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Chapter 21
Why sleep is perceived as unconsciousness
As the body of memory in the terrestrial human being is so inconspicuous, it cannot yet carry out a transference of memories of spiritual experiences to his awake physical realisation.
This has to a very great extent the effect that the same being becomes the victim of an illusion as to the realisation of his spiritual experience when this appears in its total form.
What does one understand by a total spiritual experience?
It is a state where the awake day-consciousness of the individual from being borne or maintained by its physical body becomes borne by one of its other bodies.
When such a transference takes place, the individual loses his physical sensory perception and is unconscious on the physical plane.
The strongest form of such a transference for a terrestrial human being is that which takes place when the physical body of the individual is totally and completely separated from the eternal body.
Then its state of awakens passes over to the body of feeling, which then temporarily becomes the bearer or maintainer of the individual's awake or conscious perception.
But this perception is of course of a spiritual character and therefore of quite another nature than the physical.
This transference is identical to what we call "death".
The transference of consciousness can also take place in milder forms.
Such milder forms we know as anaesthetisation, fainting, trance, hypnosis and the ordinary or natural form of sleep.
Here the day-consciousness is also transferred to the body of feeling.
But as the physical body under these forms of transference of consciousness is not totally separated from the I but is still connected to it, the day-consciousness can once again be brought back to the physical body.
The individual then wakes up again or becomes conscious on the physical plane.
But as the body of memory cannot in a normal way transfer the memories from the experiences in the body of feeling to the day-consciousness in the physical body, the same individual cannot in this physical body retrieve any conscious memory or realisation of this, his spiritual experience of life.
Every form of spiritual existence will therefore be perceived by the terrestrial human being as an unconscious state.
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