ego-balance

Subject: FW: [naturallifeandhealth] Group Mind, Part 1

hey here's a neat little thing a friend from me email discussion group wrote
and sent that i think says some good things i agree with and don't mind
being reminded of now and then....happy ego-balance and optimisms,
-- 
forest
[email protected]
http://www.lavazone2.com/forest/

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From: "Matthew Webb" <wmsociety-/[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:00:28 -0000
To: [email protected]
Subject: [naturallifeandhealth] Group Mind, Part 1

Group Mind Basics
GM SERIES Part 1

 Anyone who has ever spoken in front of a group of people,
knows that there is a peculiar sensation associated with the
experience. A tightness of the throat often appears, or the
speaker "gets butterflies in their stomach". Just as in the case of
person to person communication, a speaker can feel the focus of
onlookers upon them like a pressure, while giving a speech or
lecture. Effective speakers can reverse this trend by using their
strong feeling or conviction. Through force of will or emotion they
can compel the audience to think and feel as they, thus getting
their message across. At sporting events the spectator feels the
rush, thrill and sometimes disappointment of the crowd. At the scene
of a street fight, onlookers gravitate like iron filings to a
magnet, to witness not only a physical brawl, but a psychic battle
as well. At a religious gathering, many people in prayer have been
known to heal the sick. Many experience a mutual, spiritual ecstasy.
Meditation groups have always made use of the fact that when many
people focus quietly together, positive results are amplified many
times over. Transcendental Meditation for instance, has
statistically and repeatedly demonstrated that groups of experienced
meditators can, by their very presence and practice, lower the
incidence of stress and the violent crime that accompanies it in a
community or region. In all of these cases, there is one natural law
that is primarily responsible for our mutual psychic experience.
This law is known as the group mind principle.

 In short, the group mind principle of Nature states that;
the resulting force generated from the combining of like minds, is
geometrically greater than the sum of its parts. In other words,
minds which are focused together upon a common theme, create a
mutual force which is not merely additive, but vastly more powerful
than any one individual or group of individuals. In nature we see
graphic examples of the group mind phenomena in social insects,
particularly in the ant, termite and bee. A single insect is a weak
individual, but a colony of ants for example can build living
bridges, bring down prey 1000 times larger than themselves, and
create vast underground tunnels or large mounds. Schools of fish
perceive their environment and move about, as though each individual
were physically connected. The same is true of flocks of birds and
packs of dogs. Groups of monkeys are much better equipped to survive
through their mutuality of perception, one that goes beyond the
simple combining of many watching eyes.

 The practice of brainstorming is effective not only because
of enhanced psychological processes. Brainstorming, or any other
mental focus upon a common idea, creates a merger of consciousness
of the participants, (to varying degrees). Such a merger enhances or
expands the degree of consciousness of every involved individual,
raising their level of manifest intelligence so that much greater
things may be accomplished. This fact has considerable significance
which the informed occultist will not take lightly, and which those
who have a purely psychological orientation will ignorantly overlook.

 The group mind phenomena is constantly in effect, though few
people rarely notice it. Most persons casually go about their daily
affairs, without taking stock of their own inner feelings and
intuition. They never realize that not all of their thoughts are of
their own making, and neither are the feelings and even intentions,
which often cross their minds. The fact is, any time two or more
persons are in proximity to one another, or even when they have
similar thoughts and yet are separated by great physical distances,
some group mind effect is taking place. The consciousness we all
possess is a very fluid and permeable substance. It flows from
person to person in an automatic fashion, and the self aware
individual can cause it to flow and render specific effects
according to their will. Each of us can and does feel energy,
emotion and intent from others on a daily basis. We know when
someone has a friendly "vibe" or a hostile intent, even without any
cues given by words or physical gestures. All of us are psychically
sensitive to some degree, and when this sensitivity is refined in
meditation, it becomes obvious that thoughts and feelings are very
often a group phenomena, rather than just a personal one. Examples
of thinking together as one mind can be seen when other people
finish the sentence we were just speaking, or vice versa. During a
discussion, many people will have the same idea at the same time,
without the need for a prompting cue of any kind.
It is important to notice then, that the situation at work or at
home involves a deep mutuality of intention, feeling, thought and
focus. We experience the feelings of others, and usually assume
these to be of our own creation, when in fact they are often either
mutually generated, or are a product of others ready-formed. In
meditation we learn just how profoundly the psychic effects of the
mood and thoughts of others impacts our being, and at every level.
This impact is felt body-wide. In fact, every single feeling we
create impacts others resonantly. When we feel happiness or sadness
within, this state of being automatically radiates outward, much
like the ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. Waves of emotion
impact other bodies and minds, thereby inducing a similar state
within them. Thus the human body/mind emanates information and
energy, just as a radio station broadcasts music. In order to live
well in this modern age, it is necessary for each of us to take
careful notice of the psychic effects we both send and receive.

 The human body, and in fact all cellular structures, act as
transceivers of information to and from the environment. The
Internet is therefore not the only "world wide web" upon which the
world is intimately connected. We are surrounded by an
electromagnetic ocean within which the individual must either learn
to, (psychically) swim, or become drowned by the raging storm of
chaotic mindstates, that are a worldwide symptom of the modern age.

 The individual meditator can do much to offset the psychic
influences which surround him or her. Through the gaining of self
knowledge via self observation, we learn which thoughts, feelings
and intentions are our own and which are not. The meditator may also
choose which emotion or state of being they wish to remain within.
But even more importantly, groups of meditators or other similarly
focused individuals, can actually aid one another on a profound and
psychic basis. Those who recognize the truth of the group mind
principle, can raise each others' level of consciousness at will.
Ultimately, groups of positive-minded people will not only aid each
other through mutual "good-vibes", they will also significantly aid
the state of world consciousness by employing certain natural,
occult laws. We can use the group mind principle to our own
advantage on a personal basis, in groups, in the community and
globally. By observing natural laws and employing them according to
the natural design, we may yet as a species survive the coming
global crisis. We may even further evolve into a form that is
greater in scope than the current Homo Sapiens.

Matthew Webb visionquest-4/[email protected]
The World Mind Society http://www.eoni.com/~visionquest






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