The Core group of the Evolutionary Collective is having a two-day Zoom retreat this weekend.  Our founder and leader Patricia Albere is introducing us to the word “contagion”.  That word, and its adjective form “contagious”, are usually associated with the spread of disease but Patricia is pointing us elsewhere.

Here’s another definition, from the world of psychology:

An ubiquitous process by which information, such as attitudes, emotions, or behaviors, are rapidly spread throughout a group from one member to others without rational thought and reason

Even this one has a negative connotation – “without rational thought and reason”.  But Patricia is drawing us towards a mystery beyond the rational, where something marvelous is catching … from one human being to the next.

It might be laughing.

It might be flowing into the We rather than the Me.

It might be words of shared unity falling out of our mouths.

Some union is beckoning to us, propelling us into a more inclusive future, one in which we deeply see the human being standing before us … and in which we share the Divine.