When a person falls asleep, the spirit takes flight. How high it soars depends on the quality and health of the heart, as well as the purity and breadth of the knowledge it has received.
The spirit may take flight to any point in the vast expanse of existence. Some people’s spirits do not travel beyond the earth; others soar into higher horizons. Some break through the material dimensions and fly beyond the material world; still others take the heavens under their wings. A person’s dreams, then, may be the very lands they journey through while asleep.
Only some people circle within their own minds and become lost there; their dreams amount to no more than wandering through thoughts and fancies.
A person’s journey in the world of sleep may be confined to the realm of the heart and mind, or it may reach beyond them. One may travel among the things one already knows and has discovered, drawing on the mind’s storehouse, or one may become a guest in other realms, witnessing a downpour of knowledge and incomparable sights—or become imprisoned in lower worlds.
Every person receives knowledge and stores it in the mind. That knowledge can be developed and brought to fruition, or changed and transformed. The same happens in sleep: there, too, a person receives and gives forth—and so on.
The words of psychologists of this kind, then, point to a superficial view of the worlds within the human being, and reveal how limited their grasp of human knowledge is.
The mystics’ spiritual journeys have a special connection to the vessel of their mysticism. The stronger and more far-reaching the vessel, the higher its flight can soar.
A person’s mental faculties shape only part of what the spirit receives. The mind, like a person’s sight, has its strengths and weaknesses. Just as light gives meaning to sight, while sight is distinct from the light and the sights it makes visible, the human mind is quite distinct from the knowledge it receives through it. Someone confined to the limits of their own mind is like a blind person occupied only with memories of the time when they could see. The mind is like a blank tablet: one may write upon it, or others may write there; one may plant in it, or gardeners beyond oneself may tend and cultivate it…
We should not look at the human being through a narrow lens. A human being is a profoundly complex creature…
A child comes into the world and instinctively performs many innate behaviours, without any initial involvement of the mind. Throughout life, too, those same hidden, unseen promptings may continue with even greater force.
Thus the imparting of knowledge begins before birth, in the mother’s womb, and continues in this world. A person need only awaken the spirit’s hardware, keep its software free of every virus, and observe the basic principles of being human. Then they may witness knowledge, insight and noble qualities raining down upon their spirit.