Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-29
Does Death End AIIf
HBRNosILLo, Son, Mexico.
ED. CITIZEN:

Ds 1uotatlcn lIon lHc Dluics fA@- The life Of God is the light Of men"
 This kaleidoscope of spirit can con tain only what is put into it, so far as any external impressions are concerned. As to the great hand that moves this spiritual machine, We will not here dis cuss.
 The spirit throws up Into conscious ness, by means of its moods, movements and activity, such combinations as it may-snd this is equally true of sleep or wakefulness. During wskefulness, however, its moods, movements and ac- tivity are more or less controlled and directed by external influences which the condition of sleep excludes, thus leaving the spirit free to roam. Is tt not as legitimate to examine mind, and its attributes on this, as on its wskefGl side, so long as deal wi;h facts? Are not consciousness and its experiences as much facts as a block of wood, which cannot know until I am first con- scious?
 It is true, also, that We are not always able, when we wake, to call sli or any portion of our mental experiences. but our inability to recall what has passed in our minds at any time IS no evidence that our minds were not then sctIye. Many hours are passed by us when We are awake, and when our minds are known to be active, yet after a day, or after a few hours even, we are unable to recall a solitary thought that was pass ing in our minds during that time, so that our inability to recall into our pres ent consciousness tine minds activity ID sleep, Is no evidence that 1t was not then active. In cases of fsomnambulism, which differs from the usual mental sc. tivIty in dreams, in that the dreamer Is enabled to act his dreams, the mind may be exercised for several hours in a very energetic manner, working out dit- ticult problems, executing nice processes of art, or treating difficult passages, per forming tests of mind and body beyond all that IS possible during valentines. and yet be unable when 1t Is over to re- call anything that transpired during
  sleep.
 Mind then, according to any idea of 1t never wholly ceases its activity; while matter IS not only mOtionless, but form less, until 1t Is shaped and moved by mind. Our customary thoughts or ideas arise out of the association of the effects of maternal forms, impressed up- on the conscious susceptibility of think Ing, feeling and willing.
 An object Is presented to the organ of vision; the object is first felt by soul or sensation, immediately followed by per ceptlon and reelection, and while thought Is the last process in the act Of thinking, they are instantaneous, Gs It were, and are a trinity of one whole, neither can be separated from the other so that one can aot without the other. It Is m impOssibility for the mind to perceive without the resulting condition of reflection, for the mind is conscious only in this trinity. An object may be placed before the eye, but If the mind IS wholly obscured in reflection upon some other subject, the mind has no consci- sciOusness of the object before 1t, though the picture IS represented upon the re- tina of the eye.
 4ut lOLckcluH lS n AEuiuAul ll4uSlLd- | ton of all objective thought; and sub iective thought, either during sleep | pr wskefulDess IS the same in operation | only that the objects are not physical | but mental.
 There can be no thought however, of | either description without objects, but | is our dreams, 1t may be said that ire luently certain external and physical causes have a tendency to set the spirit | n motion h a certain direction, and | thus give character to dream, and I | shall not take isspe upon this point, lnless it be said that they do not occur, and princIpally SO, wholly independent If such causes. Yet when they do occur Jy such means as startling point, they by no means fill out pr create the great body of the dream, which may present a combination of events before experienced in the con sciousness of the dreamer.
 To illustrate: awake from a dream vivid impression that ! have peen wandering along the banks of lake, and amid lanes where l lave never been before, have been wild flowers from a neighbor- ng gorge, the fragrance of which par note. go to the wster-edge lod amuse myself in the boyish sport ,f throwing pebbles, which pick from he beach, into the clear water. There Ire berries near, which l pick and eat. hear a noIse, and upon turning sud lenly the face and form of a stranger, by an intimate friend ap- me. l have never seen the ace of the stranger before, 1t Is, how .ver pleasant and genisl one. After brief chat touching the beauties of he morning, and the landscape general y. We take a sail upon the lake. We ,ngage iu the facinating sport of the Ingler. l secure a nlce prize, while my friends in a hilarious manner are con- me upon my good fortune, awake with their merriment ringing D my ears. have not been absent from ny couch. The above are facts in my What will you make of [? A discordant stomach will make a ,erson less restiul. People with good tomachs have the same experience.
 But 1t may be said that 1t does not re- Iuite a very vigorous imagination even n our dsy dreams and while engaged iD ur various Rvocatlons, to wander back n thought to the scenes of our child iood, and that we can as clearly and ,lainly see the old oaken bucket, the vy-clRd church and the face and form of UT mother as she was accustomed to meet us at the door, as if We were actu- Fly at the cottage. Now, while l shall lsim that death does not end all. I hall also claim that the argument above convincing proof of my theory. It nay not however, answer or meet the jews advanced by me as to dreams: for he reason that 1t IS quite another thing 9 be able to recall into our present con ciousness Q bygone experience, winch 'ith all its events and incidents has nee been witnessed.
 According to science the form or bod y organization IS subject to continual hHnge. The fact that all our past eK- eriences cannot be, at will, recalled into UT present consciousness, IS no evidence nat they are no; there, as subsequent iental states may evolve and bring lem.
 am faithfully yours truly.
 PAUL GREGORY, M. ID. August 20th, 1885.
 Two WashOuts.