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Dear Gail:

You seem to look at my reading habits with unusual thoughts but, for your information, there is nothing out of the ordinary in this. Occasionally, I come across an item about readers that is of interest to me, e.g., last night I read in Gift of Genius, by Tucker, that Napoleon could read a book in an hour, which took his colleagues days to read. T.E. Lawrence (Col. Lawrence of Arabia, who was a mystic in his own right) claims to have read 50,000 books in six years at Oxford University, in his college days. Thomas Wolfe, the American writer, was said to have read 20,000 books in the Harvard University Library, while he was a student there. That is to say, about 5,000 books a year. Lawrence was said to have read 6-8 books a day, and riffled through twenty more.

Clifton Fadiman, critic and writer, is said to skim at least 4,000-5,000 books a year. Robert Payne, writer, says in one of his books that a good book reader can riffle and read 6,000-8,000 books a year. For that matter, this is not a wild claim; there are many addicts of reading who can read even more. I must show you how this is done, sometime, so you can read and riffle more books when you desire!

Why do I mention this? Masters sometimes looking or trying to get a certain amount of knowledge will consume a lot of book reading. Once when Sudar Singh, the old VARDAN Master, wanted to visit Iran (old Persia) to study the old Persian languages and works of the poets of ancient days, he read, riffled and consumed a lot of books on the old Persian language. I think he claimed to have read about 4,000 in a year—but in the meantime he learned the ancient Persian language in all this reading, and while in Iran had little

trouble in studying the old manuscripts. He could read and speak seven different languages! Fubbi Quantz, another VARDAN Master, can read and speak at least fifteen different languages! This included Sanskrit, one of the oldest languages on earth, and Pali, neither of which are in use anywhere today, but many ancient books are written in these languages in India. He has a memory like a tape recording machine—I had experiences with his memory at times!

Okay, so much for that!

Now I want to take up a part of VARDAN psychology which sooner or later you would need to know. There is a part of the mind which is known in psychology as the Unconscious Mind. It is known as the reactive mind. This is a tough, rugged mind which is alert during every moment of your life, regardless of the presence of pain or pleasure, and it records everything with idiotic faithfulness; even when you have had a loss of senses in a fainting spell. This mind operates by reaction—and is known to a great number of people who are interested in mass psychology: the dictators, totalitarians, politicians and public leaders.

This mind functions in a manner which seldom involves language or communication. Anytime one is injured this part of the mind stores up the perceptics regarding the injury—

sounds, smells, tactile, sights, etc. Whenever these appear in the environment of the person once injured, he becomes nervous and unable to function properly. This mind stores up memories from the past, other lives and those beyond the invisible veil. It works in the lower levels, is concerned with man’s normal appetites, living habits and most thoughts. It is concerned with spirit, for spirit also is affected by this mind, and can often store up memories within itself, when in similar circumstances. (You remember the Emotional Scale shown you?) This shows how this mind can affect the three

parts of man’s invisible self-emotions, mind and spirit!

Within spirit, there is a similar existing mechanism, as encased in body—that is, mind and emotion. However, this is on a much higher scale.

When an injury is done to one’s emotions, or is registered on the mind, there is formed what is called in psychology, an aberration. This is the registering of a picture within the mind, and this picture is filed away so the mind can pull it out when any similar incident happens to the person again, or whenever he wants to see it. The mind is like a filing cabinet, filled with these little pictures, which have been registered and put away for some future use. They are filled with all precepts so that for you it’s difficult to look at them without getting the full treatment of emotions, color, etc., with each!

However, the reactive mind has most of these pictures filed away for its own use. These pictures are valuable to it, and once you run into a situation you can’t handle, it’s because the reactive mind has pulled out the proper picture and you’re looking at it, from the spiritual viewpoint. Now, let me give you an example. Close your eyes. What do you see? A bird? Okay, but what is looking at that bird? Not your eyes, not what is called an intervision, but a viewpoint—

what view-point—Soul, of course! Remember, when I had you looking at certain places the other evening with your eyes closed? Well, that is what is looking at the picture of the bird, just you! Your real Self! That is what you are. The position from which you are to work constantly!

When you run into a situation that might be a harmful one, or rather, you are feeling some sort of danger in it, suspicious or otherwise, you might be looking at an old picture which is similar to it, without realizing it is so! Once, I was able to help a person recall an old picture, which had been bothering

him for years, however, he didn’t realize it until it came to the surface! Years ago, he had been ordered to shoot a favorite horse, on the ranch, because it had reached the useless age! He tried, but missed, and hit the horse in the nose. The pain had made the horse wild. The scene was awful for a child of twelve! Finally, he did succeed in killing the horse. When the scene came to his mind, after I had questioned him, he broke down, cried, and tried to get a stop action but, I kept after him until he finally came through, told everything including the emotions, colors of the environment about him, everything, and it cleared up his mind, so that he even looked like a different man! This was not a treatment, nor a healing as such, it was simply a trick of the VARDAN psychology that made him open up and recall something that had bothered him since childhood. This cleared his past track until he was again without bothersome memories. It was nothing but his unconscious mind plaguing him with an old picture in the files that had been giving him a guilt feeling.

His eyes got brighter, his face looked as if it had been freshly scrubbed and his whole general attitude changed. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not practicing anything, this only gave him a lift in a certain area when he found himself in a troubled spot, it was much the same as helping a man push a stalled car.

Simply a helpful, friendly gesture without expecting anything in return!

So much for that. This is one of the areas in which VARDANKAR gives helpful points for creative activities.

We can talk about it sometime!

More later.

Sincerely, Paul

8. Imagination