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The superconsciousness of the human race

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I recently had the most profound trip of my life, on two hits of strong-ish acid. At one point, while dancing to some dark pulsating electronic music, I began to think about... well, all sorts of things at once, they swirled together in a creative, interweaving mix of imaginative energy, to form a confident conclusion: that each and every one of us is part of the same superconscious entity, the human archetype.

Each of us, over our lives as individuals, has developed a distinct personality. This personality is the result of having a (very slightly) different genetic makeup to other humans, a result of different hormone exposure in the womb, a different environment growing up, a different identity or 'ego' imposed through name and expectation - hell, it's the result of simply seeing the world from a unique angle. Strip away all of these facets, and every one of us is essentially the same thing: a human individual. An entity that is derived from the same base DNA code, has the same basic psychological framework, is wired on a template to survive by particular means in a particular environment. Therefore every human who's ever born emerges from that elementary homo sapien archetype. This archetype includes all our emotions, all our tendencies towards beliefs, our desire to procreate, to eat, to sleep, our childhoods and our adolescence and our adulthoods, all of which is contained within the genetic configuration of our bodies. The human archetype is, essentially, our nature without any kind of exposure, without any environment or 'nurture' off which to mould itself.

Like any entity, the human archetype is in constant change. It isn't a static form, else it would die in a changing universe. When its many individual components die, they return to the source, where their deepest unconscious experience is absorbed, and recycled. Each of us is, in essence, a 'scout' for this being we all originate from. We bring back information, it uses the information to make changes to match the environment. These changes manifest themselves through, usually subtle, changes in the genetic code. This is where things get a bit uncomfortable and start to sound like intelligent design or Lamarckian evolution, but then, I have always found it confusing that the mutations in the DNA code are supposed to be totally random, and yet natural selection manages to hone the literally quadrillions of useless possible combinations into the one that works coherently, such as the human body.

A process of such vast complexity as the organisation of the entire human race is one I believe must be, in some sense, conscious. I believe anything of sufficient complexity in this reality has conscious experience. We are used to looking at things from the outside, from a mechanistic point of view, and yet one thing I could never deny is that I, personally, have conscious experience. All I am is a huge organisation of cells. The lower psychological processes that keep those cells together are what I might call the unconscious mind; the higher processes, such as identity, belong to the conscious mind, to put it simplistically. Similarly, a binding process for several BILLION organisms such as myself, must have a mind. It must BE a mind. And when we die, when we return to it, all our individual facets and all our identity is stripped away to resume that vast mind. Perhaps - and I am being hopeful - perhaps that great mind can even recall individual aspects of itself at will, reuniting lovers and families beyond death in a brilliant mental matrix that is, for all intents and purposes, the afterlife.

You, me, everybody, we are a part of this thing. It's who we all really are.

The purpose of this superconsciousness is to orchestrate the human journey. It's like the equivalent of the reasoning part of any human brain. Its home is in the earth, and its physical form is as the subtle energy communicated between each of us human beings. There was more to say, but I seem to have forgotten.

A series of assumptions and none of it particularly scientific, so I don't expect many people will see this as anything more than an acid-addled rant, and perhaps that's what it is. Nonetheless I have nothing better to believe. So I'm going to go with this.
 
I wish this forum had a like button for posts. +1 for refreshing way of looking at things. You tied a couple loose ends for my theories of the whole "1 billion cells in our whole body - 1 superconscious" thing. i think i should add to your line of thought: perhaps 100,000 neurons -> one identity/conscious mind. all cells within the body - superconscious. all conscious minds collectively having an overmind, something that unites us all. I love it dude. Make that +2 internet points.
 
I really like the way you have neatly summed up ideas I hold quite strong to me.

I find it interesting thinking about how our species super consciousness may interact with another consciousness. If like you said, any sufficiently complex system may develop consciousness, this could happen with something like the internet. These two beings could then carry the process further again by merging and becoming something unimaginable!

I think the evolution of consciousness could have infinite potential for growth.
 
I would largely agree - I believe there are subdivisions of the human archetype into which we all will fit, these characteristics may never become evident unless the conditions in which they would flourish exist.
Hence the saying "cometh the hour cometh the man".
Culture is nigh enough as deep a repositry as is the physical biological organism.
One thing is clear - we do not fully understand.
 
I've definitely had the revelation on ketamine that there is just one primordial mind, which is a fundamental and eternal property of the universe, that branches off into each of our individuated experiences in turn. Could be pure drug-induced nonsense, I'll never know. But all I can say is, since then the possibility that we're all just projections of a single consciousness hasn't seemed particularly far fetched.
 
yes, one of my earliest "theories" was something like this (many years before even starting a chemical journey). makes sense of both reincarnation and karma. as one mind, we experience everything we subject others to, literally.

scares the piss out of me considering the degree of violence and pain in human history.
 
I found myself nodding in agreement while reading through the OP. :)
 
well, all sorts of things at once, they swirled together in a creative, interweaving mix of imaginative energy, to form a confident conclusion: that each and every one of us is part of the same superconscious entity, the human archetype.

I take issue with this part of your opening sentence. Who is 'us'? This needs to be defined before launching off with a speculation. Not trying to piss on your trip musings, I've had the very same feelings come through on psychedelics too, but in the end you have to consider that perhaps psychedelics (or whatever) act as a lens through which this understanding comes and that it is clouded with the illusions of the relative way of thinking. Man has always projected the beauty he feels inside himself outwards onto an imaginary figure, god, deity, etc, and I think it is worth remembering this when gaining insights.. try to catch your own human thinking in the process.
 
I believe the exact opposite. I believe we are all completely different and if you strip us down from all our counterparts we are just the elements that make up the universe. I think the sense of oneness and unity of all humans as some sort of collective conscience is actually people externalizing an introspective concept. Being human isn't concrete, we're composed of systems that make up a larger whole. We are made up of millions of different bacteria and specialized cells that depend on each other to work. The cells in your lungs aren't necessarily aware of the cells in your brain, but you as a human don't tell yourself you need to inhale and transport oxygen to your brain through your bloodstream. You're thoughts can be considered as the special cells and bacteria battling for your attention. Your stomach may be telling the rest of the body its hungry, but perhaps the other cells of other systems are demanding a higher priority at the moment until the cells responsible for hunger begin to distract you from other systems demands. Then the hungry cells could begin to 'eat' less important cells such as fat, or perhaps begin to degenerate and collapse on its own. Or perhaps the concept is similar on a macro scale and the beast of the universe is neglecting us.
 
That would explain a lot.

Another thing I realised on that trip, SS, was that deities tend to be projections of the archetypal roles our parents were supposed to play; the warm and caring mother who watches over us and makes all the bad things go away, and the wise and powerful father, strong and infallible, and perfectly capable of beating up anyone else's dad.
 
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