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"The Three Kinds of Dreams"
An excerpt from the Lost Tapes of Maneck Anklesaria
Tape 1: "Lessons on the uses of the Conscious and Subconscious mind, Interpretation of Dreams, Secrets of the Subconscious" June 24, 1957
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Transcript of this section of Maneck's lecture:
When I was a young boy, before the age of nineteen, I used to play between the hours of twelve o’clock midnight and three o’clock in the morning, and I would go to sleep after that. And before going to sleep, I will always ask a question, any kind of question – show me this, show me that, prove me this, prove me that. And all I learned from my vision was things that you cannot buy through books or libraries – it was an inward heavenly delight. This is the spiritual significance of dreams.
Dreams are of three kinds – physical dreams of worldly nature, mental dreams of intellectual nature, spiritual dreams of divine vision and illumination. The physical dreams of the worldly nature come from our abdominal mind, where there is confusion, where we have made mental garbage self or physical garbage by eating pork and beans at midnight, or listening to the detective stories and looking at the moving pictures at midnight, fifteen minutes before we go to bed. And you take those memories into bed with you. And then about two hours after, they sing hullabaloo and create all kind of racket.
Mental dreams are of intellectual nature, where you search for knowledge, answers to your questions, the path to be shown to you for your future. And lastly, the spiritual dreams are the visions of God illumination which come to you and lull you and soothe you and heal you, refresh you in such a way that you do not want to wake up even from your sleep.
The worldly nature, physical dream or nightmares, they come to you around the hours of two or three o’clock in the morning; the mental dreams come around four and five in the morning, the spiritual dreams particularly come to you around five or six in the morning – just around the time you are waking up.
It is said that many people do not dream, but it is not true that many people do not dream. I just recalled a joke about it – the only people who do not dream, they are in the cemetery. You do dream, but that your mind is so preoccupied that the finer sensibilities of your subconscious mind and divine alchemy, tapping gently at your conscious mind or worldly mind, is not recognized.
Sometimes you actually talk in your sleep, and you think you are wide awake and so you are not dreaming. But that’s part of your dream also, semi-conscious or unconscious.
When my radio is going on full blast over here, and if my phone rings, and if I am sitting in the other room, certainly I am not able to read the phone if the door is closed over here. If my water is running full speed and the phone is running or ringing over here, I am not able to hear that. But just the same, the phone is ringing; just the same, somebody is knocking on the door, but I’m not aware of it. The cooperation hasn’t come to me, but the fact is there.
So in the like manner, the finer self of yours is tapping at your scroll or film of your conscious mind memory, but the impression does not come on the other side of the conscious mind from the subconscious mind.
The history of the world is made and remade and changed over through dreams of great men and great leaders. The story of Moses and David and freedom of Egypt and Jews, the history of Persia, all of them are interlinked with the concept of dreams, that the things were foretold to them, and yet they did not pay attention.
More Gems and Morsels
from the Lost Tapes of ManeckTape 1: "Lessons on the uses of the Conscious and Subconscious mind, Interpretation of Dreams, Secrets of the Subconscious" June 24, 1957
Click each link to play the audio and read the transcript
1. Become in Tune With Divine Infinite Spirit (1:28)
2. Welcoming the Blessings of Our Subconscious Self (6:12)
3. How to Contact the Inner Self (3:08)
4. The Process of Mastering Yourself and Your Destiny (8:11)
5. Recharging Yourself With a Bath (1:28)
6. Molding the Clay of Your Personality (2:38)
7. Inspiring Exercises for the Morning (5:32)
8. Dreams as Divine Instruments (4:15)
9. The Three Kinds of Dreams (5:53)
10. Going to Sleep Joyfully (3:31)
Philosopher, metaphysician, storyteller,
and teacher of practical and esoteric wisdom
for a happy, healthy, and successful life
A discovery of fifty-year-old reel-to-reel audio tapes with spiritual, metaphysical, psychological, and scientific lectures by a wonderful Indian philosopher who was close friends with Gandhi, Yogananda, and other greats.
Filled with good advice for body, mind, soul, and spirit, powerful metaphysical truths for spiritual realization, and practical tools to help you manifest greater health, happiness, and personal evolution in your own life.
Maneck Anklesaria was born in India in 1899. At age 18, he worked with Mohandas Gandhi for several years, and again worked with Gandhi at age 30. Anklesaria studied at the University of Michigan, and spoke widely throughout the United States and the world for decades, sharing the spiritual wisdom of India with spiritual seekers and students, many of whom experienced great personal benefits from practicing the knowledge and suggestions he offered.
Maneck's content and speaking style is interesting, entertaining, charming, practical, spiritual and scientific, psychological and metaphysical, and applicable to one's own life and spiritual journey.
We have just begun the process of going through forty reel-to-reel tapes of Maneck's lectures from the late 1950s and early 1960s, and are sharing some excerpts here for the benefit of today's seekers who are looking for inspiring, practical, and authentic spiritual advice.
The "lost tapes of Maneck" include full-length lectures on many fascinating topics, including: Understanding Nature’s finer forces, Finding Our Real Self, “The Inner I Am,” The Law of Soul Progression: Karma and Reincarnation, The Alchemy of Spiritual Love, The State of Tranquility, “Rousing Conciousness, Mental Clarvoyance and Clairaudience, Art of Meditation, Healing and Occult Phenomena, Lesson on Love and Marriage, Studies into Nature Consciousness with Relation, Human Evolution, Kaya-Kalpa Art of One At Onement with the Universal Nature Symphony, Divine Healing and Service, Getting Recharged Daily, Your Body is a Metaphysical Expression, Dynamic Brain Power, and more.
These tapes are a treasurehouse of spiritual knowledge and wisdom, with wonderful stories and Maneck's lovely humor to boot.
A Few Gems and Morsels
from the Lost Tapes of Maneck
Tape 1: "Lessons on the uses of the Conscious and Subconscious mind, Interpretation of Dreams, Secrets of the Subconscious" June 24, 1957
Click each link to play the audio and read the transcript
1. Becoming in tune with divine infinite spirit
2. Welcoming the blessings of our subconscious self
3. How to contact the inner self
4. The process of mastering yourself and your destiny
5. Recharging yourself with a bath
6. Molding the clay of your personality with brain power
7. Inspiring exercises for the morning
8. Dreams as divine instruments to open the ivory gates