A.—When a person dreams of past events, those events are warnings of evil or good; sometimes they are stamped so indelibly upon the subjective mind that the least tendency of the waking mind to the past throws these pictures in relief on the dream consciousness.
Q.—Why is it that present environments often influence our dreams?
A.—Because the future of man is usually affected by the present, so if he mars the present by wilful wrongs, or makes it bright by right living it will necessarily have influence on his dreams, as they are forecastings of the future.
Q.—What is an apparition?
A.—It is the subjective mind stored with the wisdom gained from futurity, and in its strenuous efforts to warn its present habitation— the corporal body—of dangers just ahead, takes on the shape of a dear one as the most effective method of imparting this knowledge.
Q.—How does subjectivity deal with time?
A.—There is no past and future to subjectivity.
It is all one living present.
Q.—If that is so, why can't you tell us accurately of our future as you do of our past?
A.—Because events are like a procession; they pass a few at a time and cast a shadow on subjective minds, and those which have passed before the waking mind are felt by other minds also and necessarily make a more lasting impression on the subjective mind.
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