egregore
“In occult practices, such joint ritual and concentration has traditionally been the way to summon an egregore —the occult term for a psychic entity much like a group mind”
from The egregore passes you by by Erik Hoel
egregore
group of like-minded individuals can focus their intention to create an alien and non-human intelligence that has a form of independence from its creators. However, this independence comes at a cost: in order to continue to exist, the entity needs sustenance in the same way a living animal needs food and water to stay alive. For such beings, susten
... See moreAnthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
When people come together they create a couple, family, group, or national dreambody. They create and are created by others.
Arnold Mindell • Working With the Dreaming Body
You can see mass formation psychosis throughout history in political ideologies from far left to far right, such as Communist, Fascist, and totalitarian regimes that have resulted in the murder of millions of people.
All the while, masses of people supporting these regimes were hypnotized automatons carrying out and supporting the agenda
All the while, masses of people supporting these regimes were hypnotized automatons carrying out and supporting the agenda
Bernhard Guenther • Mass Psychosis, Egregores, And The Invisible War For Human Consciousness
According to the respected authority on Western spiritual traditions Mark Stavish, Egregorials can be created by an individual, in which case they are perceived as individual entities; or they can be collectively brought into being by groups who share the same belief system. In the latter case, the Egregorial becomes a manifestation of a collective
... See moreAnthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
But would becoming a group mind even be a bad thing? After all, much of our meaning in life comes from moments that feel suspiciously like being part of a group mind—beyond ecstatic dance, there is sex with someone you love, dancing together in the desert, singing in a chorus, listening to music, a mother holding her baby just recently physically s... See more
Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by
Plato, through his character Socrates, uses the cave analogy to show that what we believe to be reality is simply a reflection of another, genuinely real world that exists beyond our normal senses. This higher perceptual world, which I call the Pleroma, is denied to most of us, as the British poet William Blake wrote, in an attempt to explain his o
... See moreAnthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
Darkness certainly seems to facilitate the opening of the mind to the Pleroma,
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
Corbin introduced to the West a concept he termed the Mundus Imaginalis, the world of the image. He had used this term to describe an idea well-known in Iranian Sufi circles which had no equivalent in Latin, French or English. The qualifier, which may be translated as “imaginal”, does not mean “imaginary” but is far subtler. In French and English “
... See moreAnthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
If group minds do change the behavior of their constituents, and so are not epiphenomenal (and more, presumably, like our minds), they must do so in some mechanistically explainable way. That is, just as neurons make the decision internally to fire an action potential or not, a member of a group mind would make decisions internally too. So it would... See more