by

YACKI RAIZIZUN, PH. D.

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CONTENTS

The Dreamer 5

Varieties of Dreams 12

How to Evolve the Large Consciousness 37

DREAMS

Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the

phenomena of sleep. Before we can begin to comprehend or even analyze

dreams, whether our dreams are symbolic or otherwise, we must first

divert from our mind our materialistic conceptions of what the

individual called man really is. The external or physical man, is no

more the man than the coat he wears. The physical man is only an

instrument of which the real inner man or soul expresses itself in the

physical universe. 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.

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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.

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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