Elevating Consciousness
"The full spectrum of body/mind functioning vibrates at its collective frequency—the body/mind/spirit vessel, named YOU. I experience the human being not simply as an isolated physical organism, but as a multidimensional participant within a larger field of life.
We are subject and object. Individual and collective. We perceive the world through the particular organisation of our own human instrument, while simultaneously participating in and influencing the environments and relationships of which we are a part.
From this perspective, consciousness is not only something occurring privately “inside” us. Our actions, reflexes, attention, emotional states, choices and expressions enter the field in which we collectively live.
This is one of the conceptual lenses through which I explore human development: as the individual organism changes its relationship with awareness, what becomes possible within the collective also changes.
The often-told story of the “hundredth monkey” has been used as a metaphor for this possibility — the idea that when something shifts sufficiently within a group, a wider field of possibility may also shift. I don't need the story to function as scientific proof for it to remain an interesting contemplation.
Nature continually shows us that no organism exists independently of its environment. We influence and are influenced. We receive and transmit. We participate.
So I remain curious:
What am I contributing to the field through the way I am being?
Subjective — What am I experiencing?
Objective — What can we observe about the body, brain, nervous system, behaviour and environment?
Relational — What happens between organisms?
Collective — How do patterns, behaviours, ideas and ways of being propagate through groups and culture?
Universal / spiritual — What is the relationship between the individual expression of life and the greater intelligence or field of life itself?
Mystery — What can be experienced or contemplated without needing to be prematurely explained?
Perhaps this is another way of understanding responsibility, not as blame or burden, but as recognising that our expression participates in the whole.
'Discover Worlds Within' by Marie Louise