Dreams : what they are and how they are caused / by C.W. Leadbeater.

  • Charles Webster Leadbeater
Date:
1903
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Credit: Dreams : what they are and how they are caused / by C.W. Leadbeater. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the disconnected, purposeless stream begins flowing through the brain again. The vast majority of people, if they will watch what they are in the habit of calling their thoughts closely, will find that they are very largely made up ol a casual stream of this sort—that in truth they are not their thoughts at all, but simply the cast-off fragments of other people’s. For the ordinary man seems to have no control whatever over his mind ; he hardly ever knows exactly of what he is thinking at any particular moment, or why he is thinking of it; instead of direct- ing his mind to some definite point, he allows it to run riot at its own sweet will, or lets it lie fallow, so that any casual seed cast into it by the wind may germinate and come to fruition there. The result of this is that even when he, the ego, really wishes for once to think consecutively on any particular subject, he finds himself practically unable to do so ; all sorts of stray thoughts rush in unbidden from every side, and since he is quite unused to con- trolling his mind, he is powerless to stem the torrent. Such a person does not know what real concentrated thought is; and it is this utter lack of concentration, this feebleness of mind and will, that makes the early stages of occult development so difficult to the average man. Again, since in the present state of the world’s evolution there are likely to be more evil thoughts than good ones floating around him, this weakness lays him
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