The Romance of Sleep...

Neville:

SLEEP, the life that occupies one-third of our stay on earth, is the natural

door into the subconscious. So it is with sleep that we are now concerned.

The conscious two-thirds of our life on earth is measured by the degree of

attention we give sleep. 

Our understanding of and delight in what sleep

has to bestow will cause us, night after night, to set out for it as though

we were keeping an appointment with a lover.

"In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men,

in slumbering upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth

their instruction", Job 33. It is in sleep and in prayer, a state akin to sleep,

that man enters the subconscious to make his impressions and receive his

instructions.

In these states the conscious and subconscious are creatively

joined. The male and female become one flesh. Sleep is the time when

the male or conscious mind turns from the world of sense to seek its lover

or subconscious self. The subconscious - unlike the woman of the world

who marries her husband to change him – has no desire to change the

conscious, waking state, but loves it as it is and faithfully reproduces its

likeness in the outer world of form.

The conditions and events of your life

are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions

in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your innermost

feelings that they may reveal you to yourself.