Thought Forms and Creativity

Many disputes concerning originality, such as that between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as to who first came up with the idea of Natural Selection, would become redundant if we looked at them from an Afterlife perspective. The following quotation from Lutheran theologian and pastor, A.D. Mattson (transmitted post-mortem through the medium Margaret Flavell) is typical of many accounts of creativity on earth. Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance looks at the phenomenon of ideas spreading horizontally, without direct diffusion through imitative learning (such as the bluetits in Britain in the 1950s, who appeared to learn to peck the aluminium tops off milk bottles more quickly in one area of the country once their cousins elsewhere had mastered the trick). Accounts such as Mattson's from the astral plane describe how and why this happens. This may well involve the same physical 'grid' or 'field' of conscious energy implied in morphic resonance, or could be a slightly different mechanism of direct vertical communication between the material and astral or mental planes. These theories may not be amenable to scientific testing, but they certainly chime with direct observation and provide a possible explanation for a phenomenon that is common and well attested.

A.D. Mattson

How Thought Forms Influence Creative Work on Earth

Sometimes when you on earth are concentrating intensly on something- profound problems or difficult mathematical equations, for example – suddenly you are not conscious of you anymore. You seem to be just the thought. If you can, try to recognize at that moment that you are then on the beltway of all thought and all thinking. Even in a physical body, one can be on the mental plane, in the world of thought. It is from that level that the great inspired ideas come down to earth.

    Many ideas and inspirations never reach anybody on earth, because they are beyond the scope of the human brain. However, when there is a need to take humanity one step forward, or to educate people in a certain way, then there is a concentrated effort for thought forms to be showered down. You may notice that suddenly there are many books on a new subject. That is because people have picked up on the new ideas coming down. It is from this world of idea as that one particular kind of architecture appears in many different areas at the same time, or new space vehicles are developed simultaneously. When people all around the world have the same idea, it is because each has received creative thought help from the world of ideas. Nothing, not a single thing, can be created unless it has already been created in the world of ideas. This is the creative aspect of God.

References and biographies

Evidence from Beyond: An Insider’s Guide to the Wonders of Heaven – and Life in the New Millennium, p.67.

More After Death Communications Received from Theologian A.D. Mattson. Through Clairvoyant Margaret Flavell. Edited by Ruth Mattson Taylor. Brett Books, Brooklyn, New York, 1999.

The Rev. A. D. Mattson (1895-1970). Lutheran theologian and pastor. Augustana Theological Seminary (Lutheran School of Theology), Chicago.

Margaret Flavell, clairvoyant, and graduate of the London School of Paranormal Psychology and Sanctuary of Healing. During World War II she was commissioned by Lord Hugh Dowding, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, to use her abilities to trace missing RAF pilots. Methodist by background.

Descriptions of morphic resonance and possible explanations for the phenomenon are given in Rupert Sheldrake,  The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature  (Icon Books: London, 2011) as well as elsewhere in Sheldrake's work.

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