你的思想在开花，你知道吗？

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

在物质层面，嗅觉、视觉和听觉组合在一起，为你提供主要的感官数据并组成你肉体的感觉功能。不过，在别的层面，这些官感是分开的，因而气味有一个视觉上的实相，同样，如你所知，视觉数据也可以由别的感官来感知。

象征可以聚合或分离，可以被分别感知或作为整体而感知。由于每件事对你而言有自己的象征，所以你有自己独特的组合方式。这些象征能以多种方式被转译或感知：比如，以一串音符，一组感觉，一系列意象。在意识的种种不同阶段，你会以不同的方式去感知象征。那么，总体来看，多维象征在其他意识状态也有其实相，在实相世界的其他层面也是如此。

举个例子，你的思想不仅通过心电感应的沟通而明显易见，而且有时也在不知不觉中形成了你可称之为“假象”的东西，就在你平常所感知的物质范围“之下”或“之上”。

因此，这就好像你的思想以物体的样子出现在其他实相世界中——它们本身是有生命、有活力的，在别的系统里生长，就如同花或树在物质系统里天生天养地长出来一样。可以说，这些思想在某些别的系统里可被用作“原料”。它们是既有的“自然现象”，是你帮忙播种却没有感知的创造原料。

那么，从这个意义上讲，你的思想遵循着某种法则。其行为与活动也遵循某种法则，但你们并不了解这些法则，虽然你们自称思想是自己的。于是，你的思想被其他种类的意识操纵，独立于你之外，如同不断变化的自然现象。在那个系统内的本土意识并不了解这种现象的来源，也不了解你们的实相世界。他们把感官接收的证据认作是现实，就如你们大多数人一样。他们不会想到这些现象是源于自己的系统之外。

好比说，如果我对读者作了同样的声明，就会被指控为是说：物质世界是宇宙的丢弃物所组成的。

我并没有那样说，在刚才的例子里也没有那样暗示。在你们的系统里，你们直接参与了物质实相的形成。你们的自然现象就是个人与集体的思想、感觉与情感的具体化。从这个意义上讲，你们的系统比刚才提到的系统更富有创造性。另一方面，在其他那些系统中，一个强大而具革命性的“集体意识”正在发展，其中保留了个人的身份和本体感，但允许个人之间有更大的内在活动，一个“象征联营”的大规模创造性交流，使精神与心灵象征的提取更加方便。正因如此，这些人更清楚创造性形象与他们感官中所认识的自然事物之间的关联。他们故意更改对自然的既定感知，并以此来做实验。

所有这些都涉及了对象征的最精密运用。在你人格的某些层面，你了解运用象征的所有不同方式，不仅在你们的系统内，也包括其他。如之前所说，没有任何实相系统是关闭的。因此，你们的思想、想象与感觉改变了其他一些系统里的自然现象。

不过，在那些系统里发展出来的革新模式也可以在你们自己的系统内多少被感知。系统之间有不间断的思想渗漏。在你意识的各个不同阶段，你穿过许多可能与这些系统相关联的区域。你经过的某些阶段是它种意识土生土长之地，而当你经过这些领域时，你会发现自己用那个层面的特有方式来运用象征。

Physically, smell, sight, and sound are combined together to give you your main sense data and compose your physical senses. At other levels, however, these are separated. Odors therefore have a visual reality, and, as you know, visual data can also be perceived in terms of other sense perceptions.

The symbols can come together or fly apart, can be perceived separately or as a unity. As each event has its own symbol for you, so you have your characteristic way of combining these. These symbols can be translated and perceived in many terms; as a series of notes for example, as a combination of senses, as a series of images. At various stages of consciousness you will perceive the symbols in different terms. The multidimensional symbol in its entirety, then, has a reality in other states of consciousness, but also at other levels of reality entirely.

You operate as if your thoughts were secret, though you should know by now that they are not. Not only are your thoughts apparent through telepathic communications, for example, but without your conscious awareness they also form what you may call pseudo-images “beneath” the range of physical matter as you normally perceive it in some cases, or “above” this same range.

It is, therefore, as if your thoughts appear within other realities as objects — alive and vital in themselves, growing into other systems as flowers or trees grow up seemingly from nothing within physical reality. These can then be used as the raw material, so to speak, in certain other systems. They are the given “natural data.” the raw material of creativity in the realities that you help seed but do not perceive.

In this manner of speaking, your thoughts then follow laws. Their behavior follows laws, and their activities, that you do not understand, though you call your thoughts your own. They are then manipulated, independently of you, by other kinds of consciousness as ever-changing natural phenomena. The native consciousness within such systems is not aware of the origin of this phenomena, nor of your own reality. They take the evidence that appears to their senses as reality, as most of you do. It would not occur to them that this phenomenon originated outside of their own system.

If I were to make the same statement for example to any of my readers, I would be accused of saying that physical reality was composed of the discards of the universe.

I am not saying that, nor implying it in the case just mentioned. In your system you have a direct hand in the formation of physical reality. Your natural given data is the result of individual, mass, and collective thoughts, feelings, and emotions, materialized. Your system in this respect is more creative than the systems just mentioned. On the other hand, within these other systems there is a strong innovative group consciousness developing, in which identity is retained but greater inner play allowed between individuals, a large creative interchange of symbol-pools, a drawing upon mental and psychic symbols with greater facility. Because of this, these individuals recognize more clearly the connection between creative images and given sense data. They purposely alter and change their given sense data, and experiment with it.

All of this involves a working with symbols in a most intimate manner. At certain levels of your personality you are aware of all the different ways in which symbols are used, not only in your system but in others. As mentioned earlier, no system of reality is closed. Your thoughts and images and feelings therefore alter the given sense data in some other systems.

The innovative patterns developed in those systems, however, can be to some extent perceived within your own. There are constant bleed-throughs. In your various stages of consciousness you pass through areas that can be correlated with many of these systems. Some stages through which you pass are native stages to other kinds of consciousness, and while passing through these you will find yourself using symbols in the way that is characteristic of that level.

编译：   / Laujenny婷     美编：周周

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