Ultimate Journey, by Robert Monroe

A year before his death in 1995, Robert Monroe published Ultimate Journey, the last of his three books.

Ultimate Journey builds on the foundation Monroe established with his previous books (Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys); in fact, if you’re new to Monroe it’s advisable to read the books in order, as the earlier texts provide invaluable context for Ultimate Journey.

However, Ultimate Journey also digresses significantly from Monroe’s earlier writing. Whereas previously Monroe focused on understanding his Out of Body Experiences (OBEs), in Ultimate Journey he attempts to describe the metaphysical system from within which humans operate.

A common feature of all of his books is that Monroe attempts to use language that is relatively free of theological overtones. In Ultimate Journey, for example, he uses the name “I-There” to designate a super-entity that aggregates all of his experiences across multiple lifetimes — an entity which other mystics might describe as a god or soul.

Students of metaphysics, however, will notice many parallels between the material presented in this book to that of other metaphysical writers (Jane Roberts’ Seth material, for example):

• The portion of reality we’re aware of when we are awake and focused on the hear-and-now is only a tiny fraction of the reality of which we are a part;
• Each of us has reincarnated countless times;
• Each of us is a single aspect of a larger conglomerate of selves, which include “past” selves as well as selves which have not (or not  yet) incarnated on Earth;
• Earthly existence is a spiritual crucible intended to help us to grow;
• Eventually, the cumulative experience of all of our selves reaches a point where a greater transformation takes place, after which we pass to a level of non-physical reality that is beyond our ability to express in physical language.

The challenge with the metaphysical architecture described in Ultimate Journey — as with all such architectures — is that Monroe’s experience was entirely subjective. It can be assumed, therefore, that at least some portion of what he reports was filtered through and colored by his personal biases and perhaps even limitations. But implicit in all of Monroe’s work — including this book — is the suggestion that each of us has the ability, if we wish, to verify the truth of this for ourselves . . .

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