Reading a blog about a friend’s experience of cooking something she thought to be original, only to find the exact same dish was simultaneously being ‘discovered’ by a colleague, got me thinking about thinking and the origin of ideas and information.
The example of a ‘new’ recipe being thought of, ‘discovered’ and created by two foodies at the same time, invites the notion that maybe we tune into ideas rather than create them, with more than one of us sometimes catching onto or receiving the same thought.
When we watch a movie, images and sounds come to us and it is interesting to ponder that this could be true on a wider scale that allows for the possibility that, like TV or radio waves, thoughts come ‘to’ us, not ‘from’ us, as we like to think.
We know this for sure about our radios and TVs, our computers and smart devices: that is, that they are receivers of information via waves that we can’t see but that they nonetheless constantly receive and then output in the form of a song, a movie, an ad, data and voice transmissions and so on. We understand that the device does not originate the data, it receives it, stores it and displays or expresses it at the push of a button, the flick of a switch or the swipe or tap of a finger.
Just like a TV, radio or telephone, we don’t originate any of our thoughts or ideas but receive and then output them.
It is like we are all radio towers designed to tune into and receive outer frequencies and waves, but the thinking we’ve been tuned into for the past few thousand years has us believing (as an unquestionable fact) that we are the originators and individual owners of all our thoughts and ideas.
The idea of being a mere receptor, not a creator of thoughts, is somehow insulting to our intelligence, rudely suggesting that we are not special, nor different, nor brilliant, but somehow passive, mute and dumb.
Far from it, as the recipe experience shows – we may pick up the same frequency as another ‘tower’ but the way we receive and then act on the information picked up is dependant on our individual makeup and the quality of our tower (each radio tower stands in its own place and comes with its own background and level of maintenance and care), and this flavours our expression of the information tuned into.
Just entertaining this possibility is a bit of mind bender, but if we play along for a moment and call it a given that we are radio towers receiving all our thoughts, then our focus shifts away from the question of are we or are we not receptors of thoughts, to something much more interesting. If we are receptors not originators of ideas, information and thoughts in general, then:
- What level of thinking, data and information are we tuned into and receiving?
- What determines the frequency we are tuned into?
- Are we ‘stuck’ on or limited to one frequency?
- How do we alter the frequency we receive?
- Is there a way of knowing the type of frequency we are tuned into?
- What relevance is the condition of the tower to the quality or type of frequency of thoughts it receives?
Einstein wondered these things – or should we say tuned into these thoughts – and talked about there being different levels of thinking available to us, memorably saying: “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
But what if the other part to Einstein’s understanding is that we don’t actually create our level of thinking, we receive it, that is: we only think we think.
This is a game changer that explains so much of our behaviours, choices and everything from our crazy thoughts to our profoundly amazing ones.
Children are great examples of tuning into and receiving thoughts and ideas and so often from the mouths of babes, wisdom beyond their age and experience flows. There are many occasions where scientists separated by continents and culture end up ‘discovering’ the same thing simultaneously, without ever having access to the same physical data, yet find themselves to be sharing a convergence of the same thought or idea.
Starting to observe this phenomenon playing out in ourselves and others is a grand experiment in exploring our inner workings and our unseen connection with each other and the universe at large.
If our thoughts don’t come from us and we can’t see them coming, then to choose the quality of thought we’d like to have leaves us to feel our way, noticing how different thoughts make us feel when we receive them: heavy, worried, anxious, mean, jealous, self-doubting – or light, open, willing, joyful, focussed, definite and playful. Choosing not so much by content as by quality.
Once we take up a thought and express it in word or deed, its effects can clearly be seen and felt as they play out in ways that leave us or another feeling less, or deepens the responsibility and care we bring to ourselves and others.
We begin to know our physical selves – our body – as radio towers, that if broken or damaged with the hits and hurts of life, tune into frequencies that deliver a quality of thought very different to the quality of thoughts available to a tower cared for, maintained, tall and not only ready to receive thoughts, but aware of itself as a receiver of thoughts not by default but by design. Divine design in fact!
When we loosen our grip on thinking that we originate anything and start realising instead that as receivers of thoughts or consciousness, our only job is to care for the tower we embody so it can discern and choose to tune into and express thoughts from an intelligence that leaves us feeling not cold, confused or controlling, arrogant or dominating, but warm, wise, responsible, honouring appreciative, honest, humble and joyful in its brilliant simplicity and beauty. This way we begin to forever open ourselves to thinking about thinking that maybe we don’t really think. Now that’s worth thinking about!
Inspired by the inspiring work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
By Adrienne Hutchins, BEd, Brisbane, Australia
Further Reading:
What is living medicine?
We Know More Than We Think
Connection, Choice & Energy: Are You the Pilot or is Autopilot Running You?
The Truth about Universal Medicine 
How important is it then to be responsible for our movements and the energy we align to, as that will determine what we put out, or what energy comes through our vehicle.
Linda I was waiting in a queue outside a bank and I watched people as they walked by and it was the way they moved that gave away how they were. Most of the people were moving with their heads down slumped over and shuffling along, this gave them an air of given-up-ness and negativity. There were very few people, mainly children who were walking upright with a loose gait and their faces turned up and with a light step. So is it possible that the way we move affects the thoughts we receive?
“The idea of being a mere receptor, not a creator of thoughts, is somehow insulting to our intelligence, rudely suggesting that we are not special, nor different, nor brilliant, but somehow passive, mute and dumb.”
Well can you imagine telling a professor or someone who considers themselves to be highly intelligent and has spent their entire life gaining knowledge that they are receivers of energy and that the thoughts they have are not their own but have been given to them, they would obviously dispute this.They have built themselves Ivory towers where no one can seemingly touch them so of course they will defend their knowledge (Ivory towers) and take ownership of what they know. What you are sharing Adrienne knocks holes in the ivory tower to expose the sham of thinking that we think and taking ownership of our thoughts.
I have been noticing recently how my thoughts really aren’t mine. It’s obvious when you observe what goes on in your head without judging it. Sometimes a thought would fly though and when I catch it I think “i would never ever think that”. So it must come from somewhere, the notion that our thoughts just go through our head & we are not the initiators is something challenging for many of us because of everything we have thought and perceived life through. However, if we don’t fight it & are open to hearing the possibility we can see how it plays out in our life.
Are we simply receivers of an energy that we are aligned to, like TV’s, or radios receive information, ‘ that they are receivers of information via waves that we can’t see but that they nonetheless constantly receive and then output in the form of a song, a movie, an ad, data and voice transmissions and so on.’
Could it be when we think we think it comes with a form of judgement and comparison? As when we understand we are a vessel we are in the appreciation of our essences and the Love that our Soul can share with everyone equally.
Great comment Doug, and it’s ironic that we have to dumb ourselves down to think we are intelligent or clever!
It’s true that we can feel special and different to others by what we can express from the thoughts we have, we are very identified with the level of intelligence we have and how that relates in comparison to others – the whole education system is based on this. Seeing ourselves as receivers of consciousness and that our choice of what kinds of thoughts we have comes from the quality of the love we live takes out the idea of ownership. Even energy precedes thoughts and that’s where our will comes in to decide the quality we will receive – that’s what I’m looking at and learning at the moment.
What quality of energy do we live, and receive, and so put out, ‘Seeing ourselves as receivers of consciousness and that our choice of what kinds of thoughts we have comes from the quality of the love we live takes out the idea of ownership.’
‘Just like a TV, radio or telephone, we don’t originate any of our thoughts or ideas but receive and then output them.’ I love this. It takes all the competition, the one person is better than another, more ‘original’ more creative away. We’re here to tune in for each other and deliver what’s needed. In dropping my comparison and allowing myself to appreciate people, life is joy-full. Comparison is just so toxic! It corrupts all that is beautiful and turns people on themselves then out to others in judgement and critique.
‘Just like a TV, radio or telephone, we don’t originate any of our thoughts or ideas but receive and then output them.’ When I first was introduced to this I fought and fought – who am I without generating my thoughts myself? This is very scary at first, like a real crisis in identity especially in a world where what you think is who you are – such accolades for being creative, a brilliant thinker etc. I’m discovering that when I do align to the essence of who I am, I have coming through me thoughts that are for us all and I get to feel the truth of who I am and who we are. This is very beautiful.
It makes enormous sense that we are receivers of information just like a radio. My brain that wants to be the creator says surely not, but my body that knows it receives information knows it to be true. So how would we move if we chose a different radio station from the one we have normally listened to for a while?
We would become a walking beacon of Love reflecting divinity and this would become our normal.
Great question to ponder on, ‘ how would we move if we chose a different radio station from the one we have normally listened to for a while?’
Your analogy of likening us to radio towers that receives the world around us is brilliant Adrienne – and on a deeper level according to the knocks and hurts from life we have experienced this affects our quality of reception. I love reading this blog as it makes us more aware of what is at play with our interactions with others.
Love reading this again. It’s always something I find difficult to accept so identified with my thoughts am I – which is totally normal, like you say it is a game changer. Being responsible to not let negative thoughts run by changing the quality of our movements and connecting to our breath is something I am now focusing on.
Being aware of what is running us is super important, ‘Is there a way of knowing the type of frequency we are tuned into?’
“What level of thinking, data and information are we tuned into and receiving?
What determines the frequency we are tuned into?
Are we ‘stuck’ on or limited to one frequency?
How do we alter the frequency we receive?
Is there a way of knowing the type of frequency we are tuned into?
What relevance is the condition of the tower to the quality or type of frequency of thoughts it receives?”
These are brilliant questions and so worth pondering on. I like the one about whether we are stuck on one frequency?.
“It is like we are all radio towers designed to tune into and receive outer frequencies and waves,” This understanding brings the responsibility to care for our body as the antenna to be able to discern which vibration to tune into and to then reflect out to others.
Yes looking after our bodies, because they are the receivers of the information, and because our bodies are therefore also transmitters of information, brings a whole new level to responsibility.
Being aware of which energy is running us is key, ‘What level of thinking, data and information are we tuned into and receiving?’
Generally in society we’re quite attached to our thoughts and the seeming intelligence of the mind, so just to even consider the possibility that they might not be our own is challenging for the mind. But it’s also empowering and ultimately liberating. To consider the possibility that our thoughts don’t belong to us, but are a stream passing through us, means that we can choose to listen to that stream, or not, or tune into a different frequency – simply by changing the quality of our movements.
The quality of our movements is connected with the quality of energy we are aligned to.
If we think about thinking we get lost in our mind because the mind does not figure things out, our body does.
This also brings in the responsibility as to what thoughts are we re-transmitting and adding to the pool for others to pick up.
Serge Benhayon has been presenting for many years that: we think we think, but in fact we do not, because we actually receive an energy that gives us the thoughts we think are our own – and which we then identify ourselves by. Which brings in to brilliant view – questions about who we are and why we are here – which again Serge is always on hand for providing the space to discover what the answers could possibly be.
I can really feel the deadliness of thinking that we think. Letting go of the idea of ownership is a hard one, but we are all those antennas, no different from any other one. No one is special or more intelligent than any other one. The difference only comes from how we each take care of our own apparatus for it to be able to guarantee the quality of what gets transmitted, but we do not own a thing, we do not even own the apparatus – they belong to the Universe.
It’s a challenging concept that we think we think, but if we simply are receivers then all we really have choice in is the quality of what we receive. A beautiful and very wise elder lady once said to me that the mind was never meant to be the master, only the servant of the heart. I know for me when I’m connected to my innermost heart the wisdom and love in my thoughts is truly beautiful to experience.
It really does come down to what source of energy is coming through us at any given point, ‘if we simply are receivers then all we really have choice in is the quality of what we receive.’
Thinking about Thinking – moving in cycles until we come to the realization ourselves that we are not really thinking the way we think we do but that there is a different way we actually cannot think of before we experience it. God has quite some humor and knows how to riddle us in our waywardness.
It seems we are collectively interconnected much more than we ‘think’ we are although even our thoughts stem from a collective pool we draw them from. Hence interesting that we think we think, ie. that our thoughts are created and produced by our very personal mental process. So why is it that at least one source of collective thoughts makes us think that it is us who think so that we don´t know that our thoughts are given? Somethin worth ‘thinking about’ or better pondering on.
Alexander Braun, you have just exposed the game being played we think we think but we are given the thoughts to think, while we think we think we are being controlled on another level which makes us puppets to an energy we cannot see, but just because we cannot see it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. We cannot see the energy of a radio wave but take it for granted that we can watch television or listen to the radio without considering how it all works.
To see ourselves as a vessel that receives and delivers energy makes things so simple- care for the vessel and we will call in an energy that is healing rather than harming.
Yes it is very simple and liberating, but we often recoil at the idea as we are so attached to our me, me, me, I did it, I thought it, I am so clever individualism.