Who Speaks....Collective Consciousness
Are we millions of physical expressions of The All? Are we, in actuality, one being – contrary to the apparency of differences? More and more frequently, references can be found that explore this interconnectedness and attest to it.
The numbers of people waking up to this can be compared to drops of water in a swelling wave, or to minuscule springtime sprouts rising up to become an expanse of meadow. Whereas a short time ago a minority called “flower children” and then “new-agers” perceived our interconnectedness, an enormous cross section of earth’s people now recognize this about our true nature.
How, then, can we be enemies? How can we mistreat one another, or even consider for a moment bringing harm to one person, much less to a nation, an entire people, or to our planet home? For in so inflicting harm, we do so to our self, to The All.
With this understanding comes profound comprehension of the Buddhist bodhisattva vow – “I vow to attain full enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings.” This brings the now-trite-sounding phrase “we’re all in this together” up a few octaves: “We’re present in our natural state of collective consciousness.” Fundamentally there are no differences between us.
Some would take issue with this while observing factions in the current global drama taking on more and more un-humanitarian behavior. Each of us may be called upon at some time to acknowledge our inseparableness from someone who, to all appearances, is alien to us – deranged, angry, behaving harmfully, apparently misguided. Within the moment of clear seeing it is possible to express an attitude against harmful action and simultaneously recognize that we share in the universal continuum with this individual (or group). Our consciousness can become freed from previous habits of perception of “I” and “other” to relax into the overreaching reality that “they” and “we” commonly hope for happiness and release from suffering.
A popular “new age” concept is that we create our own reality. Many who are bridging spirituality with science now bring into focus practices of the ancients, who were less programmed by such a left-brained world and so who were adepts at accessing parallel, or alternative, realities. This may explain why we have end-time prophecies that were expressed through the only language, with the only vision they could utilize, that of their ancient eras. Catastrophic prophecies are not all that come down to us, however; there were also prophecies of quite different outcomes for us, including a time of harmony and peace. What is so exciting, then, is our awakening to the opportunity, through our collective consciousness, for participating in events through choosing these harmonious possibilities from those available.
The adepts of ancient traditions tell us that this physical realm is an illusion. Individual identity, i.e. personality, ego, etc., is no more solid or real than one of last night’s dreams. When sleepers realize they are having a dream, they find it can be changed at will like directing a movie, a practice called “lucid dreaming”. Dreams in the usual sleep state occur on a level or dimension of higher frequency of vibrational energy than the “apparent” physical/material realm where supposed waking life occurs, making events quickly plastic, changeable.
On the lower, slower frequency of “waking” experience it takes longer, and requires a group effort, to effect major changes; however, the 100th monkey phenomenon unfolds when a large-enough segment of the apparent population affirms a desired event or change. It appears to manifest for all the monkeys involved – ergo, the value and importance of group prayer or intention, done with the feeling or assurance that the desired change has already occurred.
