“There’s nothing theoretical about thought. It’s the realest [sic] thing in the universe. Thought moves and thought does. It moves against and into. It is a force, a thing, a reality.”

- Source uncertain (Pendleton 63)TDAchanneled • modern • Pendleton

The movements of consciousness are not conscious in and of themselves. They are observed by consciousness. . . .

Only from the standpoint of Perpetual Consciousness NOTE: pure consciousness do we clearly witness the thoughts and experiences of life as separate from the Reality of the knower. Withdraw the light of the inner Self, and what continuance do the movements of thought have? (MSI 298)Ewisdom • modern, Hindu • Isham

Awareness precedes all thinking, so the thinking mind isn’t the source of awareness. (Dass 158)EtS-RDwisdom • modern • Dass

(speaking for the helpers): As [thoughts] come into being they are immediately dispersed into the atmosphere. Thoughts are powerful, and are at an extremely high frequency. They are limitless in their ability to travel and penetrate. (McKnight 57)CJOBEr • modern • McKnight

Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want. (Roberts 184)DEVF1channeled • modern • Seth

[Masters] seem as gods in comparison with lower humanity, because every sheath in Them is translucent, and the Light of the Spirit shines through unchecked. (Besant 47)SLwisdom • Theosophy • Besant

Every activity of the outer that qualifies [God’s energy] carries with it the inherent faculty of sound and color. . . .

God’s Perfection naturally has no discoloration within it. . . . Every student must take the responsibility of his own activity in qualifying the energy he sends forth. (King 71-72)IADchanneled • Theosophy • Germain

3. That which takes a form entirely its own, expressing its inherent qualities in the matter which it draws round it. . . . In this third group we have a glimpse of the forms natural to the astral or mental planes. Yet this very fact, which makes them so interesting, places an insuperable barrier in the way of their accurate reproduction.

Thought forms of this third class almost invariably manifest themselves upon the astral plane, as the vast majority of them are expressions of feeling as well as of thought. (Besant and Leadbeater 28)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

[Thought forms] appear to be blobs of varying brightness and form. These thought forms have additional colors superimposed on them, actually emanating from the emotional level. The color represents the person’s emotion that is connected to the thought form. The clearer and more well-formed the idea, the clearer and more well-formed is the thought form associated with that idea. (Brennan 50)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Three general principles underlie the production of all thought-forms:

1. Quality of thought determines color.

2. Nature of thought determines form.

3. Definiteness of thought determines clearness of outline. (Besant and Leadbeater 21)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

A thinking mind’s precise thought appears as a formation with distinct contours, while a confused idea appears as a blurred and foggy formation. (Steiner 161)Tclairvoyant • Theosophy • Steiner

A sound plate is made of brass or plate-glass. Grains of fine sand are scattered over the surface, and the edge of the plate is bowed. The sand is thrown up into the air by the vibration of the plate, and re-falling on the plate is arranged in regular lines. By touching the edge of the plate at different points when it is bowed, different notes and hence varying forms, are obtained. . . . The shapes pictured are due to the interplay of the vibrations that create them. (Besant and Leadbeater 18)

[Pendulums] suffice to demonstrate how readily vibrations may be transformed into figures.(Besant and Leadbeater 20)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

When, for example, a musical note is sounded, a flash of color corresponding to it may be seen by those whose finer senses are already to some extent developed. . . . Sound produces form as well. . . . Every piece of music leaves behind it an impression of this nature. . . .

The same piece of music if accurately played will always build the same form, but that form will be enormously larger when it is played upon a church organ or by a military band than when it is performed upon a piano, and not only the size but also the texture of the resultant form will be very different. (Besant and Leadbeater 67)

Such forms remain as coherent erections for some considerable time—an hour or two at least; and during all that time they are radiating forth their characteristic vibrations in every directions, just as our thought-forms do. (Besant and Leadbeater 69)

It is usually surrounded by many other minor forms, the result of the personal feelings of the performer or of the emotions aroused among the audience by the music. (Besant and Leadbeater 75)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

To play upon a musical instrument, or to sing, is to create color. . . . The musical thought-form produces no sound itself. It is the result of sound. (Borgia 112)LWUchanneled • modern • Benson

If a person has a strong feeling, his quiescent aura will suddenly be permeated with another color and form correlating to his emotional state. . . . If the person has not released the feeling, it will remain in his aura (usually faded) until he does. . . . The colors and forms may rapidly flash and move out of the auric field, or they may simply fade away over a period of a few minutes or even a few weeks. They may even be colored over or masked by other colors and forms in a layered effect. . . . Every thought, feeling, and experience a person has affects and changes his aura. Some effect always remains. (Brennan 90)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

One of the earliest “explosions” of the human energy field I observed remains one of the most vivid. In 1972 during a bioenergetics-primal scream intensive workshop, I watched Linda light up like a Christmas tree as she screamed about the death of her father from cancer. Bright beams of red, yellow, orange and some blues streamed from her head. . . .

People flash bright colors when they are engaged in feelings or actions. When they are quiet, the auric field returns to a stable “normal” state for that person. (Brennan 89)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Within the aura, streams of different colors present a true and ever-changing picture of our inner life in all its variability. (Steiner 161)Tclairvoyant • Theosophy • Steiner

At times a person may throw off color blobs of energy into the air around him. This is especially observable when someone is releasing feelings. (Brennan 50)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Spiritual feelings have a range of colors: blue for the speaker of truth, purple for spirituality and silvery gold for purity. . . .

Envy appears to be dark, dirty green and sticky, as in “green with envy.” Sadness is dark gray and heavy as in the cartoons of people with dark clouds over their head. (Brennan 91-92)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Intense jealousy creates a brownish-green, murky color in the aura of the person holding this type of thought. . . . A loving thought will produce shades of yellow. (Browne 166)RotOSclairvoyant • modern • Browne

The quality of the color red is what denotes anger. Bright red orange is not anger; it is related to vibrant life force. . . .

Someone who is angry has a dark red color. When this anger is expressed, it shoots off the person in flashes like bolts of lightning or round sparks that move away from the person. . . .

An example in which the person did not release her anger and pain. . . . As the red spot emerged from the throat area, it slowly moved outward. A moment later the group leader made a comment to her that was, in my opinion, hurtful. At this point, the red spot quickly moved back toward her body and into her heart area. When it hit her heart, she started crying. The crying was not of the cathartic type. It was rather “poor me, the victim.” My interpretation of this event is that she had stabbed herself in her heart with her own anger. . . .

Frustration and irritability will probably have dark reddish tones (red with anger), but are mostly apparent from their irregular vibrations that beat against another person’s energy field, causing very unpleasant sensations. Usually one’s friends react to this interference by trying to elicit a direct expression of negative feelings, which are much more pleasant to deal with. For example, one will say, “Are you angry?” Another will blurt out angrily, “No!” Thus some of this annoying interference is released. (Brennan 91-92)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Fear . . . has a whitish-gray prickly appearance in the aura, as in white with fear. It is very unpleasant looking and has a repulsive odor. (Brennan 92)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The effect of fear upon the astral body is very striking. A sudden shock of terror will in an instant suffuse the entire body with a curious livid grey mist, while horizontal lines of the same hue appear, but vibrate with such violence as to be hardly recognizable as separate lines. . . . All light fades out for the time from the body, and the whole grey mass quivers helplessly like a jelly. (Leadbeater 91)MV&Iclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Within the auric streams and rays surrounding a person, three different types of color phenomena are distinguishable. . . . The first type of color is relatively dull and opaque in character, although even it seems fleeting and transparent in comparison to the type of color seen by our physical eyes. Within the spiritual world itself, however, these colors make the space they occupy comparatively opaque, as if they were filling it with figures of mist. The second type of color is all light, so to speak; these colors light up the space they occupy so that it too becomes all light. But the third type of color phenomenon is totally different from the other two in its radiating, sparkling, glittering character. These colors do not simply fill the space they light up; they shine and radiate right through it. There is something active and inwardly mobile about them, as if they were constantly creating themselves from within, while the other colors have something quieter and more lackluster about them. . . .

[These three color types] interpenetrate in a great variety of ways. It is possible to watch all three kinds mixing and mingling in the same place in the aura. . . . We can sort things out by turning our supersensible attention to only one of the three at a time. . . .

The threefold human aura is the supersensibly perceptible expression of the three components of the human being’s essential nature—body, soul and spirit. . . .

The more a person rids him- or herself of physical urges, the less prominent the first part of the aura becomes. Meanwhile, the second part becomes larger and larger, filling the body of colors within which the physical human being dwells with its radiating energy. And the more a person proves to be a servant of the eternal, the more the third part of the aura is revealed. (Steiner 166-168)Tclairvoyant • Theosophy • Steiner

When a note is struck on the piano, a wave form of that note is emitted. The resonance of that first wave excites a vibration in other notes of mathematical equivalence. . . . The second note vibrates because its natural frequency (measured in cycles per second) is triggered into movement by a complementary frequency in the original note. This phenomenon is known as harmonic, or sympathetic, vibration. Each harmonic is a mathematical multiple (in cycles per second) of the fundamental note. . . .

The frequencies of visible color have a harmonic relationship to the frequencies of auric color; auric colors may exist in both lower and higher harmonics of visible color. . . . If we see red in the aura of the woman, however, that red could indicate either pain or anger. These two reds in the aura look identical, but they are not the same. The lower two or three harmonics of the color red reflect pain in the physical body. In the higher red harmonics (or vibrations) there exists the same drive or action that pain excites someone to, but it is not pain itself. At least it is not physical pain; it could be existential pain. It could also be rage or anger. (Bruyere 64-65)WoLclairvoyant • modern • Bruyere

As we think, thoughts go out to mold the thoughts and lives of others. (Besant 97)SLwisdom • Theosophy • Besant

By the power of imagination all men, certainly imaginative men, are forever casting forth enchantments, and all men, especially unimaginative men, are continually passing under their power. . . . If I can unintentionally cast an enchantment over persons, there is no reason to doubt that I am able to cast intentionally a far stronger enchantment. (Goddard 14)Rmystic • New Thought • Goddard

[Those who have developed their inner senses] experience another being’s feelings as raying out toward them like rays of light. . . . For them, one person’s thought about another person is not invisible, it is a perceptible process. . . . [The thought] produces effects on the spiritual world and it is this process that is perceptible to the spiritual eye. The thought is an actual reality streaming out from one person toward the other. (Steiner 160)Tclairvoyant • Theosophy • Steiner

This radiating vibration conveys the character of the thought, but not its subject. (Besant and Leadbeater 14)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

Rich says she often sees what looks like a little transparent movie going on around a client’s head. . . . “I can see what they’ve thought of and what’s happened to them during the last six months. Recently I told a client that I could see her home and she had masks and flutes hanging on her wall.” . . .

Dryer says she sees what look like three-dimensional movies in a person’s energy field. “Usually they’re in color, but they can also be brown, or look like tintypes. Often they depict a story about the person that can take anywhere from five minutes to an hour to unfold. . . .

When she chooses one and starts to watch it, it seems to expand and fill the entire room. “If I see something going on with a person’s shoulder, such as an injury, suddenly the whole scene widens.” (Talbot 181-182)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Another [quality of the human energy field] is the aura’s ability to manifest as an amorphous blur of energy, or occasionally form itself into three-dimensional images. Talented psychics often report seeing such “holograms” floating in people’s auras. These images are usually of objects and ideas that hold a prominent position in the thoughts of the person around whom they are seen. Some occult traditions hold that such images are a product of the third, or mental, layer of the aura. . . .

[Beatrice] Rich often sees images floating around or hovering near her clients. Once she saw silver spoons, silver plates, and similar objects circling around a man’s head. . . . Finally she told the man and discovered that he was in the import/export business and traded in the very objects she was seeing circling his head. . . .

Dryer has had many similar experiences. Once during a reading she saw a bunch of potatoes whirling around a woman’s head. . . . She . . . asked the woman if potatoes had any special meaning for her. . . . “She was from the Idaho Potato Board,” says Dryer. . . .

On one occasion Dryer saw a wispy and holographiclike layer of mud clinging to a woman’s hands and arms. . . . She was a sculptor and had tried out a new medium that morning that clung to her arms and hands exactly as Dryer had described. (Talbot 179-180)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Angels (channeled): Thoughts contain a force that creates . . . the very thing upon which they focus. (Fairchilde 134)VftAchanneled • modern • Fairchilde

Cayce: “What one thinks continually, they become.”

Cayce: “Thoughts are things and as their currents run through the environs of an entity’s experience these become barriers or stepping-stones, dependent upon the manner in which these are laid.” (Lynn and Cayce 54)NDchanneled • modern • Lynn & Cayce

[These evanescent shapes] have usually a certain appropriateness to the character of the thought-stream which calls them into existence. . . . This elemental kingdom as a whole is very much what the collective thought of humanity makes it. . . .

[The “elemental”] is simply a latent force, which needs an external power to set it in motion. . . . Although all classes of the essence have the power of reflecting images from the astral light as described above, there are varieties which receive certain impressions much more readily than others—which have . . . favorite forms of their own into which upon disturbance they would naturally flow unless absolutely forced into some other, and such shapes tend to be a trifle less evanescent than usual. (Leadbeater 52, 54-56)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

There is a broad field of energy which for convenience is called (M). . . . It is the only energy field common to and operational both within and outside time-space and is present in varying degrees in all physical matter. . . .

All living organisms use (M) to communicate. Animals are more aware of (M) radiation than humans, who, with few exceptions, have no awareness of it at all.

Thought is a much-used perturbation of (M), and emotions are bands of (M) adjacent to thought. Love is also a band of (M) adjacent to thought. . . . Thought affects and modulates (M) radiation. . . .

Humans are subject to constant (M) input from other sources, including human sources, without the conscious knowledge of either sender or receiver.

The I-There NOTE: reincarnating self is composed solely of (M), “There” being outside time-space but within the (M) Field. Humans who are not mind-active in time-space, who are phased out during sleep, unconscious, or otherwise, are operating in the (M) Field with a lesser phase relationship to the physical. (Monroe 185-186)UJOBEr • modern • Monroe

In order that an aspiration or a thought-force should result in existence on [the heaven-world] NOTE: the upper astral plane, its dominant characteristic must be unselfishness.

Affection for family or friends takes many a man into the heaven-life. . . .

There is the love which pours itself out upon its object, seeking for nothing in return—never even thinking of itself, but only of what it can do for the loved one; and such a feeling as this generates a spiritual force which cannot work itself out except upon the mental plane NOTE: that same plane. But there is also another emotion which is sometimes called love—an exacting, selfish kind of passion which desires mainly to be loved—which is thinking all the time of what it receives rather than of what it gives. . . . The force which it sets in motion will never rise above the astral plane NOTE: the lower-to-mid astral plane. (Leadbeater 48-49)DPclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

If a thought be purely intellectual and impersonal—for example, if the thinker is attempting to solve a problem in algebra or geometry—the thought-form and the wave of vibration will be confined entirely to the mental plane. (Besant and Leadbeater 24-25)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

Our ordinary thought begins in the mind-body on the lower mental levels and clothes itself as it descends with the appropriate astral elemental essence; but when a man has advanced so far as to have his consciousness active in the true self in the higher heaven-world, his thought commences there and clothes itself first in the elemental essence of the lower levels of the mental plane, and is consequently infinitely finer, more penetrating, and in every way more effective. If the thought be directed exclusively to higher objects, its vibrations may be of too fine a character to find expression on the astral plane at all; but when they do affect this lower matter they will do so with much more far-reaching effect than those which are generated so much nearer to its own level.

Following this idea a stage further we see the thought of the initiate taking its rise upon the buddhic plane, above the mental world altogether, and clothing itself with the elemental essence of the highest heavens for garment, while the thought of the Adept pours down from nirvana itself, wielding the tremendous, the wholly incalculable powers of regions beyond the ken of mere ordinary humanity. (Leadbeater 121-122)DPclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

On the mental as on the astral plane there was present an elemental essence. . . . It was, if possible, even more instantaneously sensitive to the action of thought here than it had been in that lower world. (Leadbeater 27)DPclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Each environment and dimension within the interior of the universe has specific similarities and differences.

The most significant difference appears to be the degree of responsiveness to thought. . . . Some nonphysical environments are easily molded by thought while others are extremely resistant. (Buhlman 67)

[Natural (raw) energy environments] are often observed as misty voids, empty space, or featureless, open areas consisting of white, silver, or golden clouds of energy.

Natural energy environments are extremely sensitive to thought. Any focused thought will instantly mold the immediate energy environment. (Buhlman 95)ABtBOBEr • modern • Buhlman

Angels (channeled): Because of the slowed vibrational rate in your world there is a longer time between the thought and the manifestation of that thought. This gives you the opportunity to make alterations in your direction, to rethink things before taking action—to learn to take responsibility for what you have created. (Fairchilde 147)VftAchanneled • modern • Fairchilde

Dr. Peebles: Depending on what vibratory plane you are responding to, things become things from thoughts more rapidly. . . . The slower vibrations of Earth, where there’s a delay in thoughts becoming things, is by intention so that you can study the process of that. (Pendleton 36)TDAchanneled • modern • Pendleton

On Earth we are given much more time between the thinking and the materialization of the thought, so that we have a chance to change our mind. (Cannon 135-136)BDLhypnosis • modern • Cannon

When you travel beyond a certain range of intensities, even pseudo-objects NOTE: thought forms must vanish. They exist in a cluster about, and connected to, your own system. The lack of these, obviously, means that you have gone beyond your own camouflage system NOTE: the physical imagery you experience and project. If it were possible, you would then travel through a range of intensities in which no camouflage existed. Then you would encounter the pseudo-camouflage of the next system. This would or would not be physical matter, according to the system. You would then encounter the heart of the camouflage area. . . .

There is little communication within the uncamouflaged areas. They act as boundaries, even while they represent the basic stuff of which all camouflage is composed NOTE: the elemental essence. . . .

The undifferentiated layers are composed of the vitality that forms the camouflage of all systems. . . . You are in touch with infinity in such areas, since it is only camouflage that gives you the conception of time.

Now, during some projections NOTE: out of body experiences, you may be aware of nothing as far as surroundings are concerned. . . . If this occurs, you will be traveling through such an uncamouflaged area. You could then expect to encounter next a more differentiated environment, that seems to become clearer as you progress toward the heart of another system.

The completely uncamouflaged layer would be rather bewildering. You might automatically be tempted to project images into it. They would not take, so to speak, but would appear and disappear with great rapidity. This is a silent area. Thoughts would not be perceived here, as a rule, for the symbols for them would not be understood. (Roberts 376-377)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

Let us now consider some of the characteristics of the virgin substance which lies outside and beyond our evolutionary system. . . .

This new substance had the property of a kind of mechanical inertia. . . .

Neither thought, desire, will, nor any attraction of our own world has power over this matter, and equally, the matter has no magnetic effect on us.

Seen in bulk, this matter has the colour of freshly cut ebonite. It gives out no vibration. It has no elasticity. . . . Here we feel nothing, and we are not aware of the very least reaction. According to the density of this virgin substance so we have the impression of standing before a thick wall or in a mist, neither so solid nor so dark. . . . In order to penetrate into it we must make a definite mechanical effort. With arms outstretched we must push this matter aside in order to break through, when we have the quite material sensation of moving in a sort of “paste” which does not stick and is not cloying. . . .

Though the powers of thinking, reasoning, and consciousness itself are clear, they have not the sensitivity even of that experienced in the lowest strata of our cosmic ether. . . .

A substance so material . . . might well be the root of matter. (Yram 182-183)PAPOBEr • Yram

Life embodies itself in forms, and the life-energy which comes forth from that aspect of the Self which is knowledgeable molds the matter of the mental plane into thought-forms. The vibrations that affect the mental body determine the materials that are built into its composition. (Besant 28)SLwisdom • Theosophy • Besant

(The combination of) thought, emotion, and desire creates form, possesses energy, (and) is made of energy. It will show itself in as many ways as possible. . . .

But whether you have a physical form or not, if you have emotion or feelings, these will take form. They have a reality. If you think strongly of an object, somewhere it will appear. (Roberts 145)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

The astral material . . . is shaped and formed only by the thought and imaginative power of the minds of those inhabiting that plane. . . . They have an independent existence of their own, being composed of astral material, though shaped, formed and built up directly by the mind-power of the astral dwellers. . . .

The astral scenery, etc., survives the passing away of the mind which built it up, and disintegrates only after the passage of considerable time. . . . As for the power of imagination of man, do not be deceived for a moment—for this is one of the most efficient powers in nature, and operates strongly even on the material plane, though on the Astral its power is more easily recognized by the senses. (Panchadasi 60-61)AWunknown • New Thought (Theosophy) • Atkinson

On all the outer and inner planes of human consciousness what one really sees are the mind’s picturized interpretations of thoughts or vibrations coming from the minds of others. (Benner 315)WttKchanneled • New Thought • Benner

You perceive only your own constructions. If a “ghost” wants to contact you therefore, he can do so through telepathy, and you can yourself construct the corresponding image you desire. Or the individual might send you a thought-form at the same time that he telepathically communicates with you. (Roberts 146)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

I saw Charles dressed in his uniform because that was what he was wearing the last time I had seen him and so I, unknowingly, had made a thought-form of him dressed in his uniform, and the plastic astral matter had immediately responded to my thought. He told me also that even if Charles had thought about what he was wearing before seeing me, I should not have seen him dressed in the type of clothing he had imagined, unless he had mentioned it to me. I would always see him dressed as I imagined he would be. (Richelieu 44)ASJOBEr • modern (Theosophy) • Richelieu

Jesus, the angels and platform, disintegrated into a giant sphere of light once Carter Mills no longer needed their shape or form to put him at ease. (Atwater 74)BtLNDEr, researcher • modern • Atwater

Thoughts and ideas are not unlike the ripples, eddies, and whirlpools that form in a flowing stream, and like the whirlpools in a stream some can recur and persist in a more or less stable way, while others are evanescent and vanish almost as quickly as they appear. (Talbot 59)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Every thought you have—in spirit and in the physical—takes a form. . . .

Some thoughts that pass through our minds quickly don’t create lasting forms. Others, because of their intensity or because of repetition, will become a powerful form with color and sound. . . . The longer you hold the thought, the more power it builds. . . . Thoughts that are held create strong patterns that build our auras. (Browne 165-166)RotOSclairvoyant • modern • Browne

The original intensity behind the construction NOTE: thought form determines its duration. . . . Left alone, any such construction will eventually vanish. It will leave a trace, however, in electromagnetic reality where it can then be activated by anyone when certain conditions are met or are favorable.

Denying energy to such a construction can be like pricking a balloon. . . . Then all attention must be taken from it, for it thrives upon attention. (Roberts 363-364)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

In the ordinary state thousands of voices sound at once creating what we call our “consciousness,” our thoughts, our feelings, our moods, our imagination. These voices drown the sound of that inner voice. . . . The being to whom this voice belonged knew everything, understood everything and above all was free from thousands of small and distracting “personal” thoughts and moods. He could take everything calmly, could take everything objectively, as it was in reality. (Ouspensky 289)

The consciousnesses of the physical body . . . were completely immersed in themselves. . . . Their nature and the form of their existence consisted in their continually speaking of themselves—what they were, what they needed, what they wished, what was pleasant for them, what was unpleasant, what dangers threatened them, what could ward off or remove these dangers.

In the ordinary state we do not hear these voices separately; only the noise produced by them or their general tone is felt by us as our physical state or mood. (Ouspensky 292)ANMUpsychedelic • Theosophy • Ouspensky

“EVERY thought of man . . . passes into the inner world, and becomes an active entity NOTE: thought form. . . . It survives as an active intelligence—a creature of the mind’s begetting—for a longer or shorter period proportionate with the original intensity . . . which generated it. Thus a good thought is perpetuated as an active, beneficent power, an evil one as a maleficent demon. And so man is continually peopling his current in space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses and passions; a current which reacts upon any sensitive or nervous organization which comes in contact with it, in proportion to its dynamic intensity. . . . The Adept evolved these shapes consciously; other men throw them off unconsciously.” — Master K.H., The Occult World, pp. 89,90, Fourth Edition (Master K.H. 2)Kclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

The largest class of astral entities NOTE: thought forms, is also much the most important to man. Being entirely his own creation . . . its action upon him is direct and incessant. It is an enormous inchoate mass of semi-intelligent entities, differing among themselves as human thoughts differ. (Leadbeater 67)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Every one of you has thoughts that you pour out into the world by your daily thinking. You are creating the possibilities of the future and making or marring the potencies of today. (Besant 97)SLwisdom • Theosophy • Besant

Surrounding each individual is a thought-world created by him or her. . . .

The “Divine Presence” NOTE: the Source within is likened unto the pit or seed of a peach; the thought-world around It unto the pulp of the peach. The pulp represents not only the thought-world created by the individual, but also the Universal Electronic Substance NOTE: the elemental essence, ever present, waiting to be acted upon by the conscious determination of the individual—to be precipitated into his visible use as the form of whatsoever he may desire. (King 89)IADchanneled • Theosophy • Germain

Your own thought-forms can be definite aids when you are in the proper mental condition, and they can impede your progress if you are not. For example, a man in a desperate frame of mind is more apt to emphasize the unpleasant aspects of the news and to see bitterness rather than the joy in the faces of those he meets. He will ignore a contented child playing on one side of the street and notice, instead, a dirty ragged child, even though he be further away. (Roberts 363)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

The thoughts themselves are but mental forms, but when you think them with feeling of any kind you fill these forms with life and they become as living things which ever return to you, their parent, to be fed with more living power. . . . All the thoughts which persistently influence your mind and harass you, are only your mental children clamoring for food and attention, and compelling more worrying, anxiety, or fear from you: all of which are excellent food containing rich vital power, and which makes them grow rapidly. (Benner 13)WOchanneled • New Thought • Benner

Thought-forms are connected with their progenitor by what—for want of a better phrase—we must call a magnetic tie; they react upon him, producing an impression which leads to their reproduction. . . . Where a thought-form is reinforced by repetition, a very definite habit of thought may be set up, a mould may be formed into which thought will readily flow—helpful if it be of a very lofty character, as a noble ideal, but for the most part cramping and a hindrance to mental growth. (Besant 14)Kclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

Since the ordinary man’s thoughts refer very largely to himself, the elementals they form remain hovering about him, and constantly tend to provoke a repetition of the idea they represent, since such repetitions, instead of forming new elementals, would strengthen the old one, and give it a fresh lease of life. A man, therefore, who frequently dwells upon one wish often forms for himself an astral attendant which, constantly fed by fresh thought, may haunt him for years, ever gaining more and more strength and influence over him. . . .

Furthermore, it appears to be actuated, like most other beings, by an instinctive desire to prolong its life, and thus reacts on its creator as a force constantly tending to provoke the renewal of the feeling which called it into existence. It also influences in a similar manner others with whom it comes into contact, though its rapport with them is naturally not so perfect. (Leadbeater 68-69)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Each human being is constantly creating waves and currents of emotional energy by the ways he responds to the world around him. In our immediate neighborhood, we “people” our space with our emotional images, whether positive, negative or neutral. In turn, these images crowd in upon us and encourage us to repeat the same feelings that fostered them. Thus we develop habitual emotional patterns. The material of the astral world is very impressionable, and responds quickly to the thought-forms or images which we imbue with our feelings. Such images may melt like snow in the sun and vanish, but others may be more enduring and stay with us a long time. (Karagulla and Kunz 51)C&HEFclairvoyant • modern • Karagulla & Kunz

For centuries we have been developing certain kinds of “energies” which live at our expense. We feed from our vitality a mass of beings, embryos of life, which we have attracted by our manner of thinking and acting, and we must expect a reaction on their part. (Yram 28-29)PAPOBEr • Yram

The moment you let fear enter the mind, you are sucked into the emotional or astral plane. . . . Calmly . . . face it there and see it for just what it is—a craven creature of your own imagining, which has come to you to be fed, for it has no life but what you give it by recognition and tremblingly entertaining it. . . .

Every disciple must learn, the moment any fear of whatsoever nature appears, to detect it immediately and to call it forth into the open, compel it to stand in front of him as it were, so that he can look it squarely in the face and see it for the cowardly thing it is—usually some form of selfish quality that is being disturbed in its mental dominion and thus seeks to maintain its hold over the soul. (Benner 201-202)

If any such thoughts come begging for admittance—the fearful, doubting, worrying, unhappy, self-pitying, hateful, jealous ones—it is only self crying out, thinking of itself first, not concerned about others. . . .

Watch all the thoughts that come claiming your attention, and learn to discriminate between them, to know their source, whether they are your own creations or some one’s else; and particularly to note how many of the negative ones are your own, and how they keep coming back to you to be fed by more of the feelings which gave them birth and have kept them alive since. (Benner 220-221)WttKchanneled • New Thought • Benner

The ability to create strong thought-forms can also react upon us negatively, for if they become too rigid they can surround and imprison us within a wall of our own making, thus preventing the inrush of new ideas and fresh mental energy. We then become ideologues, or fanatics who reject all but their own interpretations of truth. (Karagulla and Kunz 61)C&HEFclairvoyant • modern • Karagulla & Kunz

There are conditions under which the grace and strength peculiar to a higher plane may in a measure be brought down to a lower one, and may spread abroad there with wonderful effect. This seems to be possible only when a special channel is for the moment opened; and that work must be done from below and by the effort of man. . . . When the thought or feeling is absolutely unselfish, its energy . . . pierces through the plane above because only in that higher condition, with its additional dimension, can it find room for its expansion. But in thus breaking through, such a thought or feeling holds open a door of dimension equivalent to its own diameter, and thus furnishes the requisite channel through which the divine force appropriate to the higher plane can pour itself into the lower with marvelous results, not only for the thinker but for others. (Besant and Leadbeater 37-38)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

If . . . the thought be of a spiritual nature, if it be tinged with love and aspiration or deep unselfish feeling . . . its influence is exceedingly powerful, and every such thought is a mighty force for good which cannot but produce a decided effect upon all mental bodies within reach, if they contain any quality at all capable of response. (Besant and Leadbeater 24-25)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

Elementals NOTE: thought forms have a tendency to be attracted towards others of a similar kind. . . . To these aggregations of similar thought-forms are due the characteristics, often strongly marked, of family, local and national opinion; they form a kind of astral atmosphere through which everything is seen, and which colours that to which the gaze is directed. . . . Such family, local or national . . . surroundings largely modify the individual’s activity and limit to a very great extent his power of expressing the capacities he may possess. Suppose an idea should be presented to him, he can only see it through this atmosphere that surrounds him. (Besant 18-19)Kclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

Many a time a mother’s loving thoughts and prayer have formed themselves into an angel guardian for the child. . . . Such guardians may often be seen by clairvoyant vision, and there have even been cases where one of them has had sufficient strength to materialize and become for the moment visible to physical sight. A curious fact which deserves mention here is that even after the passage of the mother into the devachanic NOTE: the upper astral plane condition the love which she pours out upon the children she thinks of as surrounding her will react upon the real children still living in this world, and will often support the guardian elemental which she created while on earth. (Leadbeater 71-72)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Another, and quite a large, class of these artificial Astral entities, consist of thought-forms of supernatural beings. . . .

Many “family ghosts” have been created and kept in being in the same way, by the constantly repeated tale and belief in their reality, on the part of generation after generation. In this class belong the celebrated historic ghosts who warn royal or noble families of approaching death or sorrow. . . .

Repeated thought, and repeated belief, will serve to keep alive and to strengthen these entities—otherwise they will disappear in time.

Many supernatural visitors, saints, semi-divine beings, etc., of all religions have been formed in this way. . . . In many temples in oriental countries, there have been created, and kept alive for many centuries, the thought-form entities of the minor god and saints, endowed in thought with great power of response to prayer, offering, and ceremonies. Those accepting the belief in these powers, are brought into harmony with its vibrations, and are effected thereby, for good or evil. . . .

Many of the effects of sorcery, black-magic, etc., were produced in this way—the element of belief, of course, adding greatly to the effect. The Voodoo practices of Africa, and later, of Martinique; and the Kahuna practices of Hawaii, are based on these same principles. The effect of “charms,” etc., depend on the same laws, including the effect of faith. (Panchadasi 88-91)AWunknown • New Thought (Theosophy) • Atkinson

Thought-forms may also be directed by their progenitor towards particular persons, who may be helped or injured by them, according to the nature of the ensouling elemental; it is no mere poetic fancy that good wishes, prayers, and loving thoughts are of value to those to whom they are sent; they form a protective host encircling the beloved, and ward off many an evil influence and danger. (Besant 16)Kclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

If the man’s thought or feeling is directly connected with someone else, the resultant thought-form moves towards that person and discharges itself upon his astral and mental bodies. (Besant and Leadbeater 16)

Thought-forms directed towards individuals produce definitely marked effects, these effects being either partially reproduced in the aura of the recipient and so increasing the total result, or repelled from it. A thought of love and of desire to protect, directed strongly towards some beloved object, creates a form which goes to the person thought of, and remains in his aura as a shielding and protecting agent; it will seek all opportunities to serve, and all opportunities to defend, not by a conscious and elaborate action, but by a blind following out of the impulse impressed upon it, and it will strengthen friendly forces that impinge on the aura and weaken unfriendly ones. Thus may we create and maintain veritable guardian angels round those we love, and many a mother’s prayer for a distant child thus circles round him, though she knows not the method by which her “prayer is answered”. (Besant and Leadbeater 28-29)TFclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant & Leadbeater

Still more pregnant of result for good or evil are a man’s thoughts about other people, for in that case they hover not about the thinker, but about the object of the thought. . . . If the wish be a definite one, as, for example, that he may recover from some sickness, then the elemental NOTE: thought form will be a force ever hovering over him to promote his recovery, or to ward off any influence that might tend to hinder it, and in doing this it will display what appears like a very considerable amount of intelligence and adaptability, though really it is simply a force acting along the line of least resistance—pressing steadily in one direction all the time, and taking advantage of any channel that it can find, just as the water in a cistern would in a moment find the one open pipe among a dozen closed ones, and proceed to empty itself though that. . . .

A feeling of envious or jealous hatred towards another person will send an evil elemental to hover over him and seek for a weak point through which it can operate. (Leadbeater 68-70)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Strong wishes for good, as well as strong curses for evil, tend to manifest form and a semblance of vitality in the shape of these artificial entities NOTE: thought forms. These entities, however, are under the law of thought-attraction and go only where they are attracted. Moreover, they may be neutralized, and even destroyed, by positive thought properly directed. (Panchadasi 88)AWunknown • New Thought (Theosophy) • Atkinson

“A mother’s Ego NOTE: reincarnating self, filled with love for the imaginary children it sees near itself, living a life of happiness, as real to it as when on earth—that love will always be felt by the children in flesh. It will manifest in their dreams and often in various events. . . . Love is a strong shield and is not limited by space or time. . . .” Key to Theosophy, p. 102. Third Edition.

But this is a very different thing from the “Spirit” of the mother coming back to earth to be the almost helpless spectator of the child’s woes. (Besant 85)DAclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

We can so surround one with Love that that very influence floods in upon him and it may in an instant change his whole life, his whole thought. . . . We are only placing an influence that he may accept. (Spalding 146)MotFE4wisdom • Spalding

It occasionally happens, however, that [a directed artificial elemental NOTE: thought form] is for various reasons unable to expend its force either upon its object or its creator, and in such cases it becomes a kind of wandering demon, readily attracted by any person who indulges feelings similar to that which gave it birth, and equally prepared either to stimulate such feelings in him for the sake of the strength it may gain from them, or to pour out its store of evil influence upon him through any opening which he may offer it. (Leadbeater 70)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Besant in Lucifer: “A thought-form may assume the shape of its projector. If a person wills strongly to be present at a particular place, to visit a particular person, and be seen, such a thought-form may take his own shape. . . . Such a thought-form might convey a message, if that formed part of its content, setting up in the astral body of the person reached vibrations like its own, and these being passed on by that astral body to the brain, where they would be translated into a thought or a sentence.” (Leadbeater 34)DPclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

If you have . . . a highly vivid desire to be somewhere else, then without realizing it consciously a pseudophysical form NOTE: thought form, identical with your own, may appear in that very spot. . . .

Such an image may be perceived by those who have developed use of the inner senses. Any intense mental act—thought or emotion—will not only be constructed in some physical or pseudophysical manner, but will also bear ta (sic) some extent the imprint of the personality who originally conceived it. . . .

Each individual actually sends such replica images of himself out frequently. . . .

If the desire were still more intense, the energy core would be greater, and a portion of your own flow of consciousness would be imparted to the form, so that for a moment you in your room might suddenly smell the salt air, or in some other way perceive the environment in which this pseudoimage NOTE: thought form stands. (Roberts 85-86)

If you think strongly of being in another location, a pseudoimage NOTE: thought form of yourself will be projected out from you to that place, whether or not it is perceived and whether or not you yourself are conscious of it, or conscious in it. (Roberts 145)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

M.C.: Then one may say that the form of an adept appearing at a distance from his body . . . is simply an image?

H.P.B.: Exactly. It is a walking thought.

M.C.: In which case an adept can appear in several places almost simultaneously.

H.P.B: He can. . . . It must be understood that not all of even the astral adept is present in each appearance. . . . Each thought has a shape which borrows the appearance of the man engaged in the action of which he thought. (Blavatsky 174-175)SiOresearcher • Theosophy • Blavatsky

You send pseudoforms NOTE: thought forms of yourself out from yourself of which you are not aware; and this is completely aside from the existence of astral travel and projection, which is a more complicated affair. . . .

All of these forms are called secondary constuctions NOTE: thought forms, for as a rule full consciousness of the personality is not in them. They are automatic projections.

Now, in primary constructions, a consciousness, usually fully aware and alert, adopts a form—not his “native” one—and consciously projects it, often into another level of reality. Even this is a rather complicated endeavor, and one seldom used for purposes of communication. (Roberts 145-146)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

When you start walking, you would walk and walk and walk, were it not for your conscious mind stopping you. And, when you are standing, you would stand and stand and stand, did not your conscious mind start you moving. (Muldoon 66)

Once you are in motion, the subconscious Will is in control, but the moment you give a conscious suggestion that you will stop, you stop. (Muldoon 71)

All we need to do is to suggest to ourselves that we walk, and the subconscious Will will keep us walking until it receives further instructions. The subconscious Will, therefore, is not so mysterious after all—we are using it every day. . . .

Long-standing habit and intense desire root themselves in the subconscious mind. . . .

That is why habits are so difficult to break—because they are expressed by the subconscious mind, in which they are rooted. (Muldoon 170, 172)PotABOBEr • Spiritualism • Muldoon

William Butler, in his book How to Read the Aura, has observed that particular thought forms remain stationary in the energy field until triggered by an internal or external energy input. These forms then move through the aura in a chronic sequence but are not released. They simply play themselves out and become dormant until gaining enough energy through the individual’s habitual semi-conscious thoughts and related feelings. They also gain energy by attracting similar thoughts and feelings from other people. . . . If you keep telling yourself that you are dumb, unworthy, ugly or fat, soon others will agree with you. This energy is added to your personal stockpile until your thought form has enough energy (reaching critical mass) to be triggered. You will then fall into a state in which you are convinced you are dumb, ugly, unworthy, or fat, until the energy in the thought form is dissipated for the time being. (Brennan 94-95)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The man is limited by his past thoughts, by his wasted opportunities, by his mistaken choices, by his foolish yieldings. . . . The first step towards freedom will be to accept his limitations as self-made. . . . He is always himself, the free soul, in the midst of his prison house, and he can hew down the walls he himself has built. (Besant 58-59)Kclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

All programs can be rewritten, all unfortunate realities erased, before they oppress. . . . This is the only intelligent way to experience human life. . . . Anyone can change individual destiny. (MSI 226)

There is no inevitability about the future. (MSI 312)Ewisdom • modern, Hindu • Isham

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. (Walsch 213)FWGchanneled • modern • Walsch

She usually avoided this pain by staying on the surface of the thought form (and, therefore, in unreality). . . .

Usually, expressing and releasing the feelings is the key to breaking out of a cyclical thought pattern. Most of the time these forms have become dissociated in the first place in order for the person not to experience the feelings contained in them. The individual spends a lot of effort during his daily life trying to avoid setting the thought form in motion, because it may evoke the unwanted feeling. Even though the person avoids situations that would evoke such feelings, it does not completely work, because he is continually recharging the though forms. (Brennan 95)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

When the forms are brought to the focus of the consciousness by expressing the feelings associated with them and releasing those feelings, they are then possible to change. . . . When the invalid assumptions (remember they are based on logic from childhood) are uncovered, seen and released, they can be replaced by a more mature, clear view of reality, which in turn leads to the creation of positive life experiences. (Brennan 94)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan