lightning

In the Language of Mind, lightning is a flash of awareness — a sudden, brilliant insight that lights up something hidden in darkness. Look at its form and function: lightning is a burst of light that illuminates the entire sky for a single instant, and in this language light is always awareness, the sky is always the superconscious — the highest level of mind. So a bolt of lightning is spiritual insight breaking through from your deepest Self: it arrives without warning, reveals everything for a heartbeat, then is gone. Pay attention to what it lit up, because that is exactly what the insight was showing you. Examine where in your waking life a sudden knowing has cut through confusion you'd been sitting in — a truth you saw all at once but haven't yet written down. Read the variations: thunder rolling after the flash is the restless, rumbling mind-noise that follows real insight — quiet it, don't mistake the noise for the understanding. And a full storm, with lightning, thunder and dark clouds at once, is inner turmoil clouding the very awareness the flash tried to give you. That is one symbol, read clean — but the sky it tore across, the rain falling as it struck, the ground it lit are still speaking. Your subconscious talks to you every night in this exact language; CHITTA is where you learn to read the rest of the sentence. Go within, or go without.