My first experience with what I now know as Collective Consciousness was in my initial job after college. I was fortunate enough to be the Executive Assistant to the Head of Distribution and Marketing for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in one of the major motion picture companies and was based in Paris.
Because I was engulfed in so many different languages, countries and customs, to “survive” I had to surrender my pre-21 perceptions and beliefs and become an open vessel.
One of the things I learned was that, no matter how much advertising or marketing was put toward a particular film production, the audience in any country seemed to sense beforehand whether or not it was worth seeing. Most all the money put to bringing in viewers seemed to be speaking to the already converted.
Why was that? How could it be?
It seemed, there had been something put into the air, in many cases, literally from the first day of a film’s production…a general consciousness.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, it was my baptism into what some now call Noetics, a theory that espouses a spiritual intelligence or consciousness that is separate from the body and uses multiple ways of knowing—including intuition, feeling, reason, and the senses.
It is the “knowing” aspect of this phenomenon that interests me today and which I wish to discuss, specifically with regard to how our thoughts have the power to change the world.
In a posting nearly five years ago on the dual nature of the brain and the mind, I wrote that, “If our Souls enter this world as blank slates with free will, then the Brain becomes the repository of our distinctive experiences. The feelings that are part and parcel of these experiences, gradually, awaken the Mind to its individual view of why it chose this incarnation and what it was intended to learn or do on its path to enlightenment.”
Since then, I have become more attuned to the unique level of intuitive consciousness in each person and one’s ability to perceive. In fact, I have learned how to measure it. (I liken the levels of perception or consciousness to one’s spiritual “credit score.”)
But, no matter the level of any particular individual, we all have been given the power of co-creation, of being able to change the world. We all have the power to design instead of merely react.
In the past, however, most collective connections were limited because they were exclusive within churches, prayer groups or healing circles. And, these levels of unity were further restricted by the fact some of the members of these collectives believed in the literal words within sacred books, while others saw these writings as allegorical and a few went beyond into their mystical aspects.
Today, however, technology has created a vast crossover through a web of group consciousness that enhances the power of individual groups.
We are living in an era in which there is information (such as the relationship between the Earth and the Moon, about which I have previously posted) that is only becoming known at this time in the history of humankind. The old stories have been unravelling as science has shown us that all matter is interconnected…entangled in a unified mesh…a universal oneness.
The oldest universal quest had been to perceive one’s own entanglement, to become one with the universe…to achieve the state of at-one-ment. That, of course, is still the important first step. But, now, we can more fully and completely unite with countless others to literally transform the physical world by effecting change down to the subatomic level.
How is that possible?
From ancient times, there has been a spiritual belief that human intention could transform the physical world. Now, experiments by organizations such as the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) have shown beyond parlor tricks that human thoughts have the ability to affect and change physical mass.
Many of you have probably heard of or even experimented with Masuro Emoto’s work in using intention to effect the chemical composition of water or have seen experiments such as Professor Bin He’s Brain Computer Interface at the University of Minnesota in which objects are moved by brain power.
But, since we live in a participatory universe, multiple minds working together can vastly magnify the power of an individual’s thoughts. We can unite and harness the power of each level of consciousness. And, if enough people focus on the same thing, the gravitational force of that focus can have an astounding measurable effect in the physical world.
It’s been demonstrated that the vibrational power of a thought has a measurable mass. And, I believe it’s possible for thoughts to reach a critical magnitude that can transform perceptions into a new reality. In other words, since thoughts have weight, the focus of the Collective Consciousness can lift them to new heights.
I believe it’s time to step up our co-creation of this planet, to go beyond the old parables where the truth has been shadowed or obscured for all except those with the most developed minds.
The Apocalypse is not to be feared. The word simply means “revelation,” an end only to old think. And, in reality, our fear of the snake, especially the ouroboros eating its tail, has been ingrained primarily because it is a symbol of wholeness…what most of us feel we have not been or may not be worthy to achieve.
But, the truth is, if we can perceive it, we can achieve it. And, great perceptions can be realized by all of us working together…by honoring one another for being individual “lights” within the Collective Consciousness.
PS: Now, we just have to agree on what to put a collective intention toward moving☺
Interestingly, Dan Brown’s novel The Lost Symbol
inspired this posting and sourced the
background material on Noetic theory.