An image or images held in the mind of a practitioner which aids in the manifestation of Intent. An agency of psychic effect which exists and takes form on the pre-physical realms of existence, which acts in accord with the Intent of its creator(s).

a clump of psychic stuff that is charged to bring about a specific end

Thoughtform may be understood as a textured complex of psychospiritual manifestation that take on manifold forms and are envisioned and engaged variously in different traditions. Thoughtform are evident in Vajrayana Buddhism, Bonpo traditions, indigenous cultural traditions thoughout the world, shamanic traditions, echoes are evident in ghosts or supernatural agency, folk religion, esoteric philosophies such as Theosophy, what is construed as the New Age, and may be conceptualised and realised in a number of ways. Thoughtform phenomena, by any other name, are worked with variously in Imaginal Psychology and Process Oriented Psychology and is evident in the work of Gregory Bateson.

1. Perfected shape floating in the air roughly spherical. 2. Mental creation that can have causal effects. 3. Etheric picture, pattern, or form created on the mental plane by the active mind that dissolves easily unless energized by the emotional nature.

an idea that grows on the astral