Planes instead of Densities

[anagogy]

Thanks.  I still have a question about "more concentrated presence of thought" because most spiritual teachers say we must control or stop our "thoughts" in order to align with higher spiritual vibration.  I believe there must be different uses of the work "thought" and also I wonder about whether sometimes people use the word "thought" when they mean something closer to "consciousness" or awareness.

I will offer my understanding and clarification of that caycegal.  I perhaps didn't use the best word choice in that exchange, and you are absolutely correct that I meant something closer to awareness, rather than "thought".  Explanation:

The reason why stopping thought raises consciousness is because thought is simply the focusing of consciousness.  The "natural state" of consciousness is formless, impersonal awareness of awareness.  I call it "beingness".  Or, the "absolute".  Sometimes I call it "clear light".  It is beyond relativity, yet everything we perceive in this world is relative to *it*.  So in terms of higher and lower vibrations, it is the "highest" vibration from our relative perspective.  Everything you see, everything you can imagine, is *thought*.  Everything is a construct of thought, from physical reality to any other less tangible or conceptual reality.  All structures are thought.  So anyway, any given reality is a kind of focusing of this Beingness.  And that focus of thought is sort of like you holding a cork under the water with your hand.  When you let go of the cork, let go of thought, the cork naturally floats to the top.  That is the concept and benefit of releasing thought, you withdraw back into your natural and eternal base state of consciousness.

The other thing is that thought involves both gross and subtle levels.  What this means is there are vibrational magnitudes of thoughts.  The physical world, for example, comprises the most gross or tangible constructions of thought.  It involves a certain range of vibration.  And then you have each increasingly subtle plane of vibration (which involves the different subtle bodies).  So every time you transcend one level thought, a new and more subtle vibration is presented that you gradually begin to come to awareness and terms with.  And then, in time, that is eventually transcended as well.

But essentially, the idea is that over the course of soul evolution, your consciousness focus becomes less "specific" and more "broad" and encompassing of all that is.  Eventually, we will consciously dwell in omniscience and omnipresence (we already do subconsciously).  Density, in terms of physical matter, is simply the amount of substance presence in a given area of space, its "compactness" if you will.  But as you move to higher densities, there becomes less actual "matter" and more "energy".  So the physical forms become less "heavy".  So when I say "a more concentrated presence of thought", I mean a greater presence of awareness. It also means "a greater capacity to think and concentrate" as there is more power/will at that point.  

Words are a tricky little things.