Where is “The Symbolic?” – 04.14.11

Student Question: You’ve talked about “reality” and “The Real,” and I just wanted to know where “The Symbolic” is in relation to those.

Excerpt: “It is between the two. Reality is a hallucination. And once you can grasp that symbolically, you can discover what is the source of that hallucination, or hologram, or matrix, whatever you want to refer to this plane as. And through your symbolic capacity of thinking, and your attention span, you can make your consciousness like a laser beam and focus it with your willpower to break through the illusion of reality, to discover the Real.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, April 14, 2011.