The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a challenge to the development of our national consciousness or national mind. The human consciousness follows stages in its development. We have an individual consciousness that follows these same stages of growth and development. I do not profess to fully understand all of human consciousness and the development of our entire universe or universes. But I understand that we are all on the same path towards enlightenment, which might be defined as our ultimate goal for the growth and development of our consciousness. We have our individual paths and we seek to be the best that we can be; we seek truth. But our individual minds seek other people and they share their ideas and they form thoughts together. They learn from one another and they begin to think quite a bit alike. They take on similar characteristics and form their own group mind. It's like a club that we join, but we pick people who are like minded and we want to get in good with the group so we want to be popular in the group. The group becomes our identity and we don't want to upset others in our group. We don't want to disagree with the group mind.
A group mind could be formed around a family, a religion, a culture, or any interest of likeness of mind. It has led to political minds, conservative and liberal. We are not all of like mind in this nation and we are made up of many small and larger group minds and we do not agree with each other.
So now Covid has pushed us into trying to come to some agreements and learn to develop a more united national mind. The upcoming election in November is also challenging us to deal with our fragmented national mind or we could destroy our opportunity for growth of our consciousness. How we deal with this situation will determine the direction of our human consciousness for many years to come. The key to the development of the human consciousness is the ego. The more self-centered we are, the more ego-centric we are. Amoral means someone who has no consciousness about the life or feelings of anyone else. This is the lowest level of ego development. This state of mind would be people who are mass murderers or people who supported Nazis' torturing and murder of millions of people. There are so many examples of people who seem to be able to hurt others without having any remorse and we cannot understand how anyone could do such horrendous things. Then there are people who have some moral feelings for others but if they only feel for others who are like them. They are racist or bigots and whatever you want to call them, but their egos are developing better than the amoral mind but they are still quite ego centric. Then there are people who have expanded their consciousness to think beyond their own ego mind and they can feel what others feel and they want others to be happy and have a good life, just like them. They even think beyond their smaller group minds and think about everyone in the society.
We presently have leadership that is very close to the amoral mind and I am very concerned that too many people in this country is being lured into this very dangerous mindset. Our national mind cannot afford to go back to a white, male, supremacist mindset. We must choose leadership that supports unity, freedom, and cooperation for all. Our national human consciousness is at stake. We need to put our fragmented and conflicting group minds together so we can grow and develop together in a positive way.
What will we do? Be selfish. Refuse to wear masks. Fight each other. Support leaders who lie to us on a regular basis. Or are we going to put our minds together and solve our problems in a cooperative manner?
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