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Occult and esoteric concept — describing an autonomous psychic or spiritual entity created by the collective focused thought and emotion of a group — the idea that sufficiently intense collective belief, ritual, or attention generates a real (if non-physical) entity that can act back upon the group — popularized in 19th century French occultism and revived in contemporary chaos magic and Jungian discourse.