emotions as colourful movements in the matter of the astral body.
The samskaras, or seeds of emotional conditioning, can definitely
be seen as spots and felt through your body of energy. This
approach gives new keys to deal with unconscious complexes by
revealing them as something extremely concrete and objective, as
tangible on the astral level as weeds are on the physical level.
Once your emotional field starts to clarify and emotions are
revealed to your vision as forms, the following step is to reach a
similar perception of thoughts. By an extension of the same
process, it becomes possible to feel and see the thoughts as forms,
or ‘thought forms’, little waves of astral energy rushing all
around you. You can see and feel them coming from outside
yourself and penetrating into your aura... and within a fraction of
a second, a thought appears inside your mind. It is exactly like
having the flu after catching a virus.
Have you ever tried to stop thinking? This is a most frustrating
and hopeless exercise. The more you try to make the mind silent,
the more it rebels and reacts with unwanted thought activity. The
reason most people can never achieve total mental silence is that
they operate from their mind. They try to fight the mind
mentally. They become aware of their thoughts only after they
have already entered their mind, when it is far too late to do
anything.
If you reach the stage where you can see the thought forms
coming from outside, then the situation is quite different! You can
choose not to let them in, and thus experience inner silence. You
realize that until then, there was an unconscious mechanism that
attracted the thoughts inside your head, pulling them in like a
little hand. All you need to do is to release this mechanism, and
peace of mind is achieved immediately. There is no fight because
you do not have to push the thought forms away, you just stop
drawing them in.
22.3 The transformation of thinking
As the process advances and the mind clarifies, seekers realize that
two completely different forms of thinking take place inside
them. One is based on reactions and conditioning. This is the
thinking made of all the little thought forms that people catch
like viruses.
The other thinking is of a completely different nature. It does not
appear like a mechanical chain of reactions but like a creative