The bulk of the Bayard Stockton collection relates to Stockton's book Catapult: The Biography of Robert A. Monroe (1989) and contains drafts of the manuscript, correspondence, and material about Monroe and the Monroe Institute. There are some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work Lift Off! Robert Monroe's Gateway... and Beyond, as well as a few files on other aspects of the New Age movement. There also is a sizeable collection of audiotapes, many issued by the Monroe Institute, as well as some non-commercial tapes of interviews, conversations, and reflections by people associated with the Monroe Institute.

2.4 linear feet (6 document boxes and 4 audio cassettes).

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.