collective consciousness

The field the class begins to invoke as an alternative to reductive psychological projection.

The shared civic imagination produced by public forms such as Roman triumphs, Greek theater, and Viking funerals.

Jiang's Durkheimian term for religion as collective thought, the shared imagined order that lets society come into being.

Jiang accepts collective consciousness as the more promising framework for explaining how poets access minds beyond their own direct experience.

Jiang says the collective-consciousness system is beyond time, so genuine access to it yields not just past material but future insight as well.

Great art changes society by entering collective consciousness and rewiring how people see and behave.

Roman triumphs, Viking funerals, and Greek theater are parallel communal forms, but they generate different kinds of collective consciousness: sacrifice and domination for Rome, funeral memory for Vikings, and perspective-changing empathy for Greeks.

Religion and society are mutually constitutive: without religion there is no society, and without society there is no religion.

Jiang says love opens the soul to collective consciousness, drives imagination, and makes creativity in the individual echo through the universe.

Jiang says collective consciousness and values determine what kind of civilization humans build, and that the current civilization was built around greed and is therefore spiritually destructive.

Greg responds that many conspiratorial events seem prefigured by earlier novels or scripts, which leads him to a model where narrative may prime or collectively manifest later events more plausibly than a simplistic predictive-programming explanation.