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Unconscious and Automatic Action of Thought Forms and Formations in Daily Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A story was related by an individual in business, which at
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  the time seemed somewhat unusual, but now in context
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  makes a lot of sense. He indicated that he had a
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  customer who would think about him when she needed to place an
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  order for goods for her store. They seemed to have a very tight
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  communication with one another at this level, despite a
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  physical distance of thousands of miles.
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  So generally he would call her within a few hours or a day and
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  indicate that it felt like you wanted to place an order to
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  which she happily admitted and indicated she had been thinking
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  about it and wanted him to call. This practice went on regularly
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  for some years, on random days and times without a formal
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  schedule or pattern, and there was a regular communication on
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  this level. At one point the business person
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  was in Europe and he felt her trying to contact him to place
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  an order. It was before the days of
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  instant worldwide communication, so there was nothing he could
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  do. When he returned a couple of
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  weeks later, he immediately called her.
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  She asked with some consternation why he had not
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  called sooner as she had been reaching out daily for several
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  weeks. He indicated that he knew that
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  but being in Europe, he had no way to let her know, and that in
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  the interim he had gotten a headache from the intensity of
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  her concentration. Day after day after a couple of
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  weeks, the mother writes. Quote.
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  But you see, in a smaller measure and less perfectly, one
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  is making formations all the time.
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  When, for instance, one thinks of somebody quite powerfully,
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  there is a small emanation of mental substance which
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  instantaneously goes to this person.
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  You understand a vibration of your thought which goes and
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  touches his, and if he is receptive, he sees you.
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  He sees you and tells you you came last night to see me.
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  That's because you made a small formation and this formation
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  went and did its work, which was to put you into contact with
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  this person or else to carry a message if you had something
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  special to tell him and that was done.
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  This happens constantly, but as it is quite a constant and
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  spontaneous phenomenon and done in ignorance, one is not even
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  aware that one does this one does it automatically.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The
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  Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 3, Hidden Forces around pages 69
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  to 70.