It appears that everything is energy and though physicists may differentiate between particles and waves, the famous double slit experiment appears to indicate that there is at least a wave component to everything. So here I will ignore the particulate for the moment and note some of the basic characteristics of a wave or frequency. By definition a frequency oscillates, so it is always in motion. At a minimum, it also has bandwidth, amplitude, directional shifts and polarities. By these features it can be distinguished, so it could be said that, in part, we make distinctions via our perceptions of frequencies and, since we ourselves are distinguishable, we too should have these same traits. So, in a way, we are collections of frequencies, observing and interacting with other frequencies.
In my own energetic experiences, frequencies of shorter bandwidths ride along on those of longer bandwidths. It may be similar to the multiple sizes of waves on the ocean, though it doesn’t exactly feel like that. It might be that they are on, or in, or blended with them. 
I can’t really tell but I will use some analogies that I have used before. Though we experience some of the same frequency ranges, a mouse or a hummingbird is most naturally tuned to a different set of ranges than we are. Their heartbeats, for example, are much faster than ours, just as those of whales are slower than ours. Some animals see in the infrared and some in the ultraviolet. We see neither. Bacteria or cells in our bodies clearly resonate at very different frequency rates than we do, yet we all ride along in the cycle of our planet’s daily spin, its annual trip around the sun and the solar system’s trip spiraling around the center of our galaxy. We are in those longer wavelengths, which will last much longer than we will, and we’re not getting out of them. Their wavelengths are so long that we do not consciously sense them, much like our cells do not experience our whole body. Their vastness, thus relative stillness, makes us blind to them. All frequencies exist together in a cosmological ecosystem that we are immersed in and inseparable from, and at least some of the more subtle are distinguishable in our experience should we seek them out via yoga, meditation or other “letting go” practices.
Here I will quote Alan Watts again, “the ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.” It appears to me that the focused attention of consciousness is precisely how we are expressed as a particular identity in this universe. What frequencies I happen to be attending to determine what I am distinguishing, thus experiencing, at any given moment. Our daily lives tend to keep us focused on those frequencies that are habitual, resulting from being in a physical body and by being immersed since infancy into a family, a culture and the relationships that we have chosen, or fallen into, throughout our lives. Thus there is a “frequency neighborhood” that I am most attuned to and what is familiar tends to mask the expanse of the unknown that lies beyond. I am not minimizing the importance of the familiar, for without the focal ranges that I am aligned in and the integration of my self-selected habits, I could not adequately function, much less survive, in this world. 
I am pointing out that part of that vast unknown is made up of an endless parade of meta-waves, each of a longer, thus more subtle, wavelength than the one before – in this example in the direction of vastness. Each is a deeper aspect of the foundation from which this particular point of attention somehow became differentiated. Those deep foundational layers have useful meta-perspectives to impart. They, like their waveforms, tend to be broad and naturally “transcend and include” the perspectives that I am currently conscious of. And they come slowly to the forefront as I dip my awareness back into their long undulations via my chosen practices.
Within the vastness of experience, there are experiences that I am totally unaware of (the spinning of our galaxy), ones that I am semi-conscious of (the light of the sun on a cloudy day), ones that I am conscious of (a casual conversation), ones that I am hyper-conscious of (immersion in a particular task) and, lastly, the apex of focused attention, a deliberate choice. It seems clear that the more our attention is brought to bear, the more energy is added. To me this added energy feels like it is drawn from some of those longer wavelengths on which we travel and is funneled into the ranges of our everyday lives via focused attention and choice. Choice seems to bring the essence of creativity itself from our deepest spaces, penetrating all intervening experiential terrain, and inserting the power of that declaration into our current space-time neighborhood. This additional energy generates an increasing mass, along with the gravitation that comes naturally with a larger mass. Along with that added gravity comes the commensurate difficulty to extract oneself from it. In his book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz says “Breaking agreements is very difficult because we put the power of the word (which is the power of our will) into every agreement we have made. We need the same amount of power to change an agreement.” Our deliberate choices, our “agreements”, can bring the power of our will up from the deepest and longest of wavelengths, as I experience it, and imbue a relatively solid groundedness, a kind of particle-ness, into our here-and-now experience. Thus, without “…the same amount of power…” they will be difficult to extract ourselves from.
This effect seems to be magnified in the kind of mutual focus that occurs when more than one person is paying attention to something, but particularly in the case of common intent. When people are working together in a business, there is an underlying common directionality for that company that seems to generate a gravity and directional flow that the participants are immersed in. Whether they are contributing to that momentum, begrudgingly going along or deliberately dragging their feet, they are caught up in that communal invisible flow. 
The more people that are participating, the more power there is and the less easy it is to slow or divert that flow. Like a government bureaucracy, collective intent has its own momentum and an enormous gravitational pull compared to that of one individual’s intent.
With that said, focused attention is one pole of a polarity in a waveform too. We create or add energy with focused attention and we let go to appreciate our creation, or at least to rest. Create, let go; create, let go; work, weekend; work, weekend; work, vacation. We also attend to the world, sleep; attend to the world, sleep and we inhale and exhale; inhale and exhale. For some cycles, like sleeping and breathing, we have an acceptance about their nature so have no resistance to their oscillating flow. We sometimes have difficulty doing this with our own creations, and it is obviously more difficult with the collective creations of culture with their corresponding gravity wells. The gravity of cultural agreement, including our deliberately chosen subcultures, is powerful and so it is extremely difficult to reach an escape velocity from that attracting force. As Voltaire said “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” To permit the natural oscillations of a broad communal intent, we must at times extract ourselves from the slipstream of that flow in order to see if it is still serving the intended purpose or if, from a relative distance, a realignment or wholesale change is needed.
Here I will bring back the particle. (I will focus only on the particle-like, more tangible manifestations that we ourselves generate with our choices, not things like bacteria, wind or rain.) Compared with a wave, a particle appears to not be moving and one form of letting go can indeed occur from an examination of the relatively fixed particles that have been deliberately manifested, such as specific protocols in a large organization, and their unintended consequences, that were not. Our ingrained scientific method is perfectly suited for this pathway to letting go. But we have gotten so wrapped up in that method as a society that many think that the only way to solve problems is to pick out every impact and examine it. This part-by-part investigation rarely reveals the wave on which the entire enterprise is riding so is less able to notice larger unexpected tendencies that might be emerging from it. Practices such as meditation are an excellent way to release one’s individual focus and step back into a more panoramic view of our own beliefs and behaviors. It will often enough reveal a framework from which we have been viewing our lives without having to deal with all of the specific tendencies that the framework has generated over time. The practice itself can provide a level of energetic separation that will usually destabilize those patterns and traits, whereby deliberate actions may be taken to loosen up their grip or to re-contextualize them as they become visible due to that destabilization. But will it work for the more communal patterns of collective thought?
An individual practice is certainly a good place to start but it seems to me that some form of collective letting go is needed to counter the gravity generated by collective attention. It feels like we have reached a crest (or trough) in our current cultural wave and there is a need to allow that wave to continue its natural oscillation without the kind of kicking and screaming – internal or external – that tends to occur when we are dragged away from a familiar, comfortable directional flow or the forms (particles) that have arisen from it. A number of “We space” practices have arisen of late. In the ones that I have done, my identity is opened up into a mysterious We stew where individual perspectives seem to drop into the background and a kind of entwined collective self emerges in the simple vulnerable space of articulating what is being evoked in the presence of another human being. 
We tenderly reach into another’s experience, and allow ourselves to be touched in kind. When it is over, I take a bit of that common resonance with me, as me, wherever I go. It seems that in these mutual spaces our individuated identity is dissolved by and into a resonance with another. It seems like something within our collective depths knows the most resonant pathway and naturally takes us in that direction. To me this communal space that we then find ourselves in is clearly more conducive to evoking inspiration than any other practice that I have done. Communication is natural when with another and because it is natural, the We easily articulates the meta-perspectives that those vast, more inclusive terrains have to offer. My own insights only dribble out, in comparison, after group mediation. This intimate entwinement seems to be at least one entry point into a collective letting go. I’m sure that nature will create many. Each form will, like collective attention, have higher scale potency but in the direction of release, of allowing.
We don’t yet know who we are as an entwined being and that uncertainty allows the unknown to traipse on through our opened individuality and begin to explore the delights of some kind of mutual singularity. This kind of collective loss of attention may allow a polarity shift in longer wavelengths that were created by collective attention. In these We space practices it seems to me that our particularities give way as our underlying uniqueness finds common resonance with the deep uniqueness of another in those depths where we are less differentiated. I am suspecting that perhaps because the We is less differentiated, We are more easily brought into alignment with the letting go oscillations of those deeper inner, perhaps cultural, meta-waveforms. This emergence of We practices may actually be a natural manifestation of a deep wave beginning to express its shift in polarity. The joy and delight that is experienced by doing them beckons us to that entwinement. It calls us to participate, to dissolve ourselves into this freeing experience of an emerging form of collective selves-expression. From that space the natural flow seems to be that we can add our selves-intention to the directional shift that is the cultural waveform’s natural movement. Within that movement we should be able to articulate what those spaces have to reveal, and in doing so begin the process of bringing the inspiration of those waveforms into their particle form, as manifestations in our daily lives and the culture more generally.