Why are symbols and the imagination important?
Symbols are the way that the higher self, or soul uses to communicate with its human mind. Beyond the symbolic, mental means, lies the soul’s own realm of pure intuition. Imagination is the meeting ground. One could say that the imagination is the lowest frequency of the intuition. Hence, initially, it is our primary interface with higher consciousness. The power of symbols, and in fact, their practical implied value for us, was accurately expressed by Carl Jung when he concluded: “The psychological mechanism that transforms energy is the symbol. Going further into that energy dynamic, Roberto Assagioli found that Images, mental pictures and ideas tend to produce the physical conditions and external acts that correspond to them. So, the symbols which appear in these attunements are impressions from the soul, and coded to engage and stimulate the recipient’s awareness. The relative understanding which comes from each symbolic encounter comes from the crucible of each person’s own life e
