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Various materialistic theories have been given in +the past, trying to explain the mighty phenomena of dreams, but these +theories have always been more or less unsatisfactory. Why? Because +the-materialist tries to explain the riddle of human existence without +an individual human spirit his explanation will always be +unsatisfactory. + +Dreams afford a separation of soul and body. As soon as the senses +become torpid, the inner man withdraws from the outer. There are three +different ways which afford this separation. First, natural sleep. +Second, induced sleep, such as hypnotism, mesmerism or trance. Third, +death. In the above two cases the man has only left his physical body +temporarily, whereas in death he has left it forever. In the case of +death, the link which unites soul and body, as seen by clairvoyant +vision, is broken, but in trance or sleep it is released. The real man +is then in the astral world. He now functions in his astral body, +which becomes a vehicle for expressing consciousness, just as the +physical body is an instrument for expressing consciousness in the +waking state. + +Consciousness is not annihilated when the man is in the Astral world, +it is only temporarily suspended. Just the same as in the case of +death. The man is fully conscious in the astral regions clothed in the +body of the Astral matter. This Astral body is in the physical and +extends little beyond it. The Astral world is here and now, +interpenetrating the physical, and not in some remote region above the +clouds as so many imagine. + + * * * * * + +Man is a soul. He has a body. He expresses himself in three worlds. +While he functions in the physical body, viz., physical, emotional and +mental worlds. Just as the Astral interpenetrates the physical the +mental interpenetrates the Astral. The Astral body in which man +functions during sleep is the body of emotions and desires and he +expresses these desires and emotions in the physical life. + + * * * * * + +The Astral body in which man functions during sleep is very subtle +matter. It resembles the physical. In fact, it is an exact +reproduction of it, but it can only be seen by clairvoyant vision. +When a man leaves his body in sleep or death, the spirit must leave +the physical body before it will be rested and recuperated to enable +it to undergo the strenuous daily toil of physical life. + +Here is an example. Let a man go to bed say ten o'clock. Let him sleep +until six next morning. The ordinary man will awaken feeling refreshed +and ready for his daily toil. Let him go to bed at ten, lie awake all +night, next morning he will not feel refreshed and during the day he +may feel sluggish and sleepy. Let him go to bed and lie awake night +after night for a few weeks, what will be the result? He will be a +physical wreck. Although he may have the same amount of hours lying in +bed, he will not feel recuperated and refreshed unless he has had his +natural sleep and this can only come to pass. + +When the soul or spirit withdraws from the physical body, the physical +body is not the man, and as long as our materialistic writers who +endeavor to interpret dreams fail to grasp the nature of the inner +man, the real self, they will be forever groping in the dark. + +The first question that naturally arises in the mind of the layman is +this: How can a man leave his body in sleep and continue its natural +functions such as digestion, circulation of blood, etc. + +We do not consciously direct the circulation of the blood, or any of +the natural bodily functions during our waking state. These things go +on whether we will them or not. Although the spirit leaves the body in +sleep as previously stated, there is still a magnetic connection with +soul and body. This magnetic connection acts on the sympathetic +nervous system and the cerebro spinal which controls the functions of +the human organism. In sleep the astral man may be in the immediate +vicinity of his sleeping recuperating physical body or it may be +thousands of miles away in space, the magnetic connection still exists +regardless of the distance. No matter what distance the astral man is +away from his physical body, he can return to it with the rapidity of +thought, as the saying is, for it is the soul that thinks, the brain +is only an instrument of the soul. + +Many of our dreams may be attributed to subconscious memory, for when +our mind is centered on a certain train of thought these thoughts are +apt to filter through into the conscious state in sleep. The +subconscious memory cannot be truthfully called a dream, for it is +only a memory of something we have previously perceived in reality or +imagination. One only has to examine his subconscious dream in the +light of reason to eliminate them. Telepathy does explain some of our +dreams, for just as it is possible for minds to receive telepathic +communications (thought transference) from another in the walking +state, it is also possible for the so-called dead to have telepathic +communication with the living, for thought is a power, its limitation +is unknown. + +While many of our dreams may be traced to subconscious memory or +telepathy and happenings of material affairs of our daily lives, +others are undoubtedly the astral happenings of the ego while +functioning in the etheric regions. There we meet not only the +misnamed dead but also many of those who are still in the physical +body, and let me state here that many of our difficult problems of +physical life are worked out in sleep. + +The old axiom, "I will go to sleep on it," has a greater significance +than is generally attributed to it, for sleep and dreams have more to +do in shaping your lives than you have any idea of. You can go to +school in sleep and study anything you are studying in physical life +and make marvelous progress. This requires much training, however. +Keeping the mind free from evil thoughts is most essential to enable +the sincere investigator to enter that larger state of consciousness, +for the thoughts of our waking state have a more or less effect on the +ego during sleep. Every individual harbors a certain train of thought, +whether at business or pleasure this train of thought has a tremendous +influence on the ego, in fact it shapes ones destiny. + + Choose well your thoughts + for your choice + is brief and yet endless. + --Anna Besant in Thought Power + +Man may be said to live two lives in one, one when he is fully awake +and the other when he is sound asleep. These two lives, of course, is +the expression of his one existence. The highly developed, spiritual +man as he retires into the interior world during sleep, realizes a +state of spiritual bliss that is far beyond the stage of ordinary +mortals. Man has been in the habit of looking at himself as a mass of +flesh and muscle with a slight chance of realizing the Divinity within +him. As the earnest soul gradually arouses himself he finds his proper +place in the universe, for within him are all the attributes of deity, +and when he reaches the end of the long evolutionary journey that is +ahead of him he will find himself and know what he is destined to be, +a God. + + + + +VARIETIES OF DREAMS + +In order to distinguish and classify the different kinds of dreams in +which everyone has an experience they may be divided into four +variations. Nearly all dreams may be classified under this heading: + + 1. Physical Stimulus. + + 2. Subconscious memory. + + 3. Telepathy. + + 4. The Actual Astral experience of the Ego or Soul in the Astral + region. + +Physical Stimulus may be the direct cause of impressing certain ideas +on the physical brain which may appear to be a reality. The falling of +a book, picture or any article in the room may cause the sleeper to +dream of firearms; a soldier may dream of a battlefield; a sensitive +female may dream it is a burglar; a person who throws the bed clothes +off him on a cold night may dream of snow and ice; the continual +dropping of water from a faucet in the room of the sleeper has been +the direct cause of a friend of mine dreaming of a passenger train; +the steady tramping of footsteps overhead may be the cause of dreaming +of thunder storms, etc. We must also take into consideration the +physical and mental environments of the sleeper. + + + +THE SUBCONSCIOUS MEMORY + +The subconscious memory may be the direct cause of certain dreams. +When the mind is centered on certain things, the sleeper goes over his +life again and again in phantom fashion. He lives over the experiences +of his daily life. Very often the ego enlightens the sleeper of some +material thing for his own benefit, which he may use advantageously in +his waking state, but as he generally looks at the phenomena of dreams +as an hallucination of the brain, he allows many a golden opportunity +to slip through his fingers because the materialist's brain cannot +grasp things of the spirit. + +All the knowledge and rubbish of our past lives is stored up in the +subconscious mind where it remains in minute form. Memory is only the +awakening of the sub-conscious mind, a long and forgotten incident, +that has made a deep impression on the mind, is apt to filter through +into the conscious state in dreams. In time of illness or when one's +vitality is low, the dream picture of the past is apt to play a very +prominent part in one's sleep. Childhood and long-forgotten scenes +come up frequently and appear as real and genuine as if they had only +happened the previous day. They frequently give the dreamer joy or +sorrow, according to the stages he passed through. + +Even action of past lives may come up into the subconscious. Dreams of +running around nude without any feeling of shame may be the memory of +a previous existence. Falling from a high cliff or trees. Being chased +around by some wild animals may be attributed to a primitive past. +Dreaming of primitive people, places and things, only takes the +dreamer a step nearer the stone age, from whence he came. Instead of +looking at these subconscious dreams with horror and dread as some +people do they should study them and shape their lives accordingly. + + + +TELEPATHIC DREAMS OR THOUGH TRANSFERENCE. + +Telepathy is a known and established fact. The connection between +minds without material means of any kind, has often been demonstrated +by the very simple method of one person acting as a sender, while the +other acts as a receiver. The sender thinks of a certain subject +selected before-hand. He may write it down on slate or paper. This +often helps him to keep his mind concentrated on the subject he wishes +to send to the receiver. The receiver places himself in as receptive a +position as possible, and Keeping his mind calm, the impression he +receives he makes note of. After a few experiences he may find the +message to be correct, word for word. This is telepathy. + +In sleep there is often telepathic conditions between minds who are in +close sympathy with each other, such as man and wife, mother and +children, or people whose business brings them close together, may +exchange thoughts during sleep. For instance, in one case a mother +received the thought of her boy, who was away from home, telling of +his sickness. A few days later she received a letter verifying her +dream. A salesman dreams of a friend telling him of his company doing +a big business in a neighboring town. Upon his friend's return his +dream was found to be correct. + +A lady in San Francisco (whose husband was in Australia) for three +successive nights, dreamed of his returning to America. She did not +expect him until early in the fall of the year. She was dreaming of +him in the spring. On the fourth morning after her dream she received +a letter telling her about his unexpected return. These are so-called +telepathic dreams, usually from minds of living people, although +telepathic connection from minds of disincarnate beings is possible. + + + +THE ACTUAL ASTRAL EXPERIENCE OF THE EGO DURING SLEEP IN THE ASTRAL +WORLD. + +The actual Astral experience in which the ego sees distant sights, +sights and visions which he knows do not actually exist upon the +physical plane, such as communicating with the dead, recovery of lost +and stolen property; having premonitions of a certain thing which +actually happens, such as approaching danger or death. + +Above are but a few of the actual astral experiences of the ego which +it endeavors to impress on the physical brain. Sometimes it impresses +them by symbols, for symbols are the true language of the soul, and to +know how to interpret the meaning of the symbols of your dreams is of +the utmost importance to the beginner. A symbolic dream, which is an +actual astral experience, can only be interpreted by the dreamer +himself, for no one lives your life but yourself. The first impression +you receive intuitively, of a dream you see symbolically, is usually +correct. The reason the layman does not interpret his dreams +correctly, by following his intuition, is because he generally has +some material idea of his own concerning dreams. + +Here is a dream that may be said to be an actual experience of the +ego. Taken from the Chicago American, July 17, 1920: + + Dreams sons drowned; found bodies in river, Burlington, Vt. + The dream was responsible for the finding of the bodies of + George Raymond, Jr., 14 years, son of George Raymond, and + his uncle, Winford Raymond, in the Lamoille river at + Fletcher. According to Winford's father, the vision of the + boy's mother appeared before him in a dream and directed him + to look for the boys in the river. They had been absent from + home since Sunday. The dream was so vivid that the father + wakened and at 2 o'clock went to the river bank, where he + found the boys' clothing. At daybreak the bodies were + recovered. + +Here is a dream of the so-called dead who, many believe, exist in a +state of dreamless sleep or annihilation, appearing in a vision, and +so impressing on the astral brain of the sleeper where the boy's +bodies were, that he actually brought the vision or astral experience +through into the waking consciousness. Here is proof of a mother +looking over her children, even if she is separated from them through +the doorway of the tomb. No sane person today can actually believe the +tomb to be the doorway to the night of oblivion. Many of the misnamed +dead are present, and when we go to sleep at night we meet them and +converse with them just the same as if they were inhabiting their +mortal bodies. + +We do not claim, however, that the dead are all-knowing; but free from +the physical bodies, the spiritually enlightened ones have a broader +vision of things, especially if there is a close sympathetic feeling +between the dead and the living, as there appeared to have been in +this case, for the conditions must be absolutely harmonious before one +may bring his actual astral experience into the waking consciousness. + +An interesting case of the dead appearing in a dream was as that of +Mrs. Marie Menge, 15 West Schiller street, Chicago. Mr. Charles +Peterson, former lieutenant of the Danish army, was a roomer with Mrs. +Menge for a number of years. He had no relatives or near friends in +America. Mr. Peterson had been ill for some time with asthma and +finally was taken to the Hahnemann Hospital, 2814 Ellis avenue, +Chicago. In less than a half hour before she received the telephone +call telling of his death she suddenly awakened and told her husband +Mr. Peterson had appeared to her in a dream. She states, he appeared +in a white cloud and seemed well and happy. He died about 1:30 A.M., +Saturday, March 18, 1921. + +It was an easy matter for C. Peterson to appear in a vision to the +only one who had shown any sympathy and kindness toward him during his +illness, and his landlady being asleep, was functioning in her astral +body, which becomes a vehicle of consciousness, and as there was +sympathy between the two it was possible for her to retain her astral +vision in waking suddenly as she did. + +The dead are not dead at all, as many imagine. This man is only +physically dead because he has lost his physical body. He is not +intellectually and emotionally dead because he has not lost that part +of his mechanism of consciousness which is the seat of thought and +emotion. The physical body only allows us to express ourselves in the +physical world, but it is not the man, any more than the clothes he +wears. + +Extract from the Sunday Herald-Examiner, May 8, 1921: + + NEW GHOSTS ARE WRITING POETRY BY UNIVERSAL SERVICE. + + Paris, May 7.--Can a ghost write poetry? You betcha, says + Baron Maurice de Waleffe, the French satirist, who tells of + a remarkable book of spirits' poems just published in Paris + under the title of "The Glory of Illusion." + +Three years ago died Judith Gautier, niece of Theophile Gautier, and +left a collection of slightly--er--passionate novels and collections +of poems which were circulated among friends. One of these friends was +a girl, Judith's most intimate companion. A year after Judith's death +this girl dreamed a dream. In the dream Judith appeared and commanded +her to seize a pencil and write to dictation. The result was a series +of poems of an exoteric character which are triumphs of meter and scan +perfectly. They are published in the name of the girl friend, Mlle. S. +Meyer Zundel, but Mlle. Zundel says they're not really her works at +all, but were directly dictated by her dead friend. Previous to +Judith's death, Mlle. Zundel says she never wrote a line of poetry. + +Here we have direct proof of an invisible intelligence directing this +young lady to write poems which she admits she never wrote before her +friend's death. The materialistic skeptic who is always ready to +interpret dreams as coincidences cannot call this a coincidence before +the testimony of such facts when they are brought to the eyes of an +intelligent public. The would-be interpreter of human existence +remains baffled and silent; they can neither deny these facts nor do +they dare to explain them. + +Friday, May 6, 1921, Chicago Daily News (by Marion Holmes): + + Dear Marion Holmes: I should like just out of curiosity to + get the opinion of some of your corner readers, as well as + your own, on the enclosed sketch of a dream I had when + working out west. About 26 years ago I was working in the + West near the mining country, and one night I dreamed I was + in a mining town, the name of which I did not know in my + dream, nor had I ever seen it in reality. I was crossing the + street to a store building painted white, and in my hand I + carried an envelope that I was to deliver to the boss of the + store. When I arrived at the center of the street I was met + by three men who were coming from the opposite side, one of + whom stopped me, saying: "Come with me and I will show you + where there is a gold mine." I replied: "I haven't time to + go now," but he insisted, "Well, come anyway and when you + have time you can go and get it." So I went. We started off + in the direction of what I have since learned is the richest + locality in gold mines and after walking a while we seemed + to float through space; then we came to the ground a few + feet from the top of the mountain. We walked up to the top + and again floated in the air in a semi-circle, landing at + the foot of another mountain a few miles to the west. + + The stranger said: "I want you to note the peculiar + formation of this country and this stream and right here, + walking a short distance, is where you will find the gold." + About three months later I decided to return to Chicago, and + in the train I met a cigar salesman who, as we soon became + friendly, insisted that I should locate in one of the towns + on his route and gave me a letter to a certain friend of his + in the mining district. When the friend had read the letter + he wrote another to a friend of his own on whom I was to + call. As I went down the street I carried the letter in my + hand and as I crossed the street I stopped short, for the + store I sought was the store of my dream. + + Three years ago at a summer resort where a company of us + were telling strange dreams, I remarked that the weak part + of my dream was that one of my guides was supposed to be a + dead relative of my own, and my mother remarked at once, "I + had an uncle, a prospector, who died out West in the mining + country, but nobody ever knew just where." + + Chicago. + + + +CURIOUS. + + + +MARION HOLMES' ANSWER. + +Dr. Peterson, the New York neurologist, in a recent magazine article +on dreams and their meaning, points out that many dreams thought to be +prophetic can be accounted for physiologically and avers that there +never was a purely prophetic dream. He would contend, no doubt, that +your waking thoughts having been a good deal engaged with Western +life, your dream carried the same train of thought straight through. +He would probably characterize the incidents of the rich mines, the +store and the relative as merely coincidental, yet as the writer of a +text-book on mental philosophy observes, to call such dreams +coincidences leaves the mystery as great as before. + +It is evident Curious is not as curious as what he signs himself. If +he had investigated his dream he may have found it to his advantage. + + * * * * * + + + +WARDEN DREAMS OF JAIL DELIVERY--FOILS ATTEMPT. + + Chicago American, February 24, 1921. + + New Orleans, Feb. 24.--Because Capt. H.J. Ruffier, warden of + the House of Detention, dreamed there was a jail delivery + on, a general effort to escape from the prison was + frustrated. Forty prisoners confined in one big room, on the + Tulane avenue side of the building, were detected working at + the bars of a window and picking at brickworks under another + window when discovered. + +This dream may be attributed to mental telepathy. The prisoners +evidently have been planning their escape for days. (Creating thought +forms.) It was possible for the warden in sleep, out of his body, to +be mentally impressed of the delivery and bring it through into waking +consciousness. + + * * * * * + + + +DREAMING TO SOME PURPOSE. + + Chicago Daily News, February 24, 1921. + + Huntington, W. Va.--Mrs. Mattie Estep was told in a dream to + write songs. She did so, and two of them were accepted and + published in New York. + + + +PAINTS PICTURE IN DREAM, GHOST GUIDES HER BRUSH. + + +Chicago Evening American, June 8, 1921. + +Peoria is all excited today over the announcement by Benjamin H. +Serkowich of the Peoria Art League that a canvas painted by a woman in +her dream with the hand of the immortal and long since departed +Whistler guiding her brush, is on display at a local theater mezzanine +floor which gave space to the annual exhibit of the League. + +Mrs. William Hawley Smith, wife of Dr. W.H. Smith of Peoria, is the +woman. She and her husband are among the wealthiest and most socially +prominent families in Peoria. + +Dr. William Hawley Smith is well known as a student and writer on +sociological problems. Both he and Mrs. Smith claim to have frequently +received spirit messages from the dead. Several weeks ago Mrs. Smith +says she was sleeping soundly when Whistler appeared in a dream. The +famous artist commanded her to don her artist smock and get her +brushes, paints and palette; then she translated to canvas the +instructions he imparted, and frequently his hand guided her brush. +She worked feverishly all night, and in the morning awoke fatigued, +but the picture was finished. + + Chicago Tribune, Saturday, March 12, 1921. + + Dreams being led to hiding place of missing girls. Mother's + vision of her daughter comes true. Girl of my dreams. Sounds + like the title of a new song, doesn't it. The girl is Evelyn + Niedziezko, 17 years old. She lives at 3939 South Campbell + avenue. Last Wednesday night she disappeared from home. That + night and on Thursday night her mother dreamed of her. In + both dreams she saw her daughter enter a flat building. It + seems to her in her dreams it was on Cottage Grove avenue, + near 27th street. Last night Mrs. Niedziezko reported the + girl's disappearance to the police. Lieut. Ben Burns, to + whom the mother talked, asked her if she had any idea as to + where the girl might be staying. She told her dreams. + + TOLD TO GO THROUGH WITH IT. + + "Do you think it would be any use to go over to Cottage + Grove avenue and look around?" she asked. "I haven't much + faith in dreams myself, and I guess the police would think I + was crazy if I asked them to make a search on the strength + of a dream." Lieut. Burns believes in dreams and hunches and + such things, and he advised Mrs. Niedziezko to go through + with it. Mrs. Niedziezko went over to Cottage Grove avenue, + and walked around until she saw a flat building that looked + just like the picture that had come to her that night in her + vision. She had seen her girl sitting in a dining room of + such a flat. The house proved to be 2727, mystic numbers. + The family of William Llewellyn lives there. + + GET POLICE TO HELP FIND GIRLS. + + Mrs. Niedziezko went to the Cottage Grove avenue Police + Station, and asked for help to search the flat for her girl. + She did not say anything about her dream for fear they would + laugh at her. Detectives Pieroth and Fitzgerald accompanied + her to the building. In answer to the ring Evelyn herself + came to the door. Evelyn had been visiting a friend. + +The mother had, no doubt, been thinking daily of her daughter's +disappearance and unconsciously impressed the idea on the ego, and as +the ego carries out the impressions of our waking state, she actually +brought the knowledge of her astral experience into the waking +consciousness, and the intense desire on the mother's part was the +direct cause of her bringing the same experience through two +successive nights, showing the ego can impress on the mind important +information. The ego is also the source of premonitory dreams. + + + +HAS PREMONITION--DROPS DEAD IN HOTEL LA SALLE. + + Chicago Evening American, Friday, March 25, 1921. + + Christian H. Ronne, 60, president of the C.H. Ronne + Warehouse, 372 West Ontario street, dropped dead in the + Traffic Club on the eighteenth floor of the Hotel La Salle + two weeks after he had informed his son-in-law, C.A. + Christensen, cashier of the Mid-City Trust and Savings Bank, + of a premonition of death. + + + +LOCKLEAR FORECAST DEATH--FRIEND OF AVIATOR TELLS OF STUNT-FLYER'S +PREMONITION. + + Chicago Evening American, Aug. 4, 1920. + + Fort Dodge, Ia., Aug. 4.--Lieut. Homer Locklear, famous + stunt flyer, killed in a fall at Los Angeles, Monday + evening, had a premonition several weeks ago that he would + meet his death this summer, according to Shirley Short, + Goldfield Iowa, original Locklear pilot. Short was married + recently and is passing his honeymoon at his home. He left + Locklear in Canada three weeks ago and had planned to rejoin + him in a week. "For more than a year we went together doing + stunts," said Short. "During that time Locklear laughed at + the idea of danger until about a month ago. It was shortly + after I left him that he became depressed and told me + several times that he would get knocked off this summer. It + worried me because it was so unlike Locklear." + + + +WRITES DEATH POEM ON FATAL PLANE FLIGHT. + + Chicago Evening American, June 11, 1921. + + Washington, June 1.--How Lieut. Cleveland W. McDermott + penned a death poem in the plane in which he and six others + were crashed to death Saturday night was revealed here + today. + +It is the story of perhaps the most remarkable premonition of death +that ever has been recorded before the fatal flight. McDermott, who +was a seasoned world-war veteran and accustomed to hazardous flights, +wrote seven letters to as many friends. These he placed in the hands +of a fellow officer with instructions that they be mailed in the event +of his death. The poem was discovered in the lieutenant's personal +effects, written on a piece of scratch paper. It had been stuffed in a +breast pocket of his uniform. The writing was scraggly, due to the +vibration of the motors. This is the death poem: + + Another hour and far away I fly; + A last farewell to my friends I cry; + Then up to the rosy dawn in flight; + A battle with the elements I must fight. + Lost in the fog and mist and rain; + Tossed hither and yonder I strive in vain + To again win out as I have in the past; + Little I knew this was to be my last. + Sharp crash, and my wings are broken back; + Every wire is useless with too much slack. + Down, down I swirl and slip and spin; + Thinking only of all my worldly sin. + The earth seems rushing up to me; + While rigged crags raise their heads to greet me. + As twisting and twirling downward I swirl; + I bid a sad good-bye to a little girl. + Lower down into the trees I crash; + My plane and I have gone to smash. + Up from the Mass call me, + My untouched, unfettered spirit flies + Straight to mother's waiting overhead. + +Although no one, so far as is known, saw Lieutenant McDermott write +the poem, his fellow officers at Golding field pointed out today that +every indication points to it having been written during the hour +preceding the fatal crash. His first act following the premonition was +to write the farewell letters, said a fellow officer today. The poem +obviously was written under the vibration of engines, so it follows it +must have been set down during the last few minutes of his life. The +officer to whom Lieutenant McDermott intrusted the farewell letters +mailed them a few minutes after he heard of the fatality. + +In this case the premonition seems to have served its purpose +advantageously. Death had no terrors for Lieutenant McDermott. + + + +SON'S DREAM LOCATES HIS FATHER'S BODY. + + Chicago Herald-Examiner, Thursday, June 23, 1921 + + Dickinson, N.D., June 22--A dream in which he saw the spot + where his father's body lay led Raymond Everetts, 11, to + discover the body yesterday. Tom Everetts, the father, was + one of three section men drowned by a flood near Medora + Saturday. Several years ago the boy announced the death of + an aunt shortly before a telegram confirmed his prophesy. + +When the ego impresses the lower mind of approaching danger, in dreams +or otherwise, it is simply for the individual to be prepared for what +is in store for him, just as a wise physician tells his patient when +the end is near to be prepared. + +Miss Miller, 375 Brenner street, Muncie, Germany, had a premonition of +her brother drowning. She states: + + "My brother was a great swimmer. Two weeks before he was + drowned I had a premonition of his death. In my dream I saw + him diving into the river. His head struck a rock, then I + saw his lifeless body float before me for three successive + nights. I told him of my dream. I begged him not to go + bathing, but he only laughed at me, saying, 'I can protect + myself in the water.' His death was the exact working out of + the premonition of his death." + +The student of dream-lore knows the ego is ever watchful, and it +always impresses the lower mind when danger approaches. There are also +cases which appear to indicate when the ego is unable to impress the +individual. The information is often conveyed through another person, +as the above would indicate, who is sensitive enough to bring the +information in the waking state. + + + + +HOW TO EVOLVE THE LARGER CONSCIOUSNESS. + +It is a very difficult matter for the layman to bring his actual +astral experiences into the waking state (but fortunately for us) any +faculty that is lacking may be evolved. It takes a very sensitive +instrument to register all that is seen, heard and done while out of +the body. It also requires physical, emotional and mental harmony, or +the dreamer is apt to mistake an actual astral experience for an +automaton of the physical brain, or vice versa. To what extent the ego +would guide us and warn us, if we were only sensitive and responsive +to the delicate vibrations sent down into the physical brain, it is +impossible to guess, says L.W. Rogers in his volume, "Dreams and +Premonitions." The extent by which we are guided and warned from the +ego depends upon how much we are not swayed by our physical methods of +artificial civilization implying the power to impress the astral +experience on the physical brain. + +The habit of our scattering thoughts must also be brought under +control. One must be able to concentrate his mind on what he wants to +think about. Camille Flammarion says nineteen-hundredths of the human +family never think at all. They are merely shallow receptives for the +thoughts of others. As you acquire the habit of controlling your +thoughts and with the emotions well under control, then you begin to +turn the consciousness back upon self, and as the sleeper lays his +body down to rest he gives the ego an opportunity to impress itself on +the lower mind. Gradually the mind is brought under control. This +connects the two different states of consciousness. At first you begin +to see pictures, landscapes, faces, etc., only for a flash. Then you +will fall into unconsciousness. Once this state is attained, if +continued the rest will not be so difficult. + +With practice, you will be conscious of yourself leaving your body, +conscious of yourself looking down on your body asleep, and seeing +yourself going on a journey to inspire a friend or to acquire some +knowledge of something you are studying in physical life. In this way +you make your nights, as well as your days, to be of assistance to +others. Your nights may be made useful even if you are not conscious +of yourself out of the body, by suggesting to yourself upon retiring, +that you will go somewhere, and meet some one and assist them in an +unselfish act. If you persist in your suggestion on retiring, your +spirit will go where you demand it to go, although you may not +remember your experience in your waking state. + +Just as it is possible for you to render help to another in sleep, so +you can influence them for a good purpose. It is also possible for you +to influence another selfishly, and let me warn you here, if you do, +you are practicing black art, and as surely as night follows day it +will return and burn you as you justly deserve, so beware and think +well before you act. He who dabbles in occult teachings for selfish +ends treads on dangerous ground, and he will not attain his desires, +but rather the reverse. The unselfish soul who acts unselfishly can be +of much service to his fellow-man, not only the living but also the +misnamed dead, and they can often remember their astral happenings in +waking consciousness to the minutest detail. This requires rigid +training. + +The beginner will find it to his advantage, to resolve before falling +asleep that he will bring his astral experience through into his +waking consciousness. It is also well to keep a notebook at hand and +write down your dreams in the morning, if you cannot remember your +dreams. + +Speak to no one. Do not leave your sleeping chamber. Before the day is +many hours old your dream will come to you. In this way if the student +is patient and sincere he will, in time, be able to find out many +things of the invisible realm where his soul functions during the time +his body sleeps. I do not claim that our physical plane affairs should +be guided entirely by dreams, nor are dreams of the fortune-telling +variety to be relied upon. You must use your reason and judgment in +this the same as anything else, and only when the student has attained +to that point in his development where there is no break in +consciousness, may he be guided by the astral life. The mystic, and +sages, go beyond the astral life. They go into a state of +dreamlessness. Listen to what a great mystic said: + + "In waking state we are conscious of the objective universe. + In dreaming we are conscious of the inner world. Then we are + of great help to the living, and also the misnamed dead. In + dreamlessness the true seer turns the light of consciousness + back upon itself and in its own light sees the gloom of + nothingness. Imagine for a moment the absolute non-existence + of the vast world devoid of sight and sound. What remains a + vast space. Imagine the vast space to be void of ether and + the subtle seeds of creation. Perfect stillness reigns + supreme over the ocean of universal space, beginningless and + endless. What supports it? It is supportless, soundless, + cloudless. He does not see. Yet he is not blind, does not + hear, yet he is not deaf. He goes beyond the feeling of time + and space. Every time the true seer enters a state of + dreamless sleep he enjoys the span of Ethereal Glory; his + consciousness is centered in the bosom of the Absolute." + + + + +LIST OF BOOKS + + +BY YACKI RAIZIZUN + + + +Breathing Exercise--Price, 15c, Paper Cover, Postage Free. + +The Psychology of Success--Price, 35c, Paper Cover, Postage Free. + +The Secret of Dreams--Price, 50c, Paper Cover, Postage Free. + +Reincarnation Lecture--Price, 25c, Paper Cover, Postage Free. + +Unfired Food and Trophotherapy--Price $4.00, By GEORGE J. 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