I believe hardly anyone actually believes this.
And hardly anyone takes it to the extremes that it could be taken to.
It is true; we are not our thoughts. It’s absolutely true.
Take this concept the farthest that it may go. Just try. Give it a whirl, and be prepared to be disturbed.
- I am not my thoughts, I am just the awareness which perceives them.
- If I am a perceiver, then I did not generate them.
- Hang on, if I didn’t generate them, but I canly perceive them, then WHO is generating the thoughts?
- Something outside of me. Something distinct and different from me. Something which has it’s own wants needs and desires.
- What could that something want, need, or desire by generating all these thoughts?
- Is there any possibility that there are many of these thought-generating things, each having an individualized set of wants, needs, desires?
- It must be so; as not all humans think the same things… Therefore, there must be differentiated thought-generators.
- If there are many individuals, it would be relevant to know their wants, needs, and desires relative to some standard.
- What standard would be prudent? The only perceptual access I have is the thought generated. So, the effect of the thought upon my being should be the standard.
- Some thoughts are clearly irresistible. I find myself totally swayed by them and unable to move my attention elsewhere. I do not experience any free will in association with these thoughts. Therefore, the thought-generators of these I will regard as the very lowest forms.
- Some thoughts I find elevating to my free will; they allow my attention to flow into new thoughts and to recognize new, higher thoughts. The thought-generators of these I will regard as the higher forms.
- Hang on, ALL OF MY decisions are made based on these thoughts. Am I, the perceiver, being being controlled? Am I being captured by my attention? Through my attention? Is my attention paid to a specially curated screened set of thoughts?
- Would it be possible for my awareness to be excluded from other possible thoughts, or perceptions?
One is inevitably led into a realm of thought-generating beings which are distinct from human beings, and only perceptible to us through their effects. Clearly, they don’t have physical bodies. One might even surmise that their “bodies” are the thoughts themselves. So they are incorporeal, and they interact with humans through thought forms.
Now, I have a specific way to categorize any phenomena; and that is by the level of free will which is ceded or exercised in the experience. Insistent, repetitive, and obsessive thoughts, regardless of the content, are violently stealing away our free will. Feelings of higher realms such as equanimity or universal love, requires the human being to focus attention through his free will to ever become aware of them. Therefore, these are of the highest order; they lift the human being into freedom through the necessary use of his faculties out of his own effort.
Humanity is interacting with entities whether they believe in them or not. The entities, of course, prefer that we do not believe in them.
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