Contaminated thinking

I really like the notion of contamination, I think it's fascinating.

I heard Syd Banks talking once about ‘contaminated thinking’ and it struck me as a bit odd. I didn't really understand what he meant—was he talking about ‘bad’ thoughts or something?—and I resolved to figure it out.

I never did, naturally. Whenever ‘I’ (i.e. the Giles Ego Construct 📦) resolves to force some kind of answer it thinks it deserves out of thin air, it generally comes up empty-handed.

I must have given up or mostly put it on the back burner or something because the next time I became aware of ‘contamination’ as a thing, I found myself idly musing with a glass of water in my hand.

I was looking at it, thinking… Contaminant. Water. Contaminant. Water. And then it suddenly hit me:

Ooh.

Now I don't know how that makes you feel to stop for a moment and reflect on it, but there's something in that, that helped me to get a bit closer to what Syd meant (I think).

Whenever I want to get a bit of clarity on something, I'll look up the original meaning of a word. (EtymOnline is your friend. My word, have I spent some hours on there 😬)

And for ‘contaminant’ it's com (with) + tangere (to touch). So contamination is ‘with touching’.

Which again, gives me a slightly strange feeling when I consider it. Because if one were to observe a glass of muddy water, taken at face value, it would look like this one thing: just messy, muddy water.

But on deeper exploration, we'd find it's actually pure, clear water. With a contaminant, touching it.

Like I say: fascinating.

Thought and thinking

So here we go then, try this on for size.

We live in this world of (big-T) Thought, yeah? Everything's made of the Principle of Thought, or what I like to think of as Thought-perception.

Because we're not experiencing an objective, ‘outside’ world directly. The entire thing (100% of it) is being generated from within, something I covered in a recent Daily Reminder, called ‘No sunrise for you.’

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So, your experience of a tree? Thought.

Your hands? That's Thought, too.

Every feeling & emotion you've ever had? Yup, it's Thought. The past? Thought. The future? Thought.

You get the picture.

Basically, experience (which is all we get) is Thought, brought to life in Consciousness, powered by the unfathomable, intelligent energy of life: Mind.

That's your lot – there's nothing more than those 3 Principles, and there's no experience to be had without all three.

But then we have actual (small-t) ‘thoughts’, don't we? The jibber jabber analysis-fest that is the chippy little bastard in our heads, observing Thought (in its purest form) and commentating on what it sees.

This too has got to be made of Thought (everything is, in one form or another), but it's definitely something we can be conscious of, as seemingly separate.

And so on my light touch exploration of the notion of contamination, I got to wondering… What if Syd's ‘contaminated thinking’ is pure Thought-perception, but with our thinking mixed in?

🤔

And just like contaminated water, if one were to observe You, taken at face value you might look like a right old mess at times.

But on deeper exploration we'd find it's actually pure, clear You. With a contaminant, touching it.

So you can have whatever contaminated thinking you like rattling around in there, but it will never affect who you really are.

It doesn't change the nature of who you are.

Innate Health itself.

💖

Giles

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