The intent of the collective determines

My workday at the office is done and I look outside. The autumn days are getting shorter and it is raining. I put on my rain suit and get on my bike home. The first few miles I try to keep myself dry. I sit a little cramped and even saggy on the bike and at one point my rain suit can no longer withstand the persistent water that even runs into my shoes. Once I get wet I no longer care and I start to move more freely, I even have to laugh about it now. Soaking wet I come home, happy.

This personal anecdote shows the process we all often go through. As individuals, but also as a collective. We are in bad shape and in a negative spiral. We cramp up and try to avoid things. At some point the change cannot be stopped. We have to go through it and then we feel liberated. It could be a layoff, a divorce or less drastic event like filling out your tax return.

Collectively, we go through the same thing. Things that we thought would never change during our lifetime suddenly come into play as if from nowhere and before we know it, everything is different. The fall of the Berlin Wall was such an event. Suddenly it happened. How extraordinary is it and how does something like this come about now?

In 2020, we were required to wear face masks, and a few years later we suddenly stopped doing so of our own accord. Massively we stopped participating. Massively we don’t get the new vaccination. We tend to believe that it is because we are better informed or that this change was driven from above, but that is not the case. We are suddenly not afraid anymore. We suddenly vote for other political movements. We suddenly change our attitudes on a specific issue. And we do this en masse. Without it being imposed or widely communicated. So where does this come from?

We see something similar with inventions. Several people turn out afterwards to have been working on the same invention. Without knowing this about each other. Could inventions perhaps be a collective process? Would humanity at some point in time (evolution) be ready for it?

Women were not given the right to vote in elections in my country until about a hundred years ago. This was hugely opposed at first, and even now I would venture to say that feminism has failed for the main part. The women who are at the top of business and politics with us have to behave like men to maintain themselves. How did those women a hundred years ago manage to make women’s suffrage possible anyway? A few stood up, but of course women had been doing that for much longer. Suddenly the time was ripe for change. The masses felt things had to be different. The collective was ready.

With religions, we see the same thing. Someone thinks they know better and proposes a breakaway. Often it fails, but sometimes such a movement gains momentum. Suddenly the minds are ready and the new movement gains mass and thus strength. To what extent is this now a conscious process? Or, on the contrary, is it perhaps largely an unconscious process?

When I look at the world now, I wonder how we can defeat the devil and get away from colonialism, slavery, corruption, genocide, profiteering, greed, abuse of power, pedophilia, oppression and so on. So what does that require? Do we have to do anything? Yes, we certainly need to do things. But is that what really brings about the change or is there another process at play? If so, can we mean anything there?

More and more I am coming to the conclusion that intention determines our future. When we live from our hearts, life can give us what we need. We think we can control everything, but actually we control very little. This piece of writing addressed to the reader hopefully contributes something to a better world, but I know that my meditation with loving intention does more for humanity. I know that if you also live with loving intention, our collective intention brings the tipping point closer faster. This wall can also fall very quickly. Hopefully we are ready for that.