This imaginary signifier, Lyotards pulsating Matrix / Figure1 hasn't been sufficiently established, and so, thanks to Sant Mat, I will establish a new approach here. Namely Sant Mat applies it more often - but even much more uncritical. The guru's 'astro-mental'2 form represents a strong point of reference. Here, the mainstay is imagery.
Nevertheless, the path to causality is neither an easy one for psychoanalysis nor for Surat Shabd Yoga.
That path leads through an elaboration of a fortunate conjecture of the imaginary and of the symbolic signifiers. Were an analyst to be a ‚will-o'-the-wisp', and not just a good interpreter, were a Sant Mat master also a psychotherapist and not just mostly an astro-mental Deva guru, then it would be easier to reach into 'causality'. This is why I want to combine both processes into one (theoretical and practical) solution.
The usual western reader would be estranged with the terms 'sound' or 'speech - signifier' as a primal principle, and regard these to be extraordinary. Physical sound would be known to such a reader. He might also be acquainted with musicology, which attempts to formulate a system of sounds and tones. What most readers probably don't know is that there is a world forum for acoustic ecology, which concerns itself with 'sound' (now we can already pronounce and write it in quotes) in a completely different, extraordinary way.
A 'sound' in the Surat Shabd Yoga system may be something other than what the WFAE (Organization for Acoustic Ecology) concerns itself with, but there are 'accords' of the two systems.
1 F. Lyotard explains the primary, or more imaginary unconscious through a pulsating matrix, and with that, through connected pictures.
2 'Astral', here, stands for a point-to-point level, a field in which the relationship of one star to another produces an elementary mind structure. The same applies for the 'mental' level: a thought-to-thought structure in which each thought is only connected to the next by a simple mythical law, or with an ideology. So, Kirpal Singh's thoughts were mentally very traditional and based on the teachings of Guru Nanak, Kabir and on other earlier Indian Saints.