The actual Astral experience in which the ego sees distant sights,sights and visions which he knows do not actually exist upon thephysical plane, such as communicating with the dead, recovery of lostand stolen property; having premonitions of a certain thing whichactually happens, such as approaching danger or death.Above are but a few of the actual astral experiences of the ego whichit endeavors to impress on the physical brain. Sometimes it impressesthem by symbols, for symbols are the true language of the soul, and toknow how to interpret the meaning of the symbols of your dreams is ofthe utmost importance to the beginner. A symbolic dream, which is anactual astral experience, can only be interpreted by the dreamerhimself, for no one lives your life but yourself. The first impressionyou receive intuitively, of a dream you see symbolically, is usuallycorrect. The reason the layman does not interpret his dreamscorrectly, by following his intuition, is because he generally hassome material idea of his own concerning dreams.Here is a dream that may be said to be an actual experience of theego. Taken from the Chicago American, July 17, 1920: Dreams sons drowned; found bodies in river, Burlington, Vt. The dream was responsible for the finding of the bodies of George Raymond, Jr., 14 years, son of George Raymond, and his uncle, Winford Raymond, in the Lamoille river at Fletcher. According to Winford's father, the vision of the boy's mother appeared before him in a dream and directed him to look for the boys in the river. They had been absent from home since Sunday. The dream was so vivid that the father wakened and at 2 o'clock went to the river bank, where he found the boys' clothing. At daybreak the bodies were recovered.Here is a dream of the so-called dead who, many believe, exist in astate of dreamless sleep or annihilation, appearing in a vision, andso impressing on the astral brain of the sleeper where the boy'sbodies were, that he actually brought the vision or astral experiencethrough into the waking consciousness. Here is proof of a motherlooking over her children, even if she is separated from them throughthe doorway of the tomb. No sane person today can actually believe thetomb to be the doorway to the night of oblivion. Many of the misnameddead are present, and when we go to sleep at night we meet them andconverse with them just the same as if they were inhabiting theirmortal bodies.We do not claim, however, that the dead are all-knowing; but free fromthe physical bodies, the spiritually enlightened ones have a broadervision of things, especially if there is a close sympathetic feelingbetween the dead and the living, as there appeared to have been inthis case, for the conditions must be absolutely harmonious before onemay bring his actual astral experience into the waking consciousness.An interesting case of the dead appearing in a dream was as that ofMrs. Marie Menge, 15 West Schiller street, Chicago. Mr. CharlesPeterson, former lieutenant of the Danish army, was a roomer with Mrs.Menge for a number of years. He had no relatives or near friends inAmerica. Mr. Peterson had been ill for some time with asthma andfinally was taken to the Hahnemann Hospital, 2814 Ellis avenue,Chicago. In less than a half hour before she received the telephonecall telling of his death she suddenly awakened and told her husbandMr. Peterson had appeared to her in a dream. She states, he appearedin a white cloud and seemed well and happy. He died about 1:30 A.M.,Saturday, March 18, 1921.It was an easy matter for C. Peterson to appear in a vision to theonly one who had shown any sympathy and kindness toward him during hisillness, and his landlady being asleep, was functioning in her astralbody, which becomes a vehicle of consciousness, and as there wassympathy between the two it was possible for her to retain her astralvision in waking suddenly as she did.The dead are not dead at all, as many imagine. This man is onlyphysically dead because he has lost his physical body. He is notintellectually and emotionally dead because he has not lost that partof his mechanism of consciousness which is the seat of thought andemotion. The physical body only allows us to express ourselves in thephysical world, but it is not the man, any more than the clothes hewears.Extract from the Sunday Herald-Examiner, May 8, 1921:
