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Show By Examioiog the DreamSj Visions, Delusions of 1 2sOOO Patients Dr Quackenbos Has .Analyzed the Subconscious Mind and Spirit f Human Beings and Found Evidence of the Truth of the Biblical Conception of Man 3y JOHN D. QUACKENBOS, M. D. (Distinguished Author and Psychologist.) VvTviT WAS 311 oM belief tDat dreams are tie Sf L adventures of the sleep- 1 I H er s soul, which leaves Ji -JL gi, ,ne slumbering body anf' wanclers arar- rneet-C rneet-C SCLr 1 'DS with spiritual ex- f penences in cosmic realms. Certain North American Indians ing. acting entities, and therein is a proof of the soul s deathlessness. Human beings are uormnllv the subjects sub-jects of unexpected ideas that work out for their benefit, impelling them to instantaneous instan-taneous action, determining them to follow courses opposite to those intended, suddenly sud-denly presenting plans and procedures that mature in unanticipated results. We call them presentiments, admonitions, imperative impera-tive conceptions: and as a rule we find it profitable to give heed to them even if (hi r.., v?&c -I - s "The Prophet's Paradise," painted by Herbert Schmniz. Dr. Quackenbos insists in-sists that every race has believed in the soul and its immortality, the Mohammedan looking forward to a sensuous henven, with its deep-zoned, ; rose-lipped houris endowed with unfading youth. conceived a theory of two souls, one of which - remained with the body in sleep while the other prowled abroad, and this belief we find in the folk lore of a number num-ber of tribes. . Bound to Faith in Immortality. ' Those who held such views were bound to faith In the soul's immortality. But. we of the present time, with clearer insight Into the physiology of dreams and into the psychological principles back of diminished di-minished brain activity which explains the pastime of the intellectual powers wo J? know as dreaming, may justly contend that certain visions of the night argue the existence of an immortality In the constitution consti-tution of man Independent of bis body and endowed with supernormal, for aught we know with superinflnlte attributes and powers and this something Is older than man. The psychologist knows It as the self-subliminal, self-subliminal, the spiritual personality. It watches over this earthly life; It often speaks to us in visions of the night, warning warn-ing us of events actually occurring in remote re-mote regions, revealing what is about to be, waking us with Indelible Impressions foreign to our necessities or happiness. Those who stop to reflect must realize the guardianship and presence in their being of nu over something differing from ""the matter composing their bodies and expressing ex-pressing through these bodies insight, judgment, moral and intellectual courage, rill power and all noble emotions and Christian graces. Hody and spirit can :ie separated in the minds of those who reflect. re-flect. Man Subject to Presentiments. Those dreams of things that are happening hap-pening at the time of the dream and those that are prophetic are most conviucing of the existence in man, apart from ordinary terrestrial life, of a deathless principle, a Cohering spiritual personality, independent of bodily functioning. When (his higher 7 self presents the dead to us in our dreams they always appear as living, feeliug, speok- involves change of intention and exasperating exasperat-ing abandonment of purpose. There is much physical and mental distress dis-tress iu this life that is unreal and evitable. The amount of pain, discomfort and self-torment self-torment that humanity suffers without justifiable jus-tifiable cause is incalculable. And it is to this psychic suffering that treatment by suggestion is peculiarly appropriate. Dynamic Dy-namic psychology is the habit-breaker paramount, para-mount, and the body-builder as well. But why human nature must be driven by pain and fear to recognize the mysterious influence influ-ence that is to help the soul to rule and to set life in order does not appear. Why the intimate relationship between body and spirit is not universally perceived and the spirit given sway as a logical preventive of disease awaits explanation. I have examined the dreams of 12,000 persons In my effort to analyze the subconscious sub-conscious mind. The next thought that presents itself to the. human mind is, "Is the soul immortal?" I have discussed this in my book, "Body and Spirit," and from it quote this? "The demonstrations of immortality on scientific grounds would seem In this age as gradually gradu-ally vanishing Christian fi.ith, to be vital to the Integrity of our institutions and the perdurance of our civilization, the appre-hensiou appre-hensiou of the earth life not as a period of realization but as one of promise. "In bis profound 'Essay on Immortality' Emerson said: 'One abstains from writing writ-ing on the deathlessness of the soul because be-cause when he conies to the end of his statement the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed ; the listeners say : "That Is not here which we desire." ' "Since Emerson wrote these words psychological science has made disclosures of such moment regatding the constitution of men that one who for fifteen years has held almost daily subliminal consciousness need feel no hesitancy in challenging the statement of the great essayist. "A psychological proof of post-mortem existence has been found in the fact that ttr Vlv Ii V6-Vw s;-V7- . v. j Even the presence of hallucinations and delusions proves that there is some intimate relationship be- tween body and spirit, some force in the human being that he normally is unconscious of. The vision of a sensualist is pictured in Mark's great Daintmg "Die Versuchung." "The Muse-Absinthe," by Maignan, illustrates the ghostly sights conjured up by the wine and pictures the contortions of man's psychic nature when he abuses it- He can only control these habits, says Dr. Quackenbos, when mental suggestion teaches him to control his subliminal self. aW r dMiP - ' ft T 4fStfC - i j 'x ' a ( f v - v JV . - 4 i ''. ?- -V '-' ' - N i t r .F ,' 3 ' f -.J-"1 ,1.. . l' s ) - - 1 - ' - " 1 immortality is an apiroheuiun of human reason. There is hardly a paru in the history his-tory of serious lUernture that is, the ex-pres-sion of human thought anil hope and feoliiig at their best which does not bear witness to the passionate desire of men to catch some glimpse of the great afterward. . The venerable Bible of the Kgyptians the r.ook of. the Dead an authority au-thority on morals forty centuries ago. pie-lures pie-lures ths fUsctphodiorL 5.cu' in. th.c iU'Jjcuicjit of Utliis, the god of the lower world, where the hua rt of the deceased was weighed in the balance against the aym-metrieal aym-metrieal fcatiier of the ti"uth and tenches the final admission of the owner, if not found wanting after encounters with thousands of benignant and malignant demons, to everlasting happiness. The Immortality Im-mortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body were cardinal articles of IMS ' , i X"l. i 1 - i v "The Dreamer," from the painting by P. A. Hay. "Certain visions of the night argue the existence of immortality in the constitution of man," says Dr. Quackenbos. "Through the thick fog of their superstition's, super-stition's, auguries, omens, riivlnRtlons, exorcisms, exor-cisms, the dwellers in the Land of. Shimar saw the light twenty centuries before the Christian era and the subjects of the nunificent Assyrian monarch, Assur-bani-pal, beheld 'after the life of these days' . the light of an eternal holy existence in the 'feast's of the Silver Mountain in the presence pres-ence of the gods.' "Plato, the greatest philosopher of antiquity, an-tiquity, never wearied in his philosophical dialogues of impressing the lesson of immortality im-mortality upon bis readers. "After the Roman came the Mohammedan Moham-medan and hs sensuous heaven, where his polygamous tastes found free scope for their activities. Its deep-zoned, rose-lipped houris endowed with unfading youth, its music Bnch as earth knows not, lis 1ns-tered 1ns-tered vistas and fresh-tineured skies, its perfumes, 'breathed from jasmine bowers, from clustered henna and from orunge groves the aromatic souls of flowers', beckon the dying Tslnmite. Even in savage states we encounter an attitude of uncompromising uncompromis-ing repugnance to impcrmanence. The aboriginal American expired in the assurance assur-ance of everlasting peace and the joys of , plenteous hunting grounds, a vast expanse.', of prairie bloom run idle in varicolored checker, an endless succession of crest glades and fern shades, laughing wifh bird songs nnd echoing to the tread M iva pi tl and bison, with no ruin to mp and no cold to chill a paradise wbfre lie may repose re-pose with the magnatesof his people beneath be-neath the sappblre-rerined stars. Life Governed by Consistent Law. "All this butbows Immortality to be an apprebensin of the human reason, which age after age has avowed its conviction con-viction of the denthlessness of the soul and the unltiof God. Is it probable that such genera belief in enduring seutlency and such widespread recoil from the idea of annihilation an-nihilation Is not well found Ml V Have wo any substantial proof that the psychic fires are inextinguishable? Is incarnate humanity hu-manity capable of advancing any acceptable accept-able evidence of post-mortal existence? ,.1-las psychology any argument to offer? Attestation to survival has beeD sought In the theory of unfinished liven In the infinite in-finite perfectibility of the mind which is cut short In Its development even in the longest terrestrial span. Sorp6 thinkers have deduced immortality from the laws of the indestructibility of matter and the conservation of energy. -No particle of matter has even been - destroynd, no potential po-tential capacity for performing work is ever dissipated. Carry'' ng this natural law into the world spiritual, we may infer the imperishable nature of the soul, for all life is governd by consistent law. "Many sec in the expressible 'yearning after Immortality the pt rongest psychological psycho-logical reason for it reality. The indwell-' lug drsire Implies an Intention of Its grall-fira-tlon. In the light of Cicero's reasoning it Is impossible to think of onesulf as ceos-'(ng ceos-'(ng to exist. ' "Psychology and scripture, as heretofore hereto-fore slated. agrw in affirming man to be of twofold nnture Immaterial as spirit or sniil' and material as body. The two elements ele-ments are co-present- On one side of his being he is animal and mortal ; on the other, by reason of his essence as a free, self-con-srinus, spiritual personality, he takes class with all incorporeal intelligences. "Physical sr-h-nce thus conclnslvely proves that spiritual existence is independent independ-ent of a bodily organism, that personality can and does survive the shnck of death, but it tells as untiling of Us dnrntlnn after dissociation from the body, or nf its occupations occu-pations in post-plniictary life which is hidden hid-den from our view by physical limitations. (.Copyright, 116, by J. KcdcyJ |