The human species-organism....

Most days when I wake up, the feeling of salvation is far beyond my reach, but as the day goes on, I get closer to the idea that it may be obtainable, with enough hard work and perseverance. That is something that I draw motivation from. Blogs have a tendency to be highly personal and I would rather not go in that direction since I know so few people in the cyber world, it is unlikely that many will read these words in any case.

Frank Herbert once wrote that human beings as a race represent a single organism linked through genetics and various thought patterns.

"Understanding that pace and its conditions requires a different approach to the total human system, that nameless animal of a species-organism....Somewhere in between left and right you begin to get a glimmering view of things in process now. That glimmering offers the following observations:

• Something like pheromones (external hormones) interacting between members of the human species to weld groups into collective-action organs. (How does a mob unite and hold itself together?)
• Isolation cues that separate groups into identifiable substructures, a system possibly influenced by diet. (Aside from accent and mannerisms, how do members of the British upper class recognize each other?)
• Conflict igniters, possibly sophisticated abstractions of primitive postures and vocal signals. (How do you know that the man coming toward you is angry?)
• Glandular responses to changes in territorial circumstances, responses of remarkable similarity throughout large populations, but with a more complex substitution system than implied by most observers. (Why did most of the occupants of Chicago's high-rise Lake Shore ghetto abandon it within three years, and what did that experience do to their life expectancy and subsequent behavior?)" "Listening to the Left Hand" is an essay by Frank Herbert.
  (Copyright © 1973 by Harper's Magazine.)

It is clear that the human race does share these factors and thus is controlled somewhat by them, invariably unable to break out of these patterns. However it is also possible evolution itself has a high degree of influence over these various boundaries. We need only to look at the former hierarchy of ancient society to see the changes. The hunter gatherer mentality of the male/female role no longer exists in modern society. Or a watered down version survives but no longer drives the motivation of the modern male.

As i prepared my own motivational strategies workshop and looked more deeply into the ideas and theories behind motivation, and more specifically visualization it become very clear that the theme of thought patterns creating action, and thus events is far more powerful then I had previously estimated. It was somewhat interesting to see the reaction of my participants to the ideas and even more interesting to debate the factual evidence. One only has to watch a basketball player throw an ally op pass to his team mate. Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdYLs7YSMn0&feature=related

Here we see a player throw the ball to the exact hight that the other player will catch and dunk the ball. Through eye contact and the practice of playing together, thoughts become actions without any communication beyond the body language of the two players. It is not magic, it is very much the act of visualization and the law of attraction to some extent as well. The thought is all that is needed to initiate the action. This is a simple version of the effect that thoughts have on actions, and thoughts communicating with each other.

It happens on a larger scale within all human interaction and dynamics. If two individuals share in the same thoughts, it is only a mater of time before their actions synchronize, and create the outcome of the shared thoughts.