Where do thoughts come from? Do we create them (out of our egos?)? Or do they already exist and we attract?

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them? If this, then, where are they "stored" prior to coming into our awareness? Are they within the infinite potential/possibility of the Absolute Field? How do thoughts serve us? Are they purposeful or purposeless? Do they divert us from our true nature? Is thinking always useless and unproductive? Or do we use the ability to "think" incorrectly? Are questions such as this just stirring up chaos and confusion? Is the intellect a helpful thing? I am Curious

Answer 1

Well there is thought when there is movement. Mind is the builder, as we observe things there is a reactive feedback response that will occur in regards energy. Thought, as in its essence is energy which source is from our higher natures (all energy is sourced there). Thoughts aren't stored, they are essences which must be evolved, the movement of thought as in its octave starts in the root of our intellect, the base in our earthly nature. And they are to evolve through the polarities of mind, but because of our organic nature or counterfeit personality they can never evolve, often times we are merely mechanical recycling the same thought patterns over and over again, by reason of the aspects of mind which are enticed by external stimulus. Our thought-essence is supposed to evolve through the polarities (think of a battery and their respective positive/negative charges) of mind and become united in their third force charge which is a union, harmony. This process produces development, the engaging of polarities brings forth a growing principle in mind, this is the process of expansion.

With that said most people don't have a true thought, often times they are merely recycling within a thought pattern and remaining earth-bound in thinking and their thoughts fail to manifest beyond the organic. Or their thoughts are from external sources. Reactive mechanical man responses to stimuli so they have no active thought, it is always by reaction, which makes it a thought that never evolves. Thoughts are supposed to evolve from alpha to omega in mind, but most only remain at the level of the organic or animal consciousness. The objective is to use the thought essence to evolve ones intellectual facilities of mind, movement of this thought octave through the dimensions of mind/or polarities and this invokes expansion.

From the prospective of the Higher Self, there is a movement of impressions that comes from those higher indwelling realities, but this Gnosis only comes to a mind a which has expanded to some capacity beyond the organic and have submerged in the third force/balance of these facilities of mind. At that point you are receiving thought impressions from indwelling Higher natures of your being, i.e. your Higher Soul of Light. So either a few things are occurring, you're either receiving thoughts from external sources (disembodied spirits - or thoughts from other people), you're thought essence is recycling by reason of your organic unconsciousness (counterfeit nature which fragments remain in the past, so thought patterns are formed - conditioning), you are actually evolving this Thought vital energy throughout the mind which produces impressions of a higher vibration towards growth and expansion, or you have come to the degree that you are drawing upon your Higher Indwelling True Self and are receiving impressions from that level of being, which works in unison with your own flow of thought.

Many people don't truly understand what the mind IS. The Mind animates the body, its like an atmosphere around the body and it isn't by any means the brain, as the brain is merely the upper organ conduit for the mind, all the organs are. The brain is the Higher center in the body in regards the organs, some can think from the brain some can think from the sex organs - the body is in the pattern of the mind, the mind works through the organs. Consciousness is not limited to the body vessel - mind is ethereal.

Answer 2

If you asked that robot, what would it say? This question come up in various forms all the time in fiction - movies and books. I think it happens for good reason too - these are really interesting ideas and they stay interesting no matter how long you ponder them. Perhaps it would say it is alive and it is conscious and is not just running a program. Perhaps WE are just stupendously complicated biological machines and that's why we say the same thing. Perhaps if we are conscious, so must be the robot. By whatever definition you use to define consciousness, if you have the hypothetical robot as you describe, both must either be conscious or neither is conscious - at least to a point that can be determined - any test would be passed by both robot and man in this hypothesis. You might say that can't be the case, but its just as impossible to prove the idea wrong as it is to prove it right. That said, ego, consciousness and other things kind of get scary to define if that happens doesn't it? Humans loose the one thing that makes us special and our EGO doesn't like that. Or we can choose to think in a way that our egos don't depend on our being special in the first place.

Answer 3

We are conscious and aware of them and it is our duty to control them before we speak our thoughts and turn them into actions giving us negative reactions. We were made with brains to think and ponder move and survive purposefully. They are part of our nature and without them we would be less than vegatables, because they have proven vegatables feel pain. That is why I eat meat because no matter what I eat I will cause the thing I ate pain, but I only eat what I need to survive and I am grateful for everything that I have eaten and I give thanks for the tastey piggy in my belly, because now I am one with the piggy, and the cow, and the chicken, and the turkey we had for thankgiving, the veggies and the corn. Remember pain is temporary even we will die and our bodies will be worm food someday, But I believe that everything will live on at least if I appreciate all the things I have eaten and they have apperciated all the things they have eaten then when we no longer have to kill things to survive then we can be apart of God the universe and everything.

Do my thoughts betray me most likely, but I never clamed to be perfect and I think God expects us to be somewhat flawed until we go home, because we can not think all things our brains are small. I think we are all born with a peice of God's message and those thoughts are rarely traslated in this life. Life is organized chaos if we tried to ponder it our brains would explode or sieze up. If we ponder the small things one at a time everthing would run so much better. Go seek the truth. The truth shall set you free. The truth is you don't have to know everything. Leave it up to the creator of the universe.

We are all curious creatures intellect should be used help us navigate this life, people just have a way of making things seem more complex than they are live and enjoy the gift of life God has given you. Take pictures in your mind of the best parts of the trip to earth and then when you meet me in heaven we can share it all.

Answer 4

Thoughts are formed through a language in human mind. The conditioning factors create the requisite language. Life and soul within, provide the instincts and the intuition separately to respond to the stimuli around, that occasions thought process. The data collected by the senses and stored in the hard disc called memory programmed by experience and intelligence determine the road map of our thought. Intuition is the sole operation of the soul which has been cultured over centuries through bodily experiences. Here there is interplay with the universal consciousness. And these thoughts may be classified as spiritual, otherwise mostly the thoughts are motivated empirically by mind. Thoughts are basically mental operations that generate physical action. Logic and value system are tools for thought and also its limitations. Hence, at one stage one should try to liberate himself from the thought process and reach the state of thoughtlessness, which is called 'Trigunatita' stage in Hindu philosophy..

Answer 5

Thoughts are nothing but the false impressions that are left out of a experience .The most identified thoughts that have repeatedly happened gain strength and always appear when the ego identifies with it fast.
thoughts happen because one clings to the experience good or bad and when the mind is left alone or when you decide to do something all rush randomly and the one which is best suited according to the weather and many other conditions dance on the stage of mind and obviously the ego had identified with it and again YOU are lost.
The only thing can be done is let the thoughts alone they are false.We must have the capacity to bring only the required thoughts into action.
Behind the thoughts there is the truth it can be understood when one transcends the thoughts.Thoughts help us to unite with our ultimate destiny by creating a false separation!

Answer 6

Excellent question!

In this and past births, a normal human being learn and stores the information in Samriti (Memory) and Samskara (latent hidden impressions) -
1. Direct knowledge, what you get in via five sense
2. Inference, smoke will certify that fire is there
3. Scriptures, expression of realized ones

Apart from this you also have following negative faculties -
1. Imagination, which has no existence
2. Wrong knowledge, what is not true i.e. illusion e.g. in dark rope looks like a snake
3. Sleep, knowledge in which you KNOW that "you are not there'

In present birth, a small relevant portion of Samskars become our present active memory.

Now external subjects (Vishya) made of five elements, acts as catalyst (Abhivayanjak) and attracts relevant internal memory and brings them up to the surface. Then the thought emerges, stays and merges back. When we "identify" ourselves with thought, we become one with it. Good though will give us happiness, whereas bad thought give us sadness and so on.

So thoughts as such are not bad, it's our identification which them is an issue. To survive in material world, thought are required. For spiritual progress, we need to stop the thought process by witnessing the thought process. Then if we are eligible, we will get the glimpse of Divine.

Logic and intellect will help us to some extent, but after that if becomes a major barrier.

Answer 7

The body is a vehicle for your soul to enter, reside and have a turn driving it around this earth plane. The mind within the brain is the computer you use. Thoughts are your means of cogitating and communicating the soul's path. The soul, through all the lifetime's, stores the higher intellect in the pure harmonic of love...........the full pattern acquired.......and this intellect goes with the soul, on to the next body or realm depending on what is next for each one. Without thoughts you would be elsewhere in form or subtle form. You wish to know where thoughts originate, come from, exist? They are energy.........liquid that is visible if you could but see. I feel your questions stem from a mind that overworks itself and may benefit from some practice in what is termed...letting go. The mental clutter will bog you down and you may miss the subtleties of the pure nature of that delicious mind within. It is not thinking that is the problem as you seem to perceive it. It is the inability to climb out of the need to know. Knowing shall come upon you without any effort. Simply know that you shall soon know all things, and it shall begin to flow in. Life is very simple. Some make it very hard for themselves. In peace, friend.

Answer 8

We are walking recorders having recorded everything in our environment from an early age. Our memories feed our thoughts.
The life force is the mystery, The continual arising of thoughts, involving our emotions and actions as a result, keeps a rather interesting drama going.The drama, good verses evil, etc., holds our interest. When we no longer 'buy into' karmic thought patterns, the drama will end. We jump off the karmic wheel and find life more like watching someone else's story. There is little involvement in thoughts enticements. The "gigs" up! :)

Answer 9

I think thoughts are evoked by stimulus or cascade from earlier thoughts. As we have literally billions of sensory cells, there is plenty of "food for thought". And as long as we have a social life or tune into stuff, we have information coming in to produce a cascade of reacting thoughts.

But creative thoughts seem to come from a different entity, which some call their "muse", I don't really know the nature of this spirit. Some say each muse has a muse of their own, in a chain all the way to the Creator.

Answer 10

Thoughts are the information being transmitted throughout our brain. The neurons all have synapses thru which signals are passed. The trillions of connections in our brain make thought possible. Thoughts don't "come from" anywhere - they are just the information that is being transmitted back and forth. Now you might say that originally our thoughts came from our parents teaching us things like language and showing us pictures - this continues throughout our education. As we learn new things from outside we gain new thoughts, however, the thoughts themselves are simply the information being transmitted within our own brains.

Answer 11

It is said that there are only two sources of information on this Earth: Good - God and Evil - D/evil.

How many of our thoughts are truly our own?

Alan Watts said "We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society, we copy emotional reactions from our parents..."

Your name is borrowed, your religion is borrowed, your clothes are borrowed, your ideas are borrowed... What's truly unique?

I think the only thing that is unique is our own personal ability to process the information. We have free will and a choice as to what we are going to embrace and what we are going to reject.

The danger is, In todays world, we are constantly bombarded with ideas through the media and television. Ideas that are formed and presented with "authority". When we hear the same thing repeated over and over again, in relation to a certain image or idea, we often eventually buy into it. Even if we weren't attracted at the beginning.

An excellent example of this was 9-1-1. The world was shown images of the twin towers being struck by airplanes and collapsing, over and over and over again. And we were told, it was an "Attack" on "America's Freedoms" by "Radical Islam" over and over and over again.

- I wonder how many people would have bought-into that if it wasn't repeated and shown and repeated and shown so many times?

I'm sure a lot of people thought, when they first saw the buildings fall exactly the way building fall when they are being demolished by demolition explosives: "that looks like it was done with explosives". But each time they saw the images and heard the words, that still small voice within them got quieter and quieter then eventually gets drowned-out and forgotten.

I think we should always use discernment about every idea we are being presented. As O'Brien said to Winston, in George Orwell's 1984 - 'Real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.' - That starts in the mind. Our thoughts are truly not our own, but we have the power to accept or reject them, and this is the power which gives or takes away from the power of their creator.

Use it wisely.