![]() In reality, it was likely authored in the early 1900s by a psychiatrist named William Sadler, who used it as a vessel for his racist ideas. The Urantia Book, a 4.3-pound, 2,097-page tome, published first in 1955, is a modified Seventh-Day Adventist text supposedly communicated to an anonymous man in a trance by aliens. I was searching for truth and the book was loaded with it.” “I wanted spiritual adventure, and I was on the ride of my life. “I had wanted bold I found bold,” he wrote. In You’ve GOT to Read This Book! 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life, Siegel discloses that the ideals he gathered from The Urantia Book guided how he ran Celestial Seasonings from the beginning and provided a moral compass for himself and his employees. In fact, the religious text is responsible for much more than the name of the company. In no time the friends were sauntering into the local bank to get a loan for their new business, “wearing jeans, smelling of herbs, and armed with Tupperware containers of Mo’s 36 and Sleepytime blends.” They called their company Celestial Seasonings, after co-founder Lucinda Ziesing’s flowername.īut there might be another reason they named it “celestial.” Mo Siegel and John Hay, two of the founders, were avid believers in a new-age bible called The Urantia Book, which followers call “an epochal revelation authored solely by celestial beings.” The book touches upon everything from mind control to a eugenics plot to eliminate the “inferior races” of our great nation. On those first hikes, the team harvested enough herbs for 500 pounds of a blend they called Mo’s 36 Herb Tea, and the sleep-conjuring tea made of chamomile, spearmint, and other herbs soon followed. The group wanted to get into the business. The concept that “tea” could be herbal was innovative in itself, since up until then, all tea in America and Great Britain was made of the plant Camellia sinensis. ![]() One of the friends, Mo Siegel, was serving an Asian herbal tea to customers in a local shop to much success in 1969. Meanwhile, the cups I sipped of Celestial Seasonings’ Sleepytime and Bigelow’s Sweet Dreams may have been relaxing in a cozy sort of way, but I could discern no real effect on my sleep once the lights were off.This article by Megan Giller originally appeared on Van Winkles, the publication devoted to sleep.īefore Sleepytime became the crown jewel of Celestial Seasonings, with 1.6 billion cups sold per year, before the company became the largest tea manufacturer in North America, the tea was nothing more than a dream in the heads of a few flowerchildren hiking up the Rocky Mountains in search of herbs. Similarly, Traditional Medicinals’ Nighty Night, which boasts 360 mg of passionflower, promoted a deeper sleep and left me satisfied in the morning. ![]() Yogi’s Bedtime, which contains both, had the most pronounced effect: While it did not make me drowsier than normal, I definitely experienced more intense REM cycles-evidenced by remembered dreams (uncommon for me) about a disturbing house fire and a delightful theme park-and I felt a bit more rested than normal the next morning. That passionflower and valerian root show the most promise for actual impact on sleep matched well with my personal experience. The conclusion? “The consumption of a low dose of, in the form of tea, yields short-term subjective sleep benefits for healthy adults with mild fluctuations in sleep quality.” In addition to appearing to have the most anecdotal support on the Internet, a 2011 study reported that of “six sleep-diary measures analysed, sleep quality showed a significantly better rating for passionflower compared with placebo” in the 41 subjects followed. ![]() That said, the most convincing data exist for passionflower. Given the inherent subjective weakness of self-reports, this basically means that the results should be treated with a dash of skepticism. The evidence for valerian root is somewhat better-for example, a 2010 European meta-analysis of 18 previous studies allowed that “valerian would be effective for a subjective improvement of insomnia, although its effectiveness has not been demonstrated with quantitative or objective measurements.” This raises an important caveat to all this research: Every study I looked at was based on sleep diaries, meaning that subjects were responsible for reporting their own assessments of their sleep. A small 2011 study did suggest possible “modest benefits of daytime functioning,” but found no difference in sleep quality between subjects given chamomile extract and those on a placebo. So just how active are those ingredients? Despite its reputation for making the most soothing cup, chamomile has not yet been scientifically shown to have a significant impact on various sleep quality measures.
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