A former media executive, a best-selling author, and founder of The Monroe Institute near Faber, Virginia, Robert A Monroe is a pioneer who sparked a sub-industry in the mind expansion field. He's a galactic explorer, the ultimate adventurer, a technologist and iconoclast. In 1958, Monroe began having out-of-body experiences, usually traveling to locales far removed from physical reality. He recorded his experiences, and through his best-selling books,Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys, offered comfort and corroboration to the millions of people who experience so-called paranormal events.

The story of Robert Monroe ranges far afield—from business peaks to financial canyons, from enthusiastic subject of scientific research to go-it-alone laboratory investigator, from teacher and researcher to developer of practical audio techniques and programs. Robert Monroe had the extraordinary courage and perseverance to study his experiences and apply the knowledge to help others.

He has been described in many ways: a mystic, a prophet, a renaissance man, a messenger of the Gods, a showman, a guided genius, a most human non-human... He may be all those things, and Catapult will transport you into the physical and non-physical worlds of Robert Monroe, certainly one of the most fascinating men of the 20th Century.