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appeared to believe his own experience, and would quite independently and with a great deal of faith pursue what he felt. We have found in our work with people capable of having out-of-the-body experiences that certain personality attributes are present, and Monroe does demonstrate these. These include a tendency to feel socially isolated and different from others at quite an early age, often seeing the world itself as sotnewhat alien. This relative isolation is combined with a tendency to be autonomous, and yet also to be a leader, quite aggressive and dangerseeking. Monroe has been able to take some experiences, which most people would try to deny and avoid, and place them in a highly creative con-text, utilizing his leadership abilities and his other constitutional at-tributes. People such as Monroe are thus able to utilize their internal mental experiences for guidance in their lives. Monroe has no special training in Eastern, meditative, or other esoteric disciplines, but somehow uses these intuitions. Monroe, as others, is a visualizer, a person who visually memorizes and thinks in Gestalts. His dreams are also visual, highly colored and intense. Perhaps one of the commonest themes in Monroe's life is his security in not having to continuously define the external world. This attitude has given him the ability to journey through realities normally not accessible to people whose lives necessitate, for one reason or another, a continual definition of the physical external world. Monroe's early life also demonstrates not only independence, but stubbornness and a tendency to rebel against traditional values, although there is no evidence whatsoever that this rebellion, mainly internal, created major problems in his life. He does not demonstrate any major trauma during his childhood, nor any of the sorts of childhood difficulties that a psychiatrist might look for. I think this results from an excellent relationship with his parents, who did not have a normal middleclass attitude to life, and were themselves quite independent. His mother, a dynamic woman, tended to step over the ugly things in life, an at-tribute that emerges in the analysis of Monroe's personality. It appears that both Monroe and his mother use what could be called in traditional psychiatric terms denial or avoidance, except that it is done consciously, and does not appear to have created difficulties for either his mother or himself. He has a tendency to bring out the best in people by an oblique form of communication in which he focuses his attention on that which will synthesize rather than that which will destroy. He had no major childhood traumas, although one experience he reports as highly traumatic was that of moving from a small to a large city. He went to college at the age of fifteen, entering pre-medical school. He eventually qualified himself as an engineer with very good grades, although his courses were quite unorthodox.