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Considerations 107 …
Mind and Thought …
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There has been continued interest on the forum board … on the entire “procedure” or “layout” or “action” of thought as of late. I have discussed this before … but … let’s consider it once again.
*WE* send thoughts up into the mental realm. They other … according to like attracts like … and we continue to have these thoughts as we continue to focus in those areas. In the mental worlds … thoughts gather as clouds … or as groupings of similar thoughts … obviously varying slightly or greatly and obviously being quite specific … right down to the very fine details. That’s what makes the difference on the thought streams or waves that you “tune into” via your focused state of consciousness … or where you prefer to continuously focus your attention.
One either focuses on the material worlds … the psychic worlds … and the fewer focus on the true spiritual worlds. It must be one of these three and can vary according to ones focused attention moment to moment. Philosophy is simply “borrowed” or “focused” intelligence from the material or psychic worlds. Soul … eventually … lets Itself above these areas / realms … and begins a completely different sojourn. Whatever position in all of existence mostly dictates the “thought wave” one often travels. This is by personal preference.
Knowledge is a thought wave. Ignorance is a thought wave. Anything you can mentally conjure up … has its own generalized to specific thought wave … depending on how general or specific the focused area is.
Thought waves of the lower levels are caused by and lead to an enlargement of the ego-senses. One identifies with the belief / opinion / thought wave via the feelings or emotions of the astral or emotional body. The “feeling” that regulates the belief in such thoughts can be incredibly subtle … but they are controlling nonetheless. This often results in unhappiness or sickness … in whatever final area it settles in. Obviously … these thoughts can settle in various physical body areas … and cause much discomfort.
Who creates these thought waves? We do … every living thing that thinks a thought. These waves pour through from everywhere to everywhere … constantly.
We do *not* refocus easily. We have spent much time in pondering and accepting them … and are not easily dismissed. When we are angry … we tend to on favored set of thoughts that will express and contend with our own personal anger. Perhaps … instead of the example of a “house” as our choice of thoughts … it would be more accurate as … a personal “city” we carry inside ourselves. “Empty space” on all levels allow plenty of room for an endless number of these personal “cities” that we choose to live in … thoughtfully.
These false identifications are the cause of most misery … whatever the area … whatever the degree,
The temporary times of happiness may bring on the desire for its continuation … and cause much grief when LIFE begins to move one into a new area … or … karmic implications demand payment.
The minds only purpose is channeling these thought ways … via personal preference. We tune into them … just as we tune into a television channel or a radio station … through personal preference.
Statements like “what if” or “how about” or “maybe” or any other similar ponderings … simply probe into the thought wave in that direction. By now … the various thought waves are quite set in their “areas of focus” but are certainly willing to expand as the various individuals feed them. It’s as simple as moving from a specific house in a neighborhood location to perhaps next door … or two houses down … still in the same area … but different … expanded … taking in a few more details.
Soul is capable of being outside these thought waves but has no clue that It can do so. That … is much of what the Path is all about.
So the difference … in a nutshell … is that which you *identify* with. This is another way of saying … ones beliefs / opinions / areas of focus … however you wish to term that … is what you live at the moment … and since mind loves habit … it is not an easy focus to change.
No Lower Psychic Worlds thought wave is ever controlled by blanking the mind … stopping the mind … or my mental force. If one puts energy against something … it is the same as putting energy and focus *for* something. One cannot “out-power” the mind.
An old maxim … mind cannot be forced … but it can be led.
This takes time … and is often exhausting … but is the only real means of revision or control. One must renew … or revise … the mind … the choice of belies … by focusing on the new set of thoughts or personal realities until the new set is preferred over the old. Since mind loves habit … or the continuation of the old … this interaction is often … problematic. If one has focused for an entire lifetime on thoughts that bring about physical body discomfort or disease … the physical body adds “solidarity” to the beliefs … and the struggle can certainly become mountainous.
To put oneself constantly in the ares of probing or query leads to never knowing what the foundational stance would or should be. This too … is the methodology of the Path. If one does not know what is “beyond mind” … then one continues to probe and ponder. Mind can analyze, define, categorize, judge, dissect, and juggle … endlessly.
Most often … it is only when one is totally exhausted with this approach … and is willing to take the necessary efforts in focus and risk … does one begin to move beyond. Declaration that one has does this … is of little effect or consequence. Mind can declare anything … and believe it. Today’s world is showing that.
There is an intriguing thread in the forum board considering where thoughts “come from.” You might as well ask … “How did I get here?” … or … “Why am I here?” … after you walked into the front door of your living quarters and wonder why you are in *this* house. You walked in … you *chose* it … by focused attention.
Bu in the thread … the mind wrings its hands in glee and ponders … “Maybe this … “ or “How about that … “ or “It could be this instead … “ … and off the mind goes dancing in delight with conjuring up of possibilities, options, maybes, … and so the entire understanding stalls and hangs … and the individual its left to the mysterious ignorance of “I can come up with another option so I don’t have to accept an answer.” In a group setting … this can lead to incredible tangents … endless detours … and the “search” goes on.
As a cautioning qualification … again … please remember … this is *no* judgment of the mentalist intellectuals. This is what the mind does … and how it approaches data gathering. Once again … it is *not* so much what one has yet to learn … but *much* more in what one has left to give up … that determines the understanding of greater Life.
Mind … does *not* like … to give up or let go of. It often leads to the inner feeling of “loss” or “emptiness” or “less than.” All will do most anything to protect oneself against that.
More later.
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