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: