Image: “The Whistling Boy,” by Frank Duveneck, 1872, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duveneck_Whistling_Boy.jpg … public domain … COMMENT: This image of a young boy whistling, in a dark and sombre setting, is reminiscent of the manner in which the subconscious mind grasps for the meaning of the intellectual palaver of the conscious mind.
COMMENT: This image of a young boy whistling, in a dark and sombre setting, is reminiscent of the manner in which the subconscious mind grasps for the meaning of the intellectual palaver of the conscious mind.
INTRODUCTION
COMPENDIUM: PHYSICAL MIS-INTERPRETATION OF METAPHORS BY THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
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Dear Ones,
INTRODUCTION
The language of the subconscious mind is very physical. The way that it conceives things is like the way that an infant perceives the world. The imagery of the subconscious mind reflects primal joys, joys of the senses, primal fears related to the sensation of physical pain, and strong emotions.
” … behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” — Matthew 2:13 (KJV)
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Dear Ones,
Here is a story about a subconscious metaphor and how it might be acted out both symbolically and in the physical realm.
The metaphor has to do with one-upmanship and capitalism. The emotional energy conveyed by the metaphor is the negative opposite of mothering, fathering, and nurturing, the qualities that sustain life on Earth.
During times of social unrest … such as that in which we find ourselves today … the energy described below flares up everywhere within society. It was so in the days of Caligula, whose reign was characterized by cruelty, sadism, and sexual perversion. And it is so today, here in America, as we face the challenge that the USSR faced in the late 1980s, as its republics (similar to our States) vied more and more with the central government.
At times such as this it is crucially important for each of us to align with the energies of mothering and nurturing, rather than with the powers of chaos and anarchy. In that way we can help our governments through the growing crisis.
On a more positive note, we Lightworkers feel that the current time is one of Ascension, and of the beginning of New Life on New Earth. Instead of dwelling on the momentary confusion of the changeup, we envision the vast power of the Incoming Light, the Light of Christ consciousness, to transform the dross of this world to a more humane social order, one that values and uplifts the lives of the unborn and the newly born, whether their fathers acknowledge and protect them or no.
In this age, children are imperiled by the very energies described below. Let us stand up for the children of today, and protect the weak and helpless from the snares of Satan. It is we workaday folk, we retired people, we children of God but a few years older, who are set to the task of protecting the newly born, just as did Saint Joseph, though to his knowledge, the child was not his own. He must have been the talk of the town, but he stood by his fiancee, the Virgin Mary, This act of courage saw the unfoldment of untold good, down through the centuries.
Let us stand by the example of Saint Joseph, and set the world on a new path of higher consciousness in the coming times.
For those who engage in the obverse, negative energies described below, let us pray that Mother Mary intercede for their Souls, that after death they may be saved from the fires of hell, which offer far more torment than that they may know in their earthly life.
This story is entirely fictional. There is a Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I have a story to tell you which illustrates subconscious symbolism … which has been a topic I have often talked about in years past … and how subconscious symbolism, especially in the form of metaphor … becomes a picture in the subconscious mind, that then may be acted out in real life, in one way or another.
First I would like to explain to you, this story is entirely fictional; but it is very helpful in understanding how the subconscious mind influences action in the world, through metaphor and symbolism.
In this story there is a person who imagines, for quite some years, that there are people speaking to him, on the psychic plane, through their own gut brains or subconscious minds. And the thing that they are muttering is a slang word … and it is off-color. It is three words. The first word is ‘F—‘. It is a profane word. And the next word is ‘you’ … and then ‘in the’ … and the next word is a kind of off-color word; it starts with a ‘b’ … ‘b—–‘. And the next word is ‘hole’.
I have talked about this metaphor priorly; it is an extremely potent metaphor in the English language right now, especially amongst the younger set. Sorry I cannot just speak it in one line because this is a general audience line and I just do not like to shock anyone.
Let’s say this person kept on hearing this phrase muttered over and over again. And then, at the end of a long time, they found out that there were some people of their acquaintance that had suddenly taken up rectal intercourse. Now rectal intercourse is a visualization and acting out, on the physical plane, of that very set of words that I just explained in an oblique manner to you.
So it could be that the group of people that were subconsciously chanting that, some of them, fell into the acting out because of the undercurrent of symbolic sound that was going on in their subconscious minds.
Then another thing happened in this fictional story, and that is: At the end of a certain length of time … some years … there was a person who passed on; they had had, let’s say, oodles of money. And then let’s just hypothesize that person may have been involved, in some manner, with this group of people that were doing the chant.
The person passed on, and then it was discovered that the estate had dwindled to a tiny fraction of the amount that it used to be. So all the heirs to the estate had been subjected … in a more symbolic manner … to this subconscious slang that was going on; they had been ‘f—- in the b—– hole’. That had happened to them, in a monetary sense.
And to other people it had apparently happened through acting out in the physical body.
If such a scene were to occur, it would be a powerful example of the influence of the subconscious mind, through symbolism and metaphor, on action in the world. So you can add this one to all the other stories about metaphor and acting out that I used to talk about in my blog.
I wish you all the most pleasant of days, and lots of discoveries of the subconscious, because the more we become aware of the subconscious mind, the less influenced we are to act out irrationally.
Have a wonderful day! I hope the air where you live is not at all as smoky as the air in the mountains here.
Filmed on 16 June 2019; published on 11 August 2019
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Dear Ones,
Here is a video with thoughts about teaching reading to children who have autism or learning disabilities. I later thought, most likely all this has already been thought of by educators. Just in case it might be helpful, I later thought, I offer it here. It has to do with my idea of a teaching technique using the symbolic language of the gut brain.
There is an edited Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I just had a thought today that for people who cannot read … say, autistic people and people with other sorts of reading disabilities, we could try teaching shorthand or pictograms instead.
I think this might have some success, because shorthand and pictograms relate to the language of the gut brain … the symbolic language of the gut brain. And so, where certain important functions of the higher brain are lacking or taken over by other functions, it might be possible to train the gut brain, in the way of the Neanderthals, to accomplish a task similar to the task that the higher brain accomplishes in other people. That is what I think … this being one example of that. I think it is worth a try.
Another thing that might be tried is metaphors, because metaphors are remembered very well by the gut brain, and the gut brain would be fully functional. Say, the metaphor were to be ‘Jack and Jill went up the hill’. That is a nursery rhyme, but that might do.
Then you would have a picture of Jack in the form of a ‘J’, and the first sound in the metaphor is ‘juh’. So from ‘juh’ they could get ‘J’; and then they might learn the letter ‘J’.
The thing I thought might be best is to use that technique called ‘synesthesia’. It is a technique where numbers, for instance, are associated with some other thing, like a color or sound. The person who has this skill experiences two or three of these at the same time.
I thought that skill might be developed in people with learning disabilities, so that tones might be used to represent letters. Intuitively I feel that the tones would be like music, and music is something that is picked up by the gut brain. In that way a connection might be made in a different kind of wiring setup for learning disabilities regarding reading.
Image: “Surprised Young Cat,” by Watchduck, July 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surprised_young_cat.JPG … CC BY 3.0 Unported … COMMENT: This image reminds me of the emotional reactivity of the subconscious mind. –Alice B. Clagett
COMMENT: This image reminds me of the emotional reactivity of the subconscious mind. –Alice B. Clagett
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VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
LANGUAGE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND MORPHS CONSCIOUS ‘CONCEPT WORDS’ INTO ‘IMAGE WORDS’
METAPHORS AND PROVERBS BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE RATIONAL MIND AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
STORY, SONG, AND RHYME ALSO HELP THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND INTERPRET CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS
DREAMS ARE SUBCONSCIOUS VISUALIZATIONS THAT SPEAK TO US THROUGH ‘IMAGE WORDS’
ANALYSIS OF ‘IMAGE WORDS’ IN OUR DREAMS HELPS US CLEAR SUBCONSCIOUS ‘TANGLES’
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VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Dear Ones,
This explanation of the language of the subconscious mind includes what I have heard and observed in human language and through dream analysis over the years. The concept of ‘image words’ is my own; I feel it will become very important, as the years roll on, and as more and more people grasp and are able to make use of the notion. I feel that dream analysis of ‘image words’ can be used to heal the subconscious mind of Soul wounding and of the dark tangles that may have been acquired in childhood or in past lifetimes.
LANGUAGE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
The language of the subconscious mind is very physical. The way that it conceives things is like the way that an infant or cat or dog perceives the world. The imagery of the subconscious mind reflects primal joys, joys of the senses, primal fears related to the sensation of physical pain, and strong emotions.
Subconscious words convey an emotion; jubilation or dismay to do with the sensory perceptions of taste, touch, temperature, kinesthesia, sight, and the senses of smell and sound, and the instinct to flee from pain.
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND MORPHS CONSCIOUS ‘CONCEPT WORDS’ INTO ‘IMAGE WORDS’
The subconscious translates the words that our conscious minds concoct into its own terms, according to its own way of perceiving the world around it. It has no means of grasping abstract concepts, except through visual imagery and sensation.
In my experience, without exception, the sounds that the conscious mind uses as nouns (often words or sets of homonyms that convey both abstract and concrete meanings) are morphed by the subconscious mind into ‘image words’. These are still images (or else ultra-short videoclips) to which is attached high emotional affect.
It is ‘image words’ that constitute the vocabulary of the subconscious mind. It might be an image of a person falling, along with a feeling of dismay. It might be a picture of a house with windows closed and a scent of mildew, as the subconscious often portrays the human body as a house. It might be an image of a physical injury being inflicted, along with a feeling of agony. It might be an image of a sexual organ, along with a very good or a very bad emotion. It might be a vision of a woman’s breast, and a feeling of fullness in the stomach.
METAPHORS AND PROVERBS BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE RATIONAL MIND AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
As well, the subconscious mind may use ‘image words’ to represent complex conscious concepts absorbed through rote learning of metaphors and proverbs during the early childhood socialization process. It is the imaginal, emotive nature of metaphors and proverbs that makes them such facile aids in bridging the gap between the subconscious mind of the infant and the various stages of conscious mind development that occur from the end of infancy through puberty.
STORY, SONG, AND RHYME ALSO HELP THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND INTERPRET CONSCIOUS THOUGHTS
Other devices that bridge this gap are story, song, and rhyme. Thus, a subconscious ‘image word’ may represent the title of a story or song, or it may represent a character in a song or story that carries one kernel of meaning together with strong emotive content. Or it might represent one image in a rhyme that carries a certain meaning and emotion.
DREAMS ARE SUBCONSCIOUS VISUALIZATIONS THAT SPEAK TO US THROUGH ‘IMAGE WORDS’
Our dreams are stories told by the subconscious mind using subconscious ‘image words’ representing homonyms, metaphors, proverbs, story, song, and rhyme. If we understand the rules by which the subconscious translates these devices of the conscious mind to subconscious ‘image words’, then it becomes quite easy, just after waking up each morning, to dream journal, and then render a ‘reverse translation’ … from the lingo of the subconscious mind, to the parlance of the conscious mind.
ANALYSIS OF ‘IMAGE WORDS’ IN OUR DREAMS HELPS US CLEAR SUBCONSCIOUS ‘TANGLES’
In that way we can discover the hidden tangles in our subconscious minds, the repressed memories and repressed emotions stored here and there in our bodies … in this muscle, or that layer of fascia, or over there, in a nerve ending.
In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars
Written and published on 25 May 2019; revised and filmed on 11 June 2022; revised on 9 November 2022
CREDITS
Image: “Surprised Young Cat,” by Watchduck, July 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surprised_young_cat.JPG … CC BY 3.0 Unported … COMMENT: This image reminds me of the emotional reactivity of the subconscious mind. –Alice B. Clagett
The text-to-voice program I used is: “Natural Text Reader” … https://www.naturaltextreader.com/ … The voice sometimes used as my own is English (US), Karen, slow.
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See also … Link: “Compendium: Physical Mis-Interpretation of Metaphors by the Subconscious Mind,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 27 June 2021; updated … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-nwt ..
Link: “Unified Mind: Integrating the Lower Mental Body into the Higher Mental Body,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 6 September 2016; published on 7 September 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-64E ..
Link: “Subconscious Symbolism: ‘Sucker’ Operation. Also: M2M Leader of Hetero Group,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 13 February 2016; published on 20 February 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-4Wc ..
For examples of ‘image words’ and see my blog categories: Subconscious and unconscious symbolism … and … Archetypal images
See also my blog category: Inner child – lost children of the Soul – repressed memories – repressed emotions
Written on 25 September 2018; published on 30 September 2018
Subconscious metaphor: I can’t bear it!
SOUNDTRACK
TRANSCRIPTION OF THE SOUNDTRACK
Changing Standard of Living in America, and Return to Sustainable Living
Bone Aches and the Metaphor ‘I Can’t Bear It!’
For the Healer: Devising and Placing a Positive Metaphor in the Injured Body Cells
On Outfoxing the Prognostic Mind-Set of Western Medical Practitioners
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Dear Ones,
Here are a soundtrack and an edited transcription on the topics of the changing standard of living in the United States, on spontaneous healing, and on Western medicine …
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TRANSCRIPTION OF THE SOUNDTRACK
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
Changing Standard of Living in America, and Return to Sustainable Living
I was working late tonight, and I listened in on a person who was not feeling very well. He said he had bone cancer, and his concern was that he was not living up to his own expectations with regard to a livelihood.
A lot of people are in that situation right now, because America is turning from a very vibrantly growing economy … which had been agrarian, and then changed to a more industrial and factory and information technology work … all different kinds of work indoors … and with a raised level of living, including everybody moving into their own homes … often single-family … people moving into homes with each generation in a separate home … and lots of electronic equipment, and other kinds of good things that people got, that were a sign to them that we had made progress as a nation.
We are changing now. America is changing. It is coming on a different sort of time now, with a lowering of the general living standard, and a return to hands-on work. Sustainable, subsistence living and the pioneer spirit will do us well, in these days.
And so the feeling that this person has … this person that was feeling physically ill … feeling aches in the body, for instance … is a feeling that many people have today, here in America: That things are not going that well; that things are going downhill.
Things are changing; that is the truth. And they are changing all over America. It is not a specific situation for any one of us; all of us are enduring this change.
Bone Aches and the Metaphor ‘I Can’t Bear It!’
Getting more into the specifics of this particular person, as it turned out, I spoke with his body cells. He said his bones ached. He said he had a diagnosis of bone cancer. I spoke with his body cells, and asked them how they were doing.
What they told me was (in a sad, resigned voice): I can’t bear it!
Apparently this is a saying … a metaphor … that the person in question had been saying to them … or to himself … subconsciously, for a long time. And the bone cells, which bear the weight of the body, took it personally. So they were feeling pretty sick; they were feeling pretty sad … because, as you may know, the body cells exist on Joy .. not on upset and despair and anger, and all those other negative emotions. They exist, and feel healthy, because they feel Joy and love and Light and peace.
For the Healer: Devising and Placing a Positive Metaphor in the Injured Body Cells
As healers, what we have to do, when we come across these metaphors that create physical illness … these subconscious malspeak programs that create illnesses … is to come up with something that turns it around in the other direction … something that uses a similar metaphor, but a positive metaphor. I came up with this one …
I spoke directly to the body cells of the other person, and I said (in a lilting, joyful tone of voice): I bear up perfectly well! I bear up perfectly well!
They were very excited about it; they were joyful about it. They started to say that too: I bear up perfectly well!
And I said: That’s right! You do!
Then I spoke with the person involved, because the person also needs to change the jingle (or you might say, the ‘jingo jingle’ that makes war on the body), the motto, the subconscious malspeak, into what you might call ‘goodspeak’.
So I asked him … since his situation was acute … with every breath, to say: I bear up perfectly well!
And he agreed to write it down. Maybe he will do it!
On Outfoxing the Prognostic Mind-Set of Western Medical Practitioners
The trouble, in this kind of situation, is that Western medicine quite frequently makes a diagnosis and expects a certain result. It is not quick to recognize that the situation has changed.
And yet, amongst patients, the situation changes dramatically, all the time.
It is up to a patient to know when he is getting better; and not to pay so much attention to what the doctors say about it, until they finally realize that this is true.
In this context of a ‘set in concrete’ diagnosis and prognosis (‘prognosis’ is the expected outcome) … it is possible that the attitude of a doctor or a nurse can negatively influence the outcome for a patient, even if the patient is starting to get better.
If, in his heart, the patient feels that this is happening, he needs to place himself in an environment where people are supportive of spontaneous healing. He can still take advantage of all the wonderful things that Western medicine has to offer, but he can absent himself from the malspeak of people in the Western medical profession who are slow to realize that spontaneous healing is taking place. You understand what I mean? …
All right; you all take care. Love you lots. Good luck with spontaneous healings worldwide. I hope it happens now … right this very moment, now!
