Friedrich Nietzsche
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

Love some of Rene Descartes works. He gets heavy into occult stuff. But was a a real practitioner of occultism or just more like a historian someone who studied only theory?

I would say on the basis on helping or hurting. if someones helping and giving and benefiting others mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Creating a disorder is the opposite. Disorder to others and to their selves.

Yes, sorry! I completely overlooked that.

The conscious aspect of our mind controls 10 % they say. So we have little free will. Even a little. But most of our will as you say is under the "automatic" control. The subconscious mind only sprouts what the conscious mind seeds it with

Thought and emotions are the 2 sides of the same coin. When one is to the extreme, it may seem like it's only emotion by itself. For example. Something might get you so emotional that it eclipses the thought subconsciously. Or you can have a very neutral type of thought but there is always a subtleness of emotion. Like making an observation and stating a fact about someone with seemingly "0" emotional attention to that person. A person making about a comment about another person on a train. Even though the person comment may seem neutral, it isn't. That person had the emotion curiosity. Each major emotion has variations and mixtures between them. Just like the shades of the color scheme.