Thought forms

[Lavazza]

Upon further reflection, I believe that through-form may more appropriately be thought of as a dichotomy (thought/form) than a distinct state of existence.

I must say, I think this makes a lot of sense. Likely as not, Jim interpreted Ra's words as "thought-form" because it seems to make sense in that configuration, whereas Ra really intended it as thought/form. Good catch! It completely explains the gradation of such phenomena from hardly tangible (ghosts, etc) to perhaps mid-tangible (UFOs?) to very tangible (Pyramids- although the Lavazza jury is still out on that subject! )

The only thing left to find on the thought-form vs. thought/form topic is the smoking gun, which would be Ra's use of the terminology form/thought. Does that crop up anywhere in the texts?

Note that thought/forms will be strengthened by the power of the number of people thinking the thought. Thus one of my interests in having as many of us as possible think the thought of the world polarizing toward harmony.

Agreed. I would like to explore this further sometime. I've often thought about how real world events are swayed by the attention of millions of people. As an aside to this, have you ever read about the Global Consciousness Project, that Dean Radin is involved with? The basic premise is that our attention / consciousness en mass can influence material things (nothing new for us, but new for the scientific community, and it's nice that science is beginning to pay attention (no pun intended...)) Link: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

By the way, this discussion is a great example of how teach/learning is a dichotomy. Until you asked the question and I investigated it and replied, I had only an misty concept of that thought/forms were a dichotomy. Intuitively, I felt that something like this was the case, but now it is much more tangible and logical to me. Thus in the process of "teaching" (and I humbly ask your forgiveness of my presumptuously assuming that I have taught), I have "learned". Still, one must remember that this is only my perspective and is, I'm sure, full of distortions. But it does hold together nicely in my mind.

Excellent! I'm happy to have provided the opportunity, and happier still that our discourse is symbiotic. I'm certainly taking a GREAT deal of understanding away from these sessions, so your preemptive apology for assumptions made are falling on deaf ears here. I read at least a few pages of TLOO each night, ever bookmarking as I go, so have no fear that my questioning will cease anytime soon.

The inspired pupil,
Lavazza