Human consciousness congregating within a group definitely forms a group "personality" at least.

This is an old mystical idea, of which the most elegant-sounding name for it I've come across is Egregore.

Mundane Astrology also deals with the same concepts from a cyclic point of view and maps those group metaphysical cycles, and I've previously written about IQ's own group cycles in Why is Christmas so popular?

Group personalities are fascinating to observe or, at least, I find them fascinating :)

On IQ, if you ignore who is posting what (because different participants are just different expressions of the personality) and just observe the general "mood" of the consciousness here, you can see it go through happy times, sad times, angry times, thoughtful times etc on different days.

You can see certain kinds of questions attract the interest of the group personality at certain times but are completely ignored at other times when the group personality isn't in the mood for them.

You can even see when certain individuals try to defy the group personality and try to impose their own individual selves upon it and force it into a certain direction - rather than harmonizing with the flow of it - and the resultant kickback from that group personality as it reasserts itself :)

Also the "wisdom" of the group speaks through different people at different times so, when observing the group personality in that sense, it is more important to understand what is being said rather than who is saying it.

Now with that brief background, the question now is does a group personality also have its own Vortex? - as Abraham terms it.

Certainly every human consciousness that participates within the group has their own Vortex - that broader aspect of themselves that aligns immediately with their new desires and then provides constant emotional feedback to the physical self regarding its vibrational alignment with that new expanded broader self. The process is explained in What should we imagine, visualize or believe?

The question then becomes whether those individual Vortexes form a "Collective Vortex" i.e. does the group personality have a similar broader aspect to it which acts in a similar fashion?

One clue might come from what Abraham has said in the past about Collective Inner Beings.

That recording does indeed seem to hint that the "best" of each person does indeed contribute to some kind of Collective Vortex. (They called the Vortex a "vibrational escrow" in those days)

If that is true then applying these ideas to IQ, it should be possible to observe (and, for the participants, to feel) when the group personality is in its Collective Vortex and when it is out of its Collective Vortex i.e. expanded beyond where it is currently focused.

I don't know. I'm still pondering these ideas myself but the information here should at least lay some foundation to start looking at IQ (or any other group) using the idea of "group personality" and seeing whether you can sense "group desires" being launched and the "group personality" coming into alignment (or not) with those desires i.e. whether it is aligned with its own Collective Vortex or not.

I might edit this answer in future if I come across more definitive information from Abraham, or if I get some further insights of my own.

@Grace, I don't think there is any such thing as a collective Vortex or a shared Vortex.

I am admittedly limited in my understanding of how the Vortex works, but I will say that climbimg up the vibrational EGS is a very individual journey. There are number of ways couples/people in general can get in the Vortex at the same time, through the same source or inspiration, but how long each one stays in it is dependent on their individual belief systems.

Also, couple, friends and others may enable each other to get into the Vortex but it'll be into their own individual Vortex. In my Yoga class, we do meditation at the end of each session and all though we are sitting together in one place, each one is experiencing their own meditation. Another example would be a say a Bashar/Abraham workshop of 'getting into the Vortex'

It has always amazed me that in a movie theater everyone in the audience regardless of their culture, race, economic background and what not, laugh at the same joke or a funny scene, while individually they may have very different sense of humor. So a movie/ video can enable collective group of people to feel good but it is still in their individual capacities. Individually they might be on a different Emotional Guidance Scale, but each can get into it at the level where they left it at.

Also, energy of someone feeling good can also rub off on others and thus enable them to get into their own Vortex but it'll not be a collective Vortex, I think:)

So, it is actually beneficial that there is no such thing as a collective Vortex. If there was such a thing and you were in it, there is an equal chance of you going UP the EGS vibrationally as there is of you getting dragged DOWN depending on which direction the 'collective' vibration is headed.

Not sure if this clarifies anything, but there's my 3 cents (everyone adds 2 so I decided to add 3:))

In reply to the updated version.

Definition of Vortex

any activity, situation, or way of life regarded as irresistibly engulfing

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So wouldn't that mean we as a group create this group Vortex simply by being?

Nope. Simply being does not necessarily create a powerfully attractive irresistible force. Which thus means, that IQ community doesn't have Vortex of its own. But it sure has group personality (you certainly don't see people who talk about beer, girls and cars only around here.) Each of us has his/her own vortex on IQ, we may reach it through asking/replying/reading specific questions which are of our interest, while avoiding those that don't resonate within us. IQ just provides opportunity and options to discuss whatever interests you. But it does not have a one unified Vortex of its own.

The universe immediately responds by creating what is desired. It is in the Vortex. Who's Vortex? Each of ours? Or as we are one, in our one? Or both? Or is there really only one, giant Vortex?

Everyone has a Vortex of his/her own. But as I said earlier in comments to Stingray's post, it is possible for two individuals or more to create their own vortex which exists only in synchronicity and cooperation of that group of people, but couldn't exists without it. It is when a desire for something impossible to achieve by yourself, is launched from every single participant of that group that unified Vortex is created. So in other words 'unified desire' would translate as a 'collective Vortex'. And when you re-prioritize your desires, say it's no longer of number one importance to have good grades at school, but your number one priority becomes winning high-school football championship. When a group of people create a collective Vortex and nourish it, takes care of it. It can become so powerful, you'll become addicted to it. Happiness while being within that group, will be way stronger than any kind of happiness while not being in it.

It might also be dangerous in a way, because it can create elements of Vortex which you would not know otherwise, were you to reach your individual Vortex. For example - team play. Anyone who ever had an opportunity to experience real, honest, unified team play would agree. It's an amazing experience. It's almost addictive.

Some don't; individually, they judge, dismiss, resist, ignore, so they do not participate in the group's manifestation.

Values and priorities. People won't give them up easily, unless more appealing values and priorities are offered. Therefore you cannot expect someone who wants to manifest a car so he save time traveling to give this up and tune into manifesting stopping Japanese fishermen from hunting whales. Obviously that manifestation would not appeal to him as he's not concerned about underwater life more than he's concerned about having more time to do what he wants to do. Now if you somehow managed to persuade him that in fact saving whales would provide him with more time. Then there's a very high probability he'd give up manifesting car for manifesting saving whales.

You can't hold it against people that they don't want to share a certain interest. Then you'd be judging them for judging the world through their own perspective. And we'd be trapped within never ending circle of judgement.

If you are a part of a group and don't align with the group's desires, you don't reap the benefits either, but you could do that anywhere at all. Could you only enjoy the manifestation of a group's desire within the group?

If you are a member on football team, and don't align with the teams desire to win the championship, chances are the team won't win it, in other words they will lose it to the team whose members would all be as one and all lived for their team's desire. So there would be no benefits to reap. Because in environment full of scattered desires, there's no unified desire, thus no collective vortex.

Now it may seem that you could enjoy manifestation of the team winning the championship also as an observer or a fan of that team, but when you live for the same desire as a fan, you thus enlarge (virtually) the 'team' that wants to manifest the same thing.

If all the above were true, and a definition of a Vortex, IQ itself is a Vortex. :)*

IQ sure might be Vortex for someone. But its their own fulfilled desire they find in here that makes it so. IQ community does not have desire of its own. Any manifestation experiment suggestions come from a individual desires and they get picked up by some, left by others, depending on how they appeal to every single individual. It would have to be a desire or purpose, which would benefit everyone involved and each of participants would feel and understand a great impact on their lives by desiring the same thing. (actually a greater impact than from desiring whatever they would want to manifest otherwise) E.g. if an evil alien race were to destroy our planet and everyone was fully aware it's either do or die situation, then everyone's desire would be the same. To defeat evil aliens, which would come off the desire to survive. (Although I'm sure we would find some people who would be 'whatever' and 'I won't kill aliens, it's a living form, and if they kill me, I'll go back to the source' irrational kind of thinking.)