Your thoughts are not your own.

The void is in fact the creative space that you must allow to manifest within yourself. This void is the location where your source contacts you and which is usually filled by the intellect by default. This is where the concept of free will is illusory. We have the ability to discern the potential and exercise judgement in the execution of our purpose. Since we were an active part of the establishment of that purpose we have already exercised our option. Being in the present moment and activating all of our potential is really living. The "living-dead" who are not aware of their real purpose will have to wait for their next opportunity. In the meantime, we must go about our business. The possibilities are only limited by our perception and awareness. This is the real awakening and the raising of consciousness which is the portal through which we must pass to accede to those higher planes of existance that await.

When you avail yourself and receive openly, the pleasure and benefit is always mutual. As such, the receipt is the ultimate liberation of intention.

Confluence

Twisting, turning, unrelenting
Dark and deep and never ending
Seemingly we have no choice, but
When we try and raise our voice, we
Often call to those beside us
Hoping they will hear and help us
Often just to realize that they too
Are struggling just to stay afloat.
How can we then hope to persist
And even more than just survive
What will we do, how to proceed
Is there hope, not to be denied?

Recall that in our darkest moments
Even as our failing gestures
Confirmed the power of that river
And the breadth of its mighty course
That together, sensing pressures
Feeling currents, testing efforts
We will find both rest and pleasure
On the way to where we’re destined.

The mechanisms that produce our communications are many and diverse. The common thread is the connection between our source and the receiver. How we can interpret these emanations depends directly on how we perceive and understand the underlying motivation of the processes that can affect the emission as it makes its way into our field of perception. There is a direct relation between the thought process and the imperfections that occlude the direct and integral descent of our purpose and meaning. Thoughts are the reflections of our descendant energy off of these forms. Deciphering the inherent difference between the reflection and the incipient energy is how we can discern the real meaning of any communication. Empaths are people whose sensitivity is geared to an acute ability to tune in to specific emotional tendencies of those with whom they are in communication (verbal and non-verbal). This sensitivity is, however, a two-edged sword as it interferes with and exacerbates their ability to discern and describe their own conditions, to their detriment. You must take great care to not be hood-winked into trying to care for others and not realizing that caring for yourself takes precedence. A sick doctor is a bad doctor.

Do you find that the exhiliration that you undergo during such experiences tends to sap your vitality to an extent that seems unfair? It is the warning sign that must not be ignored. Sensitives have an opportunity that is diametrically opposed by the involutive forces that reside within themselves. This balance is necessary for their own protection but is also the key to the progress of their own evolution.

Does being in the moment and not having to think about what you are doing mean a loss of control? In essence, it means a loss of egoic control over the reflection of the energy that is available to you to accomplish the task at hand. The ego is the mechanism by which descendant luminous energy is collimated, directed and focused through the physical entity to accomplish those actions required by our adherance to the plan that we established prior to our arrival in this plane. Reflections are just pale imitations of reality. As such they contain very little in the way of energy and can often be distorted and warped in ways that belie their connection to the original emission as well as leading the user of the remaining energy away from his original intent and need. The ego was designed and established to permit the functioning of the internal psychic processes while the experiential requirements of your source-self were acquired. Having a "life" of its own was necessary as was the installation of "markers" that serve both as shock-absorbers and indicators of the kinds and types of experience that are to be obtained. In fact this life is a reflection of the source-self as transmitted through the psychic-self which awaits the accumulation of the adjusted material experiences. The ego intercepts and interprets the reflections of luminous energy and relates them to its required functions. These reflections are perceived as communications that exist as thought forms. A thought form is just a warning buzzer that your package has arrived and that you should collect and use it. Unfortunately, the thought form can become part of an internal dialogue that resembles a conversation or exchange with oneself. Thus reflections of reflections bleed away the incipient energy and result in the ego directing virtually nothing while all the time being very very busy.

So what the hell are thoughts good for? Well they stir up emotions that can lead you to unintelligent acts (I differentiate between irrational and unintelligent, as irrational can be fun and instructive while unintelligent always leads to less well-being than you had before them...) They can send you round in circles, debating your "position" on things endlessly and wasting powerful brain energy instead of using that same energy to resolve the situation at hand. They can occupy your sensory apparatus (thinking up something to say while the person who is taking the time and effort to speak to you is conveying valuable information) so that you neither completely nor effectively complete the communication "circuit" with the person who is addressing you. In fact, their only use is as a locator beacon for their essence which can only be readily discerned during the conscious exchange process with another individual that is partaking in the energy field.

Thoughts are related to reincarnation? Thoughts are the reflections of previous experiences that "clog" the structures of the conduits (universal circuits) that convey your descendent energy. Each experience leaves its imprint (memory, remember that?) in your circuitry and was ideally supposed to charge a specific battery with a particular energy. If that energy was never extracted from the life experience then it became a memorial form and continued to reside in the astral plane, adjacent to, but intervening between, the supra and infra mental regions. The reactive memory and the intellect had previously been created to provide the ego with its checks and balances (omg that sounds like another invisible government...but I suppose that the Hermetic principle applies everywhere) but has the nasty habit of not cleaning up after itself. Leftovers tend to go bad and food-for-thought poisoning occurs.

Why RE-incarnate at all? Why can't we get what we need in a one-stop shop? Initially, you needed to regenerate yourself but there was a problem....no convenient way to do it... (You can lead a soul to experience but you can't make it integrate it.) So your source provided your spirit with a plan and booted your butt into the material plane to get the job done. Talk about super-egos.... The situations that we encounter would normally require learning the task and practising it to get the kinks out. The difficulty is that our vibrational state is not sufficient to take care of all of the aspects of these tasks. Kind of like an apprentice that makes some errors while learning the trade. Coming to grips with this situation and all the associated phenomena is the first step in the right direction.

So, if thoughts are just echos and pale imitations of our descendant psychic energy, what the heck is that psychic energy supposed to be doing? Once man got past the survival aspects of his existance, he realized that there was more to life that just living. At least living in survival mode. As much as we try to occupy ourselves with various philosophical and tactile experiences, we always find them lacking and want to determine just what our purpose and meaning is. The universe is a pretty amazing place. Not only is it infinite but it is eternal as well. Since the universe seems able to maintain and support its fundamental principles without too much apparent effort and we are a very definite part of this universe......how come we seem so ephemeral and inconsequential? The answer lies not only in the stars but also in ourselves. We are the keys to our own existance. We contain all that we need to become all that we are and all that we will ever need to be. On a cosmic level, a man or an atom or a quark are all pretty much the same. The one thing that they have in common and that allows them to be differentiated is the information that they carry within themselves. We need only learn how to discern and employ that information and we will be well on our way to self realisation. How we get at and exploit that information depends on the nature of energy and its fundamental methods of amplification. A nuclear explosion is just the odd atom bumping into another in a specific and particular fashion. Once you know the secret of feedback loops, the cat is out of the bag and Schrodinger will testify to its being very much alive.

So, lost in your thoughts? Of course you are, what else could you be? You wanted to drain the swamp but forgot your initial goal when you got up to your ass in alligators! Internal dialogues are not constructive nor are they progressive. They are simply reflective. Reflection is the pale imitation of the mental transmission process. Repeated reflection is not only a time-waster but it is also an energy depleter. Without the gain boost of the resonance loop that strengthens external communication, the resonance boost that results from passive reflection sends all of the energy into the memorial residues and repositories that benefit from them to our detriment. Suffice it to say that even an echo comes from a source that is impassive and unable to interact with you otherwise. When you "engage" and energize your residual memories, you raise them up vibrationally and strengthen them psychically. This is NOT good for you, as the ego is then more subject to their influence and interference. Living in the moment requires that you not only ignore but that you also expunge the value and tenor of any memorial residues that impinge on your psychic processes. This can be achieved by verbal resonant exchange with another person who is able to receive and transpond with your vibrational phase and level. Action and activity CREATES memories and is not subject to them. You are making your own "mix tape" that represents your progression and your evolution. Do not be fooled nor influenced by the crosstalk signals that find their way into your ken. They have their own agenda and requirements and are in no way looking out for you and your interests.