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此段摘自《灵魂永生》

第十八章  意识的各阶段，象征和多重焦点

象征应该是流动且千变万化的。有些却可能成为局限原创经验的藩篱，因此成了欺瞒的手段，而非启迪的方法。当这种情况发生时总是涉及了“恐惧”。

“恐惧”被带进意识的各个阶段，像哈哈镜一样掩饰了所有象征的自然维度，阻挡并妨碍了自由流动。爆炸性的象征作为释放剂，释放了那些被封闭的能量。如果没有自然界的暴风雨，你们全都会发疯。

很少有人了解象征的攻击性本质，也不了解攻击性与创造性之间的关系。这两者绝非相反的特征。若无攻击性的冲击，象征会严重缺乏活力，并处于一种固定不变的境地。

正是意识“创造性”与“攻击性”的两面使它能利用象征，穿越经验的各个层面，而思想的攻击性把它自己推入你不理解的实相世界，尽管你并不知道。

攻击性与被动性都在“生”这个象征的背后，因为两者都是需要的。两者也都在“死”这个象征之下，虽然这点未被了解。当攻击性与创造性的比例失调时，当意识过于偏向此方或彼方，当“象征”在你的心理环境中流动得太快或太慢时，“惰性”应运而生。

于是产生了停顿。尽可能简单地说，在这个不可思议的片刻，一个“空无”发生了，一个象征被困于动与不动之间，一个“悬而未决”的时候。当然，这通过多种方式被转译并反映出来。这时候，某些象征可能失去了意义，脱离了个人的经验，只留下“迟钝”的空隙。

这种空隙十分真实地存在于许多系统。你在许多层面碰到它们。例如，你可能发现自己正在经历一种意识状态，其间似乎没有任何事情发生，没有任何心理景象或可辨认的象征产生。这些不仅存在于心理或心灵层面，而且以空间来说，也存在于“空白的区域”。这个空白区域可能最终会被填入新的象征。如果你的感知够敏锐，有时能捕捉到自己正遭遇这样的现实状态：其中空无一物，除了自己的意识之外，也没有其他意识的明显踪迹。

这些空白点可以播种新的象征，并且常常作为新的创造性概念和发明所附生的通道。因此，这些空隙被当作暗区。它们也代表了专为那些探索内在实相世界的心灵行者准备的无障碍区域。它们代表整洁的区域，但也是开放的通道，自身不活跃却顺从地等待着。有些象征也就是这样被动地等待被激活。

用你们的话说，它们代表了未来经验，目前还潜伏着。因此这些惰性的空白点在某种程度上是具有创造性的，因为其他象征可能游进来并被看到。

Symbols should be fluid, ever-changing in their form. Some can be used as casements to house original experiences, as methods of deception therefore rather than illumination. When this happens fear is always involved.

Fear taken into the various stages of consciousness acts as a distorting lens, hiding the natural dimensions of all symbols, acting as a barrier and as an impediment to free flow. Symbols of an explosive nature serve as releasing agents, setting loose that which has been encased. Without physical storms you would all go insane.

The aggressive nature of symbols is little understood, nor the relationship between aggression and creativity. These are far from opposing characteristics, and without an aggressive thrust, symbols would lack their high mobility. They would exist in a permanent kind of environment.

It is both the creative and aggressive aspects of consciousness that allow it to use symbols, to move through various levels of experience, and the aggressive nature of thought that so propels it, despite your knowledge, into realities that you do not understand.

Aggressiveness and passivity are both behind symbols of birth, for both are needed. They are both beneath symbols of death, though this is not understood. Inertia results when aggressiveness and creativity are not in the proper proportions, when consciousness leans too severely in one direction or another, when the flow of symbols is either too quick or too slow for the particular psychological environment in which you dwell.

Pauses then occur. To put it as simply as possible, there is an almost inconceivable moment in which a no-reality occurs, in which a symbol is caught between motion and no motion, a time of uncertainty. This is of course translated in many ways, and reflected. In such periods, certain symbols can be lost to all intents and purposes, dropping out of an individual’s experience, leaving gaps of inertia.

These gaps exist quite literally in many systems. You encounter them on many levels. You may find yourself experiencing a state of consciousness, for example, in which nothing seems to happen, and no psychological landscape or recognizable symbols occur. These exist not only psychologically or psychically, but as blank areas in terms of space. The spaces may be filled finally with new symbols. If you are perceptive enough, you can sometimes catch yourselves encountering such states of reality in which nothing appears and no signs of any consciousness outside of your own is apparent.

Such blank spots can be seeded with new symbols, and are often used as channels through which new creative ideas and inventions are inserted. These gaps are recognized by others, therefore, and viewed as dark spaces. They also represent areas of no resistance for those mind-travelers who are probing inner realities. They represent uncluttered areas, but also open channels, inactive in themselves but passively waiting. Now some symbols also wait in such a passive manner to be activated.

They represent future experience, in your terms, that presently lies latent. These blank spots of inertia, therefore, are creative to some extent, in that these other symbols may swim into view within them.