The 7 Levels of Awareness: Mass
Posted by Keith Aul on January 3, 2008
Level of Awareness: Mass
People who operate at this level are really just programmed to conform. They have ‘follow the crowd’ type mentality. And there is no thinking at this level. They follow what everybody else is doing.
For example, I can remember watching the business news and I saw thousands of people loose everything they own because they invested all of their money in Enron, a company they worked for. And if you go back and watch some of the news clips, when they interviewed these people and asked them why did they take all of their money and invest it in just one company , most of them would say ‘well that was what everybody else was doing.’ What happened is they were not thinking and they were not planning out. They were just following the crowd.
Another example is when I was a kid I was approached by something who wanted me to smoke a cigarette. At the time I didn’t have much confidence in myself and I wanted to be part of a group. Even though I new smoking was bad for my health, I went ahead and smoked the cigarette. I didn’t wake up one day and decided I was going to smoke. In this situation I didn’t use my reasoning faculty. I guess we can understand it from somebody who’s young and being impressionable and following the crowd. But that’s really how it begins. We just get conditioned and follow that thought and behavior pattern. And in less we break that pattern we can find ourselves in our 40’s, 50’s and 60’s following investment advice based on what everybody else is doing, not necessarily what is best for ourselves in our lives.
Now when a person begins to move out of the Mass Consciousness, this is where things begin to happen for us. We move to this next level of awareness which is aspiration. My next post will explain this level further.
