413- The principle of the soul’s emancipation during sleep seems to indicate that we live two lives simultaneously: that of the body, involving our life of outward relationships, and that of the soul, involving our life of concealed relationships. Is this precise?
“In the state of emancipation, the life of the body yields to that of the soul, but properly speaking there are not two lives. Instead, they are two phases of the same life; people do not live double lives.”
414- Can two people who know each other visit each other during sleep?
“Yes, and many others, who do not think they know each other while awake, meet and converse. Without even suspecting it, you may even have friends in another country. The phenomenon during sleep in which you visit friends, relatives, acquaintances and individuals who may be useful to you is so frequent that you experience it almost every night.”
415- Of what use are these nocturnal visits if we do not remember them?
“Ordinarily, upon awakening, an intuition remains that is almost always the origin of certain ideas which arise spontaneously without your being able to explain them, and which are but the ones grasped during such colloquies.”
416- Can people cause spirit visits at will? For example, can they say upon going to bed, “Tonight I wish to meet in spirit with such and such person to speak with him/her and tell him/her about such and such thing”?
“Here is what actually happens: the person sleeps and the spirit wakens, but the spirit is often very far from following what the person resolved while awake because the life of the person interests the spirit very little when it is set free from matter. This applies to individuals who are already quite evolved, though; the others spend their spirit existence in an entirely different manner. These either give in to their passions or remain inactive altogether. Thus, it may happen that, depending on the reason proposed, the spirit may go to visit the desired individual, but the mere desire while awake to do so is not its reason for actually doing it.”
417- Can a certain number of incarnate spirits meet and form a gathering?
“Of course. The bonds of friendships, old or new, frequently reunite a number of spirits who feel happy at being together.”
The word “old” refers to the ties of friendship contracted in previous existences. Upon awakening, we bring back an intuition of the ideas we have acquired during such concealed colloquies, even though their source appears unknown to us.
418- If a person believed a friend to be dead but who in reality was not, could that person meet the friend in spirit, and thus know that she was still alive? In such a case, could this person have an intuition about it upon awaking?
“As a spirit, the individual can certainly see the friend and know how she is. If the belief in her death was not meant as a trial, the person will have a presentiment that she is alive, or that she is in fact dead.”
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