Why not simply apply that symbolic language and the process of interpretation to her waking experience?
“How? Can you give me an example?” he asked. The trees are providing impulses — cues and clues — like a kind of associative flash card exercise. The language — the symbols and signs and their potential meanings — are found in the mind and more. The mind, the heart, the spirit, consciousness, the subconscious, the superconscious reside in multiple dimensions of experience beyond simply Thinking. The logical, intellectual, thinking mind is only one dimension of experience. The Thinking Mind stores and retrieves information — but so do all the other parts of us. Experience is not only rational thought; experience stores data received from the heart, the soul, the higher self, the collective consciousness, etc. “An example…” I mused, holding my arms out to the woods around us. “Hmm, right here, right now, in this moment… Trees, talk to us!” There came at that moment an enormously unmistakable, physical, external sound effect — like the sound of a huge, wooden door slowly and dramatically c