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64The source of thought. What%u2019s that?Have you ever had the feeling that thoughts don%u2019t just spring to the mind fully formed?I%u2019ve never thought about it.Consider it for a moment. Do thoughts simply pop into the mind, fully formed, or do they seem to come from somewhere deep within the mind, existing at some abstract, more subtle level before they become totally clear?Well, they%u2019re not just there. I guess they do seem to come from someplace.They seem to come from somewhere within us.All these thoughts come from one source: a field of pure energy deep within the mind.You%u2019re getting a bit abstract, aren%u2019t you?Let us be abstract just a minute longer, because what we want to find out is what the source of thought is really like.Every thought has some meaning, some direction. Even a nonsensical thought or a thought in a dream makes some kind of sense to us%u2014we recognize it as a picture, as words, as an emotion, or as an idea. This means that every thought has some kind of intelligent purpose or direction. We don%u2019t think at random because thoughts themselves contain intelligence.Every bit of intelligence that we display in our daily activity reflects the intelligence contained in our thoughts.Also, we experience thousands of thoughts every day%u2014they just keep coming and coming. So they must be coming from a virtually unlimited source of energy and creativity.So now we know three things about the source of thought%u2014it%u2019s a source of energy, it has to be creative, and it is a reservoir of intelligence.