The World Mind

  The world mind is the sphere of mental noise immediately encircling earth, which is the aggregate of the verbal, emotional, and mental expressions of all embodied souls on earth at any moment in time. If you are able to hear it (not with your physical ears) it sounds as like a million radios blaring garbled words and static, a true cacophony. (Cacophony = from the Greek prefix kak- (from kakos = “bad”) with phōnē = sound, essentially “bad sound.”)
  The world mind is NOT synonymous with Hegel's hideous construct of the world soul, with Jung’s collective unconscious or with Freud’s personal unconscious. The world mind is humanity’s incessant outpouring of emotional garbage and mental trash, the noise created by minds that live by impulsive appetites of a three-year-old throwing a tantrum. Imagine the noise of the crowded stadium during the Super Bowl!
  Is there anything good in the sound of the world mind? Yes, but the good is usually drowned out by the angry and resentful thoughts of the billions. Is there anywhere you can go to escape it? Yes—away from the cities, into the wilderness, the desert or deserted places, to the mountains or an uninhabited island. One last suggestion: Do not add your thoughts to the world mind, but lift it whenever and wherever it intrudes.