Joe H. Slate - The Power of Dreams: How to Interpret & Focus the Energy of Your Subconscious Mind

This book is dedicated to the late Carl Llewellyn Weschcke,
who became known worldwide as the Father of the New Age.

Disclaimer

Certain preparatory considerations are essential to the effective application of the numerous self-administered programs and techniques presented throughout this book. A preview of the full program and familiarity with each step are essential to the programs effectiveness. Each program requires a safe, secure setting free of distraction or interruption. The programs and specific techniques related to them are not designed for use while driving, operating machinery, or engaging in other activities requiring concentration or focused attention.

Foreword:

The Value and Purpose
of Dreamtime

Carl Llewellyn Weschcke

Awake or AsleepPay Attention!

We spend about a third of our lives seemingly asleep at the switch basically meaning we arent paying attention! Paying attention to what?

We think of sleep primarily in terms of providing rest and recuperation for the physical body, and many people think of the accompanying dream state asat besta kind of unconscious entertainment and at worst a scary nightmare that wakes us up.

Same question: Paying attention to what? And how? We surely know what asleep at the wheel meansthat is, if we didnt die in a resultant car accident. We know that survival and accomplishment depend upon an alert mind and focused consciousness. We pay attention to what we are doing and to what we are going to do . We plan ahead and we set goals. We live twenty-four hours a day and our consciousness is activein many different waysall twenty-four hours.

We commonly divide our twenty-four-hour day into two major eight-hour parts: (1) daytime for wide-awake activities, mostly work related; and (2) nighttime for rest and sleep. Between those two we have morning and evening intervals for meals, playtime, checking the news, and so-called leisure activities, which hopefully include reading and study of Llewellyn books and practice of their subject matter.

And then there is DREAMTIME.

Many have a mistaken view of consciousness as something to turn on and off. Sleep is a state of consciousness; the awake (or conscious) mind is a state of consciousness, dreaming is a state of consciousnessas also is meditation, magick, prayer, concentration, hypnosis, going out-of-body, rising on the planes, sexual orgasm and other forms of ecstasy, and many more, all involving different focus and vibratory patterns of consciousness. Even in physical death there is no loss of consciousness, only a changed state.

We are mind and spirit, and all is consciousness. In our learning, our studies, and our practices we develop skills for using consciousness to accomplish predetermined goals.

And in the broad spectrum of consciousness spanning the cosmos there are many dream states.