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By Evelyn M. Bingham
SUN COLUMNIST
 By Evelyn M. Bingham
SUN COLUMNIST & POET
  I have enjoyed writing for The Detroit Native Sun Newspaper immensely, for nearly 20 years. Thanks to Valerie Lockhart, who is providing this invaluable community service of journalistic excellence to her readers. Without her, it would not exist. 
  Along with writing articles, I have been writing inspired poetry since 1997, resulting from me being an attendee at a Women’s Spiritual Retreat of 15 women from varying backgrounds in Monroe, Michigan. 
  These writings have been blessings to me, and I have been told they have created inspiration, encouragement, and joy to many others. If so, then to God be the glory! 
  Therefore, it is with great pride that I announced the launching of my new book, “Love... Pure & Simple”, during the weekend of July 18, 19 & 20, 2025 at The Embassy Suites Hotel, Livonia, Michigan. 
  Its contents, in excess of 400 poems, expressing the topics of Love... Pure & Simple. 
  I hope that as you read through the book, you will find nuggets of gold to enrich your memory bank. 
  Look for some of “Love...Pure & Simple” poetry, here at The Native Sun Newspaper, starting January ‘26.






By Evangelist B. Colbert Brooks
SUN COLUMNIST
  Dreaming is defined as a form of mental activity that occurs during sleep, categorized by scientists as perceptual (things that are seen) as opposed to conceptual (things that are thought). It is believed that during the dream state there is a considerable amount of emotion present, such as fear, anger, or joy. There is also generally visual presence, including hearing, touch, taste, smell, and sometimes even pain.
  Scientific research clarifies that there are two states of sleep. Firstly, S-synchronized sleep or N.R.E.M. sleep (non-rapid eye movement sleep), which occupies most of the sleep period and is associated with a relatively low pulse and blood pressure and few or no reports of dreaming. Secondly, D-sleep or REM sleep or dreaming, which occurs during the sleep period and is identified by rapid eye movements and frequent reports of dreams. A person typically experiences four or five periods of dreaming sleep during the night at 90-minute intervals and constitutes about 25% of the night's sleep.
  Dream meanings have been interpreted by ancient cultures as spiritual and a means of foretelling the future. Some modern researchers believe that dreams have no inherent meaning but are simply a process by which the brain transfers new information into memories. Other researchers believe that dreams contain real meaning symbolized in a picture language, distinct from the conscious, logical thought. Psychiatrists and therapists often utilize dreams as a form of clinical treatment to uncover covert desires, fears, concerns and worries of the dreamer undetectable during the conscious state.
  Whatever the psychological, scientific, or philosophical interpretation of dreams and the dream state, we can rest assured that it is a “state” congenitally contrived by the Lord Almighty. It does not require extensive research to determine that dreams occur in an unconscious state and generally involve our past present or future. Depending on our own state of conscious affairs, dreams can range from a pleasant, utopian-like experience, to a riveting, unsettling nightmarish journey. Theologians often advocate that the unconscious dream state is the devil's playground and that Satan utilizes this opportunity of sleeping helplessness to provoke negative memories or revive that which has been dead and buried by the unconscious mind.
  However, God has spoken on this issue with repeated documentation in biblical history proving that He often uses the sleeping state as a dream tapestry to speak to the subconscious mind and spirit. While vulnerable and uninhibited, God will speak into the spirit a vision, a divine mission, or even a revelation that the conscious mind would not perceive. His Word documents numerous accounts of miracles that manifested energized by the native’s subconscious journey into a dream.
  Biblical patriarchs such as Joseph, Daniel, Jeremiah and Job all attest to the compelling power of the dream, from visionary to instructional, to assurance to pronouncement of God’s sovereignty in the lives of His creation. He alone as the Creator designed dreams to serve as a canvas for the subconscious mind to take on a life of its own to be used for His good and the good of those who love Him. 
  As such, it is good to rule on the side of the spiritual and embrace the sleeping state as a divinely designed vehicle for God to speak to His creation. And with that always remember that all things are made by Him and rest assured that whatever state we are in, awake or sleep, God is always with us. 
  “Now I lay me down to sleep… I pray the Lord my soul to keep.”




A Journey into the Subconsious

Love...Pure & Simple