Thinking About Thought Forms, and Belldandy

I’m going to kick off my new “Metaphysical Madness” category with something that I’m particularly fond of and lends itself well to this topic. In this post, I’ll be talking about “thought forms” and the much beloved character Belldandy.

If you’re familiar with the subject of thought forms then you no doubt already know where I’m going with this post. This is very much a 101, if even that, but it’s a very good example of the type of posts that I’ll write for this category. Of course, you’re free to read over this and then offer your own thoughts on the subject.

Let’s all have a little fun with it.

First, let’s take a look at a thought form that many of us have experienced at one point or another, and what exactly a thought form is.

Let’s say that it’s some time after dark fall. You’re alone. The room that you’re in may not be fully lit. You just watched a spooky movie, and now you’re up using the computer, chatting with a friend about how spooky the movie was. Then the conversation turns to how freaky it would be to experience something like that in real life.

You start to “freak each other out” and you get the chills or goose bumps. Your friend and you mutually agree to change the subject, but later that evening once you’re done talking your thoughts return to the movie, and to the conversation.

You start to think about it all and, eventually, you freak yourself out. You get the chills again and the hairs on the back of your neck kind of raise up. You know that it’s only happening because you’re thinking those spooky thoughts, but you could swear that you feel something watching you.

You decide to sleep with a night light on, “just in case”.

Here we have what is probably the most typical, unintentional creation of a thought form.

That thing that you felt in the room with you? It was real. You created it. You probably didn’t realise that any of this was going on.

Well, saying that it was “real” is a bit of a stretch. You see, generally speaking, thought forms are not “real” in the sense that they’re actual entities. You can think of them more as a computer program or maybe even a robot. They’re made for a very specific purpose, they carry out that purpose, and then they fade away. They have a form of rudimentary intelligence that helps them carry out their goals.

A robot isn’t a real person, but it may be able to roll around a building and deliver supplies. In the process of doing so they navigate around corners and move out of the way of people and other objects that are not always in the same location. They may even be programmed to say “excuse me” if their sensors detect that the robot has bumped into something.

Unlike robots, however, thought forms can be created unintentionally. These random thought forms tend to be very short lived and they behave in a chaotic manner because they were never given any specific goal. Thought forms can be created by groups or by individuals, but those that are created by groups obviously tend to have more energy to them.

All of this finally brings us to the subject at hand, Belldandy, and I will trust that you’ve already figured out where I’m going with this post.

Belldandy is a good subject to use for this. There are milliions of people all over the world who adore this character. They all know what the character looks like, and they all have the same basic idea of what her personality is like.

There are also differences in opinions about what she would or wouldn’t do in a given situation. Fanfiction is a good example of that. As such, there are countless personal ideas that are also fed into the idea that is Belldandy.

All of this leads up to the question that crossed my mind last night as I was idly browsing about the web: “What if there is a Belldandy thoughtform?”.

Running with the assumption that there is a thought form called Belldandy, how powerful is it? Even more importantly, would it have taken on some form of sentient existance with so much adoration poured into it?

Or would the would-wide understanding that she’s just a character prevent the thought form from forming to begin with, since there’s little-to-no actual belief being poured into the form?

Then again, it all starts with an idea and the energy that’s put into that idea, and the adoration for the character could well serve as the catalyst just the same as one’s fear serves as the catalyst for the unintentional creation of a “spooky” thought form.

Yes, sometime I ponder over the strangest things.

~Mysk