The Monroe Institute

Half a century of research into expanded states of consciousness, built on a single premise: you are more than the physical body. The nearest thing there is to a laboratory for the eternal. The campus covers more than 300 acres in the Blue Ridge foothills of Nelson County, Virginia. Robert A. Monroe, a radio producer who began having out-of-body experiences in 1958, founded it, and it runs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that also runs research. Residential programmes last five days and six nights at the Nancy Penn Center or Roberts Mountain Retreat, once Monroe's home. Gateway Voyage is the entry point, built on his original binaural beat exercises. Others cover out-of-body states, lucid dreaming and remote viewing. Every place needs an approved application. Anyone with a history of seizures, auditory disorders or adverse mental health conditions is told to see a physician first.