Sooner or later, the question of creating collective will for such things as world peace and an end to poverty is going to arise.
What has stalled so many ventures is the lack of this coming together and expressing our collective will.
What is collective will and how does it operate? In 2016 Archangel Michael answered these questions.
“Archangel Michael: Understanding the Divine Gift of Will,” September 22, 2016, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2016/09/30/transcript-archangel-michael-understand-divine-gift-will-ahwaa-september-22-2016/.
Steve Beckow: Could we – practically speaking, because we are practically minded – could we turn to the generation and maintenance and transformation of collective will? Is there such a thing as collective will?
Archangel Michael: There most certainly is! And you say, “Well how, Lord, would that work? How does it work?” Because in many ways, right now, it is just beginning to work again repeatedly upon sweet Gaia.
Think of collective will in some ways as a very powerful entrainment. Now that does not mean that you are not in charge of your will. Because this aspect of being in charge, of not having decisions made for you, of being able to proceed freely – and this has been a theme that we have talked about a great deal – does not mean that collective will overrides individual will.
You have seen that friction time and time and time again. Now, let us be very clear; when you are in alignment with your Divine Will – that is operating and reflective and literally in alignment with Divine Will – that doesn’t mean, as so many people in past paradigms have interpreted it, that ‘I’m right and you’re wrong’. That is of the old paradigm and there is no room for it.
But think of it in this way … collective will is in fact sparked, activated, entrained, by those individuals who are willing and able and ready, and actually moving in action to show the way. Now that does not mean – think of the entrainment of a school of fish – that you are always at the head of that school of fish. Because there are many roles, including those who are in the middle of the school and do not break away but continue this wondrous pattern of cooperation and harmony, and those who are at the tail end who do not sit and sulk and think, “Oh, I am at the end of the row here.” So, it is that beauty but it is sparked by individual will.
Now, how does that work? And how does one change what has been the, shall we say, the old will, which is not Divine Will, into this alignment with Divine Will? This is one of your primary activities, actions, in terms of being the Mother’s implementers of Nova Earth and the bringing forth, the building, the creation, the anchoring, the establishment – not only of Nova Being – but of Nova Earth, Nova Collective, Nova Humanity. When there are enough of you, and I would suggest that you are basically there, to say, “We are going to go with an act of will generated by love. We are going in this direction.”
Now, the rest of humanity may not know all the fine-tuning, all the detail, but it is sufficient that they say, “Yes, this feels right, on every level, everybody. This feels right enough for me to move in harmony with this group.” That is the building of unity and community. And, in fact, it is done not just by love, but as an act, an action of will.
So you say, “Well how do we do this?” And what I suggest to you, first of all, there is the acceptance piece. It is the acceptance that you are in alignment – and that you have done your work, of course – that you are in alignment with Divine Will. And that you are willing to step forward, and either at the front, the middle, behind or somewhere in between, take a certain direction that is in alignment with will and love, and all the Divine Qualities, because they are all one thing anyway.
Now, what I also further suggest to you, my beloved friends, is that consciously or unconsciously, without having labeled it as such, that you have been doing this. And you actually have been doing it for some time. And, I do not simply mean since 2012, which was a landmark decision and a landmark redirection, but as a collective – not everybody, but enough of you – have been doing this for quite some time.
Now, has there been exploration and a growth of trust, not necessarily in us but in your beloved sweet selves, and from that, in and with each other? Yes. Now I know that will be food for discussion, sweet one.
SB: Well, the obvious next place to go with this, and the obvious reason that I am asking you about this, is that lightworkers soon will not only be exerting their own will, but will be responding to calls to generate collective will around such things as ending hunger in Africa or sexual slavery in the world, etc. So, anything you can tell us about how will operates, or what the pitfalls are, or how we can rehabilitate ourselves who’ve had our trust so badly damaged by all our governments and militaries and police forces – any coaching on this new phase that lightworkers are entering, in which will is such an important aspect, would be appreciated.
AAM: I would be pleased to do so. Now, has there been – and I would suggest to you for thousands of years, thousands and thousands and thousands of years – a breach of trust of authority that has occurred? Well, you know perfectly well that it has been in existence. Do not spend your efforts looking back.
Now I am not suggesting to you, any of you, to be naïve, or to ignore history and the pitfalls of history. But, if you spend your time looking backwards, I am talking in terms of your understanding of time rather than simply the Mother’s time, then what you do is that is what you are doing. You are spending your time looking at past mistakes, missteps and you are always trying to protect yourself.
Now of course, there is a level of prudence, of sensibility that always needs to be in place. But as you proceed, both individually and collectively, because it is not an either/or, that is why I have used the example of entrainment of a school of fish. It is not a single fish going off and riding the currents. It is a large, large group of you moving together…and there is power and safety and wisdom and talent and a whole variety of capacities within that school. So as you move forward, do not spend your efforts and your time thinking about past atrocities.
Now the biggest element that you need to be personally and collectively cognizant and vigilant about is that ascendance of superiority, of entitlement, and of ego. Never do we wish, or would it be of love, to eradicate your delightful, sweet, powerful –sometimes disconcerting – qualities of your personality. But you cannot proceed in an egoic way that is reflective of the old pitfalls of ‘I have the answer. I am the leader. I am right, you are wrong’. Nothing will destroy your forward thrust faster than that. So, the memories, which are important, of the history of the pitfalls, are present in order that that reversion to the old Third does not occur.
But as you are going forth, you are literally forging new ways.
Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 12, 2016.
Steve: Am I correct in my line of reasoning that there is no real thing as collective will as a thing outside of individuals but it’s really many individuals developing the will. Is that correct? There is collective consciousness….
AAM: There is collective consciousness and there is and is not – I’m going to confuse you – collective will. Now let us think about this.
Collective will does not live somewhere off planet on Sirius or in the Pleiadian sector. It is a tangible energy field, but how is it known? It is known through the expression and the claiming, the activation of individual will.
This is going to be a topic that you are going to write a great deal on. Collective will, not usurping of power and authority, has not been present upon this planet for a very, very, very, very, very long time. And so it has mostly been hidden, bastardized or forgotten.
So how it is being reactivated is through individual will but as soon as you have two or more – think of what you have been told in other situations – two or more, you have collective will.
So the issue is not so much just the activation of individual will, collective will, but how is that going to be directed?
And you’re beginning to see how that collective will can be not only reborn, re-anchored, but redirected.
Now what has happened upon your planet (and there are those that would say, “but there is a collective will,” but the expressions of what people are thinking or in some situations feeling is collective will has in fact been a manipulation of what people have labelled will.
And there is a massive difference. They are not even related. It is manipulating mental and emotional energy, hijacking it in many situations falsely by the use of language and crowd control. And you are seeing this very much in the American electoral system.
That you are hijacking this collective emotionality or mental processing and you are labelling it as will, “the will of the people,” and that is not true.
That is where we have started this day. What is really truth?
What is the truth is that there is such an animal, a situation, an element as collective will but it has been hidden, dormant for a very long time. So as you are awakening individual will, you are also simultaneously building, rebuilding, reigniting collective will.
Steve: We’ll have to talk about that more, I think
AAM: I have given you a great deal to chew on, have I not?
Steve: You definitely have. How long a time has it been dormant for, Lord? I’m trying to figure out the timelines. Atlantean times? Lemurian? Or even before that?
AAM: It has not been in full usage since the initial Creator race.
Now there have been glimmers of it, certainly during Lemuria it was very prevalent. In Atlantis it started as collective will being reignited and then transferred into abuse and that is what of course led to the downfall.
So there have been sparks of efforts that have arisen now and then and that is why right now, most beings upon the planet – yes, you have come from far and wide – but most of you, not all of you, but most of you have had lifetimes as both Lemurians and Atlanteans because somewhere in between, is the balance in the reactivation of collective will – and individual will for that matter.
Steve: Could you give me a definition of collective will because I don’t have any notion of what it actually is. I’m feeling into it?
AAM: Think of collective well as very close to truth and love. It is the alignment of the collective, or most of the collective – it does not need to be 100%, and this is what you been working on with Ascension – it is the alignment, of what you think of as a human will with the higher or universal Self and that activation of will in alignment with divine will.
When you are not in that alignment, think of it as capital W (although we do not want anything capitalized). When it is self-serving to the exclusion of what is for the betterment and highest good of all, then it is abuse of will and of authority. It is of control and it is of a vibratory rate you do not want to engage in.
When the will of many is in alignment with the desire to create, direct, bring forth, anchor, experience and live in what is for the highest good and the fulfilment of the individual and the collective that is divine and human will. That is collective will.