Allow me to expand a bit on one of the last post’s two themes. My main point concerned the problems with adhering too tightly to belief systems, which after all come from mental activity that cannot be expected to produce infallible pictures of reality. I’ll come back to this another time, because dogmatic rigidity underlies so many problems on individual, community, and global levels. But the second point had to do with the possibility of a human psychic collective.

This sounds a bit Jungian, I’m sure. The ‘collective unconscious’ is one of the roots of my thinking on this matter. Another is the idea (often entertained in New Age discussions) that quantum entanglement connects brain activity into a global consciousness, thus providing a theoretically plausible mechanism for linkage between minds.

For the moment, let’s grant that such interchange occurs: all human minds resonate on some deep layer of reality, probably at the Planck scale, as many modern writer’s believe. If that’s the case, then even though we experience reality as individuals, and have been indoctrinated to expect that the learning of our lifetimes remains isolated and will be lost at death (unless communicated through material channels), our minds are actually intertwined.

There would then be a web of mental and emotional understanding encircling the planet. I’ve occasionally read this compared to the internet with its various hubs interconnected but acting largely autonomously. If the quantum mechanism could be proven, the analogy would be sound.

Elvin Laszlo writes of an Akashic Field that has its own fundamental consciousness, independent from but connected with all life forms. This postulated entity supposedly works (in rough outline) in the quantum mechanical way suggested above. It’s purpose, or at least its effect, is to learn through the ages so that evolution on all scales (cosmic, galactic, biologic) becomes more and more efficient with repetition, through endless time.

If this is true, then the whole point of human consciousness may well be to acquire knowledge and experience of all sorts. On the collective level, this universal human mind would by now be impressively wise, despite our individual ignorance and social insanity.

Having acquired such perspective, this mind would presumably look back on its atomic elements, and began to nudge things in a better direction. Maybe the mind is not organized enough to accomplish this. Quite possibly it doesn’t even exist. But I sometimes get a hopeful feeling that we will find a way to save ourselves in the eleventh hour. The only hope, it seems to me, is that we begin to act as the interdependent creatures we actually are. If we can’t accomplish this working in the current, isolated mode, then maybe we will transcend to a more resonant state of collectivity. A long shot, I admit. But worth dreaming about.

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