Excerpt

The World of Thoughts

(Excerpt from the book While Thoughts Create the Cosmos)

How many times it has been said: "I was just thinking about you,", or that famous statement has been uttered again and again: "Speak of the devil and the devil’s at the door"? Do people ever ask themselves what it means and how is that kind of a "coincidence" possible when they know at least a thousand people so that in mathematical combinations the probability of simultaneous thoughts on the same subject is quite negligible. However, it seems that the thoughts of people are in some way inter-related. It has been thousands of years since the first philosophical discussions, and very little is known about them. Since it is clear to everyone that the quality of people’s lives is significantly attached to thoughts, it seems that the ignorance of the "world of thoughts" is harmless with respect to increasingly uncertain future, which can be anticipated because of the increasing amount of all sorts, within those same thoughts, conceived evil."

If it is true that the universe consists only of three elements - matter, energy and information, then it is possible for the growing chaos on the planet Earth to accuse only information. But chaos will exist as long as people are not clear about whether there is God, how did the universe come into being, what is the psyche, what are the mind and thoughts capable of... Energy and matter have not positive or negative foretokens. They cannot be good and bad. Energy and matter, although if being separated, and even when they are separated, remain indivisible, and when people come to perceive them, impressions, descriptions and explanations of them remain unclear. Only the consequences are being perceived, that is, newly created forms.

On the other hand, information may be false and true, both good and bad in relation to one's interests. They are spread and recognized by thoughts and all existing forms of energy and matter contain them. The good and evil, as well as truth and falsehood, depend on assessments, evaluations, opinions and attitudes of people and are linked to the religious, philosophical, sociological and moral worldviews. However, the most concerned about them are people who seek the truth, who believe that truth is absolute and only one, and who equate goodness, love, truth and God. Therefore, the belief of Seraphim of Sarov is important and states that a man equipped with the Word of God recognizes what is good and what is evil. In the same way he distinguishes truth from falsehood¹. There is also information that man has not created, but he nevertheless also interprets, assesses and classifies such information according to his (lack of) understanding.

It seems that the only way that the inhabitants of earth get out of the resulting material, energy and information chaos is the replacement of false information by truthful one. This is possible to achieve only by perceiving and annunciating the truth. But how to do it when the truth is man's biggest problem? According to scientific beliefs, truth is supposed to be perceived by reason and not emotions - this is the real answer to the question why thoughts, self-consciousness and the brain are so important. The emergence of thoughts is the greatest enigma, and a big problem is also their meaningful implementation.

What thoughts can do, what they are made of and what their characteristics are is generally known. Miguel de Unamuno² did not tell the whole truth, when he connected thoughts exclusively with man's inner world. Thoughts are more important, more valuable, more useful, more powerful and more widespread.

From an early age I thought: who has nothing to say – is better off to remain silent, and in case he has nothing to write about – is not supposed to write. Now I do not think so. There is no way to prove that my knowledge is such that I am capable of flawlessly assessing (estimating) an interlocutor and proclaim what he states to be untrue or less valuable. I am not sure that the information I possess is more accurate, more complete and more valuable, and only by such information do we differ. My youthful security was undermined by experience with numerous perceived errors, spotting others’ misconceptions and crumbling and disappearance of those theories that seemed to be true and eternal.

Any man who thinks, has undoubtedly something to say and something to write about. However, the problem is what is meant by the term "to think". I am convinced, as William Atkinson is, that there are few people who think and that to those who do think this "happens", but rarely. I emphasize this out of two reasons. Firstly, a magical series of words that contain the specified term speaks for itself: to think about something, to think over, to

¹ The Saint John of Sanghai - the Wonderworker (Life and Akatist), p. 26.

² Miguel de Unamuno, The tragic sense of life, p. 25.

change one’s mind, to imagine something, to invent something, to think, to hit upon an idea, not to think, to think for a while, to think up something, to think something over, to think hard or conceitedly, meaningless thought, then meaningful thought, thoughtful, designed with thought, deep in thought etc. Secondly, I confidently know that only a few times in my life I thought consciously, persistently and in a planned way. I was aware, after these considerations, that the solutions were solely the consequence of my thoughts combinatorics. All other reflections and contemplations were relaxed and "natural", and all events around me. Thoughts flowed "out of inertia" caused by the (un) scheduled words, figures and processes in the environment, in a sort of programmed manner - based on existing empirical solutions. Only when I really did think the result were clearly the best decisions. The question is whether I then "picked up" the existing solutions from the universal mind ("information layer"), received the assistance by the Holy Spirit, or was that perhaps my original idea - I do not know. This dilemma will permeate the question what can thoughts do as well as by my endeavour to answer it so as to help myself in my efforts to think more often, smarter and more successfully. After all, if you ask somebody what he is doing and get a response that he is thinking, it means that he does not know what to do with himself - "his thoughts keep wandering."

Of course, it is not enough just to think – you should bring your thoughts to an end, finish your thinking with meaningful conclusions. The phenomenon of man at the beginning of the 21st century that he has "no time to have time", makes a great many people just start up the meaningful problem solving and tackle the aimed various solutions that initially "dawned on them." In the same manner there are also the dilemmas. There are few people, apart from some scientists, who know how to apply the multi-criteria analysis in a systemic holistic approach. Instead of making a decision to develop all possible variety of solutions, decision-makers make decisions, in most cases, on the basis of laconic conclusions. Yet, time "breaks" and overtakes all. We are surrounded by more and more people who hinder our thinking, our problems keep simply catching up, overtaking us, often exceeding our abilities.

There is an increasingly pronounced "knowledge gap". There is so much new information around us that we are only aware of the fact that there is no way to get to know all of them and that we increasingly lag behind compared to the daily avalanche of information and new scientific achievements. Even computers are not of any help to us. On the contrary, they only allow the flow of larger amounts of information about new sources of information and thus contribute to greater information lag. Because people only think of solutions, they catch hold of the first one, think about it briefly and rarely tackle it to the very end. It is the same with the problems that are decisive for one’s life.

Undoubtedly all people are not the same, they have not the same abilities nor the same gift, do not have the same problems, do not see them in the same way, do not attach the same importance to them. Some accept them as God's will and temptation, some as difficulties of everyday life, many as their imperfection or bad fortune.

We meet daily those people who are wiser than us. They are polite and courteous. In a few sentences they assess our knowledge, smile, and then leave us. For them we are in a specific way dangerous. Should we find out about their wide knowledge or some of their working rituals, we would rank them, because of our lack of knowledge, amongst the freaks and lunatics. That’s why their laboratories and creation workplaces remain an "alchemical secret". Only by increasing the amount of our own knowledge can we come closer to those who are wiser than ourselves. They recognize our aspiration for perfection as soon as we approach their knowledge, then accept us and help us in our further development. Such a sequence is reminiscent of the procedural coming into the ranks of the "Freemasons" and secret societies, but it is the only way for wiser ones to survive and not to perish. It is their only protection from the primitive because, in perfecting their own soul they cannot defend themselves by physical means, they have no right to hurt anyone, nor do they want it.

How much (not, mis) understanding exists among peoples can be best understood from the essay by Holy Edwin Abbott. According to his explanation, it is natural that the square does not understand the cube - it lacks one dimension. Also it is not supposed that the line comprehends a plane, and similarly that plane understands - space. To the line the plane resembles the line. To the plane it is clear that the line is only one of its parts, but the space looks to it like a plane. To the space it is clear that the plane is only one of its parts, and that the planes are made of lines. Thus is the case with people. The primitive people will never understand the wiser ones. The wiser people will observe the less perfect from their own world trying to avoid contacts, disputes and conflicts with them. Their thought worlds do not overlap.

When it comes to the topic of thoughts, there appears one significant problem. Except in philosophical circles, thoughts, mind, matter, energy and information are discussed in various religions and religious communities. There are differences in the viewpoints presented by beliefs of their followers, but among them there are also some obvious similarities. For example, Jorge Luis Borges, Joshua David Stone, William Walker Atkinson and Edward Mitchell believe that there is a universal, ecumenical, collective mind, and contained in it at every moment are the past, present and future. If these authors quote their views they can come in an (awkward) situation of being classified by the followers of classical religion into the pagan advocates of sectarian approaches to life³. Philosophers and scientists are in trouble because they did not even try to integrate individual areas of knowledge, there are no planetary institutions that would help with the consolidation of information on the path to truth.

There is hardly a man who has not wondered, after waking up in the morning, where were his mind and thoughts while he was asleep? Where and with whom did his thoughts "wander"? Some of our dreams can be remembered: we keep trying to figure it out but we fail. When we fantasize, we imagine, we remember and muse - thoughts keep wandering. Without them, we feel empty and look absentminded. Persons deep in thoughts are let alone to solve the problem and we know that they are with their thoughts - that their thoughts are present.

It seems that everything is determined long ago. Every possible relationship is precise, because everything is connected with the so-called Absolute. This is true regardless of whether it is about the relationship between a parent and a child, a husband and a wife, a brother and a sister, a teacher and a dog, or a boy and stone." ⁴ Nothing in it is surprising. We know that man consists of a body, soul and life energy. In the view advocated by the ancient Egyptians, which is, by the way, very close to the present scientific learning, the soul is the

³ Joshua David Stone from the state of Missouri (USA) created a hybrid religion of Hinduism, Christianity, "New Age" and esoteric, and relies on many scientific views. In a similar way as the advocates of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the followers of Joshua David Stone are considered to belong to sects, precisely to those traditional religions whose dogmas, at their séances, they refer to as their own. What kind of upcoming and lofty people we deal with may be inferred from the style of Mr. Stone's addressing his fans: "This new correspondence course 'Revelation of revelations' is light years ahead of anything I've ever done. Even with this correspondence course I was left out of breath ... I’m humbly telling you that there is nothing like it on the planet. My beloved friends, this correspondence course will blow your brains out! "(See: www.iamuniversity.org).

⁴ Hiroshi Motojima, Karma - Reincarnation, p. 62.

essence of human beings, the most valuable gift of the giver of life intended for self- apprehension and self-refinement of mental energy. It is the basis of proportions that forms man and makes him part of a cosmic harmony,⁵ is able to produce particles of an atom and keep them together. Soul is made of the psyche (emotional intelligence), consciousness (self-consciousness, that is, "I"), mind (rational intelligence) and spirit (related to other-worldliness, based on faith). All components of the soul permeate the thoughts.

The thoughts of consciousness, psyche, mind and spirit constantly affect one’s own energy and one’s own body. They can weaken and strengthen them. They can make them sick and heal them. In addition, thoughts affect other human beings, animals, plants, minerals - the entire universe. Thoughts depend on all cosmic activities and, at the same time, are the creators of everything in the cosmos.

In his brain the man has his own, the world of thoughts as large as the universe. This is his "map", formulated in understanding reality and criteria to navigate through life. This world is full of "secrets" for all others, and therefore all the worlds of thoughts are different. Within them are understanding and vision of life, never expressed opinions about others, areas of imagination, all desires, hopes, schemes, plans for the future, unrealized and undeclared loves, repressed sinful thoughts, an area for self-playing with thoughts, thought debauchery, traumas, repressed psychic pains and sufferings, longings, faith and willingness... This is the source from which thoughts are directed consciously and unconsciously, to other worlds of thought, creating harmony and chaos - at the same time.

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