Harnessing Consciousness
A Common Human Experience
We experience this oscillatory shift into a more resonant wave state of consciousness with others, albeit in a very mild capacity, when we sit in Church and sing the same hymn with the rest of the congregation and feel our spirits lifted by the 'soul-stirring' lyrics. (If you're just lip syncing the words and thinking your habitual ego-based thoughts, you don't experience this uplifting of the spirit). We also experience the wave aspect of our consciousness on sports teams. Out on the playing field, our consciousness must 'tune into' the collective movement of everyone else in play. Our movements and awareness must by focused and 'in sync' with this team 'organism' of all bodies of the individual players out on the field. If instead, we start daydreaming along ego-centered lines, we become pretty much useless to the team effort. Marching bands and soldiers marching in step are other common examples of the collective merging in consciousness that characterizes our individual consciousness in its 'wave' aspect.
"It is the nature of fields that they unify the things on which they're acting."
Rupert Sheldrake
BEING IN THE WAVE
The emerging field of Consciousness Studies has opened up to scientific exploration many extraordinary states of non-ordinary consciousness. Our consciousness in its wave aspect is similar to a state of non-ordinary consciousness popularized in recent years through various books and magazine articles. This state of non-ordinary consciousness is called being 'In the Zone'. One experiences being 'In the Zone' when engaged in some activity, art, or sport, that is personally satisfying and meaningful. The difference is that in this state, the person's particle or ego-based consciousness is merged with an activity - not other people. It's a solitary state of consciousness experienced individually - not collectively. When "In the Zone', the person usually isn't aware of the passage of time in the usual sense. For instance, a writer engrossed in her work can look up from her computer screen to find that several hours have passed, when it seems like only twenty minutes have gone by. Being 'In the Zone' is exhilarating. It temporarily lifts us out of ourselves and gives us a sense of fulfillment because it usually involves carrying out some activity that is personally satisfying. Because of the similarity between being 'In the Zone' with the collective phase-entraining of our individual consciousness in its wave aspect during the Planetization inner work, a good term to use for the state of consciousness is to describe it as being 'In the Wave'.
Phase-Entraining the Field
Experiencing brief periods when our consciousness is in its wave aspect and phase-entrained with all others at the planetary level who are also engaged in the inner work, doesn't mean we'll all begin to 'think the same', or otherwise lose our individuality and capacity for independent thought. It only means that for the brief periods of time, (10 - 20 minutes) when we carry out the Planetization inner work, our consciousness energies will be harnessed and utilized in a more evolved and convergent way. Few people meditate all day long, or pray all day long. Instead, they usually engage in these activities as part of their daily routine (or whenever time permits). Like setting aside time for prayer or meditation, we'll learn to regularly set aside short periods of time to participate in phase-entraining our consciousness through the Planetization inner work.
A Planetary Sense of Community
Being 'In the Wave' has all of the characteristics of being 'In the Zone', only it doesn't merge our consciousness with an activity - but with other people, thereby providing us with a sense of community as well. 'Community' is unfortunately; something few of us any longer experience. Many ancient cultures experienced a deep sense of community, something that was further strengthened by regularly merging the wave aspect of the individual consciousness of each member of the community into a group consciousness field through religious rituals and ceremonies.
These ancients knew firsthand the tremendous spiritual power inherent in the collective 'wave' nature of consciousness. The mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote extensively on the religious ceremonies of people around the world that often involved dancing and chanting for hours on end, and enabled the participants to reach a transcendent, exalted state of spiritual consciousness that few of us in the world today can even imagine. The Zuni Corn Ceremony, for example, still takes place each year in the Southwest, and goes on for many hours. It's been known to evoke a mystical transcendent state even among non-Zuni onlookers. Our modern day 'watered down' mainstream religious services barely hint at the vibrantly powerful, spiritually regenerative and community strengthening rituals and ceremonies that were experienced by the ancients, and the sublime heights of spiritual transcendence they enabled the people of the past to reach - and which many indigenous people today still experience.
"The quantum connectedness of all things (inseparability) will shed light on the union of all minds."
Nick Herbert
Elemental Mind
Our modern societies have deprived us of expressing our wave nature in these more robust, community-building, soul re-vivifying ways. It's something we deeply yearn for. The Planetization inner work not only fills this need, but also facilitates a higher order Planetary community-building... one not based on our physical proximity to each other, but at the level of consciousness. The emergence of this new planetary community is also being helped along through our electronic communications which have now re-located us all, in consciousness, within the same 'global village'.