Joe said:
This is something that has been on my mind lately. The question of to what extent is what the Cs say 'symbolic'. Some of it very likely is, but how much of the rest of it? Btw, by symbolic I mean how the things they describe that are not part of our observable reality, or accessible to us, might actually manifest in our reality. Perhaps similar to the way apparently supernatural events in myth and allegory were used at certain points in history to describe real events.
I tend to actively try to not take a literal interpretation of what they say for 2 reasons. One is because we have almost no personal, direct experiential reference for much of what they say about 'reality', if we take it literally, in which case, any hypothesizing we do will be just that, hypotheses. The second, related to the first, is that looking at possible symbolic meanings may give us a more 'tangible' reference point or a way to 'translate' the more abstract ideas they convey into terminology or concepts for which we do have a reference or at least part of one.
Any thoughts?
I've had similar thoughts lately. If it's true that the Cs are "coming from" a completely different plane of existence, it makes sense that we can't apply our 3D concepts to those planes in a straight-forward way.
Maybe it helps to look at it the other way around: these higher densities have been described by various people in different ways that are 'symbolic' as well in a sense: Plato's sphere of ideas, Jung's archetypes, Wittgenstein's "that of which we cannot speak/think", modern physic's hyperdimensions, or the various spiritual terms and analogies. Nancy Colier describes it as follows:
Inviting a Monkey to Tea said:
...the essence of well-being is not in the stuff that is moving through our awareness. Rather, it lies in the field in which that stuff is appearing - the field of awareness to and in which our experience is arising.
In other words, this other plane of existence is what surrounds us, it is the background of our existence that we can become semi-aware of if we manage to not identify with our lower centers, but take the role as an observer instead. Nancy Colier brings up the analogy of a sky: the sky represents the higher plane in which our higher self exists (the observer); in the sky, different birds fly - our feelings, thoughts and sensations, i.e. lower centers. Usually, we are identified with the birds, but if we manage to observe them, we can begin interpreting their movements from a higher perspective, i.e. activate our higher centers.
So, maybe one way we can get closer to this 'sky'/other plane of existence is by describing the movements of our feelings: I feel as if a dark tunnel approaches me, I feel like an engine that stutters, I feel like he is sucking out my energy... Maybe, if we have cleaned our machine enough so that we can access the higher emotional center - i.e., feelings that come from the 'sky' and not from the 'birds' - and we describe them, we kind of talk the symbolic language of the higher planes? Maybe these stuttering engines and dark tunnels are, in a sense, part of the existence on higher planes?
The same would be true for the symbols the Cs use: they belong to a higher plane, so we must reverse the process in order to understand them: we must figure out what they represent in our emotional/physical life.
I think Wittgenstein was wrong in that we can't speak of these higher planes, but in a sense, he had a point: oftentimes, it's just not very useful and confuses the issue. For example, the Cs said that the Lizzies traveled back and forth in time to alter our history. But they also said that time doesn't exist - so maybe we need to understand this "time traveling" business symbolically; we must figure out what it means in our emotional/physical world.
Let's say, for example, that we feel a lot of pressure and rather depressed. We could then say that the Lizzies are beaming a ray at us from their invisible moon base, or whatever. But it might be more useful to look at it this way: we feel this pressure because some old programs have been triggered, and maybe we have some physical illness contributing to this feeling. Could it be that we are describing the same thing from different perspectives? What if the rays that the Lizzies are beaming at us
are these programs and illnesses? If their "beam" transcends time and space, wouldn't it make sense that it can
simultanously create those old programs via events in our past, family dynamics, ponerization and so on, weaken our health via the promotion of bad food,
and fascilitating an event in the present that triggers these old programs created by the same "beam"?
So the symbol would be "a beam from Lizzies living on the moon", because in a sense, with enough awareness, "that's how it feels". But because it is a signal from the higher planes which transcends time and space, what it actually looks like in 3D is an inflammation in the body, some trauma in the past, and an event in the present triggering the trauma. Now we have the choice how to react to that trigger - and this is where the future is open, and the "Lizzies" can't see it because of their wishful thinking...
So, I agree that concentrating on the 3D facts rather than the "moon base", Orion STS and so on is much more fruitful. BUT, these symbols given by the Cs are very useful for providing a different perspective from which to interpret our 3D "nuts and bolts" observations! In other words, the "nuts and bolts" of all these alien races, bases, ray beamings and so on are irrelevant, because we are talking about symbols here, and symbols don't have nuts and bolts
BUT, they are highly fruitful in that they open our minds to a different plane of existence, to the "sky" from which the 3D nuts and bolts spring forth, and this enables us to interpret 3D reality more correctly and develop our "bird perspective", our third eye...
Hope this makes sense.
Added: But let's not forget that as far as I can tell, the Cs have not
only talked in 'symbols', they have given many clues that are directly applicable to 3D, which, by inspiring hard work, have led to awesome "nuts and bolts" discoveries, to say the least. It may also have to do with an increased awareness on the receiving end/better tuning of the channel...