THE PSYCHICS SPEAK
Our interview with Herb Dewey from last issue continues.
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11. Do you believe each person has a Spirit Guide or Guides that try to
help them through life's rough spots and help them through a successful life?
A. I think, and this is where my belief will probably differ
from yours, as you must realize I'm rather new at this Spiritualist stuff,
or The Spiritist beliefs, and the indoctrinations into this, and how they
believe things to be. I think that we all have many, many Spirit Guides,
but where my philosophy differes from probably yours, I believe that all
of these Guides have BEEN US in previous existences. So the person that says
that they have two or three different Spirit Guides in their life who come
to them, visit them, I feel that those Guides as they are, WERE that person
in a previous existence, and I think that those Guides enter into a peprson's
subconscious so that oftentimes when you are being contacted by a Guide you
may not hear a voice, you may not hear a sound, rather you may just simply
FEEL inspired to say something, and do something .
Because I think that all Guides come to you not so much through the brain,
but rather through the subconscious mind, or, the unconscious mind. And you
will manifest what they want you to do, either good or bad, and you may not
in fact, be aware that you are doing this. And I believe they help us to
a successful life.
12. What is your opinion of a successful life? What do you believe one should accomplish?
A. I think that a person should be able to set their individual
goals for themself, and accomplish those goals, they should be able to set
a path, what direction for themself, or to be able to try and find their
dream. And I think that a successful life is to know that each and every
day of your life you've given more than taken, that you've done more for
society or your culture, or, for your family, or your friends. That you've
given more energy out than you've taken back. And I think that you should
feel you've accomplished something if you've done this.
I am not a terribly materialistic individual, so I can't really say that
success is based on education, or success is based on money. I think that
you have to look at yourself in the mirror each and every day, and if you
like what you see you've probably been doing something right!
13. What is your opinon on dreams?
A. I sense there again, we usually dream of what we fear
most. We very rarely will dream of our mother-in-law kicking the bucket!
We will dream of a loved one having a terrible accident, or of us being attacked,
or raped. So usually in our dreams our subconscious mind is invaded by conscious
mind fears. And I would feel that dreams for the most part, give us symbols.
Dreams usually should be viewed as guideposts along the way. we are supposed
to take the advice of dreams. It may not be a clear, concise message in our
dreams, of course if you read Sigmund freud everything is of a sexual nature,
or of male/female relationships, and I don't totally agree with that. I do
believe that our subconscious is sometimes like a sponge, and that we absorb
feelings in our conscious day to day life- but we absorb them almost like
a sixth sense.
We absorb feelings and things. And for the most part they can be helpful.
But I do feel that people should keep a journal or a log on dreams.
14, Do you think they are of any help to the individual in understanding themselves, or predicting future events?
A. Certainly there are such things as precognitive dreams,
certainly that we can have a dream and it has some bearing, it gives us some
direction. We all dream. but I think that a dream should be viewed as a signpost...a
warning...a caution...as pointing a direction simply indicating things that
are going to have to be dealt with in our life. And again, always knowing
that our dreams are somehow composed of what we normally dream picked up
from our subconscious antenna. But also it is what we fear, what we fear
most. Usually in a dream where a loved one is dying, or a loved one is being
involved in a tragic accident, also in the dream there will be other symbols
that basically you are to interpret to show you how to prevent, wih the bad
things. So in a dream there is a good part and a bad part.
Regardless of the most horrendous nightmare you will ever dream of in your
life, there will be a good part of the dream. The dream comes across as a
lesson, the lesson in the sense you will see something bad, but you will
also be given the key on how to prevent this, so that you will be given the
problem and you will be given the solution in the same dream.
Precognitive dreams do work. Unfortunately, you can't depend on them as
far as predicting future events through your dreams. I'm sure that your readers
are familiar with Nostradamus, and Nostradamus is supposedly the best psychic
or the best fortuneteller, or the best predictor or prophesier of dreams.
but he made so many statements in his quatrains that he wrote for so many
things, and they can be interpreted so many ways. I always feel that Nostradamus
was playing with a stacked deck. He couldn't be wrong. He predicted so many
things and he would call cities, towns and states by women's names, and he
would call ships by women's names. When he said 'SHE shall do this or that'
and all of the students interpret that sentence, they can come up with anything
they want to come up with. So they're dealing with a stacked deck.
So I think that he was a good entertainer, and that he was very intelligent,
certainly, and I think that through selective gleaning you can come up with
rather outstanding predictions. But for the most part, there is no way he
could conceivably be wrong, as he predicted so many things with hundreds
upon hundreds of quartrains.
(Cont'd Next Issue)