IDEAS & THOUGHT FORMS

Once upon a time, there was a belief that creating new ideas was a journey of suffering like no other.

Over here, we held the vision that there could be a kinder connection with the etheric plane (where ideas bond with one another)—one centered on the psychic abilities inherent in human awareness at the outset of Gaia.

Truth is available in the ether, as it were, and we all have access to it through our seventh chakra, where we form a close bond with the realms in which thought forms are first quickened and interrelated—moving from the astral plane, to the etheric, and finally into the physical plane, where thoughts become things.

That astral dimension holds the key to “finding” ideas, the way David Lynch often spoke of when he described using twenty minutes of Transcendental Meditation™, twice a day, to “fish for ideas.”

“Catching the big fish,” as he called it, was a matter of discovery rather than creative will for Lynch. He didn’t approve of fighting with the psyche to reach the juicy notions living in the field of ideas—or, as we often call it, the quantum field.

He saw it instead as a peaceful moment to be inspired, a chance to “pluck” ideas from the air, rather than going on a hunt with a double-barrel shotgun.

There is a chapter in Big Magic where Liz Gilbert shares the notion that ideas find you, rather than you finding them, and choose you as their emissary toward physical fulfillment. She describes ideas as living entities that seek you out—as if they come equipped with an internal homing beacon, guiding them to whoever is willing to bring them into form. And if an idea is “not for you,” for any reason, you can catch and release, sending it back out into the wild to find another recipient of its vision.

It sure does take a bite out of the negative ego, doesn’t it, to receive a vision this way—especially if you believed you needed to be the one who came up with it in the first place.

If you need an idea to be cogitated into reality in order to feel like the true conduit of the vision, you may be missing one of the juiciest and most flowing mechanisms of creation: your second sight.

The old, ego-driven method of manifesting creative projects is to wrestle with the vision. In the New Earth field of inquiry, ease, grace, and flow are the key allowing (rather than driving) factors of manifestation.

Jump ahead to the next project on your docket—maybe even the one you haven’t found yet.

It’s waiting for you in the etheric plane, stalling in a kind of holding pen until you come to fetch it. It’s yours, in your own personal ether, cogitated and ready to serve when you’re hungry for it—in other words, when your higher self knows it’s time to pull the trigger.

(What’s with all this gun lingo? That’s a thought form in and of itself. More on that coming soon.)

When an idea arrives fully formed as a notion, it is also fully formed as a reality. You—or someone else out there, or you and several other someones, since ideas are often quite polyamorous unless there is one and only one being who can bring them to fruition—have the opportunity to carry it all the way, or far enough along for someone else to pick it up where you left off.

Either way, it already exists. The tools, resources, and companion ideas come into being the moment it is birthed in the great imagination of the collective quantum field.

Ideas can be birthed through the collective, through Gxd’s own inquiry, through your soulstar’s field of curiosity, through your soul pod’s inspiration, through conversation in life—plus a thousand other mechanisms not yet fully comprehended, even by us on the highest planes of existence. (We are so far ahead of ourselves “out there” that it keeps even us in daily amazement. Wonder is the key word here, rather than mystery, because in time we know we will master all things within our field of awareness through continued inquiry.)

How do we move an idea from its astral aspect—where the “thought form” lives for much of its life—into the etheric plane, where ideas begin to mull about and find partnership with other ideas and resources in order to become manifest in form?

We invite thought forms into our awareness through quiet reflection, conversation, and sometimes meditation, much like David Lynch did (and still does in Nirvana, for the record—he’s a master at finding true stories to tell).

This is not a struggle proposition. Ideas don’t have to kill you to be birthed into form. No more capitulating to whiskey in the hunt for your muse, as the standard artist stereotype would have it—you can peacefully surrender to receiving your next wild hair.

This tome is received entirely from the astral plane via the link Esme (myself) and Sasa (my embodied self) use to work on everything in our wee universe. The real work is in putting it to page; the rest is masterful receiving. Much of the time is spent chuckling at what comes through and marveling at the insights—though I will confess, Sasa frequently adds her own lived wisdom and expertise to the mix. Still, when a notion arrives from the astral realm, we rarely ever say, “Return to sender,” because we are attuned to ideas of highest good and highest light alone—precepts we live by, always.

While we’re on the subject, is there such a thing as a “bad” thought form? Definitely. We hear them all the time in the media circus around us. Naughty ideas want to come into the world, too—primarily through the lower astral and etheric planes. Everything lives out in the field somewhere.

The catch is this: ideas that touch nothingness at their core can’t really gain a foothold in our world, except to make us feel pretty shitty. The good news is that new, fresh, and life-affirming ideas are arriving all the time, guiding our source into ever-expanding dimensions.

Thinking of Mr. Lynch, I’d like to pause here to speak to the notion of “dark” ideas or “dark content,” much of which marked his oeuvre. Let’s not lightwash creativity by insisting that only bright, happy material has value. Mr. Lynch was—and is (as he lives and creates on the New Earth at this time)—a master at capturing what unfolds in the negative astral plane and how it touched our world for a time, most notably in the epic conclusion of Twin Peaks season three.

That was some dark shizz, truth be told. And yet it captured a vital strand of our collective psyche with grace and aplomb. This, my friends, is the kind of shadow work we as creative beings are here for. Through art, writing, music, dance, and performance, we can witness and reflect upon both our collective and individual shadow in ways that are ultimately life-affirming.

So we will never say that some art is “bad” or “wrong.” We need art to guide us back into the light—through honest, unflinching reflection on our inner landscape.

Back to the “gun” isotropic energy that kept creeping into this text. We don’t invest in guns over here. Hate is a strong—and inaccurate—word; we simply gravitate away from them.

And yet, the metaphors persist in our language and psyche. That, too, is a thought form—one that wants to linger until we discover more precise and life-affirming ways to say what we mean.

The point of naming this (and yes, more unintended gun territory in the phrasing) is to acknowledge that we aren’t perfectly aligned—yet—with the highest vibrational intelligence available, even within the New Earth dimension.

We heal all things in time. We don’t judge where we are as bad or wrong. We simply notice where our consciousness has room to evolve and allow that evolution to arrive in its own rhythm.

In short, a thought form doesn’t need to be unmade or destroyed. It needs to be allowed to wisp back into the ether—out of focus, into a softened, perhaps-remembered distance.

Only love-based thought forms endure in the long arc of time. And don’t get me wrong—we don’t lightwash our reality. We still speak of twisted things, and some folks over here will always carry a dark sense of humor. That’s not the problem. What matters is what you do with those notions.

Peace is top of mind for us. We embrace peace as the ultimate power from which to create and build. (Notice I didn’t say destroy.)

Take grace in the knowing that you can create from your center and bring light into the world through the manifestation of thought into form. Ideas are ready for the plucking and will wait patiently until you’re ready to polish them and—yes, we’re going to say it—

take aim and release.

…Aw, shoot.