Thoughts are eternal if they are true thoughts. False thoughts are shadows ...and shadows evaporate when the light is shined on them.
Thoughts are spirits. Spirit is life... True thoughts are living thoughts. You have heard the saying "That is the spirit!" or "get into the spirit of things". Spirit is likened to the mode of thinking of the particular endeavor.
I remember the dream I had where I was out in a field picking up dead branches and throwing them in a pile. Jesus was in the field with me and he told me to burn up all of those dead branches. The branches were symbolic of my dead thoughts... Unclean spirits are dead thoughts...
The body starts to dissolve with aging. Sometimes that will allow for cracks to appear in the plaster of the egoic infrastructure, allowing for a brief expansion of awareness and the light of consciousness to shine forth...
