Those who sent the Scapegoat to perish in the wilderness, the mad mob crushing people at a sporting event, the Salem witch trials, groups of gang stalking perpetrators; these are all examples of collective egoic entities.

It can be difficult at times to come to terms with the darker aspects of our egos, in the ever unfolding flow of Self realization. Oftentimes I recognize ego when it rears its head, and this is enough to realign the path of Self with my Higher Self. And sometimes I give in to the needs, wants or fears of the ego as I am learning to grow beyond the scaffolding of the egoic Self.

What happens with those who do not intuit the need to develop beyond the egoic Self?

We’re all familiar with the symptoms of someone stuck in an egoic outlook, right? This person can be very rude, selfish, and generally preoccupied with what’s in it for them.

One way the ego attempts to escape the sense of dissatisfaction with its Selfhood  is to identity with a group. The individual ego seeks to strengthen and enlarge its sense of importance by identifying with a group.

In collective egoic structures the personal ego appears to dissolve as the person dedicates their energies rather selflessly for the greater good of the collective, regardless of whether or not the collective’s actions are truly good, or altruistic. In the case of gang stalking and other forms of scapegoating, the results of the collective actions, where the target is concerned, are seemingly ignored by most members of the group. These people seem satisfied just to be part of something bigger than their individual selves.

Unfortunately, for those feeling most lost and unable to pick up the reigns of their own development, the degree of maliciousness of gang actions appears to correlate to how important members of such an egoic collective feel about themselves.

I’m reminded of the looks of sheer excitement and malicious thrill I saw on the faces of  ‘friends’ and stranger-stalker-accomplices alike, in gearing up for yet another street theater campaign or another. After a while it became clear that there is something like a point system in place where the members of the egoic collective try to impress themselves and the others of the group with the degree of maliciousness toward the target –they are showing their selflessness to the group ego.

The most ridiculous aspect of this behavior is that the members of these groups seem to perceive this giving away of their identity over to a malicious collective as being selfless, and that such selflessness is a positive thing. These individuals have come to equate selflessness with goodness, when clearly there are both good and bad forms of selflessness. The act of re-categorizing behavior that is clearly negative as behavior that is good,  is insane.

Traits and Life of  a Collective Egoic Entity

A collective ego manifests most of the same characteristics as the individual ego. These include the never ceasing need for more, the need for conflict and enemies, the need to be right against others who are wrong, etc.

Since the collective ego looks for conflict by which to identify its boundaries and sense of worth, it looks for opposition. This is the inevitable lifespan of an egoic collective, upon hitting the bumpy wake of their actions as a group, the members may wake up and realize that their collective has a strong element of insanity.

If collective egos geared toward scapegoating looked for other groups with whom to oppose one another, the members would then be forced to deal with the wake of ego-motivation their actions have created. However, with egoic collectives like those often found in gang stalking, the group does not pit their identity mass against another group, but against an individual (or a few individuals).

This targeting of individuals  indicates an extreme desire to shirk responsibility for Self development on the part of the group members involved, as the group members’ realization of how insane they are behaving can be delayed or ignored altogether when the only resistance is that of one individual.

Handing Over Responsibility to a Group

I’ve seen particularly controlling people successfully masquerade as kind and caring individuals through aligning themselves with egoic identities such as local activism groups, that is- various groups organized around ideas of helping others, and most generally, a set of current cultural trends that dictate which behavior it is that portrays a kind and compassionate external face (mask).

People belonging to these collective egos who on the surface portray an agenda of compassion that is not true to their individual self identity, tend to pass over those right in front on them who need help, or when no one is looking have no problem attacking and harming others who their group identity does not recognize, or views as unknown or undesirable.

In the case of an out-of-control crowds at a sporting event, the collective egoic entity is rather unconscious and very temporary. The atrocities committed are things that the individuals would not commit on their own.

In the case of gang stalking groups, there seems to be a larger range of awareness, from huge pools of unconscious angst to smaller peaks of willful intent to harm another, as evidenced by the leader types found in such groups.

Evident to me throughout my run-ins with both gang stalking groups as well as the positive, creative beings I meet, this is a time of great change. We’re being challenged to outgrow the demands of egoic identity. As such we’re seeing these opposing forces.

Where we’ve been working on becoming more tolerant as a culture, we’ve also been plugging the little cracks / inadequacies of egoic reality with stoppers and this building angst finds other ways to come out. I believe this pressure has built and come to a critical mass and so we see such cultural symptoms as gang stalking.

As more and more people flow with the need to further develop our sense of Self, beyond the demands of ego, egoic collectives like gang stalking groups will have more equal groups against which to pit their energies, than their favorite targets: individuals. As such they are finding greater resistance to their unsustainable group agendas of harm. They are coming to realize the insanity of such group behavior.

The Push to Evolve

Many of us find ourselves waking up to the realization that we have identified with one group or another, at some cost to our personal development and that of humanity. It can be difficult to suddenly see that one has been avoiding development of one’s Self. The best we can do is to have a sense of humor about these realizations and make an effort not to replace these associations with collective egos with other groups.

Are there Good Collective Egoic Structures?

Of course! As these newer frequencies of consciousness emerge some of us will feel drawn to form groups that reflect the standards of responsible Selfhood that many of us are seeking individually.

When looking for the traits of a positive collective, these are the same as found in positive individual Selfhood. These include things like the process being more important than the product –the group members do not have a need to connect over matching identities, but chooses to connect in order to share activities and processing of their respective goals, issues and interests.

It is not necessary that group members be completely free of ego (see paragraph below), but awareness of ego is important so that members can notice these things as soon as they appear so that they can find a positive way of dealing with them. We are all working on these issues so a healthy dose of laughter and tolerance is required as we form and find these families, these positive collectives.

An aside: I’m not sure I like the wording found in many contemporary books on self-help subjects related to ego, where Mind is seemingly demonized along with the base traits of ego, as one whole labeled ego. I wish authors would call it something like Mind without awareness or the unconscious mind, because mind is not a negative aspect of being. Perhaps this is splitting hairs and I should use a different word like consciousness, but I don’t think so. I think that Mind has been an invaluable aspect of myself that I’ve utilized to see and understand many of the connections and patterns in my internal world, along the way to ever greater Self development.

Perhaps in these times of needing to isolate the more base aspects of ego there is some overzealous reduction happening where some are too quick to throw out the baby with the bath water, as it were. I accept ego as meaning the more base aspects of an identity of Self, but do not agree that all individuation is egoic. I think that Self as it continues to evolve does not lose its individuality nor does it lose the individual desires for adventure and experiences. It is just that we are redefining and sorting through what is useful for development of Self and what is not as useful.

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