 Question.--What is a dream?
Answer.--A dream is an event transpiring in that world belonging to the mind when the objective senses have withdrawn into rest or oblivion. Then the spiritual man is living alone in the future or ahead of objective life and consequently lives man's future first, developing conditions in a way that enables waking man to shape his actions by warnings, so as to make life a perfect existence. Q.--What relationship is sustained between the average man and his dreams?
A.--A dream to the average or sensual person, bears the same relation to his objective life that it maintained in the case of the ideal dreamer, but it means pleasures, sufferings and advancements on a lower or material plane. Q.--Then why is man not always able to correctly interpret his dreams?
A.--Just as words fail sometimes to express ideas, so dreams fail sometimes in their mind pictures to portray coming events. Q.--If they relate to the future, why is it we so often dream of the past?
A.--When a person dreams of past events, those events are warnings of evil or good; sometimes they are stamped so indelibly upon the subjective mind that the least tendency of the waking mind to the past throws these pictures in relief on the dream consciousness. Q.--Why is it that present environments often influence our dreams ?
A.--Because the future of man is usually affected by the present, so if he mars the present by willful wrongs, or makes it bright by right living it will necessarily have influence on his dreams, as they are forecasting’s of the future. Q.--What is an apparition?
A.--It is the subjective mind stored with the wisdom gained from futurity, and in its strenuous efforts to warn its present habitation--the corporal body--of dangers just ahead, takes on the shape of a dear one as the most effective method of imparting this knowledge. Q.--How does subjectivity deal with time?
A.--There is no past and future to subjectivity. It is all one living present. Q.--If that is so, why can’t you tell us accurately of our future as you do of our past?
A--Because events are like a procession; they pass a few at a time and cast a shadow on subjective minds, and those which have passed before the waking mind are felt by other minds also and necessarily make a more lasting impression on the subjective mind. Q.--To illustrate: A person on retiring or closing his eyes had a face appear to him, the forehead well formed but the lower
parts distorted. Explain this phenomenon?
A.--A changed state from perfect sleep or waking possessed him. Now, the man's face was only the expression of his real thoughts and the state of his business combined. His thoughts were strong and healthy, but his business flagging, hence his own spirit is not a perfect likeness of his own soul, as it takes every atom of earthly composition perfectly normal to reproduce a perfect spirit picture of the soul or mortal man. He would have seen a true likeness of himself had conditions been favorable; thus a man knows when a complete whole is his portion. Study to make surroundings always harmonious. Life is only being perfectly carried on when these conditions are in unison. Keep the mind clear and as free from material rubbish as is possible and go to sleep in a negative condition (this will, of course, have to be cultivated by the subject). A person can, if he will, completely relax his mind and body to the receptive mood required for dreams to appear as realities, or true explanations of future events. To dream you are conversing with a dead relative, and that relative endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you of coming distress unless you follow the advice given. Disastrous consequences could be averted if minds could grasp the inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self. The voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to approach more distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane. There is so little congeniality between common or material natures that persons should depend more largely upon their own subjectivity for true contentment and pleasure. DREAMS EXAGGERATED
The will is suspended during sleep, so the dream mind is more a prey to excitability than the waking mind. Thus when images appear upon the dream vision they are frequently distorted into hideous malformations that fill it with fear and excitement. CONTRARY DREAMS
The constant dwelling of the mind upon certain things distorts their shapes upon subjectivity, thus throwing dreams in exactly opposite channels to the waking reality. Yet the dreamer always feels a sense of being awake in dreams like these, and on awakening experiences no recuperation of mind or body after such contrary dreams, Sleep is not fully sustained while the dreamer is held by material ideas in the subjective state. |
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||