"Fellowship, the Soulgroup, and the Field:
Noticing the New Way of Living"
copyright by Penney Peirce
As an "expert intuitive," I was involved for many years with The Center for Applied Intuition in San
Francisco. Part of their vision was of a group of intuitives or spiritual teachers who would work together,
individually and in teams, to serve private industry and the public. That excited me because I've always
held a vision of independent, spiritually-oriented colleagues who could collaborate and truly support each
other, and whose work was complementary. I was disappointed, though, that many of the people were
caught in a need for recognition and had trouble cooperating and cocreating. Even though they advocated
living by spiritual principles, they were still competitive and afraid of losing clients to each other. I was a
bit let down, but the vision of this truly collaborative group of associates still persists in me.
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As long as I can remember, whenever I access higher levels of information intuitively, I see a
council or a collective group consciousness, rather than a single spiritual guide or wise soul at the top of a
hierarchy. When I enter my meditative state, I experience merging with the collective knowledge of this
group mind. If I soften and expand myself, I encompass more and more of it. Whatever comes through me
comes from that pool of knowledge. In this model, knowledge is shared equally, given freely, and there is
plenty for all. Perhaps this has contributed to my sense that in this earthly world there should be a similar
reflection of that organizational pattern.
So I've had a feeling for a long time that I belong to a group of souls who are parallel to me in
development, a "soulgroup." Many people I counsel feel their genetic family is not their "real" family. They
sense intuitively that there is another family—a spiritual one—that they belong to. They're always muttering
under their breath, "Where are my people?" Do you feel you've met people you've known before, people
you inexplicably resonate with, who share similar ideas and a similar life quest? Do these people often seem
more like family than your family of origin? I believe we all belong to soulgroups, which really, in physics'
terms, resemble resonant, morphological fields of consciousness or particular frequencies of energy. These
families of like-minded others exist both as incarnated friends, family, enemies, and colleagues—as well as
nonphysical beings in higher dimensions. The concept of spiritual family or the soulgroup is has been
entering mass consciousness these past few years. And this relates to the idea of fellowship.
What Is Fellowship?
I think fellowship begins where one upsmanship-style competition leaves off. Once we can get beyond ego
and needing to be better than others, and winning—not for the sake of winning—but for the spirit of play,
of the game, for companionship's sake, for creative growth—then we begin to understand the next higher
part of our nature: fellowship, and how we belong with each other. We're no longer caught in polarization,
we're shifting to cooperative competition. I remember Tom Peters, the management guru, describing how
one company actually gave their secrets to their competitors; they made it into a game to help their
competitors so they could all "compete" better. The teams in their production facility helped each other,
but they competed at the same time, and in this way everyone evolved to a higher level using a spirit of
playful cocreativity. Fellowship has to do with coming together with the idea that everything you do will
help further the other person's growth somehow.
Fellowship also comes from practicing the Golden Rule: you are your brother and sister's keeper
and they are your keeper. If we want the best for ourselves we learn that provision comes from those we
tend, so giving them what they most need is what motivates them to do the same for us. Yet the Golden
Rule can become a hackneyed phrase that we repeat occasionally but don't take to heart and live as if our
life depended on it. The more you practice it, the more you understand that our lives DO depend on it.
The idea is to treat the other person as though they are you, and to imagine in great detail how you would
feel standing in their body. The truth is that hurting another hurts you—by drawing a similar experience to
yourself soon thereafter, by keeping your heart closed, and by debilitating one source of supply.
When you experience the essence of things in your innermost reality, you find there truly is a oneselfness
in all sentient beings, and a one-vitality or livingness in all things. We know it in our heads, but it
takes some work to actually feel it and practice feeling it until we convince ourselves it's the true reality.
We're currently convinced that we are separate beings, largely because of our old linear, cause-and-effect
perceptual reality and our positive-negative value judgments. Our thought process itself divides us and
causes gaps in time and space. Unless you meditate and practice dropping down inside yourself, inside
form, to what's in the being, you won't really have an experience of The Golden Rule.
Conscious Communion and Cocreation
Fellowship is actually a state of consciousness, what I often term conscious communion. This is a kind of
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perception where you experience one energy connecting all living things, moving continually in pulses and
waves through a unified field of awareness. Knowledge from one form carries into all others. Everything
knows about everything else and shares energy with everything else. Both animate and inanimate things are
in communion all the time, but our mind is often not with them in the communion state. Our mind is
easily separated from the natural interrelatedness of life and nature because we jump out of the here-andnow
into other times, spaces, and imagined realities. Each time we leave the communion experience, or
fellowship state, we feel fear and isolation, and begin to suffer.
To experience conscious communion, your mind must be centered inside your body, in the present
moment, and you must settle down, open up, and pay attention to what's actually showing up within
arm's reach. Then your attention merges with the world and you experience unity. It is through conscious
communion that we learn to understand how fellowship works.
Cocreation is another concept that helps us get at the experience of fellowship. We know that we
create our own reality by the thoughts and level of vibration we radiate. I populate my world each day, as
do you, with various characters who represent various parts of myself I'm interested in becoming aware of.
Sometimes our needs, and thus our worlds, overlap and contain similar ideas and frequencies—and it's then
when we appear in each other's worlds and interact in various ways. I soon realize that the decisions I
make in my life must affect your life. I provide you with either more or less permission and space in which
to act. And you do the same for me.
This is clear with people who are close to you—obviously you impact each other. But even people
who are distant from you—the ones you don't know—their decisions affect your life too, and your decisions
affect theirs. This is because we are cocreating a shared reality in which we all show up in each other's
imaginations; the outer manifestation of what happens in the world is a result of the collective decisions
the entire populace of the globe makes day by day, minute by minute. It's a constantly shifting reality and
it's able to change on a dime as the choices of the people change. Please don't ever think you have no
impact on the world!
I have learned a lot about fellowship from having worked in Japan since 1984. There is such an
internal interconnectedness in Japan—everyone KNOWS they affect everyone else, and they can't just run
away and have their own life somewhere else when they get uncomfortable, because the country is too
small. Taking care of each other's inner well-being is a core motive in the culture. Because of that it's
almost impolite to have an opinion, because you might stand out too much and the flow of the group
might divert and go your way. Equal contribution of all group members would not be able to occur. So,
group problem-solving proceeds in a mysterious way, where no one says much directly, but a seemingly
aimless discussion proceeds for an inordinate amount of time until finally the solution seems to emerge by
itself. Everyone wins, no one loses face. We can learn about inner connectedness and the cohesiveness of
groups from Asian cultures and they can learn a little more about authenticity and individuality from us.
True, enlightened fellowship needs both a strong, clear, individual consciousness—one not caught
up in ego—AND a cooperative, empathic group consciousness, to function optimally. Without respect for
the strong personal identity, creativity and personal growth suffer. Without respect for the group identity,
harmony and nurturing suffer. Without strong individual awareness, self-sacrifice runs rampant. Without
strong group sensitivity, alienation and violence abound. So, with true fellowship, the individual is
respected as a source of innovation and growth and the collective consciousness is respected as a source of
harmonious organization and integration.
Entering the Experience of Fellowship
Whenever I want to shift into a deeper experience of fellowship, I begin by meditating on, and
intentionally feeling, the divine presence. I affirm that a higher sanity and orderliness of universal laws is
inherent in all the particles of my body. As soon as I'm saturated with that feeling, my awareness spreads
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out and I notice the environment and how the same presence and light is in the air around my body and in
all the atoms of matter. I then notice a homogeneity of energy moving through all things and that there is
a kind of personalness suddenly—that because there is no separation between myself and other things, then
the air must know me. The tree must be aware of me because we are connected, we're made of the same
thing. There is a familiarity and a cozy family feeling then with all forms of life. And suddenly there is a
flow of joy: Everybody knows me! Nothing is separate from me. I have friends everywhere! It makes me
feel safe. And you know how, when a child feels safe and protected, they play and show off
unselfconsciously? I feel that way, like I want to play, like I want to move beyond my comfort zone,
beyond the little bubble I've defined as myself.
So, what used to be impersonal becomes personal. I see I have a personal relationship with life.
Conversely, my personal issues and agendas become less personal, more common to all people. I haven't
cornered the market on suffering and my problems aren't all that unique and special. Everything I thought
was so important, all my identity—it doesn't need promotion and protection. Why give my stuff so much
attention when I'm in everything! It's too boring to stay so small all the time.
With fellowship, there is a feeling of mutual containment, like I expand out and contain all of you
in my bubble of reality. You are in my awareness, in my field or aura, which is sentient. If you expand and
include me in your bubble or body of awareness, and everybody else expands and includes everybody else
in their bubble of awareness, we get this one bubble of all our merged selves, and that's what we call
"reality." It's a collaboration. All these bubbles each containing each other out of choice. Doesn't that feel
better than our usual view of an inimical world locked in contest?
If I keep paying attention, I have a new experience of ME. There is an US that is me. Actually, I am
a "Me-Us." You and I are this big, collective self, and we're also still the individual Penney, or Josh, or
Megan. We're like a huge sphere, the "Us-ball," with each individual experiencing itself as the central
nucleus. To understand fellowship, we must be able to live with this paradox of I'm Penney AND I'm the
whole. We have to be willing to be authentic, to be loyal to what's emerging from the Me in the moment,
trusting that what we do from our purest motives is what everyone else wants and needs us to do.
By doing this, we discover, and quite joyfully, that we are not limited by our past at all, that we are
new every second. We experience that the source of our creativity and knowledge is not our own puny,
limited past history. We can access the entire history of the planet, of all the souls who have ever lived, in
all their lifetimes, everywhere, in every time period. Our resources are truly unlimited. So, by giving our
attention to this emergence process, by trusting the others who are cocreating this world with us, and by
being loyal to the divine power that sends consciousness through us all, we become enlightened, both as
individuals and as groups, through the power of fellowship.
So, fellowship occurs when we are authentic individuals AND feel how we belong in the larger
scheme of things. It occurs when we are loyal to the creativity that wants to emerge through us, and in the
group, and we serve that emergence. Fellowship causes us to become aware of like-minded groups whose
members have similar levels of development, or enlightenment.
Understanding the Soulgroup
Again, a soulgroup is a cluster of beings who have evolved to a common frequency, or level of
enlightenment, which means they often have matching philosophies, world views, morality, and
motivation. These souls seem quite similar when they manifest in the physical world. They often have
parallel upbringings, interests, life transitions, values, goals, even names. You may become aware first of
just a few scattered members with whom you share special bonds. Over time, the group expands. Your
soulgroup contains your earthly friends, both present and absent, as well as all your friends in spirit, your
guides, teachers, ancestors, and loved ones who have died.
I think it's important for us to start to have conscious gatherings with our soulgroup, both in
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meditation and socially in real life. First, it helps us realize that we are not alone, that we have support
from people who want us to be good and successful. It's too easy to feel the world doesn't care about
you, that you are alone—and this gives rise to suffering. We need to know there are wise people who know
us, to whom we can turn for guidance whenever we need it. If you get quiet and imagine them, your
soulgroup members immediately imagine you—and you're connected. That's the way it works in the
telepathic realms. Second, by imagining these souls regularly, your body adjusts to a higher frequency, your
own higher vibration, the way a tuning fork does. And you progress rapidly in your spiritual growth. Third,
it can be difficult to imagine what "God" is because it's such an infinite reality. I know I'm supposed to
have faith, but if I can't feel or imagine the divine, it's hard to know it's real. By imagining your soulgroup,
you can move up to an interim step between your personal reality and God. It's not so hard to experience
this group, and once there, you can learn to jump up another level. So the soulgroup can be a stepping
stone to experiencing more of the divine source.
Treating Others Like They're in Your Soulgroup
You can also allow yourself to be a spokesperson for your group. Okay! Here's my mouth. Here's my brain.
Here are my hands, my feet. Move me where you want. Let me talk to the people I need to reach, and say
the things that need to be said. Be willing to be moved around, be impressed by new thoughts, and share
yourself spontaneously.
Since I have been practicing this I've had a real shift in the quality of my personal relationships. I
now see that each person who comes to me is a gift of God, a messenger, just as I am to them. They
allow the soulgroup, or the higher powers, to serve me through them. If I accept them as messengers of
the divine and empower them to be that, then whatever comes out of their mouth will be exactly what I
need. Everything they think of to do will be like me thinking of it. Then the other person allows me to be
the messenger of the divine to serve them, and allows me to be right; whatever I think of is perfect for
them—and a cooperative, cocreative movement starts building. You can do that with your mate, your family
members, your friends, or enemies. You give over, surrender to the wise group awareness that is flowing
through all the people in your life. And that giving over turns everything around and good things start to
flow into you and up out of you.
Everything we've ever wanted has already been given to us because, with fellowship, the world
wants us to win. It's just that we haven't realized that it's been given and haven't consciously received,
used, and integrated it. The fat on our bodies is love and nourishment that's been given to us in the past,
while we were going around saying, "I'm hungry; I never get what I want; No one tells me I'm good!" We
didn't realize we were being fed and haven't therefore digested and made sense of what we received. We
must decide we've picked the right boss, the right people to work with for now, the right family situation,
etc. Obviously, something is right because things can't even manifest if they aren't what's needed. When
we accept what we have and get the message, the next more-appropriate thing can manifest more easily.
Treating others like they're part of your soulgroup actually makes them part of your soulgroup, and you a
part of theirs. Here is our stairway to heaven.
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