Recoverer 2 wrote on Nov 21st, 2022 at 3:06pm:There is a biographical book called, "The Journey of Robert Monroe."
I never got around to reading my copy, but there is a chapter called "End game." It states that Robert had health issues during his later years, couldn't take part in the activities he loved to do (sailing, flying, composing music), was lonely, and found it too heartbreaking to approach his deceased wife in focus 27.
On page 272 the book says, "He could not face the emotional trauma of drifting in Nancy's direction even in the deepest sleep."
As far as OBEs are concerned, it seems to me that he accomplished what he needed to accomplish
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depends on our overall view on the nature of reality, on what we are, why we are here (alive on Earth), what we should do while here, and such.
With all due respect to Bob and his work, if that biography is accurate about his last years' feelings regarding OBEs, I believe that Bob didn't accomplish what he could've accomplished, that he got sidetracked by the distortions caused by his beliefs.
We all do that to some degree, but some of us have no idea of doing it.
OBEs (in all their flavors), meditation, chemicals, hypnosis are means to explore altered states of consciousness. The goal is in what that exploration brings us, and less in the means themselves.
Everything we experience, both when awake and when dreaming, is multi-layered symbolism, which we can decode / interpret only in-as-much our level of individual evolvement allows us, and in-as-much we are aware of it.