One of the Tao's desires is the expansion of consciousness. The expansion of consciousness has typically meant being tuned in and aware of our own thoughts, feelings, desires, and impressions, and then gaining an interpretation, understanding, and an action associated with this awareness. This has been the process to help fuel change, growth, development, and improvements in life. It has been part of a process of gaining knowledge, insight, and wisdom.
But we are now in a new era of humanity's development - a revolution of change, if you will. Due to new technology, how we live is always changing and having access to the world wide web and being connected to everything and everyone. We now have tools, such as through social media, to share private thoughts, feelings, desires, impressions, and whims and release these personal bits of consciousness as data points into the wild. These pieces of our inner self can now be part of a group consciousness that is no longer hidden or secure our physical boundaries. It has been released and can take root into a group consciousness that has no constraints or protections. It can become a part of a group-like mind of thoughts that now have a mythical form of cohesion with a hashtag and label. Your personal thought or feeling is now part of a new type of an expanded consciousness.
Having something humanity has not seen and experienced before is how the Tao also learns, grows and develops. This new "group consciousness" is now also part of humanity's journey of learning, growing, and developing. Part of this experience will undoubtedly require us, as a society, to figure out how we can use this new group consciousness to become better than who we currently are, and to gain the knowledge, insight, and wisdom needed in this new phase of humanity's growth.
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