sleep

48:6.23You should con­sider the state­ment about “heaven” and the “heaven of heav­ens.” The heaven con­ceived by most of your proph­ets was the first of the man­sion worlds of the lo­cal sys­tem. When the apos­tle spoke of be­ing “caught up to the third heaven,” he re­ferred to that ex­pe­ri­ence in which his Ad­juster was de­tached dur­ing sleep and in this un­usual state made a pro­jec­tion to the third of the seven man­sion worlds. Some of your wise men saw the vi­sion of the greater heaven, “the heaven of heav­ens,” of which the sev­en­fold man­sion world ex­pe­ri­ence was but the first; the sec­ond be­ing Je­ru­sem; the third, Eden­tia and its satel­lites; the fourth, Sal­ving­ton and the sur­round­ing ed­u­ca­tional spheres; the fifth, Uversa; the sixth, Ha­vona; and the sev­enth, Par­a­dise.

109:5.1Su­preme and self-act­ing Ad­justers are of­ten able to con­tribute fac­tors of spir­i­tual im­port to the hu­man mind when it flows freely in the lib­er­ated but con­trolled chan­nels of cre­ative imag­i­na­tion. At such times, and some­times dur­ing sleep, the Ad­juster is able to ar­rest the men­tal cur­rents, to stay the flow, and then to di­vert the idea pro­ces­sion; and all this is done in or­der to ef­fect deep spir­i­tual trans­for­ma­tions in the higher re­cesses of the super­con­scious­ness. Thus are the forces and en­er­gies of mind more fully ad­justed to the key of the con­tac­tual tones of the spir­i­tual level of the pres­ent and the fu­ture.

110:5.2Man’s dream ex­pe­ri­ences, that dis­or­dered and dis­con­nected pa­rade of the un-co-or­di­nated sleep­ing mind, pre­sent ad­e­quate proof of the fail­ure of the Ad­justers to har­mo­nize and as­so­ciate the di­ver­gent fac­tors of the mind of man. The Ad­justers sim­ply can­not, in a sin­gle life­time, ar­bi­trar­ily co-or­di­nate and syn­chro­nize two such un­like and di­verse types of think­ing as the hu­man and the di­vine. When they do, as they some­times have, such souls are trans­lated di­rectly to the man­sion worlds with­out the ne­ces­sity of pass­ing through the ex­pe­ri­ence of death.

110:5.3Dur­ing the slum­ber sea­son the Ad­juster at­tempts to achieve only that which the will of the in­dwelt per­son­al­ity has pre­vi­ously fully ap­proved by the de­ci­sions and choos­ings which were made dur­ing times of fully wake­ful con­scious­ness, and which have thereby be­come lodged in the realms of the super­mind, the li­ai­son do­main of hu­man and di­vine in­ter­re­la­tion­ship.

110:5.4While their mor­tal hosts are asleep, the Ad­justers try to reg­is­ter their cre­ations in the higher lev­els of the ma­te­rial mind, and some of your grotesque dreams in­di­cate their fail­ure to make ef­fi­cient con­tact. The ab­sur­di­ties of dream life not only tes­tify to pres­sure of un­ex­pressed emo­tions but also bear wit­ness to the hor­ri­ble dis­tor­tion of the rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the spir­i­tual con­cepts pre­sented by the Ad­justers. Your own pas­sions, urges, and other in­nate ten­den­cies trans­late them­selves into the pic­ture and sub­sti­tute their un­ex­pressed de­sires for the di­vine mes­sages which the in­dwellers are en­deav­or­ing to put into the psy­chic rec­ords dur­ing un­con­scious sleep.

167:4.6Then said one of the apos­tles: “Mas­ter, if Laz­a­rus has fallen asleep, then will he the more surely re­cover.” It was the cus­tom of the Jews at that time to speak of death as a form of sleep, but as the apos­tles did not un­der­stand that Je­sus meant that Laz­a­rus had de­parted from this world, he now said plainly: “Laz­a­rus is dead. And I am glad for your sakes, even if the oth­ers are not thereby saved, that I was not there, to the end that you shall now have new cause to be­lieve in me; and by that which you will wit­ness, you should all be strength­ened in prepa­ra­tion for that day when I shall take leave of you and go to the Fa­ther.”

86:5.62. Sleep­ing, nat­u­ral dream­ing.

86:5.10Early in evo­lu­tion sleep was re­garded as prov­ing that the ghost soul could be ab­sent from the body, and it was be­lieved that it could be called back by speak­ing or shout­ing the sleeper’s name. In other forms of un­con­scious­ness the soul was thought to be far­ther away, per­haps try­ing to es­cape for good—im­pend­ing death. Dreams were looked upon as the ex­pe­ri­ences of the soul dur­ing sleep while tem­porar­ily ab­sent from the body. The sav­age be­lieves his dreams to be just as real as any part of his wak­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. The an­cients made a prac­tice of awak­ing sleep­ers grad­u­ally so that the soul might have time to get back into the body.

125:2.4Je­sus slept very lit­tle that night. His rest was greatly dis­turbed by re­volt­ing dreams of slaugh­ter and suf­fer­ing. His mind was dis­traught and his heart torn by the in­con­sis­ten­cies and ab­sur­di­ties of the the­ol­ogy of the whole Jew­ish cer­e­mo­nial sys­tem. His par­ents like­wise slept lit­tle. They were greatly dis­con­certed by the events of the day just ended. They were com­pletely up­set in their own hearts by the lad’s, to them, strange and de­ter­mined at­ti­tude. Mary be­came ner­vously ag­i­tated dur­ing the fore part of the night, but Joseph re­mained calm, though he was equally puz­zled. Both of them feared to talk frankly with the lad about these prob­lems, though Je­sus would gladly have talked with his par­ents if they had dared to en­cour­age him.

69:9.11Sleep­ing space was one of man’s ear­li­est prop­er­ties. Later, home­sites were as­signed by the tribal chiefs, who held all real es­tate in trust for the group. Pres­ently a fire site con­ferred own­er­ship; and still later, a well con­sti­tuted ti­tle to the ad­ja­cent land.