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long, stringy hair that looked like tangled wire, gave an electric vibration that worked very negatively upon me. In fact, when I awoke from the dream, I felt so lifeless and weak that I could only move with a great effort.
Later that day I went to my guru and I told him my dream about the old woman. I asked him what the dream meant. My guru said that I had done something that displeased the old woman and that she wanted to destroy me. He said that if I repeated my mantra or protective sounds and remained centered on my kundalini energy system, then there would be nothing that the old woman could do to harm me.
The next night, I had another dream in which another old woman appeared. She warned me not to use the pit near the kikkar tree for my toilet. I asked her, “Why not?”
“The tree is our place,” she said. "We cannot allow you to violate our home with your practices.”
“O.K.,” I replied, “I will respect your rights and find a toilet place somewhere else; but how can I believe that you are a real ghost. Do you have a family or relatives?”
“In my family,” she said, "there are over 900,000 ghosts. We have much pride and self-respect.”
"How do I know that you are telling the truth. If you are a true ghost, with some powers, then you will be able to appear to me in my waking and not just my dream-consciousness," I said. Then she seemed to a little
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