Collective Consciousness and Manifestation
Collective Consciousness and Manifestation
Most likely, you have already encountered the idea of personal consciousness. This is you having the power to affect what happens to you externally. It is a concept revolving around your personal thoughts, emotions, beliefs and actions mirroring the things you experience in your life. When these come in line with others’ personal thoughts, what results is a powerful force that can affect even on a global scale – the collective conscious.
The collective conscious is a level of beliefs and thoughts that extends beyond the level of personal thought. It is created and shared by several individuals with consciousnesses of the same focus but different sizes. For instance, everyone knows a healthy earth is only possible with everyone’s joint efforts of lessening pollution. Although people may only be concerned of their own health and welfare, they know that achieving this is impossible just on their own especially when they live in a world shared by billions of other people.
Collective consciousness originates from what has been taught to us to survive in this world. Another example would be the conditioned belief that in order to have a happy life, we must be in a good financial standing. As such, we dedicate our time and efforts to making as much money as possible, thinking that this is abundance. With this abundance, we enjoy numerous forms of leisure and take comfort in the convenience. We use it to purchase products, with some succumbing to the belief that money has to revolve lest the whole system will crumble and the economy will fall into depression. Nobody really challenges these beliefs as everyone has already collectively accepted them as how the world works.
As a result, many end up unhappy, working 9-5 jobs and striving to pay off the bills and debts. However, they still keep going through with the struggles of finding external happiness because this is what the collective consciousness prescribes.
There is still hope, nonetheless. Beliefs of the collective conscious always change. People as a whole can create a society that is not run by a monetary system if everyone really wants to. However, this is something that many find difficult to be confident in especially with the comfort of today’s times. To many, the 9-5 life is already a familiar territory although it tends to keep them feeling trapped or conditioned.
For people who welcome radical change, there’s simply no known way to achieve it. Majority are still left confused either because they have not thought about it before or simply have not visualized what the outcome would be like. The automatic notion is that it is impossible to survive without a monetary system in play. Still, there are people exploring new ways of living – off-grid, meditating, and indoor gardening. These are the ones who tread the path that majority do not even think of walking through.
Personal vs. Collective Manifestation
There are 2 main levels which categorize the subject of manifestation. These are personal and collective.
Personal Manifestation
Personal manifestation produces results that affect only one’s individual sphere of experience. These results influence only an individual’s personal dream of life. An example would be planting trees on your backyard to provide your home some shade during hot days.
Collective Manifestation
Collective manifestation, on the other hand, produces results that affect a much larger sphere. This is often on a global scale. Such results affect the bigger picture that extends far beyond an individual’s level of experience. Taking the example above of planting trees, the collective manifestation would be the overall effect of the act which is global warming prevention.
The ideal collective consciousness is one that is used to move beyond complacency and blame. What benefit will this give? Aside from freedom, this can empower people to become more self-aware and learn to have full control of their lives.
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