When the collective consciousness of humankind is lost to the egoic illusory identity, it resists what IS in a powerful way.  We become very busy beavers.  We are judging everything as acceptable or unacceptable based on conditioning and a separate-self illusion.  It can take the form of inserting so many boards into the stream we create a dam.  We stop the flow of the stream of life in an attempt to control the stream of life.... Our collective consciousness dams are our structures and organizations and paradigms.  They take the form of religion and political parties and even nations.  We will dam up with intensity to try to change the flow of the river.  Consciousness is lost to the illusion of the dream and is trying to change the course of the dream when it doesn't remember it is the dreamer.  The flow of life brings opportunity for the form to awaken to the formless.  Along the life cycle of the river there will be droughts and dams and flood stage flows.  So even the dams, the egoic insistence on control, the resistance to what IS, will create a sanctuary for consciousness to survive the illusion of the dream.  At some point, the flow of consciousness increases and the dams are broken.  The flow of life returns to its natural course....