LXIV. On Clairvoyance

The third state is dreamless sleep. In most people, very little of the experiences that occur during the dreamless sleep state come through into the waking day consciousness. What comes across is usually not consciously perceived. The experience of dreamless sleep appears in the waking 'day consciousness' not in its causality, but in its effect. What is experienced there are the great laws of reality, the true, to a certain extent much more true, original causes and essences of our world. What takes place in the outer physical forms of existence in the animal and plant kingdoms (the mineral kingdom does not belong here, for nothing can be learned about the true nature of the mineral kingdom in dreamless sleep) — the way in which life manifests itself in these kingdoms, how forms develop from one to another, what great laws life actually has – that, if we were to penetrate it in its true form, would suddenly illuminate many connections in life that are otherwise mysterious and obscure in the ordinary consciousness. Man undergoes all this without retaining anything consciously in his waking day consciousness.