唯有當我們願意去了解和正視群體意識，並致力於群體意識的創造和提升，且付諸行動地實踐 ，才能啟發和結合更多人的力量，讓我們社會在這全球正加速演化過程中，儘早走出目前的「原始」階段。
在《與神對話 III》神提醒我們：「文明是以你們『將自己的最高領會付諸實踐』的程度(the degree to which you implement your own highest understanding)多少，而非以你們了解領會多少而定。」這是一句很有智慧和遠見的觀察建言，值得我們深思反芻。
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大部分人認定跟他們自己不同的，就是「錯」的。宗教上的差異，更是不被容忍；許多社會、經濟或文化方面的差異，也是如此。
上層階級對下層階級剝削，卻美其名沾沾自喜地宣稱他們改善了被剝削者的生活，說他們比被剝削之前過得更好。上層階級以此方式忽視了真正的公正——就是所有的人應當如何被對待——而不僅是使可怕的處境變好一點點，卻從交易中獲取令人憎惡的利益。
大部分人聽到任何有別於目前體制的提議時，都會嘲笑，說競爭、屠殺以及「勝利者獲取戰利品」這類的行為，正是使他們的文明顯得偉大之處。大部分人甚至認為沒有別的自然方法可成為那樣，認為這樣的行為是人類的天性，認為以別的方式去做，會扼殺驅使人成功的內在精神。（沒有人在問「是哪方面的成功？」的問題。）
這問題連真正開明的人(truly enlightened beings)也難於了解，可是你們星球上大部分的人卻對這套哲理深信不疑，而這正是為什麼大部分人不去顧及受苦的大眾、被迫害的少數民族、下屬階級的憤怒，或任何生存上需要幫助的人，除了他們自身和他們的親人外。
大部分人並沒有看出，他們是在毀滅地球——那賦予他們生活的星球——因為他們的行為只尋求提升自己的生活品質。令人吃驚的是，他們目光短淺到看不出短期的獲得會造成長期的損失(not far-sighted enough to observe that short-term gains can produce long-term losses)，並且經常如此——必會發生。
大部分人受到一種「像是集體利益(collective good)、一個世界的整體觀，或跟萬物一體——而非與萬物分別——的神的概念會有某種危險」之群體意識的威脅 。
這種對於「凡是導向團結合一的，你們就害怕，而凡是那因分別心而產生分裂、不和諧與爭吵的，你們就加以推崇」——可是你們似乎連從自己的經驗中獲得學習的能力都沒有，因而繼續你們的行徑，創造相同的結果。
無法體會別人的痛苦像自己的痛苦那般，是使得痛苦繼續不斷的原因。
分別心孕育漠不關心、虛假的優越感。團結合一產生同情、真正的平等。
(Separation breeds indifference, false superiority. Unity produces compassion, genuine equality.)
在你們星球上所發生的事件——已經三千年一成不變了——如我說的，是你們群體——你們整個星球上的人群——的集體意識之反映(a reflection of the Collective Consciousness)。
描述這個層次的意識最好的形容詞就是「原始」(primitive)。
摘自《與神對話 II》第4章
Most people define “wrong” as that which is different from them. Religious differences, in particular, are not tolerated, nor are many social, economic, or cultural differences.
Exploitation of the underclass is justified by the self-congratulatory pronouncements from the upper class of how much better off their victims are now than they were before these exploitations. By this measure the upper class can ignore the issue of how all people ought to be treated if one were being truly fair, rather than merely making a horrible situation a tiny bit better—and profiting obscenely in the bargain.
Most people laugh when one suggests any kind of system other than the one currently in place, saying that behaviors such as competing and killing and the “victor taking the spoils” are what makes their civilization great! Most people even think there is no other natural way to be, that it is the nature of humans to behave in this manner, and that to act any other way would kill the inner spirit that drives man to succeed. (No one asks the question, “Succeed at what?”)
Difficult as it is for truly enlightened beings to understand, most people on your planet believe in this philosophy, and that is why most people don’t care about the suffering masses, the oppression of minorities, the anger of the underclass, or the survival needs of anyone but themselves and their immediate families.
Most people do not see that they are destroying their Earth —the very planet which gives them Life—because their actions seek only to enhance their quality of life. Amazingly, they are not far-sighted enough to observe that short-term gains can produce long-term losses, and often do—and will.
Most people are threatened by group consciousness, a concept such as the collective good, a one-world overview, or a God who exists in unity with all creation, rather than separate from it.
This fear of anything leading to unification and your planet’s glorification of All That Separates produces division, disharmony, discord—yet you do not seem to have the ability even to learn from your own experience, and so you continue your behaviors, with the same results.
The inability to experience the suffering of another as one’s own is what allows such suffering to continue. Separation breeds indifference, false superiority. Unity produces compassion, genuine equality.
The events which occur on your planet—which have occurred regularly for 3,000 years—are, as I’ve said, a reflection of the Collective Consciousness of “your group”— the whole group on your planet.
That level of consciousness could best be described as primitive.
