Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:14 am
Maybe I'm atypical, but I've never felt thoughts in my head, but rather from some much deeper untraceable core. When as a child, and dear old dad told me to get silly ideas out of my head, I wondered what he was talking about. But it's a notion so embedded in the language, it's hardly even questioned by most. One has to wonder if that has always been the case for humankind. I seem to recall reading somewhere that it was not, but not sure now.
Yes, here we should distinguish between the supersensible thinking activity and thinking perception. The further back in time we go the more we encounter consciousness that was feeling that "the soul thinks" and thoughts were only emerging as dream images. We can still see traces of this in expressions like "But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart."
Through the course of humanity's development the spiritual activity in the soul is slowly becoming more and more 'in focus'. Like passing sunlight through lens and slowly adjusting the focus - going from large fuzzy blob towards laser-precision point. It is natural that modern human feels the
perception of thoughts within the head area even if it's felt that the forces that think are not in the head. This has to do with certain soul differences which were also at the core of the arguments of the Greeks who couldn't agree if the seat of the soul was in the brain or the heart. It has to do with inclination to identify more with the
process of thinking or the
perception of thinking.
In all cases, in spiritual development these must be united. This can
initially happen in the truest sense only in the head. The grounding that Lou often speaks about is not that much about feeling sympathetic for the Earth but about finding our inner point of contact with it. We can love the Earth while at the same time still experience it and our own physical body in a dream like fashion. There's a place in the head, sometimes called the
floating eye of the soul. It's an area that feels most natural to concentrate an image into. It's neither too up, nor too down, neither too left, nor too right, neither too front, nor too back. For most people it's about the level of the eyes and slightly behind the skull. When we concentrate a thought there we should feel it 'weightless'. Any other spot is recognized by the fact that it requires additional effort to support the image there.
Through concentration like this, the soul finds a piece of 'real estate' within the physical world that really belongs to it. This is the point of real grounding. Not only we feel sympathetic for the Earth but we find a spot where our spiritual nature actually penetrates the physical. This point later becomes the 'seed' from which higher cognition begins to grow as expanding sphere. Then we
again find the spiritual forces that are responsible for thinking - outside the head - but not as vague feelings of untraceable core but as actual cognition - the untraceable becomes in the most real sense traceable. That's how we are led from the head, then through the larynx and then the heart organ. Here we find what is called 'thinking of the heart' which is neither intellectual chains of thoughts, neither a vague feeling as in 'follow your heart'. What we experience in 'follow your heart' in ordinary consciousness is only a vague dream image of the processes and beings that we reach in full consciousness within the heart organ. There we perceive the workings of Karma, how destinies are brought together, how we are embedded in the evolutionary stream of all humanity, how our soul has goals very often quite different from what we experience on the surface.