I Think Therefore I Am????

Our understanding of ‘thought’ plays a major role in understanding the blueprint of reality. The Forgotten Self has come to believe that thought initiates action and is what we employ to concentrate. If we focus our attention (thought) on the task at hand then we will get the job done. It doesn’t always work, though, does it? Our belief in accidents and coincidences also gets in the way of our listening to ourselves. We believe accidents and coincidences are outside our control; they just happen. Thought as mind and mind as consciousness represents our limited concept of consciousness. However, if we are to arrive at a full understanding that each individual creates all of his or her reality then we must first learn how to use the tool of thought according to its original function. Thought is not the all of consciousness. It is a tool that consciousness employs in this physical reality to interpret the constant barrage of communications we provide ourselves with.

Over thousands of our years we have distorted the use of thought to the point that we now believe it is a communication itself; that thought directs action. When we are told to pay attention we automatically direct our thinking to do so. Thought is not attention. What we do is where our attention lies. Thought is a natural response to both our subjective and objective communications to self. Emotion can be looked at loosely as our subjective or inner world and what we do and what we interact with as our objective or outer world. I’ll get into a far broader explanation of emotion in future blogs, or you can click on the previous link.

All of us wonder from time to time why we do things we don’t want to do, and don’t do the things we want to do. The answer is that thought does not initiate action; it does not create. Perception creates and is heavily influenced by our individual beliefs. The question is not why did I do what I did, but rather what did I do. In the what lies the communication that thought is supposed to translate. Since we so rarely pay attention to ourselves we do not provide thought with enough information to interpret correctly. Sometimes we do. This is when we do what we want to do and don’t do what we don’t want to do. I want some ice cream from the fridge and I get up and get it. This is thought interpreting a desire correctly. I want to chat up the beautiful woman across the room, but I don’t. This is thought interpreting incorrectly because it wasn’t given enough information. When we don’t pay attention to our communications to self then thought doesn’t have enough information to interpret our true desire in the moment.

We must distinguish between wants and desires before going further. Our ‘wants’ are objective, meaning they are physically oriented and represent thought’s interpretation of our true desire. Our desire is subjective and always in alignment with our personal intent that we brought into the world with us. Desire may be inaccurately translated by thought into the physical and objective world as wants and will therefore bear little or no resemblance to our communicated desire. What we experience as objective wants are motivated by thought’s often inaccurate translations and are driven and perpetuated by a lack of trust in our ability to create what we want, and a lack of acknowledgment of our worthiness.

When thought translates our communications correctly and we do what we want to do, it only appears that thought is directing the doing. The primary reason we have misused the tool of thought is because we believe we create some things, but not all things. A thought enters our mind to cross the street and we initiate action and cross the street. Half way across we get clipped by a car whose driver ignored the crosswalk. To our way of thinking thought told us to cross the street, but it certainly didn’t direct the car to hit us. The reality is that there are no accidents; no coincidences. We identify so strongly with thought that we literally believe that without it consciousness cannot exist. “I think, therefore I am.” Its opposite would be “I don’t think, therefore I don’t exist.” Do you believe that when your mind is not occupied by thought that you don’t exist? Do you cease to exist during sleep? Do you cease to exist when you still your thinking mind during meditation? Did you not exist between your birth and the age of three? If we are to believe that we create all of our individual realities then it behoves us to learn how we do it. The first principle is that thought does not create; perception, heavily influenced by beliefs creates. The second is that concentration does not occur through thought; concentration is our beliefs that are objectively expressed, and the third is that our attention is not directed by thought; attention is what we do. This is enough to chew on for today.
Bill Marshall