Written by Mathew Naismith
I love it when I’m enlightened by others, it allows me to
think past my known and unknown boundaries.
While in discussion with another person about my last post
titled, Overcoming a Collective Trauma, it was suggested that saviours like
Buddha are, what we would deem in the modern age, psycho therapists but on a
collective scale. When you think on this,
these people (therapists) taught us how to forgive and be accepting of others
thus helping us to release any said trauma at the personal and collective
level. Now the way I look at the
collective is as one consciousness so if it’s one consciousness it’s one mind.
If this one mind, on the collective scale, is traumatised by past deeds it will
react accordingly to the said trauma just like an individual would.
These traumas on the collective scale can be something like the
Dark Ages or famine for example. All these traumas at the collective scale can
scar us at the individual level even though these traumas happened some
hundreds or even thousands of years before commencing our present life. This is
usually done through various ideological beliefs and disbeliefs at the
collective level. If our present belief or ideological principle was
traumatised in past human history, we tend to take that trauma on as well most
often unbeknownst to us. This of course isn’t the only way we take on
this collective past trauma, just like our human selves, I believe the collective
has a subconscious and within this subconscious lies these traumas from years ago
in human history. This seems farfetched until I remember the saying, “what is
above is also below”.
The strange thing is we, at the individual level, don’t see
ourselves, our body and mind, as a collective in our own right, we don’t see
ourselves as made up of individual vibrational frequencies which make us who we are. This is no different
to the collective at the human scale, the collective is made up of various vibrational
frequencies in a collective form, human and other animal species are a good
example of this. When we look beyond the human collective we see ourselves
being a part of an even bigger collective, various vibrational frequencies existing
in one form or another. The point is, we
are never really an individual entity, we are a part of the collective no
matter how you look at it so our traumas are a part of the collective either it
be conscious or subconscious trauma.
These days we don’t have a physically alive saviour or
prophet as such, we have people like gurus, pops or some other saviour like Eckhart
Tolle and Deepak Chopra but we don’t have a saviour or a psycho therapist at
the level of Buddha or Jesus for example.
What was given to us however was their teachings which we usually
carried through in various religious and spiritual rituals like praying,
meditating, chanting and so on. Science
has proven all these rituals are psychologically beneficial by no mistake because
these rituals are meant to psychologically ease our traumas at the collective and
individual level. Our minds react quite
differently when practicing in these rituals to everyday life easing our traumas
which of course are all ego based. Knowing that these traumas are ego based helps
us to release such traumas, traumas just can’t exist without a controlling ego controlling
us.
We may not have an actual living psycho therapist like Jesus
or Buddha but we do have their teachings which were supposed to help guide us
to our own salvation from such traumas. Why hasn’t this worked at the
collective level? We just didn’t take note of these psychotherapy teachers in
how they actually lived without an ego being in control; we just allowed the
ego to take control giving ourselves more traumas to contend with not less……
Note:
I apologise if I have offended anyone calling saviours and prophets psychotherapy
teachers, to me personally, calling these people psychotherapy teachers is a
huge reassurance to me, it allows me to understand them better in my own way…….
