The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-15
SCIENTISTS SAY We TRAVEL WHEN We
SLEEP; WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT?
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Where were YOU last night2

Sound asleep in bed? Not a bit
of it. Your real self, your con-
seriousness, your ergo. never sleeps.
What we cal sleep is that state
the body is in when the mind has
left it. When the mind re-enters
the body, we wake up.
So says DR.. VIM. Hanna Thomp-
son of the Roosevelt hospital. New
York. But he does not stand alone.
Many scientists and psychics are
beginning to hold this view.
Since the conscious self encoun-
tiers no resistance In space at least
not as the physical body does, 1t
would follow that the self can
travel great distances and see
strange lands.
But IL the self does not encoun-
ter obstacles in space which halt
fits movements, it cannot move far
away from the body unless one Is
spiritually developed, 1t is said.
Those who believe that the mind
does sleep-walking believe that it
gets some of the highest knowledge
in this way, as mind never thinks
soc iearly or so truly as when out
OF the body. But only people who
are highly developed spiritually
can bring back the knowledge and
experience they thus gain into
their waking life in the body.
Most people remember nothing
that they think during sleep, and
their embodied and disembodied
existences are separate and dis
tinct.
So there's much in the old say
ing, "Sleep over it." Whether or
not mind does actually leave the
body, it DOES work out for us
during sleep any problem we suS-
NIT to it just before going to
sleep.
Many go to sleep perplexed
over a seemingly insoluble puzzle
or dilemma, but the course they
should pursue is perfectly clear to
them when they wake up.
Some geniuses get their highest
Inspirations during sleep. They
commit the subject in hand to their
minds before going to sleep, and
wake to seize pen and paper to pre-
serve the thoughts that came to
them, 1t is claimed.
Here are the arguments of those
that believe that the mind actual
ly doe sleave the body during
sleep, and that awakening" is the
minds return to the body:
In true, healthy, normal
sleep the body is absolutely devoid
OF consciousness.
2.-Some people can set their
minds before going to sleep so as
to wake up at a certain hour and
minute. The mind, therefore,
must be awake during the body's
sleep and conscious of the time of
day. 1t returns to the body at the
appointed time.
3.-The muscles which are not
directed by that highest form of
mind, the will, never get any rest.
Though they do such strenuous
work that most of our food goes
to sustain them, yet we would
sleep, indeed, If they took a min
ute's rest. It is objected that
these breathing and heart
muscles get their rest in the
pauses between contractions. But
Just try heaving coal with rhyth-
mic motion and periodic pauses,
and see if you can keep it up all
night without sleep. Then there's
nothing regular about the activity
of the nerve cells and they keep
working during sleep.
So it appears that the only mus
cles which get tired are those that
are directed by the CONSCIOUS
WILL. So the consciousness seems
to bear the same relation to the
body as the rider to a horse. Just
as the rider must dismount and
let the horse rest, so the mind
must get off the body. Thought
the horse, body, is most In need
OF rest, the rider, mind, also
needs rest. The mind and will
is not a part of the body, but
something put upon II.
II the mind and soul is some
thing apart from the body during
life as these scientists say, It il
easy to believe that the mind and
soul go on living after death,
either out of the body or inhabit-l
Ing another body.
Psychics say that every one has
an astral body besides the
physical body, which leaves the
physical body in the form of a.
mist in spiritually undeveloped
persons, and in a form resembling
the physical body in better de-
veloped people. The distance IL
can leave the body is determined
by the height of spiritual develop
ment..
So cancel your order for that
railroad ticket. that steamer
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