"Physical objects are the most obvious of your symbols."

"At different levels, consciousness works with different kinds of symbols."

"Symbols are a method of expressing inner reality."

"You will learn that certain symbols will appear personally to you at various stages of consciousness, and these can serve as points of recognition in your own explorations."

"These symbols will change, therefore, in various stages of consciousness."

"Again, the logical sequence is not present, but the intuitive creation will change the symbols much in the way that an artist might change his colors."

"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."

"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."

"Experience is free from a time context."

"The closer you get to waking consciousness, the more limited and narrow the symbol."

"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."

"There is a great unity between your daytime symbols and your dreaming ones."

"This bank was yours from the day of your birth and before. It contained the symbols of your past experiences in your terms (and in your terms, you add to it in this life). This bank of symbols must be activated, however. For example, you have visual images when you are born, internal visual images, symbols that are activated the moment you open your eyes for the first time. These serve you as learning mechanisms. You keep trying to utilize your eyes properly until exterior images conform with the inner patterns."

"The eye-opening activates the inner mechanism."

"Some infants will think in the language of a past life before the new language is learned."

"What you do not understand is that from that given point of silence, which is your point of nonperception, sounds also begin to grow deeper and deeper into silence, yet still have meaning and as much variety as the sounds that you know, and these are also symbols."

"Given certain sounds, you could recreate your universe as you know it unconsciously, and any one multidimensional symbol can contain all the reality that you know.

"No system of reality is closed."

"Your thoughts and images and feelings therefore alter the given sense data in some other systems."

"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."

"Blank spots of inertia...are creative to some extent, in that these other symbols may swim into view within them."

"The alpha level [of consciousness] is undifferentiated. The energy there is available to be used as you want to. It is the fountainhead or pool in which reservoirs of energy are held in reserve, pulled between the more interior self and the outer self. Into this area come signs and portents from deeper levels of the personality."