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  • THE SECRET OF DREAMS

  • by

  • YACKI RAIZIZUN, PH. D.

  • Price, Fifty Cents

  • 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.

  • * * * * *

  • 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."

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