“So spoke the merciful Son of Heaven to those whose Western Gates were open, but sleeping humanity heard him not, and slumbered on.”

you are opening the Western Gate, for the Western Gate is touch. The Southern Gate is sight. The Eastern Gate is scent. The whole world remains asleep because the Western Gate is closed in you.

You create for him that other state, where he is your friend, bring him out of his former state, and embrace him. That is the opening the Western Gate – and then something happens within you.

The Ancients called this capacity the Western Gate, and tied it in with the sense of touch. If you can hang on to the thing you touch and then awaken, you will find that the thing has become real.

So you do it for your world. A job you want, the home you would occupy, the marriage you want.

Many a time, finding myself dreaming, I have held on to an object in the dream and found myself awakening in another world.

having had the experience of holding on to an object and awakening not on my bed at all, I must share it with you

Something in me began to tell me, as memory began to return, that if I would take hold of one of these pilings and not let it go, and awaken, I would awaken there.

I recently told the story that if you can touch something and hold on to it and awaken you will awaken in your dream world and find it completely objective. A lady wrote to tell me she tried it and proved it.

This lady learned to use the Western Gate, closed in most of us, which is touch. That was her secret.

create a scene that would imply its fulfillment of your dream, and open that Western Gate, which is touch

I stood on this same balcony above the living room and held onto its railing and looked again at my husband standing by the fireplace. And then she fell asleep in that imaginary act.