In other contexts, I have found that “group mind” may be considered to have a range of meanings, including ‘group think’ [1] , ‘swarm intelligence’ [2] , the consensus decision making of ‘collective intelligence’ [3] , the sociological view of ‘collective consciousness’ [4] , and – sometimes – the esoteric view of ‘Universal Mind’ [5] .
How I use this term is none of those meanings.
Now, there is a view (which I agree with) that almost all people are psychic to some extent. If they are not consciously psychic, then this will work at an unconscious level (I try not to use the term subconscious, as that implies something that is lesser than the conscious mind, and the unconscious is not “lesser”). That means that we are sensitive to, to varying degrees, the influences being radiated by other people. The overall influence of that radiated psychic influence, including acting through most people’s unconscious, is what I term ‘group mind’.
Group Mind is NOT Group Soul:
· Group Mind is relatively more changeable (although affected by the momentum of thinking/energy of large groups) sometimes (particularly for small or new groups) equating more to the social mood of a group, or for mid-sized and somewhat more established groups as being akin to the group unconscious, but also has a longer lasting version known as ‘egregore’, which contributes to the durability of existence of the Group Mind, with the word being attributed to Victor Hugo – see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egregore&oldid=1377024887 and egregore. Group Mind may exist on the physical, etheric, or lower astral, as a result of the energies of people incarnated into this level of reality;
· Group Soul is something that exists on astral and higher planes, and has an affect that can be considered to be a simpler version of the Soul of a Sentient Being. It is supposed to help the group evolve into something better, as with Sentient Beings, but it can also, as with Sentient Beings’ Souls, be affected for the worse by the actions, misdeeds, misthoughts and nonBPM/antiBPM conduct of those who are – for an incarnation or few – part of the group. This deeper level of Group Unit is, for humanity, what I have attempted to change through my misnamed ‘group mind’ project. It is described, in my opinion, fairly well in parts of Katharine Kerr’s Deverry cycle of novels.
As of the time this definition was first written, I had touched on this idea in the following posts:
Post No. Post No. 548: For Tonight's Meditation
Post No. 440 The Magical Battle of Melbourne, Australia and Humanity
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