The mind’s primary purpose, (as with everything else in life), is obviously to assist life in its survival and growth, and at our level, it does its job admirably. During times when the mind is not actively involved in plotting appropriate reactions to imminent threats, it is likely found to be day dreaming about such possibilities; hence, man’s innate attraction to and taste for bad news of all types; movies and books with disaster themes, actual news reporting being almost exclusively devoted to the alarming. Most of routine human conversation being about the irritants, disappointments and tragedies in other people’s lives. With nothing better to do, the mind is programmed to daydream in the realm of potentially threatening scenarios.
These features of the human mind are clearly in constant evidence for all to see who want to see. They give an accounting for the ever changing, otherwise unaccountable shifts in your emotional state. A local group of which you are a natural part may suddenly display, by their words, a general apprehension. The news and gossip may portend of a coming economic crisis, or warn of a potential military threat, either of which may or may not have any objective, material basis. But that does not matter, for when the collective mind sends threatening news to the minds of a select group, that group will feel threatened regardless of the actual circumstances.
If you are a member of a group receiving such threatening ideas from the collective mind, you can feel the emotional effect it begins to have on those around you. If you do not understand it and take appropriate protective measures, you can feel it begin to creep into your own nervous system. You feel frightened and apprehensive, and for no tangible, immediate reason other than the fact that everyone else is, and now you are, (along with the supporting verbal story that everyone else accepts as the cause, but which can be entirely irrelevant). If for some reason of its own, life wants a specific group of people to become frightened and feel threatened, it will, via the collective mind, send the group’s local collective mind frightening and threatening thoughts, and they will emotionally react appropriately.
What a crowd feels – a crowd feels,
and there is not necessarily a rational reason therefore,
even though they will always be provided a verbally feasible one.
J.