About the Institute

The Monroe Institute (MI), located in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia, is a nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness. All of the Institute’s varied activities and resources support its vision: “The Global Awakening of Human Consciousness.” Since MI’s inception, tens of thousands of people from all over the world have participated in its experiential programs, and millions have benefited from its products and services.

Educational Programs

Founded in 1971 by Robert Monroe, a pioneer in human consciousness exploration, the Monroe Institute offers a wide variety of residential educational programs at its Virginia campus as well as at other locations in the U.S. and around the world. U.S. and international outreach programs also provide participants with opportunities to engage in their own personal exploration in expanded states of consciousness. The Expand app offers a wide range of opportunities to explore, learn, and connect with others. MI does not promote any particular belief system or doctrine and asks only that participants be willing to consider that they are more than their physical bodies.

Hemi-Sync® Audio Technology

An integral part of both the residential and outreach programs is the use of Hemi-Sync®, a powerful audio-guidance technology which facilitates the attainment, exploration, and practical application of expanded states of consciousness. Developed and patented by Robert Monroe, Hemi-Sync® enables a person to experience within 5-7 minutes expanded and transcendent states that generally require 20+ years of dedicated meditative practice to realize.

Research

The Monroe Institute has a long history of research in the multidimensional field of human consciousness. The Institute is devoted to “the premise that focused consciousness contains definitive solutions to the major issues of human experience and a greater understanding of such consciousness can be achieved through coordinated research efforts using an interdisciplinary approach. The results of such research efforts are meaningful only if there are practical applications — something of value for our contemporary culture. As a nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to the exploration of human consciousness, the Institute proposes to introduce, at all levels of human endeavor, abilities that will constructively change humankind’s direction and destiny.”

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