Where Do Thoughts Go

This is the kind of question a five year old might ask when they think you must be smart enough to know the answer because you’re a grownup. So just in case I ever get caught in this tight spot, I thought I better be prepared. So I thought about it.

What is a thought? Well, I pretty much have discounted the materialist assumption that it’s somehow the result of biological processes, impulses or chemical events. I’ve accepted that the body is an effect, not a cause. So do thoughts originate in the mind, as opposed to the brain? This feels closer to the truth…but which ‘mind’ do we refer to…the individual mind or the collective? Again, I’m at the point where I have accepted there is no ‘individual mind’ in the true sense, as on the quantum level ‘all minds are joined’. This is in the sense that the mind exists in a dimension beyond the physical, is subject to quantum principles, like non-locality, and is not dependent on a body to function or to ‘be’. Just ask anyone who has died and come back.

If we are talking about the mind as a non-local intelligent field, we find a much better fit with the view that the brain is more a transceiver of energy and information than a generator of such. Neurobiologists are beginning to accept this. Neurons in particular are highly sensitive to subtle quantum fluctuations via specific structures such as microtubules and clustered water structures. So we have this pre-existing field of intelligence broadcasting constantly in all bandwidths…that is, every possible conceivable thought from the most sublime to the most depraved is ‘on’ all the time. It’s like all radio stations are available all the time. We simply choose the one that most resonates with us in the moment. And what dictates that choice? Our beliefs, I suppose, of who we are, what is ‘good’, and what feels good. We entertain thoughts that confirm our beliefs about ourselves. You could say ordinary thought is a stream of self-fulfilling prophesies.

It seems we have come with ‘pre-set’ station preferences. These are the thought stations we were programmed with by family, cultural and social conditioning influences. This is why we can say most of our thoughts are simply repeating past conditioning, and as such, are mostly meaningless beyond this. This would account for what we call ‘boredom’. The mind-projector has a limited library of pre-set thoughts it will accept. As ‘projection makes perception’ (a Course in Miracles) we see a world that never seems to change. So we look for escape in mindlessness. “If I can’t get a new station, then may as well just turn the damn thing off”, we reason.

You could think of the thought field in vibrational or dimensional terms as making up the 4th or Astral Plane of existence. This is the realm of non-physical thought projections that account for the various ‘angels and demons’ of traditional lore. These are images we have conjured up in our imagination, but then project them ‘out’ in our perception in order to deny their source in our minds.

If there truly is One Mind having a dream of separation, as the Course in Miracle offers, then all these thoughts belong to all of us. That means we have equal access and full rights to any level of thought we desire. Being Dualistic, the 4th Dimension is still subject to the illusory vagaries of ‘opposites’. Opposites cannot exist in Oneness. As such they don’t really exist, except in imagination. The 4th Dimension currently reflects this imagination. So we have ‘low frequency’ thoughts that reinforce the dream of separation, or ego. These are thoughts based on fear, lack, greed, envy, hatred, dominance, competitiveness and murder. It is easy to see how these thoughts perpetuate themselves in a cycle of projection, perception and reaction. But because this sense of separation and the ego don’t really exist outside of our imagination, we can truly say these thoughts go nowhere, which is where they come from. From nothing they arise, accomplish nothing, and return to nothingness. This is why the Course Lesson can state simply ‘My thoughts don’t mean anything’ and ‘My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.’

If this One Mind is dreaming a meaningless separation nightmare, what of the Dreamer?

The Dreamer is also the One Mind, but in its sanity and perfection as Spirit. The Dreamer never left Oneness and is still safe at home. This ‘awakened’ aspect in each of us is the Spark of Light that the dream has not extinguished. It remains as a faint reminder of who we are outside the dream. It shows up in the form of the Will…the desire to stop suffering and seek a better way. Even a thought of this quality, “God, I wish there was a better way…” resonates at a higher frequency than the ego’s thoughts. As this new thought resonates with the Truth of Oneness (we are One, there is only One of us here, and it’s you and it’s me) it goes out into the 4th Dimension and strengthens that specific frequency in every seemingly separated mind at once. The higher frequency thoughts aligned with truth by the Will that desires something better both draws you closer to Truth while drawing more Truth to you. The benefits of ‘truth thinking’ are peace, joy, and inclusion (Love). These feelings are self reinforcing; we want more, and so attract more of these thoughts. We want to share them, because we see the automatic response as the ‘other’ mind recognizes Truth and returns it to us as Light. The more we accept and share ‘truth thoughts’ the brighter grows the Flame of Love in our hearts and Minds…and we begin to experience ourselves as that One Mind…forever healed, forever loved and forever One.

So it appears that low frequency thoughts go where they came from, which is nowhere and high frequency thoughts go where they came from, which is everywhere, every time and back to everyone at once. I think that answer should satisfy any five year old.

Dave Cowan

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