Dreams and Healing

aspect of our life. So today you're going to hear an authentic experience in which dreams played a key role in healing. Our guest is Arlene Forbes, a student of Eckankar, mother, wife, grandmother, and a retired registered nurse for over thirty years. Welcome, Arlene.

come true. First of all, I acknowledged that I was feeling fine, and so that calmed her down a bit. But I told her that dreams, prophetic dreams, can help to change the course of our destiny. We don't have to necessarily have these experiences. So when I got off the phone, I recognized that some of the fear that I had about cancer had surfaced because I had a twin sister named Irene who translated, or

died, from breast cancer. And so the fear, the annual mammograms that I have every year brought up this fear, and the dream that Regina had shared with me just really dug in this time. So I recognize that, yes, because we were twins, that I had the same genetic makeup that she had. And that was more stress-inducing for me. So I sat down and I decided that I would work on it this time. I

would work on this fear. But the thing about it was the mammogram was scheduled, my annual mammogram was scheduled a week after I had received this call from Regina. I had the mammogram, and I got a notice in the mail that there was something of a suspicious nature in the results. So yeah. And they had recommended that I have a sonogram, but the sonogram would not be scheduled until the following Monday.

on my journey. And he also works as The Dream Master and works with me in my dreams. So that's a unique part of the teachings that I love so much. So I asked, What am I going to do? What should I do? And all I got was, Love and trust. Love and trust. I had to surrender and allow the Inner Master or the Mahanta to help me to move forward in this experience. Well, Regina's dream was a wake up

call for me. So over the weekend, I continued to work with the dreams and in contemplation, working on gaining the courage to get over my fears. And then one morning, I had this dream with a trusted longtime initiate in Eckankar, and we were walking along and she looked at me and she invited me to breakfast, says "You want to have breakfast?" And I said, "Yes." And she said, "Do you like eggs?" And then she went into this thing about eggs. She says, "You can have them

scrambled. You can have them poached. You can have them omelets. You can have them fried." And she went on like this, every way you could have eggs imaginable.

fear of cancer. I didn't have to have the same destiny as my twin sister, Irene. And so I was able to move forward with that. The Inner Master - what's unique to these teachings is he's able to help us with the karma, to relieve the karma in the dream state, so we don't have to necessarily go through the physical pain. And for me, it was the fear. So that was lifted.

heal yourself using dreams. And it starts at the point you mentioned, Arlene, which is setting the intention at night, at bedtime, to just sing HU, which is this ancient mantra, sacred sound, that helps Soul align with greater love, creativity, wisdom, and awareness. And its a way of spiritualizing oneself before you go to bed so that your dreams take on a higher, refined, and meaningful aspect.

And so in this exercise, you sing or chant HU for five or ten minutes, and then you create a mental picture of the problem, of the health problem. You

visualize it. You can even create a cartoon picture or an inner animation, and you just form that image, and then pause and create a new image or picture seeing yourself as healthy or in the way you want to see yourself for a better approach to health, to beingness in the world, and really filling out that image, again, through a picture, or it could be even as if you're running a movie. And then you just let it go, let it go into the hands of Divine Spirit and go to sleep as usual.

And then another key part is to record your dreams. This could be in the middle of the night, could be in the morning, just record the dreams. And you do this exercise every night for about a week, being alert for clues during the day because sometimes the Holy Spirit works through a waking dream of something that happens in your daily life, something somebody s or does or something that you see. Might be finding a new doctor or making a dietary change or a change in attitude.

So that's one form of exercise, Spiritual Exercise, a technique. And of course, the miraculous part is tapping into the higher power, the divine intelligence, or the ECK as it's known in Eckankar. We have an audio clip from Harold Klemp, where he talks about touching this miraculous, infinite side of

life.

is higher. They realize that just because they went to a certain doctor in the past to heal their troubles, the troubles of the present and the future of a sort, that it's going to take a lot of different kinds of doctors to address and to heal them. But remember that the main healing comes not from any outer source. Any true humble doctor knows that healing does not come through the pills he dispenses or any sort of alternative treatment through an

herb or anything else. It comes through the divine power, through the power of God in some way getting through to one individual to help bring about a healing. And as a member of Eckankar, or even as a member of any church, you will realize and learn that the path to God is not one of a group. You are on this path to God yourself. You may be a member of a group that is very large, very small, or you may go all by

yourself. But you are on this journey to God, and the only thing important on this journey is you and God. And once you've established the correct relationship between yourself and God, then you're able to go back out into the world and serve all God's creatures. You will serve with love, kindness, compassion, and understanding because you've walked in those moccasins before. You've been there. You can help others by listening because you've been

there. And there are others who can help you because they've been where you are now. And all the help that comes to us is from the Holy Spirit. Whether it comes in a dream, or whether it comes through the help of a friend, or the help of a doctor. The trick is the discrimination that you need to tell what's good for you, and what's not good for you. And this comes by listening to your heart, in other words, to your own Inner Master. So I would like to leave you with this thought this

evening. Open your heart to love because God loves you.

new state of consciousness. What a treasure.

to use Light for healing. So in this exercise, you go into contemplation in whatever way feels comfortable for you, and you "shut your eyes and you visualize the Audible Life Stream. This is the pure white Light of God, a composite of all the colors. Now visualize a ray coming off of it. It's very much like [using] a prism to see the spectrum of colors. The ray you see is orange, which applies to physical health. With your eyes closed, visualize this orange stream

coming through you. Just let it flow to the area in your body that's diseased, afflicted, or injured. [And] you can do this for 20 minutes." And he says, "This is a healing technique. But you do it only for yourself; don't go out and blast the orange light at other people." Again, it's the self-responsibility principle. So that's a technique for physical healing. Again, it can happen that someone has a sudden and amazing healing of a

condition. Just as often, or perhaps even more often, it is leading us to making a change in our life that will bring about the healing. You can also use another color of light, and this is the Blue Light, which is for the inner bodies, the inner spiritual bodies, the Astral, Causal, Mental, and Etheric. And this is to improve and to bring healing to our mind and emotions. [You can just] "Close your eyes and visualize the Blue Light coming into the

heart center. [And] This is known as the Blue Light of the Mahanta. The Mahanta Consciousness is the highest state of consciousness known to" humanity. And the Blue Light is for this calming and healing effect for the emotions in mind. And it's important to realize this isn't something that you're creating out of the ethers from some source alien to yourself, but it comes from our own God Worlds and we're now just becoming aware of it. So those

are just two techniques. There's many others, and there is just HU, A Love Song to God. HU is a healing sound, so if you're in pain, and when you're in pain, chronic pain or whatever it is, sometimes it can be really hard to imagine anything else but that pain. But by singing and feeling this HU - Love Song to God -- It can be Light. It can be Sound -- It's Love. It's Divine Love in action. It can really help. Well, we want to thank everyone for listening in

today. Please see our show notes on your podcast platform where you can find extra dream resources for your exploration and study. And don't forget to check out Eckankar's new Soul Adventure Magazine. It's free. It's online. It has a dream technique in it for remembering dreams. And it also has a question and answer section where someone asked Sri Harold, The Living ECK Master, what does it mean when we dream of an old friend? And there's a real interesting answer in

there. You can find it at Souladventuremagazine.org. That's Souladventuremagazine.org. This has been a real Soul Adventure, Arlene, today. Thank you for telling your story and sharing your insights and experiences.