A talk by Palden Jenkins
given to the Fountain International annual conference, York, Sept 1995.

One-mindedness and one-heartedness, the capacity of whole races of people to become as one being, is natural to us. It is natural and inherent to all beings in the universe and to us on planet Earth too. The implications of this are quite large, and they're related to the kind of meditation work and link-ups which people have been doing over the years in order, hopefully, to bring about certain wholesome changes in the nature of life, the universe and everything – particularly our difficult situation on our planet today.

This one-psychedness is rather a critical issue for us, because as Westerners we have been brought up with the conditioning and training that we are all individuals and that we are thus essentially on our own, carrying our own personal responsibilities alone and gazing across a vast gulf which separates each of us from all others. We are thrown back on ourselves – even though we seek to overcome that in our loving relationships, our families, contractual relations and romantic imagery. Therefore for western people – we're perhaps the most individualised people on the planet – it is rather difficult for us to get together to work as one being.

This goes very, very deep, because of the conditioning we have all grown up with over hundreds and thousands of years – it goes back to the very origins of sapient life on Earth. The Adam and Eve story, whether taken literally or metaphorically, represents a profound experience of separation from our feelings of oneness and wholeness in connection with all things. With this separation came a new kind of consciousness, however, which allows us to stand outside our direct experience and see ourselves as separate from it and the things we are experiencing.

That separation forms the very psycho-spiritual root of our white-skinned Western civilisation, which was a late civilisation compared to most. What we call our Dark Ages (400s-900s CE), which coincided with zeniths and veritable Light Ages for most other civilisations at the time, constituted a period of psychological ferment for us, in which we set many patterns and definitions for our particular European (and later American) group psyche. The contribution that our particular substrain of the human race has made is rooted in this very experience of separateness, this experience of accentuated individuality.

But this separation means that we experience difficulties in working singlemindedly and singleheartedly in groups and across society – unless it is imposed in a form of repressive uniformism such as Churchianity, Stalinism or bland consumerism, though even then the semblances are only superficial, lacking the full power of one-psychedness to which I am referring. For one-psychedness doesn't involve uniformity or obedience: it is a decisive act of conscious free-will, an aware entrainment of thought toward a certain goal, ethic or feeling, which exists within the full spectrum of kaleidoscopic variety which characterises individualised people.

In other words, it is a capacity to get off our singular soapboxes and work together psychically. Churchill sought this when he invoked the national will of the British, exhorting us to fight on the beaches and never to surrender in the face of tyranny. Yet, the way we now are, we experience such potential one-psychedness to embody a threat to our independent egos, a loss of sovereignty, so damaged have we become by the historic impositions of others. One-psychedness simply means a temporary surrender of our scatty ego-drives, toward the end of achieving something in our collective interest. From the ego-viewpoint, however, this is seen as a loss, not a gain.

One of the underlying implications of the phenomenon of the crop-formations concerns this whole area of one-mindedness and one-heartedness: it has been demonstrated many times that the circle-makers (sophisticated metaphysical or non-earthly intelligences of some sort) respond cereologically to people's thoughts – whether thse thoughts are consciously or unconsciously put out. They have created dialogue with us, though we find it shocking that this can be so, inventing stories instead that the formations must have been created by humans since, of course, we are the only intelligent beings in existence. This latter notion is yet another expression of our separativeness, and we adhere to it to our detriment. It appears that the circle-makers are creating a little territorial energy-space in our manifest world into which we can walk. They have respected our free-will in this matter, inasmuch as the formations are in cornfields where most urbanised people do not go, and thus they are not impinging on our civilisation as such – except that we're imbibing homeopathic doses of cosmicallyirradiated grain in our choccy biscuits!

If they really wanted to impinge on our society it would be easy for them to go for our electric circuits and microchips – they could knock us out in seconds, just as in the 1972 New York power-cuts which accompanied a large-scale UFO showing. If our electronics were knocked out, our civilisation would immediately lunge into total chaos. However, they are addressing us in our cornfields, where they offer us a choice to pay attention or not, to visit or not – and in our wonderfully empirical, scientistic way, most of humanity is ignoring these things. We're exercising our free-will and our separative individuality as per default, we can't handle the intimation of meeting and communion with other beings which the crop formations inveigle into us.

One of the wonderful things about crop formations is that they – or the empty space within them – embody an energy-field containing frequencies entirely new to us and in many respects foreign to us, just as the artistic cereologically-etched symbols are also very unfamiliar. Yet they remind us of something we've experienced before – there's a faint recognition and remembering which bubbles up from deep down. We can't identify it yet, to those who give attention to this important phenomenon, it's tantalisingly familiar.

These formations constitute a subtle trick to get us to walk into an energy-field and partake of it – whether or not we're aware of these energy-fields or our responses to them. Nevertheless, few visitors emerge from cereological adventures unchanged and unimpressed. Some have profound psychic, healing and spiritual experiences in these things, of a kind which you wouldn't have in an ordinary cornfield! Visiting the formations is a way of entering the circle-makers' space, of experiencing a close-encounter without needing to see a UFO. They've realised we need convenient gizmos and measurable, verifiable objects – and being given them, we're still ungrateful! Crop formations are short-term, transitory bases in which these beings may establish their vibrational energy, within a visible physical space.

What is it that pulls people into these things? One characteristic of our individuality is that we have sectioned off our psyches into different components. Psychologists of our century have identified notions such as the conscious and the unconscious. What draws people into the formations is largely our unconscious, that part of our psyche where our everyday controlling mind doesn't actually have control. We get smitten and obsessed with these formations and are thereby unwittingly drawn into a saga of consciousness exploration. Thus the formations are windows into our deeper psyches, if we care to look – they oblige us to confront the larger mysteries of life. And it's free! It's the farmers, not the circle-makers, who jingle the collection-boxes!

In the case of ancient sacred sites, something similar is ahppening. If you sat in meditation in 1980 at Avebury, you'd have sat there in peace, undisturbed by anything other than bleating sheep. In 1995 it's pandemonium! What's pulling these hordes of people there? It's not just the heritage industry – it's something deeper down in our unconscious memory pulling us in, something which jiggles us irresistably. It's not 'out there' – it's in here, and it gives us weird dreams at night. Every one of you who is drawn to these places is pulled for reasons you cannot explain. It's the same as the unconscious tugging that goes on when we fall into personal crises, breakthroughs and awakenings – it makes us be moved by the birth of a baby or the twinkling stars.

The majority of people in a country like Britain are today very aware, even though they also schizoidly invest a lot of energy in disregarding and resisting this awareness in order to maintain normality (whatever that is!). So it's not uncommon for people to resist the pulling, the tugging from within, yet it goes on anyway – it eats at people until they become ill or fall apart or wake up. All these kinds of experiences are expressions of deeper consciousness pulling at us and causing us to start dismantling, or having disintegrated for us our egos or sense of structure and separativeness in our lives. It is an undercover demonstration of the very one-psychedness which lies within every single one of us. It has even hit the next king of England!

In modern genetic materialism, hot stuff nowadays, people talk about DNA functioning in a physical sense, as if it has biological significance only. One of the things the Council of Nine talked about in their book The Only Planet of Choice was that only about 5% of our DNA is actually geared to physical development. This is news to science – which it nevertheless will ignore, since it contradicts scientific ideology. The other 95% is about psycho-spiritual memory and development. Within each of us we contain the coded information which knows and remembers all that is, including the complete history and potential of the entire universe. We have the memory and awareness of 'God' sitting in there. There's gigabytes of knowledge there, waiting to be tapped. And it's this which gets jiggled when we visit crop formations and ancient sites, or when we experience boundless love or the thundering of a waterfall.

Let's plunge into some deeper metaphysics here – the creation of the universe itself. Why did the Creator go to the bother of creating a universe? It's quite complex and laborious, so why go to such lengths to fill your infinite beingness with a vastness of universe? As far as I understand it, the reason why 'God' – which Hindus call existence-consciousness-bliss – went to this level of output and hassle was to find out what Godness actually is, in the same way that we find out about ourselves by finding out who we are not, by bumping up against our experiences and defining ourselves thereby. I mean, that's a big hassle too – tax forms, arguments and raising kids – yet we do it all the same.

We say Yes or No to various experiences and we thereby define our identities. We become conscious of who we are as a self. It's exacly the same process as that in which the Grand Old Danceteacher is involved in. It's this process of self-discovery. Self-knowledge is innate, yet we don't know exactly who we are until we've gone to the trouble of digging it up by ricocheting our ways through the infinite details of the life-process.

The Grand Old Danceteacher set up a universe in order to see Itself reflected, to see Itself mirrored. Similarly, if we're honest with ourselves about the reason why things occur the way they do, we have to acknolwedge that everything that happens to us is a reflection of something going on inside us. Every person and thing that moves us in any way is an embodiment of something moving us from within. If you're having relationship problems or bank-manager problems, and if you want to resolve them and come to peace within yourself, the best thing is to recognise that they're responding to something inside yourself. It's not a self-blaming thing. It's a simple acknowledgement of the nature of reality as it stands in any nowness of time.

This is what 'God' is doing too: it created a universe to see itself mirrored, to have a relationship with Itself. But 'God' had to create some unknown factors in the whole equation too. If 'God' had just thought "Universe" and the universe was just there, there would have been no fun, no self-discovery in it. It would be like having a computer game which just does everything you want it to do, with no suspense or mysteries or unknowns or bonus points. We have a need to penetrate into the unknown and to find out more than we already know – and this is the process of becoming conscious.

As we've all been told in Sunday school, Divinity is omnipotent, everlasting, infinite and it contains and permeates everything, cornflakes and banknotes included. The whole univrse is an embodiment of Divinity and is contained within Divinity. Therefore – and this is the part the Church doesn't usually talk about – all of us and everything which unfolds, including the next cup of coffee, is a manifestation of Divinity. The only thing missing is our awareness of this inescapable immanence. We get caught up in our wants and forget the isness of experience, the full dimensionality of it, in distinction to how we tell ourselves it is. We've developed this business of telling ourselves things to such a degree that we persuade ourselves to believe things even when the evidence blares away at us to the contrary. This, in fact, is a special characteristic of civilisation, and Western civilisation in particular.

All 'God' did was to subdivide Itself into individualising consciousnesses and then give them instructions to go forth and create. We rationalise these consciousnesses as archangels, archons, the spiritual hierarchy or whatever. They were consciousnesses of their own right within the Great Consciousness, parts of the whole. Yet they each covered different aspects of whole reality and different areas of evolution and creation. And they went forth and did it. These beingnesses subdivided further and created further beings with different niches and briefs to carry out different roles in the evolutionary process, and here we all are, sitting right here, do-being it. This is it. We're all part of the creation process.

Our brief in being on planet Earth is to live on a densely physical planet and to go through all the ins and outs of that – including losing consciousness, which seems to be quite easy to do in densely-complex physical reality. Another aspect of our brief was to explore individualised free-will. Not all beings in the universe possess the same extent of free-will that we have. In fact, many universe-beings work under strict instructions or with narrow leeway of action. They don't mind – it's their reality. They work in service – they do what is required of them as accurately as they can.

We have individualised free-will, which means that our instructions are to go forth and do whatever we feel is best. Now this has an advantage, because it means that the Grand Old Danceteacher doesn't have to think everything up – it's delegated to folks like us. 'God' can leave it to the wild imaginations of these individualised beings to cook up all manner of microcosmic variations of universe reality. And lo, behold, we've duly done it! The history of humanity and the peregrinations of our civilisations represent the projections of our maginations into physical and experiential form – for better or worse!

The problem we have on planet Earth is that we have now individualised to such a degree that we can't agree with each other or even recognise we're all related. We've created a situation where we are now visibly and knowingly destroying our planetary home, our experiential base – the place where our bodies are born, through which we experience dense physical reality and its learning experiences, and also create something with it. No one is here by accident. We all chose to come on this mission and we were told it would be difficult – although we thought at the time we'd get through it. Eventually we shall!

But unfortunately we have developed the habit of getting lost, and forgetting why we came. In the difficult moments of daily life, how much do you remember your divine origins and your pupose for living? It's all very challenging, and many of us would wish for a short-cut out of this mess. We're even prepared to nuke each other. We believe that other human beings – and non-humans too – are somehow a threat to us, that they are somehow 'other', different, against us. Yet we're all in the same boat on that one! Billions of rivals and enemies on the same planet!

We've got ourselves into a real mess here, and we've fallen into materialism to the extent that we have created a situation where we're destroying the very basis of our existence. consuming it to death. This is within today's generations' field of reference. Younger people alive today will presumably experience the destruction, if nothing is done. Those of us who have any conscious relations with our whole psyches, those of us with any conscience of finer attributes, naturally get concerned, and the compassion in us gets raised and we suddenly feel collective guilt welling up.

For example, the collective guilt of humanity has just piled onto President Chirac of France, who has wanted to test his nuclear bombs in the Pacific. There have been hundreds of nuclear detonations, yet suddenly humanity has got it, had enough. So thank Mr Chirac for bringing our attention to the fact that we don't feel safe about exploding nuclear devices. Don't blame him – he is you and you are he. People like Slobodan Milosevic, who appear threatening and unscrupulous, are not separate from us. They are us, and we have to acknowledge this if we are to unmanifest such traitors to the human cause – which we are!

This throws us back on the whole area of personal growth: if the world is a manifestation of my own psyche then I'd btter start sorting out my own psyche. This is what many people have been doing for the last 20-30 years, if they have mananged to resist the tendency to fall spiritually asleep. People say "You can't fix the world until you've fixed yourself". There's a problem with personal growth, however: it never ends! You can even start indulging in it, digging around in all your horrors and fantasies and looking for problems. What happens after a period of time is that, if you don't just pile yourself up with self-blame or beat it off with self-assertiveness or confidence-bolstering affirmations, you find out that the problems you're encountering are not only personal but also collective. They derive from collective conditioning, social, national and racial, cultural and historical. There comes a point where we have to start working together with each other on this.

Individual enlightenment isn't really the issue. We're all in this together. Everything we do affects everything else, and vice versa. Buddhists undertake a vow to dedicate their actions of word, thought and deed to the benefit of all living beings. This is a very important thing. We're all so interrelated that individual and self-oriented action is in a sense an illusion. The greatest act of self-interest is to look after your sisters and brothers throughout creation, because they look after you. Results do happen in this. What we're talking about here is hopping over the limitations of our individuality, while still making use of who and what we individually are, in order to partake of the power of united psyches which recognise the same basic common ground.

In the Bible it says that "When two or three people are gathered together in My Name, there shall I be". This is true. Why is it true? It is because we are 'God', and 'God' never was anywhere else. However, it takes 'God' to see 'God', and a few other manifestations of 'God' really help in recognising the godness which enlivens each of us. We are microcosmic slices of Divinity: 'God' works concentratedly through all of the consciousnesses in the whole universe, so it makes sense to gather a few of them together to amplify the godness.

'God' comes into manifestation through us lot, amongst others. One of the things the Council of Nine said was: "When we are one in consciousness, we are God. And when we are not, we are nine different principles". It's the same with us: when we humans unite in consciousness, singing the same tune, we channle the very creaive power of the universe itself. The same force which creates whole galaxies comes through us when we get past our differences and act as one.

Thus we have a task to do. If the world is heading for destruction, we need to recreate our collective reality in such a way as to unmanifest what is destroying it. This is a universal task of great proportions, because planet Earht in the universe is a bit like New York or Hong Kong in the world. It's a super-concentrated little place where the inhabitants come from everywhere, from many different worlds, civilisations and realms across the universe. When we are conferring as individual humans, each of us is representing a part of the universe and interweaving it with other threads from other parts. Each of us is a little probe or microphone from 'upstairs' – we are the eyes and ears of 'God'. Therefore, when we come together in all our diversity and when we start thrumming as one being, we are bringing in vast connections from across the universe.

It is crucial to raise this energy and build up this resonance so that we can assume the creative power of the universe, and in the first instance to apply it to creating a miracle out of a potentially disastrous world situation. Yet it is quite a difficult thing because we are so rebellious, so distrustful of one another. We think we're so individually precious and special. Yet the energy addon which occurs when a large number of poeple are gathered together and harmonising in shared effort is tremendous. It's exponential. When a hundred people are gathered together, you have 100x99 (9,900) relationships firing off, and each of these relationships activates each person's psyche and complements it, broadening and deepening its scope. So when you have a group of 100 people, you are actually becoming equivalent to a psyche of a much larger order, what we might perhaps call 'angelic'. Therefore our capacity to create – or destroy – becomes immensely enhanced. The difference lies only in the motivation – and this is so crucial.

So this one-mindedness and one-heartedness business seems to be really important in terms of healing our current historical ills. There are approaching six billion souls on this planet and it would be impossible to heal all of them individually in one-to-one therapy sessions! So it has to be some sort of collective breakthrough – and we have seen some of these breakthroughs already – such as when the Berlin Wall came down. Suddenly eveyone in the Soviet system got the same message: "It's over, it's finished, it's different now". Similar changes will one day happen in our counttry and across the world. And it will arise because of one-psychedness.

Bless all the bad guys of the world, because these guys draw our attention to things that need fixing and they throw it back on us to get fixing them. It's not Chirac's problem whether or not to explode a nuclear device. It is everyone's problem. It is we who allow these things to exist – or we allow others of our species-family to get away with bringing them into existence. The bad guys are showing us the way forward – we just need to be aware of this and to act on it. Wars carry on because we don't use our awareness. That awareness can become so B and so acute that we can achieve collective certainty – and suddenly the ills of our world become obsolete. It's dead easy, once the cards are on the table.

However, building up to that point is quite difficult. So if you ever get the opportunity to work in one-psychedness with other people – even if it presses your buttons and goes against your established routine – do remember to do it, because that's the only way to overcome the difficulty. You do it by doing it. It's not a matter of "wouldn't it be nice". It's a matter of "when shall we meet up to do it?". The future of the world hangs on this, and little old you and I could be the ones who might make the big difference.

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