Notice: This MS, is issued for the private use of those who have passed the appropriate final

exams and who have taken a pledge not to reveal its contents or permit it to fall into other hands.

Serial No. 230

Sixth Award

P. O. Box 1525, Los Angeles, Calif., 90053, U.S.A.

January, 1940
HOW TO BECOME OBJECTIVELY AWARE OF
INFORMATION ACQUIRED FROM THE INNER PLANE

by
C. C. Zain

Whatever method or system of mental activity is used to acquire information from Extra-Sensory sources,
the final problem is always that of objectively recognizing it and giving it the correct interpretation.

When the Mediumistic System is used, which we do all we can to discourage, the medium often is so
completely under control that he must depend entirely on some other person present at the time later to
tell him what came through. And in mediumship what comes through, of course, is merely the opinion of,
or what is said by, some other entity which may or may not have the information it claims to have.

But when Intellectual ESP is employed the unconscious mind, which resides at all times upon the
astral plane, uses its faculties to acquire the information sought. On the inner plane, perhaps under the
impetus of high-frequency astral vibrations afforded by electromagnetic radiations from the nervous sys-
tem, the unconscious mind examines objects and thoughts, communicates with other intelligences, and
performs such other activities as may be required to get the sought for information. It is no more depen-
dent upon others to furnish it the desired information than the individual on the physical plane is thus
dependent upon others. It may have to take someone’s word for it, or get the information out of a book, as
on the physical plane often we must consult people and books to find out what we wish to know; but also,
and to even a greater extent than on the physical plane, it can make its own independent investigation, or
after consulting various authorities, draw its own conclusions.

Other than realizing that if the unconscious mind is thus to acquire worth while information it must be
induced to make the effort, and that to acquire it consistently requires as much training as does the
objective consciousness which consistently and effectively uses mathematics to solve its problems, the
most important thing to recognize about Intellectual ESP is that after it is acquired the information is the
property of the unconscious mind and may, or may not, gain recognition from objective consciousness.

It may lay in the unconscious mind permanently without acquiring the opportunity to gain objective
recognition; and this is the fate of most information which the unconscious mind acquires. Or it may reside
there for a few days or hours, and some happy chance cause it to emerge into objective recognition. Or,
as in the case of much information acquired through the use of the Inspirational System of mental activity,
it may be relayed to objective consciousness as fast as it is acquired. But in all instances the information
first is possessed by the unconscious mind, and so far as objective consciousness is concerned belongs
to the same category as memories. That is, in order to gain objective recognition, as does anything else
remembered, it must connect up and impart energy to the electrical energies associated with the brain in
a manner that causes appropriate brain-cells to vibrate. Only when the physical brain cells are thus caused
to vibrate through the action of the electrical Boundary-Line energy do we ever remember any physical
event, any objective thought, or any ESP experience.

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 How to become objectively aware of information acquired on the inner plane, therefore, presents
very much the same problem, and must be solved in very much the same way, as remembering informa-
tion once objectively known, but temporarily forgotten.

Some people have a bad memory, and other people have a good memory, but almost anyone
through effort directed into proper lines of training can improve his memory. And as bringing through
into objective consciousness is a particular kind of memory—the remembering of things known to the
unconscious mind, but perhaps never before known to the objective consciousness—it also is ame-
nable to proper training.

How do you remember something once objectively known but now forgotten? Certainly not by hard
cerebral thinking. Thus cerebrally to try to force memory usually is to make the desired remembrance
impossible. Association of ideas often is a great help; but even such aid at times is ineffective in causing
us to recall some word or the details of some event with which we feel we should be unusually familiar.

Instead of thinking very hard about the matter, or after thinking very hard about it, if we will turn the
mind listlessly to some routine task we are doing, or otherwise quit thinking about it and not concentrate
on anything in particular, often the sought for word or memory of event will suddenly pop into the objective
consciousness. Sufficient Association between what is in objective consciousness and the sought for
memory has been established that when the brain-cells used in hard cerebral thinking cease diverting the
electrical energy to themselves, the memory can utilize enough electrical energy to vibrate the brain-cells
necessary for the objective remembrance of the word or event.

In such familiar instances, as well as in remembering information acquired through ESP, too much
cerebral thinking blocks the desired result. In fact, either desultory cerebral processes or their almost
complete inhibition, usually favors the objective recognition of some sought for memory, whether that
memory be of an objective occurrence or of an inner plane occurrence.

One method of inhibiting cerebral thinking is set forth in Second Award MS. The wife of Upton Sinclair,
in Sinclair’s Mental Radio, gives her method in these words:

You have to inhibit the impulse to think things about the object, to examine it, or appraise
it, or to allow memory-trains to attach themselves to it. The average person has never heard
of such a form of concentration, and so has to learn how to do it. Simultaneously, he must
learn to relax, for strangely enough, a part of concentration is compete relaxation..........
Anyway, it is possible to be unconscious and conscious at the same time. Almost every-
one has had the experience of knowing, while asleep, that he is having a bad dream and
must awaken himself from it. Certainly some conscious entity is watching the dream, and
knowing it is a dream; and yet the sleeper is ‘unconscious.’ Or perhaps there is no such thing
as complete relaxation—until death.
All I can say is this; When I practice this art which I have learned, with my mind concen-
trated on one simple thing, it is a relaxation as restful, as seemingly ‘complete’, as when I am
in that state called normal sleep. The attention is not allowed to be on the sensations of the
body, or on anything but the one thing it is deliberately ‘concentrated’ on.

Undivided concentration, then, means, for purposes of this experiment, a state of complete relaxation
under specific control. To concentrate in this undivided way you first give yourself a ‘suggestion’ to the
effect that you will relax your mind and your body, making the body insensitive and the mind a blank, and
yet reserving the power to ‘break’ the concentration in a short time. By making the body insensitive I mean
simply to relax completely your mental hold of, or awareness of, all bodily sensations. After giving yourself
this suggestion a few times, you proceed to relax both body and mind. Relax all mental interest in every-

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thing in the environment; inhibit all thoughts which try to wander into consciousness from the subconscious-
ness, or from wherever else thoughts come. This is clearly a more thorough affair than ‘just relaxing.’

Rene Warcollier, in his book, Experimental Telepathy, explains the matter in somewhat a different way, thus:

To leave the external world, it seems to us, we must abolish perceptions; first visual
perceptions, by remaining in darkness, and then auditory perceptions, by remaining in si-
lence. The power of the senses must be overcome. Then the phosphenes, the after-image,
and the retinal light together lay siege to the store of memories which we posses, attempting
to wake among them such as are related to their own shape and color. All these must be
disregarded. Soon these retinal excitements fade one by one, and the screen becomes black.
If the percipient is of the usual visual type, the memory images of the day then appear.
They also must be extinguished. Kinesthetic impressions may be transmuted and appear
as visual images; unconscious auditory impressions; sounds unconsciously perceived, do
the same.
Psychic inductors are to be put aside even more completely than sensory perceptions or
memory-image. The psychic conductors which we can least control are those of imaginative
associations, analogous to the content of daydreams and of revery, in which the emotional
background of the subject becomes dominant. There are individual leit-motifs, released by a
long course of experimentation, which must be eliminated entirely before we proceed to the
examination of each experienced perception.
There are also suggestive associations. All reflections and comment must be eliminated.
One must create in oneself a void of thought, keeping the attention solely upon the one
idea of visualization. We have seen persons of the non-visual type become visual by practic-
ing this exercise. This mono-ideism cannot be long maintained with out provoking a change
of state approaching sleep, betrayed by the appearance of images and the beginnings of
normal dreams which are not to be counted in the experiment. When fragmentary images
begin to combine to form coherent pictures having meanings, we are dealing with oneric
(dream-like) phenomena, without paranormal significance.

These, and other methods of inhibiting cerebral thinking, have for their purpose the placing of the indi-
vidual in the state which most facilitates his remembering what already his unconscious mind knows.

It will be noted in the instructions given above by those who have had noteworthy experiences in
receiving telepathic messages, that the state which they recommend, is not that of sleep, but one which
has much in common with sleep; a state which barely retains objective consciousness. In sleep we have
dreams, only a small portion of which are remembered on waking. Yet without much trouble we can train
ourselves to remember more of our dreams. As these dreams resemble ESP experiences in that they first
reside in the unconscious mind, and to impress themselves upon objective consciousness must manage
to marshall electrical energies sufficient to vibrate appropriate cells of the physical brain, before going
further let us examine just what takes place in sleep.

THE RELATION OF SLEEP TO ESP.— As previously has been explained, physical man possesses
faculties by which he becomes conscious in, and can acquire information from, both worlds. but the
consciousness of any condition on either plane depends upon Attention being directed to it.

When an individual walks down a crowded city street with his mind deeply engaged in revere, in the
fantasy realization of some powerful desire, or in the solution of some unusually perplexing problem, he is
quite unaware of the many people he passes, of the articles in the shop windows, of the changing of street
cars and the honking of motor horns. No matter how active and intricate the life around him, he sees none of
it, because the switch of his Attention has become so thoroughly closed to his own inner mental processes.

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 More ordinarily, during the day the switch of his Attention is rather completely closed to observing the
physical world and to cerebral thinking. The struggle for physical survival is so intense that a little relax-
ation from giving concentrated thought to physical affairs brings suffering.

The person walking in such a reverie as I have just described soon comes to grief, probably being
bumped by an auto at the first street intersection. The dreamer and visionary who fails to turn most of his
energies into channels of practical affairs is traditionally one who is also financially in want. Thus from the
time they are born (for greater detail see regular B. of L. Chapter 10, Course 5, Esoteric Psychology,
(Serial No. 65)) most people are systematically and effectively Conditioned through the pleasure gained
when they successfully give Attention to physical affairs and the pain endured when they take their Atten-
tion from them long, to give Attention exclusively to the external world.

The child who sees things on the inner plane is ridiculed by older people, and discouraged in every
way possible from thus “imagining” things. He is bombarded during all the plastic years of his life with
forceful suggestions that only the physical world is real. And as these often repeated suggestions from
others are reinforced by the impact of physical pain whenever he neglects Attention to the physical world
for long, there can be no mystery why so few people are aware of the existence of happenings on the
inner plane. They spend most of their lives training themselves to be unconscious of them.

At night when cerebral thinking largely ceases so that the brain and other nerve cells may electrically
recharge from their expenditures during the day, the individual switches his Attention to his own inner
processes, living largely in a realm of fantasy similar to that of the individual already described as walking
in deep reverie down a crowded street. As psychologists now universally recognize, his mind continues
active all during sleep. But usually its Attention is not much directed to perceiving what is happening in the
physical world, or to perceiving what is happening in the astral world.

Instead, through an association chain leading from some event of the preceding waking state—
which can be recalled if the dream is completely remembered—there is a train of fantasy happenings
whose exact nature is determined by a number of factors. Just as in a day-dream, the sleeping thoughts
may largely revolve about some problem with which the individual is faced, they often are powerfully
influenced by unrealized desires, and nearly always embrace memory images from the past. The Law of
Association calls up the mental imagery of past happenings and relates them to present mental processes
through integration.

Now again consider the individual walking down a crowded street wrapped in his own inner mental
processes so completely as to be almost oblivious of what is taking place around him, and compare his
state to that of the sleeping person. The mental activity of the one is no less intense than the other.

The reverie-walking man probably is not so absorbed in his own mental images that when he bumps
into an electric light port he is oblivious of the fact that he encountered something; and if, as he crosses
the street, an auto horn blares at him to give way, he probably jumps to one side, and them moves on, at
least dimly aware that he has been in danger.

Nor is the sleeping individual entirely unconscious of the happenings going on about him in either
world. If a mosquito sings around his ear, he may have sufficient awareness of it to dream of hearing an
orchestra. If the mosquito punctures his skin he may dream of being attacked by some vicious gangster
who seeks his life. In other words, his Attention is not so completely absorbed in his own mental processes
that they are uninfluenced by what takes place in his physical environment.

If some emotional disturbance lies before him in the day ahead, his awareness of it on the inner
plane may cause him to dream of being in or on rough water. If at the same time some friend at a distant

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point on the globe is writing a letter, he may dream of the friend and perceive him doing something which
symbolizes the content of the letter. If a relative at a distance has suddenly taken ill, he may dream of the
relative, and witness the relative’s home (symbolical of his body) being consumed by fire (illness).

There is ample evidence to believe that dreams are influenced as much by impressions reaching the
dreamer from the inner plane, as by impressions reaching the dreamer from the physical plane. Stimuli
arising from events on either plane exert an impact upon the dreamer’s consciousness, and thus intrude
upon the fantasies passing through his mind sufficiently to register, and to cause these fantasies to em-
brace images which more or less represent the actual events.

SLEEP IS NO-MAN’S LAND.— So far as awareness is concerned we are fully warranted in consid-
ering the sleeping state as no-man’s land between consciousness of the external world and conscious-
ness of the inner world. And in this no-man’s land the individual may be so wrapped in an integration of his
own reveries and wish fulfillments that he is almost totally unaware of anything outside these self-engen-
dered images, or he may be, in various degrees somewhat conscious of what transpires either the exter-
nal world or the internal, or in both. What he is able to remember on waking — just as what an individual
is able to bring through when he employs ESP while fully awake or while in the near-sleep state— de-
pends upon the impression the images so engendered are able to make upon the cells of the physical
brain through utilizing the electrical Boundary-Line energies engendered within the nervous system.

In this no-man’s land between consciousness of the physical plane and consciousness of the astral
plane, the individual is highly susceptible to suggestion, and has almost no ability to use his critical facul-
ties. Whatever he is told, he believes. The most absurd situations seem to him quite normal. He is capable
of deductive reasoning, but not of inductive thought. Affirmation thus registers powerfully, and if the Atten-
tion can be completely gained by another, hypnotic control is the result.

But to the extent Attention leaves this no-man’s-land of dreams, and becomes focused on the
events of either world does the individual lose this susceptibility to suggestion and gain in the use of his
critical faculties. That is, there are critical faculties of man’s astral constitution which are as keen and
discriminating when his consciousness functions on the astral plane, as are reasoning and comparison
on the physical plane. Lack of critical appreciation pertains only to the fantasy realm of the no-man’s-
land of consciousness.

From this no-man’s-land the consciousness can move either out or in, as directed by Attention clos-
ing the electrical switch. Of course, when one is physically dead, the electrical Boundary-Line energy will
no longer play a part; for the consciousness then has permanently moved in, except as it has special
conditions for the use of the electrical Boundary-Line energy provided by some physical organism. But
while the individual is in the flesh, all control of Attention and activity of any kind must utilize the electrical
Boundary-Line energy generated in his nervous system.

From the no-man’s-land of sleep, or from the near-sleep state induced according to the instructions
given in the Second Award MS, induced according to the method of Craig Sinclair, induced according to
the instructions given by Rene Warcollier, induced according to the New Thought method of going into the
Silence, or induced by other means, if Attention moves the attention outward, to the extent it is able to
focus the faculties on the happenings of the external world does the individual become aware of them.
That is, he becomes aware of the room in which he reclines, of the furniture, of the paper on the walls, of
the sounds in the street outside. And from this same no-man’s-land of sleep, or near sleep, if Attention
moves the consciousness inward, to the extent it is able to focus the faculties of the unconscious mind—
an ability greatly assisted when there are high-frequency vibrations provided by electromagnetic radia-
tions from the nervous system— on the happenings of the internal world does the individual become
aware of the thoughts of distant persons with whom he is in sympathy, of events yet to happen, of strange
scenery, and of people, some of whom may long have passed from earth.

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 If he has decided to acquire specific information, or to see some particular thing, when he moves his
consciousness outward from the no-man’s-land of sleep or induced near-sleep, he takes appropriate
steps to acquire that information or see the particular thing. To get the information he may have to go to
the City Library and read a book, or to the University and interview a professor. To see the particular thing
he may have to go to the Santa Anita race track at the special time a given race is being run.

If he has decided to acquire specific information, or to see some particular thing, when he moves his
consciousness outward from the no-man’s-land of sleep or induced near-sleep, he takes appropriate
steps to acquire that information or see the particular thing. But because space, time and gravitation do
not impose the restrictions with which we are familiar on the physical plane, he does not need to travel in
his astral form to realize that which he seeks, nor does he need to hypersensitize his nervous system so
it tunes in on that which he seeks as does the ordinary independent psychic. Instead he employs that
senses and other faculties of his unconscious mind, focusing them on the particular region where the
information can be acquired or the particular thing seen.

This process of employing the senses and other faculties of the unconscious mind is embraced in the
term, Extension of Consciousness. In thus extending consciousness the astral form does not leave its
customary association with the physical body, no more so than it is necessary to travel 92,000,000 miles
to know much of what transpires on the surface of the sun. These senses and other faculties of the
unconscious mind, because they operate on the astral plane, can gather information or perform other
work without the common restrictions imposed by space, time and gravitation. But to employ them the
individual must be able to impart sufficient high-frequency energy to them, and be able to raise or lower
his dominant vibratory rate to the level where the thing sought resides if it does not belong to the level
where his consciousness is accustomed to function.

TRAINING IN DISCRIMINATION IS NECESSARY.— After acquiring the ability to inhibit cerebral

thinking and thus attain some measure of inner plane consciousness, acquiring the ability to develop high-
frequency astral vibrations through proper electrification, and acquiring some ability to give the little shove
to the unconscious mind which will set it actively about the selected task, the next difficulty to overcome—
and the only remaining one with the exception of bringing what has happened through into effective
recognition by objective consciousness— is to sort out from the innumerable things to be witnessed on
the inner plane the particular object, thought, situation, interchange of ideas, or piece of information
sought.

This problem of discrimination, of sifting out that which is wanted from that which is superfluous,
enters into both effective Extension of Consciousness and the objective recognition of that which has
been acquired through Extension of Consciousness.

Let us consider that the unconscious mind is unaccustomed to discriminating between the various
objects, thoughts and conditions which its senses when better trained are able to report from their inner
plane activities. A child a few months of age on the physical plane probably has as much discrimination
relative to what it sees, hears, smells and feels while it rides in an auto down a crowded city street, as the
ordinary individual customarily exercises relative to what his unconscious mind, sees, hears, smells and
feels during sleep or the near-sleep state.

In both instances there are innumerable things of interest to be apprehended, but there is insufficient
concentration on specific objects, and insufficient realization of their true nature, to bring much informa-
tion of value. In both instances faculties are naturally present by which a wide variety of information can be
gathered; but effectively to use these faculties requires training in discrimination.

Adults on the physical plane commonly have had considerable training through experience in deter-

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mining the nature and value of things on the physical plane. But this alone is not sufficient properly to
discriminate on the inner plane for the reason that there the number of factors encountered is tremen-
dously multiplied.

On the external plane the range of our perceptions is rather narrowly limited by space. But on the
inner plane it is as easy to see something on the opposite side of the earth, or anywhere on the earth, as
it is to see something physically near at hand. Consequently, selectivity is placed under a greater strain if
we are to see some one selected thing.

On the external plane we are accustomed to see only physical objects. But on the internal plane we
also see thought-forms, and feel the impact of thoughts instead merely of apprehending such words as
are spoken. This complicates the process of accurate perception.

On the external plane we can witness only what transpires in the Now; but on the inner plane we can
view objects, conditions and thoughts not merely in the Now, but also at any given point in their past or in
there probable future. Thus to select the particular image of a thing contacted which shall represent it at
the desired point in time-flow places still another strain on the powers of discrimination.

On the physical plane we deal with objects on a single level; but the inner plane has a large number
of Basic Vibratory Levels, on each of which are objects and intelligent life-forms; and on many of which are
discarnate human beings who can be contacted, and whose thoughts and thought-forms can be con-
tacted. Thus the innumerable factors which constitute the past, present and probable future that can be
contacted on a single plane are highly multiplied.

To contact a specific level, you must raise or lower your Dominant Vibratory Rate to the Basic Vibra-
tory Rate of the level contacted; and while examining anything there must continue to hold this vibratory
rate. If your dominant vibratory rate rapidly raises and lowers this fluctuation takes your consciousness
with equal rapidity from one point to another, perhaps across a number of levels on which as you pass you
can get at best but a fleeting glimpse of things.

And on the lever where you hold yourself through a steady dominant vibratory rate, to examine any
one thing you must be able to hold the thought of it specifically and steadily. If your thoughts weave
about, the mental image will blur; or perhaps your consciousness will jump from one object to another,
from their past to their future and back again, giving a jumbled impression as so often is present in the
memory of a dream.

Still further to complicate things— although this complication exists also in the use of objective con-
sciousness on the physical plane— fantasy images, especially those which spring into being under the
impetus of wish fulfillment, and memory images derived from past experiences, tend to attract the atten-
tion and become blended with the various other images and impressions.

Dreams, in which there is some Extension of Consciousness on the inner plane, commonly mix a
number of all such factors together in such a confused medley that nothing definite is determined from
them unless each separate factor is given careful scrutiny. Yet such scrutiny usually will reveal factors,
perhaps interwoven with others whose significance is never understood, that prove the faculties of the
unconscious mind have grasped information— particularly about events yet to happen— that could not
have been acquired through the use of the physical senses and reason.

Just as objective consciousness when undirected permits its attention to jump from one object to
another, from one brief train of thought to another, and from fantasy to fantasy, so the unconscious mind
in the sleeping state when not directed to some specific activity, flits from object to object, from thought-

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form to thought-form, from level to level, from future to past and back again, until all become blended in
the mixture so often present in dreams, in which perhaps only some fantasy created in the wish fulfillment
of some strong desire, together with a few memory images from the previous waking state and those of
the remote past stand out sufficiently to make their significance readily understood.

It takes practice in mental control to locate with the Extended Consciousness just exactly that which
you seek and hold the consciousness to the detailed vibration steadily enough to get clearly the informa-
tion desired. But when I speak of mental control I am not referring merely to cerebral control; for in the
proper state to acquire information from the inner plane cerebral thinking has been almost completely
inhibited or is in the intense yet diffusive state present in Inspirational Thinking. I am referring more
specifically to an inner control of the mental processes of the unconscious mind, difficult to describe, but
much less difficult to recognize when present. The individual who has his inner mental processes thus
under control usually knows internally whether or not these activities of the unconscious mind are, or are
not, behaving as he desires.

BRINGING THE INFORMATION THROUGH.— Warcollier, Craig Sinclair and others who have ex-
perimented extensively and successfully with telepathy have found that words and sentences seldom are
transmitted as such. Instead, they have found that concepts, feeling and emotion, form and color are the
usual factors which the percipient picks up in a successful telepathy test. Often the image does not come
through whole, but in a fragmentary state, piece at a time, as it were. And it is equally true in Intellectual
ESP that it is comparatively seldom, although it occasionally does occur, that the information acquired is
brought up into objective consciousness in the form of words and sentences.

The unconscious mind seems to find it far easier in its handling of thoughts not to use words and
sentences, which from the standpoint of evolution are recent and artificial acquirements, but to use the
most ancient language of all, feeling, and the next most ancient language, which is to use some familiar
object which commonly is associated with an idea, or with something else, to indicate the idea or the
something else. This is the language of symbolism, which psychoanalysts have strained to the breaking
point in dream interpretation. It is not the only language used by the unconscious mind to bring information
through to objective consciousness, but it is the language it most readily can employ.

As the information it has acquired through the activities of its senses and other faculties on the inner
plane reside as a memory in the unconscious mind before it can be objectively recognized, let us again
ask the question, how can we best recall that which we have great difficulty in recalling, but which it is
important for us to remember!

One of the best methods is that used by people who learn to remember in detail there dreams. First
they decide they are going to remember their dreams. This decision gives orders to the unconscious
mind that the dreams are to be delivered to objective consciousness. Then as they awaken from sleep,
instead of permitting electrical energies to flow strongly into the brain, and objective thought to com-
mence racing through it, they hold themselves in the near-sleep state, barely conscious, with cerebral
thinking still almost completely inhibited. In this state they permit their dreams gradually to drift into
objective consciousness; retaining the while only enough objective consciousness to assure that the
dream images register.

In such practice it is found that if one commences to think about the dream, or to analyze any part of
it, the electrical energies of such cerebral processes are so much stronger than the electrical energies
which can be commanded by the dream image of the unconscious mind that the recalling process is
immediately stopped. Not only so, but the amount of vibration given to the brain-cells by the electricity
which the dream images can utilize often is so small that unless the dream is immediately recorded the
more powerful vibrations of the brain-cells, due to objective thinking shortly after the dream has been
remembered, effaces the memory of it completely.

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 Yet in speaking of the near-sleep state as favorable to bringing information through, the impression
is apt to be given that a negative, listless condition is involved. On the contrary, dreams and ESP experi-
ences are remembered because the images within the unconscious mind possess a high degree of
energy. The unconscious mind is very active in such remembering, active enough that it can project the
dreamed, or otherwise remembered, images into objective consciousness through commanding the elec-
trical energies of the brain.

To remember any experience which has slipped from memory it is not wise to stew and fret about it,
nor to think about it hard cerebrally. Instead, it is better to feel an intense desire to remember the experi-
ence, and then to hold the objective consciousness absolutely still and inactive except for an absorbing
attitude of expectancy that the experience will be remembered. And this is the best way of bringing ESP
information through.

To get it through into objective consciousness the unconscious mind must intensely desire to get it
through, must have energy enough at its command that it can do considerable work, and must not meet
with much competition from other mental images in utilizing electrical energies to impart these particular
images to the brain-cells.

The most successful ESP requires, not only for getting the information, but if Intellectual ESP is
employed also to project it into the brain-cells, a very high degree of mental activity; but it is activity of the
unconscious mind (soul) and not of the physical brain. The individual practicing Intellectual ESP soon
learns to recognize the amount of inner mental activity. He acquires a state of awareness that seems to be
equally intense not only throughout his whole body, but extending some distance from it. Even the person
remembering a dream, before coming up completely into full objective consciousness, can feel a mental
activity which is not localized in the brain.

Activity of the physical brain creates an electrical blockade against the ESP image. Yet the brain
should not entirely lose consciousness. Its processes should, instead, be held in abeyance except for the
expectancy that the sought for information will be perceived. The whole external being, as well as the
brain, should be in this state of attentive silence. Everything should give way to this alert and absorbing
feeling of expectancy; expectancy that what is sought will come into objective consciousness.

You realize that the unconscious mind has the information, and that it is trying to deliver that informa-
tion to the physical brain so you can recognize it objectively. It is likely, however, that the electrical energy
it can muster for this purpose is so small that the impulse it can impart is feeble. If you were listening to
catch some faint sound, you would not at the same time be thinking intently about something else. You
would hold your attention so steadily to picking up the smallest noise that everything else would be shut
from your consciousness. And to enable the unconscious mind to deliver its ESP-gained information to
the brain, a similar attitude must be enforced.

Under such an attitude of expectancy, if the unconscious mind has responded to the desire to re-
member, if cerebral thinking has been inhibited, and especially if the sought-for memory— either of exter-
nal affairs or of information gained from the inner plane— has sufficient energy at its command, the
memory will connect up with electrical energies in the brain sufficiently to be objectively recognized.

Association is a law always at work in mental processes. Except for recognizing the impact of sensa-
tions, what comes into objective consciousness must possess associations with that which has just been
in consciousness. This Law of Association is well satisfied by absorption in the expectancy that certain
information will be acquired. Thus holding the attention to that which it is desired to know readily connects
the objective consciousness with the memory of the facts in the unconscious mind related to it.

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 In every stage of the process of exercising Intellectual ESP. Instead of a negative apathy, there is a
state of intense internal mental activity. As soon as it has clearly been decided just what information is
wanted, and that effort is to be made to gain it, cerebral thinking is inhibited to permit the electromagnetic
radiation to fortify and build up, unhindered by objective processes, this high degree of inner-plane activity
which best facilitates ESP.

When the individual has experienced this inner activity a few times he learns to recognize whether or
not his unconscious mind is working, and how hard it is working; just as he learns to recognize how hard
he is working in the effort to solve some problem when he applies himself to it with his reasoning faculties.
And it is this inner-plane activity which is responsible not only for acquiring the information, but also for
projecting it up into the brain where it can be recognized by objective consciousness.

To do this it must utilize electrical energies generated in the nervous system, and compete with
sensory impressions, with intruding thoughts, and with desire images and impulses, all of which are
striving to displace it that they may use the electrical energies and claim objective attention. It will be
apparent, therefore, that to be able successfully to project the information it has acquired, and which it
holds as a memory, up into objective recognition requires on the part of the soul a high degree of activity,
a concentration of its energy and attention to thus deliver the information to the brain, and that it shall not
meet with too much competition from other images which struggle for objective attention.

Providing it with ample electromagnetic energies of the proper frequency for its work facilitates its
activities, and the almost complete inhibition of objective consciousness lowers the power of competing
thoughts and images. Confident and intense expectancy affords the mental associations and gives the
incentive to make the effort. And Utilizing these principles, it is no more difficult to increase the ability to
acquire information through ESP than it is to train the memory to become more effective. It is, in fact,
largely a matter of memory training; a training of memory of a particular kind.

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