#unity consciousness

[loveandthepsyche]

Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.

~ Navy Seals motto

[urloveangel]

the more generous you are, the happier you are 🫶🏼

[alchemyofmaya]

The rest falls into place like Magic, the moment you surrender the ego to Divine Will

[conscious-pisces]

“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.”

—Lao Tzu

[creature-wizard]

How is saying the ego is your enemy toxic? What about every religion that believes in the importance of ego death?

Within particularly toxic forms of New Age and New Age-adjacent spirituality, people who have doubts or hesitations about what they're hearing are told that these thoughts and feelings are just their ego trying to resist. I'm sure you can see where this is a psychological manipulation tactic that could lead people into some very bad places.

The practical reality is, these people telling others to surrender their egos want to replace it with their ego, so other people become an extension of themselves. They usually call it "unity consciousness," but let's be real, it's the closest thing to getting assimilated into a hivemind as there is in real life.

The modern New Age movement often teaches people that if they feel uplifted and positive, then what they're experiencing is from spirit; but if they feel confused, doubtful, or fearful, then they are "in their ego." They claim that this is spiritual discernment, but in reality it's a thought-control technique; it keeps them focused on the anti-intellectual feel-good New Age stuff and makes them ignore ideas and thoughts that challenge them.

As for these other religions, I can't comment on them because I don't really have experience, but I can say that they'd need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

[turiyatitta]

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[suuneater33]

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[brettesims]

The pain of your ancestors no longer needs to be a part of your story! It no longer has to be an identity that you are attached to. It's no who youy are.

You are a soul.

Youare infinite light.

You are amazing creator.

You are here to birth a new path and to blaze a new trail.

You are a garden of the lineage.

~ Erin Lyons (on Ancestral healing)

[wildlyabstruse]

Our time on Earth is soooo brief.

We might as well be brave

[perception-1111]

[loveandthepsyche]

2023: ALL IN 💜

[urloveangel]

[alchemyofmaya]

Anyone else feeling this need to collaborate.. like the purpose of us all awakening to our individual wisdom, divine missions and assignments was so we can put ourselves out there wholly — the vibration of authenticity is what draws in your tribe.

When you show up as your Soul-Self, your essence is the key to resonating with those here with similar purposes.

We are here to align our crafts and wisdom and work together to bring in the change we want to see and create the New World in our physical reality.

The higher octave Earth already exists, it is a frequency that we must align with, and as we do, we begin to see how much this separation is a nuisance.

We can’t remain isolated when our antennas are turning up and we are tuning into a new level of existence.

This is my call for my tribe. The very very Ancient Ones. From the beginning of time. We all know who we are. Let’s do the work we have waited eons to do.

Let’s create Heaven on Earth, me and you 👁️

[conscious-pisces]

“We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.” —Nikola Tesla

[creature-wizard]

New Age, "Fear-Based Consciousness", Assimilation, & Genocide.

I can appreciate why the concepts of "fear-based consciousness" and "separation consciousness" are useful heuristics for some people, to a certain extent.

If you grew up in an environment permeated by xenophobia, where everything slightly different from your culture's norm was dismissed as demonic, perverted, subversive, or whathaveyou, recognizing that you should be suspicious of any sentiment like this is an important part of deprogramming yourself.

On the other hand, for people who don't really understand the history and dynamics of things like colonialism, it's incredibly easy to overuse this concept and apply it inappropriately; EG, to minority groups simply trying to resist forced assimilation. They don't really understand how it's cultural assimilation, and how cultural assimilation is genocide. They are often making the mistake of treating culture as modular; IE, they believe that people can simply unplug their old spiritual beliefs and plug in better, more "enlightened" beliefs.

But as Jessica Price has explained, this isn't how it works. And yes, even though Jessica was talking about this in the context of how culturally Christian atheists behave, it 100% applies to New Agers.

Additionally, the very concepts of "fear-based consciousness" and "separation consciousness" often become weaponized in belief systems that are in fact fear-based.

Assimilation is carried out under the belief that the Other is a threat because they are Other. Assimilation is seen as a means of making them less Other, and therefore, less of a threat. Such is why Indigenous children all over the world have been stolen from their families, violently forced to speak English, violently forced to adopt Christianity.

Now, I don't think the average New Ager wants this kind of thing to happen. But I think they also don't understand that violence is inevitable when a marginalized group isn't allowed to say no to adopting the dominant culture's beliefs and customs. People who don't follow New Age beliefs are often demonized and dehumanized. And make no mistake, there are significant numbers of New Agers who believe that whoever they deem to be "regressive" or "reptilian" need to be executed. (And I'd be amiss if I didn't point out that many of them believe that Jews are especially likely to be reptilian aliens.)

This is all too reminiscent of regular old Christianity, which often promises unconditional love if you convert - but if you don't convert, you are seen as a threat to this allegedly all-loving religion and the benefits it supposedly gives, and must therefore be neutralized so you can't threaten its dominance. When people perceive their belief system as all-loving, they cannot fathom how anyone would want to resist it unless they were all-hating.

In New Age beliefs, the opposite of "separation consciousness" is "unity consciousness." To them, having everyone in "unity consciousness" is ideal. Unity consciousness is described as realizing that we are all one, but in practice it also means accepting New Age cosmology and metaphysics. It doesn't mean acknowledging that we're all inhabitants of the same planet and that our existences are ultimately interconnected and impact each other in ways most of us aren't aware of. (That, in fact, is something that New Agers are often in stark denial of, what with their belief in the Law of Attraction, which tends to deny the reality of things like systemic oppression and economic inequality.)

The notion of "unity consciousness" sounds good if you accept the premise that the root of conflict and oppression is the perception of difference. If you assume this, then it makes sense that conflict can be averted if people share the same spiritual beliefs.

One problem is that "unity consciousness," in all of its forms, can itself be used to justify and enable oppression. Oppressors can tell the oppressed that they shouldn't resist being exploited because they're all one, and the oppressed as just hurting themselves every time they try to resist. They can accuse the oppressed of engaging in "separation consciousness"

And of course, the philosophy behind "unity consciousness" overlooks the problem that it's not the perception of difference that causes conflict so much as the fear of difference. The concept of unity consciousness is therefore itself rooted in unexamined and uninterrogated fear.

It also overlooks the problem where oppression often happens as a consequence of certain people feeling entitled to a certain level of ease and comfort in their lives. Living the high life, so to speak, requires one to exploit the resources and labor of others. Differences are often used as justification for this. They could be real (EG, phenotypic differences such as skin color) or fabricated (such as the alleged mental inferiority of POC). And New Age fabricates many, many differences between people, whether claiming that some people are more spiritually evolved than others, or claiming that some people are actually evil aliens.

The notion that are more spiritually evolved than others is in fact used to justify exploitation, by effectively claiming that the more spiritually evolved you are, the more wealth and abundance will just naturally flow to you. If you're stuck working three low-wage jobs, it's because you haven't evolved enough yet and you aren't using the Law of Attraction right. The level of ease and comfort that relatively affluent New Agers live at is considered to be the fruit of spiritual enlightenment, rather than the fruit of labor exploitation under unjust systems.

So, while concepts such as "fear-based consciousness" and "separation consciousness" can provide people with useful frameworks under very specific circumstances, they absolutely fail when people refuse to take systemic harm into account - which unfortunately, the kind of people who are taught these terms are also taught to do.

Demonizing the outgroup (especially when said outgroup is marginalized) is bad. Resisting oppression and assimilation is not.