Sleeping subject
The text of The Urantia Book was first fixed in handwritten form. There are traditions about the reception
of the text upon which the Standardized Reference Text Committee cannot venture an opinion, but whether written down by the “sleeping subject” or transcribed from oral communications, or by some other technique, the text—or at
least the bulk of it—was originally a handwritten manuscript. The committee reached this conclusion
because a number of items reviewed could only have originated from mistakes in converting ordinary
handwritten symbols and numbers into typed and then into correctly formatted typeset forms. These
multiple conversions of the text from handwritten to typewritten and then to typeset forms create
opportunities for particular types of mistakes; examples of each of these types are found in the original text.
Quotes
In the contacts made with the mortal beings of the material worlds, such as with the subject through whom these communications were transmitted, the midway creatures are always employed. They are an essential factor in such liaisons of the spiritual and the material levels. (77:8.8)
The Adjuster of the human being through whom this communication is being made enjoys such a wide scope of activity chiefly because of this human’s almost complete indifference to any outward manifestations of the Adjuster’s inner presence; it is indeed fortunate that he remains consciously quite unconcerned about the entire procedure. He holds one of the highly experienced Adjusters of his day and generation, and yet his passive reaction to, and inactive concern toward, the phenomena associated with the presence in his mind of this versatile Adjuster is pronounced by the guardian of destiny to be a rare and fortuitous reaction. And all this constitutes a favorable co-ordination of influences, favorable both to the Adjuster in the higher sphere of action and to the human partner from the standpoints of health, efficiency, and tranquillity. (110:5.7)
