Group Consciousness
As we step up the evolutionary ladder we move up from physical consciousness, with awareness locked into the skin, to social awareness. Social awareness is a wider awareness and ranges far past the level of immediate body consciousness. In animals and in man, the drive to relate to the environment, and especially to others of our own species, in some form of cooperation, is this second perceptual level (second chakra) beginning to function. On this level we experience the cosmic plan that is always trying to gather parts together to make wholes. Just like the cosmic intelligence established laws to govern the physical universe, we find higher laws that direct the movement of living forms of being. It is natures plan that leads us away from our reptilian type consciousness that gets high baking in the sun and drives us outward to concern with our environment and our fellow creatures. So here we find a love that transcends that love for others bodily parts; we find a love for family and friends. In animals we call this the herd instinct. In the early stages of evolution we gathered together for survival so this level fits in very well with Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. On this level of perception we find that survival is made much easier when we band together in groups. So the logic on this level is "united we stand, divided we fall."
The heart works with love,
the head with separation.
In the Oneness we make no separations
between the being of One and the being of another.
Group consciousness, as opposed to
individual consciousness is:
a group of highly individualized beings working and loving together
The intelligence of each being combines with every other to create a higher intelligence and super being presence. Just like the cells in our brains and bodies combine and surrender their individualities to form the group consciousness of one body - one human being - we have the same innate ability to quantum leap beyond the individual obsessions we have with ourselves.
Group Consciousness stretches our
limits.
When we love more we are more.
The feeling of more, being more, doing more, loving more.
The ecstasy of growing our being, being our being.
Individuality expands with the group demands.
Think not that it is easy to be One
for a human
for separation is all we have ever known.
The return to Oneness is a miracle when it happens.
Any small group of individuals
who themselves transcend the separate function
of the ego and who live and think holistically
as one integrated being become
spiritually very powerful.
Christopher Hills