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It would do no harm to purchase a thermometer, taking Ruburt’s temperature before, after and during some sessions. Anything that you learn is to your benefit along these lines, and will serve us all well. The thermometer could also be used of course to test any temperature changes occurring in a regular trance state. These are merely suggestions which I feel may be of benefit.

Again, any changes, or any lack of changes will be significant, and will help you distinguish the differences between various levels of consciousness as they show themselves physically within the organism. You see here that if temperature and pulse is noted before sessions, you may find a correlation that exists between these and specific instances of clairvoyance as demonstrated during a given session, and another given session. Do you follow my point here?

I could go on for quite a while, mentioning things that you could do. They all would add to your work load, though none of them alone would take much time. You have available, through your television set I believe, data having to do with outside temperature, wind velocity and so forth. For your own records you could note these before a session, and look for correlations.

(Elmira is on a cable TV system, and one channel presents a 24-hour weather report. Constantly, one after another, dials show time, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, wind direction and wind velocity.)

As far as our dream experiments are concerned, I believe that you will discover definite correlations of a rather important nature that exist between the incidence of precognitive dreams, and data having to do with temperature and weather.

I will see if you can discover these for yourselves, but if not I shall point them out for you when the time comes. I do not believe that it is possible for you to carry your dream experiments far enough to discover certain other factors that do exist between various layers of the subconscious, and falling temperature rates in the physical organism. Therefore I will mention the point here.

It would be necessary to take your temperature many times during the evening, and to correlate the findings with the various levels of the subconscious as they displayed themselves through their characteristic activities within the dream series. Such an experiment would be extremely difficult.

It should be noted however, that with the exception of several other circumstances the various levels of the subconscious can be found to fall within definite temperature ranges. To some extent this fact can be ascertained through hypnosis. However, suggestion as to the effect that the subject’s temperature should rise or fall would tend to obscure the effect.

This correlation between the layers of the subconscious and temperature ranges is true, or rather observable, only when the personality is in an inactive state. Suggestions of motion or excitement given to it would change and affect the temperature reading, so that this characteristic temperature range could be unnoticed.