L. Michael Hall, Ph.D., cognitive
psychologist, international NLP trainer, entrepreneur; prolific author;
developer of Meta-States and co-developer of Neuro-Semantics. Visit www.neurosemantics.com
In previous works, I have described the role of "metaphors" as language (The Secrets of Magic, 1997) and as meta-level phenomena that sets higher frames or meta-states over primary states (Meta-States Journal). Doing this enables us to engage in a much higher level kind of thinking; we are then able to think about one thing in terms of another.