--- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you guys think is the connection between > the individual and collective consciousness?
Here we go with another paradox. Once the illusion of seperation is largely dispelled as a result of identification with the Self, there really is no individual vs collective consciousness. So we act walk and talk like individuals, and operate as such because we each have our own physical bodies, and it is the practical material thing to do, but it is upon closer examination, not ultimately real. As an experiment, when we close our eyes, we expand to Infinity through silence, and when we open our eyes, we also expand to Infinity through the action of the senses. In both directions and in both cases, infinity is the end result. So there may appear to be a surface construct of individual vs collective consciousness, but the reality is forever a union of the two, a oneness, a singularity, where the actual boundary between 'me' and 'you' cannot be located. I've > often felt that my individual evolution is in thrall > to the collective, just as my income usually depends > on the larger economy. > > Your remarks below consider only individual power, > independent of collective consciousness. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
