Interpreting Symbols

Interpreting symbols from your environment is a productive and fun way to learn.

## How to Interpret Symbols

[Like many articles on this wiki, this is currently a rough draft and may be confusing. Please point out anything you find confusing so I can clarify it.]

First, think about a situation that happened recently. Write down all the events that happened during that situation – using words to describe the situation helps you more clearly understand the details of what actually happened.

Next, take each event from that situation, and next to the event, write down how you feel towards this event. Notice any particular objects that were involved in this event. Do you have any prior experiences with this object? How do you feel towards this object? What concepts do you associate with this object? What thoughts do you think of when you see this object? What does this object mean to you?

Once you have written out how you feel toward each event, read the list of feelings in the same order that you listed the events of the situation. Think of how these feelings relate and connect to each other. You will end up with a list of connected feelings that connect together to form a story. Does this story resemble something that has happened to you in the past or you would like to do in the future? How can you use this message to apply to future situations?

Here's an example of the process of interpreting symbols: (i have not come up with an example yet)

Along with words and sequences of events, you can also interpret symbols from images. Look at an image, notice the individual parts that make up the image, write down how you feel toward each part, and piece them back together into a full story.

You can think of the process of interpreting symbols as something similar to talking with a mentor. In this case, your mentor is the ancestry, and it is using symbols to communicate to you instead of words.

## Symbols Are Subjective

The same thing can represent a different concept to different identities, each of which has had a different experience interacting with that thing. When interpreting symbols, translate them to what they remind *you* of, not what they are traditionally associated with. For example, let's say you are interpreting a hospital as a symbol. You know that hospitals are traditionally associated with fear, but you actually find hospitals quite relaxing. In this case, you would translate the symbol of a hospital to relaxation instead of fear, because the ancestry is most likely using this symbol as a way to communicate to *you* specifically, so it would use symbols that you understand.

## Symbols Are More Direct in a High Ancestry State

In a high ancestry state, such as a dream or a visit to the   B I ꩜ S P ∆ C E   , everything is made up of symbols. As a result, you can very easily take each part of the situation and translate it directly to an abstract concept. For example, let's say that you had a dream where you saw a bee fly and land on a pillow. If you associate bees with hard work and pillows with comfort, you could interpret this dream as a signal from the ancestry telling you to take a break from working.

Conversely, symbols in the physical world are abstracted behind many convoluted layers of other symbols. The physical world is a very large simulation that many conscious beings have worked together to construct, and so the complexity of the physical world makes it hard to interpret symbols due to the sheer overwhelming amount of different symbols, but is still possible. However, even if your body and mind are currently inside the physical world, it's still possible to receive some very direct symbols if you get into a high ancestry state. The more ancestry energy you have, the more direct the symbols will be.