He married Mary Ashworth, a divorcee with a daughter Maria, in 1950 or 1951. He married Jeanette, a graduate student and daughter of a lawyer, in 1937, and divorced her in 1938 or 1939. He displayed some ability to read music by age four without having studied the subject, perhaps by listening to his mother and sisters playing piano. He had an early fascination with flying and music and had great mechanical aptitude. He returned to Ohio State to graduate after having studied pre-med, English, engineering, and journalism. During almost a year away from college, a desire to find work led him to become a hobo who rode freight trains. Monroe had two older sisters, Dorothy and Peggy, and a younger brother, Emmett, who became a medical doctor.Īccording to his third book Ultimate Journey, he dropped out of Ohio State University in his sophomore year due to a hospital stay for a facial burn that caused him to fall behind in his studies. His father, Robert Emmett Monroe, was a college professor of Romance Languages who led summer tours to Europe. He grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio his mother, Georgia Helen Jordan Monroe, was a non-practicing medical doctor and cellist and piano player. Robert Allan Monroe was born, severely underweight at just two pounds, in 1915 in Indiana. He is also notable as one of the founders of the Jefferson Cable Corporation, the first cable company to cover central Virginia. His 1971 book Journeys Out of the Body is credited with popularizing the term " out-of-body experience".Īssisted by specialists in psychology, medicine, biochemistry, psychiatry, electrical engineering, physics, and education, Monroe developed Hemi-Sync, a patented audio technology that is claimed to facilitate enhanced performance. Robert Allan Monroe (Octo– March 17, 1995) was a radio broadcasting executive who became known for his research into altered consciousness and for founding The Monroe Institute. Monroe Products and The Monroe Institute (founder),
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