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Egregore
An egregore (also spelled egregor; from French égrégore, from Ancient Greek ἐγρήγορος, egrēgoros ‘wakeful’) is a concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a distinct group of individuals
In book of Enoch Eregores are independent entities, not a collective spirit.
In esotericism, “egregore” has been used to denote a “group mind” or “collective consciousness.”
Thought Form
Convinced that thoughts are things.
- Quality of thought determines color.
- Nature of thought determines form.
- Definiteness of thought determines clearness of outline.
Classes
- That which takes the form of the thinker. When a man thinks himself as in some kind of distant place, ore wishes to be in that place, he make a thought-form of his own image which appears there.
- That which takes the image of some material object. The painter forms a conception of his future picture, and brings it out.
- That which takes a form entirely its own, expressing its inherent qualities in the matter it draws around it.
Digression on Benjamin Lee Whorf and Saussure with Theosophy
I did not know this…
Whorf was a spiritual man throughout his lifetime, although what religion he followed has been the subject of debate. As a young man, he produced a manuscript titled “Why I have discarded evolution”, causing some scholars to describe him as a devout Methodist, who was impressed with fundamentalism, and perhaps supportive of creationism. However, throughout his life Whorf’s main religious interest was theosophy, a nonsectarian organization based on Buddhist and Hindu teachings that promotes the view of the world as an interconnected whole and the unity and brotherhood of humankind “without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color”. Some scholars have argued that the conflict between spiritual and scientific inclinations has been a driving force in Whorf’s intellectual development, particularly in the attraction by ideas of linguistic relativity. Whorf said that “of all groups of people with whom I have come in contact, Theosophical people seem the most capable of becoming excited about ideas—new ideas.”[
Around 1924, Whorf first became interested in linguistics. Originally, he analyzed Biblical texts, seeking to uncover hidden layers of meaning. Inspired by the esoteric work La langue hebraïque restituée by Antoine Fabre d’Olivet, he began a semantic and grammatical analysis of Biblical Hebrew. Whorf’s early manuscripts on Hebrew and Maya have been described as exhibiting a considerable degree of mysticism, as he sought to uncover esoteric meanings of glyphs and letters
Further on Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure is also known to have attended séances and wrote a lengthy analysis of the Theosophical claims about linguistics and India, “la théosophie brahmanique (Brahamanic Theosophy)” while delivering his Cours de linguistique générale.
Thought Form Created by Music
Plate M showing the form created by music of Mendelssohn “depicts yellow, red, blue and green lines rising out of a church.” This, as the authors explain, “signifies the movement of one of the parts of the melody, the four moving approximately together denoting the treble, alto, tenor and bass respectively.” Moreover, “the scalloped edging surrounding the whole is the result of various flourishes and arpeggios, and the floating crescents in the centre represent isolated or staccato chords.”
It had a great influence on Kandinsky as one of the essential factors that led to the “genius opening of new perspectives for painting.”
Noosphere/noösphere
Human reason and scientific thought have created and will continue to create the next evolutionary geological layer.
The noosphere (alternate spelling noösphere) is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Vernadsky defined the noosphere as the new state of the biosphere, and described it as the planetary “sphere of reason”. The noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development, that of humankind’s rational activities.
For de Chardin, the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the Earth. As mankind organizes itself in more complex social networks, the higher the noosphere will grow in awareness.
Global Consciousness Project
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP, also called the EGG Project) is a parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 as an attempt to detect possible interactions of “global consciousness” with physical systems. The project monitors a geographically distributed network of hardware random number generators in a bid to identify anomalous outputs that correlate with widespread emotional responses to sets of world events, or periods of focused attention by large numbers of people.
At Princeton
In 1986 associates of PEAR published data collected over the course of seven years from a group of subjects attempting to influence random number generators across millions of trials. In all cases, the observed effects were very small (between one and about 0.1%), and although the statistical significance of the results at the P<0.05 level is not generally disputed, detractors point to potential ethical violations and flaws in experiment procedures, as well as questioning the importance of large-sample studies that only marginally clear the p<0.05 significance threshold. The baseline for chance behavior used did not vary as statistically appropriate (baseline bind). Two PEAR researchers attributed this baseline bind to the motivation of the operators to achieve a good baseline and indicates that the random number generator used was not random.
It has been noted that a single test subject (presumed to be a member of PEAR’s staff) participated in 15% of PEAR’s trials, and was responsible for half of the total observed effect