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That is one of those sixty-four-million-dollar questions.
Ultimately, this is a choice made by each sentient species, acting as a group mind, and revealed in the shape of the societies they create, but generally I think, and I hope, that the target is always to move upwards towards a higher energy state, rather than downwards. In fact, the possibility is that the choice to move downwards results in species extinction, via self-destruction or general entropy - meaning, overall, the pattern wants to go up.
If we follow the pattern in terms of raw Chi energy, it means that for every universe where sentient life exists to experience it, that life-form becomes apart of the pattern. To evolve and thrive, in an energy sense, we need to be aiming upwards, because that is where we will get more energy to enable our overall species-sentience to grow. Remember, though, there is a downside to our universe as well (lower vibrational state). In this universe the comparative energy level in our universe equals an immense source of energy. The down universe, in every sense, will drain our energy. Sentient lifeforms with their Meissner fields permanently connected to the Chi field have the ability, or perhaps the purpose, of determining, that when the universe eventually balances before splitting to creating a new empty one, which side of that split their species ends up on. Remember, that Chi is just raw creational energy running through its own process. It doesn't care which side we end up on, it simply carries on with the process. If we, as humans, actually manage to survive as a species long enough, in whatever form that may be, every generation should maintain the target of moving us upwards. This is where the group mind has the greatest influence.
How the group mind works
Every person will know
that every waking moment is spent making choices. This may be as simple as what to eat for breakfast or bigger like a jumbo jet pilot choosing the safest way to land his aircraft during a storm. The choices made by the pilot (an individual) on this occasion can determine the welfare of all the passengers on board the aircraft, the group. The passengers need to rely both on the competence of the pilot, and that is determined by the group competence imparted during his flight training. The passengers must endow 'trust' in the pilot to make the right choices to land them safely. The pilot in turn, is working to control his aircraft while negotiating a delicate balance between the upward force of lift provided by the wings, the downward force provided by gravity and the direction and speed, provided by the forward motion of the plane.
The pilot takes all this in his stride as a function of his training (group) combined with personal experience as a pilot (individual), which has been accrued and honed to competence over a period of time (the universal constant). That is a very simple example of how the individual mind relates to the group mind and incorporates time.
The passengers are now become part of the pilot's group mind in that they have placed their individual confidence (staked their very lives, in fact) in the overall group mind process of the pilot's training, and reflect this in conferring their trust on the individual pilot flying the plane. This is an example of how the individual shares with a group, albeit in this example, on a short-term basis.
The above is a microcosm example of how the same pattern repeats at all levels from individual decision-making to the operation of our entire global organism. We have an individual acting as a single self-organising system, relying on the energy of a larger group, with the larger group drawing power from another larger group, which might be a government, and then governments acting together to form a group relationship on a planet-wide basis. However, this may also be the reason that, as a group species, we are currently trapped in a cycle that takes us round in a declining curve. As a species we have reached an energy dead end, because we have corrupted the universal pattern and are attempting to impose our own. The natural pattern, however, is a lot more powerful and appears to be staging a huge come-back.
Where we have broken with the natural universe energy state is by choosing
a system of 'hierarchy' as the primary means to organise our group system. This hierarchy system hands power 'down' to the 'few' at the expense of handing it 'up' to the many, and is not how it is supposed to naturally operate, if we are to thrive and grow in terms of group energy. As individuals we have, over many generations, been tricked into handing over our group energy to smaller and smaller groups, which in turn allows the group mind direction to be directed by a smaller and smaller number of individuals, not the whole group. And by a small number, this could possibly be measured in terms of hundreds who currently control over seven billion individuals and determine the direction of our species group energy.
The natural pattern that promotes 'group thriving' as opposed to 'group decay' relies on genuine group cohesion, the principles of which were codified by the ancient Greeks in the idea of democracy. This was probably influenced by their close contact with the ancient Egyptians who operated on the basis of a meritocracy where an individual's status was determined solely by the level of value they could add to the group as a whole. During this period in time exchange of group energy took place in the form of trade and this reflected a healthy energy movement upwards because each group could grow on the basis of a mutual beneficiality. In other words, a balance whereby all could benefit to fulfil their survival needs. In turn this took the stress off the groups, allowing them to be able to spend time and energy on contemplating the bigger purpose of the universe. Different groups had different opinions of how to improve their societies, but generally this was a philosophical argument and not a dispute on the basis of a power (energy) grab.
The biggest change occurred after humans invented the philosophical concept of money. Money was a genius of an idea because it streamlined the whole process of trade and added potential for the group mind to grow even faster. It might have provided the potential for the group mind to grow almost exponentially, but it also opened the door to a new paradigm, whereby the power of the group was no longer be determined by the merit of the individual to contribute energy to the group, but usurped by an ability to accrue money. At this point the power of the group mind became enshrined in money, and not in energy. Money began to turn the whole upward upward energy cycle into a downward direction, and with it the energy direction of the whole group mind.
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