Thought and thoughts

Abstraction is selective ignorance
Andrew Koenig

Understanding detached from sensation is called thought
Oswald Spengler

Life does not consist mainly -- or even largely -- of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one''s head.
Mark Twain

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James

From Wiktionary''s entry thought is defined as:
1. form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
2. (uncountable) the process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.

So it would seem by even the "normal" definition that thoughts are image forms percieved and manipulated in the mind which are not perceived through the five senses. St thinking about something really isn''t a linear stream of words. The words are just connotations to images used my us to communicate. We are so habituated to using words that we sometimes are unconscious of the constant shifting of imagery either sensed or generated in our mind. To "think about" something is to rotate about an images and combine it with various other image patterns. Attention to images, thats thinking.

Do we not associate the origination of our thought from our brain?

Thoughts seem to be created or sensed in the cerebral cortex. Yet we must attend to the brain''s processes and achieve balance between all brain systems. This "thinking" is really a virtual traveling through a imagery landscape otherwise know as an imagination.I see that it is possible to grow a mind where the only thoughts are of visual nature forming a mental landscape. Seen clearly this landscape needs to words to describe it. Why? Because there''s many thousands of images blending in innumerable combinations in our mind and as we have heard many times...A picture is worth a thousand words. That's why thoughts are fragmentary. To speak to ourselves in words primarily forces us to think in small sentences which barely begin to describe the rich and diverse mental landscape. If we see the entire mental landscape as ONE unified field we could have as total awareness as the human apparatus allows. Scientists say we use only 10% of our brains capacity or less. Perhaps this is because we have not grown the muscles of awareness to consciously receive and process the total universal and imagination fields.

It seems to me that the majority of people as they reach adulthood from habitual thought patterns in a narrow range. Thinking is inaction which is disorder.

When no thoughts, memories, or images are held in attention by force or habit the mind spontaneously becomes clear. Balanced attention to the unified field of thought is an aspect of synthesense. Action of clarity of mind naturally orders thoughts which rise to consciousness and drift back to underconsciousness. When you tie your shoe you don''t have to "think" about it....the long ago acquired knowledge naturally flows through your hands to the shoe spontaneously as one movement. I think this example reveals how we all unconsciously synthesensact. What I am communicating is we should strive to consciously synthesensact even with the sense of flow of thought imagery. The actively clear mind frees your thoughts and allows them to act and organically order freely, effortlessly.

Intention, attention with direction, spontaneously draws thoughts to our awareness as synthesense of the environment flows through and with us.

Let us not forget that thought is at least a reaction, and sometimes an action. It is a mistake to separate thought and action. It is one movement of attention from sight, feeling, thought, and action.The undisciplined mind allows external and emotional stimuli to habitually provoke a thought or imagery reaction. To be free of habitually reaction opens up the space for ordered action. Now thought can be used to its full potential. Visualization leads to creation. We must be nimble, responsive, and aware of external and emotional stimuli and it must affect our thought but we must have command of the process and not at the mercy of the flood of sensations.

The center of being is beyond thought. Thought permeates the field but is not dominant.