Brief exchange between Robert Monroe and “INSPEC” concerning alien intelligence

 

Near the end of his third book of OOBE accounts, “The Ultimate Journey,” Robert Monroe recounts a “discussion” with his INSPEC helpers (revealed to actually be his “higher self” or oversoul) concerning non-human and non-earthly beings that he had encountered in the out-of-body state. Monroe mentioned the ET presence in the first two books of his trilogy without going into much detail.

INSPEC: Even the Earth itself. There are so many influences. And there are also the nonhuman intelligences. We have tried to steer you away from them, as much as we can.

RM: Why?

INSPECT: Some early encounters with some of us did not work out well. They do not regard humans in the way we thought they might. They have a sense of superiority because they have evolved in a different way.

RM: So there are no big brothers in the sky?

INSPEC: Not in the way we humans dream that there are. The difficulty is that these intelligences have abilities in the manipulation of energy that we cannot yet conceive of. And they use them without the restraints we put on ourselves.

RM: I’ve had several out-of-body events that seemed like contacts with these intelligences.

INSPEC: That’s what they were. But they lost interest when they realized you were too conscious to forget the incident.

RM: I see … Are there a lot of these intelligences?

INSPEC: Too many in the physical universe. Trillions perhaps. And there’s the other one.

RM: The other one? The other nonhuman intelligence?

INSPEC: Would you believe that in all of our history, ours and yours, we have encountered only one nonhuman intelligence with an origin not in time-space? There are others that seem to fit the category, but they are very rare—or hard to perceive. In any event, we have met only the one.

—The Ultimate Journey

There is a difference between meeting ET in the OOB state and in the physical; I’m not sure if alien intelligences have the same degree of control over us that they seem to have in the physical, or if we have some sort of protection. But the fact that Monroe had to be steered away from them suggests that there is a menace involved, and it’s possible that when we’re in the OOB state, we’re invisibly chaperoned. But it’s significant that in all the encounters with ET that INSPEC has had, not one was positive.

But there is a wall or border erected between earth-focused intelligences and non-earthly ones. There is no intermingling, no Federation, no intergalactic bonhomie. On the physical plane, ET invited themselves to meddle in Earth events after we developed nuclear weapons, but their presence in the non-physical plane seems limited, for now. The good news is that in all the NDE and ADC accounts I’ve read, ET is rarely, if ever, mentioned. There is no reference to mass human abduction. It’s possible that aliens are “stealing” certain souls—if it happens, no one has returned to give an account of it—but this is never discussed. I suspect that ET is very proficient at navigating the astral planes and has the technology to pull us from our bodies, but again, there are no warnings about this in reliable paranormal literature—unless you believe that demonic forces are really ET in disguise (which is possible). In other words, for every hint or half-answer that we’re given, a hundred unanswerable questions pop up. Which is why I think this brief mention of ET in Monroe’s OOBE trilogy is worth studying.

Speculation on predicting future events

In past entries over the years, I’ve regularly poked fun at some of the intuitives and “psychics” who’ve tried, and failed, to predict major world events. And I’ve pondered the paradox of why we sometimes receive clear images from the future, usually when we aren’t looking for them, but then fail when we try to deliberately receive them. I was reminded of this the other day when I went looking for a well-known Nashville psychic, who I met a couple of times in the ‘70s and ‘80s, though I never personally had a reading from her. I was surprised to find that she had passed away in 2015. She published one book years ago, now out of print. Her obituary included some publicity photos from her heyday, indicating that she had achieved a level of recognition, though I doubt that she ever got rich off being psychic. She was active long enough that there are still some online reviews of her services; there were a couple of “she is a fraud” ratings, though most reviewers said she was actually helpful and accurate.  Basically, I saw her as sincere and well-intentioned, through over the years as I thought about her, I wondered how, exactly, a psychic reads someone else’s future.

After pondering this conundrum for most of my adult life—how one can see a future that hasn’t happened—I’ve decided that the simplest explanation is the one put forth by Seth and numerous near-death experiencers: that time (at least on the physical plane) exists all-at-once, and we simply traverse events like a car driving down the road. The road exists, and our destinations are already there. Though precognition is rejected by mainstream science, I’ve proven it to myself, as have many others.

This does not make any particular future absolutely predestined. We can take a detour from the road, or end our trip prematurely. We can take alternate routes. We can go the long way or take shortcuts. But after a certain point, certain probable destinations jell, and we can reasonably predict them.

Considerable effort seems to be exerted on the “other side” to ensure that the gazillion probable paths that humanity takes mostly align with an overall plan, and this effort would make little sense if the future was not foreseeable—including telling near-death experiencers to “go back” because it isn’t “time.” Arguably, it’s the future that pulls us forward through time, influencing our current choices. No matter how irrational some of our choices seem, they often make sense in hindsight.

Additionally, specific events in our timeline have been chosen in advance and are usually unavoidable. Ironically, these future events are not usually disclosed to the individual and can’t be foreseen, probably because a knowledge of them would alter that future. If these futures are glimpsed in dreams, they are not presented as “future” experiences for the same reason. After-death communicants state that they know some future events but are prohibited from revealing them (though some cheat and do so anyway). Certain futures may be “accidentally” disclosed to convince the experiencer that there is a master plan of sorts, and our participation in it is essential.

None of this should detract from the general principle of free will. The human ego has choice in the conduct of daily events, while “greater” aspects of the whole personality can choose, and has chosen, certain meta-experiences.

Navigating through time is a complicated endeavor. I don’t think it can be “read” by a casual psychic. A gifted intuitive can read certain parts of it, but I think that guardrails are in place to prevent a widespread conscious revelation of it. Universal intuitive abilities were once part of our distant past and can be part of our future, as we choose to make it.