The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-12

power Of responding to impressions Is
seriously affected. II the speed with
which the blood flows is too great. then
we have fever; if it is a little too
slow, then we have lethargy, so a very
slight deviation from normal health
may alter the power OF the brain TO
respond to the messages it receives. So
far We have studied the man when
awake, now we must consider the con-
ditions of sleep.
1t is a fact in nature that al physi-
cal matter suffers fatigue, that after
strain rest is necessary. We know
for fact that our physical bodies get
very tired after a hard days work; it
may not be so generally known that
a telegraph wire and a steam engine
get tired too after long spell of work
yet such is the fact. But without
going into that interesting matter, we
are well aware of the conditions of IA
tigue. The physical body requires a
period of rest when it may recuperate.
and the conditions of sleep provide
that.
The process of going to sleep is just
this: the higher principles of the man,
the soul with it's astral and mental
bodies, withdraws from the phi ysical
body, so that in truth, during sound
sleep, the man has divided into two
parts. It is this process of withdraw
al that we call going to Sleep"
In studying the phenomena of dreams
we have, therefore, to consider this re-
arrangement. The physical body Cin-
Guiding the finer portion I have men
toned as the etheric body, is lying
quietly on the bed, while the soul-ol
as we generally call it. the ego-may
be floating just above it.
| When the ego has thus, for a time,
resigned the control of his brain, he
does not therefore become unconscious.
| he has with him his higher bodies, the
mental and the astral bodies, and can
go on thinking his thoughts, and feel
| ing desires and emotions without any
| interruption. Usually the ego, at such
time, is carrying on the thoughts of
the day, those that concern him most,
thinking out his schemes of business
and he will impress these upon the
brain when he returns TO his physical
| consciousness in the morning, that is
when he returns to his physical body
| anu DIS We Say, he dWGhCo' ~AeAAy
people seem to know something of this,
though few can explain their reasons
for so thinking, but often We hear a
man say, when considering some prop
osition: well, I will sleep on it and
/ let you know my decision in the morn
ing" When the next day comes he
has his mind made up and has thought
the matter over during the time that
the tired brain was resting.
There are many other things, how
ever. that concern us besides business
affairs. and during the time the body
is asleep, the higher principles are no
longer held to the place where the body
| is The man, freed from his physical
body, may, if he wills, travel far ana
vide may visit friends, in other houses,
| in other towns, in other countries, ana
| if it be that their bodies are asleep
at the same time, they may rneet on
| this higher plane and converse freely.
Usually the average man does nothing
of the kind, he remains wrapped up In
his own thoughts and desires, and very
| rarely leaves the room where the pny-
steal body sleeps. Still ii is the tact
that the astral plane is open to him II
he is ready for it,
"Sleep is the sister of Death, says
! the poet This is very true! In sleep
the man leaves his physical BODY, TO
return to it, holding all the time he Is
away by a magnetic tie. In death TINS
tie is not made, and he takes with MIN
the etheric body, through which the
prana, or life principle flows, and re-
turns to it no more. This is the diff
| hot c1aan and DEATH BUt
during sleep the dead" man and the
living" man-how strange these terms
seem now!-may both be conscious on
the astral plane, there they may meet,
and very often do so meet, and coulo
we but bring back clear remempran-
ces of our experiences during the time
of sleep, for many of us there would
be no longer a terror Of death, nor the
I feeling that we had lost our loved
| ones.
Our dreams may then be remem-
ORANGES brought back, of experiences
we have had away from the physlcaI
body. The question at once arises, IL
we can and do have such experiences
why do we not always remember thelh
clearly? One reason is that the physi-
| cal brain is so accustomed TO receiving
thoughts that come to 1T, that during
the time of sleep it is very often partly
at work accepting the thoughts that
fill space around.
At the present time we near a great
deal about hought-transference ana IL
is unite a common thing to hear per-
son say: Il caught your thought anu
knew what you were going to say
Though such expressions are common
ly used. few understand anything OF
what thought is. A thought is. a form
| built of mental matter and is as real
on it's own plane as a table or chalr
is real on the physical plane. 1t IL
| built bv the one who thinks and IL
| leaves him to go out and do it's WORK.
It may be sent directly to some one
person. and then, if it is received, VIII
expend its force and cease to be- nav
ing done the work 1t was sent out 10
do. But thousands, or millions OF peo-
ple are thinking (more or less), are
sending out thought-forms into space
around them, often with no dehnlte
purpose, and these are caught up oy
others. Many of the thoughts thd'
come to u.s." are not our own origihal-