Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality

by Frank DeMarco

Book Overview

"One of the precious gifts of my father's legacy was his insistence that people can turn beliefs into knowns, finding out for themselves through direct experience that they are indeed more than their physical bodies. In that spirit, this book is a fine example of another explorer's journey into profound self-discovery, and particularly to the realization that "love is the only thing in life that counts." --Laurie A. Monroe, President, The Monroe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571743626
• ISBN13: 9781571743626
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Muddy Tracks

Frank DeMarco has spent years searching for the meaning of life and sorting reality from illusion. Muddy Tracks is the chronicle of his quest for answers and self-discovery. One day he asked the universe, "Who am I?" and received "Muddy footprints in the grass" as an answer. He interpreted this to mean that his experiences could show others the path he'd taken, that he was "here to show you that others have passed through what may appear to be a trackless wilderness [and] to encourage others to do some exploring." His own explorations led him to the knowledge that we are all part of a larger being, and that only our bodies die-our souls live on. Through the larger being, we are all connected. This connection makes phenomena like psychic abilities, out-of-body experiences, ghosts, and distant healing available to all who want those experiences and abilities. DeMarco is guided on a continual basis by spiritual advisors he calls "The Gentlemen Upstairs." That kind of guidance is also available to others. DeMarco emphasizes that the answers he received and experiences he had were strictly his own. Everyone must search for their own unique answers. His purpose is to simply show what he tried and what happened as a result. He says his intention is to present "a firsthand narrative of what I've learned and how I use it." One of his primary resources was The Monroe Institute in Virginia, where students learn how to achieve altered states of consciousness and engage in out-of-body experiences. He provides extensive details of his experiences at the Institute in the hopes of providing others with "the tools and incentive to discover first hand that we, individually and collectively, are more than we have ever believed possible." In Muddy Tracks, DeMarco has written "an honest and engaging account" for all those questioning the meaning of life and reality.

Bringing the nonordinary home

For me, the hallmark of the Monroe Institute is the emphasis on bringing the unordinary into daily life. This book is an excellent depiction of this process. This personal narrative vividly shows the effects of a program at the Institute on everyday living. Reading it made me feel like I was back at the Institute, and it gave me insight into how to incorporate my experiences there into my own life.

Muddy Tracks

I think this book is outstanding in it's field. I have been to The Monroe Institute and taken two of their programs and have read every book written by people who have been there. The author writes with overwhelming honesty and integrity. The conversations he has with his Higher Self amazed me and set me on a path of trying to contact my own in the same way that he does. I highly recommend this book to all who are interested in self-realization.

A common man in an uncommon reality

Frank DeMarco chronicles his travels through a life of personal discovery. This is a highly personal account, and most times one is likely to feel he's reading someone's sock-drawer diary. Frank is genuine and direct. He wastes no time getting to the point of the work--which is to aid others in self-discovery through example. His is a Castaneda-like tale without the metaphor and mysterious characters. Don Juan is the concrete, accessable Robert Monroe. The forces he encounters are similarly real. This is not a tall tale, but a travelogue offered to anyone who would like to follow in Frank's muddy footsteps. Like many works of this nature readers will be polarized by it. Most will either adore it or loathe it. One doubts there will be little in between. It's impossible to read the story without drawing parallels with one's own life. Whether you want to see these or not will play a large part in dictating how you feel when you put it down.

Excellent introduction to alternative reality exploration

There are , in the United States, two names that stand out as pioneers in exploring the out of body state- Sylvan Muldoon and Robert Monroe.Those of us, and the numbers are increasing, who are fascinated by this phenomena and may have experience of it, wil readily acknowledge the developmental help these writers provided in their various books.Frank DeMarco has provided a fascinating, and deeply personal, account of his experience at the Monroe Institute in Virginia where he particpated in the Gateway, Guidelines and Lifelines programs which utilise Monroe's Hemi-Sync process where various tapes assist the physical brain to accomodate the spiritual production of various phenomena - including the out of body experience.There have been a number of books already published by such as Ken Eagle Feather and Bruce Moen which go into some depth describing the same experiences at the Monroe Institute.But , anyone with a rough idea of the aims and intention behind the various programs ,quickly realises that absolutely any experience can be produced and is very much linked to the individual's personal history..not only in this life but in previous incarnations too.DeMarco goes into considerable and fascinating detail des cribing his reincarnational links with some fellow students at the Institute which were revealed to him in a progressive manner during the tape exercises. As someone who has been fortunate to experience many and varied out of body experiences and who intends to particpate in the Gateway experience I found this an eminently helpful book and will be a welcome read for those interested in astral projection, altered states of consciousness, reincarnational experiences and one man's philosophical quest to find the turth about himself and his essential nature. It is a touchingly honest and helpfully revealing account of Frank DeMarco's spiritual journey.