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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
discover their light, we set in motion the intention of positive transformation.
If one by one each of us take personal responsibility for raising the awareness of humanity we begin to shift the global consciousness towards more and more benevolence and love. There is a powerful phenomenon in group behavior called reaching a critical mass. What this means is that one person begins initiating a behavior, others observe it and begin imitating the action. Then one by one all others join in until enough people are behaving in the same way and the entire crowd follows: this is the critical mass.
This is what we observe in our Cricket Stadiums when some one starts supporting say Tendulkar, shouts ― SIX ―,― Tendulkar SIX‖ and the shouts getting carried through the crowd in no time and the entire stadium reverberates with that slogan or appeal that the first person started. The paradox is that person who initiated the process of shouting cannot stop it once it has gained the critical mass. This is a very important feature of human behaviour
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