Food for thought to eschew...

So, what do the "thoughts" get out of the "exchange"? They intercept our descendant psychic energy, condition it with their particular brand of adjustment and then send it on towards the hapless ego that picks up the signal and acts on it as it must.

Unfortunately for us, they get a double-dip, as it were. Not only do they get first shot at our incident brilliance, they can also bask in the albedo of our reflective nature... Our habit and tendency is to regurgitate and to rechew each and every morsel of food for thought, no matter how putrid or inedible that it may have become...for after all, they are our "own" are they not?

Indeed, they do come from elsewhere so they are not our own but rather issue of those parts of our memorial stores that contain a complex and detailed record of our make-up and past history. Instead of our being able to receive our "due" and use it creatively to advance in our existence, we are subject to vampirism of the worst kind. Kind of like feeding off yourself....deadly in the end as this kind of recycling is not for our good at all. It is the price that we must pay until we cease to invite the night-stalkers into our abode.

In the meantime, these memorial residues become more and more heightened and refined, in their own way, as a further impediment to our imminent access to our luminous destiny. Our suffering feeds them and they get stronger and more resilient with time. Own last and best chance to stop the continued enslavement that we endure is to at last get to the point where we have had enough of the diminution of our selves and we put an end to our self-induced suffering.

They do have an end and it is us.