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The Individual and the Collectivity · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many Studies have been done and real life examples have shown
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  the power of a body of people focused on a particular feeling
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  thought or action mob. Psychology shows that
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  individuals who otherwise might be seen as quiet and peaceful
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  can be riled up into paroxysm zuv anger.
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  When part of an Angry Crowd, it is this type of psychology that
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  turns ordinary People into Savage beasts when they are
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  demagogued and harangue to stoke the force of anger.
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  There are also instances of religious bigotry or racism
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  being played out using a similar tactic of mobilizing, the force
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  of the crowd to overturn the individuals, own balance and
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  normal ways of seeing things. In his book, 1984 George.
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  Orwell Illustrated this with what?
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  He called the two minutes. Hate where everyone's emotions
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  were whipped up to an extreme degree to hate a particular
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  object to which the state was directing the attention of the
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  citizens. We see similar things in some of
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  the political rallies that take place in the world today when a
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  particular individual or group is demonized and the mob Made to
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  believe that only violent resistance or action is possible
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  to solve the situation. The mob can then be directed
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  toward the object of the hatred. So raised and Chaos, will then
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  insu. There are, of course, also,
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  positive aspects of a collective emotion such as when devotees
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  joined together in devotion and create a positive atmosphere.
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  The issue is not that Crowds Are Always destructive, rather than
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  if a participant is not sufficiently conscious and
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  self-developed, he can more easily be brought under control,
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  of whatever force is working through.
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  The throng, we have seen the evolution from a tribal society,
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  which is necessarily a collective Endeavor to a more
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  individualistic development as seen in the modern civilization.
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  This Transition was necessary, so that each individual can
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  reach an Optimum development. It was however, not intended to
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  destroy the sense of community, but uplifted to a new level.
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  We're conscious individuals can join voluntarily together in a
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  collective effort without thereby needing to erase their
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  unique individuality and abilities.
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  The collectivity is naturally conservative and relies on.
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  Traditions mores. And habits of the collective
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  group, the individual can provide the impetus and capacity
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  to bring new forces, energies, and movements of Consciousness
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  into being and there by uplift, the collectivity to a new level.
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  The two forces need to find their Harmony balance and
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  appropriate relation to one. Another such that progress can
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  be made without the destruction of the collectivities.
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  The centrifugal and centripetal forces must find their balance.
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  The mother notes quote, to be individualized in a
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  collectivities. One must be absolutely conscious
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  of one's self the self, which is above all.
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  Inter mixture, the truth of your being and as long as you are not
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  conscious of the truth of your being you are moved by all kinds
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  of things without taking any note of it at all Collective.
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  Thought Collective suggestions are a formidable influence,
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  which act currently on individual thought to escape
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  this there is but one means to become conscious of oneself more
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  and more conscious SRI aurobindo continues quote in the crowd,
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  the individual loses, his inner Direction and becomes a cell of
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  the mass body moved by the collective, will or idea or the
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  mass impulse. He has to stand apart affirm,
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  his separate reality in the whole, his own mind emerging
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  from the common mentality. His own life distinguishing
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  itself in the common life, uniformity even as his body has
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  developed some Nothing unique and recognizable in the common
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  physicality nature invented the ego that the individual might
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  disengage himself from the in conscience or sub conscience of
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  the mass and become an independent.
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  Living mind, life, power Soul Spirit, coordinating himself
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  with the world around him but not drowned in it.
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  For the individual, is indeed part of the cosmic being, but he
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  is also, something more uses soul that has descended from the
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  Transcendence. This he cannot manifest at once
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  because he is too near to the cosmic in conscience.
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  Not near enough to the original Super conscience.
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  He has to find himself as the mental, and vital ego before he
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  can find himself as the soul or spirit.
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  End quote, reference 3 aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 1
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  emergence from unconsciousness page 14.