Mr.Big,
Thoughts come from two sources – subconsciously they rise from the body and sensations and the enter from outside through what Sri Aurobindo calls the circumconscient. Human thought has emerged from animal sensation so most of our thought is a response of the conscious mind to sensations rising up from the physical and subconscious. I see a person who I do not like or an object that appears attractive to me, and thought forms in response to the sense perception and the bodily emotions associated with it. As mind develops, it also becomes receptive to thoughts entering from the atmosphere as it is also to feelings and life vibrations such as fear and joy. To test for yourself the capacity of thought to move from one person to another through the circumconscient without the intermediacy of speech or written word, you can try the experiment outlined in Silent Will.
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