Does collective consciousness compromise during epidemics and pandemics?
Anoushka Khanna, I Namita, Rina Chakrabarti, Prem Indraganti
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities January 7, 2022 DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-8-2020.166358 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Covid-19 Sars-cov-2 Collective consciousness Hierarchical consciousness Epidemics Pandemics Mass casualty Global consciousness project Quantum entanglement Reality |
| Key points | Proposes that consciousness operates beyond the individual at hierarchical levels—family, community, state, territories, nations, and world—and argues that this "hierarchical consciousness," along with a possible role for quantum entanglement, may influence the well-being and fate of populations exposed to major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The text notes that the cause-effect dynamics of the pandemic and whether the general population's focused attention affects exposed victims remain unclear. |
Abstract
The ongoing pandemic, COVID-19, has received unprecedented global attention. Though a pathogen is essentially the causative agent, the dynamics of the cause-effect in major events like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is not well understood. It is not even clear if the focused attention of the normal population impacts the safety and health of the exposed victims and in what way the different groups interact with each other, is also a big question. The idea of panpsychism and hierarchical consciousness suggests that consciousness functions beyond an individual and works at distinct levels such as family, community, state, territories, nations, and world. In this perspective, keeping in mind, the idea of hierarchical consciousness, the impact of higher consciousness in major events like the COVID-19 pandemic, on the well-being and fate of the exposed population along with the probable role of quantum entanglement, has been discussed.
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