European School of Theosophy Date: Sunday, 07 June 2020 Time: 17:00 London (16:00 GMT) Covid-19 has concentrated our minds like nothing else since 9/11 and possibly not even then. It has produced a vast collective thought-form and we have all been the architects and builders of it. Everyone has had a hand in it. As much as we regard ourselves as individuals, humanity has a collective mass mind. Each of us constantly contributes to this mental reservoir but much of our input is unconscious. The Ageless Wisdom tradition teaches that ‘thoughts are things’. Although not as dense and tangible as a car or a table, their existence is real and they persist depending on the power we attach to them. Some can continue for millennia. This virus has shown us just how inter-connected we are physically and the extent to which life on Earth is globalised. But it’s also important to explore the collective mental dimension to this. In the contemporary Western world of illusory individualism, we labour under the fatal illusion that we have hermetically sealed minds compartmentalised and separated from one another. We’re convinced that each mind has its own unique thoughts, each possesses its own customised perspective on life with each operating in splendid isolation from all others. This is a total travesty of the truth, although it remains the prevailing view. Human minds are inextricably entangled. And not only that, the consciousness of human minds intermingles intricately with that of the other kingdoms of nature. The timeless truths of the Ageless Wisdom tradition insist that everything is conscious on its own level as well as intimately interconnected. Therefore, what we perceive as separation is an illusion. There was global consciousness long before the internet because global consciousness is super-physical. It didn’t take a digital revolution to create it. So, what precisely causes this intimate and universal interconnectedness?