Definitions - #301 - #04 - How do you have a thought?

I. Interesting question. “How do you have a thought?”
1. How does a “thought” differ from a “reflex”?
2. How does a “thought” compare with an “emotion”?
3. What kind of a “process” will help untangle these words?

II. Please try and be patient …... Please try to follow this little description:
(I would like to draw a sort of “mathematical picture” that I hope will help.)

1. If you take a dot in space and move it in a direction, you will create a “line in space” which we will call the “First Dimension”.
2. If you move the line in a direction you will create “plane in space” which we will call the “Second Dimension”.
3. If you move the plane in space you will create a “cube in space” which we will call the “Third Dimension”.
4. But the whole process cannot happen if there is no “space” which we’ll call the “Fourth Dimension”.
5. But if there’s no energy to move these “things” nothing could happen. We’ll call the moving force “energy” and it can be named the “Fifth Dimension”.
6. What is the source of this energy? We’ll call that the “Sixth Dimension” and so forth….

III. Now let’s try to use this picture in a “human” form.

1. If you have a “reflex” (i.e. breathing, smelling, hearing, etc.) , there is very little use of the brain. Let’s call “reflex” the “First human Dimension.
2. If you have an “emotion”, there is a little bit more brain power exerted in the reaction. Let’s call “emotion” the “Second human Dimension”.
3. If you use your “intellect” (i.e. for information, logic and reason …. more brain power), let’s call this the “Third human Dimension”.
4. There must be something beyond intellect, logic and reason. Let’s use the term “wise”. Let’s call “wise” the “Fourth human emotion”
5. There must be something beyond wise, let’s call it “faith”. Let’s call this the “Fifth human Dimension”. And so forth…..

IV. So…the more the “brain” is involved the higher the “Dimension.

1. “I’m completely emotional!” … this is an advertisement of a “Second Dimension” person….a person whose brain is only slightly involved. ….a little more than pure “reflex”, but still a minimum of “brain” involvement.
2. “I’m an intellect.” …. I believe that logic and reason are the end in itself…the highest form of human. This is an advertisement of a “Third Dimension” human. This person is unaware of any other “Dimension”; unaware that there’s more in life than pure logic and reason.
3. “He’s a wise person.” …. This is a person who knows that reason and logic (known information) are not the end of things. There must be more. It’s not necessary to know what it is. It’s only necessary to reach out and see what there might be, knowing that the search is the adventure. This is a description of a “Fourth Dimension” human being.
4. Etc., etc. …
5. Which “Dimension” are you? What “Dimensions” are your friends? Which dimension do you want to be?
(and ….Thanks for being patient….)

VI. So back to “How do you have a thought?”

1. You speak to yourself!!! You express something to yourself!! You USE WORDS!!! You talk to yourself!!
2. In each person’s throat there is a three way valve. One direction is “out of your mouth”. One direction is “to your brain”. One direction is “out of both at the same time”!
3. If you believe this, you can no longer say “It’s on the tip of my tongue!” Certainly you said something to yourself. You can certainly repeat what you told yourself, or, you simply did not have that thought!! You don’t own that thought!!
4. Think what happens if your communication skills are poor.

If your language is poor, your thoughts are poor!!
If your thoughts are poor, what do you think your conclusions are going to be like?
Can you make good choices if your thoughts are poor?

So, now, do you realize the connection between “Definition” and “Thought”?

Now do you realize how important language is? …….