Towards a Life-Centric Society: Cultivating Mass-Mindedness for the Flourishing of All Living Systems | ChatGPT4o

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What is the difference between Carl Jung’s mass-mindedness and John McMurtry’s ruling group mind (RGM)?
So if RGM is a special case of mass-mindedness, are there other special case examples representing other interests?
How would a mass-mindedness that is life-centric and is based on life-value look like?

Mass-Mindedness and the Meta-Crises: How Collective Conformity Fuels Global Challenges — and the Path to Conscious Healing | ChatGPT4o

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If mass-mindedness is a disease, what is its natural history?
How has mass-mindedness contributed to the chronic escalating non-communicable disease and mental health and climate destabilization syndemic?
Could mass-mindedness be behind the meta-crises and how can this insight guide us to their healing?

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Can you elaborate on this passage from “Dreamed Up Reality: Diving into the Mind to Uncover the Astonishing Hidden Tale of Nature” p. 176 by Bernardo Kastrup – “The value of subjective exploration for understanding reality may actually go beyond that of methodological completeness alone. As Carl Jung masterfully argued in his magnificent little book, “The Undiscovered Self,” only the anchor of inner, transcendent experience can protect the individual from submersion into what he calls “mass-mindedness.” Mass-mindedness, as embodied in the set of cultural values and reality models reigning in a society, replaces individual experience – which is the only carrier of life and reality – with conceptual averages. Jung went further to point at scientific education, when elevated to the position of ultimate ontological authority, as an enabler of mass-mindedness by imparting an unrealistic worldview based on statistical truths. This, he argued, blurs the patterns and nuances of reality into those – ultimately unreal – conceptual averages.”
How is this related to the illusion of democracy given Hobsonian electoral choice and inverted totalitarianism?
Can you unpack in detail how this can be realized?
How is McMurtry’s life-ground concept facilitatory to this endeavor?