What your waking conscious personality perceives as thought, or a thought, results from your inner self disseminating an idea creation to your outer ego, and this ego either accepts, rejects, or doctors the data, and the subsequent results of that exchange. 

Let me explain this a little more: your own Ego does not, nor cannot, interpret all “physical” data that exists through only five senses. The birth of your physical body marks the birth of your individual ego.

The ego is simply the evolutionary persona that develops from birth to safeguard the individual from threat; and directs the individual toward fitness payoffs like nutrition and procreation in order to further the survival of the species. This also implies that a collective human Ego also exists.

At your birth you automatically blend physical stimuli with nonphysical stimuli until you are trained to segregate the two. These evolved Ego processes have biases within the genetics of each individual. Why am I going on-and-on about the Ego?

Simple. The Ego is what delivers to you your perspective through which you view action. Thought is action. Contrary to popular belief, you can only perceive a one thought at a time.

Why? Because your five senses are not equipped to perceive instantaneous thought creation. Since your five senses are not so equipped a distortion is created between what is —and what can be perceived in any given moment.

I hope you are starting to see the implications of this. The Ego sets itself apart from action —as the creator of action—and therefore it also believes it is the creator of thought, which it not. The intellect is the facility that tries to rationalize the data that’s being distributed to it by the ego—or the collective ego.

Thoughts are things, and they continue to exist long after you perceive them. Contrary to popular belief, and most multi-taskers, you can only hold one thought at a time. Within your scale of time, you do have variation —or range—of thought and its subsequent durability—or in your term’s permanence. This is why it may seem that you can hold multiple thoughts at once when really you are decreasing the time between thought perception.

Spontaneous thought arises out of the spontaneous nature of nonphysical reality. When you perceive thought you change it and self through observation. You can either embrace a thought, or reject it, as in this case like attracts like. Ego automatically chooses what is desirable or undesirable to it.

Have you ever been intellectually motivated to do this or that, only to do neither. Or you desire to become wealthy, put in the initial work, only to abandon the entire goal for reasons you still cannot figure out?

Self-sabotage much?

This is due to the desires of a nonphysical personality —forcefully at times—working through an ego mechanism paired with intellect in order to experience such a unique atmosphere as you have on Earth.

Your Earth plane is extremely unique and highly desirable for many personalities to deem it work working through an ego complex such as yours. You truly have a give-and-take relationship with your own ego. No judgment either way, peace out.