Hans Wilhelm makes the case that thoughts are alive, that most of the 50-70,000 thoughts a person has each day are repetitions, and that many of them did not originate with that person at all. He invokes Alan Watts on thinking-as-losing-touch with reality.
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[Music] hi I'm hansv and in this video in the life expense series I would like to take you into the fascinating world of thoughts did you know that we have approximately 50 to 70,000 thoughts per day and that most of these thoughts are all repeated thoughts which means we have the same thought yesterday last week last year and we also think that these thoughts are ours but that's not necessarily true many of these thoughts we have picked up from the world around us we have become addicted to thinking look what happens when we are thinking a thought we are basically focusing all our attention onto a very very tiny aspect of reality or as Alan Watts says thinking means losing touch with reality we are caught in a thought bubble and often get stuck and lost in it this always increases our deep feeling of separation separation from all that is and separation is probably one of the main causes for suffering in life thinking always isolates us separates us whereas simply being always unites and connects us being or being aware does not require thinking it is actually the opposite it is a space without thoughts it is being present instead of being lost in thoughts that's what the Teacher Calls mindful ful living let's now look at a typical life cycle of a thought take an architect who wants to design a house she starts with a simple thought or idea and as she keeps thinking about the house the design becomes more detailed and complicated she adds Windows Doors and so on to the design and and the thought becomes stronger now the next step is to bring this ethereal thought into the two-dimensional reality as a drawing on paper or on the computer screen now together with the help of many workers a lot of sweat and time eventually the house becomes a three-dimensional reality that is a natural path of a thought thoughts become things because a thing is a matured ripened form of a thought yes even our planet Earth is a manifested thought form so all our thoughts are Concepts that want to become effective real or manifested like everything else in the universe they have an inner life force that keeps them going furthermore we are always thinking in pictures so each thought has its unique form or shape all thoughts are totally Independent Living entities now let's look at an average crummy thought that we might have during any day this thought entity stays close to us for as long as we keep thinking and feeding it the more we think the thought the bigger and stronger it becomes we must remember that the whole universe is communication it is based on sending and receiving our crummy thought is an energy field and is also sending out vibrations and receiving from other sources it is connecting with other thought energies of same or similar vibration like attracts like if our crummy thought is not recognized and stopped it eventually will band together with similar crummy thoughts and together they become a large thought complex or thought bubble in accordance with the law of sewing and reaping this thought complex or energy complex will eventually return to the sender returning back to us to influence us and Endeavor to cause whatever it is that we may have feared with our originally crummy thinking depending on how often we have the thought and are still thinking the same thought it will gradually settle in our Aura and start exerting its influence on us and on our soul from without to within and whatever we may be afraid of now becomes a reality there's another interesting point we can also be influenced by thoughts that are originally not ours thought complex is from from other people can influence us if we have like or similar vibrations in us like fear for instance eat points out then when such a thought form or complex finds any resonance with us it hits us it may start as a little irritation but can quickly grow so any big thought that takes over our mind is not necessarily our own original thought these large thought forms can also take over whole groups of people countries and governments often they are promoted by the media and if we identify with these thoughts we are basically unconscious other people are then running our programs and are running us furthermore these larg thought complexes can have direct contact with a lower negative Asal spheres like the Demonic Realms from where they are fend and stirred up even more to influence humans with disastrous results you can find more about this dark power in my short video on evil we often forget that the realm of thoughts is densely populated if we could see these thought forms surrounding us we would be horrified and scared they all show without any mask the often grotesque desires and intentions of their creators it's like walking through a sewer where these thoughts come complexes float around us like heavy sluggish mut or oil slicks but on the other hand positive thoughts of love compassion truth and understanding have a glow within us and around us they can act like a force to remove the destructive thought forms I want to share one other example imagine we are having somebody who we strongly dislike like for instance a coworker so we are thinking a thought of hate towards that person we wish him ill this is what happens this thought is now an independent entity that we have sent towards our coworker the thought will reach the other person and attach itself to him if the other person does not have anything that resonates with our hateful thought it will have no effect on the other person but chances are that the other person does have a tiny amount of hat vibration within himself that is enough for our thought to stimulate and increase this hateful vibration our thought is now poisoning our coworker and this is now where it becomes very interesting if our negative thought causes the coworker to do something negative like hurting someone else we will be karmically bound to that coworker and be co-responsible for his negative action or words in addition of course this thought will eventually come back to us according to the law of sewing and reaping as we have seen earlier thoughts are a magnetic force and they are energy and no energy is ever lost all negative thoughts will fall back to us the originator by the way the same Dynamic happens with the opposite result whenever we send out good thoughts towards others like blessings lightf thoughts can bring bring and reinforce Joy Harmony and health in others I think it was met Khan who so poetically said we have to bless the living crap out of everyone meaning for as long as we bless and wish well-being onto others it is impossible to have any negative thoughts of being affected by them there's a lot more on this in my video how to bless as we have just seen there is an incredible power in thoughts and we better watch what we are thinking and become aware of any negative thought and stop it right away we can either bring light into this world or poison it any negative or positive thoughts can influence our genes and not only our genes but also the genes of a developing body of a baby in a mother's womb there is more on this in the book the cause and development of all illness by gabria you can get it on Amazon therefore meditation and the desire for Stillness are so important we can also question all the stressful thoughts that we become aware of one way is doing it to use these four questions developed by Byron ktie go to her website download her worksheet and watch some of her videos and you can also take a look at the various books that Katie and I have done together in addition let us become Discerning about places and people and media Outlets that thrive on negativity as we have just seen there's great danger in thinking and promoting thoughts that are negative and not even ours I'm looking very much forward to seeing you in my next video [Music]