Just as has been given as to how to enter into meditation. Each and every soul leaves the body as it rests in sleep.
As to how this may be used constructively—this would be like answering how could one use one's voice for constructive purposes. It is of a same or of a similar import, you see; that is, it is a faculty, it is an experience, it is a development of the self as related to spiritual things, material things, mental things.
Then as to the application of self in those directions for a development of same—it depends upon what is the purpose, what is the desire. Is it purely material? Is it in that attitude, “If or when I am in such and such a position I can perform this or that”? If so, then such expressions are only excuses within self—in any phase of an experience.
For as He has given, it is here a little, there a little—Use that you have in hand today, now, and when your abilities and activities are such that you may be entrusted with other faculties, other developments, other experiences, they are a part of self.
As to how it may be used: Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed of that you think, of that you do, or of your acts; keeping self unspotted from your own consciousness of your ideal; having the courage to dare to do that you know is in keeping with God's will.
Reading 294-15
As we see, all visions and dreams are given for the benefit of the individual, would they but interpret them correctly, for we find that visions, or dreams, in whatever character they may come, are the reflection, either of the physical condition, with apparitions with same, or of the subconscious, with the conditions relating to the physical body and its action, either through mental or through the elements of the spiritual entity, or a projection from the spiritual forces to the subconscious of the individual, and happy may he be that is able to say they have been spoken to through the dream or vision.
Reading 903-5
Dreams as come to a body are of different nature and character, dependent upon through what channel these are brought to the physical consciousness of the body. All are not brought entirely to the sensuous consciousness; yet often—even though of experience of subconscious mind—may influence an individual as to the trend or bend of the mental action of the mind for quite a period, or until something else may fill the consciousness. Consciousness, in this sense, not wholly that known in the physical as sensuous consciousness; rather an innate consciousness than a sensuous consciousness. Rather an attribute, then, under such conditions, of the subconscious than of the conscious mind.
In the dream—some may be as dreams of a conscious or the subconscious mind, or a correlation of each—or these may be visions of projection of subconsciousness of other minds acting with the subconscious forces of an individual. These—or this character—are always visions. Well that one differentiate between a vision and a dream, or a purely physical reaction.
Reading 140-6
The dreams are that, that the entity may gain the more perfect understanding and knowledge of those forces that go to make up the real existence—what it's all about and what it's good for—if the entity would but comprehend the conditions being manifest before same. For as the visions in dream are presented, the inner forces of the entity, in no uncertain way, are presenting emblematical conditions to the entity for its study and for its good, see?
Reading 341-18
The dreams come in that way and manner as we have given, and may be used in the way of the entity's development, in the entity's gaining that of how the subconscious weighs with the conscious forces of the entity, when these apply to action, and may be acted upon by the physical body.
Reading 538-13
The dreams as come to the body give that of the lessons that, were same applied correctly in the life of the individual, there will come the more perfect understanding, and those pleasures and joys as would be derived in living that life.
Reading 137-24
The dreams as we see that come to this body are those injunctions to the body of how the forces as may be applied through the entity are presented, and the entity may use same in that manner as has been given. For through these the entity may more perfectly understand those laws as pertain to the manifestations of the psychic forces in the material world. And many of these, we see, pertain to the physical conditions through which entity may see that manifestation in a physical manner, though the conditions are presented at times in emblematical form. Then study well, knowing that the entrance into same gives the more perfect way of understanding—yet must not be turned from.
Reading 39-3
With dreams and visions as come to individual, these are of various classes and groups, and are the emanations from the conscious, sub-conscious, or superconscious, or the combination and correlation of each, depending upon the individual and the personal development of the individual, and are to be used in the lives of such for the betterment of such individual.
Reading 136-45
Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [136]. This we have had here before. The dreams, the visions, the impressions as are gained in experiences through the subconscious forces, are giving to the entity those lessons, as may be applied in the physical body, the physical mind, and in the material manner, as has been outlined for the body. The lessons as are being gained by same are as the truths that come by the entity making itself in an attunement and an atonement with those universal forces, into which the body-conscious mind enters when in the somnambulistic state, or in sleep: for the subconscious force operates on.
Use same, then, and apply same for the better conditions, the better understanding of life and life's purposes, and of those conditions through which the entity passes. For each experience applied is a development for the entity. Without an application of the experience is to act in that way that brings condemnation, or a mis-application of the advantages as may be gained by knowledge.
Reading 5754-1
Editor's Note: This is the first of three readings in a series on the nature of sleep.]
GC: You will please outline clearly and comprehensively the material which should be presented to the general public in explaining just what occurs in the conscious, subconscious and spiritual forces of an entity while in the state known as sleep. Please answer the questions which will be asked regarding this:
EC: Yes. While there has been a great deal written and spoken regarding experiences of individuals in that state called sleep, there has only recently been the attempt to control or form any definite idea of what produces conditions in the unconscious, subconscious, or subliminal or subnormal mind, by attempts to produce a character—or to determine that which produces the character—of dream as had by an individual or entity. Such experiments may determine for some minds questions respecting the claim of some psychiatrist or psycho-analyst and through such experiments refute or determine the value of such in the study of certain character of mental disturbances in individuals; yet little of this may be called true analysis of what happens to the body, either physical, mental, subconscious or spiritual, when it loses itself in such repose. To be sure, there are certain definite conditions that take place respecting the physical, the conscious, and the subconscious, as well as spiritual forces of a body.
So, in analyzing such a state for a comprehensive understanding, all things pertaining to these various factors must be considered.
First, we would say, sleep is a shadow of, that intermission in earth's experiences
