6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

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Therefore, dreams that come involuntarily, even if they bring us apparent messages from a supernatural world, must always be treated with caution. The spiritual researcher can only recognize as his real observation that which he wants to bring about with complete arbitrariness. If the researcher therefore wants to come into contact with any soul that belongs to spiritual life, which may have passed through the gate of death long ago, he can do so by bringing about what he experiences with the soul in question through his own will, not in the involuntary way that happens through dreams.

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