象征无界限--四柱八字,命理,八字命理,六爻占卜,命理百科-寅午文化

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

某种程度上，在醒时意识的不同阶段里也能观察到象征的变化。当你休息时，闭上眼但醒着，你的“心眼”常常会看到一些影像和画面。有些是貌似真实的具体东西。比如树木、人或房屋的影像。其他则仅仅是瞬息万变的形状，似乎不停地从一个变幻到另一个。一般说来，即使是那些可辨认的影像也会很快被其他影像所取代，像是个不断变幻的万花筒。

对你来说，这些内在画面也许没什么条理，而且显然与你前一刻甚至前一小时的所思所想没什么联系。某种程度上它们看来与你无关，非你所为。不过，它们往往代表了意识从世俗刺激稍微移开时所显示的特征。当意识的状态改变时，象征的形式就随之改变。

在这种情况下你看到的影像，代表了你闭目之前刚刚体会到的思想感受，或稍早时你心中最重要的思想感受。一旦你闭上眼睛，你的思想感受便以这种象征方式来表达自己。因为这些影像看似与这些思想感受没有直接的逻辑关系，你既不承认它们属于自己，也无法把它们与其所代表的意思连在一起。

这里我用了相当简化的说法。通过想象，你能更自由地表达感觉。在白天早些时候感受到的某种恐惧，比如说，失业的恐惧，当你合上眼时可能就被转译为一串似乎不相干的象征，但却确实与那种恐惧相连。

你可能在一连串飞逝的画面里看到地上有个深坑。它又马上被一个穷困潦倒、仿佛来自另一世纪的流浪汉代替。也许会出现一具棺材，或一个横空而过的黑皮夹。你可能看到一个严寒而晦暗的冬日景象。一本久已忘怀的旧书中的某个人物可能出现又消失了。其中不乏相反的象征，代表你的希望——一朵春花、一桌佳肴、一套新衣，任何对你来说意味着“丰盛”的征兆。或将失业的念头会无隙可乘，你似乎已经把它忘了。

但是，通过象征的运用，你的感受得到了充分发挥。每个影像随着深藏在意识之下的，连你自己都毫不知觉的种种感受——情感之池——而起落。无论如何，你的感受会自动吸引来这些影像。通过内省可以把这些影像与其来源连接起来，但你常常不知不觉与它们擦肩而过。

如果你让自己闭眼多躺一会儿，象征会继续改变特性，也许会丢失一些视觉上的特性而在其他方向得到加强。例如，你可能以为闻到一种特别的、你不喜欢的气味（继续我们的假设）。相反的，你可能将恐惧转译成一种恐怖的身体感觉，而你突然觉得自己在跌落，或有什么讨厌的东西碰到了你。

任何不断改变特性的象征，应让你警觉到自己的意识状态已改变了。如果现在让自己入睡，你可能制造出两三个象征这种恐惧的梦，而你也会在梦境中考虑并尝试可能的解决办法。当然，失业这件事可能永远不会以其本来面目出现在任何一个梦里。

不过,对你的无意识来说，这个问题已经成立并交给了它。在随后的深度睡眠里，更高层次的“内我”得以发挥作用，来协助定位于三维空间的那部分人格。那个更无拘束的自己更清楚状况，给出一连串建议（但并不排序），并告诉那个做梦的自己。于是做梦的自己制造出一系列的梦，并在其中用一种象征来说明解决之道。

最终，更明确的诠释是在将醒之时做出的，那时象征变得越来越明确。因此象征作用有远为狭窄的一面：你越接近清醒意识，象征就越有限且狭窄。在某一特定的物质环境里，象征越是唾手可得，在为整个人生服务的意义上，它就越没有价值。

某种程度上，象征越精确，它所包含的意义就越少。在深睡眠阶段形成的最重要的梦里，象征是足够强大而浓缩的，所以它们能被分解，在一连串表面不相干的梦里被用作连接物，保持它们最初的力量而仍以不同的扮相出现，在接下去的每一个梦的层面里变得越来越明确。

就在你忙着过日子的时候，你的意识也在波动，如果你养成观察心智状态而不妄下断语的习惯，你就能发现自己正在以不同的方式“制造象征”。你所遭遇的每一件事都在你的心灵中分门别类地储存起来，成为一组明确的象征。这些象征并不代表经验，经验被包含其中。就你目前的这一生，这些就是你个人的“象征银行”。

白天的象征与梦中象征之间有很大的统一性。当然，以一种神奇的“速记”方式，许多象征所承载的经验远远不止一个，因此，一个象征唤起的就不止是一个特定经验，还包括了类似的经验。因此，个人联想在很大程度上牵涉个人的象征银行，它在梦中的运作与醒时无异——但具有更大的自由，不但从你们所谓的过去“提款”，也向将来“提款”。

因此，你在梦中用到的象征更多，因为你知道过去与将来的象征。这些象征的强度不同，通常集结在一起。这些多维的象征会以许多方式呈现，并非仅是可见的影像。它们不仅会影响你自己的物质实相世界，也影响你涉及的所有实相世界。从某种意义上讲，你所了解的象征只不过是更广大象征的末梢而已。

To some extent this transmutation of symbol can be observed in various stages of waking consciousness also. When you are at rest, awake but with eyes closed, images and pictures will often appear to your inner eye. Some will be physical-like materializations, images of trees or houses or people. Others will be simply shapes that change swiftly and seem to flow one into the other. As a rule, even the images that are recognizable will quickly be replaced by others in a kaleidoscope of constantly changing forms.

There may seem to you to be no logic to these inner pictures, and certainly no connection between them and what you were thinking a moment before, or even an hour before. To some extent they seem disconnected from you and not of your doing. Often, however, they represent the characteristics shown by consciousness when it is somewhat turned away from physical stimuli. The form of symbols is changed as the states of consciousness change.

The images that you see in this circumstance represent the thoughts and feelings experienced just before you closed your eyes, or those that were paramount in your mind somewhat previously. The minute your eyes are closed, the thoughts and feelings express themselves through this symbolism. Because the images may seem to have no direct connection logically to these thoughts and feelings, you do not recognize them either as your own, nor are you able to tie them up with what they represent.

I am putting this rather simply here. Imaginatively you have greater freedom to express feelings than you do practically. An earlier particular fear felt during the day involving, say, a loss of a job may then be translated when you close your eyes into a series of seemingly unrelated symbols, all however connected to that one fear.

You may see in a quick series of pictures a deep hole in the ground. It may be replaced by a sheet urchin, obviously poor and from another century. A casket may appear, or a black wallet fly through the air. You may see a severe, dark, wintry scene. The picture of a character from an old book long forgotten may appear and disappear. In between may be a grouping of opposing symbols, representing your hope — a spring flower, a table loaded with food, a new suit of clothes, any sign of abundance that would have meaning to you. Nowhere would the thought of the potential loss of a job enter in. It would seem to you that you had forgotten it.

Through the use of symbols, however, your feelings would be given full play, each image rising and falling in flow with feelings so far underneath consciousness — pools of emotion—that you were not aware of them. They would automatically bring about these images however. Now with reflection you could connect these with their origin, but usually they would pass you by.

If you let yourself lie still longer with eyes closed, the symbolism would continue to change character, losing perhaps some of its visual characteristics and growing more intense in other directions. You might think you smell a particular odor, for example, that is distasteful to you （following through with the situation as given）. You might, instead, translate the fear into a frightening physical sensation, and suddenly feel that you are falling, or that something unpleasant touched you.

Any of these changing characteristics of symbols should alert you to the altered state of your consciousness. If you let yourself drift off into sleep here, you would most probably manufacture two or three dreams that symbolized the fear, dreams in which you consider and try out possible solutions within the dream context. The job situation might never appear as such within any of the dreams, of course.

Still, to the unconscious the problem has been set and given. In the following deep protected areas of sleep, the higher centers of the inner self are allowed to function and come to the aid of the three-dimensionally oriented portion of the personality. This more liberated self sees the situation much more clearly, suggests a given line of action （but does not order it）, and informs the dreaming self. The dreaming self then manufactures a group of dreams in which the solution is stated within a symbolic dream situation.

The final and more specific interpretation is done in areas of dreaming closer to the waking self, when the symbols glow more and more specific. There is a much more narrow aspect to symbolism, therefore: The closer you get to waking consciousness, the more limited and narrow the symbol. The handier it is in a given physical circumstance, the less valuable it is as a waking lifetime characteristic symbol.

To some extent the more precise a symbol is. the less meaning it can contain. In the most important dream work, done in the deep protected sleep periods, the symbols are powerful enough and yet condensed enough so that they can be broken down, used in a series of seemingly unrelated dreams as connectives, retain their original strength and still appear in different guises, becoming in each succeeding dream layer more and more specific.

Now even as you go about your day, your consciousness fluctuates, and you can catch yourself “symbolizing” in these different ways if you get in the habit of observing but not interpreting the state of your mind. Each physical event that has happened to you is filed away within your psyche as a definite group of symbols. These do not represent the experience, they contain the experience. These represent your personal symbol bank as far as your present life is concerned.

There is a great unity between your daytime symbols and your dreaming ones. In a miraculous shorthand, many symbols carry the burden of far more than one experience, of course, and one symbol will therefore evoke not only one given experience, but similar ones. Personal association, therefore, is highly involved with your personal bank of symbols, and it operates in the dream states precisely as in waking life— but with greater freedom, and drawing from the future, in your terms, as well as from the past.

Therefore, you have greater use of symbolism in the dream state, for you are aware of past and future symbols. These vary in intensity; often they cluster together. Such multidimensional symbols will appear then in many ways, not simply visually. They will affect not only your own physical reality, but all realities in which you are involved. In a manner of speaking the symbols that you know are but the tail end of greater symbols.

编译： / Laujenny婷 美编：周周