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
we might not have any internal mechanisms that can differentiate who our thoughts and emotions belong to.
Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by
We all exist in our own versions of reality, and that reality is populated by creations of our mind, or Egregorials. Moreover, it must be added, it is these entities that use our consciousness to manifest themselves within the Kenoma.
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
Corbin argues that the Mundus Imaginalis can also be apprehended in “the intermediary state between waking and sleeping”. The spiritualists of Shi’a Islam call this the “country of the hidden Imam”. As we shall see later, modern psychology calls this the hypnagogic state.
Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
The collective minds of all observing creatures collapse the various wave functions into a seemingly physical and material world. But this world is malleable. I would like to call this reality the Sensereal Realm. It is a domain that has its own borderlands, places where the inhabitants of the Pleroma can break through into the Kenoma. This
... 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... See more
Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by
In the relevant passage Plato has his mentor Socrates describe the condition of a group of prisoners who had spent their whole lives staring at the back wall of a cave. They are all chained in such a way that they can only ever direct their eyes toward the cave wall. Behind them is a large fire which is kept alight at all times. Midway between the
... See moreAnthony Peake • The Hidden Universe
Beyond the argument from equivalence, there’s another argument for group minds. This is the argument from modularity . Modularity is a common hypothesis in cognitive science (and evolutionary psychology), which is essentially that parts of your mind act like mini-minds themselves, and then pass on their results.
Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by
Even then, the frame itself might be useful. At a personal level perhaps it’s worth remembering that those feelings of outrage—you know the kind, the ones that fill you with such anger you just have to speak out right now , the kind where you’re summoned as if by strings to contribute your little piping neuronal voice to that huge ongoing mind of... See more