由内而外的象征法则

摘自《灵魂永生》第十八章 

意识的各阶段，象征和多重焦点

所有的象征都代表内在实相世界，而当你忙于应对各种象征时，就是在应对各种内在实相。你所采取的任何外在行动都形成于内在环境，形成于你所涉入的所有内在环境。

象征是带有高度情感电荷的心灵粒子，包括了有强大的吸引及扩张特性的实质物体，代表了用直接知晓的方式未感知的内在认知及实相。（这里所谓的“直接知晓”，是指未经象征方式就即时获得的认识与理解）。

那么，在意识的各个不同阶段，即使是象征也会有不同的表现。有些寻求稳定和永久性，就像物体遵循物质世界的原则和基本假设；而有些则善变得多，比如在梦境，那些象征更即时、更敏感地表明了感受。再说一次，就如物体出现在物理环境中一样，意识的各个阶段也有供这些象征出现的环境。

看似不稳定的“心理物体”在某些层面的梦境出现。那么，无论在物质世界还是梦境，象征都遵循着法则。再说一次，如之前所讲，梦的宇宙与物质宇宙是同样“客观”的，梦宇宙中的物体和象征是梦中生活的忠实体现，就像实质物体是醒时生活的忠实体现一样。

因此，“象征”的性质不但能指示你所处的环境，还能指出你在那个环境里的意识状态。当你在一个普通梦中戏剧的背景下正常作梦时，梦中物体在你看来是恒常不变的，你认为这理所当然。你仍然以物质世界为导向。你把醒时象征投射到梦中影像上。

可是，在梦中意识的其他状态里，房子可能突然消失，一座现代建筑可能瞬间取代一所小茅屋。孩子也许变成一朵郁金香。此时，象征显然是在以另一种方式运作。在这个环境里，“恒久不变”不再是一个基本假设，逻辑顺序也不再适用。

以这种方式运作的象征可以作为线索，告诉你现在处于意识的另一个阶段，在一个全然不同的内在环境中。感觉和经验的表达不再限于“物体遵循时间顺序”的僵硬框架。感觉自动地转换，并以一种崭新、流动、即刻的方式表现。从某种意义上讲，意识的调子加快了。

“现实化”并不需要等待几个小时或几天，经验也不受时间脉络的束缚。在这个意识领域，一本书可以瞬间写好，一个人一生的计划也可以在瞬间被透彻地详察。你们现在的时间就是帮助形成这个特定意识阶段的多个维度之一。因而你的过去、现在与未来都在这个意识阶段里，但这都只是这内在环境的一部分而已。你必须学着认路，因为意识的各个状态及其环境以自己的方式向外延伸，就像你的世界在空间里延伸一样。如果在睡前给自己适当的暗示，在这个阶段觉察自己并不难。

All symbols stand for inner realities, and when you juggle symbols, you are juggling inner realities. Any exterior move that you make is made within the interior environment, within all the interior environments with which you are involved.

Symbols are highly charged psychic particles and that includes physical objects that have strong characteristics of attraction and expansion, that stand for inner realizations and realities that have not been perceived through direct knowing. （By direct knowing here, I mean instant cognition and comprehension, without symbolization.）

Even the symbols, then, at various stages of consciousness will appear differently, some seeking to have stability and permanence as your physical objects, following the principles or root assumptions of corporeal reality, and some changing much more quickly, as in the dream state, these being more immediate and sensitive indicators of feeling. Various states of consciousness seem to have their own environments in which these symbols appear, again, as objects appear in a physical environment.

Seemingly nonstable mental objects appear in the dream environment at certain levels. The symbols follow rules then in both cases. As mentioned earlier, again, the dream universe is as objective as the corporeal one. The objects and symbols within it are as faithful representations of dream life as physical objects are of waking life.

The nature of the symbol, therefore, can serve as an indication not only as to your environment but your state of consciousness within it. In normal dreaming within the context of an ordinary dream drama, the objects seem permanent enough to you. You take them for granted. You are still physically oriented. You project upon dream images the symbolism of your waking hours.

In other states of dream consciousness, however, houses may suddenly disappear. A modem building may suddenly replace a shack. A child may turn into a tulip. Now the symbols are obviously behaving in a different manner. In this environment, permanency is not a root assumption. Logical sequence does not apply.

Symbols that behave in this way can be clues to you that you are now at another stage of consciousness, and within an entirely different interior environment. Expression of feelings and of experiences are not limited to the rigid framework of objects stuck into consecutive moments. Feelings are automatically transformed and expressed in a new, mobile, immediate manner. In a way the tune of consciousness is quicker.

Actualization does not need to wait for hours  or days. Experience is free from a time context. In this realm of consciousness an entire book may be written, or one's life plans thoroughly scrutinized. Your present time is one of many dimensions that help form this particular stage of consciousness. Therefore your past, present and future exist within it. but only as portions of that interior environment. You have to learn your way about, for the states of consciousness and their environment stretch out in their own way as your world stretches out, say, in space. It is not difficult, however, to be aware of yourself in this stage through giving yourself proper suggestions before sleep. 

编译：   /Laujenny婷    美编：周周

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