A tutorial of a writer s success. Chapter 7

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Chapter 7. Be able to interact with the future

7.1. Signs

Signs and forebodings are often manifested simultaneously, jointly, in parallel.

An example of a favorable signs and of a auspicious forebodings is the rescue of Heinrich Schliemann in December 1841.

In his autobiography, Schliemann described these events: “I shall always remember with gratitude to Heaven the joyful moment when our boat was thrown by the surf on the bank close to the shore of the Texel, and all danger was over. (...) I felt as if at that bank a voice whispered to me that the tide in my earthly affairs had come, and that a had to take it as its flood. My belief was confirmed when, on the very day of our arrival, my little box, containing a few shirts and stockings, as well as my pocket-book with the letters of recomendation for La Guayra procured for me by Mr. Wendt, was found floating on the sea and was picked up, while all my comrades and the captain himself lost everything. In consequence of this strange event, they gave me the nickname of "Jonah" ... ” (Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. NY. 1881. P. 8.).

This example shows how positive signs are accompanied by optimistic foreboding.

In some cases, events are remembered by their participants, disturbing them, but they are not identified as signs (or they are assumed as signs, but remain without decoding). An example would be the circumstances surrounding the  excavations of Troy.

Namely:

(A) The appearance of many snakes [Шлиман Г. Илион. Т. 1. С. 61] [Schliemann Heinrich. Ilios. Vol. 1. P. 61].

(B) A chorus of the anxious screams  from frogs. "... Millions of frogs in the evening raised a wild cry, and Schliemann could not sleep at night" [Мейерович М. Л. С. 105] [Meyerovich M.L. P. 105].

(C) "The terrible cries of countless owls"; “There is something mysterious and terrible in these screams, in particular they haunt at night” [Вандерберг. С. 331—332] [Vanderberg. Pp. 331-332], “the hideous shrieking of innumerable owls ... their shrieks had a weird and horrible sound, and were especially intolerable at night.” (Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. NY. 1881. P. 38.)

Naturally, these phenomena have rationalistic explanations. But still, let's pay attention to the words "something mysterious and terrible."

Some assumptions can be made by watching the movie "The Mysterious Treasure of Troy" (2007).

In a conversation with Otto von Bismarck, creatively designed by the filmmakers, Heinrich Schliemann says: “You are a soldier ... I found the place where the greatest battle in history took place! There are thousands of soldiers lying there, and they don't even have a monument!"

Rudolf Virchow wrote: "Perhaps this was the first time ... that the young but more and more independent civilization of the West put to the rough test of force its superiority over the already effeminate civilization of the East" (Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. NY. 1881. P. 685).

An interesting biographical nuance: in the first half of his life, and Heinrich Schliemann, and R. Virchow, and Otto von Bismarck for a noticeable period of time lived in Pomerania. R. Virchov and H. Schliemann are practically the same age. O. von Bismarck is several years older than them. Of course, there is no evidence of their acquaintance during this period.


7.2. The ability to feel and to anticipate the future

Several examples demonstrate both the sagacity of Heinrich Schliemann, the accuracy of his forebodings, and the difficulty of deciphering these intuitive clues.

“… In… the last year of the Crimean War, when his business was going so successfully, Schliemann wondered if he should continue to engage in trade at all. He shared his doubts in a letter to his father, and after some hesitation, Henry decided to remain a merchant ... " [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 257] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 257].

As it turned out, intuition, forebodings did not deceive Heinrich Schliemann in 1856. On May 5, 1858, he wrote to his sisters about the endless "anguish and worries" related to the period of the "trade crisis", about the "horror" that he "experienced from the beginning of November to January 15", and from which he "turned gray at the age of 36 ", that for three months he stood" on the edge of the abyss " [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 277] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 277].

It turns out that in 1856 he intended, but did not dare to take those steps that could distant him away from the "brink of the abyss" in November 1857 - January 1858.

Apparently, in the future, he learned to recognize his intuitive premonitions, to adequately respond to them, and to timely change the periods of action to periods of inactivity.

In December 1859, returning to St. Petersburg from a many-month journey, he wrote in one of his letters: "I thank God that I was not here for 15 months, because times were extremely difficult here, and I would have lost hundreds of thousands, like my neighbors ..." [Богданов И. А., 2008 а. С. 303—304] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 a. P. 303-304].

The cardinal question: to remain a merchant or not to remain, was reformulated into a simpler and easier question: to go or not to go on a journey.

Another example testifies to the difficulty of recognizing intuitive premonitions.

Talking about the discovery of the "Priam's treasure" in 1873, Heinrich Schliemann writes: I now perceived that the trench which I had made inApril 1870 had exactly struck the right point for excavating, and that, if I had only continued it, I should, in a few weeks, have uncovered the most remarkable buildings in Troy ; whereas, by abandoning it, I had to make colossal excavations from east to west, and from north to south, through the entire hill, in order to find them.” (Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. NY. 1881. P. 43.).


7.3. Dreams

Heinrich Schliemann knew how to memorize dreams. He attached importance to them.

“Last night at 2 o'clock I had a terrible dream, I saw my sister… I am afraid that this portends death… and therefore I will write Doris today” [Гаврилов А. К. С. 172] [Gavrilov A. K. P. 172].

Heinrich Schliemann not only knew how to see dreams, remember them, but also to some extent manage them.

A letter written to Bishop Vimpos in 1869 contains the following lines:

“… I summoned the ghost of my mother, who died thirty-seven years ago, and began to beg her to help me. Then I had a dream ... ” [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С. 61] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 61].

Approximately in December 1869, after the death of daughter Natasha  on November 28, 1869 ..., Heinrich Schliemann sends to Ekaterina Petrovna Schliemann, his first wife, a book and a cover letter, in which, in particular, he writes: “I am sending you a book about Spirits. (…)… Natasha's soul lives and she is immortal; she will always be with you, and you will feel her presence intuitively. In that book you will find advice on how to get in touch with Natasha at any time ... ” [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С. 98—99] [Bogdanov IA, 2008 b. P. 98-99].

"Schliemann ... more to the topic of spiritualism has never returned" [Богданов И. А., 2008 б. С. 99] [Bogdanov I. A., 2008 b. P. 99]. Only in a letter sent from Paris on March 14, 1871 does an interesting comparison arise: “I kissed my library as if I kissed a beloved child who has risen from death” [Мейерович М. Л. С. 89—90] [Meyerovich M.L. P. 89-90].

Heinrich Schliemann writes about the use of a psychological state close to sleeping in his autobiography: “From over-excitement I slept but little, and employed my sleepless hours at night in going over in my mind what I had read on the preceding evening. The memory being always much more concentrated at night than in the day-time, I found these repetitions at night of paramount use. Thus I succeeded in acquiring in half a year a thorough knowledge of the English language.” (Ilios. The city and country of the Trojans. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. NY. 1881. P. 10.).

Philipp Vandenberg quotes from a letter from Heinrich Schliemann to Rudolf Virchow: “When on the eighth (July 1890) I discovered a treasure of extraordinary value, even more significant than the treasures of Mycenae, I fell down in emotion, reverently kissed the feet of the goddess, passionately praying to her about further mercy and sincerely thanks for the mercy ... ” [Вандерберг. С. 559] [Vanderberg. P. 559].

Philipp Vandenberg comments on this period of Heinrich Schliemann's life: "... Schliemann wandered through the Trojan hills, met with gods and heroes and again found treasures to which he attributed outstanding importance (four ornate axes that had nothing to do with Troy)" [Вандерберг. С. 559] [Vanderberg. P. 559].

In the film "The Mysterious Treasure of Troy", its authors are artistically modeling the following words of Heinrich Schliemann: "I hear Hector's voice ... In a dream, Odysseus appears to me and tells me where to dig!"

Such statements are most easily attributed to a person "close to insanity." But. This man did not lie in isolation in bed, almost motionless, drugged with drugs, but "wandered the Trojan hills", talked with scientists, found treasures that are the subject of discussion in our time, was in correspondence with the whole world. A few days before his death, he was reading the fairy tales from "A Thousand and One Nights" on Arabic [Мейерович М. Л. С. 174] [Meyerovich M. L. P. 174]. 

It seems to me that it is much more interesting to hear the voice of Odysseus, all the more prompting the location of the treasure, than to listen to many people, albeit modern, but lacking in content.

Let us formulate the rules of success from Heinrich Schliemann:

(a) Try to understand what your paranormal abilities are,

(b) learn to recognize your inner feelings,

(c) learn to adequately respond to your intuitive premonitions, to the hints of intuition,

(d) be able to timely change periods of validity to periods of inactivity.

The mediators between rational thinking and intuition are, in particular, diaries. They objectify the process of thinking, concentrate it on certain topics, and make it possible to transform premonitions from vague images and sensations into more or less distinct formulations.