Thought
“At a certain moment of your life you get thought by the living earth.” Martin Shaw, Courting the Wild Twin
Do we ‘think’, or are we ‘thought’?
In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle says ‘I am not my mind’. This suggests ‘my thoughts are not me,’ ‘my ego is not me’ and ‘I am more than my mind’.
What if thoughts are ‘thought beings’ that exist ‘out there’ who are constantly vying for our attention? They are only heard if our level of consciousness in the moment matches theirs. Our level of consciousness is simply the frequency to which our ‘radio receiver’ is tuned. Happy people have happy thoughts, and unhappy people have unhappy thoughts.
The best creative writing tip I ever received was: ‘go with the first thought.’ Live in the moment of what is. This also occurs in Buddhism as “first thought, best thought”. It’s the first creative whisper before the busy mind (or ego’s) fog of constant narrative, judgment and opinion jumps in. “First thought” is “best thought” because it is pure inspiration in the moment, untainted by ‘if only’s' of past regrets, or ‘what-ifs’ of future hopes and fears. They are the insecure opinions, interpretations, and likes and dislikes.
It’s a subtle distinction, and the adversary spirits are very good at pretending to be ‘me’, so we may often think the thoughts are ours.
One of the ‘thinkers’ I used to have was particularly vicious. After a really vicious self-attacking thought to my heart in the middle of the night, I silently asked ‘Who are you?’. I felt a ‘whoosh’ as the spirit fled from the light of my awareness. After a session with a dear healing friend, that spirit does not visit me anymore.
Douglas Harding saw a self-portrait and had a spontaneous awakening when he realised he had no head.
