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Show fULS BAKE I DURING SLEEP Ivisit and Chat With 1 Other SouSs. ah the Body Half Con-cIous, Con-cIous, the Physical Brain tviews Past Events. don Theosophist Gives His De- ftions After Scientific Investigation Investi-gation of D roams. !Jfeal to Tho Tribune. BBW YORK, April 23. "Do aouls f,Eo visiting?" was tho question M that Charlefl W. Lcdbetter at-mT at-mT tempted to answer before a large Licnce tonight at Genealogical hall West Fifty-eighth street ijv.Ledbettcr Is from London, and Is JUng this country under the auspices Ahe Theoaophlcal society. His con-(felons, con-(felons, he Bays, came after years of Intlflc Investigation of dreams. As a Ult he makes the following deduc-sS: deduc-sS: EThat the soul of a true man leaves (body during sleep and may be then fc or leas fully conscious according Ihe degree of its development, and ucapablo of receiving Impressions, ring freely, visiting places at a dls-jBe, dls-jBe, and conversing with other souls, Me bodies also are asleep. Although a bouI la thus away from Shyslcal body, the latter, nevcrthe-possesses nevcrthe-possesses a kind of half-consclous-of Its own, and the physical brain jccupled with a mechanical view of jtievents, cither of the day before or Eljlonger antecedent period. Vrom these conditions there result (classes of dreams. One Includes it' may be called true dreams or fens knowledge of somethins: bap-'ttng bap-'ttng at a distance at that time or a Iflslon of something which nftor-Jd nftor-Jd 'comes to pass. These are recol-IppH recol-IppH of what the soul during Its els really has seen or done. Pfie other or commoner class Is a lie recollection of the half-conscIouB files of the physical brain. An or-y. or-y. confused dream, with its Incon-Ho3 Incon-Ho3 and Impossible positions, la a fcllng of the two." le speaker advised his audience to ld: the two extremes or opinion on Wsubjccl; neither to accept the funs with implicit faith, which mts worry or trouble, nor to commit '.equally foolish mistake of conning con-ning their teaching ns nonsense, (to observe carefully and note with ililon the vivid, important dreams Hjet time decide their worth or h. In that way, he said, it will bo ilblo to build up a science of tens, Hk |