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Dreams Richard
was asked about the significance and symbology of dreams. He answered that
through dreams the brain discharges the emotional impact of situations which
are too painful to handle consciously. Frequently this is done in a symbolic
way, and it is actually a natural healing process. Also, through dreams the
brain allows us to accommodate all the new experiences which continually
enter our lives. Thus sleep is essential psychologically as well as
physically. (10-1969) What Are
Dreams? Question: What exactly are dreams—what are they all
about? Richard: The Ego is Mind, and
consciousness resides with the Mind. There is a close association between the
Mind and the brain. There are things the Ego can do by itself while it's away
from the body during sleep. Sleep is the leaving of the Ego from control of
the physical brain. Dreams have two sources. The major source originates
within the brain. The rare times we become aware of a dream is when we're in
the twilight stage of sleep-when the Ego is coming into physical
consciousness. Then our Mind is able to attune to some things which are going
on in the brain while the body is still partially asleep. The minor source of dreams is when the Ego is coming
back into control of the body and the brain can tune into some of the mental
activities the Ego's mind was involved with while traveling on the Astral.
Therefore, you can have some fleeting impressions of what the Astral Plane is
like during these twilight moments. Some people with practice over a period
of years can begin to experience the situation called Astral travel: the
maintaining of control of the brain by the Astral self, i.e., the Ego, while
it's traveling in the Astral body. There's a kind of dual consciousness
that's maintained. And that's what a person who becomes clairvoyant
does. A controlled clairvoyant is a person who is aware of things on the
Physical and Astral simultaneously. But all such awareness, of course, is a
function of the Ego, not the brain. The brain has a lot of self-correcting devices. For
instance, if an individual is really frustrated about something, he'll very
frequently have a dream wherein that frustration is in some fashion relieved.
If a person has had a horrendous experience, often the brain itself will go
through a reliving of the situation in order to inure, as it were, the
consciousness to the horribleness of the matter. You've heard of people having
a recurring dream of a terrible accident they've seen-that's the brain's
process of inuring itself to the shocking experience by making it
commonplace. These are Just a couple of
examples of the kinds of things the brain goes through to help the individual
become more balanced in the long run and which are brain functions that go on
all by themselves. (07-1997) |
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