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DREAMS: TAPPING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE

When we dream it is common knowledge that our brains are busy cataloging our experiences of the day; sights, sounds, words, ideas.  Why does our brain try to make sense of these collected and random images and ideas?  Modern science tells us it is our brain coping and working through them, some are moved to memory others are kept on standby to be re-considered and possibly revisited.  Is all this effort merely for our own use?  Are we programmed by someone else, perhaps somewhere else to preserve and review so that they can also review the collected experiences?

Dreams are an interesting variation to our waking world.  In our dreams we visit familiar and unfamiliar places.  We meet and talk to people that we know, knew and don't know.  We visit places we love or are comfortable to us, and we visit places that are alien and strange to us.

Many of us have dreams that occur more than once, we go to a specific place, and we have similar feelings and react in the same way each time. 

I know many move to the reincarnation theory that these are simply past locations and people, from another lifetime.  What if they were places and someone else and we are shown these places in an exchange?  Perhaps someone else reviews our experiences in our dreams and even waking hours, and in return sometimes we are taken to or shown other places where they live.  Or maybe we are shown these other places and people to simply see how we react to them? When we see them, what do we feel?  What emotion is stirred by these places? 

In the past 7 or 8 years (about the same amount of time I have been actively into the paranormal), I have had all kinds of strange dreams of places and people I have never seen or heard of before.  Once in a while, after sleeping and dreaming for hours, I slowly begin to wake, and as I do, I hear what sounds like a closed room and hearing the voices of people talking around me.

I have heard the sounds of footsteps, chairs moving, people in a warehouse, medial surgery, and loudspeakers.  One particular dream I had I was indoors on a small main street, sitting with other people inside a small store of some kind.  Out on the street I heard a vehicle slowly driving by with the announcement: "Everyone is to stay indoors; nobody is allowed outside on the streets after curfew; if you are visiting the museum it is closed."  I recall the sunshine in late afternoon or early evening.  There were tall trees along the street with leaves on them.  There were no people on the streets outside.  The sound of this loudspeaker was quite loud, and not just in a "dream state", but as if I was actually there hearing this message, sitting with others quietly listening indoors.

Am I tapping into someplace else?  Am I hearing others in some strange way?  Maybe we really do travel to other places or have a whole other life that we are oblivious to when we are asleep?  Maybe we do exist in two places at the same time.  Different experiences, places, people in our lives.  Maybe we possess both an elemental existence as well as a physical existence?  Once is subdued when focus is on the other, not entirely gone or turned off, but perhaps goes dormant.  Our physical body shifts to our elemental state when we sleep and that is the primary focus, and when we wake, the shift moves to our physical bodies.

This would certainly explain the memories of familiar people and places.  We do live to very different lives in two different planes of existence.  This of course all being theory on my part, but it also would incorporate the "past lives" theory, but instead being parallel lives instead of the past.

When I slowly wake from dreams I often hear conversations between people; sometimes they mention my name as if speaking of me indirectly. Other times I have heard a room full of people talking, like that of a conference room.

What does this mean? Who are they?  Many of the voices are not ones I have heard ever before.  A good deal of them are up to no good and have no good intentions whatsoever.  Am I being monitored due to ghost hunting?  Is it because I have immersed myself into Electronic Voice Phenomenon work that has attracted this attention?  It has been 7 years now, and other experiences have also come within this period. Perhaps EVP’s are recordings of people in their elements in this other plane of existence?  Maybe they can hear or see me and it is not a normal practice with them?

There are times I have terrifying nightmares, of violence, hatred and even angry deranged people yelling directly at me for no apparent reason.  Another test of aggression? To gage my reaction emotionally to an aggressor?

Dream are more mysterious than our waking world in my beliefs; we know so little, but we do know we have to relax our bodies and dedicate time to our elements to begin refreshed and anew.

Anthony Anderson

Your Dreams: Welcome To Reality

Dreams play an important role in our lives from the time we are infants all the way till we are at the end of our lives yet most of us underestimate and sadly ignore the much of the time.  They come to us to show us what is going on inside our psyche, as warnings of things to come, visitations from loved ones and also ideas uniquely for us to bring into the world.  I should know, I have had vivid and sometimes prophetic dreams since childhood. I have warnings of others being ill, was shown when someone was lying or stealing from me and made the guilty parties confess it, predicted the coming weather,  had loved ones who had passed visit me, received information I needed for my writing, and I was even told about getting a much needed job. It sounds like a bit of a tall order but it's true and that is not even half of it.  I never asked for these dreams to come in,  they just came and I had to deal with it.  When I was a child it was down right scary not only for me but for my family who luckily listened to me and checked out what I was saying and took it seriously after that. Later in adult life in my thirties I had a period where I was living with roommates and I would tune in to what they were doing by dreaming about it.One afternoon I took a nap and I had vivid dream where I saw my room mate in a doctors office. When he came home I told him that I dreamed about him and he had red rashes all over his chest and back areas.  I pointed the places to him.  He said Verna I just came back from the doctor and those were my symptoms.  He seemed very annoyed. I can't say I blamed him but it just came about spontanously as usual and I couldn't help it.  Then another time we were all at the table eating breakfast and I absent mindedly mentioned that I had a dream about a turquoise blue record player.  My other roommate turned to me astonished and told me that he was at a party that night and him and his friends talked about a turquoise blue turn table they had as kids.  He told me half joking: Stop tuning into my conversations. Of course I wasn't.  Not on purpose.

Another aspect of dreaming that is over looked is what I call waking dreams.  What is known as day dreaming only it goes a little deeper than your average day dreams.However don't dismiss what you day dream about. If you are sitting at your job and you are day dreaming about doing something else constantly,  it's sign that you need to start acting on what you truly wish for.  But if we start to day dream about something and suddenly the dream takes on a life of it's own,  then you have another realm of day dreaming what is termed as dreaming true.This is separate from day dreaming about things you like or wish you were doing. They can come out of those dreams however when you start to day dream and suddenly the dream starts to build it's own scenery.  You are tapping into another side of yourself that is normally hidden and it's coming out because there is something you need to take a look at. It is your inner self telling you what you need to pay attention to. Follow the vision and see what is showing you.  Don't dismiss it, write it down.  All of it.  Day and night visions. If they don't make sense to you now they will later if you look at them and think long and hard.  The answer will come. You might even dream it.

Nightmares are also important although none of us want to remember them.They show us the shadow side of our lives that we need to take a look at and purge.  To clear the atmosphere of nightmares and negative spirit energy,  take an incense dish and a charcoal disc and burn ground coffee on it.  The scent clears the air and neutralizes it.  As an alternative you can burn an incense called dragon's blood.  It's a resin from a plant species called Dracaena that comes from a tree native to Malaysia, The Canary Islands and Indonesia the plant is ruled by Mars.The scent is quite powerful so you may end up coughing but it really does clear the air well. You may wish to add Frankencense to calm after burning the Dragon's Blood incense.. Open the window to let in air.  The dragon's blood can be quite heavy in the room if you are trying to sleep.

Alternately to increase dreams you may wish to burn mugwort or drink mugwort tea. It's an herb ruled by the moon and it has a different effect than other herbs made to induce sleep such as hops or Valerian.  Those herbs relax the body but mugwort helps strictly with the dreaming side.

Whatever happens when you start to tap into your dreams,  don't worry if you start to experience dreams that repeat or seem unpleasant.  They are there to help you and the reason they are coming in is to let you know that it can still be changed. On the other hand don't dismss them either. Go with your intuition. If something does not feel right then always pay attention and look ino all aspects of what you may be experiencing before you put it aside.  And of course there are the pleasant beautiful dreams.  Cherish them. They are meant to show you that your life is meant to live in wonder and inspiration.  There is a unique plan unfolding inside each of us.  Let's take that plan from our dreams out in to the world.

I would love to hear more about your dreams over the air.

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SEANCES – AN EXPERIMENT IN GROUP PERCEPTION

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I think for the most part, a majority of people who know or have heard of a séance obtain their information and its ritual from television and movies.  Everyone holds hands, candle in the center, and select a particular famous person in which to contact.

A real séance (and those that choose to perform them) know that you can focus on one individual, but you can also focus on a location, or specific event that occurred in the past, etc.  The secret really is to make sure all who are in the group are focused and open to reception and non-judgmental about images and impressions you might obtain during the séance.

I have seen séances within a circle holding hands, I have seen them in large groups without holding hands.  I have seen where most of the people in the séance are merely spectators and one or two are the mediators. 

A good friend, author Janie Oberding for example, when she holds séances, she sits the group in a large circle and does not require anyone to hold hands (unless they wish to).

She will lead the séance with a location, or individual, but she never rules out contact with anyone else whom may make a connection.  She asks that everyone in the circle participate if they receive an impression of a person, an incident, a color, smell, etc.  The overall intention is to share with the group.  I think her goal is that the information that is received could collectively be used to corroborate with history to compare to see how close we can come to an actual event in history, or maybe by an individual, by collecting the images and impressions of all that attend, and not just one séance leader.

I think this is a smart practice, and while I have seen her hold a number of séances in this fashion, I completely agree on the practice and method she chooses.  Some of the information may not be relevant or have any connection to the subject of location of the séance, but down the road in historical research, it might indeed have relevance, it just may not have presented itself during the actual séance.

To me personally, séances are like Ouija boards, you will get of it what you bring to it.  If you are not focusing, or if you expect nothing but demons and monsters, then that is what you will receive.  I don't put much weight personally into Ouija or spirit boards, as I think superstition takes hold more than common sense and reality, but I also think there are times where it could be genuine.

We do plan to hold a live séance on air on our show tonight (see podcast link above to listen when available a day or so after the show goes live) to contact any survivors of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as we are housed (the station) inside the old Odd Fellows building, while the original 1800's building was destroyed by the fire department in an effort to put out other fires around Market street, the original brick foundation remains intact where the new building was constructed after 1906. 

Verna, Linda and I plan to touch the wall of brick for a few minutes in order to have actual physical contact with a structure that was standing and remained after the devastation that took so many lives of women, men and children.  This will help us when we proceed to hold the séance after the 9:00pm hour live on air to see if anything or anyone comes through.

Join us at home and hold your own séance as we try to reach into the distant past of one of our cities largest tragedies and see whom we can communicate with.

- Anthony Anderson