
As this is an "E.T." group (in the literal sense, i "think", but don't know for sure, that they come from another physical area of the Universe), i'm not surprised you interacted with them in an exercise expanding beyond the solar system.
Certainly there is no reason to "fear" these beings, but don't fall for their deceptive b.s., as it's a slippery slope at best. They seek control and don't care about freewill, and they are much more clever than most humans.
I highly recommend checking out Rosalind McKnight's first book, "Cosmic Journeys" which is all based on her guidance sessions with Monroe in the lab. She receives some info from her guidance about this negatively intentioned E.T. group and talks some about them.
Rosie was one of Bob's most gifted explorers. Short summary, this group wants to take over humans and the Earth, but are currently held in check by the positive and love based E.T.'s. However, at some point in our growth, when we have evolved spiritually and technologically enough, the helpful E.T.'s will let go of our hands, and humans will have to face what we have attracted via our own negativity (as they stress time and time again, so much of what happens in reality is based on like attracts and begets like).
According to the then most probable future potentials (that Rosie was shown by her guidance then), this would be sometime around the 2500 mark time wise where they would be allowed to directly, physically attack us and a war begins with the positive E.T.'s helping only indirectly--giving us information about this group and having helped us to have technology to deal with them.
As i've been finding out more and more, sometimes truth is seemingly stranger than fiction.
I may perhaps be wrong that you interacted with this particular group, but no truly expanded or very Source attuned consciousness would consider us as "ants". Sometimes as children whom have a lot of growing to do, but never in such a dismissive way.
When Monroe met some "completed" ones near the aperture, he was told he was yet "small", because he lacked the gifts that he was supposed to bring back with him, but the tone and flavor was much different all in all.
I'm not saying that expanded beings can't give tude, as they certainly can. Check out Edgar Cayce's experiences with "Michael", whom on occasion came through in a very Yang and corrective way when the group was experiencing a lot of bickering and pettiness. A few rare times, they got blasted from this non human source and heavily criticized for not living up to their responsibilities.