in that we stopped to look in it. As I looked I heard running water in the grave and saw the head of a woman; her hair was dark and hung loosely about her head. She was unknown to me. My nephew, about 16 years old, reached his hand into the grave and pulled out a large piece of something of dark amber color. We looked at it wondering what it was, and were horrified when we found it was a part of the woman’s thigh; it was perfectly formed. My nephew gently brushed his hand over it, and it immediately crumbled to pieces and fell to the ground.

Your vision of being in a dark forest with your sister was intended to show you that you had been wandering in the darkness of materiality until you had become lost. It is at such times that the Loving Christ comes forth from out the darkness of the mortal consciousness, when the soul (your sister) and the outer mind (your self) have been fully prepared to know Him, and He becomes the Light that leads you forever more. It was actually at this time that He “called” you, and we are glad to learn that you have been following Him ever since.

In your dream, the cemetery is where are buried our dead selves, composed of all our wornout beliefs. The new part of the cemetery symbolizes a lot of dead later beliefs in which may be some hidden truths, illustrated by the running water, and in which if you look carefully you will find some evidence of life (the head and hair of the woman) although in a decayed form, part of which was brought to light by your nephew (one of your faculties).

This undoubtedly relates to something through which you were passing at the time, and it was sent to call your attention to some things which are really dead and should be kept buried, but which perhaps you have been trying to keep alive. See if you can discover what that is.

I was trying to find my way home from the outskirts of town and found myself up on a high steep bluff, and far, far below was a rushing muddy stream. I debated trying to get down on that side, but presently thought I would not try it—I’ll just go down the other way, and I did.

Your dream was really your memory when awakening after sleep of trying to get back into your body consciousness. It was symbolic of coming from the higher soul consciousness back into the muddy stream of physical life.