Intuitional Dreams

Sanskrit: The Human Body's Eternal Song

Close your eyes for a moment and just listen.

What did you hear? Even when we are in a "quite" environment, so many sounds bombard our ears; the dull drone of machines, distant voice carried on the wind, birdsongs, telephones, construction noises, traffic … . It seems impossible to escape external noise in this modern world.

But if we can withdraw our minds from these external sounds, we will hear much subtler, inner vibration. In the absolute stillness of soundproof chambers in scientific laboratories, insulated from all external noise, some people have been able to hear some of these internal sounds: a high-pitched resonance, and a deep throbbing - the vibration of their own nervous system, and the pulsing of their blood.

Thousands of years ago, yogis meditating in the utter silence of caves or mountains, were able to withdraw their minds not only from external sounds, but from the noises of the physical body as well. They could then focus their minds on centers of subtle energy inside them. Along the spine and in the brain, there are seven psychic energy centers or Chakras' which control the functioning of mind and body. Most human beings are unaware of these Chakras, but when the mind and body become more refined through meditation, these subtle energy centers can be perceived and controlled.

The Chakras have been described by enlightened saints and mystics of all spiritual paths and cultures - by Buddhists ancient Chinese, Hindus, Tantriks, Christian and Jewish mystics, Sufis, and Native American Indians. Recently, science has detected them as well. Sensitive instruments have measured energy emanations (beyond frequencies are known to come from biochemical, anatomic systems), surging from the surface of the body at the exact locations of the Chakras'.

Those ancient yogis, who directed their inner ear towards these energy centers, were able to hear the subtle vibration in all. Then they spoke them aloud, and each of these subtle inner sounds became one letter of the Sanskrit alphabet.

Thus, the Sanskrit language - sometimes called "the mother of all languages" - was developed from the externalized sounds of our subtle internal energies. It is the human body's eternal song.

Intuitional Dreams

Sometimes a surging vibrational flow from this supra-mental mind penetrates the subconscious mind during sleep and a special kind of dream results - an "intuitional dream." Like other intuitional flashes, intuitional dreads are more likely to occur when the mind has been intensely concentrated on some particular problem or topic and become charged with the psychic force necessary to penetrate the super-conscious. The chemist Mendeleev, after concentrating intensity on the mysterious relation between the chemical properties of various substances and their atomic structures, fell asleep. In a dream, he saw the periodic table of the elements laid out before him, and upon awakening, he quickly copied it down.

Thus, there are really two types of dreams:  ordinary dreams - the disjointed mosaic of the previous day's subconscious impressions - and intuitional dreams which, like the prophetic dreams of Joseph in the Ole\d Testament, are inspired by the super-conscious mind.

A farmer in a small village in India was desperate because his favorite son was dying of a disease no doctor could even diagnose, much less cure. With his mind intently focused on his son's condition, he slept; and during sleeps his concentrated mind, like an arrow, pierced into the all-expanded, super-conscious level - where, in its reservoir of wisdom, was the knowledge of the correct medicine to cure his son. But when the medicine appeared in his dream, it associated itself with an image stored in his subconscious mind: the image of the goddess Kali whom he worshipped daily in the temple. In his dream, he saw the goddess Kali floating majestically toward him with her hands outstretched, offering him the life-saving drug. He awoke with a start and ran to the herbalist and bought the medicine - and his son was cured. Then he donated all his crops to the Kali temple because, as he told everyone in the village, the all-merciful goddess had appeared to him in a dream to cure his son. But in reality, it was not Kali - it was his own super-conscious mind.