The proper role of the individual self in relation to the outside world.

[3DMonkey]

Monkey, but if all is the mind, then all others "within" are actually also reflections of those "without". Have you ever considered that? Say you imagine doing some horrible thing to a nameless person you just made up.

Most would say, oh it's just in my mind, just my thoughts and has nothing to do with anyone else. Well, if all is Mind, and there is only One Mind, then to suggest that your thoughts are not connected to the existences of all other Thought-forms is to somehow suggest that others are not also within that One Mind.

Yes, I understand this very well. This is an essential part of my perspective, I assure you.

Since all is thought, then reasonably we could say that imagining doing something horrible to someone is indeed just as equivalent as physically doing it, as it is all just interacting Thought-forms anyways.

No, I would not think anywhere near the equivalent

If I want to take this in to the context of fields of consciousness, I would also suggest that "Thoughts" or the "Thought World", is like the Astral or other realms and is a malleable dimension. It is something that is actually existence and interactive, along with every other dimension. When you hold a thought in your mind, it's not just "in your head", you project and signal that thought and put it out in to the world.

We are, for the most part, completely unaware of how this goes out. This is the "spirit". It is not something we are capable of being aware of, and yet we are capable of receiving it in a completely unaware way. Those with more awareness tend to be called "psychic" using various terms.

If you have a lot of these pent up negative thoughts, and as Spero specified nicely, and you do not "distill the love and light" from them, it is possible for them to pent up and be released as charges. This quite literally then creates antagonistic Lower Astral entities, which then go off in to the world to amplify and terrorize others who have negative blockages.

What pens them up? The practices described in the material as STS is what you are describing here. Simply exploring the negative thoughts is not what pens them up and releases them in the way you describe. It is how they are treated within the polarization of the mind. Any, ANY, thought can be polarized positive or negative. This is what is being taught by Ra.

Keeping this in mind, if one is constantly thinking "bad" thoughts, then no "distillation" will be taking place. The cup will fill, overflow, refill, overflow, again and again.

Now, I am going to pointedly agree with Shin'Ar, that you cannot take something "bad" and turn it "good", in the way we are expressing it.

Say for example, since it is a stark image, there is a scene of rape. Now, this could be "justified" on either side of the spectrum, but the justification has little to do with the fact of the occurence that is the rape. You cannot imagine killing someone, and then "justify" it, say that you would do it for "good", and then consider that act of killing to no longer be an act of murder. You cannot gain knowledge from something "bad" by trying to make it "good", because the lesson and knowledge within something "bad" is the very fact that that is what it is!

You would learn nothing from attempting to think of rape as a "hard lesson in love", or as "necessary for the individual", because that instantly denies the very horrifying atrocity that a rape actually is, and the immense, painful impact it has on every layer of an individual.

Now, if you think of harming or manipulating others in your mind, and you come to no conclusion that such a thing is "not good", then I can absolutely see how Shin'Ar is expressing the trap in this way of thinking, as it gives one a license to abandon one's values "when appropriate", or moreso, when desirable or to one's advantage.

This is a huge thing I have actually struggled with myself, and I have to say, through everything I have come to a simple maxim: "Energy follows Thought". You want to think about violence, manipulating and hurting others? Well, thank you for inputting those thought-forms in to our planetary sphere, the cleaners will be by shortly.

This expresses only one possibility. Each Being is different. A person that uses catalyst of Mind in this singular way can continue this way until compassion is reached. It is possible, but work must be committed to.