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SUSTAINING THOUGHT-FORMS
Someone I have met through the Desteni forum expressed an idea (after leaving the forum by the way) that could prove to be useful within this current framework. She said the following about the possible connection between thought-forms and the act of thinking.
If not re-affirmed by the culture of the times, or forgotton, these etherial thought forms simply dissipate. Thought as I understand it creates a form that can be made less etherial everytime it is affirmed. So to dissipate negative thought forms that are placed in our thought layer by us - we must not think them! They will dissipate for they have no way of keeping themselve "alive" except through us thinking them....
This approach seems likely to me. Seen within the context of the approaches that promote 'non-thinking' this could be a way to end certain thought-forms that are rather harmful. If no one believes in creations like the biblical god or satan it might be that they are forced to dissipate. Perhaps watch the impressive description by Anton Lavey through 'Winged' from August 14, 2007 on the creation (and sustenance) of these entities by people who believe in them. I used to resonate with her back then, but that seems long ago now.
As long as people believe in these entities or creations they are 'fed' and allowed to exist. Anton Lavey even says that once enough people 'feed' certain ideas/entities/characters they might even develop some self-awareness. Can you imagine that? One of the drawbacks of the 'stop-all-thoughts'-approach might be that you also stop the potential to create something new, but let's spend some time on identifying some possible factors that maintain the existence of certain thought-forms.
Within my current framework I see biological, ancestral, demonic and present-day thinking as factors that keep the present thought-forms as they are, including those harmful ones. The biological factors would be those that are the result of the building of the body based on the 25 ancestral lineages, the more 'charged' or 'electrical' lineages you would have the greater the chances of thinking thoughts of a certain 'distorted' vibration.
The ancestral elements would be the remaining thought-forms of those that are connected to your lineages. If you hold connection to ancestors who still believe fervently in certain 'distorted' perspectives it is likely that you are to think along the same lines.
Since I came into contact with Desteni I started to use the word 'demonic' to signify those 'non-physical'-forces that intend to guide people into distortion: the more distortion the more energy can be withdrawn from them.
CHANGING THOUGHT-FORMS
If you were to change the thought-forms that you sustain you might do well to pay attention to these factors. The demonic forces prefer chaos, many of the ancestors prefer to stay in their known reality-perspective and your genetic background is tuned to thinking certain thoughts more easily than others. On top of that you have the current media which express what society prefers to think in general which isn't always as harmless as one would like.
When faced with these factors it would almost seem impossible to grow any thought that deviates from the ones that are popular now and were popular in your ancestral past. Fortunately there are always factors that promote the growth of less harmful thought-form: some ancestors would hold memories of times less harmful and you have a mind that allows for creating new thought-forms that are more beneficial for yourself.
PROVIDING NEW EXAMPLES
In the essay called Restructuring Society I talk about the possibility to learn children to no longer blindly accept the reality perspectives of the people around them. If they could show to their parents, or to see it in a larger perspective, to their ancestors that it is very well possible to live differently, they might 'teach' them how healthy a different reality-perspective may be. Perhaps it can convince some ancestors to change their belief systems as well. If certain thoughts are no longer thought the corresponding ethereal thought-forms might dissipate slowly as well. Once there are less 'harmful' thought-forms in the ethereal realms less, the less likely it will be that people would tune into them.
The difference between the act of forgiving on the one hand and the provision of new examples on the other, is that I am never sure if forgiveness actually 'works', whereas I am more inclined to believe that the creation of new path-ways may show some ancestors that something else is possible. Of course both methods could be used.
When I think about concrete examples I would like to focus on those fields that have had a lot of distortion in the past. Take for instance the concept of 'marriage'. How much mental/emotional distortion has been broadcast because people believed that it was necessary to remain married despite the circumstances? I believe that this thought-form is already rapidly losing ground, so perhaps we can be glad about that. People could learn to develop relationships that are non-dependent because each 'participant' would know that they are 'whole' as they are.
Another aspect that has probably caused quite some distortion is the sexual abuse by men perpetrated on children. Perhaps people with ancestors who have a good deal of this theme on their plate can create relationships with children that are not sexually charged. Men who are about to rape a woman might decide to stop in the early stages of a rape and start communication with the woman instead. People who have a lot of money can decide to stop the 'kumara' of greed and do something constructive with their money instead of investing their energy in obtaining more possessions. Pilots who are about to drop a bomb on other people might decide to refuse.
People can decide to no longer accept the need to work for 40 hours or more a week. Although this might be hard, it could lead to a world that holds more people that have time to spend on other matters. People could decide to pay less attention to external stimuli and look inwards more often. People may decide to stop playing agressive games.
CONCLUSION
Even though it might seem rather trivial, the act of trying to provide examples of living more harmlessly might show some of your ancestors that another way of living is possible and they might be convinced to change their perspective, thereby leaving their 'distorted' reality-aspects behind to dissipate into thin air. Once certain ancestors are persuaded they might persuade others to follow suit. If there are less ancestors with distortion to tune into, the genetic counter-parts may adopt a more harmless mode as well.
In my introduction I said that it might be hard to determine if some act of forgiveness really changes anything, the same may hold for this approach: how can you be sure that some ancestors were persuaded to change their habits? When I speak for myself, I hope that due to a rise in average vibration I will be able to have a chat with some of my ancestors one day to test the usefulness of both approaches. For now both paths remain as possible ways towards a state of less harmfulness.
Gibbon
October 2007