On this episode of the Symbolical podcast, I'll play for you a discussion I had called Symbolism Happens.

And in this particular ranty discussion, I look at some of the criticism that people have been leveling at me or has been buzzing around me,

which is that somehow symbolic interpretation is a way to deny the events of the Bible or the fact

that things happened or not.

And I try to rectify that understanding and try to point to the fact that symbolism is

rather the bringing together of patterns and that reality or manifest reality or events also

participate in that manner in which things

come together and show themselves and so yeah hopefully it will become simpler as you listen to the

actual explanation so just remind everybody that everything I do here online this podcast you

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And so please enjoy this discussion about how symbolism happens.

Music This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. For those who follow me carefully, I would say, most people by now understand that when I talk about symbolism, I am not talking about the notion of metaphor or the, like you would say, you know, the wind was cold,

you know, like my heart in winter or whatever, some kind of poetic metaphor to describe something,

to give it feeling or to give it, you know, or even a kind of simple metaphor in the sense, you know, of, let's say,

the Pilgrim's Progress, where this image means something else in the world.

When I talk about symbolism, that is not what I'm talking about.

What I am talking about is the notion that underneath our stories, underneath images, underneath also the way we

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