I -and some others involved with paganism- believe there are three levels of consciousness:
- your rational self, which is the state you are in in everyday life.
- your inner child; which was more dominant when you were still small, before you learned all those rules and behaviors from society.
- your higher consciouness, the level of consciousness closest to the divine, the spiritual world, or whatever you may call it, and which is in fact part of it.
Important spiritual messages from the universe/a higher power/your guardian angel/whatever are given to you by your higher consciousness; however because of our rational self, we are uable to perceive such divine messages.
The inner child works like sort of a translation key, translating that message into something which we might be able to understand and interpret, such as symbols, images, dreams, etc...
But that's just my opinion.
