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6burg, Virginia Saturday, October 29, 1983
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By SUSAN GARBEE BRANDT
Staff Writer
NELLYSFORD 'Ae research Of the Monroe In-
stitute of Applied Sciences here has attracted thousands
from foreign countries and across the nation since it
was formed in 1979.
Yet very few people in the Lynchburg area lEnow
anything about the brain-wave research of the Macre
Institute, just off Virginia 6 in Nelson County.
I Few know the institute's research -has enabled Ta.
coma,. Wash., public school six-year -olds; to maker
skills they shouldn't develop until spring.
Or that the Institute's patented sound process is be-
ing used -to control pain in illness and surgery, andbelp
insommacs sleep, stroke victims recover and tennis
players and golfers play better.
Nor do they know - anything about the founder' Rob-
'art A. Monroe, who says that in 1958 his mind began
leaving his body and traveling across the country, other
universes and into the unknown.
Most Nelson County residents either don't know . the
institute exists or have heard one of many rumors
about the place.
"I don't think the neighbors have any idea what
goes on here," Nancy Honeycutt, Monroe's stepdaugh.
ter, said. "They know we deal with brain waves. They
assume we are doing weird things to people's minds."
Shortly after Monroe wrote "Journeys Out of the
Body," which details his out-of-body experiences, he
left his broadcasting career and began full-time
search On what causes a persoWs mind to leave the
physical body and travel.
Monroe, then a prominent broadcasting executivr
HAed in Who's who in America, said his book belpd
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