CLASSIC: Uncle Sam Opens The Gateway: The Monroe Institute

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

From the late 1970s to the 1980s, the US Government paid for intelligence officers to undergo weeklong training sessions at a remote place called the Monroe Institute. Training sessions themselves aren't particularly abnormal -- but these officers weren't learning new languages, the latest news about satellites and so on. Instead, the Institute was using hypnosis to teach them astral projection, ESP and clairvoyance. The news went public via a declassified CIA document released in 1984, but questions remain: Was this all a waste of money? Or was there something else to the story?

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0:00.0	Tonight's classic episode is one of our favorite continuing obsessions.
0:08.7	Okay.
0:09.7	Have you guys ever done astral travel?
0:12.1	Can you do it?
0:12.7	I thought you were going to say acid.
0:15.5	I mean, you know, there's a Venn diagram there.
0:17.8	I think there might be.
0:18.8	Astral projection, like of my consciousness out into the cosmos to places that I don't belong or perhaps have not experienced corporeally.
0:27.4	Have you guys not seen me?
0:29.6	I hang out in y'all's bedrooms all the time.
0:32.2	I was wondering what that ghostly outline was.
0:35.2	Yeah, that's why you can see be suddenly performing
0:39.9	a cappella karaoke bat.
0:42.1	That part's for you.
0:43.5	Oh, okay.
0:44.8	So we are talking about not just the fun thought experiment conversations
0:51.3	regarding what is called remote viewing,
0:53.4	but in this episode, we explore the very true story of how Uncle Sam paid for intelligence officers as part of their job to attempt remote viewing at a place called the Monroe Institute.
1:10.7	Let's get right into it.
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