What is LOOSH? The disturbing story that put Robert Monroe into a dark depression - Part 1

Summary

Jordan Crowder examines Robert Monroe’s account of “Loosh” in Chapter 12 of Far Journeys, presenting it as a disturbing hypothesis: Earth may function as a garden whose living beings generate an energy-like substance collected by unknown entities. The video retells Monroe’s account and offers Crowder’s interpretations, especially concerning aliens, religion, and human conflict. These ideas are presented as speculation, not established fact.

The “Garden” and Its Successive Harvests

In Monroe’s account, a being called “someone” creates a garden to produce Loosh, a substance valued by beings elsewhere. The garden’s development is described in stages:

• First crop: Life develops in a liquid environment, but the organisms are small and produce little Loosh, mainly at the end of their life cycles.
• Second crop: The gardener develops stationary life in a gaseous environment. Crowder interprets this as plants and trees. Air currents help with reproduction, while destructive turbulence can kill organisms and cause a sudden release of Loosh.
• Third crop: Mobile organisms are adapted to feed on the second crop. Their deaths produce more Loosh, but the harvest remains inefficient. The account then describes conflict between large, slow-moving creatures; Crowder identifies them as dinosaurs.
• Predation and conflict: The gardener introduces smaller predators that feed on other mobile creatures. Conflict, death, and the cycling of nutrients increase Loosh production.
• Fourth crop: More varied and active organisms are created, including plant-eaters and predators. Their physical traits—such as speed, camouflage, armor, and weapons—are said to intensify and prolong conflict, increasing the yield.

Crowder maps these descriptions onto Earth’s plants, animals, food chains, and evolutionary history. That mapping is his interpretation of Monroe’s allegorical account.

Humans and the “Divine Spark”

The story then describes a special fourth-crop species: humans. According to the account, humans can consume both stationary and mobile life, but they also receive a fragment of the creator within them. This fragment gives them a persistent longing to reunite with a greater whole.

Crowder interprets this as the source of human curiosity about origins, purpose, death, and God—questions he contrasts with animals’ more immediate concerns of survival and food. In the story’s terms, this additional longing makes humans especially productive Loosh generators.

Loosh, Conflict, and “Distilled Loosh”

The account distinguishes ordinary Loosh from a more refined form, which Crowder calls “distilled Loosh” and associates with the acronym DLP. The gardener discovers that some human experiences produce unusually high-quality Loosh:

• Protecting loved ones: A person fighting to save children produces more refined Loosh than a conflict over food or territory.
• Loneliness and grief: A solitary person’s profound loneliness produces a particularly strong release. The person’s awareness of a presence, followed by emotional distress and tears, is described as intensifying it further.

Crowder connects this to the human desire for connection—with other people, a spiritual presence, or a creator. He further speculates that religious systems may channel this longing. He argues that religions can be used for control and can foster division, though he also suggests that the underlying spiritual impulse might be genuine.

Collectors, Other Gardens, and Crowder’s Alien Theory

The account says that the garden’s success leads other beings to create gardens of their own. Because the original garden does not satisfy all demand, collectors acting for others infiltrate it to gather Loosh that its own collectors miss.

Crowder applies this passage to claims about alien encounters. He proposes that some beings might visit Earth to take small amounts of Loosh—particularly fear, anxiety, or distress—and leave quickly, while Earth’s own collectors focus on larger or higher-quality yields. He also speculates that conflicts among different groups of beings, sometimes described by whistleblowers as a “war of the gods” or a fight over Earth, could be competition over this resource.

These are Crowder’s conjectures based on Monroe’s story; the video does not establish that aliens harvest Loosh or that such a conflict exists. Crowder mentions David Grusch and other alleged whistleblowers as part of the broader discussion.

Human Society as a Harvesting System

Crowder reads the story as suggesting that Loosh production can be increased not only through physical conflict but also through social and emotional conditions. The account lists mechanisms such as love, family, friendship, greed, hatred, pain, guilt, illness, ambition, property, sacrifice, nations, wars, famine, religion, industry, and trade.

It also describes disasters—such as storms, earthquakes, and floods—as events that can end many lives and generate Loosh. Crowder interprets this as part of a system of periodic “harvests,” though the account does not prove that real disasters are deliberately caused for that purpose.

Monroe’s Reaction and the Dairy-Cow Metaphor

In the quoted passage, Monroe reacts with anger and despair at the possibility that humanity is being managed without its knowledge or consent. He wonders whether human choices are being directed to produce something for others. He returns to his body exhausted and describes a depressed, disconnected period lasting roughly two weeks.

The chapter closes with the image of a Guernsey cow that is led to food and milked. The cow benefits from being fed and relieved of discomfort but does not know why the farmer wants the milk. Crowder presents this as a metaphor for humanity: people may receive care or sustenance while unknowingly producing something that another being collects. He also compares the arrangement to beekeeping, where a beekeeper manages a healthy colony and takes its honey.

Crowder’s Concluding Perspective

Although the chapter gives a bleak account of Earth as a productive garden, Crowder offers a possible counterpoint: the idea that humans are being used within the Earth’s system could coexist with the belief that consciousness comes here to learn and grow. He distinguishes the human self, shaped by life on Earth, from a higher self that can eventually reconnect with a larger whole. He says that the following chapter of Monroe’s book offers a broader and more positive perspective, which he plans to discuss separately.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Jordan Crowder — Host and narrator of Conscious Observers; retells Monroe’s account and offers interpretations and speculation.
• Robert Monroe — Featured through passages from Far Journeys, especially Chapter 12. He is not presented as speaking directly in the video.
• B.B. — A nonhuman intelligence in Monroe’s account, described by Crowder as Monroe’s friend or spiritual guide.
• David Grusch — Mentioned by Crowder in connection with public claims about conflicts involving nonhuman beings.
• Other unnamed whistleblowers and intelligence or government figures — Referred to collectively by Crowder; no individual statements are quoted in detail.