In a process world of ongoing and ever-changing Events

nothing inherently means anything,

And yet, magically, everything can mean something.

Because with words and symbols at your command,

you can cast spells as you weave together a web of words.

And so you link Internal States with events in the world

to thereby call forth neuro-linguistic magic.

Then for good measure you wrap your spell

with higher level contexts and frames,

meanings within meanings,

and those meanings embedded in yet higher meanings.

The spell you cast then lie at your command

if only you pay attention

to your magic wand of Symbolism

and its Secrets about the Structure of Magic.'

(quotation from L. Michael Hall)

"When our maps do not fit the territory, when we act as if our
inferences are factual knowledge, we prepare ourselves for a world
that isn't there. If this happens enough, the inevitable result is
frustration & an ever-increasing tendency to warp the territory to
fit our maps. We see what we want to see, & the more we see it, the
more likely we are to reinforce this distorted perception, in the
familiar circular & spiral feedback pattern." (Levels of Knowing &
Existence, Harry Weinberg, Intro 29)