Bayard Stockton Collection

Preliminary arrangement and description by David C. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Preliminary Guide to the Bayard Stockton Collection, 1972-2001

Collection number: ARC Mss 17

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara
Processed by:
Preliminary arrangement and description by David C. Tambo.
Date Completed:
Jan. 4, 2010
Latest revision:
Nov. 16, 2012
Encoded by:
A. Demeter
© 2009-2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Bayard Stockton Collection
Dates: ca. 1977-1996
Collection number: ARC Mss 17
Creator: Stockton, Bayard
Collection Size: 2.4 linear feet (6 document boxes and 4 audio cassettes).
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: 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 There are some files relating to Stockton's unpublished work Lift Off!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.
Physical location: Boxes 1-6 (SRLF); Audiotapes (Annex 2).
Languages: English

Access Restrictions

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

Publication Rights

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.

Preferred Citation

Bayard Stockton Collection. ARC Mss 17. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Bayard Stockton, 1997.

Scope and Content of Collection

The bulk of the 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. The Monroe Institute tapes have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
A copy of Catapult has been cataloged separately and may be searched on Pegasus. Stockton also is author of Phoenix with a Bayonet: A Journalist's Interim Report on the Greek Revolution (1971). Copies of Catapult and Phoenix are housed in Special Collections.
Robert A. Monroe's publications include Journeys Out of the Body (1971), a copy of which is in Special Collections.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Stockton, Bayard
Monroe, Robert A.
Monroe Institute
Consciousness.
Psychics -- United States -- Biography.
New Age movement.

Related Material

Stockton is the donor of the George Bailey Papers (Bernath Mss 140), which includes an unpublished typescript of Bailey's False Dawn: Liaison Officer to the Red Army.
Stockton and his daughter Tara, after his death in 2006, are donors of the Bayard Stockton Papers (Bernath Mss 174), mainly on Stockton's biography of William K. Harvey of the CIA.

Separated Material

The Monroe Institute tapes have been cataloged separately and can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
A copy of Catapult has been cataloged separately and may be searched on Pegasus.

 

Catapult

 

Draft

Box 1: 1

"A Path Seldom Trod" (typescript draft of 1987 concept)

Box 1: 2

"Ain't We Got Fun!" (partial typescript draft of Jan. 1988 version)

Box 1: 3-5

Typescript, Oct. 1988, with handwritten changes by Monroe

Box 2: 1

Typescript (cont.)

Box 2: 2

Photos - photocopies of those sent to publisher for the book

Box 2: 3-4

Publisher Files (includes contract, correspondence, and publicity)

 

Research Files (includes correspondence, some printed material, drafts of related sections of Catapult)

Box 2: 5

Domin, Ruth

Box 2: 6

Gladman, Art

Box 2: 7

Green, Elmer and Alyce

Box 2: 8

Lenz, Christopher

Box 2: 9

McMoneagle, Joe

Box 2: 10

Monroe, Nancy Penn

Box 2: 11

Russell, Ronald and Jill

Box 2: 12

Strieber, Whitley

Box 2: 13

Tart, Charles T.

Box 2: 14

Miscellany (mainly correspondence to 1989)

 

Lift Off! Robert Monroe's Gateway... and Beyond

 

Draft

Box 3: 1

Foreword - Whitley Strieber (typescript draft, 1989)

Box 3: 2

Introduction - Stuart W. Twemlow (typescript draft, n.d.)

Box 3: 3

Typescript pages (incomplete)

 

Research Files

Box 3: 4-6

Alphabetical, by surname (mainly correspondence)

Box 3: 7-8

Miscellany (correspondence, requests for releases, lists, slides)

 

Monroe

Box 4: 1-2

Articles (mainly about Monroe)

Box 4: 3

Biographical Material

Box 4: 4

Biography Project (by Stockton)

Box 4: 5

Writings (by Monroe)

 

Monroe Institute / Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences

Box 4: 6

General

Box 4: 7

Explorer Program

Box 4: 8

FFR Recordings

Box 4: 9-10

Gateway

Box 5: 1

Gateway (cont.)

Box 5: 2

Guidelines

Box 5: 3

H Plus (Human Plus)

Box 5: 4

Hemi-Sync (Hemispheric Synchronization)

Box 5: 5

New Land Association

Box 5: 6

Professional Seminar

Box 5: 7

Rainbow Ranch

 

Monroe Institute Publications

Box 6: 1

Breakthrough, ca. 1983-1989

Box 6: 2

Explorer, ca. 1977

Box 6: 3

Hemi-Sync Journal, 1990

Box 6: 4

M.I.A.S. Bulletin - A Communication from the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences, ca. 1976-1985

Box 6: 5

Monroe Institute Bulletin, 1986-1989

Box 6: 6

TMI Focus, 1990, 1996

 

Miscellaneous Files

Box 6: 7

Brown, Hilda

Box 6: 8

Lewis, James R. - New Age Vision (page proofs)

Box 6: 9

Notebooks

Box 6: 10

Nussbaum, Barry

Box 6: 11

Space Biosphere Ventures

Box 6: 12

Twemlow, Stuart W.

Box 6: 13

Unsorted/Unidentified Materials

Box 6: 14

Photographs (color prints and negatives)

 

Audiotapes

 

A10298/CS  Hepburn, Elizabeth – Monroe Experience, Apr. 30, 1988

 

A10299/CS  Schul, Bill – on Bob Monroe, Apr. 1988

 

A10300/CS  Stone, Lee – Gateway Experience, for 'Catapult' Project, Sept. 1987

 

A10301/CS  Strieber, W. – Monroe Institute Visit, n.d.