{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13137/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13137","id":"gutenberg_13137","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13137","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Psychiatry/Psychology","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Dream interpretation","Dreams"],"text":"THE SECRET OF DREAMS\n\nby\n\nYACKI RAIZIZUN, PH. D.\n\nPrice, Fifty Cents\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n  The Dreamer                               5\n\n  Varieties of Dreams                      12\n\n  How to Evolve the Large Consciousness    37\n\n\n\n\nDREAMS\n\nEverybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the\nphenomena of sleep. Before we can begin to comprehend or even analyze\ndreams, whether our dreams are symbolic or otherwise, we must first\ndivert from our mind our materialistic conceptions of what the\nindividual called man really is. The external or physical man, is no\nmore the man than the coat he wears. The physical man is only an\ninstrument of which the real inner man or soul expresses itself in the\nphysical universe. Various materialistic theories have been given in\nthe past, trying to explain the mighty phenomena of dreams, but these\ntheories have always been more or less unsatisfactory. Why? Because\nthe-materialist tries to explain the riddle of human existence without\nan individual human spirit his explanation will always be\nunsatisfactory.\n\nDreams afford a separation of soul and body. As soon as the senses\nbecome torpid, the inner man withdraws from the outer. There are three\ndifferent ways which afford this separation. First, natural sleep.\nSecond, induced sleep, such as hypnotism, mesmerism or trance. Third,\ndeath. In the above two cases the man has only left his physical body\ntemporarily, whereas in death he has left it forever. In the case of\ndeath, the link which unites soul and body, as seen by clairvoyant\nvision, is broken, but in trance or sleep it is released. The real man\nis then in the astral world. He now functions in his astral body,\nwhich becomes a vehicle for expressing consciousness, just as the\nphysical body is an instrument for expressing consciousness in the\nwaking state.\n\nConsciousness is not annihilated when the man is in the Astral world,\nit is only temporarily suspended. Just the same as in the case of\ndeath. The man is fully conscious in the astral regions clothed in the\nbody of the Astral matter. This Astral body is in the physical and\nextends little beyond it. The Astral world is here and now,\ninterpenetrating the physical, and not in some remote region above the\nclouds as so many imagine.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMan is a soul. He has a body. He expresses himself in three worlds.\nWhile he functions in the physical body, viz., physical, emotional and\nmental worlds. Just as the Astral interpenetrates the physical the\nmental interpenetrates the Astral. The Astral body in which man\nfunctions during sleep is the body of emotions and desires and he\nexpresses these desires and emotions in the physical life.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Astral body in which man functions during sleep is very subtle\nmatter. It resembles the physical. In fact, it is an exact\nreproduction of it, but it can only be seen by clairvoyant vision.\nWhen a man leaves his body in sleep or death, the spirit must leave\nthe physical body before it will be rested and recuperated to enable\nit to undergo the strenuous daily toil of physical life.\n\nHere is an example. Let a man go to bed say ten o'clock. Let him sleep\nuntil six next morning. The ordinary man will awaken feeling refreshed\nand ready for his daily toil. Let him go to bed at ten, lie awake all\nnight, next morning he will not feel refreshed and during the day he\nmay feel sluggish and sleepy. Let him go to bed and lie awake night\nafter night for a few weeks, what will be the result? He will be a\nphysical wreck. Although he may have the same amount of hours lying in\nbed, he will not feel recuperated and refreshed unless he has had his\nnatural sleep and this can only come to pass.\n\nWhen the soul or spirit withdraws from the physical body, the physical\nbody is not the man, and as long as our materialistic writers who\nendeavor to interpret dreams fail to grasp the nature of the inner\nman, the real self, they will be forever groping in the dark.\n\nThe first question that naturally arises in the mind of the layman is\nthis: How can a man leave his body in sleep and continue its natural\nfunctions such as digestion, circulation of blood, etc.\n\nWe do not consciously direct the circulation of the blood, or any of\nthe natural bodily functions during our waking state. These things go\non whether we will them or not. Although the spirit leaves the body in\nsleep as previously stated, there is still a magnetic connection with\nsoul and body. This magnetic connection acts on the sympathetic\nnervous system and the cerebro spinal which controls the functions of\nthe human organism. In sleep the astral man may be in the immediate\nvicinity of his sleeping recuperating physical body or it may be\nthousands of miles away in space, the magnetic connection still exists\nregardless of the distance. No matter what distance the astral man is\naway from his physical body, he can return to it with the rapidity of\nthought, as the saying is, for it is the soul that thinks, the brain\nis only an instrument of the soul.\n\nMany of our dreams may be attributed to subconscious memory, for when\nour mind is centered on a certain train of thought these thoughts are\napt to filter through into the conscious state in sleep. The\nsubconscious memory cannot be truthfully called a dream, for it is\nonly a memory of something we have previously perceived in reality or\nimagination. One only has to examine his subconscious dream in the\nlight of reason to eliminate them. Telepathy does explain some of our\ndreams, for just as it is possible for minds to receive telepathic\ncommunications (thought transference) from another in the walking\nstate, it is also possible for the so-called dead to have telepathic\ncommunication with the living, for thought is a power, its limitation\nis unknown.\n\nWhile many of our dreams may be traced to subconscious memory or\ntelepathy and happenings of material affairs of our daily lives,\nothers are undoubtedly the astral happenings of the ego while\nfunctioning in the etheric regions. There we meet not only the\nmisnamed dead but also many of those who are still in the physical\nbody, and let me state here that many of our difficult problems of\nphysical life are worked out in sleep.\n\nThe old axiom, \"I will go to sleep on it,\" has a greater significance\nthan is generally attributed to it, for sleep and dreams have more to\ndo in shaping your lives than you have any idea of. You can go to\nschool in sleep and study anything you are studying in physical life\nand make marvelous progress. This requires much training, however.\nKeeping the mind free from evil thoughts is most essential to enable\nthe sincere investigator to enter that larger state of consciousness,\nfor the thoughts of our waking state have a more or less effect on the\nego during sleep. Every individual harbors a certain train of thought,\nwhether at business or pleasure this train of thought has a tremendous\ninfluence on the ego, in fact it shapes ones destiny.\n\n     Choose well your thoughts\n       for your choice\n       is brief and yet endless.\n       --Anna Besant in Thought Power\n\nMan may be said to live two lives in one, one when he is fully awake\nand the other when he is sound asleep. These two lives, of course, is\nthe expression of his one existence. The highly developed, spiritual\nman as he retires into the interior world during sleep, realizes a\nstate of spiritual bliss that is far beyond the stage of ordinary\nmortals. Man has been in the habit of looking at himself as a mass of\nflesh and muscle with a slight chance of realizing the Divinity within\nhim. As the earnest soul gradually arouses himself he finds his proper\nplace in the universe, for within him are all the attributes of deity,\nand when he reaches the end of the long evolutionary journey that is\nahead of him he will find himself and know what he is destined to be,\na God.\n\n\n\n\nVARIETIES OF DREAMS\n\nIn order to distinguish and classify the different kinds of dreams in\nwhich everyone has an experience they may be divided into four\nvariations. Nearly all dreams may be classified under this heading:\n\n  1. Physical Stimulus.\n\n  2. Subconscious memory.\n\n  3. Telepathy.\n\n  4. The Actual Astral experience of the Ego or Soul in the Astral\n       region.\n\nPhysical Stimulus may be the direct cause of impressing certain ideas\non the physical brain which may appear to be a reality. The falling of\na book, picture or any article in the room may cause the sleeper to\ndream of firearms; a soldier may dream of a battlefield; a sensitive\nfemale may dream it is a burglar; a person who throws the bed clothes\noff him on a cold night may dream of snow and ice; the continual\ndropping of water from a faucet in the room of the sleeper has been\nthe direct cause of a friend of mine dreaming of a passenger train;\nthe steady tramping of footsteps overhead may be the cause of dreaming\nof thunder storms, etc. We must also take into consideration the\nphysical and mental environments of the sleeper.\n\n\n\nTHE SUBCONSCIOUS MEMORY\n\nThe subconscious memory may be the direct cause of certain dreams.\nWhen the mind is centered on certain things, the sleeper goes over his\nlife again and again in phantom fashion. He lives over the experiences\nof his daily life. Very often the ego enlightens the sleeper of some\nmaterial thing for his own benefit, which he may use advantageously in\nhis waking state, but as he generally looks at the phenomena of dreams\nas an hallucination of the brain, he allows many a golden opportunity\nto slip through his fingers because the materialist's brain cannot\ngrasp things of the spirit.\n\nAll the knowledge and rubbish of our past lives is stored up in the\nsubconscious mind where it remains in minute form. Memory is only the\nawakening of the sub-conscious mind, a long and forgotten incident,\nthat has made a deep impression on the mind, is apt to filter through\ninto the conscious state in dreams. In time of illness or when one's\nvitality is low, the dream picture of the past is apt to play a very\nprominent part in one's sleep. Childhood and long-forgotten scenes\ncome up frequently and appear as real and genuine as if they had only\nhappened the previous day. They frequently give the dreamer joy or\nsorrow, according to the stages he passed through.\n\nEven action of past lives may come up into the subconscious. Dreams of\nrunning around nude without any feeling of shame may be the memory of\na previous existence. Falling from a high cliff or trees. Being chased\naround by some wild animals may be attributed to a primitive past.\nDreaming of primitive people, places and things, only takes the\ndreamer a step nearer the stone age, from whence he came. Instead of\nlooking at these subconscious dreams with horror and dread as some\npeople do they should study them and shape their lives accordingly.\n\n\n\nTELEPATHIC DREAMS OR THOUGH TRANSFERENCE.\n\nTelepathy is a known and established fact. The connection between\nminds without material means of any kind, has often been demonstrated\nby the very simple method of one person acting as a sender, while the\nother acts as a receiver. The sender thinks of a certain subject\nselected before-hand. He may write it down on slate or paper. This\noften helps him to keep his mind concentrated on the subject he wishes\nto send to the receiver. The receiver places himself in as receptive a\nposition as possible, and Keeping his mind calm, the impression he\nreceives he makes note of. After a few experiences he may find the\nmessage to be correct, word for word. This is telepathy.\n\nIn sleep there is often telepathic conditions between minds who are in\nclose sympathy with each other, such as man and wife, mother and\nchildren, or people whose business brings them close together, may\nexchange thoughts during sleep. For instance, in one case a mother\nreceived the thought of her boy, who was away from home, telling of\nhis sickness. A few days later she received a letter verifying her\ndream. A salesman dreams of a friend telling him of his company doing\na big business in a neighboring town. Upon his friend's return his\ndream was found to be correct.\n\nA lady in San Francisco (whose husband was in Australia) for three\nsuccessive nights, dreamed of his returning to America. She did not\nexpect him until early in the fall of the year. She was dreaming of\nhim in the spring. On the fourth morning after her dream she received\na letter telling her about his unexpected return. These are so-called\ntelepathic dreams, usually from minds of living people, although\ntelepathic connection from minds of disincarnate beings is possible.\n\n\n\nTHE ACTUAL ASTRAL EXPERIENCE OF THE EGO DURING SLEEP IN THE ASTRAL\nWORLD.\n\nThe actual Astral experience in which the ego sees distant sights,\nsights and visions which he knows do not actually exist upon the\nphysical plane, such as communicating with the dead, recovery of lost\nand stolen property; having premonitions of a certain thing which\nactually happens, such as approaching danger or death.\n\nAbove are but a few of the actual astral experiences of the ego which\nit endeavors to impress on the physical brain. Sometimes it impresses\nthem by symbols, for symbols are the true language of the soul, and to\nknow how to interpret the meaning of the symbols of your dreams is of\nthe utmost importance to the beginner. A symbolic dream, which is an\nactual astral experience, can only be interpreted by the dreamer\nhimself, for no one lives your life but yourself. The first impression\nyou receive intuitively, of a dream you see symbolically, is usually\ncorrect. The reason the layman does not interpret his dreams\ncorrectly, by following his intuition, is because he generally has\nsome material idea of his own concerning dreams.\n\nHere is a dream that may be said to be an actual experience of the\nego. Taken from the Chicago American, July 17, 1920:\n\n     Dreams sons drowned; found bodies in river, Burlington, Vt.\n     The dream was responsible for the finding of the bodies of\n     George Raymond, Jr., 14 years, son of George Raymond, and\n     his uncle, Winford Raymond, in the Lamoille river at\n     Fletcher. According to Winford's father, the vision of the\n     boy's mother appeared before him in a dream and directed him\n     to look for the boys in the river. They had been absent from\n     home since Sunday. The dream was so vivid that the father\n     wakened and at 2 o'clock went to the river bank, where he\n     found the boys' clothing. At daybreak the bodies were\n     recovered.\n\nHere is a dream of the so-called dead who, many believe, exist in a\nstate of dreamless sleep or annihilation, appearing in a vision, and\nso impressing on the astral brain of the sleeper where the boy's\nbodies were, that he actually brought the vision or astral experience\nthrough into the waking consciousness. Here is proof of a mother\nlooking over her children, even if she is separated from them through\nthe doorway of the tomb. No sane person today can actually believe the\ntomb to be the doorway to the night of oblivion. Many of the misnamed\ndead are present, and when we go to sleep at night we meet them and\nconverse with them just the same as if they were inhabiting their\nmortal bodies.\n\nWe do not claim, however, that the dead are all-knowing; but free from\nthe physical bodies, the spiritually enlightened ones have a broader\nvision of things, especially if there is a close sympathetic feeling\nbetween the dead and the living, as there appeared to have been in\nthis case, for the conditions must be absolutely harmonious before one\nmay bring his actual astral experience into the waking consciousness.\n\nAn interesting case of the dead appearing in a dream was as that of\nMrs. Marie Menge, 15 West Schiller street, Chicago. Mr. Charles\nPeterson, former lieutenant of the Danish army, was a roomer with Mrs.\nMenge for a number of years. He had no relatives or near friends in\nAmerica. Mr. Peterson had been ill for some time with asthma and\nfinally was taken to the Hahnemann Hospital, 2814 Ellis avenue,\nChicago. In less than a half hour before she received the telephone\ncall telling of his death she suddenly awakened and told her husband\nMr. Peterson had appeared to her in a dream. She states, he appeared\nin a white cloud and seemed well and happy. He died about 1:30 A.M.,\nSaturday, March 18, 1921.\n\nIt was an easy matter for C. Peterson to appear in a vision to the\nonly one who had shown any sympathy and kindness toward him during his\nillness, and his landlady being asleep, was functioning in her astral\nbody, which becomes a vehicle of consciousness, and as there was\nsympathy between the two it was possible for her to retain her astral\nvision in waking suddenly as she did.\n\nThe dead are not dead at all, as many imagine. This man is only\nphysically dead because he has lost his physical body. He is not\nintellectually and emotionally dead because he has not lost that part\nof his mechanism of consciousness which is the seat of thought and\nemotion. The physical body only allows us to express ourselves in the\nphysical world, but it is not the man, any more than the clothes he\nwears.\n\nExtract from the Sunday Herald-Examiner, May 8, 1921:\n\n     NEW GHOSTS ARE WRITING POETRY BY UNIVERSAL SERVICE.\n\n     Paris, May 7.--Can a ghost write poetry? You betcha, says\n     Baron Maurice de Waleffe, the French satirist, who tells of\n     a remarkable book of spirits' poems just published in Paris\n     under the title of \"The Glory of Illusion.\"\n\nThree years ago died Judith Gautier, niece of Theophile Gautier, and\nleft a collection of slightly--er--passionate novels and collections\nof poems which were circulated among friends. One of these friends was\na girl, Judith's most intimate companion. A year after Judith's death\nthis girl dreamed a dream. In the dream Judith appeared and commanded\nher to seize a pencil and write to dictation. The result was a series\nof poems of an exoteric character which are triumphs of meter and scan\nperfectly. They are published in the name of the girl friend, Mlle. S.\nMeyer Zundel, but Mlle. Zundel says they're not really her works at\nall, but were directly dictated by her dead friend. Previous to\nJudith's death, Mlle. Zundel says she never wrote a line of poetry.\n\nHere we have direct proof of an invisible intelligence directing this\nyoung lady to write poems which she admits she never wrote before her\nfriend's death. The materialistic skeptic who is always ready to\ninterpret dreams as coincidences cannot call this a coincidence before\nthe testimony of such facts when they are brought to the eyes of an\nintelligent public. The would-be interpreter of human existence\nremains baffled and silent; they can neither deny these facts nor do\nthey dare to explain them.\n\nFriday, May 6, 1921, Chicago Daily News (by Marion Holmes):\n\n     Dear Marion Holmes: I should like just out of curiosity to\n     get the opinion of some of your corner readers, as well as\n     your own, on the enclosed sketch of a dream I had when\n     working out west. About 26 years ago I was working in the\n     West near the mining country, and one night I dreamed I was\n     in a mining town, the name of which I did not know in my\n     dream, nor had I ever seen it in reality. I was crossing the\n     street to a store building painted white, and in my hand I\n     carried an envelope that I was to deliver to the boss of the\n     store. When I arrived at the center of the street I was met\n     by three men who were coming from the opposite side, one of\n     whom stopped me, saying: \"Come with me and I will show you\n     where there is a gold mine.\" I replied: \"I haven't time to\n     go now,\" but he insisted, \"Well, come anyway and when you\n     have time you can go and get it.\" So I went. We started off\n     in the direction of what I have since learned is the richest\n     locality in gold mines and after walking a while we seemed\n     to float through space; then we came to the ground a few\n     feet from the top of the mountain. We walked up to the top\n     and again floated in the air in a semi-circle, landing at\n     the foot of another mountain a few miles to the west.\n\n     The stranger said: \"I want you to note the peculiar\n     formation of this country and this stream and right here,\n     walking a short distance, is where you will find the gold.\"\n     About three months later I decided to return to Chicago, and\n     in the train I met a cigar salesman who, as we soon became\n     friendly, insisted that I should locate in one of the towns\n     on his route and gave me a letter to a certain friend of his\n     in the mining district. When the friend had read the letter\n     he wrote another to a friend of his own on whom I was to\n     call. As I went down the street I carried the letter in my\n     hand and as I crossed the street I stopped short, for the\n     store I sought was the store of my dream.\n\n     Three years ago at a summer resort where a company of us\n     were telling strange dreams, I remarked that the weak part\n     of my dream was that one of my guides was supposed to be a\n     dead relative of my own, and my mother remarked at once, \"I\n     had an uncle, a prospector, who died out West in the mining\n     country, but nobody ever knew just where.\"\n\n     Chicago.\n\n\n\nCURIOUS.\n\n\n\nMARION HOLMES' ANSWER.\n\nDr. Peterson, the New York neurologist, in a recent magazine article\non dreams and their meaning, points out that many dreams thought to be\nprophetic can be accounted for physiologically and avers that there\nnever was a purely prophetic dream. He would contend, no doubt, that\nyour waking thoughts having been a good deal engaged with Western\nlife, your dream carried the same train of thought straight through.\nHe would probably characterize the incidents of the rich mines, the\nstore and the relative as merely coincidental, yet as the writer of a\ntext-book on mental philosophy observes, to call such dreams\ncoincidences leaves the mystery as great as before.\n\nIt is evident Curious is not as curious as what he signs himself. If\nhe had investigated his dream he may have found it to his advantage.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nWARDEN DREAMS OF JAIL DELIVERY--FOILS ATTEMPT.\n\n     Chicago American, February 24, 1921.\n\n     New Orleans, Feb. 24.--Because Capt. H.J. Ruffier, warden of\n     the House of Detention, dreamed there was a jail delivery\n     on, a general effort to escape from the prison was\n     frustrated. Forty prisoners confined in one big room, on the\n     Tulane avenue side of the building, were detected working at\n     the bars of a window and picking at brickworks under another\n     window when discovered.\n\nThis dream may be attributed to mental telepathy. The prisoners\nevidently have been planning their escape for days. (Creating thought\nforms.) It was possible for the warden in sleep, out of his body, to\nbe mentally impressed of the delivery and bring it through into waking\nconsciousness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\nDREAMING TO SOME PURPOSE.\n\n     Chicago Daily News, February 24, 1921.\n\n     Huntington, W. Va.--Mrs. Mattie Estep was told in a dream to\n     write songs. She did so, and two of them were accepted and\n     published in New York.\n\n\n\nPAINTS PICTURE IN DREAM, GHOST GUIDES HER BRUSH.\n\n\nChicago Evening American, June 8, 1921.\n\nPeoria is all excited today over the announcement by Benjamin H.\nSerkowich of the Peoria Art League that a canvas painted by a woman in\nher dream with the hand of the immortal and long since departed\nWhistler guiding her brush, is on display at a local theater mezzanine\nfloor which gave space to the annual exhibit of the League.\n\nMrs. William Hawley Smith, wife of Dr. W.H. Smith of Peoria, is the\nwoman. She and her husband are among the wealthiest and most socially\nprominent families in Peoria.\n\nDr. William Hawley Smith is well known as a student and writer on\nsociological problems. Both he and Mrs. Smith claim to have frequently\nreceived spirit messages from the dead. Several weeks ago Mrs. Smith\nsays she was sleeping soundly when Whistler appeared in a dream. The\nfamous artist commanded her to don her artist smock and get her\nbrushes, paints and palette; then she translated to canvas the\ninstructions he imparted, and frequently his hand guided her brush.\nShe worked feverishly all night, and in the morning awoke fatigued,\nbut the picture was finished.\n\n     Chicago Tribune, Saturday, March 12, 1921.\n\n     Dreams being led to hiding place of missing girls. Mother's\n     vision of her daughter comes true. Girl of my dreams. Sounds\n     like the title of a new song, doesn't it. The girl is Evelyn\n     Niedziezko, 17 years old. She lives at 3939 South Campbell\n     avenue. Last Wednesday night she disappeared from home. That\n     night and on Thursday night her mother dreamed of her. In\n     both dreams she saw her daughter enter a flat building. It\n     seems to her in her dreams it was on Cottage Grove avenue,\n     near 27th street. Last night Mrs. Niedziezko reported the\n     girl's disappearance to the police. Lieut. Ben Burns, to\n     whom the mother talked, asked her if she had any idea as to\n     where the girl might be staying. She told her dreams.\n\n     TOLD TO GO THROUGH WITH IT.\n\n     \"Do you think it would be any use to go over to Cottage\n     Grove avenue and look around?\" she asked. \"I haven't much\n     faith in dreams myself, and I guess the police would think I\n     was crazy if I asked them to make a search on the strength\n     of a dream.\" Lieut. Burns believes in dreams and hunches and\n     such things, and he advised Mrs. Niedziezko to go through\n     with it. Mrs. Niedziezko went over to Cottage Grove avenue,\n     and walked around until she saw a flat building that looked\n     just like the picture that had come to her that night in her\n     vision. She had seen her girl sitting in a dining room of\n     such a flat. The house proved to be 2727, mystic numbers.\n     The family of William Llewellyn lives there.\n\n     GET POLICE TO HELP FIND GIRLS.\n\n     Mrs. Niedziezko went to the Cottage Grove avenue Police\n     Station, and asked for help to search the flat for her girl.\n     She did not say anything about her dream for fear they would\n     laugh at her. Detectives Pieroth and Fitzgerald accompanied\n     her to the building. In answer to the ring Evelyn herself\n     came to the door. Evelyn had been visiting a friend.\n\nThe mother had, no doubt, been thinking daily of her daughter's\ndisappearance and unconsciously impressed the idea on the ego, and as\nthe ego carries out the impressions of our waking state, she actually\nbrought the knowledge of her astral experience into the waking\nconsciousness, and the intense desire on the mother's part was the\ndirect cause of her bringing the same experience through two\nsuccessive nights, showing the ego can impress on the mind important\ninformation. The ego is also the source of premonitory dreams.\n\n\n\nHAS PREMONITION--DROPS DEAD IN HOTEL LA SALLE.\n\n     Chicago Evening American, Friday, March 25, 1921.\n\n     Christian H. Ronne, 60, president of the C.H. Ronne\n     Warehouse, 372 West Ontario street, dropped dead in the\n     Traffic Club on the eighteenth floor of the Hotel La Salle\n     two weeks after he had informed his son-in-law, C.A.\n     Christensen, cashier of the Mid-City Trust and Savings Bank,\n     of a premonition of death.\n\n\n\nLOCKLEAR FORECAST DEATH--FRIEND OF AVIATOR TELLS OF STUNT-FLYER'S\nPREMONITION.\n\n     Chicago Evening American, Aug. 4, 1920.\n\n     Fort Dodge, Ia., Aug. 4.--Lieut. Homer Locklear, famous\n     stunt flyer, killed in a fall at Los Angeles, Monday\n     evening, had a premonition several weeks ago that he would\n     meet his death this summer, according to Shirley Short,\n     Goldfield Iowa, original Locklear pilot. Short was married\n     recently and is passing his honeymoon at his home. He left\n     Locklear in Canada three weeks ago and had planned to rejoin\n     him in a week. \"For more than a year we went together doing\n     stunts,\" said Short. \"During that time Locklear laughed at\n     the idea of danger until about a month ago. It was shortly\n     after I left him that he became depressed and told me\n     several times that he would get knocked off this summer. It\n     worried me because it was so unlike Locklear.\"\n\n\n\nWRITES DEATH POEM ON FATAL PLANE FLIGHT.\n\n     Chicago Evening American, June 11, 1921.\n\n     Washington, June 1.--How Lieut. Cleveland W. McDermott\n     penned a death poem in the plane in which he and six others\n     were crashed to death Saturday night was revealed here\n     today.\n\nIt is the story of perhaps the most remarkable premonition of death\nthat ever has been recorded before the fatal flight. McDermott, who\nwas a seasoned world-war veteran and accustomed to hazardous flights,\nwrote seven letters to as many friends. These he placed in the hands\nof a fellow officer with instructions that they be mailed in the event\nof his death. The poem was discovered in the lieutenant's personal\neffects, written on a piece of scratch paper. It had been stuffed in a\nbreast pocket of his uniform. The writing was scraggly, due to the\nvibration of the motors. This is the death poem:\n\n     Another hour and far away I fly;\n     A last farewell to my friends I cry;\n     Then up to the rosy dawn in flight;\n     A battle with the elements I must fight.\n     Lost in the fog and mist and rain;\n     Tossed hither and yonder I strive in vain\n     To again win out as I have in the past;\n     Little I knew this was to be my last.\n     Sharp crash, and my wings are broken back;\n     Every wire is useless with too much slack.\n     Down, down I swirl and slip and spin;\n     Thinking only of all my worldly sin.\n     The earth seems rushing up to me;\n     While rigged crags raise their heads to greet me.\n     As twisting and twirling downward I swirl;\n     I bid a sad good-bye to a little girl.\n     Lower down into the trees I crash;\n     My plane and I have gone to smash.\n     Up from the Mass call me,\n     My untouched, unfettered spirit flies\n     Straight to mother's waiting overhead.\n\nAlthough no one, so far as is known, saw Lieutenant McDermott write\nthe poem, his fellow officers at Golding field pointed out today that\nevery indication points to it having been written during the hour\npreceding the fatal crash. His first act following the premonition was\nto write the farewell letters, said a fellow officer today. The poem\nobviously was written under the vibration of engines, so it follows it\nmust have been set down during the last few minutes of his life. The\nofficer to whom Lieutenant McDermott intrusted the farewell letters\nmailed them a few minutes after he heard of the fatality.\n\nIn this case the premonition seems to have served its purpose\nadvantageously. Death had no terrors for Lieutenant McDermott.\n\n\n\nSON'S DREAM LOCATES HIS FATHER'S BODY.\n\n     Chicago Herald-Examiner, Thursday, June 23, 1921\n\n     Dickinson, N.D., June 22--A dream in which he saw the spot\n     where his father's body lay led Raymond Everetts, 11, to\n     discover the body yesterday. Tom Everetts, the father, was\n     one of three section men drowned by a flood near Medora\n     Saturday. Several years ago the boy announced the death of\n     an aunt shortly before a telegram confirmed his prophesy.\n\nWhen the ego impresses the lower mind of approaching danger, in dreams\nor otherwise, it is simply for the individual to be prepared for what\nis in store for him, just as a wise physician tells his patient when\nthe end is near to be prepared.\n\nMiss Miller, 375 Brenner street, Muncie, Germany, had a premonition of\nher brother drowning. She states:\n\n     \"My brother was a great swimmer. Two weeks before he was\n     drowned I had a premonition of his death. In my dream I saw\n     him diving into the river. His head struck a rock, then I\n     saw his lifeless body float before me for three successive\n     nights. I told him of my dream. I begged him not to go\n     bathing, but he only laughed at me, saying, 'I can protect\n     myself in the water.' His death was the exact working out of\n     the premonition of his death.\"\n\nThe student of dream-lore knows the ego is ever watchful, and it\nalways impresses the lower mind when danger approaches. There are also\ncases which appear to indicate when the ego is unable to impress the\nindividual. The information is often conveyed through another person,\nas the above would indicate, who is sensitive enough to bring the\ninformation in the waking state.\n\n\n\n\nHOW TO EVOLVE THE LARGER CONSCIOUSNESS.\n\nIt is a very difficult matter for the layman to bring his actual\nastral experiences into the waking state (but fortunately for us) any\nfaculty that is lacking may be evolved. It takes a very sensitive\ninstrument to register all that is seen, heard and done while out of\nthe body. It also requires physical, emotional and mental harmony, or\nthe dreamer is apt to mistake an actual astral experience for an\nautomaton of the physical brain, or vice versa. To what extent the ego\nwould guide us and warn us, if we were only sensitive and responsive\nto the delicate vibrations sent down into the physical brain, it is\nimpossible to guess, says L.W. Rogers in his volume, \"Dreams and\nPremonitions.\" The extent by which we are guided and warned from the\nego depends upon how much we are not swayed by our physical methods of\nartificial civilization implying the power to impress the astral\nexperience on the physical brain.\n\nThe habit of our scattering thoughts must also be brought under\ncontrol. One must be able to concentrate his mind on what he wants to\nthink about. Camille Flammarion says nineteen-hundredths of the human\nfamily never think at all. They are merely shallow receptives for the\nthoughts of others. As you acquire the habit of controlling your\nthoughts and with the emotions well under control, then you begin to\nturn the consciousness back upon self, and as the sleeper lays his\nbody down to rest he gives the ego an opportunity to impress itself on\nthe lower mind. Gradually the mind is brought under control. This\nconnects the two different states of consciousness. At first you begin\nto see pictures, landscapes, faces, etc., only for a flash. Then you\nwill fall into unconsciousness. Once this state is attained, if\ncontinued the rest will not be so difficult.\n\nWith practice, you will be conscious of yourself leaving your body,\nconscious of yourself looking down on your body asleep, and seeing\nyourself going on a journey to inspire a friend or to acquire some\nknowledge of something you are studying in physical life. In this way\nyou make your nights, as well as your days, to be of assistance to\nothers. Your nights may be made useful even if you are not conscious\nof yourself out of the body, by suggesting to yourself upon retiring,\nthat you will go somewhere, and meet some one and assist them in an\nunselfish act. If you persist in your suggestion on retiring, your\nspirit will go where you demand it to go, although you may not\nremember your experience in your waking state.\n\nJust as it is possible for you to render help to another in sleep, so\nyou can influence them for a good purpose. It is also possible for you\nto influence another selfishly, and let me warn you here, if you do,\nyou are practicing black art, and as surely as night follows day it\nwill return and burn you as you justly deserve, so beware and think\nwell before you act. He who dabbles in occult teachings for selfish\nends treads on dangerous ground, and he will not attain his desires,\nbut rather the reverse. The unselfish soul who acts unselfishly can be\nof much service to his fellow-man, not only the living but also the\nmisnamed dead, and they can often remember their astral happenings in\nwaking consciousness to the minutest detail. This requires rigid\ntraining.\n\nThe beginner will find it to his advantage, to resolve before falling\nasleep that he will bring his astral experience through into his\nwaking consciousness. It is also well to keep a notebook at hand and\nwrite down your dreams in the morning, if you cannot remember your\ndreams.\n\nSpeak to no one. Do not leave your sleeping chamber. Before the day is\nmany hours old your dream will come to you. In this way if the student\nis patient and sincere he will, in time, be able to find out many\nthings of the invisible realm where his soul functions during the time\nhis body sleeps. I do not claim that our physical plane affairs should\nbe guided entirely by dreams, nor are dreams of the fortune-telling\nvariety to be relied upon. You must use your reason and judgment in\nthis the same as anything else, and only when the student has attained\nto that point in his development where there is no break in\nconsciousness, may he be guided by the astral life. The mystic, and\nsages, go beyond the astral life. They go into a state of\ndreamlessness. Listen to what a great mystic said:\n\n     \"In waking state we are conscious of the objective universe.\n     In dreaming we are conscious of the inner world. Then we are\n     of great help to the living, and also the misnamed dead. In\n     dreamlessness the true seer turns the light of consciousness\n     back upon itself and in its own light sees the gloom of\n     nothingness. Imagine for a moment the absolute non-existence\n     of the vast world devoid of sight and sound. What remains a\n     vast space. Imagine the vast space to be void of ether and\n     the subtle seeds of creation. Perfect stillness reigns\n     supreme over the ocean of universal space, beginningless and\n     endless. What supports it? It is supportless, soundless,\n     cloudless. He does not see. Yet he is not blind, does not\n     hear, yet he is not deaf. He goes beyond the feeling of time\n     and space. Every time the true seer enters a state of\n     dreamless sleep he enjoys the span of Ethereal Glory; his\n     consciousness is centered in the bosom of the Absolute.\"\n\n\n\n\nLIST OF BOOKS\n\n\nBY YACKI RAIZIZUN\n\n\n\nBreathing Exercise--Price, 15c, Paper Cover, Postage Free.\n\nThe Psychology of Success--Price, 35c, Paper Cover, Postage Free.\n\nThe Secret of Dreams--Price, 50c, Paper Cover, Postage Free.\n\nReincarnation Lecture--Price, 25c, Paper Cover, Postage Free.\n\nUnfired Food and Trophotherapy--Price $4.00, By GEORGE J. 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