I propose that the act of intending a practice to benefit a particular social unit (city, state, nation, world, etc.) creates a bridge that connects the subtle phenomena elicited by the practice with the layer of collective consciousness associated with the targeted social unit…Once transmitted, these subtle phenomena may then begin to activate corresponding forms of thought and awareness in the consciousness of individual members of the targeted social unit, causing those thought forms or spiritual qualities to rise more prominently into their conscious awareness.

~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”

Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine – photo by J. Wildman, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission