Collective unconscious

Damn I work with a great bunch of people! Although as every smoker...I want to and intend to give up smoking...there is something binding and enlightening about speaking to fellow smokers on the stairwell (or anywhere for that matter)! Luckily I work with a group of young, new-age cyber freaks whose outlook and questioning minds intrigue and entertain me. (A smoke break with a 50 year old wheezer might not yield as much pleasure!)

Getting to the point - my last stairwell chatter was the discussion of whether people born with no sight, dream in pictures? An interesting question...my argument was that considering many theories on dreams indicate they are connected to the collective unconscious, perhaps there is the chance that these people tap into the collective image library when dreaming!

This concept got my mind working overtime again and reminded me that so few animals were hurt or killed by the Tsunami and what it is that has encouraged humankind to become so "civilised" but devolve at a rapid rate at the same time. The increasing and debilitating handicap of humankind these days is that we are losing our 'sixth sense', our intuition, our psychic abilities, our understanding of the collective unconscious and our instinct (if you consider instinct to be the realisation that you NEED a McDonalds Burger immediately then there is no hope for you...STOP reading now!).

Our general connection with our planet, our Universe and the Divine is dwindling into a series of automated responses created by the media, corrupt political control and advertising that is designed to reprogramme us all into unthinking consumer-drones.

Why is it that the elephants broke their chains and headed for the hills, trying to warn the dumb-ass humans along the way? Why do we feel so superior to other earthly species just because we carry shotguns and AK47’s and manage to F**** up entire ecosystems and atmospheric layers that are aimed at our protection? Why do we feel so all-important and get hung up about our significance when we should really be humbly accepting of our mortality and the lessons learned from it?

The real importance of life is certainly a wonder that we all ponder on a daily basis. It certainly seems strange to me that we still make the same mistakes, cannot eradicate the seemingly “natural” human need to be destructive and still have no real concrete idea of what, where, why, who and how! Organised religion IMO certainly works against a real understanding of life and only adds to the suffering.

We need a human spiritual revolution! The Tsunami has shown that when necessary the world can mobilize itself for the greater good…problem is we only seem to be capable of this when there is a disaster.
Yours in purple