Perceiving and Generating Thought-Forms
Thought forms occupy two planes or “implicate orders” in occult thought: the astral and the lower mental planes.
These phenomena are observable to individuals who have honed their abilities to perceive the astral and mental planes. As such, they are not mere beliefs but verifiable facts, showing clear connections to the physical, mental, and emotional states of the beings they relate to.
This holds true to a considerable degree, allowing such claims to be subjected to empirical verification and thus objectivity.
It is said that our distinct personal thought forms can be clairvoyantly seen floating within our energy fields.
Late American physicist Michael Talbot recorded some fascinating clairvoyant observations in his excellent book The Holographic Universe.
For example, once during a reading, American “human energy field consultant” Carol Dryer saw a bunch of potatoes whirling around a woman’s head. She was at first dumbfounded but summoned her courage and asked the woman if potatoes had any special meaning for her.
As it turned out, the woman was from the Idaho Potato Board, or something roughly equivalent. In other words, potatoes were a very significant and meaningful part of her life.
Such images don’t always just hover around the person in their aura but sometimes appear as extensions of the body or proximal layer of the auric field.
Another of Dryer’s clients had a hologram-like layer of mud clinging to her hands and arms.
This baffled Dryer, given the woman’s immaculate presentation, so she asked if the woman could understand the image. Affirmative: she was a sculptor and the new medium she tested out that morning did indeed cling to her arms and hands just as Dryer described.
Psychics of Dryer’s advanced abilities (of which there appear to be comparatively few) are also able to see movie-like sequences playing in people’s energy fields.
The most emotionally powerful memories or precious thoughts manifest in this fashion.
Likewise, illness can also be detected by psychics such as Dryer and Brennan, a notion with considerable scientific support now.
Jay Alfred explains that our holographic dark plasma/subtle bodies generate and project holographic images in real time in response to thoughts and feelings. The unique properties of Carol Dryer. Image from a Thinking Allowed interview with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove “magnetic plasma” fields – which can be reorganized or “shape-shifted” by the will – provide these fields with all the components needed to build a “holographic machine.”
Gravitational lensing – the way light bends as it passes through a gravitational field – also plays a role in generating images in our mind’s eye, according to Alfred. Leadbeater claimed in The Inner Life that an “atom” allows us to view images originating in our higher vehicles.
Tackling this statement almost a century later – with gravitational lensing long since a well established scientific phenomenon – Alfred proposes that a physical-etheric atom, uses gravitational lensing to focus multi-dimensional images generated from higher vehicles to a place in front of our eyes as 3D images.
Thus, we experience thoughts not in the brain, but in our subtle bodies via the brain. In point of fact, outstanding clairvoyant and theosophist Dora Kunz has explained that to clairvoyant sight, visualization uses the power of the brow/ third eye chakra, speeding its rotation and also affecting the crown chakra.
In the yogic systems thought forms are referred to as pratyaya: the content of the mind functioning through a particular vehicle (or what I sometimes refer to as a “torsion-plasma body”).
For someone in the ordinary waking state working through their mental body, the pratyaya in their case will be the mental image in their mind. Anyone with clairvoyance operating at the appropriate level can see this mental image and gain knowledge of that mind (“mind reading”).
Functioning in this way, the seer is able to detect form but not necessarily the intent or emotion that caused the form. That is why even the best clairvoyants will often conduct readings in a question-based format.
Hence, Dryer asked one client, despite her reluctance, if potatoes had any special significance for her.
Powell explained in occult terms that a thought form is a kind of living entity of high energy that is animated by the idea that spawned it.
The finer the matter it is composed of, the greater the energy and power it possesses. Modern mystic and clairvoyant Robert Bruce states that astral matter reacts to thought just as physical matter responds to force.
Thus, it can be molded in ways only limited by the imagination. The most convincing thought constructs can be indistinguishable from reality.
The kind of higher-dimensional matter out of which thought forms are made is referred to in theosophical doctrine as “elemental,” a “strange semi-intelligent life” (to use theosophist A.E. Powell’s terminology) that surrounds us.
Because it is so easily molded by thought, every impulse emanating from one’s mental body immediately draws around itself a temporary vehicle composed of “elemental.”
The same principle applies to both astral and mental densities. However, mental matter responds to thought even more quickly because it is a higher energy, lower density medium in this framework.
Yogi Ramacharaka explained in 1904 that a strongly charged thought – perhaps one strongly willed and motivated by positive intent – also takes with it a certain amount of prana proportional to the intensity with which the thought was propelled.
“Such thoughts are often sent like a bullet to the mark,” he stated.
A thought, then, is a kind of living creature:
the thought-force, or torsion/scalar energy, is the “soul,” while the plasmoidal elemental essence (particles) comprises the “body” of the thought.
Such thought forms are sometimes referred to as artificial elementals, temporary mental constructs. There are reports of self-aware thought forms (tulpas) being generated through ritual and intention.
The poet W.B. Yeats reputedly managed to create one, a “white Jester,” with enough independent vitality to become visible to a few of his friends.
Theosophist Alexandra David-Néel also achieved something similar through sustained effort and mystical rites over a period of months, although her tulpa gradually turned lean and sinister from its originally plump and jolly state and, with much difficulty, had to be dissolved.
Lt. Col. Tom Bearden readily accounts for such tulpoidal phenomena in a highly scientific (and somewhat technical) manner in his impressive Excalibur Briefing.
The variety of possible thought forms is essentially infinite, being limited only by the imaginations of the universe’s sentient inhabitants.
If a thought has in it something of self or personal desire (lower frequency/vibration), its composition will include astral matter in addition to the mental.
Such a “thought-emotion-form” is then capable of affecting both the mental and the astral torsion-plasma bodies of other people.
This is overwhelmingly the most common type, as few thoughts of men and women at this point in history are completely devoid of desire, passion, or emotion.
The creation of a purely mental thought form occurs when the mental body emits a vibrating fragment of itself.
This fragment, shaped by the specific nature of the thought, attracts matter of a similar fineness from the surrounding “elemental” substance of the mental plane.
From the perspective of Edgar Cayce, thoughts are literally deeds in the mental realm that have an influence on the material world.
Rudolph Steiner had much the same outlook, advising mindfulness of one’s thoughts, as they react to one another in the “thought world”:
“wrong” thoughts having a “devastating effect on others in the mental environ.” 191
Thoughts are real hyperspatial aetheric energy, not merely internal neural impulses that we experience quietly in our heads – they are not even generated by our brains.
Every definite thought produces two effects in the subtle vehicle/s: first, a radiating vibration that operates on a wider, more influential scale; second, a floating form with less reach and a more targeted, narrower influence.
The vibration set up in and radiating from the mental body tends to reproduce its own frequency in any mental body on which it impacts: that is, to produce thoughts of the same type.
The radiating vibration carries, not the subject of the thought, but the character.
by: Brendan D. Murphy/PS
extracted from “Science Meets Spirituality“
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