Psychic sleep?

The Psychic Sleep

So He giveth His beloved sleep.

And now the psyche* sleeps for a while, for a few hours, days or years. This sleep is not that of unconsciousness—

Spirits call it so because it resembles our sleep greatly in this, that the sleeper is unconscious of his actual surroundings, while he moves and lives in fancy in other times and states. 

The length and character of this sleep depend entirely on the state of the man when he passed over, depend on what he was in his earthly life.

*Google define—the psyche as the human soul, mind or spirit.

What are the soul experiences during this sleep, and what are the appearance and actions of the sleeper as viewed by us?

His experiences are as manifold, as different the one from the other, as he differs in himself, for no two souls are alike, and no two can have exactly the same experience—diversity in unity is the law of our nature.

Diversity in unity is the law of our nature.

To some, there is a reliving of the past life, a taking up of broken threads, and a weaving of them together in a more finished manner—

Perhaps the failings are now first seen in their true light, the clouds of self-deception caused by self-love, wilful transgression, and so on, fade away, and a soul can look back upon his past life with a clear and true vision, and when the soul thus truly sees and knows good and evil, it can but choose the good and refuse the evil. 

Others imagine that they continue their life, and starting with all the old habits and prejudices, they gradually drop the evil, and are strengthened in the good.

Paul said, We shall not all sleep, and there is much truth in this, for to some, it is of such a brief duration, that it may be more truly called a change, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

We now ask, What is the aspect in which we regard these sleepers, and what is their connection with us?

Spirits look upon them much as we do on very young children, they care for them and guard them in much the same way. 

There is no sense of unfitness in their ignorance, and spirits can feel neither surprise when they awake quickly, nor impatience if the state is prolonged, for it is simply that their new powers are not yet adjusted to their new environment. 

They are not purposely deceived as to their state, but even if spirits should wish to tell them where, and what they were, it would be as incomprehensible to them as deep philosophy to a young child. 

Then they need food, which is the counterpart of ours, and they need employment in such ways as most resemble the old duties. 

In these, and other ways, their past life is gently and gradually withdrawn from the prominent place in their mental horizon, which it formerly filled, and the new rises like a new day upon their clearer vision. In different ways, the call comes to them to awake out of their sleep, arise from the earthly, and walk in the newness of life.

Will you always bear in mind that when spirits say such and such things occur—or in this way the soul develops, they do not lay down any hard and fast law as to manner or sequence of development, rather they give us what is most general in their circle and in their experience. But as one flower unfolds and expands differently from another, so is it with the soul.