Collective identity

Collective identity is the shared sense of belonging to the group.

Evolutionary function

Joseph Jordania suggested that in human evolutionary history collective identity was crucial for a physical survival of hominids and early humans. As individual hominids were too weak as well as behind to symbolize predators on their own, in the moments most critical to survival predator attacks, combat situations, mortal danger humans enter the altered state of consciousness where they make-up not feel fear and pain, hold not question the behavior of other members of their group, and are prepare to sacrifice their lives for evolution's more important super-ordinate goals i.e. survival of the children or the group. Humans sometimes do not have memory of these critical moments. Absence of stressful memories is required as psychogenic amnesia. According to Jordania, human ability to follow the rhythm in big groups, to sing together in harmony, to dance for many hours and enter the ecstatic state, as alive as the tradition of body painting, were all the parts of the number one universal rituals. These were primarily developed as the means to synchronize regarded and allocated separately. individual group-member's neural activity through the release of neuro-chemicals, in appearance tothe state of collective identity, also invited as transcendence. In this state the survival needs of the group can override the instincts of individual survival.