by CR (009)
Before talking about sleep and what it really is, it's important to mention that every person possesses an astral body which is the bond, the connection between the spirit and the physical body. That connection encircles the entire physical body to which it is connected by animistic cords.
During sleep, the spirit wanders away, together with the astral body, from which it never parts, but never breaks its links with the physical body. It continues to pass on warmth and life by means of the previously mentioned animistic cords.
To better understand what sleep is, we transcribe some passages of a philosophical essay by the physician Antonio Pinheiro Guedes, regarding this topic:
"Sleep, both natural and induced by hypnosis or anaesthetics - as well as dreams and hallucinations - cannot be explained, in a manner which is understandable, rational and satisfactory, by the ordinary physiologic processes taught by the organicism or materialistic school.
Sleep is the suppression of relationship functions. It is the interruption of psychic activity, the quasi-cessation of animal life.
During sleep, the body rests and the soul restores itself.
Sleep, like vigil, is a way of being of the living. Both assert existence in antithesis, because life is twofold - vegetative or organic, animal or relational.
The materialistic schools try to explain sleep, both natural and artificial, induced or morbid, by paralysis of the brain caused by its compression, due to either the lack or the excess of blood.
Undeniably, both anaemia and congestion accompany or are present in sleep. The cephalic system is in one of those two states in either natural, induced or morbid sleep. But to indicate the state or condition of an organ or system in the course of a phenomenon or function, to explain its mechanism or how it comes to pass, is not the same as to determine its cause. They are different facts and should not be confused.
Observation shows that the loss of blood in excessive amounts or sometimes even in small amounts results in sleepiness, fainting, heart stroke, dizziness or even death, which is eternal sleep. There are still other mechanical inducers of sleep: the inhalation of anaesthetics, magnetic passes, suggestion, rest and even rhythmic motion, a monotonous chant and the absence of light. All such manoeuvres are merely preconditions for sleep. They are, at most, predisposing causes.
The only real and true cause of sleep, the one that determines and fosters it, is the need for interruption of psychic activity, the suppression of relationship functions, the temporary halt of animal life.
Sleep is for animal life what hunger and thirst are for organic life. Through hunger and thirst the body claims food, through sleep the soul asks for nourishment.
References
[1] Dr. A. Pinheiro Guedes, Spiritualistic Science, 1st Digital Edition, 1995
[2] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[3] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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