Benjamin Taylor6 said:So, you think negative thoughts can actually affect the collective unconscious? Personally, I find their power to be pretty weak. Some people—let's call them sages—actually believe humans have the power to purge that negative energy. For instance, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced different levels of meditation specifically so practitioners could "cleanse" the Earth of that negativity. In technical terms, they call it the MAHARISHI EFFECT.
How much truth is actually in that? Well, Mr. Plećka described it perfectly in one of his books: "While a couple thousand meditators were jumping around in a few circus tents, a handful of thieves broke into dozens of cars belonging to those very same jumpers." 😲😂
As for the theory that people are solely responsible for their own illnesses, I am wrote the following:
If you ever find yourself hanging out in heaven with my neighbor and my aunt—just a hypothetical scenario, of course—you aren’t going to have much luck selling them on that theory. You could probably convince my neighbor that he ended up there because of lung cancer caused by smoking two packs a day—he was a heavy smoker, a real habit, you know? But my aunt? There is absolutely no way you're convincing her she’s responsible for her own fate, dying from tuberculosis when she was only twenty-two.😲
I’m not quite sure what you mean by the collective unconscious. If you’re using the Jungian definition, I don't think Jung himself meant exactly that... A country's aura isn't the collective unconscious. There are plenty of things we don't understand, but I doubt either Jung or you were referring to that specifically.
But here's what I do know, and I stand by it—negative thoughts and stress manifest energetically from the brain. Think of the brain as a relay; it emits spherical waves of thought. It's energy, obviously, not matter. However, because of their specific nature, negative thoughts react like a "chemical reaction" with a certain type of energy in the aura, creating a third kind of energy—what I call "energetic jelly." It acts almost like a sticky substance. This structure builds up within the aura, and the more of this "jelly" there is, the more it disrupts or completely blocks the flow of white bioenergy (chi, or ki) through the meridians in the aura. That flow is vital, not just for an individual's health, but for everything else. I won't bore you with the details of how disease develops or how energetic healing sessions work...
Maharishi's principle is theoretically sound, but there are so many variables. For instance, you could have 1,000 people praying with very weak capacity and achieve practically nothing energetically. Meanwhile, one person with high capacity could have an extraordinary impact. I won't even mention Christ or others... We aren't asking people to gain cosmic powers to manipulate the Earth's aura; it's enough if they just stop damaging their own.
Benjamin Taylor6 said:So, you think negative thoughts can actually affect the collective unconscious? Personally, I find their power to be pretty weak. Some people—let's call them sages—actually believe humans have the power to purge that negative energy. For instance, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced different levels of meditation specifically so practitioners could "cleanse" the Earth of that negativity. In technical terms, they call it the MAHARISHI EFFECT.
How much truth is actually in that? Well, Mr. Plećka described it perfectly in one of his books: "While a couple thousand meditators were jumping around in a few circus tents, a handful of thieves broke into dozens of cars belonging to those very same jumpers." 😲😂
As for the theory that people are solely responsible for their own illnesses, I am wrote the following:
If you ever find yourself hanging out in heaven with my neighbor and my aunt—just a hypothetical scenario, of course—you aren’t going to have much luck selling them on that theory. You could probably convince my neighbor that he ended up there because of lung cancer caused by smoking two packs a day—he was a heavy smoker, a real habit, you know? But my aunt? There is absolutely no way you're convincing her she’s responsible for her own fate, dying from tuberculosis when she was only twenty-two.😲
People tend to believe whatever suits them. Even if someone accepted that their own thoughts and stress are the root cause of over 80% of all illnesses—which is essentially the core of Buddha's teachings, or Tad's lesson that "your life is a reflection of your thoughts"—they would still have to put in massive effort to change their mindset. For most, that's a Herculean task... nearly impossible, really, because they're too overwhelmed to even move.
In the end, what are people who pursue spirituality actually doing? As simplified as I want to make this, and regardless of all the mystification people love to attach to things, we are all essentially working in parallel—through different forms, stories, lessons, and experiments—to reduce negative thoughts. We try to clean our auras so we aren't "adding fuel to the fire." Spiritual paths are so diverse there's no single rulebook, but without a clean aura, any progress is just window dressing. A clean aura is what allows for true spiritual growth. Now, if someone thinks their negative thoughts aren't doing any damage... well, that's their business.
People with incredibly clear auras tend to have a pretty aligned way of thinking. It’s just how it works... they don't carry much negative mental baggage, which creates the perfect foundation for serious spiritual growth.
The rest of us on this forum? We're all either clawing our way toward that, or we've been spinning our wheels in circles for years...
The fact that someone might pass away from tuberculosis at 22 doesn't disprove this principle. Think about it—there are thousands of babies whose nervous systems are compromised right at birth because of a traumatic, agonizing labor. They experience the most intense negative thought possible: pure terror for their own survival. That trauma can be so deep that a potentially healthy infant is born into a state where a devastating illness develops just months later. Doctors always have a convenient excuse, a sort of divine justification... maybe it's actually better that they distance themselves when they don't understand the root cause, simply labeling it as "genetics."
And then there's the tendency to blame cigarettes. If people are going to smoke anyway, they might as well have an excuse to quit. I’m not saying smoking is healthy—of course it isn't—but it doesn't cause as much damage as people claim. If smoking was the sole driver of lung cancer, why does the data show so many non-smokers getting it too? If one thing truly caused a disease, everyone would be catching it, yet you see people smoking until they're 100, while others drop off at 11 like some unlucky souls in a different era. That suggests the real cause lies elsewhere. Some people fixate on diet, which is fine, but doctors usually only start preaching about nutrition once a patient's health is already shattered. At that point, the person is "full to the brim," and even good news can trigger a heart attack because their body can't handle any kind of reaction anymore.
Broadly speaking, modern medicine hasn't actually identified the primary cause of most diseases, nor do they truly know how healing happens. All those intense debates over diet and nutrition are really just symptoms of not understanding the actual mechanisms at play. Still, medicine tries to find its way through trial and error, much like a blind chicken pecking at grain... or like the founders of certain psychological disciplines who tortured patients in various ways. Even today, they continue to do harm through sheer ignorance, largely because their hands are tied by having to answer to Big Pharma. It’s a tough road for anyone seriously ill; often, medicine just ends up prolonging the agony.
I went through a "terminal" illness once myself. No need to go through it twice...
Let's get back on topic 😁