Having given much of the leisure time of a laborious life to a study of the theories and practices of mysticism and occultism, as formulated by many different schools, I could write volumes (if I had the inclination, which I have not) in tracing out the psychological roots and the relations between these things. My own unconscious is rich with such images. Some of the most striking parallels have not been written about, so far as I know. And Jung seems to have covered, with the wide mantle of his comprehension, even the frailties of those who believe in prophetic dreams. He says: “The unconscious possesses possibilities of wisdom that are completely closed to consciousness, for the unconscious has at its disposal not only all the psychic contents that are under the threshold because they have been forgotten or overlooked, but also the wisdom of the experience of untold ages, deposited in the course of time and lying potential in the human brain. The unconscious is continually active, creating combinations of its materials; these serve to indicate the _future path_ of the individual. It creates prospective combinations just as our consciousness does, only they are considerably superior to the conscious combinations both in refinement and extent. The unconscious may therefore be an unparalleled guide for human beings.... “The unconscious must contain all the material that has _not yet_ reached the level of consciousness. These are the germs of future conscious contents.” He seems to think that true prophecies are merely the result of synthesis by the unconscious of tendencies (_whether in the personal or universal unconscious_) significant for future occurrences. Referring to Maeterlinck’s “inconscient supérieur,” he says of the prophetic interpretation of dreams: “The aversion of the exact sciences against this sort of thought-process which is hardly to be called phantastic is only an _overcompensation_ of the thousands of years old but all too great inclination of man to believe in soothsaying.” I am told that the hearing of voices in the hypnogogic state indicates “a slight tendency to dissociation.” Very well. Probably the voices come from a deeper level than automatic writing, whatever the inspiration of automatic writing may be.