Singularity – Crowd – Mindset – Personality

Singularity and the Crowd

Whilst we exist as individuals or more accurately as individuated spiritual entities who’ve chosen to inhabit separate third dimensional beings, Neale Donald Walsch in his books ‘Conversations with God’ explains at length there is only one of us.

What this means is whether we like it or not, as ‘human-beings’ we are all connected through our spiritual selves or souls, and incidentally also connected with souls which have chosen to inhabit other physical forms such as horses or dolphins.

What does this all mean? Are we individuals or part of a greater matrix like a hive of bees? If we are all part of a spiritually connected crowd, why do we continually find it necessary to express different opinions, argue, or fight amongst ourselves?

The underlying problem is when we arrive here on this planet in this particular incarnation we are unaware of who or what we are. There’s a clever bit of continuity scripting at the end of Star Wars III which was made after Star Wars IV when the C3P0 droid character has its memory wiped. As far as conscious memory is concerned that’s what happens to us when we move to the next ‘episode’, the next life, whatever it may be.

The memory of previous lives isn’t deleted, it’s stored in what are called the Akashic Records which can be accessed through our subconscious minds or through a 5th dimensional connection. The Soul Realignment technique gives some clues to this history.

Walsch explains, as do many other writers, we are here in this particular lifetime for a specific experience we’ve decided upon before we arrive. Of course we have no memory or plan of what it is we want which would negate the validity of the experience. You may though notice some things you decide to do seem ‘right’ and others ‘wrong’ so there is some level of access to the Akashic memory.

What we do as individuations of the universal spirit is unique and contributes to the overall experience, knowledge, and understanding of the universe itself. As we transition from life experience to experience we are adding another piece to the overall design, framework, or ‘being’ of the universe leading to evolution continually taking place. Science talks about the ‘expanding universe’. We’ll look at this again later but we, as integral parts of it, are changing all the time this causing the universe to change, grow and expand.

The universe is the collective, the great link, or the matrix of all of us, all the individuations of it, in whatever form and in whatever universal location, planet or galaxy we exist. This takes us to takes us back to an earlier question. Why do we not co-operate? Why do we oppose or fight with each other if we are all of one spirit? Why do we do these things?

The answer is in the concept of individuation. The universe is entirely composed of energy but the energy is not all the same. Energy expresses as vibrations at specific frequencies, wavelengths and amplitudes, and as we know there are sometimes clashes, interference, or reactions between one form of energy and another. Collisions are occurring all the time, and in a way it’s how the universe ‘works’. The continuing transformation of energy from one form to another.

It’s the same with us we each have a different energetic makeup and bear in mind thought is also an expression of energy. We tend to align with people whose vibrations are similar to ours ‘on the same wavelength’ as the saying goes, and oppose, take exception to, or be ‘offended’ by, those who have different energy set ups. Remember it’s not them attacking us – it’s how we perceive them. Look out for a full course on all this coming soon in the Academy.

Mindset & Personality

Continuing the theme of differences between people an ever increasing number of attempts have been made to clarify and categorise the ways different people operate. These range from simple and straightforward to increasingly complicated.

Dr Carol S Dweck in her book ‘Mindset’ describes the two mindsets – fixed and growth, influencing how we approach different life situations. One, the growth mindset embracing change and the fixed mindset resisting it. However the mindsets do not necessarily apply to everything so we may have different mindsets operating in different life domains and as life progresses we also see changes in the mindset mix influenced by the experiences we undergo.

In the 19th century, psychologist and philosopher Carl Gustav Jung came up with what is now the classic differentiation of personality or behavioural types. Put simply this is usually referenced as the DISC or ‘Colours’ analysis, there being four basic types. In Jung’s theory these types, like the mindsets, interpret how people might behave or tend to operate in different situations, and like the mindsets they are not fixed but differ according to the situations in which we find ourselves. There does though tend to be one dominant type but that we exhibit, but we all exhibit all of them in one situation or another.

Let’s look at the four key areas of the disc or red-blue-yellow-green pattern (although some practitioners in this have assigned different colours for reasons best known to themselves)

D or red exhibits dominant, decisive and directive patterns. They’re quick to make decisions and take charge of situations. They dislike detail, being more interested in the ‘big picture’ or ‘bottom line’. These people make up about 10% of the population and the others 30% each.

I or blue, are those I call the ‘party people’. They’re very sociable ‘life and soul of the party’ types but they’re also interested in detail, particularly about people rather than things. They can make good salespeople if they resist too much focus on themselves. The characteristics are include tending to forget things and they sometimes have to focus on remembering names, places, and agreements.

S or yellow, are similar to the ‘blues’ but they focus very much on helping others often to the extent of sacrificing their own interests. You find these in all the caring professions including a lot of the uniform services when their prime focus is on helping others.

C or green are the detail people. They examine everything in minute detail, sometimes to the level of obsession. They look at things from the bottom up and are slow to make decisions as they need to understand fully all of the pros and cons. They tend not to get on with the ‘reds’ although these two traits are essential for the success of any organisation or enterprise.

D and C tend to be task oriented while the others are people oriented, and in the same way D and I tend to be extrovert and the others introvert although this is only a very rough guide.

Many people have taken this Jungian breakdown further, breaking down the fore basics into multitude of subtypes and creating the industry of ‘personality testing’. In addition there are the techniques of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and LaB (Language and Behaviour analysis) which build on this theory. You can take a short LaB analysis test here