The Dimensional Doorways Created by Art

 

The Dimensional Doorways Created by Art

How Writing, music, and art open portals for both creator and receiver.

Have you ever seen visions in the form of paintings? Well, I have! Not always though. But either when I don’t paint for a bit and really miss painting or else I get excessively emerged in it – at both those times that I literally have visions in paints! As I close my eyes, I see real life images, only in bright colors same like primary acrylics! And so I consider those visions as both inspirational and destined! And when I finally do paint, even if they be far off from my visions; but they do help me find a release that I just can’t explain. Also, at times, its way later that I also become able to interpret few of my doodles or free flow arts!

Additionally, I though find my niche in writing, often being quite articulate in transforming my thoughts into words; yet there are times when I just fail to write what I really feel. Those are often dark times, and there is this thing with me that I just can’t write negatively. Or maybe, its those moments or phases when my mind is still not clear with my situation or feeling about something. And then I instead doodle or paint excessively. The sub conscious feels things to be important enough to register, but is just not clear to express them in words. And that’s when I doodle or paint more.

Regardless it be painting or writing or even music for that matter! Each time that I create something, it feels as if a chunk of my soul has turned alive and a fragment of the weight within is lighter. Maybe that’s how a mother feels when a baby comes out. Light and proud.

And it is not even crucial for an art piece to be a master piece. What matters more is the authenticity and effortlessness of it. If you would be totally in the flow while creating something, it won’t really feel like an effort.

For me, creating anything is not even about making it a product per say. Just the act of creation and in itself is life for me. I often say, that writing is like breathing for me. It is only through writing that I actually get to know what I am really feeling within. It simply helps me connect to my higher self or sub conscious mind. For I don’t really construct or create. Things just get created out of me. I feel as if I be a medium. And the words just pour out, the exact paints just spread, the poems get poetic, songs get composed, objects find their shapes, doodles say stories. And even I become as much a reader or a viewer or an interpreter of them as anybody else. I only let it flow out of me. I only be willing and devoted to it.

Result? Way beyond what it gives me in return! My entire life is in a way registered in poems. My entire evolution is an epic written in various diaries and books; sketched and painted across pages, canvases and walls. And I don’t even know if that matters or not! For we all die. So would I! Most of the writers get recognised after their death. Many artists die unrecognised by the world. Maybe that’s what makes their art and writings great. For they remain unaffected by the vices of the world. And they instead get fuelled by the atrocities of their life.

I however still wish to manifest an abundant life along with still remaining an authentic medium for art to be created. And that’s hope. Maybe that is equally crucial to be first felt and later expressed for the world to feel the same.

Unless a person has not suffered and not hoped for another world, maybe the utopia won’t be that intense. Probably, that’s why it is crucial for creators to have experienced the lack of something. At the same time, we only create what we know. Even imagination runs under the umbrella of things that already exist or have existed or will exist. So, for the imagination to create the most optimum art; the artist must have experienced or be aware of the other side. The abundance part.

A filled stomach may not create a heavy filling meal, but it can surely create a great dessert. An empty stomach may however be in hurry to anyhow create something edible. Maybe a balance is essential. Also, the genre varies as per the state of the artist.

And an empty stomach would find even the most mundane of dishes as the most luscious. But a filled stomach would rather be choosy and would only consume what is really nutritious and tasty.

Says so much about the receiving part as well.

Maybe that’s why, I find all these reels and quick arts or AI generated songs to be lacking in soul for larger consumption. They are quick, true, same like industrial products; but they lack authenticity, the depth of real feeling and the star dust of life creating something. Yet,they too offer a portal. Maybe a quick one. Maybe a virtual one. They too can be inspiring. Say, I recently got inspired looking at an abundant family’s reels all the way across the other side of the globe.

The main point here is not how something is created or who or what creates it. The main point is the power of any creation to open a dimensional portal both for the creator and receiver!

And of course the portal does get impacted by the state of mind and intention of either sides. Like, the idea of feminine beauty has changed with years. The intention however has been the same throughout – to portray the beauty of female forms. Yet, maybe in a certain time period, people appreciated the curves, and in a disaster struck economy, they may detest it. And in a slim figure preferring time, they may look down upon it. Yet, in an intellectual and natural community, the curves again may rather be celebrated.

Like so, an artist may prefer to display his/her wealth across intentionally or it may just be so much a part of his/her life that it just happens to be a part of the art naturally. Now, the viewer may either get inspired by the riches or judge it.

The intention and our specific needs or desires or focus or taste – so many things impact both the creation and reception of any art. A rap singer may sing of his/her journey from rags to riches. A rich person may just try to hide his days of survival to be taken more seriously or to give an impression of being generationally wealthy.

While manipulation or selective creation or display or consumption is always a possibility; rather very much a reality; yet let’s for now, focus upon the art’s dimensionality.

I have a quote written upon my room’s wardrobe ‘maqsad kya hai gaaney ka?’ that roughly translates to – ‘what is the purpose of song?’ I wrote it down long back to always remind myself that my voice matters, the music matters and it is very much essential to remember the purpose behind it. To always sing with my soul instead of simply performing!

Yeah! The word ‘performance’ has been bugging me somehow recently. Not like I am against it. I have been a performer myself when it comes to gigs. Yet, these days specially, when I have an abundance of solitude and most of my focus is rather directed within; it is getting more and more difficult to create reels or anything for public. Yet, my life’s timing is urging me to come out more often and display my work. And that’s where I am. For it all is seeming more of a performance. That can be a me thing.

Yet, to create soulfully is the point I want to talk about.

Art can only become a portal when it is done soulfully.

Else, its just a replica, or construction or I don’t know. A gibber gabber of words. A random spray of paints.

And there is nothing wrong with that as well. As long as you are enjoying it.

So many artists create this way. They just throw paint in various shapes or forms and later discover where they can highlight something and give some meaning to it. At times its just their chosen colors spread with a certain pressure. Likewise with music. Not necessary that a good piece always has lyrics. It can simply be instrumental. And even there the chords need not always match. Take Jazz for example. It has such a variety of highs and lows. Not always that are coordinated. Often they create shocks and surprises. Yet, they still heal or touch jazz enthusiasts.

So, what happens even when a creation doesn’t make an immediate meaning, yet touches soul.

What happens is that the artist creates something with soul. That emotion, that feeling, that moment is true, pure, raw, authentic and unleashes from the core!

And anything that comes out of the soul, even if it has no words, no black outlines, no defined structures – it still totally touches the soul.

As each soul has access to those core emotions. They just get lost in the noise and collages of the worldly affairs or else get brainwashed by conditioned structures and definitions. The real feelings however are at another level all together. They reach a level of crazy as they can’t be contained. Can’t be defined. They can only be felt. Can only be unleashed or freely contained.

Like the central point of earth full of lava. Or the seabed where yet another world thrives. Or the cosmos where all celestial objects float. Or the heights of sky where only eagles reach.

There are highest and lowest, deepest and purest points of everything. That’s where one reaches the gateway of art’s dimension!

And I feel that it is only to our limited and objective minds that these points vary. Maybe, energetically speaking, the highest and lowest point of an emotion or a soul lives in the same dimension. Like the coldest and the hottest shade or feeling. Don’t we laugh and cry with the same expression? Don’t we get tears in both the cases?

Maybe, in that dimension, it’s the extremity of any feeling that counts. Regardless it be pain or joy, rage or empathy. The excess, raw, core, pure, intense feeling transforming into an expressed art is therefore can be the gateway of that portal.

And not all can reach it. May it be at the level of creator or audience. For, it needs elimination of noise. And it needs connecting to your own essential self feeling a certain emotion in a given circumstance or situation! It also needs the courage to not just feel but also be willing to give voice to it.

There too, there are artists who rather hide in their art and then there are artists who find their voice in their art. Even hiding is artistic. You say in a way where you express yet not reveal the real fact. Even expressing is an art, for not everyone finds the rights words/strokes/tones/flavours to what they feel. That is but the creation part.

Even at the reception part. How can someone understand the intensity of pain if one has never felt that bad in life. Or how can someone actually understand concepts like twin flame connection or deep empathy for animals or an undefined love felt for someone you have met for the first time or the rage one feels when one sees something unfair happening to someone else for that matter!

The IQ, EQ, spiritual Quotient and artistic quotient all matter when it comes to both creation and reception.

Imagine creating a nature loving art in the audience of capitalistic consumerist society or vice verse.

A diamond is recognised and valued only by a jeweller or someone who knows its value. For everyone else, it rather remains a shimmering stone.

And it is not necessary that an artist would find people who would share the frequency of being as much of a visionary. And that’s why, many writers keep on writing their entire life and it takes the society years or even centuries art times to finally reach his/her level of awareness in order to access that portal.

It is not society’s fault. Nor is it the writer’s or artist’s fault. It is what it is!

If only world had recognised Vincent Van Gogh’s artistic ability when he was alive, he wouldn’t have experienced the plight he had to suffer with in his life. But maybe, his art wouldn’t have been as artsty or authentic as well.

Numerous artists and writers feel this urge to create, when their life feels inadequate to understand them or recognise their voice and so they just find some solace in reaching that portal through their art if not in real life.

And numerous people who resonate with that frequency later find an escape from their own lives by walking upon the paths paved by these artists. And they too find an entry to the portal. Maybe reach the same frequency. Maybe undergo the same metamorphoses. Or who knows!

Same like Language falls shorts to articulate the signified as it is via signifier; maybe neither the portal created by the artist is same like what he/she wished to reach at; nor does the receiver even enters the one that is infact created. Quite possible that the portal shifts with time and individual accessing it. Yet, a common umbrella of energy can possibly be created. Say, grief, or joy or love or passion or evolution; ad infinitum.

Of course, the same point can be looked from infinite view points in the radius of 360 degrees. Art after all is open to all interpretations.

Rather, it’s crazy how when I as a writer, read my own poems that I must have written back in my teenage or even a few years back; even I most of the times look at it from a new perspective! My own poems and I hardly remember why I wrote a certain piece or for whom. And I look at it as a third person – appreciating or criticising, resonating or scrutinising. If I fail to reach the same portal through my own creations after a period of time, how can someone else access it! Rather, it is not just those poems that are already complete or written in the past. I can’t even complete a half left painting if I leave it for few days. It becomes something else later on but not the one I had originally in mind. The energy shifts. So does the intensity and connection to it.

Shakespeare therefore had a simple rule to his writings. The three unities as he called it. Unity of action, time and play. He had adopted this rule from Aristotle’s poetics to deliver coherent plays, though at times also breaking the same rules...But this remains back of my mind as well somehow.

Therefore, I try to finish whatever I begin – at the same place, in the allotted time – to ensure justice to the creative inspiration and that portal itself.

But, each is to each. And one can be open to as many layers or perspectives when it comes to art. Totally depends upon what you are creating.

Like there was this song that I had written years ago on mountains in the snow. It however got chiselled a few months later on with a friend in city. And its after years that I finally could create it on my own. And now, I may even release it.

Not like I am on those mountains any more. Nor am I in the same mental state as well. Yet I know that each time I sing it, the song takes me both to the original place where it had got created, and the city where I got to practice it. And maybe a third layer would be when I would in a studio – record it. Later, who knows, where all the audience would reach when they would listen to it.

The same song connects me personally to three versions of myself. The same song can mean so much more or different for someone else. Maybe it gets connected to someone’s first solo trip or it gets saved in one’s memory when he/she met with the love of his/her life, or maybe one finds spiritual epiphany on listening to it. Who knows? Songs always are portals for sure – not just in themselves but also how we remember them and the memories that they hold!

And there are still abstract. Words be the most basic examples of such portals.

Entire history books live because of this possibility of them not just informing us about past but also in a way teleporting us to those timelines. How true they are and whom that they favour is a discussion for another time! Yet, they surely become the most legit portals for readers to almost time travel. Scriptures be yet another examples of travelling through centuries and connecting to the deities or heroes of the past. And even if we move to fiction, books be the direct portal to reach the imaginary world of the writer.

Or more trending these days is the medium of movies. It not only touches more of our senses but also are created by collective efforts of numerous creatives. Someone writes, another produces, someone directs, an entire team creates those illusions or visuals, another teams creates sound effects and songs and we get a sum total of those efforts in the form of an episode or series or movie. That’s the most simplified form of portal. For those few hours, we forget our own world and reach the dimension collectively created by all these creators. Though, this specific portal is rather intentionally created with a certain theme to it and is not as raw or pure in nature. It has layered portals and art involved. So it rather becomes a contained dimension that may or may not remain with us in the longer run.

Yet it for sure has this impact of making us teleport into a fabricated virtual world. And one never knows when a certain movie can change our entire life’s ideology or perspective towards something.

Like I had absolutely no idea about the concept of narcissism. I only understood it as someone too obsessed with self. But, I accidently found one series and while watching it found numerous similarities between those characters and few people I knew closely. Suddenly, my eyes got opened and a new world of topic opened up to me. Took me few years to understand, accept, digest, process and finally let go it’s impact. But that one series totally changed my life. I learned so much, realised, I was never the problem. It opened numerous knots of my own life.

That one series though was a contained portal in itself, but for me, it became a tunnel and kind of merged with my own life. Ultimately it became a doorway to transform my relations, myself and my life in an all together different way from how I would have otherwise understood or dealt with it.

I think, that series was meant for me. I think, that all art, music, writings, movies, any creativity is meant for certain souls. May it be at the level of creating them or at the level of receiving them as well.

There are few pieces that resonate with a majority of people. Like everyone loves Harry Potter’s world of magic, or many spiritual seekers appreicate Paulo Coelho’s writings or many romantics or female oriented readers find solace in Danielle Steel’s fictional world or Poetry lovers adore Khalil Gibran’s words... There are numerous other examples. Boy Dylan, Queen, Prem Chand, Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Frida Kahlo etc...

Yet, that doesn’t reduce the impact of other artist who may not have become as famous yet have created extraordinarily well. Many such bands or artists or writers don’t even want the lime light. Or many have a selective number of followers but they remain loyal admirers of them.

It’s all about resonation and what section of society needs a certain portal at what time!

Just because a large section is not appreciative of your art, doesn’t demean it or reduce it’s credibility or ability. It just means that either you think ahead of your time or are unique.

The very fact that you create makes you directly in touch with divine.

Isn’t it rather magical how these inspirations happen or how we get pulled towards certain books or songs or creations – almost as if played by destiny. It’s same like soul connections or destined moments or pulses in evolution.

I feel, even if no one ever reads or sees your art. Just the act of creating possibly creates changes in the collective energy of the universe and somehow contributes in collective evolution. Same like, if you are walking solo in an offbeat forest. Even if nobody is following you till a certain peak or noticing you making your own way; but just the fact that you faced all those obstructions on your own, cut through those wild branches, walked upon that grass or land – totally brought change to the topography. It paved a path for anyone in future lost in that forest. You won’t even realise it but maybe you lit a fire somewhere or found a shelter in a cave or left a useful item necessary for sustenance somewhere on the way- and that would indeed become hope for someone maybe months or years or even centuries later on. Only energetically, for we are talking about creativity and its impact upon collective.

Yet, these days, I am getting more and more inclined towards wishing for my art, writings and songs to reach the world. Something within is urging me to give my creativity a decent platform. It feels almost a responsibility. But that’s just me.

I still believe that the very fact that one creates is in itself a fully complete purpose! Creation is both a verb and a noun. The objective and the outcome.

Still, if the same creation can actually be utilised by others – then that becomes a cherry on top. That not only, you created a portal to another dimension but now many others can use it and have direct access to an evolved way of being or a certain emotion or a processed thought or whatever that your art wishes to express!

Creation in itself is divine, holy, an activity and life. It’s a portal as well as a dimension. It’s an active world of integration of life and imagination.

If you can be the medium of such creation, I would like to urge you to simply create. Regardless you have anyone that appreciates or not. And if you can even give your art better platform, then fear not, just do it. It’s not you in person who is standing on the stage or is being read by the mob. It’s that energy or the frequency that must reach those souls for them to have a crash course of something that naturally happened to you or something for which you really underwent immense emotions and finally processed it into the art that they can view!

What if Illuminati is rather a state of consciousness?

 

What if Illuminati is rather a state of consciousness?

 

I have often heard numerous theories about Illuminati or freemasons! Possibly they were secret societies back in 18^th or 16^th century. Possibly, they still function somewhere; who knows!

A few years back, I was super curious about them. I had heard that these societies come and help anybody who writes a certain quote as a cry for help or interest in joining them. I don’t remember the quote now, but possibly it was something like ‘Who would help the shepherd’s son’. Ha ha! Nothing happened. My experiment remained an experiment.

There was also a time when I rather judged these societies. Blaming them for controlling everything. I used to feel that who gives a certain section of society the right to control who gets access to higher consciousness or who gets to keep money or who has access to utilities and what not!

Anyway, all those are but my opinions about things I don’t even know fully or am aware of. Then I meet with those ‘wanna be’ people who talk about these societies so loosely that I 99 percent of the times avoid even getting these terms into any conversations!

However, I was just thinking today, that what if, Illuminati or Freemasons are no more the names of any secret societies. How about they instead be a state of consciousness.

Hear me out! Let’s just keep the conspiracy theories at bay.

Let’s even take out these names.

Let’s just consider a group of people who somehow are enlightened or are more conscious or aware.

Ok, they don’t even know each other in real life, so there isn’t any possibility of a society per say as well.

Now, consider one such individual who is at a higher level of consciousness. He/she has more awareness about everything is completely out of the matrix. He/she can clearly see why people behave a certain way. Why media plays certain things. How power dynamics function. How majority of the world is rather running with a mob mentality. How maximum people lack any originality and are rather happy with surviving mechanism.

The person observing it all from a critical distance or a panoptical view no more can relate to the matrix. He/she though clearly knows how to play the game of the matrix but has absolutely no interest in it. For any such personal benefit seems useless to that person.

The person for a bit may enter a state of abhor! Or there may be extreme empathy for those who are voiceless or victims. The person may wish to change so much in the world. Yet there maybe absolute disinterest in participating at all in that corrupt or sick a world.

However, after all this analysis/paralysis, say, the person realizes that all dimensions are rather connected. And all beings are inter connected. That there is nothing useless. No one who is baseless. That we all are here to evolve. Only it takes more time for certain souls.

That he/she is rather lucky or has worked his/her way up through blood, sweat, tears, trauma processing, self-analysis, multiple births of actively working upon self!

So then, the person would naturally be inclined to

-          be better at his/her abilities/skills/perceptions.

-          Help out humanity to be more evolved like her/him.

-          Be like a swan, meaning, stay in water, yet not be impacted by puddles. (feathers would be awareness)

-          Stay somewhat cut off from the world yet actively observe to understand better.

-          Participate and contribute where changes can be made may it be spiritually, psychologically, through language, active work or whichever field one chooses to be.

-          Would become a person of power or influence – not because he/she needs it for himself or herself but it would be required to make a larger impact.

 

 

 

All these would still be internal realizations and because our mind is the most potent manifestation device and since the said person is already at a higher level of consciousness; the person would most probably create that sort of life as well.

 

The process however can be lonely. As the higher you go, the lesser people be there alongside. Quite a possibility that the person would need to go on isolated from the world. But spiritually the person would be somehow connected. As at the level of consciousness, the person would have access to a separate level of consciousness all together. And all beings sharing that frequency with him/her would be together with the person at 5D or that frequency. Though that may not be consciously there in his/her awareness.

 

It's same like an Eagle. She flies solo. Travels thousands of kilometres on her own. Only darts back on land to hunt her prey or at times to rest or nest; but even her resting places are high up upon offbeat clifftops and her nests too are separated from the world… She can even sleep in the sky. Can migrate countries to find the apt climatic conditions… and she remains solo happily sailing through unimaginable heights in the sky. Until she finds her mate. And then they mate for life. And not like Eagles are only loners. No. When eagles actually befriend other eagles of similar energy; they create windchimes in air.

Round and round they fly in the sky creating multiple patterns.

At times they even fly in herds. But that’s rare. Somehow, I am getting to see herds of eagles more and more these days. It gives me hope.

But ya, point being; same like an eagle, a person with higher consciousness also may instead choose to fly high and solo until the person finds his/her right match or friends of equal calibre or energetic match. Eagles don’t waste their time when crows try to compete with them or caw at them. They simply fly higher. And only when they meet other eagles that they play in the sky or create patterns and such. Else, they just enjoy the wind, fly high and only come down when they feel the need for it.

I had read somewhere, that if you are the only light at a place, then become a star in that night sky. And sooner or later, you would find other stars twinkling in some timeline. And eventually you would find yourself shimmering in the large sky filled with uncountable stars.

But even if right now, you are not in a constellation, or right now, all you see is darkness; then simply shine your brightest. Maybe, someone wishes upon you. Maybe you become the only hope or miracle for someone. Maybe, some lost voyager finally finds his way thanks to you. All you got to do is shine bright. All you got to do, is be you.

And that’s why I feel that in present day context, maybe Illuminati or freemasonry are not really secret societies. These are but a kind of frequency or a realm where all the souls who have reached a certain level of consciousness, are aware and really wish to make a difference – they all somehow meet up – not consciously, but at the level of 5 D; and create massive impacts upon earth.

And somehow, some divine power is in fact managing it all. Why else would people intentionally decide to even accept life so unlike their choice but just by following a hunch that they need to be there. It is not their conscious decision but sub-conscious mind that has rather taken minutes of the meeting when the higher conscious of the person sat with higher consciouses of other beings and decided to take on whatever role the person performs in 3D.

I am not even cooking these things up. Nor am I claiming these to be actual events happening out there. I am just trying to understand and explain the concept of energy and how it is spread in order to have the most evolution-oriented collective being.

And in the process, not only such individual beings evolve or get impacted but also their environment and hence the collective consciousness all together.

And as per my belief and understanding, maybe that’s what has been and is happening in the world. Only, earlier, it was easier to separate gods and demons as different beings. Now, it all happens at more energetic and dimensional level.

Earlier there were legit sages who were known seers and used to guide the masses. Now it has to happen silently, else, the society would again crucify or punish enlightened souls like they did with earlier prophets.

It’s the work that needs to be out. The creations. The energy. It’s the system that needs to be worked upon right from the root, till branches, till each and every nerve that bleeds.

For that, there must be aware beings at all levels. And from what I can observe, this is a time of massive shifts in earth. maybe it literally, where numerous tectonic shifts, environmental changes are reshaping the very topography of the 3 D world that we see; but also, energetically, where more and more beings are breaking the shackles of imprisoned humanity.

While there are entirely opposite changes as well happening in the same world. Diseases, brainwashing media, intoxicating lifestyles and what not. That too is a dimension.

But, the dimension I am referring to, is a refurbished one. More like an aware refabrication of the same reality.

After all, there is no matter. It is all energy.

And so, a lot of beings are becoming more and more conscious or aware. Artists are rising up and getting more confident about their art. Authentic souls are finding their voices.

People don’t mind getting isolated for a bit, if it means purging and purifying and reconnecting with higher sources.

It’s a sort of new earth but more at energetic level. Because these souls are done with corruption, greed, races. They are done with a life where mind and consciousness needs to be numbed all the time just to survive this life.

More and more people are rising up to actually make the most of life. To be more in touch with intuition, telepathy, 5 D consciousness, genuine humanity.

This is a pivotal time, where a lot of changes are happening.

A new dimensional earth is getting formed. With lesser scope of diseases. With healthy lifestyle, more empathy, more love for animals and fellow creatures. There is a lot of creativity in it. As most of the beings are connected to the source, to their own higher consciousness. And they are actively inter connected at the collective consciousness.

Maybe, that is in fact Illuminati in today’s time. the illuminated souls. Maybe that is freemasonry. People whose third eye chakra is active. Who are in touch with aether and divine within. Who have been observing life on earth throughout their life. Have seen the unfair exchanges. Have experienced the suffering first hand. But they stood by their principles. They took the higher road. They chose empathy, chose humanity.

They became illuminated. And so did many others.

And together they are creating a new earth.

Not to say, that it’s a geographical separate sphere somewhere.

But energetically, it would so happen, that both old earth and new earth grids would simply not materialize in front of each other. They would cohabit the same space but won’t matter or impact each other anymore.

It’s another level. It’s next level of evolution.

These are all master players. Who have actually stood by the test of time. have faced the hardships in life.

And though, at present, it is transition time. and many are not even aware of their energetic exchanges or contributions at 5D levels or in dream states; but very soon; it would all be more and more intentional.

 The grid would simply open up. The network would get clearer.

The new earth is soon to be functional.

Illuminated, elevated, conscious, aware, creative, artistic, curious, empathetic, sympathetic, full of love, full of care, authentic, pure, divine consciousness, connected to source, collective yet individual!

The new earth is ready to roll!

Sit tight.

It’s another level of dimensional door!

 

Why Silence is a dimension

 

Why Silence is a dimension

Silence as a revelatory space, not an absence.

 

There are people who just can’t ever be silent. They either speak or over-think or need some or other kind of noise to feel safe and alive. For those who have really experienced silence – truly know that there is nothing louder than silence!

May it be silence in terms of sounds, or silence as no 3D communication between two souls, or silence as a response to a question or situation! Silence can mean so much and contains its own kind of fullness, if only we are willing to actually delve into it.

As per Spirituality and Hinduism; Silence is the place of aether… Sky tattva. Represented by Shiva – the guardian of Time. The very energy has no attributes to it. It’s emptiness. A place before beginning and after culmination of everything living or non-living, perceived or unperceived.

In our chakras, sky element is placed in the centre of our throat and shiva sits upon our third eye chakra. All hormones get secreted right between these two chakras in our system. All thinking happens between these two. all thoughts originate and culminate here.

Likewise at macro level, the entire life comes into existence when prakriti or Shakti enters in. If Shiva is Aether element, then his consort ‘Shakti’ - is all rest of the elements. She represents nature itself. So, anything with attributes to it – fire, air, earth, water – is shakti/ energy/ nature/ prakriti.

In coding language, Shiva is Zero. So is silence. Shakti is all ones that make it a language. All though, both fulfil each other, yet both are equally essential in themselves. And both are in themselves their own dimensions.

As such, each of the elements comprise of their own worlds – water has its own life, air is what we breath in, there are creatures living even layers below earth’s crust – deep inside earth, fire too has its own mystery and colors about it. Yet, its sky or ether that is all pervasive and without which, none of the things would seem the way they seem to us.

Each cell of our body contains maximum amount of nothingness. It’s rather sky element that fills all these micro and macro structures.

Likewise, its rather silence that gives meaning to any language structure.

That’s how melodies are made – a play of sounds and silence in between. Or else, it would be a list of consecutive sounds without any drops in between. I wonder if that would even be music.

It’s the space between breath in and breath out or breath out and breath in – that makes breathing a verb and life a living experience.

And yet, those in between pauses between breaths are the focus points of all meditations. Have you ever wondered why is that so? Which frequency do those pauses connect us to?

What is this silence that sages go to find all up on mountains – away from noise?

Is it just silence from sounds – external or internal or is it silence of some other kind? What is Silence?

Spirituality defines it as a state where there are absolutely no thoughts. No beings around. No chitter chatter in mind. No desires, no aspirations, no complaints, no struggles. It’s just hollow and empty. A clean slate. A state of nothingness. Of Aether. Of sky. Of Shiva.

You don’t want to be anywhere, don’t need to do or get anything. You are complete in yourself. You are in your now.

A musician would define Silence as absolute mine. For that’s where all music originates from. You need to be comfortable with silence, eventually listen, listen to every friction and frequency; and that’s how you learn the highs and lows and the magic of sounds in it.

Only a blank canvas is capable to receive shades of imagination from scratch. Rest all are but remixes.

 

Probably, Silence then is in itself a separate dimension. May it be a state of mind, a land where Shiva resides, a frequency of no frequency, the point before origin point, the dark matter that fills the entire universe, the place from where we are born and where we go after we die. Who knows? Silence however can be any or all of these entities. We can only name it or understand the impact of it with the limited human perspective and even more limited linguistic availability.

For after all, it is what can’t be seen, heard, felt or experienced in a 3 D way. Yet, it can totally be experienced with all of our senses when one is really aware and accepting of it. And of course, it is the ultimate cosmic state. Hence, we all are connected to it. Rather we are made out of it.

A baby spends nine months in a womb. Not sure, how many sights, smells, sounds or touches he/she experiences in there. But silence must be the majority of it.

All though universe is said to carry a universal sound of ‘Om’ in it, yet there are also areas beyond our milky way. there are also black holes containing cosmic debris. There is a vast universe much beyond what is known to mankind. And silence is what it all mostly comprises.

 

So, what is it about silence that makes sages chase it? That makes troubled people crave for it? That makes people travel from comfort of their homes and cities to offbeat natural places? That makes people leave relationships just to be able to live isolated but in peace?

 

I don’t know about others, yet from my personal experience, I can for sure say that Silence is what helps me be creative.

My ears are super sensitive. I detest loud sounds. Can’t handle gossip or obnoxiously loud, flattering, belittling, boasting, uncivil people. Yet, my own family is like that. They consume media at top volume, talk with each other loudly; often taking calls on speaker, making random clapping sounds, jumping upon floor and what not. But my house is of narcissists. That’s part of the deal I guess.

Yet, each time that I am home, I feel this intense urge to just reduce the volume of my ambience. I often dull out the sound with using earphones 24 hours at the cost of hurting my eardrums; or in summers that sound of A.C. and fans helps a bit… Yet, the significance of silence – I totally get it.

So much that I get impacted by their noise that when I do get home alone time, the sounds still vibrate in my ears for a few days… It takes time to actually find that silence again.

And being a writer and an artist, it becomes super significant to get that silence. Imagine, I am thinking about one thing, and typing or writing it and suddenly I overhear a random conversation totally useless for me and there my entire flow goes with it.

That’s just a me thing though. Better not delve into it.

Yet, all I want to say is that, I totally and sincerely get the value of silence and how much we get impacted by the presence or absence of it.

As such I have travelled more more than a decade in my life. That took me to places of all kinds. Places where nature was more prominent, or places where wilderness could be more experienced, cities or forests, villages or islands, mountains or beaches… basically all kinds of places.

And one thing I observed in all those places… that it is not just people who talk or noises of sounds… One can trully experience energetic noise or energetic silence… Like when I return back home in Delhi to my home, I feel heavy. Can’t explain it. But a fog kind of builds in my mind. As if I am full. Not with silence. Not with even thoughts or words. But I feel full. Maybe I stuff myself with food. Maybe I block all sounds or city’s vices around. Maybe, I get into this cocoon of comforts to forget the world. I don’t really know. But it is anything but silence. Even when I am home alone and don’t exchange a single word with anyone. It still feels strangely heavy and full.

Probably, it’s an energetic overload. Or traumas that these walls carry. Or that inner child who has lived in these walls and has experienced all kinds of unfair ordeals.

Maybe, it’s the pressure of growing up, the self that actually had certain dreams and aspirations.

Maybe, I am actually undergoing some transition. Who knows? But it sure feels heavy. And it is far off from the silence I am used to and love being at for my being!

I used to find that silence earlier while travelling solo. For nobody knew me at those places. There were no expectations, no judgements. No necessities for even small talks. No long term connections to take care of.

Just I and this freedom to stroll freely amidst nature. And maybe write poems, or compose songs, or take out my paints and create paintings, or weave macrame jewellery with my chosen energy; create or not create, be someone or be no one… There used to be so much space. To become a star at times, or simply observe choosing to be invisible like sky.

I learned both presence and absence… I learned being present in absence… at times I participated, at times I simply spectated.

It was all a beautiful show. Not to celebrate or something. Just a reflection of it all feels like a cosmic show.

But now, I am no-more sure. For all those places are better acquainted with and not only am I expected to be a certain person at those places but I too have formed judgements and opinions about people and places and cultures at all those places.

The moment attributes enter in, sky reduces. Silence reduces. And there is language, or elements, or thoughts… and one loses freedom which is the most crucial both for me and for silence to happen!

Silence can also be found in love. As I look at my cat comfortably sleeping in her bed – knowing she is safe here, is well fed, has a special music played just for her; she can simply sleep tonight her best – unafraid of predators or cold or anything else. She can be herself. She can rest and sleep in this silence. In safety. In love.

Can we then consider the fulfilment of a desire as silence?

Can we instead call finding our soul tribe as silence?

What is this silence?

Is it filled with safety and love?

Or is it simply knowing that you are taken care of regardless whatever and therefore finally getting to be yourself without any pressure or judgements – external or internal?

Is the culmination of all desires – silence?

A poor person can’t find peace for his mind and life would keep him bothered about his immediate survival needs. A rich person can’t find peace as he would be bothered about protecting his resources or else may be bothered about secondary needs like relationships or connections. A mountain person may seek city comforts. A city person may seek mountains’ strength and simplicity. A beach person may wish to live away from water. a desert person may imagine living by a river or a sea.

 There is no end to our desires. Everyone needs someone or something. And so, there is always this noise of getting something, achieving something, becoming somebody. And as well all know, desires know no end. They just keep on enhancing.

 

Is absence of all desires Silence then? Probably! But that’s almost equal to death. It is desire that gives us our will to live. It is desire that drives us to do anything in life. The lesser the desires be, the lesser the noise; but also, the lesser alive one feels. Probably, that’s where I am at presently. Silent! Desireless! Almost lifeless! Or maybe, it’s just a phase. But I totally feel it.

This can’t be healthy silence. Or maybe it is.

For the process of manifestation involves both desiring something soulfully and then detaching from it entirely.

That’s how one even quantum leaps maybe. By letting go all past versions of oneself, by having no iota of personal or universal desires for future; by letting the universe take its course, surrendering to it… By becoming silence itself. Being as still.

Or maybe, these too are fabricated stories that we like to believe to give ourselves hope that not all is doomed. That world still has something to look forward to. who knows?

But, until we won’t stop and reflect and observe; until we won’t be one with the silence; we would never know the difference between chaotic noise and pleasant melody.

One must know peace to decipher chaos from harmony.

One must experience nothingness to then value something or create any frequency after it.

Otherwise, we would keep on creating and becoming remixes. Copying others, following trends. Becoming but replicas of each other.

What’s so original about it? Oh, you copied someone else’s business idea or painting or did a cover better than original? Still a cover right? Still a copy?

Original happens only when we sit with ourselves. When we eliminate all distractions, all noise. And decide to become a medium for universe to design.

And that’s where we get access to the dimension of silence.

To shiva’s world.

One needs to become neutral for that.

It’s neither an electron, nor a proton.

It’s right at the nucleus. The neutron.

That is silence. Neutron.

It is not charged. It has no sound. Has no color. Is transparent.

It is not even an absence. It’s an invisible presence that can be so fulfilling that everything else would seem like a noise when you actually be one with it.

But then you decide. And you create something beautiful out of it.

 

Shiva and Shakti had three kids.

Kartikeya – the lord of wars. The one responsible to eliminate all demons.

Ganesha – the formless divinity. The supreme consciousness. The bhrahman. Someone who only wishes to best for universe.

Ashoksundari - The goddess of joy and emotional fulfilment.

 

Spiritually speaking, each time we connect to the silence and then create something instinctively, by becoming universal medium – our masculine and feminine self merges within us and creates Kartikeya, Ganesha and Ashok Sundari. We get strength to fight inner and outer demons. We create something well intended, prosperous and abundant both for ourselves and the world. And we create joy and emotional fulfilment both for ourselves and universe.

That’s the power of silence. That’s the power of connecting to divine and letting it make us a medium for divine designs.

 

The question arises – how to reach this state?

How to access this dimension?

In a way this dimension always has access to us. When we sleep, when we have good intentions, when we wish to create joy and emotional well-being and such. Or when we meditate, when we don’t want to talk in the first hour of waking up. When we just lie in our beds doing nothing, thinking nothing, just staring at the ceiling for hours – not because we are upset, but because we don’t suffer with being productive all the time. When we simply be one with nature, maybe look at the river passing by, or feel the breeze on top of a mountain cliff or caress a pet. At all these moments – are minds are silent. And we are one with the divine – consciously or unconsciously.

Each time when we are totally at one with the moment – we are also in touch with this dimension of silence. As, in those moments, there is no internal noise of what if, what not, what should and such. There is no distraction even from outside. And we just are one with time.

Yet, how to consciously reach it?

One way is of course meditation. Where at first there would be excessive thoughts but eventually, with more and more sessions, the thoughts would recede and you shift from experiencing to observing to actually having lesser and lesser thoughts to ultimately reaching thoughtlessness, hence the realm of silence.

Another way is of course literal. By consciously distancing yourself from people, places and things that create noise around you and within you. that includes consciously choosing your company, environment, home setting, places of work, mode of communion and your every-day life.

Then, of course, our internal environment that becomes most crucial. By actively working upon our thoughts, desires, anxieties, fears, aspirations, goals, relationships, connections, traumas and such. It does has a lot of intentional over thinking. But it is a kind of catharsis. You do it so much that you reach the other end of it. For not all thoughts can be avoided or repressed. And even then, one never know when a repressed thought or pain may resurface and ooze out at people or situations we actually care about. Better to heal on our own in our inner mindsets. Lesser the internal noise, the more coherent would we be with the realm of silence. The better that we would live, create, be!

Oh, and one bonus key that I too can provide. Up to you if you take it or not. Don’t watch news or Television. Don’t read newspapers. Don’t consume any mainstream media that pretends to tell you reality about the world.

Trust me on this, most of that news is manipulated to favour those in power. They create fear in the masses and brainwash people to think/feel a certain way as suited to those who benefit out of it.

Being an empath and an INFJ, I have never been able to consume any of that media. I wasn’t even aware of these terms, but I just knew that all that drumming noise in news channels gave me anxiety and newspapers too carried things that hardly seemed of my interest to me.

Instead connect more to your instincts. The more in touch with collective consciousness you would be, the more that you would naturally feel the pain or joys of the world.

There are times when I am not even aware of a certain disaster, but I just feel overtly emotional, rageful or vulnerable and later that I get to know about a disaster.

The more you would be in touch with your inner being, the more in touch you would be with the entire universe.

Of course, I am not telling you to simply stay cut off from the happenings of the world. Just because I don’t have any interest in politics or worldly affairs, doesn’t mean that you should not as well.

Each is entitled to his/her own interests. Just beware of the credibility of its source and also be aware of the cost of it upon your own mindset and sense of being.

As fabricated news is just noise similar to cheap gossip that people indulge into and waste their precious time, energy and life with.

And real news would anyhow reach you this way or the other.

I personally prefer to watch comedy shows. There are few great comedians who actually show a mirror to reality and bring up current affairs with a lighter note to it. That doesn’t create unnecessary drama to the system and simply makes one think, even laugh upon social atrocities but later makes one reflect back upon those pointers and even take right measures for it. But that’s a discussion for another time.

All I want to insist upon over here is healthy and conscious consumption of media.

And not just media, rather everything. Food, environment, people, conversations, smells, textures. Lesser the better. At least, that is where I am at presently. And somehow, it’s giving me an insight beyond explanation.

I have been keeping strictly to myself for few months now. No reason. Just listening to my inner rhythm. And trust me, for the traveller in me, that’s my personal hell. Yet, for the thinker in me, it’s my personal heaven.

Yesterday, I stepped out till the market after many days. I had never noticed so many smells out there. My nose had a rush of smells at each step that I took. Not like it’s a dirty market and not like I was visiting it for the first time. I had just never noticed all those smells earlier. Yet, being in a clean environment for so long actually made me more aware of every unknown or different smell. I was conscious and aware of every new smell and that felt like a power and made me irk at the same time.

I was thinking, what if my sense of smell also has now become more magnified same like my listening ability. It can actually become a difficulty. Though if used correctly, can even be a power. Depends how I utilise it. Or, if I have even attained it.

What matters more is the fact that the more in touch with silence you be, the more aware you get of every tiny atom or experience or moment in life. And that’s how you can actually maximize you living experience as well.

Not by chasing as many experiences as possible. But by living each moment to the fullest with all your senses – even the absence of such moments. eradicate the noise, kill the instant dopamine hits, let life unveil itself to you instead of you chasing it.

It's the same like – when in summers, the excessive heat makes the moisture of a certain area vaporize… and for a bit the place becomes complete empty. And then gushes of cold air fly towards the empty area to fill it in. Likewise works our life or consciousness or mind or connection with the realm of silence.

You need to kill the distractions, become comfortable with silence. Only then the best possible life or manifestations would occur.

It takes time however. Do not get defeated by the first whiffs of bad smells or loud sounds. Naah! Enjoy the fact that you can experience better. Have a soft corner when you have better empathy for others. It’s both a bane and a boon to be more aware. But it’s up to you if you let the experiences stick to you or not.

Be observant. No need to get personal or stay struck with even these vulnerabilities or powers. Remember, you are but the medium. Become so empty that universe can fill you with what you are born to be.

You got to surrender. Got to leave your limited version of an ideal life. Allow the destiny to take its course. Just be ready to do what the divine designs.

You got to sit with silence. Be neutral to highs and lows. Be accepting to even what seems like stagnation but is actually the phase of integration and activation. For that’s what eventually gives birth to life!

The world didn’t come into existence because of noise. It came to life when nothingness finally decided to unveil parts of itself. And that’s when it originated – the light!

The first sound, the first amber, the first drop, the first atom, the first song, the first love story, the first divine union, the first star… so many firsts – the best of all. They all originated out of silence. Out of nothingness. Out of a spark that decided to come into existence.

Silence is a beautiful dimension. Maybe even a portal between this life and after life.

Maybe a secret network of communication between said and unsaid.

Maybe the wireless transmission or telepathic connection between lovers happens exactly there.

Maybe that’s where we communicate with our pets and therefore no more needs words or proximity to exchange our needs pr beliefs.

Silence is where Shiva lives. Silence is where Sages wish to reach. Silence is the realm that is all pervasive. In between words, between sighs, between breaths, in each atom, in every deep sleep, before birth, after death, between beats, between letters received and sent, upon the lips of someone who has a lot to say but just can’t find the right words.

At times, silence is in itself enough.

At times, silence is what triggers someone.

The more you would get to know it, the more you would fall in love with it.

Trust me on this! For I absolutely adore it, thrive in it, listen to it, interact with it, drown in it, swim in it, laugh with it, cry with it.

At times, I become it. At times, I pray to it.

Silence is the ultimate truth.

A dimension so here and yet so invisible. Maybe, that’s the beauty of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thought Loops as Dimensional Spheres

 

Thought Loops as Dimensional Spheres

Some thoughts trap us, others uplift us.

What if looping thoughts are spirals - we keep rotating through until integration?

 

Growing up, I knew someone who used to tell a single incident to many people – again and again – word to word. That used to bother me a lot. For I used to be the first audience of such talks and it used to feel rather off-putting – the need of the speaker to tell the same thing to not just one more but many more people!

Years later, I now realize the purpose of it. Not that I support it. I am an introvert and share my life incidents rarely with anyone. And even then, those are well selected, cropped and shared as a gist. Still, I do get the other side as well.

There are people who simply can’t process many emotions. And even after sharing once, the emotions or the memories of any good or bad incidents remain imprinted in their minds and they get played again and again. Hence those people continue sharing with whoever they interact with. Until, either the story itself loses its power. Or else, they find a right solution to it – after sharing it with so many people and getting to know their reaction or view point about it.

And just because you don’t share with others, doesn’t mean that you don’t have such cyclic thoughts in your own head. Each of us has so many voices and perspectives right within our minds. Plus, our state of mind too changes with environment, roles, time of the day, weather, company, exposure, things we read or watch and so on.

So, maybe, the same kind of processing happens right within the mind itself where the mind looks at the same incident through multiple angles, from many perspectives and of course at various timelines.

Maybe that’s what an overthinker does. He/she thinks about the same thing again and again until either a solution is reached or else, the thought has run its course and the person experiences catharsis.

It’s the same like a washing machine – where clothes keep on revolving in soapy water, then clean water, then dryer – until they get cleaned and dried.

It’s the same like a blender – where the fruits keep on getting churned until turned into a smoothy or a juice and separated from the pulp.

It’s the same like a black hole where all stars eventually end up and all cosmic debris closest to it – gets sucked in – and they all keep on getting processed – until new stars are born through the other end.

Maybe our minds, life, various timelines, each thought, each individual, each dimension – we all are somewhere same like stars – burning with magic, processing energies and dying and rebirthing; always changing, processing, churning!

Yet, it is crucial to identify which thought processes are worth getting into. Not all stories lead to evolutions. Few are same like black holes, only, they drown us in their complications instead of providing us with a rebirth.

People stay entangled in low level activities and thoughts like gossip, other people, drama, who did what, who said what, who acted like what! While many of these observations can help us select right people for our life; yet many such things can complicate relationships and take us totally off-path from the real purpose of our life!

At any given point, we stand in the lobby containing numerous doorways opening into various thoughts’ passages… few open into past, few into future… few contain nostalgia, few fears and anxieties… there are those that take us to our fantasies… those that remind us of our dreams… those that remind us of love and other emotions… those that connect us to our loved ones… maybe a special doorway always kept open for it takes you to your pets or animals you ever loved…

Numerous doorways… numerous emotions…numerous choices, paths, memories, ideas, strategies, desires, destinies!

Thoughts have the power to take a soul beyond 3D. Thoughts have the power to make one a vegetable or keep one in 2 D. It’s all about perspective. All about mindful thinking.

How to be more aware then of these processes?

There’s a series I watched called ‘Lucifer’. Lucifer was the angel or king of hell. His beloved was a human lady. Together they entered hell to attain something out of it. There were numerous passages there comprising of people undergoing their own thought loops as their personal hells. The challenge for Lucifer and his girlfriend was to not lose themselves as they entered few of these loops. The process not only helped them help those individuals step out of their hell by reaching the root cause of it but also taught both Lucifer and his girl how to not get indulged yet help out those souls.

Probably, that’s how psychiatrists help other humans. By not taking anything personally. By not indulging, instead directing the people to doors on their own. The people themselves reach the roots of their issues. They themselves open those doors and they on their own shut things that no more need their attention any more. The task of shrinks is to simply guide them or stay with them as a lamp or a light upon their path.

Possibly, that’s how we should navigate our minds as well. Knowing that each thought is but the tip of the glacier. Is but the opening point of a long tunnel. And to tread mindfully. Choosing which tunnels need us to actually walk through them to reach to our next spot. And which are simply distractions from our life path. It’s similar to ‘Snakes and ladders!’

In Tarot cards, there is a card called ‘Five of cups’. There is man sitting below a tree in it and he has total five cups around him. Three cards in front are empty and fallen down. Two behind him are full and intact. The man sit extremely sadly facing the fallen cups. Cups represent our emotions, water energy. It’s our connections or feelings. The three fallen cups represent love he has lost or disappointments in relationships or connections that he has lost. The two cups still standing represent those connections that he still has in his life, people who have remained loyal to him. The man’s focus is however upon love lost instead of connections he can still count upon.

This one card is super powerful. It not only expresses a person’s mind state – if it is negative or positive; but it also impacts all upcoming energies. If the person continues to focus upon lacks, he would continue meeting with failures. Even opportunities would seem upside down. However, if he would instead focus upon what he has left and be grateful for that instead for after-all those remaining connections remained loyal and stood by despite of the test of time; he can actually prosper more than. For then, gratefulness would help me attain better connections and that too of the same good quality with loyalty.

The same can be applied in even other fields like investments or jobs or relations or friendships. Wherever.

The card simply represents the fact that one’s thinking is going more towards negative side or ‘lacks’, instead of being grateful for what one still has.

That’s the test we all must do with each thought. If we are focussing upon things or people lost or are we rather grateful for what we have.

It can be very much possible that what we still have is way less than what we feel we deserve. Also, heart want what it wants. Maybe we would like to have better kind of energies, more resources, better circumstances. But, with lack energy, we would only increase lack. It’s only with abundant mindset that abundance can be enhanced.

Consider each of our thoughts as a seed. Whatever we think - gets planted and nurtured with further thoughts.

Would you like a tree of lacks or a tree of abundance? Choice always remains with us. With a little pruning of our thoughts, a little more awareness; we all can actually become way more content, grateful and abundant. It’s all about mindset. Are we able to be happy where we are. Or are we always in this constant FOMO?

If you would only give life a chance, you would find numerous things to be thankful for! Life is like a river. It is only when we try to clutch tightly to anything – may it be a state of mind, a person, a place or an identity – that we get into unmet desires leading to disappointments. We need to let life be free. Whatever it may bring to us.

There is always something to feel good about. Can be as little as basics. Can be tire two or three needs. Whatever be your priorities. Yet, each cell is essential. So is every need.

What matters however is to work upon this mindset. To be content. To feel abundant.

Thoughts have the power to change our very dimensions!

 

I have had numerous phases in my life. And not to take you through the entire ride. Yet travelling for more than a decade that too when globalization came in front of me, capitalization occurred in front of me and villages changed into cities in front of me… Where I too had various phases – may it be of a free wanderer or a seeker, as a pagan or a hard-core religious person. A spiritual being cosmic entity. A social butterfly or shelled tortoise. I entered life with places and people at times. Or I time travelled to seek wisdom through scriptures.

I totally believe that one can time travel and even choose which yuga or dimension one wishes to be.

Say, when I wanted to enter 5 D, I used to go visit places where people still have in them humanity. Shared satsangs, nature based devotion, chantings and what not. Not only it helped me reach another dimension but also kind of made me feel as if I was in Satyuga.

Likewise, mountains always used to provide me with silent strength. I have experienced both collective evolution and individual consciousness there. When those villages on mountains were purer and still untouched by city vices or maybe when I was still naïve and wasn’t as observant or vices in them; back then, art was thriving, artists were expressing everywhere… And it was pure synergy. May it be on mountains or even beaches. It was art for art’s sake. Connection, love, freedom. I miss that. But ya, point being that a collective consciousness along with synergised evolution was possible right there and then. I totally was a part of it.

Can’t say if my own thoughts changed or society actually changed. But that was one amazing frequency to be at.

And even holy or sacred places still have those practices though but I am also aware of few flaws there like patriarchy or discrimination and such.

I don’t know now, if it is my own mind that needs work for I can’t unsee those flaws anymore. Or else, if I learned what I need to learn from those times and I must not hold on to even those identities anymore.

Yet, when I needed synergy, I reached those places, or met with those kinds of people. Maybe, right now, I need this isolation to connect better and deeper to my individual consciousness. After all, the entire cosmos lives right within. We just need to connect to it.

If that be the case, then what do I want in my world? Better intuition, more telepathic connection, love, art, creativity, equality, animal love, softness, nature love, nature presence, less consumerism, more being one with each other and life!

That’s my utopia. What’s yours?

Thing is, I have recently learned that when you are in fact ready to create a more aware life – don’t say what you don’t want. Say, what you want. That’s how you enter that dimension.

It’s always the desire to attain something or be someone which is more powerful than running away from an entity or environment.

Maybe, that’s what I am trying to do in my present.

For a majority of my past few years, I have been observing. I know what I don’t want. I need to shift my focus upon what I do want now. And actively think more and more about that.

I suddenly realise how this finding flaws happened in my system. Back in 2019, I met with an old Russian guy. He used to visit me and I respected him due to his age. He had green eyes and used to smoke a pipe. What I admired the most in him was his skills to create saxophones out of bamboos on his own. Anyway, we often used to talk. Once, while my guard was low, my consciousness a bit altered and we were just interacting that he suddenly showed me pictures of garbage all over manali. Before that, Manali was sheer heaven for me. I could never find any fault in it. But that day, when I was really without any psychological defence, that he showed me a fault in a place I dearly loved. The next few months, all I could see was garbage dumps all over in manali. I even tried raising my voice, creating pages of awareness and what not. But you see, my way of thinking changed into finding flaws in something I really loved.

My life literally changed too much ever since. There were numerous other reasons. But I just now realised that this fault finding was initiated by him.

He had even told me at some other time as I had bumped into him, that I would go down from there and he would go high up in life. I though he was talking literally on our paths. Maybe, he was talking about life. Who knows.

But you see, how thoughts can totally change us as an individual. I was a happy go lucky person, loving everyone dearly. I used to be a hugger. But then, I got into so many theories and ethics. And finding faults in everything became kind of normal – just to be sure!

It also helped me to a certain extent. I became choosy and specific. I can identify red flags in the first instant now.

But, that way of thinking also shifted my focus to what was missing or what was rather wrong with the world instead of what is still beautiful and can be enhanced. That’s the power of thoughts.

I would really like to go to the dimension where people create. Where nature sustains. Where world is beautiful. People celebrate and hug each other. Life is alive. Everybody lives with inner light. Where art thrives on walls, through strings and beats. Where laughter echoes on streets. Where people are healthy and happy. Where animals coexist with humanity.

Aah! I wish for a better world. That begins with my inner self – I now realise. I need to be more accommodating. Need to focus less on flaws and more on good things.

What do you think about more? Do flaws impact you more or can you let them go for love matters more?

Though all this applies at the point of manifesting an ideal life!

When it comes to processing however, one needs to simply be aware – if the next step is taking one higher or making one step into a pit!

Both the processes go hand in hand I guess.

While processing, awareness is the key.

While manifesting, awareness with aligned mindset.

Thoughts after all be the secret steps to our lived dimensions. Whether we go up or down, right or left, climb on a ladder or get scared of snakes, find faults in the system or be grateful for what’s good in it, live a life given to us conditioned by others or else create and manifest the life that suits us and helps us be our highest self – is all on us!

What are you thinking about right now? Is it good? Is it bad? Would it help you be a better self? Would it contribute to society in a productive or healing manner? Is it constructive or destructive? Is it aligned to what you like to think usually?

We decide the world we live in!

And the decision is totally controlled by thoughts we think. After all, external reality is a mirror image of our internal world. And internal world is fabricated with the material called thoughts!

 

 

Is suffering really essential to ascend?

 Is suffering really essential to ascend?

 

Recently, I found myself saying in a conversation, ‘Afterall! Suffering is the highest currency to evolve!’ I did say it - as I had always heard it. But suddenly, I got to thinking, ‘Is it really true?’

To a certain extent, suffering does contribute to bringing one closer to divine and oneself. For, in your extreme joys, you tend to be just happy in the moment and forget anything else. Actually, even in extreme grief that a person forgets everything else and is rather drowned in one’s sorrows. However, when one suffers – again and again – regardless in whichever field – the person then thinks of God, or reflects back upon life or considers the path so far or ahead to somehow make things right!

Still, there is a limit to even suffering. One can say that God/divine/cosmos tests your limit and faith. That your destiny checks your endurance before gifting you with your destined fit!

Yet, why? I mean, are we in an exam or a preparing for a battle?

What logic does it make that we all must suffer to be better at simply being or living?

I can give you both for and against!

Diamond must stay grounded for eons. It must tolerate that much heat or pressure and even later must undergo the chisel and stuff. Else, it remains coal. The process of cooking is essential, else one remains a raw vegetable. Good things take time. A tree must initially remain like a seed – underground, then grow for years – bearing all weather; and only after that that it bears fruits. Process is crucial, so is time and so are the challenges involved. The tougher the situations you handle in life, the stronger you become!

Yet, is it really true?

Do we always become strong with difficult situations?

What about traumas, abuse, life altering circumstances, accidents, wrong relationships…so on!

Yeah! Humans somehow always find a way to endure. Actually, everything does. Our breaths are fixed. And we just don’t exit the matrix before that. Even if people commit suicide, it is believed that the soul still reincarnates and undergoes the same situations – till it learns the lesson.

Is it just a game? What exactly are we preparing for?

If we all began from the purest and brightest of lights…if we all within hold divine… If consciousness is what drives us all. What is the need for so much of suffering?

There was a long phase of my life, when I used to prefer staying on mountains. Away from humans. At off-beat places. Away from connections and vices of relationships. I used to find it more peaceful.

Someone told me then that it is easier to claim that you know driving when you are driving alone in an empty field. The real test happens when you drive in the city and still don’t lose your calm. Meaning, that I must find that peace within that remains unperturbed regardless of my external location or circumstances.

The lesson was true in a way, but I couldn’t help it. How does one unsee what one clearly sees? If I find a fault in humans, how do I accept it? Acceptance is crucial. That’s the first step to peace. That and the realization that one everything keeps on changing and another we can’t change so many things/people/circumstances.

But, I am a firm believer of choice. It is my hard-earned lesson in life that if you don’t like something then change it. If you can’t change it, then change your perspective about it. What if none of these two is possible? Then remove yourself from that situation. I have left cities, jobs, lifestyles, habits, relationships – in the blink of an eye – just because I realised that something was no-more healthy or aligned with me. That lone wolf phase was the time when truly no-one aligned with me. I was finding faults in everything and everyone. So, I preferred to be with myself to somehow have peace.

One can say that if you are finding fault in everyone then probably the fault is in you. Not always. But maybe that can also be true.

Thing is, I didn’t choose to see so much of truth in my connections or in humans. But now that I see those flaws, it initially became impossible to accept and later digest.

Now, I have come on terms with it. Now I have realised that I can’t change others. That it is neither their fault nor mine. That humans all over are giving into greed and selfishness. That consumerism and capitalism have infact overtaken the world.

Yet, I am keeping my inner child safe. And I still hope to find my tribe somewhere. Where humans are still humans. Where artists create for the sheer joy of creation. Where people meet and greet for they are genuinely happy to see you and not because they want or need something out of you. where benefit is not the basic criteria for connections.

Thing is, I had to suffer. Undergo so many realisations. Choose to still love. But with awareness. And in limit. And by being extremely picky and selective.

And here my spiritual learnings also become an obstruction. For, on one hand, there is no other. Everyone deserves love. We all are love. We all deserve love. Love is the most beautiful thing – our raw material, our ultimate gift. That all anyone wants is love.

But on the other hand is this 3 D reality. Where no, love is not enough. No matter how true and genuine emotions you have for people or places; there are still so many factor involved. Your own family would disown you if you won’t behave in the expected mould.

How do I unsee these fake connections solely based on benefits? How do I unsee what I can see clearly – that either people like flattery or numbers. That money and position is god. That history is written by one who wins. That there is nothing like justice. Everything needs you to be stronger, wilder, loud, dominating – to the limit of it becoming obnoxious.

That though we were taught to become soft like water for softness too has its own strength, but in today’s world; it’s not softness that’s accorded or rewarded. You have to fight for everything. You need to pretend to be someone you are not.

Fake it, till you make it. Blah! What a fucked-up concept.

Whatever happened to being true to our emotions? Whatever happened to authenticity, to genuine expressions?

Yet, if we all always remain genuine; we would all be suffering with melancholy! As at any given time, there are always both good and bad sides. May it be real events, moods, emotions, situations or perspectives.

So, maybe instead of faking; it makes more sense to register the blessings and be grateful for them.

It is however difficult to stay grateful for basic when you have been in survival mode for long and know that you deserve more. It can be anything – financially, emotionally, intellectually, literally – whichever field!

 

The Alchemy of Thoughts

 

The Alchemy of Thoughts

 

 

Have you ever wondered, where do thoughts come from? What’s the origin of them? Is it internal or external? What’s the purpose of thoughts? Are they significant in our decision making? For sure, they are! Let us then ponder more upon the marvel called thoughts and the way they shape us and our world.

As I began writing this article, right after three lines that my eyes noticed an empty cat food container kept in front of me. An idea immediately entered, ‘Hey, I can make a terrarium out of that bottle. The next five minutes I spent in searching the possible plants, the kind of soil, the process. Which took me to search what is ‘fine-grained gravel soil’. And then I realised, hey, right now, I am writing an article. Let me think about the terrarium when I would be actually creating it.

That’s how fluttering thoughts are and can be. One thought deviated me. Another brought me back to the topic. And in the middle, I low key decided - my possible next creative endeavour.

A single thought can make or break a person. And that’s why it is super significant as a topic.

 

Anatomy of thought

Science and spirituality say that even thoughts are made up of five elements. Whatever that we eat, not only builds all cells of our body, but the gist of all that nutrition ultimately goes to our brain – resulting in formation of both our thoughts and emotions.

They say that thoughts too are energy. And therefore, they can neither be created out of nothing, nor destroyed. They merely change their form and intensity as energy.

Same like matter, thoughts too are solid, liquid and gaseous in form. Few are rock solid. They provide us determination. Few are liquid. They channelize our emotions. Few are gaseous. They either are momentary, or we simply let them pass as they don’t hold much significance.

Yet, thoughts for sure derive us to act – immediately or in the longer run! And therefore, totally affect our life. So, it is crucial to understand how they originate, what ignites them, what builds them, how they get stored for maybe later, how they cause a chain reaction of other thoughts to create a series of actions, how they help us manifest good or bad reality, how they just run out of their life when their purpose is done; and how to control them or understand them to have a conscious life framed along with our higher self.

 

How thoughts originate?

The first spark of light, the first sound in ether, the first letter, the first thought. Who knows what’s the starting point of the world. Is it garden of Eden? Is it the big bang? Is it God himself seeding us with life or idea? Is it consciousness that gives life to all thoughts in all forms? Is it intuition that makes one take subtle decisions? It is energy changing its shape – condensing from thin air – becoming an emotion, a drop of rain – a thought? How do thoughts originate?

Maybe it is our higher self that time and again guides us and seeds our minds with idea. Possibly the angel and demon sitting on either shoulder of a human are two sides of the same coin – a mind looking at a single event from opposite directions -leading to opposite outcomes. It’s incredible – how two contrasting thoughts not just originate but have weight at the same time.

It's even more incredible how human minds keep on processing good or bad, contrasting or supporting – uncountable, never-ending thoughts – all the time.

We think about things even while sleeping. That’s why so many people talk in sleep. That’s why we get dreams. Our mind keeps on processing. The thoughts keep on originating – consciously or sub-consciously or even un-consciously.

Can thoughts be a mere scientific or biological phenomenon or are there deeper reasons than that for thoughts to originate in a certain way or carry a certain charge? Doesn’t that charge represent energy? What fills the language to the charge? What makes it comprehensible?

Of course, not all thoughts deserve our time and attention. The more you would churn, the deeper you would try to get; the lesser thoughts would interrupt the flow. The more you remain upon the surface, the more turbulent waves or thoughts that would impact your flow.

Of course, high tides and low tides also have a purpose here. Both literally – Moon impacts our creative faculty; and metaphorically – tides representing our emotions or hormonal flow or presence in a situation or our attachment to someone or something. Those too would be reactive thoughts though. Assuming that stimulus is already there. How about those thoughts that just rise out of nothing. No pre-thought. They just come to mind or heart.

Many writers or impulsive actors tap into that. Many master artists dedicate their entire work to exactly that. But we are not just speaking about inspiration or ideas. Those can still be accounted to maybe higher dimensions. Or even collective consciousness.

What about thoughts that have no charge to them?

Random thoughts that may or may not be significant. Just sit for a bit silently without any distractions. Just observe your thoughts. Initially there would be random day-today thoughts. Then maybe of your major concerns. Then you may miss someone or something. Maybe you connect with divine. Maybe you do manage to reach the state of thinking nothing. Yet our minds hardly remain without thoughts. Sooner or later, you find yet another thought, and then another. And in no time you would have even forgotten that you had to just observe your thoughts, not really engage with them.

That still is nature of thoughts. We are discussing the origin part? How are thoughts created?

Science though now has proper answers as to which segment of our mind generates thought. Which all neurons that it passes through. Which all atoms decide to first connect together in how much consistency and how they flow through neural pathways resulting in everything we think, act or do.

I still remain curious – much more than the process or their path; but the origin itself? The first seed. The first amber that lights a fire. The first drop that creates water. the very first grain particle that creates entirety of earth. And of course, the permutation and combination later on… the chain of events… the action, reaction… list goes on!

 

 

What ignites thoughts? (Original or reactive)

Who exactly plants any thought in our heads?

One source can be collective consciousness? The all pervasive, all knowing, all connected singularity that knows which individual must be prepped up with what thought. And hence, we get sudden ideas or thoughts or inspirations or so.

Another can be society. Our reaction to it. Humans after all learn each and everything by copying. Everything from the way we walk to the clothes we wear to the food we eat to our very language. Everything that we do is by mimicking someone or the other. Everything in us is conditioned – may it be our beliefs or gender.

And yet, there must have been the first time for everything. There still is. That’s how we evolve. That’s how happen revolutions and changes. The first-time fire was found, or how eventually Rome got built, or civilizations evolved or people learned skills, technology came into existence; and change goes on.

The first time for everything remains memorable. As copy or not, it’s a new experience. Even at the level of thoughts or experimentations, or the best – getting successful at those experimentations, or finding solution to an impossible problem. Maybe we are powerful enough to create our own thoughts. Each individual holding an entirety of universe. With numerous microbes and atoms and our own known and known – physical, psychological, spiritual, emotional, inter-dimensional functionalities.

Hinduism gives a theory of each of us hosting the trinity within us. And hence we all have the energy of Bhrahma with-in us – responsible to create thoughts – good or bad for us or the world.

Christianity says that it’s rather God that takes Adam and introduces him to each and every object in the world. And then angels come and ensure the system at its place. and keep a check upon people’s thoughts and the outcome that they can expect based upon that.

Buddhism says that there is no external reality. That everything happening around is but an illusion. That everything that we perceive to be reality is but a figment of our imagination and therefore is but a thought. And therefore, spirituality focuses so much upon becoming thoughtless. As the lesser thoughts you would have, the lesser the noise. Lesser would you manifest in terms of karma around. And eventually you would become so thoughtless, that you won’t have any good or bad emotion/desire/act/thought – left for anyone or anything around. Hence, you would in a way attain nirvana. As that’s what you would be able to manifest then – from thoughtlessness to nothingness. Kind of contrary to ‘I think, therefore I am’. But here, ‘I no more think, and therefore I am not there’. To kill the ‘I’/ego is therefore the biggest test of spirituality and the most intense loop that even many of renowned souls get struck at.

The more you would know, the more you would understand that you don’t know anything. That’s the mystery of life. That’s what makes you humble. That’s how you becoming thoughtless.

By first accepting, observing, processing, churning, purging, selecting, deflecting thoughts. Ultimately, stepping out of the illusion of life – the world of thoughts. Later you see the tapestry of your life lived. But it won’t be yours. It would be a part of universal thought. Or who knows?

Maybe we too are part of someone’s thoughts? Maybe we are indeed living in someone’s dreams or fantasy, or even nightmare for that matter. Who is to say, we are not programme running in someone’s laptop.

Maybe, this is all but a game that we take so seriously. Maybe people who take short cuts or are given sudden leaps are indeed smarter. Or who knows they be given special codes or instructions in secret chat rooms as their thoughts by some other master players whom we consider Gods but who are only playing with us at some other macro level virtual reality game. And here we are thinking ‘Oh, we thought of something so epic’, or ‘Woah! What a smart idea that guy came up with!’

Or maybe, there is indeed some director of all that’s happening around. And we are mere characters in that story. I just wonder, why does the director send a few characters in such long-term stagnant roles – like comma or diseases or traumas or life time spirals of similar themes… why such intense highs and lows? But that’s what makes a play worth it.

Yet consider the number of stories being played all around. Maybe we all are but mosquitoes caught in the inter woven webs of many spiders. Spiders whose web are woven with stories, with random roles. And we just get struck and then we must perform the story, the woven character, the role. And though the spider would eventually eat us all; but till then, we have to suffer the gooey stuff of the web called life!

Or probably, life is not that literal after all, and it is rather cosmic in nature. That our minds gave shapes and forms to various energies – just to understand them better. And we evolve this way – by having concrete ideas about signifiers and signified with various languages to guide. Ultimately, we are giving fancy colors, names, categories and entities to various mathematical frequencies. Same like we assume ‘x’ or ‘y’ to derive a result in algebra; like so – we treat life! And the first thought further propagated into all these thoughts – what we see as various factors adding up to be called life.

Maybe Adishakti too is not just energy, but the first mother thought itself. The number One after Zero in binary terms. And we all are indeed programmes coded with distinct codes in zeroes and ones! Is that how we are built? Is that how our thoughts also develop?

 

How are thoughts built?

Origin can be howsoever. We don’t even know our own origin. Or the purpose of it. Yet, we do know how we retain the life we get. How we build on. By constant nutrition. With what we consume through our senses and later process it. Thoughts too build on exactly like that.

First the amber occurs and then it grows – the fire! Or it flows – the river! Right from the initial drop. Till it becomes an ocean. Or maybe, it gets channelized and made to be used on the way somewhere.

Yet, the process is the same for each thought. It’s like a demon that keeps on needing more and more add-ons to grow in size or develop structure. Rare are the thoughts that remain intact in themselves… mostly, there is the body part to an intro, followed by a conclusion. Or else, a pros and cons list. Or even a for and against notion. It can even be a stream of consciousness. A series of abstract thoughts – somehow knitted together. But our mind is crazy talented in connecting the dots. It finds patterns, creates lines out of dots and then they become spheres and hence they change – the very dimensions!

Biologically speaking, thoughts too need the same five elements and the same consumption-sources that our physical body needs. Like our skin needs touch or tongue needs taste or eyes prefer aesthetics or ears like sweet sounds and so on. Like so with thoughts.

First, the better we eat, the better be our thoughts. Not just in terms of quality, but also in terms of intentions and vibes – may it be at the time of cooking or at the time of consumption.

Secondly, same like our senses, our thoughts too feel or think all those emotions. Good taste for the tongue is actually fuelled or experienced by thoughts as well. A good touch though begins with cell’s memory or sensations but right alongside is neuron passageway connected – transmitting messages, recording stuff, maybe writing poetry or feeling good at the same time.

Everything that we consume, the crème of it goes to our mind and that’s what creates our thoughts and emotions. An upset stomach makes one irritable and less creative and probably even less active in terms of ideas. A full stomach at night may result in an overworking body and mind resulting in heart-burns and nightmares at night. Basically, our physical body and mental body are both connected. And everything we consume or do – totally impacts and is impacted by our thoughts.

Likewise, a bad day may result in one having bad thoughts about everything and everyone. And it may all feel entirely different on a different day under better circumstances.

I recently found a great job right on new year. Position of leadership, decent paying with even a possibility of making profit. In a single day, I found myself in so much of gratitude, singing at the top of my voice, feeling all my life was actually built for that very job, building plans of next few months, cancelling my previous plans and what not. In two days, I found the founder to be a literal fool, with no boundary between his personal and professional life, no appreciation for intellect or education and an inflated ego with no spine to actually hold it. In two days, I left the job. And suddenly, all my earlier thoughts seemed so silly to me. I though realized the value of it all. Yet, my first reaction to both the situations in a span of two days was so opposite that I felt like a fool myself.

Yet, both of those selves were mine. And both of those thought flows were also mine. What changed was the external circumstance.

Then, it was up to me – how to make sense of it. I had three choices. To stick to the first flow and forget those two-four days. Or, to forget the first and get drowned in doom and choose the second state. Or else, to carry the optimism of first, be proud to have taken stand for myself regardless of temptation and be compassionate for the second state as after all I am human.

And all that processing finally gave me a way more evolved, mature, confident and chiselled self. I realised, ‘Hey, I am no- more a people pleaser like before. Nor I give into my situations anymore. Regardless of the reward, I have guts enough to stand for my beliefs. Due to my earlier experiences, I can now see red flags in only two meets. And guess what, I no-more let the red flags go, hoping for the goodness in another to triumph. No, I call out wrong for wrong though politely, still firmly. And then, I take quick decision immediately, without creating any scene. I no-more react. I respond. I need not take out my anger on others. Rather empathy and experience in me have taught me to understand the phase the other is coming from. But I don’t let my mental peace or time and energy become the cost of it. It all seems like a win to me. Not to say that I am perfect. Not even close. But I am evolving. And to me, all these things mean so much both as a person and a professional self.’

That’s the beauty of processing thoughts. It helps us become better people. It takes out what matters and everything that is no more required – it discards!

How thoughts get processed?

That brings us to a beautiful question – first, how do thoughts process? And also, how can we process them more consciously to get the most optimum results!

Let’s focus upon our processing device first. The less crowded it be inside, the easier it gets to process anything. Multi-tasking has never been my cup of tea. Max I can do is have a background music and do anything. Rather, that’s the only multi-tasking I can do. And even there, if lyrics come, my focus gets gone and I instead shift to singing or getting into that emotion. But that’s just me. I only do one thing at a time – with hundred percent focus.

And that is what I believe should be the approach towards processing our thoughts as well. The more tabs open in a window, the slower the speed would be. The fuller a device is, the lesser efficient it would. So, it is extremely essential to continuously update our thinking pattern, discard old, unnecessary memories, beliefs, experiences; retain the useful or gists of past experiences and try to remain a clean slate – hollow and empty – for new ideas, thoughts, way of functioning to enter in.

All that is again a process. Doesn’t happen in a single day. Most of the people don’t even think about these things. They waste their time in gossip, or cheap dopamine hits. May it be reels or food or people to pass time with, or talking just for the heck of it or watching any movies just for entertainment or sleeping with anybody for lust.

I am not calling these things to be wrong. But I do understand the impact of these all upon processing of our thoughts. For after all, thoughts are made up of all that we consume. And thoughts also get impacted and impact what we do and experience. That reel you just watched of someone and immediately compared your own life with – you actually have no idea about what goes on behind the scene. The guy you just casually slept with, you have no idea what energy, karma or beliefs you unconsciously absorbed in.

We are not just the product of our company. We are the product of everything in and around us. Our environment, our community, our friends, family, food, entertainment, dates, advertisements, overheard conversations, books we read, nature we connect with, air we breath in, water we drink and bath in. everything.

During my post graduate degree in English Literature, I had a subject called ‘Literary Criticism’. An amazing teacher had taught us that subject. It was difficult yet the most interesting. I never missed a single class of that subject. And initially it was just super amazing to learn various concepts like Feminism, Marxism, Structuralism, psycho-analytics, colonialism and so on… it was a bit bothersome to quote all those philosophers everywhere as the thinker in me wanted to write my own voice.

However, by the end of it, I realised what they were teaching us essentially. They were teaching us to look at the same text with multiple perspectives. Though their themes were limited but they still were much much more than a singular perspective with which we would have ideally seen any text.

All though, it did get a bit heavy at first. Imagine, I could not appreciate an amazing movie like ‘Pretty woman’ back then, as the feminist in me was super active and didn’t want the same damsel being saved by a hero or something.

In the longer run however, I understood the process instead of those limited themes. That one subject was simply a gift to not just the literature student in me but also the human in me. For I learned looking at anything in life – from multiple perspective. From various themes, across many timelines, from various mentalities and ideologies. And therefore, I became more empathetic and liberal towards so many things.

It also helped me figure out my own opinion about anything better. For nothing after that was seen just from my point of view. It was always considered from many angles and perspectives by my mind and therefore had more probability of being right for me.  

And ya, I do love the movie ‘Pretty woman’ now. Like I said, no more limited. I can appreciate a romantic movie for what it is – without bringing in the same themes everywhere. Yet, I can have an after analysis of other movies or more woman empowered themes and such. Yet a good movie is a good movie and sometimes the teenager girl in me gets alive again loving the heart felt gestures of that guy and the rebel in me gets happy with the change a mundane guy underwent when he came across someone wild and untameable and the potential that lady always had which simply got chiselled when she met with the right person and got support from people around her.

Look, I just flowed in the movie’s story. Aah thoughts! They be so fluttery.

Coming back to the ‘processing part of thoughts’; the lesser the tabs the better it be. The more the angles, the most optimum it be.

Its simple science. Every science is based upon multiple experiments. And repetitions. And data processing. Ultimately reaching the end result. Theory becomes fact. Fact becomes truth.

That’s the way our minds process thoughts as well. Just that, at times, we tend to get into negative pools. Say, if we had a series of failures in something in previous attempts, our thoughts would bring in doubts even in the present or next attempt.

Chances are, we may fail again just because one, we unconsciously fear the same. Or else, because we have still not succeeded, we are bound to make our previous mistakes.

That’s where conscious processing gets essential. If our mind would process any new situation same like the failed time, the result would again be a failure. In order to make it a win, we need a different technique.

And many a times it comes from a different perspective. May it be you yourself who manage to find it through a book, an inspiration, someone else who got success in the same thing. Or you can even hire someone for the same when it comes to running a company. Not everyone can do everything. A marketing person would be a pro at marketing, but a sales person would know how to funnel and create leads into clients. A founder may have the vision but a director would know the ideal strategy to convert a fancy vision into functional profitable business or a grounded firm.

Like so, in our own life. Many people stay struck to their limited beliefs. Until you won’t humble yourself to recognize that there are always other more sensible ways at looking at a certain thing; you won’t really learn much in life but be limited with your egoistic limiting mind set.

Why is A.I. evolving and growing at such an incredible pace? Because it doesn’t have human ego and rigidities. It simply considers information and view points for the same thing from all across the world. And then it categorises, funnels and processes it all – into most suitable solutions or outcomes for any question or topic.

What do we do? We complicate everything with muddled thinking? Past impressions, traumas, memories, attachments, fears – so many things impact our thoughts. Not saying, these are wrong. These are human and amazing in their limits.

Yet, one needs to know the right place for emotion and the right place for practicality. What to keep and retain in our head and what to discard as unnecessary.

I had heard a podcast where the speaker said that if our mind is our home, then trouble with us is that we don’t do the house-keeping of our minds the right way. We keep the garbage bins right on our beds with trash meaning the ill things people or our own mind talks about us, our fears, doubts and worries. That we give our enemies a free entry to our homes and hardly check with our real well wishers. Enemies being negative talks or memories and traumas. Friends being our higher self, our confidence, our belief…

I don’t remember much of it. But being a Virgo, his talk totally resonated with me. I realised how rightly he spoke about it. True, we do give our enemies free access to our minds. We do carry everything unnecessary to our beds. We do ban our own well wishers from being our guests or rather becoming our family.

And that’s why though we try to have positive thoughts and touch wood and all at any negative thought and try to be as optimistic as we can about our goals; yet we don’t achieve them always at the expected time – as there is an issue with the processing and application of those thoughts.

You may blame fate or time or external factors or society’s texture. All of those things are true. Yet, we are talking about thoughts and that’s the most significant part of what we can do about anything we really want to do!

 

How thoughts manifest our reality?

In order to understand manifestation, we need to detach from the idea of life’s physical form – as how we see. Instead, look at it like an idea or an illusion or a thought.

Many even call it a game. But yeah, that hurts the existentially troubled self in me. So, let’s just consider it as an idea for now.

Now, imagine a painting. The best that you can imagine. If you had a single canvas and had the artistic ability of the entire cosmos – what would you have created? If you had the ability to   to replicate your exact imagination upon your canvas – what would you have imagined? If you had the resources of the entire world across all timelines – which colors would you have gone for. If you had the audience and accessibility of the entire earth, where would you have liked to showcase your finished painting? If you had the power to quote and even get any amount for that painting – provided you had an intention to sell it – how much would you have quoted for it? If you had one free access to gift it to anyone in the world – whom would you have given it to? if you had to paint about a single thing that you wish to change in the world – what would you have painted?

Now, apply a similar approach upon your life!

Thing is, most of us, just never dare to step out of given class or boundary or ability. A master is always insane – may it be with his ideas or strategy or faith or belief or approach or reason for doing it. It is those who are born out of fear and wish to play safe – who remain in the middle. Not that it is wrong. But, bigger the business, bigger the risk. Bigger a life goal, wilder the approach.

What needs is clarity. Silence. Blank canvas. Away from those voices who judge, criticize, belittle, look down upon, try to show off, try to leech off you. Away from controlling people and own inner critiques. You need to be endless, boundless, almost delusional with faith and belief and simply without fear – to actually manifest something epic.

And the most essential part is detachment. Because, the ground rule of getting anything in life is to really wish for it, make efforts for it, yet remain completely detached from it. The more you would chase anything, the more it would run away from you. The more you let it be, give it good vibes, put in your work, yet not chase and allow it to come to you – it will for sure come to you. As whatever you want, also wants you. You just haven’t surrendered enough. You simply haven’t reached that frequency as yet.

It needs ultimate love. Ultimate dedication. Excessive planning, efforts, will, desire, action. Yet, ultimate detachment.

Also, not everybody needs to know your plans. People have their own beliefs about world, and their own limitations. Plus, they may get envious of you, they may try to block your results or demotivate you.

So, do speak about your work. Connect. But never with your entire plan. And never with everyone.

Choose your people. Discuss only the relevant part with the relevant person.

Half the times people fail is because they get happy just with the possibility of achieving something. So, they build castles in air and talk about it to everyone. And then don’t act. And then feel like a failure.

It’s amazing to have your end goal in mind. It’s even awesome to have full faith and belief in it becoming successful. Yet talking about it pre-maturely or worst, taking present decisions basing upon a future possibility ends up in failing ultimately.

The more you hide the process, the better the results come out to be. Just dazzle the world with the end result. Grind and hustle silently. Manifest secretively and selectively.

Yet, is imagining enough? Is planning enough? Can things be done just with faith and surrender and positive thoughts?

Actually yes! Not everything. But if one gets really good at it and understand the energy of the field you wish to excel it – then actually everything. As everything is but energy. The moment you truly deeply understand it, you would be able to play with the atoms of it smoothly. You would be free with your strokes and create a masterpiece – just with your thoughts.

But since our thoughts are so potent in power and can actually help us manifest any life we desire; therefore, our mind’s default setting comes with an off switch. We hardly remember it as a possibility. And even when told, very few people be able to access it.

Also, the more the distortions, the more difficult it gets to stay focussed and determined to achieve anything. And any manifestation needs laser sharp focus and intensity of passion with equal detachment with the outcome. All three can get dissuaded with distortions.

Like you are calmly working towards your goal and have a few months’ timeline for it. But then you suddenly see a reel of someone or notice an enemy attaining the same right now. There go your motivation and allotted timeline. Either you want it now or you feel like a failure already, and hence you have failed even in your future timeline already.

Or, if your goal needs you to work each day for an hour to attain something in a month. But yesterday you fought with someone and therefore were not in mood; today, you lack the creative inspiration for it; tomorrow, you need to visit someone so won’t get time for it; and it goes on! See, distraction again. A month would go by and another and you wouldn’t have reached anywhere.

And you would realize that you have forgotten half your goals or resources somewhere in the noise.

That noise becomes the biggest hinderance between us achieving our goals!

And many great ideas, thoughts, visions, plans simply vanish from existence!

 

How do thoughts seize to exist?

Where do those ideas go you ask? Back to their source – the Aether I guess! Or maybe they get stored somewhere in the sub conscious and at times come visit again when we are better prepared for it. Yet, many simply seize to exist. They just disappear; they die on us.

Creative ideas – if not grasped there and then – simply pass by. A poet had once written that a creative inspiration is like a wild animal – which if not caught by the tail there and then, then it would be impossible to catch it ever again. Few ideas do remain in our memory – but not word to word, and never in that detail. It always feels like an ‘almost’ later on. Never exactly what and how it wanted to come out as.

Then there are our plans of actions, new year resolutions, monthly and annual goals, time tables, to do lists and what not! It is factually proven that anything gets more possibility of happening once we write it down upon a paper. Words are anyway spells. Yet, writing them down kind of extends the life of our thoughts. It changes their form from psychological to physical.

The same papers if torn or burned also help us release emotions if that’s what we wish to purge us from. But that’s a discussion for another time.

We are talking about thoughts that naturally die. Or simply vanish from our minds.

The movie ‘Inside out’ had a beautiful concept about it, where dedicated workers in the protagonist girl’s minds were sweeping off and discarding old, unnecessary or forgotten memories. Even cherished ones at times.

Come to think of it, how much we hear, learn, grasp, absorb each second of our lives. Had we remembered everything we were taught just in school syllabus, our minds would have been full of so much random unnecessary information.

Or imagine remembering everything we overhear as we walk by roads, in offices, in cafes, in buses. … anywhere in our everyday life. We would have gone crazy had we remembered even a single percent of all those memories or thoughts we think of in reciprocation to all that stimuli or triggers.

We judge everything in our day to day. Yet not everything deserves a space in our mind. Most of it is RAM that needs to be decluttered, cleared every once in a while.

The amazing processer that our mind is – it does it naturally.

Yet, our mind doesn’t always understand our priorities or attachments. Many trauma survivors forget such beautiful parts of their life as their mind gets busy in retaining what’s more important – that is the day-to-day survival for them.

An accident may make a person forget everything about his life before that accident as his mind in those moments went into shock and utilized all its faculty in keeping the person alive by performing basic functionality.

But we are talking about not just memories but thoughts over here. Thoughts can be about anything and everything. Yet, here we are specifically discussing those thoughts that matter to us – specially when it comes to us manifesting something.

Thing is, a person really dedicated about his/her goal – would always ensure – not just to jot down all ideas, thoughts, processes; but would also follow it through.

Yet, if any divine intervention, fate, destiny, external circumstances do interfere – then, it was just not meant to be. Or else, it would come back to him/her in some other shape or form. That’s how nature is. Everything is balanced. What is meant for you would come to you. No one can snatch it from you.

At least I like to believe so. Yet reality at times proves to be otherwise. But then I remind myself that my perspective is limited to my mind and this lifetime. As such, I hardly know what’s real and what’s not.

And the biggest key of manifestation in to believe in what you wish for.

What to do then when it comes to spiritual goals. Like for a person who wishes to ascend or elevate or attain moksha or something; would have goals the other way. he has to attain a state where he has no desires left. Where he is thoughtless. He needs to murder his thoughts?

How do you do that?

Spirituality says to simply observe the thoughts as clouds. To let them come and let them go and simply stay neutral as they come visit you.

Key here is neutrality. and way is to not participate. May it be the worst of fear. May it be the best of fantasy. Just sit and observe. Simply remain detached. And same like eventually, even a person suffering from insomnia ultimately passes out – even if for few minutes…Like so, you grow in spirituality – beginning from fraction of second where you don’t think anything… to that thoughtless state becoming longer and deeper. And that’s how you meditate better.

And that’s how you even over-come noise!

For a spiritual practitioner, getting rid of noise, helps him achieve his end goal – thoughtlessness. In 3D, getting rid of noise helps in focussing our mind and thoughts to simply what we wish for.

That way, there are lesser distractions; lesser leakage of time, energy and resources. And for sure, one doesn’t lose his/her way by being overwhelmed with so much and so many!

 

Avoiding noise, staying focussed, getting rid of unnecessary thoughts would all help us manifest the life we wish for. Or at least, it would have us have a cleaner mental space to become efficient in whatever we do or however we choose to be.

 

A bonus step in all this can be consciously choosing our thoughts. Same like mindful consumption of food! Similarly, working upon the very quality, processing, triggers, inspirations, of our thoughts – to eventually upgrade the quality and outcome of those thoughts in our life!

 

How to have conscious thoughts?

There can actually be few steps to consciously and softly motivate our thoughts to become holistic poetry ultimately taking us towards our most potent self - living out loud in our reality!

First step would of course be by keeping a check upon what it consumes! Handpick the media you consume, the friends you keep, the conversations you pay any heed to, the people you react to.

Remember that not every battle is yours. Choose your battles very carefully and invest your energy only where necessary.

Our language is the ultimate mirror of our mind and soul. Always ensure that you choose right and good words. Trash talk is all teenager stuff. While it feels great to at times abuse someone really deserving of it. But words carry spell and energy of their own. Why fill your head with trash or negative energy filled balloons.

Always keep a check upon your direction of thought process. Even with your own self. Our mind has a tendency to get over excited or suddenly melancholic. And then, once the anchor gets down, it gets heavy and the entire ship gets stopped randomly. Or if the thread gets cut, the kite loses control and eventually falls down after a short flight of its own.

Balance is essential. And keeping a check and careful observation to where the stream of consciousness is going – at all times.

Always think of best and worst scenarios in all planning. That way, you won’t be scared of the worst but would be prepared for it. And you won’t be surprised with the best and would rather embrace it with grace when the time gets right.

Always give yourself a reality check and stay grounded. Regardless how low or high you reach.

Everyone is a human after all. Everyone was born naked and would die and become nothing. All this pomp and show is just here in these few limited years. regardless who does what, ultimately, everything and everyone would be nothing. This one reminder would always help you stay not just grounded but also would keep you away from random lower emotions like greed or envy or what not. Also, it would help you stay closer to your divine self.

Remember, that if you are doubtful about something then maybe its not meant for you. of course, all that after you have worked upon your sub conscious beliefs and fears. If you are really aligned with your inner voice – then always check with it – anytime you are given a choice. Your inner voice would always give you a clear Yes or No, while the rest of the world may say otherwise. Remember, that’s just noise. The cost should never be your inner voice.

Always choose humanity and empathy over any amount of profit. The 3D may try to dissuade you. but no amount of money can ever fulfil you the way emotional fulfilment or humanity does. Always choose nobility, grace, humanity, empathy, love.

The more you would love the right things, qualities, people; the more successful you would be. It may take time. but never compromise with the quality. That’s your legacy.

With a little bit of fine tuning, and a lot of positive affirmations; with very selective consumption and interactions; with laser sharp focus – you can actually alchemise a simple thought into a successful unbelievable reality!

Given a blank canvas and all the qualities that I had described earlier – what would you have painted? Given a choice to be anyone and have any kind of life – who and how do you see yourself living it as? Think about it.

Everything is possible. Life is but an illusion. It is all energy. What we see around, what we think and feel. Just allow that inner artist to sing freely, paint insanely, talk purposefully, cook soulfully and think magically!