New Thoughts for Crystals.

This article was published in the May 2008, issue #37 of Paradigm Shift magazine in the UK.

Many people have looked at a crystal at one time or another and have had the brief, but specific thought that crystals must somehow be 'alive'. It's often a very quick thought because it's automatically followed by a second more powerful thought of ' but there's nothing to prove it, so let's think about something else'...

Imagine, if you will, a world where if you look at an object and think about it's 'life' - your perception of it dramatically changes and you see streams of different coloured energy issuing from the object in every direction. Then, as you 'watch' these streams and channels of energy moving, you see them travel in a certain direction, towards something else that you don't quite see...

My wife Nataliya Bondar, was born in Ukraine in a large city, 200km south of Kiev. When she was 9 years old, she went through a spiritual awakening that opened up full clairvoyant vision to her. She grew up between different worlds; this outer 'physical' one and several more subtle ones which the majority of people do not perceive.

In the year 2001, we married, I quit my steady job of five years, sold my house and we left the UK and moved to Ireland to begin a new life... and we opened a small business there, a little crystal shop.

Nat knew nothing about crystals; her first language is Russian and there are no crystal books in Russian, she needed me to teach her what I had learned about them over many years in the field of minerals. However, one day she 'looked' at various stones and asked me why 'this one' had a spiral energy while 'that one' had a cloud energy and why this 'other one' had white energy 'coming from this end' - and not the other end... I didn't have a clue. We were, at the time, selling over 25 different books on crystal healing in the shop - but none of them even came close to answering these 'energy questions'. Then she asked me why 'that one' was supposed to be good for relieving headaches and why 'this one' wasn't... Again I didn't have the answer and again our book selection failed the enquiry. The real crunch came when Nat asked me 'exactly how do they work'? At this point, there were no definitive answers available, seemingly anywhere.

We looked at even more books - over 50 in all but still couldn't find rational answers to these types of questions. So in July 2002, Nat began to study the subtle energies of crystals and minerals in the little study above our shop, she drew their energies and described them and then began observing what happened when people used crystals in healing exercises. She also, at this point began to observe people's thoughtforms - particularly the thoughtforms of healers and therapists while they worked on their patients / clients. This stage of research achieved some radical conclusions...

Generally, very few people ever mention the term 'thoughtform'; it is used in 'closed' esoteric groups when beginners are trained and initiated into the mysteries, it is also found in some little known Theosophical books. Yet, among the modern day seekers of spiritual knowledge - it is hardly ever heard of or discussed.

This seems highly ironic because it is absolutely impossible for us to exist without the creation and employment of thoughtforms. They are an intrinsic part of our inner reality. All healers use thoughtforms, all therapists use thoughtforms, all teachers, doctors, students, bakers, bricklayers, salesmen and all people of all walks of life use thoughtforms. I think it was Ptaah, through Jani King in the 90s that used the term 'idea construct' - it is the same thing - a thoughtform. The study of thoughtforms in depth will completely alter the way you look at your life, you will perceive your mind to be capable of extraordinary abilities, not least of which is to be able to change realities...

By the fact that you're reading this magazine, we can take it for granted that you are either 'awakening' or 'awakened'. That you either understand or accept the concept of a multi-dimensional reality and that you are aware that you have several 'vehicles' or 'bodies' on several different 'levels of reality'. This makes things easier to grasp the concepts of thoughtforms... When Isaac Newton proposed his laws of motion and gravity, they became accepted to the fold of those laws we now call Physics; but they apply only to this 'physical' level. There are 'other' levels, and therefore there are 'other' laws. In this physical level, matter is composed from molecules of atoms, yet in the level of the mind, the fifth dimension, the matter that composes that reality is far subtler. It is also extremely reactive to thought. As we think - this matter instantly forms shapes that are exactly relative to our thought. The type of thought dictates its structure and colour; the strength of the thought dictates its size.

So let's look at the process. You look at an object - anything; within a fraction of a second you create a thoughtform, it is based on your perception of the object and the interaction of your mind and consciousness. It's as though the thoughtform is a reflection of your thought, but more than that because the thoughtform IS your thought, it is the embodiment of all principles and objectives of the thought. If you can imagine that it is also attached to countless invisible 'strings' that travel in all directions to intertwine with the 'causes of all reality' and karma; so that the thoughtform can be perceived as a 'component' of all reality at all times. Like a part of a jigsaw puzzle that has just been made - for a puzzle that is constantly changing and unfolding.

Now let's look at some numbers... on average, we create anything from thousands to hundreds of thousands of thoughtforms every day. There are some 6 billion people on this planet so that adds up to a vast, incomprehensible number of thoughtforms being created and each one 'fits in' to the grand unfolding scheme of life. That's how huge this concept is - and it is happening perpetually with us, all the time. It becomes all the more extraordinary when you consider that, generally speaking we are entirely unaware of this situation yet we are directly involved with it. There is a phrase 'global human consciousness' - it is used to describe the 'current situation' of the level of spiritual awakening of humanity. These countless billions of thoughtforms act upon the global human consciousness constantly. You can make your own mind up about whether this global level is high or low at this time.

However, despite their being so many thoughtforms created; generally speaking, these are individually relatively weak in strength. They only become increased in strength by joining together with others and forming 'clouds' of thoughtforms that are similar by their vibrations. These 'clouds' drift through the subtle environment, pulled by 'tides' of subtle laws.

Generally speaking, there are two types of thoughtforms, weak and strong. The weak ones are little more than 'information bubbles' which we create for a brief moment of time and when that time has passed, they become obsolete and we no longer have use for them. Such 'ordinary' thoughtforms have a kind of in-built 'self destruct mechanism' that acts from the moment when they're no longer used. It is directly related to the amount of attention we give to the process of creating the thought in the first place. Perfect examples of this can be the thoughts you created when reading sentences of this article a few lines back. remember those thoughts - no - well that's because you didn't need to. If you have a conversation with someone, you might describe something and then your companion might comment on your description, you think (very briefly) on what they say - and instantly reply with a further point of conversation. Move the clock forward by just a minute or two and you'll find you have no connection to the thoughts you made in this conversation except those which are of value to you. These latter thoughts are more important. "what time did he say? 3pm - yes; I must remember 3pm".

Strong thoughtforms are made where the person deliberately pays more attention to their creation. These types of thoughtforms are wholly different to the 'information bubbles' - because we value these thoughts - we put 'more' into their creation; we pay greater attention to them. The more attention we pay - the stronger they are and consequently, the stronger they are - the longer they will last in 'time'.

Whenever an energetic healer performs their work; they use thoughtforms of certain types and by and large, these matters are unconscious to them because certainly the majority of healers will perhaps have never heard of a thoughtform. The results that they achieve are directly attributed to how strong or how weak their thoughtforms are. So, if they become aware of their thought at the time of its creation - obviously their thoughtforms will be stronger and consequently their work will be far more effective. The thoughtforms have 'vibrations' and these act on the energetic bodies of the person or patient at the time. These are the facts. However many people will find their stereotypes to difficult to overcome (for example, the belief that they are 'a channel for universal energy and there is no personal involvement' etc...etc...) and therefore have difficulty in accepting such a concept. It's ironic that in such a case - it is the thoughtform they hold to themselves so dearly that acts to prevent them from creating and working with positive thoughtforms for the benefit of their clients and patients. The IT term 'firewall' comes to mind!

If you do any healing work, of any kind - try deliberately thinking about the exact work that you are doing at the time and then compare the results... you might be surprised.

There is a third type of thoughtform; the 'very strong' one. This type is formed by someone that knows exactly what he or she is doing and they apply their knowledge as 'second nature'... Good examples are the thoughtforms that surround the physical locations of the 'Retreats' of the Masters of Humanity. At such locations the thoughtform acts throughout the local environment to disincline people from approaching such a place, thus the Master is not disturbed from their work while they're present there.

Possessing this 'higher knowledge' brings tremendous responsibility; one can definitely alter ones reality and circumstances and this can affect other people's realities; which can bring about karmic implications. Some very strong thoughtforms can last 100s, 1000s or even perhaps 10s of 1000s of years. Only when you have fully understood and consciously appreciated the karmic implications of having such knowledge may you be capable of studying it. Its practice is simple, yet for our 'modern conditioned lifestyle'; extremely difficult to carry out.

So to return to the original subject of crystals. After 2 years of research, Nat defined that as much as crystals do indeed have individual qualities, many people performing crystal healing often don't use these qualities. This is partly because many folk don't realise their 'true' qualities, but mainly because the 'subtle mineral energy' is so 'weak' that it can only make a negligible effect on its own. Many people can (falsely) believe a certain stone to be imbued with a certain therapeutic quality, yet it is their belief (their projected thoughtform) that may give this stone that quality. Their thoughtform can be attached to the stone and thus, temporarily give the stone the 'artificial quality'.

Where someone actually knows the true quality of a stone and then deliberately creates a special thoughtform - with the function to command the energy of the stone to act upon a part of the body of their client or patient - then great work can be accomplished. This is because the power of the thoughtform gives far greater strength to the minerals' energy. Then, the subtle energetic part of the body begins to react and undergoes transformation, but that's a whole new subject on its own.