Group Consciousness and Tiger Woods

Live as if every­thing you do will even­tu­ally be known.

Hugh Prather

There comes a time in every person’s life when he must face him­self. Tiger Woods’ day to face him­self is today.

Woods has been a trend­ing topic on twit­ter for 2 weeks now. I’ve tried to take the high road and not be a voyeur, but curi­ous just the same. I ask, “Why all the fuss?”

From a mate­r­ial point of view, it always boils down to money. It’s not Tiger Woods the Man; its Tiger Woods the Brand. The last time Woods took off from the play­ing field, tele­vi­sion rat­ings plum­meted 50%.

The golf world is in shock as Tiger takes an indef­i­nite leave, but I don’t think they’re wor­ried about the Bil­lion Dol­lar Man. Pro golfers, spon­sors and tour­na­ment event plan­ners are all ner­vous about how they’ll make up the shortfall.

Even my son, who thinks the media over­looked Tiger’s bad man­ners and poor loser sen­ti­ments, said he watches golf only when Tiger’s playing.

As a stu­dent of the Age­less Wis­dom, I look for deeper mean­ing to life and events, even within pop cul­ture and celebrity entertainment.

This “break­ing news” (my New York Times alert informed me last night), sug­gests to me that con­scious­ness is no longer indi­vid­ual; every­thing we do is con­nected to the larger whole. The Tibetan says that the future will be ruled by group con­scious­ness. Tiger Woods’ per­sonal cri­sis and the world’s reac­tion to it is group con­scious­ness in action. Imag­ine what we could accom­plish if we raised our level of think­ing to, say, find­ing solu­tions to cli­mate change?

Woods’ ath­letic accom­plish­ments stand as tes­ti­mony to his ded­i­ca­tion, per­se­ver­ance and tal­ent. You can almost say he is a liv­ing exam­ple of the Per­fected Man. Yet he per­fected one side of his nature at the expense of another.

He’s tak­ing an indef­i­nite leave of absence to become “a bet­ter per­son.” On one level many would say, “Who cares about the affairs? It’s his per­sonal busi­ness.” But if we want to bet­ter our­selves, that requires harm­less­ness in our daily life.

I think Miami Heat guard Dwayne Wade said it best:

One thing peo­ple don’t under­stand is that we’re human. You’re not born with a menu on how not to do things wrong. You’re going to make mis­takes like every human being. It’s just unfor­tu­nate that you’re in the pub­lic eye so much and a lot of peo­ple get hurt by it.

The day will soon come where no pri­vacy exists. Google’s announce­ment on their lat­est advance­ment in per­son­al­ized search already points to this.

The best man at our wed­ding said he tries to live a life where every­one could see what he was doing. The spir­i­tual Hier­ar­chy already watches us.

When you meet your Mas­ter, can you look Him in the eye?

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