Monday, June 27, 2005
CollectiveConsciousness.org
The collective consciousness is difficult to explain, but easy to understand once the concept is grasped. The collective consciousness is generally accessible to everyone. However, people come from a wide variety of backgrounds in trying to understand it. As a result, people hold a broad range of differing beliefs. These beliefs influence their assumptions about, and perceptions of, what is "real".
In order to address this diversity of perspectives we use several different ways of explaining what the collective consciousness is. For some people, one explanation may make much more sense than the others. For other people, synthesizing all of the explanations will give the clearest picture. As you read on, keep in mind, these are all different ways, using different "language," of attempting to describe something that is difficult to reduce to words in the first place: the collective consciousness. Aside from the "short answer" below, we have taken 5 different approaches to explaining the collective consciousness with a hyperlink to each.
One thing the collective consciousness is NOT: an additional barrier, hurdle, or level of hierarchy between us and the Universal Spirit of God. It is not some intermediary between us as humans and the Creator of the universe. Instead, the collective consciousness lies within the "zone" of consciousness that is more expansive than the individual perspective of a single incarnation. Yet it does not extend to the expansiveness of universal consciousness. It resides in the in-between ground where the Spirit of God and the spirit of man coexist. Rather than thinking of it as a third "entity" between God and man, it can be thought of as the level of consciousness where God and man overlap. Moreover, the Collective Consciousness should not be thought of as being "out there" somewhere. It resides within each and every one of us.
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