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The Department of Health and Human
Services also said pregnant women are
.cutting down on smoking and drinking
and that a large majority worked outside
the home in the 12 months before their
children were born.
The report, "Health - United States,
1983," cited a series of recent studies by
the department that show life expectan-
the report said. But it noted that final
data for 1980 listed the mortality rate for,
black AmentoMed.FR& Release 17993
or nearly twice as high as for white in-
fants.
Even though the fertility rate rose
slightly between 1979 and 1980 to 68.4
.births for each 1,000 women of child-
bearing age, provisional data for follow-
1911 LU 2.2 in 1980, the document added.
Other data showed that before preg-
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ed and more than half drank alcoholic
beverages. But of those who had the
habit, 18 percent quit smoking during
pregnancy and 30 percent stopped drink-
ing.
Please See HEALTH, Page A10
-"If this objective is to be reached, it is essential
that an atmosphere of confrontation and exaggerated
polemics are avoided," Palme said.
Officials said Shultz will endorse such proposals as
mandatory advance notice of military exercises, ex-
tending from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains in
Russia.
Charlottesville Daily Progress- Jan. 17, 1984.
Out-Of-Body Experiences
Initiated Man's Research
By KATHY HOKE
of The Progress Staff
NELLYSFORD - In 1958, New York
City radio broadcaster Robert A. Monroe
began to leave his body.
The unexplained experiences of his mind,
via a second body, traveling across the
country and to parts unknown initiated his
studies into human consciousness - a pur-
suit that eventually drew him from a suc-
cessful broadcasting career to full-time
research at his 800-acre institute along the
Blue Ridge in Nelson County.
Monroe said the response from his 1971
book, Journeys Out of the Body, encour-
aged him to devote more time to his re-
search. More than 200,000 copies of the
book have been sold in six languages.
Monroe, who wrote the prime-time radio
program "Rocky Gordon " in the early 1940s,
said he began his research when "a strange
series of events started happening to me
some years ago."
The events, his out-of-body experiences,
or "OOBEs" prompted him to explore var-
jous levels of consciousness.
"In order to learn to control my own out-
of-body experiences, I had to learn what it
was," he said. "It was a form of energy. The
greatest use of that energy is conscious-
ness."
Although the studies at the Monroe Insti-
tute of Applied Sciences have attracted
more than 4,000 people since it was formed
in 1973, few Nelson residents know much
about it. Some of its neighbors don't want
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Serious Crime Decreases In County
By DANIEL W. LEHMAN
of The Progress Staff .
Serious crime in Albemarle County de-
creased by 9 percent in 1983 - despite a
startling increase in the number of rapes
- according to statistics provided by the
county sheriff's department to Virginia
State Police.
The yearly statistics showed that hom-
icides dropped 75 percent, robberies were
down 55 percent, aggravated assaults
down 2 percent and larcenies decreased
by 8 percent from 1982.
it reflects a national trend, but crime
dropped a little more here than most
places. It was a good year for us.
"But everyone will have to try a lot
harder to let these people who are com-
mitting these rapes know that it won't be
tolerated in Albemarle County."
Bailey said several of the 16 rapes re-
ported in the county have been reclassi-
fied as lesser crimes in subsequent court
action. The statistics also included two
were off by 52 percent, burglariAPRENVed der Bellen20099/10 JAPP997BRA17003100097 thets at
marle-Charlottesville Joint Security
Complex, he said.
most common crimes in the county - to
the addition of five police officers to the
sheriff's department in July.
"I feel sure that we were helped by the
additional personnel," he said. "I'm very
pleased to see that the property crimes
dropped that much." In addition to the
lower rates of burglaries and larcenies,
motor vehicle theft declined by 44 per-
cent.
The sheriff's department reported a
$636,000, and said it recovered $247,188
worth of property during the investiga-
Inside
Michael Jackson Show
Michael Jackson dominated the
American Music Awards Monday
night, capturing seven awards, in-
cluding best pop-rock and soul
album for "Thriller." See Page A8.
Index
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Progress Photo by Jim Carpenter
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to know, either.
"I've heard different people talk
about how they think there's some
kind of a cult religion over there,"
said Betty Ann Duncan, who lives
about three miles from the insti-
tute.
"You never see any of them
out," she said. "They mind their
own business, whatever their busi-
ness is."
Monroe and his staff admit they
do little to change the institute's
local image, although they wel-
come visitors.
"You start talking about the
brain or the mind, and it's cloaked
in all this old-fashioned occult type
of approach," says Nancy Honey-
cutt, Monroe's step-daughter and
director of programs at the insti-
tute.
"You wouldn't believe the mis-
conceptions," she said. "It saddens
me that it should be so mystified."
After conducting consciousness
programs and research across the
country, Monroe moved the insti-
tute in 1979 from his Afton farm in
Albemarle County to Nellysford.
Just west of the institute's three
educational buildings, about 60
families will live in a community
Monroe calls the New Land. Al-
ready, about 20 New Landers have
noved into the energy-efficient
somes, and five more houses are
under construction.
In seven-day seminars offered
68, and other institute staffers
teach visitors how to explore high-
er states of consciousness.
"We don't advertise," Ms. Hon-
eycutt said. "People find out about
us through word-of-mouth."
For $850, participants use a se-
ries of tapes and exercises designed
to explore higher states of con-
sciousness.
They begin their days at 6 a.m.
listening to a tape in a paneled
chamber or alcove called a Con-
trolled Holistic Environmental
Chamber. The CHEC units are fur-
nished with sophisticated stereo
speakers and headphones, air mat-
tresses and lights.
Called the Gateway Program,
the seminars use Monroe's paten-
ted sound process called hemi-syn-
chronization, or "hemi-sync." The
technique involves sending audio
pulses to create electrical signals in'
the brain. Monroe says the process
enhances communication in both
halves of the brain.
"Ideally, at the very least, the
person learns how to relax so deep-
ly without any kind of help," Ms.
Honeycutt said. "Eventually, they
don't use the tapes anymore.
"Beyond that, the person learns
to achieve and control various lev-
els of consciousness, or you could
say expanded states of aware-
ness," she said.
Some participants increase abili-
ties in creative problem-solving,
concentration or pain control. Oth-
Death Notices
CLARENCE R. FARRAR
Clarence Russell Farrar of 702
Fouth 1st. St. died Jan. 13, 1984,
n McGuire Veterans Hospital,
Richmond, Va.
He is survived by three sisters,
Miss Grace Farrar, Mrs. Ida Wha-
By and Mrs. Annie Lockley and
Ene brother, Thomas Farrar.
Funeral service will be held at 1
.m. Thursday in Mt. Zion Baptist ,
Church, the Rev. Alivn Edwards
Ifficiating. Burial will be in Oak-
rood Cemetery;
Arrangements are by Fergu-
on's Funeral Home.
LILLIE K. MOON
Lillie Kirby (Tillie) Moon, 73, of
02 Altavista Ave., died Jan. 16,
384 in a local hospital.
elson County, daughter of the
te Lewis Calvin Kirby and Irene
Kirby of Florence, S.C .; one sister,
Mrs. Bessie G. Peregory of Char-
lottesville; one granddaughter,
Mrs. John (Deborah) Grady and
two great grandchildren, John
Travis and Robert Matthew
Grady.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m.
Wednesday at Cherry Avenue
Christian Church, Mr. Ralph S.
Carter will officiate, interment will
be in Monticello Memory Gardens.
Those who wish may make con-
tributions to Charlottesville - Al-
bemarle Rescue Squad or
Coronary Care Unit U.Va. Hospi-
tal.
-
The family will receive friends
tonight from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hill
and Wood Funeral Home.
REMONA
Mrs. Remona Farish McNeil of
Charlottesville died Jan. 16, 1984
"Some people actually have
found it increases their ability in
physical coordination and speed
and their control over emotions,"
Ms. Honeycutt said.
Monroe says about 25 percent of
the participants have an out-of-
body experience during the pro-
gram, although that is not the in-
tent of the program.
"We're dealing with a simple
thing called sound," Monroe said.
"We do not use any chemicals -
they either distort or dull con-
sciousness."
Monroe, who founded Jefferson
Cable in Charlottesville in 1962 but
sold his interest in it in 1976, said
his research has been "infiltrating
the main stream - seeping is a bet-
ter word."
In an interview last week, he
said that somewhere in the world,
at least two executives are using
his "Catnapper" tape to help them
/ avoid jetlag. The 30-minute tape
"seems to help them create a bi-
ological clock and time shift," he
said.
He also hopes to begin commer-
cial marketing his "Sound Sleeper"
tape, which is now available only
through the institute. Monroe says
the tape helps insomniacs to sleep
by using the hemi-sync process to
aid the brain in developing the nec-
Obituaries
MCNEIL - Remona Farish
McNeil, of Charlottesville, died
Monday in a Staunton hospital.
Teague and Hawkins Funeral
Home, Ivy Road, is in charge of
arrangements.
MOON - Lillie Kirby "Tillie"
Moon, 73, of Charlottesville, died
Monday in a local hospital. Hill
and Wood Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Among the more famous peop.
to pass through the Monroe Inst:
tute include actor Eddie Alber
and death-and-dying author Elis
beth Kubler-Ross, a Highlar
County resident. Actor Jon Voig
participated in one of Monro:
sessions in California.
The Gateway program attrac
mostly professional people from :
ross the country and overser
says Ms. Honeycutt, with relativ
ly few from Virginia participati
in the program. Many of the ps
chologists, medical doctors, ac
demics, teachers and professo
who attend later apply their expe
ences to their work, she said.
The institute's research, for e
ample, has enabled first-grade pu
lic school students in Tacon
Wash., to master reading skills
most a year earlier than they wo!
without listening to Monro
hemi-sync process while they lea
according to a philosphy profes:
at Tacoma Community Colle
who has participated in Monro
programs.
Monroe's ideas have also be
used to control pain in illness a
surgery, help stroke victims rec
er, and tennis and golf players pl
better. Those who wish to impro
their concentration and memo
can buy a "super learning pa
age" of two tapes for $22 from t
institute.
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