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The collective, the collective
consciousness and collective thinking
Creating
a collective
A gravitation analogy for the formation and pull of the collective
Awakening consciousness to from the collective
Sleep
and the collective
The
role of the collective in awakening an individuated consciousness
Going into
orbit - escaping the collective
Critical mass of enlightenment
Impacts of collective thinking
The human
collective - “the collective”
Desires of the Physical Creation and the human collective
Our individuated consciousness and the collective
Working with the collective
Illness and the collective
Implications of the collective
In the same way many individual
cells create the organs of our body and there are many different
organs that come together to create our body, consciousness is
similarly layered. There are many
layers within layers,
creations within creations. Each of these layers give rise to
what is normally experiences as a collective consciousness. That is,
each of these layers is a collective. Although there are many
layers
to Creation, the layer which is called the human collective, or
just “the collective,” has the more obvious influences on the
experiences we have as human in physical creation. The human
collective has also been called the “overmind.”
It is the existence of the collectives which allows for our
individuated consciousness to share common experiences, in
particular the human experience. In this regard, most of the
influences of the collectives on our creativity and what we
experiences is done at the
subconscious and/or unconscious level. It has been observed that
we can influence and/or change the subconscious influences by any
one collective to fit our creative needs. Influencing the
unconscious is a little more difficult. However, escaping the
influence of the collective can be like trying to escape the pull of
gravity to sent a rocket to the moon and, of course, the layers of
consciousness closer to our human experience are much easier to
escape than those some distance away.
Creating a collective (Top)
The existence of collective is
actually an expected occurrence resulting directly from the
nature of Creation. The truth of reality is that all is
interconnected for all arises out of the same “stuff” of Creation
from the same Source of Creation. Within the concept of the
wave particle nature of energy any one facet of reality extends
throughout all of infinity and
overlaps the energy of every other facet. In the awareness of
the
equivalency of energy and consciousness, the consciousness of
any one faces is capable of overlapping the consciousness of any
other facet. Now wether or not any one consciousness is consciously
aware of this fact is another issue. But at a subconscious and
unconscious level, there is an awareness of this fact.
Whether we realize it or not consciousness seek to find a
warm fuzzy place. It sees to feel “good” for however it defines
good for how it has focused it awareness and attention. It responds
subconsciously to its environment to move toward such a place. As a
result, overlapping energies that perceive themselves as having
something in common and flowing into the same type and kind of
experience form a collective. Energies or, rather
individuated points of consciousness
that have awakened and desire the same type and kind of experience
form a collective. The deeper the perceived common bonding, the
greater the hold of the collective. These shared common aspects in
turn can be viewed as
layers to Creation. These layers can be view from an energy
perspective or a consciousness perspective
From an energy perspective we experience a layered creation with
seeming different properties and different applicable rules for the
layers. For example, there is a Physical Creation which is composed
of a Universe of galaxies. Within the galaxies are solar systems
governed by a star. Within these solar systems planets travel around
the star at its center. Each of the planets may or may not have some
type and kind of life. Earth has a variety of life of which the
animal kingdom is only one such form of life. With the animal
kingdom lies a variety of life forms of which humanity is a part and
each of us are part of humanity.
Given the
equivalence of energy and consciousness, we can similarly views
these layers as individual collectives or each layers as a
consciousness unto itself. There exists a consciousness within
Physical Creation, a consciousness within each galaxy, a conscious
within each solar systems, a consciousness within each planet and a
variety of individual and collective consciousnesses giving rise to
variety of life forms found on the planet. In this regard, there is
a consciousness of earth and there is a consciousness of humanity
that lies within this consciousness of earth.
In this regard, there is a collective governing physical creation
consciousness, there is a galaxy collective consciousness, an earth
collective consciousness, an animal collective consciousness, a
collective human consciousness plus others. Finally there is our
consciousness as a human being. Unless, of course, we desire to
consider smaller collectives reflective of our society and other
social structures such as our political, religious, or national
structures and the like that act as a collective and/or things like,
the, masculine collective, the
feminine collective, and other groupings that give rise to
collective thinking which can influence our creativity.
The issue with the collectives is that when something perceives
itself as arising out of another it bonds itself to that out of
which it arises. We see body arising out of woman so we see
ourselves as human. The human body arises out of earth and is
sustained of earth so we perceives ourselves as arising from earth.
If we look only at the physical aspects of being all of this makes
sense. However, we do not realize the non physical works exactly the
same way. We see ourselves arising of the human collective and we
see ourselves as whatever the collective thinks it means to be
human. We carry that understanding within our
unconscious. What we see arises from our society we carry in our
subconscious. Similarly, as male/female, we see and experience
ourselves as arise out of the collective of what it means to be a
male/female.
Although other collectives exists above and below what it means to
be human, and they can and often do have a great influence on us,
the one that normally influences our creativity is the human
collective and what humanity collectively thinks it means to be
human. As a human being, we are part of what it means to be human
and all humans are a part of what it means to be in the animal
kingdom on earth. Yet, as a an
individualized consciousness and an
infinitely creative being, being human is only a part of our
consciousness. We fail to realize the
body is only the vehicle for our experience. Although we are
inseparable from the body for the duration of our
physical experience as a human, the awareness that is us is not
the body nor it is the
mind and
ego we associate with the body’s experiences in Physical
Creation.
Now it needs to be noted that each of these
layers of consciousness act as any other consciousness. These
collectives works exactly the same way for the individual, the
family, the society, humanity and so forth. They each can have an
ego as to who it thinks it is and each has a unique perspective
of Creation as viewed from the form in which it exists.
A gravitation analogy for
the formation and pull of the collective
(Top):
Each element of mass in the universe pulls on every other mass.
Although it is very small and we don’t normally feel it, it
nevertheless exists. When we get a relative large amount of mass
together, it generates a gravitation field that pulls on all other
mass with a greater force. If the mass is large enough we can
measure it with instruments. But the gravitational pull always
exists no matter how small the particle of mass. It is only the
limitation of our measurements and sensitivity that does not allows
us to see the existence of this attraction mass has for mass except
on a macroscopic scale.
Consciousness works in a very similar way. The only difference is
that consciousness is intentional and causes itself to have a
preference for feeling certain types and kinds of experience by how
it has focused it attention and awareness. That is it can become the
cause and turn the attraction on or off. Although the chose of focus
is a conscious decision, what we feel because of how we have focused
our attention and awareness is subconscious. That is, we unknowingly
intend to be attracted to another consciousness or we perceive
itself as separate and even pushed away because of how we have
focused our attention and awareness. Nevertheless, no matter how we
focus our attention and awareness the connection with others is
always there. Whether we feel a pull or a push is determined by our
mind and how we have focused our attention and awareness.
Gravity in mass appears to always be turned on and every pieces of
mass attracts every other piece and that attractive force never
switches on or off at least as far as we can determine or it has
been fix or set for the duration of Creation. However consciousness
is different. Consciousness is free to become the cause and perceive
itself as connected or separate. Consciousness is free to say, “I
am” and “I am this....” and “I am not that....” In the case of
physical mass, mass is energy but it is also consciousness in the
equivalence of energy and consciousness. As consciousness, the
consciousness within mass has simply consciously or subconsciously
fixed its focus on having some particular type and kind of physical
experiences . As such it is pulled into the physical experience to
participate in the physical experience. The question is, “What
awakens consciousness to turn on or off to be absorbed into a
collective at any particular layer?
Awakening
consciousness to the collective
(Top):
It would appear that for us, as consciousness, to become conscious
of our interconnection and the attractive/repulsive ability that we
have, we have to accumulate enough consciousness to see its effects.
That is, as an
infinitely creative being, we have to awaken a sufficient
portion of our infinite unconscious to perceive that “I exist.” It
is then, and only then, that we can being to see that we have a
choice. It is a choice to live in oneness and interconnection of all
that is or we can perceive ourselves as separate being defining
ourselves as “I am this...” and “I am not that....”. Analogously
this is saying that enough mass must be pulled together into a small
moon or planet for the gravitational effects to be seen. As
consciousness, we need to “pull” together that analogous moon or
planet.
To awaken and not define oneself as “I am this....” and “I am not
that....” is very difficult. We can only awaken in the awareness of
separation. It is only in separation that we have the discontinuity
for consciousness to perceive a difference and the existence of “I.”
Remember, if there is no change or difference from one moment to the
next we will not know if we have been asleep or awake. The
realization of “I exist” can only be realized in separation. To
awakening to “I exist” without separation is to awaken as a
Cosmic Consciousness and there is no Creation to experience.
Creation only occurs where there is
an observer and something to observe.
However, by the time we awaken to the awareness, “I exist” we
already seemed to be part of a larger collective. That is, to
awakened to “I exist” our consciousness needs to be of a certain
“size.” Yet to accumulate that “size,” analogous to the
gravitational analogy, we had to somehow pull together a sufficient
amount of consciousness. The question is, “How, or from where, did
that sufficient amount of awareness arise?”
What is suggested here is that we awaken on two levels. There is a
nonconscious awakening that is more about feeling and a
conscious awakening which is more about thinking as we perceive
thinking to be. These two awakenings obviously give rise to our
mind and what is
symbolized in
our heart. Most of us are familiar with conscious awakening and
our thinking. Few seem to realize we also have feelings to awaken.
Our ability to feel is more powerful than our ability to think for
our feeling is what accesses the
non localized
energy of the universe. Thinking tends to be preoccupied with the
localized energy. Conscious and nonconscious awakening is
analogous to a solid changing phase to a liquid and then the liquid
changing phase to a vapor or gas.
Consciousness only awakens in a flow of energy. Without a flow of
energy, there is nothing to observe.
Nonconscious awaking, where we awaken to feeling, is responding
in some way to a stimulus. It is much like a solid melting and
taking a new shape. It is analogous to the heat of an external
source (a flow of energy) melting a frozen material and the material
become free to flow and form a new shape. When the heat (flow of
energy) is removed, the material again solidifies into a new shape.
Nonconscious awaking is about causing our
dormant consciousness to waken to move in response to some
stimulus. Dormant consciousness melts or sufficiently awakens to
move into a new shape which also changes the flow of the
nonconsciousness. It is here as this nonconsciousness flows to take
a new shape is align with the flow of energy that caused it to melt.
That, in turn, beings to form the collective. The more
nonconsciousness aligns with the flow, the greater that collective
grows.
Conscious awakening would then be analogous to vaporization where we
loses all form and shape. The vaporized fluid is no longer bound to
any particular shape. It is totally free to permeate all the
atmosphere in which it exists. It is like the clouds. It is only
becoming more dense and in taking shape that it beings to condense
back into a liquid. It could be said the vaporized fluid has a free
will and is free to go where it wishes.
Now the question is “From where does the flow of energy raise that
originally awakens consciousness?” Here we are simply face with the
proverbial question, “What is that first cause?”
Sleep and the collective
(Top)
The answer to this question is
that Creation is an endless
ebb and flow of energy into and out of an infinite and
multidimensional form which is experienced by consciousness as
going to sleep and awakening. It is a never ending dance
What is suggested here is that the
cycle of sleep and being awake can act as an inherent stimulus
that exists within all of consciousness and in each and every
fragment of consciousness. The
role of consciousness in
creation/Creation
is to be the cause. It is as thought when consciousness consciously
awakens a flame or fire is lit. That fire or flame is focused by how
consciousness focuses its attention and awareness such that the heat
and warmth of the flame, a flow of energy, is capable of being a
stimulus to move if not consciously awaken sleeping
dormant consciousness. Depending on the “size” of the
consciousness which awakens, the flow of energy it creates by the
focus of its attention and awareness may be only sufficient to nudge
sleeping dormant consciousness into a new form (subconscious
awakening) or it can cause it to awaken to its own existence
(conscious awakening).
From a consciousness perspective, a focused attention and awareness
of one fragment of consciousness on a second fragment acts as an
external stimulus, an external fire, that awaken the second fragment
and ignites its internal fire. It is much the way the sun heats the
earth to bring an external source of heat that allows life to exist
on the planet. The
cycle of sleep and awake acts as the internal stimulus. To be
asleep is to be devoid of the internal awareness that acts as an
internal fire to awaken. To be awake means that there is an internal
fire that keeps the consciousness awake and is capable of awakening
other consciousness.
The extreme between
dormant nonconsciousness into consciousness is only a relative
scale of how strongly one’s internal fire glows. At the dormant end,
the consciousness is frozen stiff. At the extreme other end, the
fire radiates so strongly that it can become a light unto itself and
awaken others. The “problem” as to why this fact is not readily
perceived by us is that as presented in the “Creation
Story for the Creativity Perspective,” the Consciousness of All
That Is, the undifferentiated consciousness, fragmented Itself into
an infinite number of aspects to find a Playmate with whom to play.
Each aspect of this undifferentiated consciousness can now be a
playmate with any other aspect. Yet each aspect is infinitely vast
as the original undifferentiated consciousness. As such there are an
infinite number of
individualized consciousness overlapping each other much as
described in the “Pool
of Multiple Forms” and each having their own natural
cycle of sleep and being awake such that since we are all
interconnected and overlap part of us are always going to sleep and
awakening. That is the essence of
dance of Creation.
As these different
individuated points of consciousness
awaken and go to sleep with different levels of awareness, they
influence and stimulate other individual point of consciousness
causing some to align and form into a larger awareness, namely, a
collective. We can look at this process and the individual points of
consciousness being pulled together in a way analogous to the
individual particles are mass are pulled together to from planets.
Or we can view this from a consciousness perspective where a single
consciousness expands it awareness to encompass the more and more of
the infinite of its own being. In the end the effect is the same,
only perceived differently.
The role of the collective
in awakening an individuated consciousness (Top)
For us as an
individuated point of consciousness
to totally awaken means that we have awaken to the fragment of
everyone that lies within our being. Each
individuated consciousness has the whole within its being. To
awaken to the whole, we need to awaken all the aspects within our
being. This does not mean everyone else awakens. Rather it just
means that we awakened their aspect within us and everyone else see
us as that self radiating point of light. We are seen as a radiating
point of light for we are awaken to the aspects of their own being
and as they awaken to their own being, they experience an
“illumination” as if a light is shining into them. We, in turn, are
the occasion for their awakening, not the cause. They are the cause
of their own awakening.
Our inner world is reflected in the outer and we pull to us the
experiences we desire at some level of our being.
The more we awaken within ourselves, the more there are who perceive
us as a radiating points of light in their life. However, they are
not seeing an external source of light but rather only seeing that
part of themselves, within themselves, that has awaken to the
knowledge and awareness that we represent. If everyone awaken there
would be nothing but light. If everyone were asleep there would be
nothing but darkness. If you wish to know how awake the universe is
to itself, you only need to look at the relative number of stars in
the sky. Yet to have the physical experience you will always have a
tremendous percentage of consciousness asleep. Otherwise the human
experience could not exist as it does. So there is no need to try
and awaken humanity. We only need to get on with what we
incarnated to do, that is fulfill the
intention for our life.
This phenomenon of being the occasion to awaken a facet of another
is why when Christ was born into the world it was reported that
three wise men came from the East because they saw a new star in the
sky. That is why they were wise, they could see the awareness within
their own being that Christ represented. Christ is all of us if we
awaken to who and what we are as a new light which comes into the
world physically visible only to those who could see. Many never did
see and it was only when His physical light was put out that the
contrast of light and dark become so evident within some that the
awareness arose within these individuals as to who and what He was.
He then became present within many individuals not as an external
light as when He was physical present, but rather as an internal
light representing that part of the individual that had become
awake.
Those who awakened saw the resurrected Christ but in reality they
only saw the awakening of a part of themselves that Christ
represented. Yes they did see Him, as others are capable of seeing
Him today. But many do see Him in a way that they truly
understood/understand what they saw/see. To some He resurrected and
was physical real as a resurrected being of light. To others he
never awoke. He was dead and still is dead. But in the end, Christ
always was and always will be as each of us. He lives in each of us
as does everyone else live in us. We can make Him as real as we
desire or as dead as we desire. It is only a question of how we
choose to focus our attention and awareness.
The question is, “Is that part of ourselves awake to see Christ or
is it asleep?” But the same is true of Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius,
Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, and each and every other teacher that
ever existed. They are all within us. We only have not awaken to
that fact. And when we do, the light within our being will grow to
be so great that we cannot exist in the physical experience for we
will see nothing but light and there would not be the contrast of
light and dark, dormant and awake consciousness to produce the
physical experience. It needs to be realize
the external world is only a reflection of our internal world.
When our internal world becomes too bright, a physical experience is
impossible. We can only have a physical experience when part of
ourselves is asleep, and a major part at that.
The collective consciousness is a process. It forms as more and more
individual points of consciousness
awaken to the commonality they share with others. Since awaking lies
on a spectrum and moves from
dormant nonconscious to consciousness through a subconscious
awareness, it is when the subconscious becomes sufficiently awake
that it embraces and sees other like itself and the collective
consciousness forms. As a result, the individual points of
consciousness that awaken from dormant noncosnciousness into
consciousness will be tied to that collective to which it was
attached as it was awakening. For us it is humanity. We carry the
human collective consciousness within our subconscious. We each will
need to go into our subconscious and break the ties that we have
with the collective if we are gong to become free and self
determined at every level of our being. To do that it is like
escaping the pull of gravity and going into orbit.
Going
into orbit - escaping the collective (Top)
For each of us to break out of the
collective consciousness, it will be like trying to put a rocket
into orbit and then break free to fly past the moon. For each of us
to be born a human, we assumed a role in humanity and in the
collective. Since everything is interconnected and the role of
others is connected to our role, unless we become aware of this
interconnection, the universe itself will limit what we can do.
It is not that the universe is personal and looks to keep us bound
and control what we do with our life and how we expend our
creative life energy. There are no judgements on what we create.
Rather it is like a rocket trying to break the pull of gravity to
escape into space. The earth has nothing personal against the rocket
when it pulls back trying to keep it at its surface. We have to have
sufficient energy and knowledge of the principles of flight,
knowledge of gravity, material science to build what we need, to
break free. Otherwise we remain bound within the confines of
gravity. So too with what we desire to create.
Unless we become aware of the principles we need to break free of
our role in the collective, we will remain bound in that role. In
the same way each piece of mass of earth pulls back to hold the
rocket to the earth, each consciousness within humanity within its
defined role tries to hold us in our role and where humanity
collectively thinks we belong. It needs to be noted here that as
said above humanity has a consciousness and a role to play within a
larger Creation. It has an
ego as to who and what it thinks it is. This collective
ego interferes with and blocks the role of humanity just like
any individual and how our ego blocks the
role that we incarnated to play.
In addition to our own
ego holding us back to play the our role, the ego of the
collective holds us back. The reason is that if we succeed in
transcending our enculturated ego and either play the
role we incarnated to play or changing that role in awareness
and understanding, we demonstrate to everyone else that both are
possible. It is possible to transcend one’s enculturate ego to play
the role we incarnated to play and if we choose to become aware and
gain understanding, to transcend the role itself and change the
role.
This of course means that for the world seeing us in either of these
situations, the world would have to become aware that they too have
a role which they are fully capable of finding and fulfilling and if
they so choose, transcending. As long as we exist as that example,
we will force them to change so they are left with one of two
choices. They can deal with the changes that we bring to light by
our example or put out the light and live in unawareness.
Unfortunately, it is easier for the collective to pull back rather
than helping us to go forward. For if we were to break free, we will
have to have a sufficient internal fire strong enough to provide the
thrust to break free and to go into that equivalent of orbit and
eventually free of the collective all together. For most of us, our
creative passion to create what we came to do is more that a
sufficient to fuel such a journey and allows us to break free of the
collective. However, that is why the collective so dislikes truly
passionate individuals and they are contained rather than normally
being allow to be free to pursue their
passion.. They will be an example for what is possible for all.
Each would become a light unto themselves and we would no longer be
able to see ourselves a human. Too many lights would spoil the
darkness. So in the end, it is easier to turn out the lights. But,
it is not humanity that is awakening, it is the consciousness that
lies beyond humanity so there will be more bright lights than one
could every imagine.
Critical mass of enlightenment
(Top)
In actually, humanity, as
humanity, is coming to a cross roads. The light is becoming too
strong for humanity to survive as it did for thousand of years.
There is too much awakening and awareness occurring as to how
Creation works and we create our reality. Too many individuals are
becoming enlightened about Creation to allow humanity to continue as
it has in the past.
As with each of us, we will have a choice of
stepping out of our mind and
ego or having our ego destroy who and what we are. The way
humanity will step out of its ego is through what can best be
described as a
critical mass of enlightenment. This is where a sufficient
number of individuals
stepping out of mind
and out of their egos and live the life they
incarnated to live. It is not necessary about becoming
enlightened in any traditional sense. Rather it is about become
enlightened as to the truth within our own being. When a sufficient
number of individuals achieve a level of understanding about
Creation (becoming “enlightened” on the topic of Creation) to reach
a level of understanding that allows humanity to shift its identity
of no longer be captive of the ego of the past both collectively and
individually the world will radically change. However, enlightenment
about Creation and stepping out of the ego is not what most think it
is.
Enlightenment is usually seen as something that arises out of
meditation and through the Eastern mystical traditions. It is about
achieving some level of spiritual understanding and usually
detachment from physical conditions. We rarely talk about
enlightenment in the Western mystical traditions and there is a
reason for this. Its essence lies in the realization that when we
suffer, we can take one of two paths. One is to look inward to see
what causes our
pain and the other is to look outward. When we look inward, we
ultimately come to realize it is our own
mind that causes us pain. When we look outward, we come to
realize how we focus our attention and awareness determines what we
see and experience.
The problem both the inward journey and outward journey never really
address is “Why?” Why this form of Creation as opposed to any other?
Although looking inward to see our own
mind causes us
pain, and that our pair and all our suffering arises because of
the desires we have, to attempt to become desire-less does not
address why there is pain. The question that is avoided is and needs
to asked is “Why pain?” What is the purpose of pain? Nor was there
the attempt to understand why does desire exist? What seems to be
avoided is the question, “Is desire, suffering, and pain a mistake
by the Creator, something to be denied, or do they represent
something else that we do not yet understand?” We are more than
happy to embrace joy and happiness. We are quite ready to avoid pain
and suffering. But we never realize we are only embracing half of
Creation when we do that.
Similarly, looking outward we can learn how Creation works - except
that it does not tell us why
pain exists. We know it exist as a result of the circumstance we
experience, but why pain? Why do we need pain? It too avoids the
question.
It is the premise of this understanding that enlightenment is no
more than understanding the true nature of reality and we can be
enlightened on any topic about reality. It totally depends on what
we choose to look and how we choose to look. Our choice of how we
look biases what we see and experience To be enlightened about
Creation and how we create our reality and the reality of those
experiences does not necessary mean to be understanding “all if it.”
To be enlighten about Creation only means understanding how a human
creates their reality and their experience. Understanding the total
depth and breath of all of it, both as “all of it” and “All Of It”
is not something easily done. To do that, from a human perspective,
will be impossible for being human is a creation inside of a
creation and is a result of the process.
To think we can become enlightened to understand “all of it/All Of
It” by our human
mind or with our human mind is impossible. We can only return
the Source of all being and explore the Source in all of its
aspects. That can be done but what we will find will not be able to
be communicated with human understanding as discussed in the topic “The
Problem of Mind and the Experience of the Source of Creation.”
It can only be experienced. But that is not the level of
understanding needed to change humanities perception of itself. We
only need to learn to understand exactly who and what the human is
and that won’t happen until a sufficient number of individuals
understand who and what they are and live that truth. Then they will
create the space for humanity to see and experience itself
differently.
There are many different organs that come together to create a body
and there are many different facets to the physical plane. The human
experienced demonstrates we create by how we focus our attention and
awareness. From this understand it can be seen there is a plan for
earth within the
play of some consciousness and how it has focused its attention
and awareness. Humanity has a role in that plan and each of us play
a role and part within that play for either earth, humanity and/or
both.
If we don’t play the roles we incarnated to play we become like a
cancer cell in an organ that can interfere with the organ performing
its function. If a sufficient number of cells do not perform their
function and become cancerous, the organ will cease to function to
maintain the health of the body. It is only in choosing to follow
our
intuitive guidance and
body wisdom that we will align with the
role we incarnated to play. No one can tells us what it is and
now to do it. We need to explore and learn it ourselves.
To explore the
role we incarnated to play, we have to learn to
step out of mind
and
ego and how we think the world works and surrender to the wisdom
of what is
symbolized in
our heart. If we allow the light that is coming into the world
as we learn to understand how Creation works to help us to
understand our individual and collective roles, we will allow
humanity to live and experience Creation in a way that it never had
done before. If however, we do not learn from the light we will
continue to hold to the past causing an illness to earth itself. As
with all illness there will have to be a withdrawal from how we are
living our life to allow the healing process to occur. There will
have to be a disruption in the way we live if it is only for the
earth to heal itself.
Impacts of collective
thinking (Top)
Our intention should be to
determine
what affiliations we create by how and what we think and
believe. Especially what we “buy into” and accepting without proof
or doing a few of our own experiments. It needs to be realized that
any tool or technique that is created and provided to us by anyone
carries the intention or reason for its creation and why it was
given to us. Those intentions, in turn, influence, if not control,
the outcome of our life and what we create with what was given to
us. It is the way the collective process works.
There is nothing necessarily sinister about this although some
intentionally use this concept knowingly or unknowingly to control
others. It is just the way the
creation process works and how we are all interconnected. We
“buy into” the overall collective thinking when we endorse the
approach and/or view of another. The greater the number of
individuals that subscribe to a particular view the stronger that
collective view becomes. So there is an ongoing subconscious
struggle of competing collective views for its endorsement by
individuals. This struggle is raised to consciousness through
advertising, influence pedaling, proselytizing and the like.
Anyone can create a tool that makes a job easier to do. They can
give that tool to us so that we can do that type and kind of job
easier. Their intentions seem very honorable. They are making our
life easier. Although that may be the case, they are also
determining how our life unfolds. By us using that tool that they
made we are channeling our life to a way of living determined by
that tool as opposed to another way. That way of living then
determines a whole way of life. We never see issue in this with
things we feel are beneficial such as things like hammers, saws,
forks and other instruments that seem to make our life easier.
For example, look at chops sticks and a fork. Both are tools with
which to eat such that one does not need to use their fingers. Using
chops sticks or a fork make eating more hygienic since one does not
need to touch the food with dirty fingers. However, the way a fork
or chops sticks are used determines how the food is prepared for
ease of use with the eating tool. They also determine what eating
customs developed around the use of the tools. Which is better is
often a matter of opinion but frequently there are profound
differences.. But, nevertheless, there are difference that arise in
how we eat and end up living our life because of something as simple
as a fork or chop sticks.
The human collective - “the collective” (Top)
There is an understanding of what
it means to be human. The understanding of what it means to be human
is held by the human collective. As a consciousness, the human
collective has both a conscious and
nonconscious portion. What lies in the human collective
conscious tends to be what it means to be a human being as a social
entity and as an life form on earth. What lies in the human
collective subconscious are those things that humanity has learned
about being human based on the collective experiences humanity has
had. What lies in the human collective unconscious is what it means
to physically be a human being as opposed to some other animal form.
As a human we each are part of the collective and are influenced by
the collective. If we try and create experiences that lie outside
the collective we may be attempting to change what it means to be
human. In this case what we do is like trying to escape the pull of
gravity and go to the moon. The collective exerts a tremendous force
on us to keep us within the bounds of what it means to be human.
To escape the force, we need a tremendous amount of
passion and a
clear intention the becomes a
single point focus. Without the energy, we will not escape the
pull. Without the clarity of intention, our energy will not be
sufficient focused to exactly hit the mark we desire. Without a
single point focus we will become distracted.
Also it needs to be understood, in addition to the human collective
of what it means to be human, there are smaller collectives
reflective of our society and other social structures. Their pull is
less and it is much easier to escape them. But they too, can exert a
very strong influence especially if there is a tremendously long
tradition that go deep into the past. It is like a plant that is not
as difficult to remove as a tree. However, it roots nevertheless go
deep. Unless we get the root at its depth, it can grow back to haunt
us.
One set of
beliefs we hold collectively or which are shared beliefs is what
it means to be physical and what it means to be human. In this
regard, we can have a physical experience in one of two ways. One is
for our consciousness to create such a world unto ourselves. The
other way is to have a physical experience in
an existing physical world and play by the rules of that world
This is what we have done. The
pair production phenomenon is a way to understand conceptually
how energy transforms into a creation within a creation. The “Implications
of Pair Production on Our Creative Endeavors” is a way to
understand how our energy gets manifested in Physical Creation.
What is interesting is that all humanity is on a collective journey.
We know there is a collective journey of which we are all are a
part. We only need to look at human history to know this is true.
There are many stories that are told about the nature of the
individual journey and what the collective journey is all about. All
the religions of the world, mystical traditions, spiritual
traditions, esoteric traditions and science try and tell this story
in one way or another. There is a questions that has not yet been
effectively answered about our collective experience. The question
is “What story can we tell about the collective journey that both is
true for each of the parts, that is, each individual, and yet fully
integrated into a total picture?” Alternatively said, the question
is, “Which model, which view, which story fully integrates all the
pieces and the total picture?” Does such a model, view or story even
exist? The recommendation made here is to seek to find such a story.
It does exist. Don’t settle for partial answers or partial truth.
Look for that story, that model, the paradigm that fully integrates
all the piece for that is the true story of humanity and you will
find it. You will be quite surprised in what you find.
Desires of the Physical
Creation and the human collective
(Top)
The collective of Physical
Creation as does the human collective influences us and we influence
it. Our individual lives are not separate from it and one or the
other or both in fact are what caused us to become incarnate. There
is “something” the consciousness of Physical Creation desired to
make manifest on earth and it is reflected in humanity. That is
“something” is carried by the human collective consciousness which
both desired us to create and make manifest in the physical world.
That “something” lies within our being and within our body.
In the awareness that the inner is reflected in the outer, as
discussed in the “Implications
of Pair Production on Our Creative Endeavors,” we reflect a
desire of Physical Creation expressed through the human collective.
In the same way we express our desire and we pull individuals and
experiences into our life to fulfill those desires both the human
collective and Physical Creation does the same.
Our individuated
consciousness and the collective (Top)
Who and what we are is an
infinite creative being who has only assumed the identity of a
human being and
intentionally allowed itself to forget who and what it is to
have a physical experience. Our body is what
grounds our energy or
hold us to the physical experience. Experiencing Physical
Creation from with the body holds us accountable to the rule
governing Physical Creation. As such we have limited a portion of
our
creative power and creative ability for the purpose of having
the physical experience. We can create whatever we want as long as
we experience it from within the body while we are in Physical
Creation.
In order to have the Physical Experience as a human we “buy into”
what it means to be a human being based on what the human collective
consciousness believes about being human. The human collective
contains what is desired to be expressed as humanity. It is part of,
or an aspect of, the consciousness which created Physical Creation.
Yet, it contains ideas and thoughts just like our
mind that it wants to manifests as humanity. The human
consciousness has changed and evolved over the years as humanity
being to perceive itself differently than in the past. We have a
broader perspective that our ancestors of the recent past about a
variety of topics. Whether or not it a better perspective is, of
course, open to debate.
The goal of being human is not to escape being human but to
experience being human. There are things that individuals incarnate
to change and/or to bring new experiences for humanity. But there is
nothing wrong in being human or with the human experience. It is an
experience to be had and savored as any other experience. Our
problem is the powerful attachments for or against any aspect of the
human physical experience and/or our lives. There are only two
things we really need to learn to do as a human being. One is to not
take our lives so personally for
we are part of a larger experience in which we agreed to
participate. The other is to learn
true freedom to become like the wind - coming with nothing and
leaving with nothing - and be totally present with what is, as it
is. That is, to learn to have no judgements or attachments yet
create what we desire with the
passion of a
drowning person has for air.
Working with the collective
(Top)
If we perceive only the common
shared reality that exist between ourselves and one or more other
individuals as the reality that exists, this usually means we deny
the reality within. This is most characteristic of the way we live
within family and society. We deny any aspect of our own being that
does not conform to those around us or is somehow align with them.
This way of perceiving reality will also deny the nature of reality
if it does not agree with the commonly held thinking. To live from
this view is to serve a collective
ego as opposed to the individual ego.
Often what we desire to create is so different than what is that we
must struggle against one or more versions of collective thinking to
create what we desire. In these cases we can expect to meet
resistance. In these cases there is a threshold of energy which we
must supply to overcome the resistance. Once we direct a sufficient
amount of energy to overcome the threshold, we are free of the pull
of the collect and our creative endeavor flows freely.
The understanding of our
mind is as far removed from the basis which gives rise to the
rules that govern physical Creation as planet earth lies within the
known Universe. That is, Earth lies within a solar system which lied
within a galaxy. That galaxy lies within a cluster of galaxies which
lies within the Universe. The awareness we need to access to change
the rule of physical Creation is buried as deep as Earth within this
Universe. In the same way escaping the human collective is like
trying to escape the pull of gravity to go to the moon, trying to
change the rule of physical Creation is like starting at planet
earth and trying to escape the pull of the Universe. Using
conventional techniques it is very unlikely you will ever change the
governing rules for Physical Creation let alone the human
collective.
Our body and its awareness is both a
ground point and
bridge point. It is a ground point for it holds our
creative spirit to the physical experience. That in turn causes
it to become a bridge point. Our bodes effectively bridge the unseen
world of our
non localized
creative spirit and the experience it desires in Physical Creation.
This is done through the feelings of the body and what we sense in
and with the body.
At this
bridge point the control by and desires of the human collective,
the control by and desires of the
consciousness which created Creation and the control by and
desires of our
creative spirit come together. The desire of all three intersect
at this point and give rise to the Creation we experience ad
experienced from within our particular human body. That is an
experience of a human being in the particular body we have. It lies
at the source of our life and the experience we have in life. This
is why our body and knowing what our body feels is so important. The
energy of the Source of Creation flows though our body manifesting
our physical experience. In learning to feel and discern the energy
of creation to discern the influences of the desires of Physical
Creation, the human collective and the desires of our own creative
spirit. In knowing the
intention for our life we can look at Physical Creation as
providing a sandbox in which to experience our
creative powers. That then allows us to observe the desires of
the human collective. When we see where the human collective seems
to be heading, we can go back to explore other options as to the
intention of Physical Creation. In seeing these three flows of
energy we can being to see how to make our life less painful and
less of a struggle.
Illness and the collective
(Top)
In the discussion
accident, illness and disease, the concept of “Genetic
Illness and Service To Humanity”was introduced. Although it was
give as a separate illness it was stated that it could be seen as a
form of “Elected
Illness” and “Karmic
Illness.” As stated above, our body can be seen as a
bridge point where the
desires of Physical Creation, the human collective and the
desires of our
creative spirit all come together. Any one of these three
conscoiusnesses can desire an illness as in an “Elected
Illness” for the experience it provides. Similarly, any one of
these three consciousnesses my causes us to deny and aspect of the
other which in turn,
fails to finance health. The main point here is that the human
collective can cause us to live our individual life in a way that
causes us to go again the nature of Physical Creation such that we
make ourselves sick and/or cause ourselves to have
pain.
There is within the human collective unconscious are what can best
be described as our family lines or genetic strains to be manifested
and played out. These lines come more from the desires of Physical
Creation and one of the higher collective consciousnesses than the
human collective. That is why they lie in the human collective
unconscious. That is, that part of the human collective that is the
unconscious portion of the human collective. As a family line or
genetic strain, they can cover a whole range of humans. They, in
turn, are carried within individual coded in their body and found
deep within the unconscious with the beliefs of what it means to be
a human being as a physical entity.
If we as an individual fail to live our truth, we risk creating
disease in our bodies. If we fail to live the family truth or truth
of our genealogy or the truth of our family line, we create disease
in the family line and can pass that on through the family line.
This is not so much about the family tradition, but the family
genealogy. That is, our genetic make up gives a genetic
predisposition to do certain types and kinds of things. If we
continually deny doing them generation after generation when life
calls us forth to act, we risk creating illness. It is not about
expressing everything we can possible express that is carried within
our genes. Rather it is about flowing with life in the understanding
there are reason for our incarnation. There may be thinks that
Physical Creation itself desires to express in, and through us, and
it gives us genes to do so. When we deny that desire we divert the
creative life energy that is sustaining us and risk creating
some type or kind of undesirable experience. In essence we fail to
live our truth at a very deep level within our being. Or, what often
happens is that we are given genetic talents to be able to act in a
certain way with certain abilities. Creation then calls us forth to
act but we refuse and do not act. It is when the family generation
after generation fails to act on the genetic predisposition that
family possess when they are called to act.
Implications of the
collective (Top)
To become free and self determined
at every level of our being, we each will need to break free of the
collective consciousness and the collective lies deep within our
subconscious and unconscious. Whether we see the collective
consciousness as a myriad of past lives we have to explore as did
Buddha or as something analogous to pull of gravity trying to hold
you back, it doesn’t matter. We will have to work through the
collective consciousness as if it is our own, for it is. It is a
part of us and we are a part of it.
The easiest way found to break through this barrier is aligning with
the
creative passion found within what is
symbolized
within
our own heart and to live it in the spontaneity and innocence of
childlike play of discovery and exploration. In the same way an
astronaut prepares to go into space on a well engineered and tested
rocket, we can prepare to break through the collective consciousness
by getting in touch with our creative passion and relearn to enter
creative play and how to live in that state of spontaneous and
innocent childlike play. In doing that, we can then set any
intention we wish that will require breaking through the collective
consciousness to manifest it for we are equipped with the tools we
need to break through and go well beyond it.
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