I Can't Imagine

In our culture, I think there is a tendency to ignore the imagination as a tool and as a sense.  As a tool when we can use our imagination and focus it to bring things to us.  As a sense when we imagine but are actually sensing something.  

I've found humorous whimsy to be predictive in so many instances.  It's amazing that we see things and don't see them at the same time, but crack that joke and reflect on it after it seems to come true.

The mind does not function according to linear logic, but people can make it appear that it does. 

We rarely try to bring something into our lives by thinking about it in a regular disciplined way.  Every night for a few minutes, pretend that what you want is real and in your life, forget about it, don't look for it.  

Just keep working at it.

There is a story of Milarepa who used magic that involved the use of visual imagination to control the weather to obtain revenge against some relatives of his.

I believe it was hail and rain, but don't quote me.

Unfortunately, in order to practice that particular form of magic, years of meditation were required to train the mind to focus so that when it came time to create mental images, the thought forms created would have enough energy to go off and change things.

I believe there are two kinds of meditation: active focus and passive reception.  Active focus imagines something such as a candle flame or some other image or sound, and passive reception is leaving the mind open while quietly paying attention to your breath.

I'm not quite sure how to categorize a quiet focus on feelings of joy and gratitude, but it's one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mental state.

In this culture, we literally don't know what we're doing with our minds.

But we do use an alternative imaginative process where we are able to imagine how we can achieve something by seemingly juxtaposing different ideas so we can see a path to where we want to be. 

But there is a school of thought that says that imaginative thought is the precursor of reality.  In which case all the angst and disgust you vent at the less positive aspects of your life are far more than wasted energy.

Increasing your focus on things that are irritants merely reinforces them in your life.  

Imagine that the part of your life you are living is merely an extension of  what you are imagining, so that if you turn your mind to a new grand vision, eventually, it will filter into the life you are living. 

In developing systems, I would think about the end goal, and things that I could do to achieve it simply appeared in my mind.   When I started, I had no idea what I could do to create a system, and then as if by magic, ideas would start to come, unexpected, unpredictable ideas. 

What could be more magical then that?

Think about what you desire, and don't throw it out because you believe it to be unreachable.  Change your mind and simply say, "I don't know how, but let me think about it."

I've always found that persistence, thinking about something every day, not looking for it to show up, but admitting to my self that I wanted it, focusing on it every day, eventually paid off.

 

What's Floating Around Your Head?

I don't quite know what to call my subject matter, since it's not really mysticism or the occult.  

Greater Reality?

The peculiar nature of the back of the mind, and things that happen in the world, maybe.

We've heard of thought forms, and for those of you who are Theosophists, you may have read about them.  Those funny things we create, we might call them ideas but they have a kind of reality to them that's almost physical.

At one time in my life I sensed them. 

Golf ball sized things floating in the ether. 

I think for most of us they float around our head, at least if they're about us. 

Example:  I'm going to leave the party in five minutes, I need to find my coat and overshoes. Then I'm out the door. 

That creates a little thought form.

A friend of mine, and some of our mutual friends had helped me move and we were relaxing a moment after getting everything into my new apartment.  

I knew he wanted to leave because I could "see" the thought form floating around his head.

I zapped it. 

The next time he created it, I let him leave.  I didn't want to be too much of a jerk, after all he was a friend.

So these are little packets of energy, there must be some other way that they serve our interest.  Can't be all about us.

What if they go out into the world and change things?

Considering the number of people in the world, there must be billions of these things zipping around.

Do little thought forms accrete into bigger thought forms?   Can these things combine?

You get the idea, a bunch of us want an event or thing, and the thought forms combine, go out and facilitate its creation.

So many times, I've noticed that I want something and my wife gets it. 

I suspect that thought forms and ideas are the same thing.  What magic is it, that allows me to read an ancient book and seem to understand what the author wrote?

There is a good deal that I don't understand about all the invisible communication that takes place between all of us.

It's a mystery like so many others. 

But I've sensed thought forms, and I know I can pop one open that I didn't create. But I don't know the implications of that.