Retrospection is of greater value than any other method in advancing the aspirant upon the path of attainment.

Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff, 1865 – 1919) was a Danish-American Christian occultist, Theosophist, astrologer, and mystic.

In 1903, Max Heindel moved to Los Angeles, California, seeking work. After attending lectures by the theosophist C.W. Leadbeater, he joined the Theosophical Society of Los Angeles, of which he became vice-president in 1904 and 1905. From 1906 to 1907 he started a lecture tour, in order to spread his occult knowledge.

In the fall of 1907, during a most successful period of lectures in Minnesota, he travelled to Berlin (Germany) with his friend Dr. Alma Von Brandis, who had been for months trying to persuade him, in order to hear a cycle of lectures by Rudolf Steiner, who became his "esteemed teacher and valued friend".

Heindel returned to America in the summer of 1908 where he at once started to formulate the Rosicrucian teachings, the Western Wisdom Teachings, which he had received from the Elder Brothers, published as a book entitled The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception in 1909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Heindel

The Evening exercise, Retrospection, is of greater value than any other method in advancing the aspirant upon the path of attainment. It has such a far-reaching effect that it enables one to learn now, not only the lessons of this life, but lessons ordinarily reserved for future lives.

   After going to bed at night the body should be relaxed. Then the aspirant begins to review the scenes of the day in reverse order, starting with the events of the evening, then the occurrences of the afternoon, of the forenoon, and the morning. He endeavors to picture to himself each scene as faithfully as possible--seeks to reproduce before his mind's eye all that took place in each pictured scene with the object of judging his actions, of ascertaining if his words conveyed the meaning he intended or gave a false impression, or if he overstated or understated in relating experiences to others. He reviews his moral attitude in relation to each scene. At meals, did he eat to live, or did he live to eat--to please the palate? Let him judge himself and blame where blame is due, praise where merited.

   People sometimes find it difficult to remain awake till the exercise has been performed. In such cases it is permissible to sit up in bed till it is possible to follow the ordinary method.

   The value of retrospection is enormous--far-reaching beyond imagination. In the first place, we perform the work of restoration of harmony consciously and in a shorter time than the desire body can do during sleep, leaving a larger portion of the night available for outside work than otherwise possible. In the second place, we live our purgatory and first heaven each night, and build into the spirit as Right Feeling the essence of the day's experience. Thus we escape purgatory after death and also save time spent in the first heaven. And last, but not least, having extracted day by day the essence of experiences which make for soul growth, and having built them into the spirit, we are actually living in an attitude of mind and developing along lines that would ordinarily have been reserved for future lives. By the faithful performance of this exercise we expunge day by day undesirable occurrences from our subconscious memory so that our sins are blotted out, our auras commence to shine with spiritual gold extracted by retrospection from the experiences of each day, and thus we attract the attention of the Teacher.

   The pure shall see God, said Christ, and the Teacher will quickly open our eyes when we are fit to enter into the "Hall of Learning," the desire world, where we obtain our first experiences of conscious life without the dense body. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

Silver Chord?

The image of a silver cord whose severance or untying is a symbol of death is a common motif in Western literature, alluding to the phrase in Ecclesiastes 12:6, ―Or ever the silver cord be loosed."
By the end of the nineteenth century, the silver cord was beginning to take on a more mystical, though no less anatomical, interpretation in metaphysical religion. Rather than a spinal cord, it was beginning to be interpreted more as an umbilical cord, though in a spiritual or etheric rather than a physical sense.
The mystical interpretation was probably most fully developed by Max Heindel, founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship . Heindel's ideas were also found in the teachings of Edgar Cayce.
From: The Home of Truth: The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

The community grew from a couple dozen to about 100 followers in 1935, but within two years only seven diehards were left. The decline started as word of the cult’s strange rituals began to spread. The breaking point came when a woman who was promised a cure for cancer died and Ogden refused to bury her, insisting she would come back to life.
It was all but dissolved by the end of the 1930s. Home of Truth Monticello, Utah