Focused, coherent states of consciousness appear to provide clarity to knowing, an organizing influence on perceived reality. Ordinary consciousness encourages entropy of thought and frenetic, dissonant perceptions of reality. The following is an excerpt from the article Moving Mind, Moving Matter by Dean Radin, Ph.D., Noetic Sciences Review , No. 46 - Summer 1998. Third, the strength of consciousness in an individual fluctuates from moment to moment, and is regulated by focus of attention.
Some states of consciousness have higher focus than others.
We propose that ordinary awareness has a fairly low focus of attention compared to peak states, mystical states, and other nonordinary states. Group consciousness strengthens when the group's attention is focused on a common object or event, and this creates coherence among the group. If the group's attention is scattered, then the group's mental coherence is also scattered. Fifth, when individuals in a group are all attending to different things, then the group consciousness and group mental coherence is effectively zero, producing what amounts to background noise. We assume that the maximum degree of group coherence is related in some complicated way to the total number of individuals present in the group, the strength of their common focus of attention, and other psychological, physiological, and environmental factors.