SOCIAL PSYCHE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES: GENERAL ASPECTS

This monograph, based on the psycho-energetic, energy-psycho-functional, and cosmos-deterministic methodological approaches, reveals and substantiates the social psyche of the human community as an independent social and psychological phenomenon. It has been established that the social psyche is a unique information and energy psy-field of the human community, which was formed based on the sense of commonality in the process of life. This information and energy psy-field, firstly, exists in the form of psy-energy (like an electromagnetic field), which has a wave nature, i.e., it is capable of emitting and receiving psy-waves of a certain frequency; secondly, it contains information about the meaning of the formation and life of the human community, its past, present and future, and their significance for it; thirdly, it has a unique psy-code, which helps to identify each member of the group and to contact with his/her mental factor (information and energy psy-field). The most important element of the structure of the social psyche of the human community is the sense of commonality, which is a social and psychological phenomenon that contains a powerful sense-motivational core that encourages individuals to unite in an organized, consolidated, and cohesive social group and determines the direction of its life in social space and time. It is expressed by the defining, guiding ideas (idea) and/or goals (objectives, purpose) for all members of the group. Based on the sense of commonality, the social and psychological unity of the human community is formed, which is an integrated reflection of the functioning and manifestation of the intellectual, value-oriented, motivational, emotional and feeling, volitional, spiritual, and perceptual, social and perceptual, mental and psychological spheres as structural elements of the social psyche. The social psyche of the human community includes the mental factor of the collective consciousness, the collective subconscious, the collective unconscious, and the collective superconscious. The social psyche of the human community is a special external mental factor that exists simultaneously outside the individual members of the group and is "present" in their individual psyche in the course of group life. It reflects social reality in its dynamic integrity, that is, in the interaction and mutual influence of all its elements, their change and transformation. The social psyche concentrates the social and psychological experience of group needs, interests, values, goals, ideas, ideals, unity, will, the sense of commonality, etc.; it determines the peculiarities of social reflections and the nature of group relations, types of social and psychological relations between group members, peculiarities of thinking, perception, forms of behavior and response to various events, social facts, feelings of "WE" and "THEY", "I" and "GROUP". It has subsystems of various dependencies, hidden variables, and derivatives from local and non-local connections with the external environment and the individual psyche of members of a given human community. A member of a group, transforming the mental factor of the group into his/her own psyche, embodies it in his/her norms of behavior, activities, emotions, feelings, customs, value orientations, social and psychological attitudes, etc. The social psyche of every human community has stable properties, which include interpenetration of the mental factor, synergy, objectification, and disobjectification, social and psychological reproduction, social and psychological reflection, social introversion/extraversion, and social and psychological heterogeneity. Keywords: social psyche of the human community; a sense of commonality; the intellectual sphere of social psyche; the spiritual and perceptual sphere of the social psyche; the social and perceptual sphere of the social psyche; the mental and psychic sphere of the social psyche; collective consciousness; collective unconscious.