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Psychoanalytic practices may be quite right in their place and for their purpose, but the technique used has no place in philosophy. We do not consider it necessary to delve into an aspirant's childhood in order to explain his present mental condition. For as we believe that his past stretches away into numerous earlier reincarnations, it is obviously insufficient and inadequate merely to take the past of the present reincarnation alone for analysis. Nor do we consider it of any use to try to explain his repressions and frustrations by attempting to interpret his dreams. For we consider most dreams to be merely a worthless melange of thoughts, events, and experiences of the previous twenty-four hours. The really significant dreams are very few.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 74