The Psychology of Mass Formation: How It Affects Our Behaviour as a Group

Mass formation is how we got here.

It’s when a society is disconnected and has free-floating anxiety over some time. People then become hypnotised by something. In this case, Covid became the obsession and focus. Authorities can lead society anywhere, even though it makes no logical sense. The idea that people are “in this together” makes them feel connected and part of something again. Speaking the truth helps to break the mass formation psychosis. Professor Matthias Desmet says that totalitarianism eventually self-destructs.

The attachment is to the narrative, not the actual illness. All of the free-floating anxiety in society gets transferred onto the Covid illusion as an unconscious means of trying to resolve the free-floating anxiety and frustration existing within the collective. We are always one step away from getting out of the pandemic, from finally getting out of this mess we find ourselves in.

But it never happens because there is no pandemic. There is only mass formation.

As a result, people who participate in mass formation get angry at those who don’t. Their frustration gets transferred onto those refusing to comply with their enslavement. We become the scapegoat for why things never return to normal.

In the same way, a narcissistic abuse victim wants to return to the “good times” in an abusive relationship, and people in mass formation are longing to return to a normal that never existed. The crumbling away of illusion is one of the most painful things a person can ever go through. But it is also the most liberating. There is no escaping the grip of psychopaths without radical acceptance and shadow work.

We have the extraordinary opportunity to take on this responsibility to dissolve these controlling structures.

Desmet says that during a mass formation, everything gets stripped from citizens without them even realising it. The same thing happens with narcissistic abuse. The abuser denies the victim their sanity, health, identity, dignity, and self-agency without them realising it. It is only at this point that change can happen. We don’t question our reality until we have to.

Humanity has reached that point now. We already have nothing left to lose.