The ultimate aim of Conscious Psychotherapy is to gain access to an elevated state of conscious awareness, leading to better health for you, your community and our planet. However, there are various forces that seek to supress or distort humanity’s innate connection to this higher, most developed version of the conscious self. Societal conditioning, materialism and the domination of ego-driven desires hinder us from accessing this magic. This has led to a “mass psychosis” of the collective human consciousness on the planet.

Jung used the term “mass psychosis” to describe instances where groups of individuals exhibit irrational or abnormal behaviour due to shared unconscious influences. He suggested that during times of social upheaval, war, or cultural crisis, (all of which we have seen over the last few years) these collective disturbances could manifest in various ways, such as the rise of totalitarian regimes and mass hysteria, sound familiar?

As individuals, we are not only influenced by personal experiences but also by a “collective unconscious” shared by all human beings. Therefore, we must ask ourselves some pivotal questions that are missed from traditional psychotherapeutic approaches that focus solely on the individual and not the community or the collective. Those questions include:

“Is our collective consciousness as a species sick?”

“Are we experiencing mass psychosis?”

“Are our collective beliefs contaminated?”

“Have we been negatively programmed as a society?”

Sadly, the answers to all these questions are yes. In order to evolve as a species, we need to be looking at sickness through the lens of the collective unconscious. We need to understand what forces keep our conscious evolution supressed, keep us sick and keep us locked in mass psychosis. There are seven main areas we need to bring into our conscious awareness before we can challenge and integrate them:

1. Stress – the perpetuation of stress through the monetisation of fear, crisis, and war, promoted by the mainstream media, keeps us operating from fear and supresses human conscious evolution. It has become accepted that the workplace, regardless of sector is a stressful environment we need to learn how to manage, despite stress being the biggest killer globally.
2. Toxins – present in the air, your water and “food” can supress consciousness by impairing brain function and causing cellular damage, keeping the higher regions of the brain offline and hindering individuals’ ability to access deeper levels of awareness and spiritual understanding.
3. Addictions – such as alcohol, drugs, and work can profoundly impact cognitive functioning, numbing individuals to the symptoms of mass psychosis and suppressing consciousness by diverting attention away from deeper fundamental existential questions we need to be exploring as a race, whilst fostering dependency on external stimuli for fulfilment, escape and distraction.
4. Yearning – the relentless pursuit of material possessions and wealth suppresses our evolution as a species by activating the greed genes in our genome, creating a culture of aggressive consumption, prioritising short-term false gratification over long-term growth, severing the interconnectedness with the natural world essential for our collective evolution.
5. Master-Slave Mentality – the “master-slave” mentality has existed since the dawn of human civilisation, evident in the first “mythologies” known. Creating a dynamic where individuals oscillate between roles of persecutor and victim, master, and slave, ultimately relinquishing personal power to parasitic world leaders who exploit and manipulate societal divisions for their own gain, hindering collective progress and evolution.
6. Avoidance – as a collective species we tend to avoid profound questions regarding our origins and morality, where did we come from, why are we here and what happens when we die, often seem too scary to consider. We divert attention from these crucial inquiries that are essential for collective advancement and growth.
7. Division – the perpetuation of division and othering by politics, media, religion, and other institutions causes conflict amongst us by creating a traumatic split in views, opinions and beliefs. This deliberately diverts attention away from our inherent interconnectedness and wholeness, hindering the unity necessary for collective growth and elevation.

These 7 suppressors evident at varying degrees in all cultures around the globe, spell the acronym STAY MAD and keep our species locked in mass psychosis. An invisible strategy installed by dark forces that keeps us blind, keeps us fighting each other, supresses our consciousness and is continuously programmed into us by what we consume through our senses.

In order to change anything we first must look at it and objectify it which was the aim of this short blog.