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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo  So I have the same questions as Dancer. Did I attract his death only with those few thoughts?? Or was it my intuition? And, if I had listened to those negative thoughts, maybe I would have saved him. So should we discard negative thoughts or listen to them? |
I'll throw a bending spoon into the mix, just to challenge your thinking a bit.
If you had the thought of this kitty dying, and it died, there are 3 possibilities:
(1) Total co-incidence, nothing you could do about it. Forget about it, let it go, not important.
(2) Some form of psychic energy allowed your "soul" to connect to this kitty's "soul" and it was telling you that it was sick even though the vet said it's fine. If you believe this, you have to also believe that (a) souls exist, (b) they exist outside the physical body and can communicate, (c) even if the kitty dies, his soul lives on.
If you believe this, then don't worry about it also. The kitty's soul tried to speak to you, but you weren't ready to hear it yet, but it's ok. The kitty's soul is still alive, it's still out there and it forgives you. In fact, the kitty's soul lives on inside you and your soul and maybe the reason it was telling you this was simply to help you open up to more possibilities in life.
The kitty's soul is very much alive. His physical body may not be, but don't worry too much about it. It's still "out there" and it is glad to have known you.
(3) You created this whole thing with your mind. Nothing out there exists. THe world is a pure Subjective Reality experience where you create everything out there. Everything phases in and out of existance every millisecond just depending on what you think about/focus on.
If you believe this, you should not feel bad about the kitty you didn't save any more than the people you phased out of existance from your grade 1 classroom that you don't think about anymore. What's that? You haven't thought about your grade 3 teacher for the last 10 years? THat would mean you phased her out of existance as well. But wait, she never existed anyways, only your projection of her existed. If so, then nobody out there exists so don't worry about anyone, or anything dying, because they aren't real. You are the only real thing out there.
To me, it kinda sounds like you're meshing together all 3 of these possibilities into one, perhaps even more, and ending up with a guilty feeling because you're kind of looking at it like "I created this kitty dying and I feel guilty because what if there is no afterlife?" Well...if you believe that you can CREATE things like kitty's dying, then you have to accept that there is a LOT MORE you're responsible than just this.
Hope I didn't confuse you even more.
Simplified answer to your question: First figure out what model of reality you believe in, and then decide how negative thoughts relate to it. Otherwise, you'll drive yourself nuts.