Collective Consciousness at Work

Am I crazy? Or am I most sane?

These are questions I tend to ask myself on days like this. After a string of coincidental occurrences, my mind travels to the idea of a collective consciousness among us, running the show on many levels. I see a Facebook post, which prompts an informative discussion about trends in the U.S. which resemble trends in Nazi Germany. Then I read in a spirituality book about how even the Germans felt something was amiss with Hitler as their leader but they were happy with change; their economic depression had finally seen recovery. Then as I express my curiosity about the collective consciousness (from here on, let’s refer to it as c.c.), I am recognizing that simultaneously people around me (who do not know each other) are seeing truths revealed through dreams.

As an explorer of dreams and of awareness, I am drawn to the revelations that dreams often hold. I am curious about the dreamer and what he/she sees as the relevance of each recalled vision. And as a believer in the idea that we are all part of one continuous whole, each holding a part and parcel that is connected with others, I see yet more similarities I hope to explore. So I have food for thought as I set out for my walk.

Upon the first few hundred yards, my mind is racing about the media, the government, religion, and society and how all of those run their businesses based on fear. Fear of consequences, fear of not matching up to others, fear of being less than what the media suggests is “normal or average” and the like. At the same time, I am recalling yet another Facebook post that states something about love and fear not being able to exist in the same space. Surely these are all related, because, as I stated before, there is a string of coincidental occurrences surrounding me today. And what has this to do with c.c.?

I want to explore first the c.c. I recall from my earlier studies of psychology that the collective consciousness is a sort of system that is in place amongst individuals that make up a society’s beliefs; it sort of works as a behind-the-scenes unifying force (for lack of a better definition).  And then I also recollect the fact that many different people make discoveries and researching breakthroughs at about the same time in far-removed areas of the world with absolutely no knowledge of one another. And I also think of how the earliest religions came to be, not so much as a response to other religions as they sprung up, but as a result of a divine message from the deity they looked to for answers.

Now I must go into c.c. just a bit more: What if we all share a common degree of consciousness that allows for some of us to think the same things at the same time without knowing why or how it works? What if we share the same inspiration from some energy force somewhere that urges us to do certain things at about the same time? What if people in different parts of the world have the same ideas at the same time? What if we had the idea to start a particular business but were unable to act upon it and yet, someone in the same area did act upon it and within a couple of months, brought it to fruition? Is this all coincidental? And do these people share anything that they are consciously aware of? Why the coincidences? Is this why we long for the same thing? Is this why most of us explore a lot of the same questions?

I next must mention prayer, meditation, and energy fields. Prayer has traditionally been associated with a deity. The word in and of itself is simply “to ask earnestly” for something. Meditation is “deep, continued thought.” And to think is “to exercise the mental faculties so as to form ideas, and arrive at conclusions.” If we ask for something, are we not generating and activating some type of energy current? And if we meditate, are we not also activating energy currents?

We, as a society, do not like to think do we? We would rather someone tell us what to think and how to think than to decide for ourselves. Is this normal? We teach our kids not to think but to do as we say. We would rather be told what to do than to decide what is best for us. And unfortunately, this takes us right into the media and the government. (Believe me, it will all link back to the c.c. in a moment.)

If we do not allow time to meditate, to think and ponder for ourselves, we are unaware of what we think and are certainly more unaware of how we think it. And if we buy into the “tapes” that run through our brains without thinking of what they are saying, we are agreeing with the c.c. If we believe we have an understanding of what we see as our higher power through religion, we are categorically advised not to ask a lot of questions and to simply trust in faith. Trust and faith are both related loosely to the unquestioning belief of the truth of something. When we do not question, we do not get to think (form ideas, arrive at conclusions). If we do not question what the media is up to, what our government means by a particular law, or why something doesn’t feel right at church, aren’t we denying ourselves the opportunity to think? And if we do not allow our kids to question us, aren’t we just perpetuating this mess?

If we each have a certain amount of all of this going on in our lives, aren’t we seeing a bit of the c.c. at work? And how the c.c. established?

What if we are not asking questions at all? What if we never deviate from what our habitual activities and sayings dictate to us (which quite possibly are the same ones we observed from our parents or are observing from our neighbors)? We are not engaging in thinking then are we? And what if those habitual sayings and activities have roots that are a bit deeper than what we recognize and know and claim? What if they are the tapes that are running in our heads? The self-talk, the negatives, the doubts, and the insecurities that we never really think about, yet we hear them continuously could be shaping how we see the world. What we think and how we think it shapes the perspective of the world around us.

What if we are filling our heads with all that we see on the news as the truth instead of what they are: a biased account of the event? It is someone’s perspective that they arrived at in order to make it sound more interesting to you. What if we are allowing ourselves to be sucked into the television for hours of programming that hopes to cash in our unthinking majority, thereby reinforcing the tapes in our heads? What of our c.c. then?

What if the media is an example of what our c.c. as a nation is saying?

Think of that for a moment. What if the media is an example of what our collective consciousness says about us? If that is so, we are so deeply entrenched in fear that we truly do not know how to think for ourselves nor do we know that we even have anyplace within to turn for answers.

And that is scary.

We are all connected. We all share a commonality that cannot be denied. We are all humans, we are alive on a common planet, and we want to escape from suffering. If we have no other similarities on a personal level, we all share these. We must also begin to realize that we have a shared consciousness that drives society. This c.c. is not something from which we can totally escape but it is something we can begin to shift. If the c.c. contains a negative energy, and when we think of it, we realize we are opposed to that, let’s shift it. Let’s elevate the consciousness of this nation and this planet by changing the way we experience it. The only way to do that is to begin to think again.

The way we can begin to think again is to update our beliefs. If we find ourselves being sucked into hours of broadcasting, let’s ask ourselves something like this: am I more complete upon watching this? Does it make me feel better about myself and my family? Does it affirm that I am a good person? And if you are somewhat displeased or perplexed over the answers you get, don’t be surprised because it might be the first time you have ever asked such questions.

If we believe we are most complete when we are watching television, let’s search for answers of why this is so. Why would we want to avoid interactions with our family members? Why would we choose to disengage our brains and watch mindless drama or crude, degrading comedy? What scares us about thinking? We may just be surprised when we allow the space for the answers to appear.

If you no longer like the direction our society is headed, you can do something to shift the consciousness and it begins with thinking. When we are once again comfortable with thinking for ourselves, then we will be comfortable again with encouraging others to think. And we will see the c.c. shift into a much more desirable place. Once we allow ourselves to disengage from the negative and fear-based activities such as broadcasting, we can see that what their messages are do not represent us any more. And when we can step back and ask ourselves with honesty and openness, we can all truly realize the truth in this: we do not approve of where a lot of our society is headed.

If we truly do not approve, it is up to us—you and me—to shift our own thoughts and beliefs right now, today. If I embrace a more positive perspective today, aspire to become more aware, strive to lift up myself and those around me, and with intention shift my thoughts away from how terrible society is and toward what a wonderful time to be alive, then I am shifting the collective consciousness. If I will focus no longer on what is wrong but on what is right with the world, I will increase the positive portions of the collective consciousness. If I can unlock myself from the unthinking majority and be an inspiration to others who feel a creative nudge, we, together, will make considerable shifts in this collective consciousness.

In closing I must ask yet again, Am I crazy? Or am I most sane?

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