Collective Consciousness

When you have a 'new' something, you tend to notice a lot of the same thing in your external environment as well. For instance, if you're planning to get or have just got a nose piercing, you'll automatically start noticing people around who have a nose piercing done. Or, a more neutral example, if you buy a new car, say a Linea, you'll just start noticing Lineas wherever you go. Just a mind thing. 

So it is with thoughts. When you have an interesting thought playing in your mind, you seem to attract related thoughts from all directions.....random conversations, books, the net, wherever. It just happens, and so it happened with 'The Extended Mind'. And that's how the 'Collective Consciousness'

An extended consciousness is our individual consciousness, awareness, thoughts extending beyond the body, into the world beyond. So what naturally follows is that, out there, there's an extended consciousness of all of us.....an intermingling of all individual consciousnesses'. And that is what's called the 'Collective Consciousness'. An invisible field surrounding humanity that has all of the collective awareness, thoughts and knowledge in it. 

While we're not consciously aware of it, animals seem to have a natural and stronger connection to this consciousness. We see so many instances of this in nature.

 

Like how migratory birds fly in a certain formation and how all of them will turn in total synchronicity. I've read so many articles researching this....does the leader give a sign, is it magnetic orientation, and none of the explanations convincing enough.

Anyone with a dog would have seen how the dog knows when someone in the family is going out of station, or more mysteriously, when they're coming back. In fact, when Dhruva was leaving home, like going away to the hostel, Kiwi actually put up his head and howled. Its the first ever time he had done that. He just seemed to know he was going away.

Another clear example is with ants. Research has shown that the entire colony of ants just knows whether their queen is alive or dead. You can take their queen away and put her at the other end of the world and the ants will keep on working. But soon as she dies, they will just stop working.

Also the well known 'hundredth monkey effect' seems to come from the collective consciousness. 

'A few decades ago scientists who were studying macaques on the Japanese islands, discovered that many monkeys ignored the fruits that washed ashore on the beach as they were covered in sand. However, there was one female monkey that figured out what to do with them. She picked the fruits up, walked over to a well, washed them and ate them. It didn't take long before other, especially younger macaques, 'aped' this behavior, and also enjoyed these fruits. This group slowly expanded further, until apparently a switch took place in the consciousness of the group, and from one day to the next all monkeys started washing their fruits. And not only on their island, but also on the surrounding islands, though these monkey colonies were not in contact with each other.'

This was also used to explain the blue tit mystery;

'In 1921, people who had milk delivered to their door in Swaythling, England had a mystery on their hands; someone was drinking all the cream out of their milk bottles. Local youths and other potential culprits were named, but the phenomenon began to spread across the country, no one being quite sure who was behind the theft of the high-butterfat layer. Eventually, however, the freeloaders were identified; Blue Tits were opening the tops of the bottles and skimming off the best part of the un-homogenized milk. Various bottle caps were tried over a number of years but most proved to be ineffective, groups of birds actually waiting for milkmen when they would arrive to make their deliveries each morning, and the behavior spread throughout the European continent. Surely these birds must have been imitating birds that they saw open the bottles, but the real answer is simpler while being less immediately apparent.'

Intriguing and Fascinating !