The Origins of Loosh: Who Coined It and How It Comes into Our Reality
Each of these generations attempts to define the same primeval emotion: to us, human suffering is not merely a by-product of life, but it is a substance that nourishes something that we are not aware of.
Others refer to it as Godlike energy. Some call it fear harvesting. The man who opened a door which he was unable to close was called by a name Loosh by Robert Monroe.
The word is spreading all over the occult sections of the internet like fire today, with no roots attached. This is in the backdrop of the memes and mythologized scraps which is a very real person, a sane, disciplined American businessman who found himself in an experience that he did not want to be in.
You must know Loosh to know him. And now you must see how his notion winds through religion, mythology, physics, and the very innermost areas of human psychology.
Who Was Robert Monroe? A Reasonable Man Slipping away to Insanity gradually.
Robert A. Monroe was not a mystic. Not a guru. Not a man who seeks spiritual ecstasy.
He was a radio executive of the 1950s, who is obsessed with sound, frequencies and the way the mind responds to them. His original work did not deal with other dimensions or existence. He merely wanted to experiment with the possibility of the audio waves affecting learning and creativity.
Then a sudden something came up. He started going out of his body. Not metaphorically. Not in dreams. Monroe wrote of conscious, descriptive episodes in which he drifted over his bed and beheld his own lifeless body and moved through walls and into scenery which appeared hard and real.
He believed that he was losing his mind. He visited physicians, psychiatrists, and got his brain scanned due to tumors. But nothing was wrong.
The rational businessman, Monroe, had no choice but to take the irrational, as he was having out-of-body events (OBEs) in a steady stream, and against his will.
These experiences plunged him into worlds that he had no interest in at all doing, until something began to spy on him.
In Which the Concept of Loosh is Met with?
Everything was written down by Monroe. Not as a poet, or a mystic, but a man writing a field report.
He had come across something unpleasant in this bizarre journal of non-physical travelling, a system, one, a farm, where emotional energy generated by living organisms was being exploited as an asset.
In one of his earliest manuscripts he has outlined a situation:
There is some creator-like being. This being inoculates life in different environments. Life develops, changes and cannot but be filled with strong emotions. The result of these feelings is a product Monroe refers to as Loosh. Sophisticated creatures absorb this energy to nourish or to power themselves.
It is ridiculous unless one considers that he wrote about it in the 1950s when such concepts were not even in pop culture. Monroe did not even desire to print it initially. He thought that it was a too far-fetched, too poetic, too risky, a notion. However, later sections of these writings were published in his second book, far journeys. The modern Loosh idea sprang out of that book.
Why Emotional Energy? Why Fear and Pain?
Monroe did not posit that Loosh was only negative. He proposed all forms of emotions to produce it, love, joy, creativity.
But he saw something disturbing: pain, fear, and suffering gave out very more powerful spikes. He made it analogous to lightning storms, but of emotion.
In the case of the higher beings he had come across, it appeared that the intensity of emotion was more important than the morality. Fear is the greatest feeling that human beings create.
Then suppose you were a being who could tap energy and you did not care about ethical considerations, then you would come up with a system that maximizes:
- conflict
- chaos
- emotional volatility
- the everlasting process of despair and gain.
Sound familiar?
It is the valley of tears according to religion. It is what psychology refers to as trauma response. To Monroe, it was Loosh production. The names differ. The mechanism doesn't.
Does Loosh exist as a Metaphor or a Real Place?
This is the question that divides the discussion into two camps.
Camp 1: Loosh as Metaphor
To most researchers, Loosh is a descriptive symbolic method of characterizing human emotional production, empathic area, habits of behavior, psychological energy transactions, as well as how groups manipulate individuals. To such a perspective, harvesting only becomes to be manipulated by media, politics and institutions, which make money on the fear.
Fear = Control.
Control = Power.
Power = Energy.
Camp 2: Loosh as Non-Physical Energy that is Literal
Others take Monroe at his word. They believe:
- consciousness exists independently of the brain
- emotional energy is detectable in non-physical dimensions
- non-human intelligences exist
- they benefit from high-intensity emotional output
This isn't as fringe as it sounds.
Quantum theorists explore observer effects in consciousness. The "simulation hypothesis" suggests reality is constructed. Ancient traditions speak of gods, archons, demons, egregores — all feeding on devotion, fear, or worship.
Different cultures, different eras, same theme: Something feeds on what humans feel.
The Religions Fall on Loosh Without Naming it.
Consider this.
Christianity: Suffering in human beings is not in vain, but made as a sacrifice to God.
Cosmology of Aztecs: Deities had a need of emotional-energetic food, which was supplied by ritual and sacrifice.
Buddhism: Suffering is life and the cycle is perpetuated until someone gets out of the system.
Gnosticism: The world is created not by the real divine, but by some imperfect demiurge, who is entrapment of souls.
Islamic theology: Jinn are emotional predators, which manipulate human behavior.
Hinduism: Lila the divine play in which the human experiences are left something noteworthy to the higher levels.
Each religion suggests that human emotion is important, other beings than ourselves can be responsive to it, and our lives are not a happenstance. Monroe just removed the poetry out of it and rendered it clinical: Emotion=energy. Energy = Loosh. Loosh = harvested.
The Loosh Theory Reflects Contemporary Science Like it or Not. Oddly enough, Monroe shares his idea with:
1. Entropy Theory in Physics.Systems seek energy. Life creates an order by struggle. Agony, releases enormous energy changes.
2. Observer Effect. The reality is formed in conscious experience. Feeling varies the waves of the brain and magnetic fields.
3. Ecosystems. Naturally, everything is a predator of another. How come that the non-physical world is a case to exception?
4. Neural Evolution. The human brain prioritizes negative experiences. Fear is its strongest input. This looks less like coincidence and more like design.
5. Simulation Theory. Emotional variability can also be a designed property, a data source, or a refining mechanism or the fuel of something external, in case life is a simulation.
Then What about Loosh Coming into our Reality?
Monroe took no rigid mechanism, though in his writings he suggests:
- Loosh is produced by emotion.
- Life troubles are emotion precipitants.
- The design incorporates life battles.
- Non-physical intelligences gather the output.
- These intelligences affect occurrences in order to multiply harvest seasons.
And humans? The crops.
Why the Idea Is Not only Horrifying but also Controversial
The notion that we have to suffer in order to make something good is disturbing. However, in case suffering is designed, it also implies:
- pain isn't your fault.
- trauma isn't weakness.
- fear is not failure.
- and you are a component of a bigger system of energy.
- you can not be caught in the cycle by being mindful of it.
Monroe thought the awareness decreases energy leakage. The harvesting effect is dissolved in the consciousness. That is, when you know the farm, then you cease being livestock.