Interesting - sort of a unified field theory for a new age.

Interesting - sort of a unified field theory for a new age.

Originally shared by laurie corzett

"This concept of "mind-field," used as a metaphor, has been useful to me in putting my own experiences in to some kind of perspective. Bache posits that we are always embedded in multiple levels of mind fields that are operative whether or not we are aware of them. In his most recent book, The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness, he describes his experiences observing and enhancing collective "learning fields" within his graduate-level college courses.

Several of the methods for strengthening these effects he borrowed from Tibetan Buddhists, who have a long history of working with these concepts. All of human history and evolution can be told as a story of making what was once unconscious and automatic open to awareness and choice. Those aspects of our individual minds that are intimate with other minds, with collective and transpersonal states of being, may now be coming into our awareness...and not a century too soon.

From these transpersonal points of view we are our brother's keeper in the same sense that the lung is the liver's keeper, and vise versa. A tolerance for poverty becomes a form of self-abuse, and the depredations of power elites against the masses are redolent of an intellect at war with its own unconscious.

Properly understood, these concepts may have ramifications for all groups, not the least of which would be community groups. Whether to enhance human spirit or to safeguard human survival, the exploration of these questions is a spiritual endeavor. That's what spirituality does: it asks hard questions about the interface between the known and the unknown. If it answers questions then it is not spirituality. Either it has degenerated into religion or it has ceded ground to science.

Much that is spiritual will become science and spirituality will have to move its goalposts again, closer to the unknown unknowns. For now, the degree to which we are partaking of a collective consciousness is a vital concern. Intimately related is the degree to which we, individually and collectively, create our own realities."

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