Couldn't resist posting this. I'd gone into a cafe to meet a friend earlier today, and there was a woman at the counter going through everything on the salad bar... 'I'll have a bit of this.... I'll have some of this...'
Suddenly she stopped and pointed. 'What's that?'
'Humous.'
For a moment she paused, dumbfounded. 'Nah, I don't like fish.'

It takes all sorts, as they say.....

It being the autumnal equinox today, I thought it was time to write about some serious pagan stuff. Well, sort of serious. I hope the days are long gone when I ever took myself too seriously.

So I am going to start talking about the unintentional magic of thought forms, how you create them, how they affect you, how they can be made to work for (and against) you. I did a talk on this earlier in the year for Cardiff University’s Pagan Society. It’s quite a long piece, so I shall split it into manageable chunks for the blog.

In my humble opinion, thought forms are an unjustly neglected aspect of magic. It’s no exaggeration to say that anyone can create a thought form – we do it every day, whenever we experience strong emotion or stress. So since most of us are already dealing with these things on a regular basis, it’s important to understand a bit about them.

If you wanted a formula to create a thought form, it would look something like this:

Mental energy (thought) + desire or passion (emotion) + elemental essence (matter which is all around us) = artificial elemental (thought form)

This may sound complicated but in practice it isn’t. You can create a thought form without any special equipment or knowledge. Five year olds do it all the time whenever they create an imaginary friend or play situation.

Why does it work? Partly it’s because of the way we are made. Every one of us has both a mental and a physical body. The physical body is no problem - we can see it and touch it, but the mental body is made up of many layers (sometimes called auric bodies). Psychics often see these as vibrations of colour and form.

Every single thought we have originates in the mind of our physical body and then passes through our mental body before being projected out into the world beyond us.

But although we may have discarded the thought, out in the big blue yonder there is something called the elemental essence which can pick up on these discarded thoughts, and give them some sort of physical existence.

The elemental essence is a life-form of low intelligence, which can be animated by human (and sometimes animal) thought. It is all around us, and one of its main occupations is finding and absorbing thought forms.

The trick in creating our own (deliberate) thought forms is to create the thoughts we want and make sure they are picked up by a suitable elemental essence.

Conversely, the trick in avoiding the creating of harmful thought forms is to avoid creating thoughts that might damage us or others.

Easier said than done!

Seeking the Green by Tylluan Penry, published soon by Capall Bann. For more info please watch this space!