Traveling while sleeping
How the soul contemplates the immensity
and communicates with the celestial spirits
"In the middle of the swamps
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'Before going to sleep at night, put yourself in touch mentally with the regions of the universe that you would like to visit so as to get to know the beings that dwell in them and be allowed to learn from them. Obviously, these exalted beings will do nothing to help you unless you can show them that you are steadfast, faithful and disinterested, and that you are ready to make every effort required in order to be enrolled in their school. The first efforts they ask of you are no more than preliminaries, of course.
If you start at once, and make a continual effort to purify and enlighten your physical body, the day will come when, even when you give your body a few hours in which to rest, you yourself, in your spirit, will be able to continue, on the other side, to learn and work; you may even be allowed to help other human beings.
Someone who has never had any practice in making his body the instrument of his spirit is not capable of freeing himself for spiritual work in the invisible world while he is asleep. At night he sinks into a leaden sleep full of distressing dreams, and wanders round in circles, chained to his body. You must realize that the body has a very important role to play in the spiritual life. If it is not well trained it can prevent the spirit from leaving it and doing the work it has to do. There is more than one kind of sleep, you know. Most people would be horrified if they knew where they spent their nights, the psychic regions they went to when they were asleep. They spend their time floundering in the swamps of their own bad habits and coarse appetites. Very few are sufficiently detached to free themselves from their physical bodies and project themselves into space in search of other regions and other beings.
To be sure, this is difficult, but it is well worth making the necessary effort in order to make contact with the richest and most beautiful realities of the invisible world.
When your soul manages to escape from your sleeping body, it is never idle; it moves about, contemplating immensity, communicating with heavenly spirits and gaining greater understanding of love, wisdom and truth. When it re-enters your body, it brings with it the memory of all the revelations it has received and attempts to pass them on to your brain.
It is these memories that we call dreams. This is why you should try to recall your dreams as soon as you wake up, for at that moment the principal images are still floating in your brain. Dreams will sometimes come back to you in the course of the day, but it is better to try and recapture them as soon as you wake up. However, even if you are not conscious of it, these great truths leave their etheric imprint within you, and sooner or later, you will become aware of them.
This explains the sudden, dazzling revelations that sometimes surge into your consciousness. They have certainly been lying dormant in your subconscious for a long time, until the brain was well disposed and the time was ripe for them to move onto the level of consciousness, and all of a sudden you are flooded with light.
Of course, this cannot happen unless you have a high ideal and a great love for the sublime realities.'
"Facing the immensity"
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"In the middle of the swamps
Digital illustration generated and composed
© Editions Prosveta S.A.
(click to zoom)
'Before going to sleep at night, put yourself in touch mentally with the regions of the universe that you would like to visit so as to get to know the beings that dwell in them and be allowed to learn from them. Obviously, these exalted beings will do nothing to help you unless you can show them that you are steadfast, faithful and disinterested, and that you are ready to make every effort required in order to be enrolled in their school. The first efforts they ask of you are no more than preliminaries, of course.
If you start at once, and make a continual effort to purify and enlighten your physical body, the day will come when, even when you give your body a few hours in which to rest, you yourself, in your spirit, will be able to continue, on the other side, to learn and work; you may even be allowed to help other human beings.
Someone who has never had any practice in making his body the instrument of his spirit is not capable of freeing himself for spiritual work in the invisible world while he is asleep. At night he sinks into a leaden sleep full of distressing dreams, and wanders round in circles, chained to his body. You must realize that the body has a very important role to play in the spiritual life. If it is not well trained it can prevent the spirit from leaving it and doing the work it has to do. There is more than one kind of sleep, you know. Most people would be horrified if they knew where they spent their nights, the psychic regions they went to when they were asleep. They spend their time floundering in the swamps of their own bad habits and coarse appetites. Very few are sufficiently detached to free themselves from their physical bodies and project themselves into space in search of other regions and other beings.
To be sure, this is difficult, but it is well worth making the necessary effort in order to make contact with the richest and most beautiful realities of the invisible world.
When your soul manages to escape from your sleeping body, it is never idle; it moves about, contemplating immensity, communicating with heavenly spirits and gaining greater understanding of love, wisdom and truth. When it re-enters your body, it brings with it the memory of all the revelations it has received and attempts to pass them on to your brain.
It is these memories that we call dreams. This is why you should try to recall your dreams as soon as you wake up, for at that moment the principal images are still floating in your brain. Dreams will sometimes come back to you in the course of the day, but it is better to try and recapture them as soon as you wake up. However, even if you are not conscious of it, these great truths leave their etheric imprint within you, and sooner or later, you will become aware of them.
"Facing the immensity"
Digital illustration generated and composed
© Editions Prosveta S.A.
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This explains the sudden, dazzling revelations that sometimes surge into your consciousness. They have certainly been lying dormant in your subconscious for a long time, until the brain was well disposed and the time was ripe for them to move onto the level of consciousness, and all of a sudden you are flooded with light.
Of course, this cannot happen unless you have a high ideal and a great love for the sublime realities.'
Text taken from the book "Looking into the Invisible - Intuition, Clairvoyance, Dreams", chap. 16 "Astral Projection While Asleep".
