Numbers 12:6 Meaning He Said

The vision and the dream named here are not lesser channels for God's message. They are the only workshop the creative power has. Imagination is the room where the unseen becomes visible, and the drowsy state near sleep is where its voice comes through clearest, because the arguing daytime mind has grown quiet.

A prophet, in this sense, is anyone who can construct a scene in imagination and dwell in it as though awake within it. He is not foretelling a fixed future. He is the one to whom the forming power speaks, and it speaks in pictures and felt situations rather than in reasoned words. What is vividly imagined in that relaxed, half-asleep state is how the deeper self makes itself known. The picture held there is the message, and it hardens into event.

When the daylight mind grows quiet, another voice can be heard. It does not come from the person's own planning or wishing. It rises from a deeper layer of the mind, one that seems older and wider than the small self we know by day, and its natural language is dreams and waking visions.

The one called a prophet is simply the person who has learned to listen. He does not invent the message and cannot summon it. It arrives on its own, and his whole task is to receive what the deeper mind sends and carry it back to the others.