Why Metaphor Matters

Being highly skilled at understanding and using metaphor would convey a significant range of advantages in various aspects of life, both personal and professional. Here are some key benefits:

Cognitive Advantages:

• Enhanced Understanding and Learning: Metaphors act as powerful cognitive tools, allowing for the comprehension of abstract or complex concepts by relating them to more familiar ones. Someone adept at metaphor can grasp new ideas more quickly and deeply.
• Improved Problem-Solving and Creativity: Metaphorical thinking fosters creative connections between seemingly disparate ideas. This can lead to innovative solutions to problems by framing them in new and insightful ways.
• Deeper Insight and Nuance: Metaphor often conveys layers of meaning and subtle nuances that literal language struggles to capture. A skilled interpreter of metaphor can perceive these deeper implications, leading to a richer understanding of situations and perspectives.
• Stronger Memory and Retention: Metaphorical language is often more vivid and memorable than literal language. This can aid in the retention of information and experiences.
• Increased Cognitive Flexibility: The ability to think metaphorically demonstrates a flexible mind capable of shifting perspectives and making novel associations.

Communication Advantages:

• More Engaging and Persuasive Communication: Metaphors can make communication more vivid, interesting, and relatable. Skilled users can craft metaphors that resonate with their audience, making their message more persuasive and memorable.
• Improved Explanation and Clarification: Complex ideas can be simplified and made more accessible through well-chosen metaphors. This is particularly valuable in teaching, explaining technical concepts, or conveying abstract theories.
• Enhanced Emotional Connection: Metaphors can tap into emotions and create a stronger connection with the audience by evoking shared experiences or feelings.
• Greater Precision in Expressing Abstract Ideas: Sometimes, literal language falls short in describing abstract emotions, experiences, or philosophical concepts. Metaphor provides a powerful tool for expressing these intangible ideas with greater precision and impact.
• More Effective Storytelling: Metaphor is a cornerstone of effective storytelling, adding depth, symbolism, and emotional resonance to narratives.

Social and Interpersonal Advantages:

• Increased Empathy and Understanding of Others: Recognizing and interpreting the metaphors others use can provide valuable insights into their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives. This fosters empathy and improves interpersonal understanding.
• Stronger Relationships: The ability to communicate effectively and connect emotionally through metaphor can lead to stronger and more meaningful relationships.
• Improved Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Understanding the underlying metaphors used by others in a negotiation or conflict can reveal their core assumptions and motivations, facilitating more effective communication and resolution.
• Greater Cultural Competence: Metaphors are often culturally specific. Understanding and appreciating the metaphors used in different cultures can enhance cross-cultural communication and understanding.

Personal Growth and Development:

• Enhanced Self-Awareness: Reflecting on the metaphors one uses to describe their own experiences can lead to deeper self-understanding and insight into personal beliefs and values.
• More Meaningful Interpretation of Art and Literature: A strong understanding of metaphor unlocks deeper appreciation and interpretation of literature, poetry, art, and other forms of creative expression.
• A Richer Inner Life: Thinking metaphorically can enrich one's internal world, fostering a more imaginative and nuanced understanding of oneself and the world.

In essence, a strong command of metaphor equips an individual with a powerful toolset for navigating the complexities of thought, communication, and human interaction. It fosters deeper understanding, enhances creativity, strengthens connections, and ultimately leads to a richer and more insightful experience of the world.

Yes, that's a good start. Being able to de-code metaphor has all these advantages.

But ... there's more!

I would say that being metaphor proficient is a great preparation for the afterlife. That's definitely a bonus.

What I am particularly interested in at the moment is the idea that we are supposed to have 50% of our Star Events of lived experience in physical reality, and 50% of our Star Events in the other realms, the energy worlds, those realms that use that language, in order to be able to understand the bigger picture of humanity's existence.

At this point in my reserch, I have come to the conclusion that the next step in human evolution has to be the mapping of the other realms consciously. Not in order to create a separate map; but to combine the maps into something that is more than the sum of their parts.

We have all been a part of an experiment to find out if things get better when we drive the "other mind" underground and try to do our human activities based on the conscious maps alone.

As I look at the state of humanity on this fine day in the May of 2025, I would say we have the results. As in,

"Well, that didn't work ..."

We can't go back to the Garden of Eden, before humans developed their new conscious operating system. Our brains grew to accomodate this, and like all children with a new toy, we became fascinated with it, and used it for all manner of things it was never meant to be used for.

We need to go forward now, and I propose we go forward by entering consciously into the other realm, learn its ways, add its all important information to expand our maps and our explorations into what being a human being is all about.

That's what Project Sanctuary always was and still is - the pathway towards bringing our split minds back together, so we can use our human intelligence, which is really something quite remarkable, for our human well being.

Project Sanctuary has the answer to "how" - enter as a child would, and learn through direct interaction with those environments, aka play the game.

Project Sanctuary started in 1993, and is still running in 2025. The official version, SuperMind, was published in 2016. In 2019, we got Star Matrix, and the huge threshold shift, the huge realisation - in the Plus Ten energy states, every human being has experienced the re-unification of their own minds into the SuperMind already!

That's a huge game changer (pun intended!). This is no longer about some strange, mystical thing that only the fewest of the few somehow experience, and all the rest of the unwashed masses can never hope to attain.

We have already have attained, and many times, at that! It's how we are supposed to think, right here, right now! The hardware is there, it's working perfectly, and the proof is lived experience - the Star Dreams.

So, that's why metaphor matters. It doesn't just make you smarter, it takes you in the right direction towards a future evolution that is desperately wanting to be happening.

You, me, and everyone else who has ever had a Star Dream - and that would be all of us.

Silvia Hartmann
May 2025