The following is an answer and/or comment by inhahe aka ColorStorm (inhahe.com - myriachromat.wordpress.com).

Caroline Wright

What if we are parasites of the Earth in a more literal sense than we perceive. What if the earth and all the trees and fungus are really all far closely connected than we have comprehended before and the Earth really is a living conscious entity in itself? I know this isn't an all new concept and it is believed in Buddhism that we are all connected, but what if that connection is going on around us without us actually being a part of it (maybe sometimes we can just be more aware of it?) .. Maybe virus' have a consciousness that believes they are a part of us...
I really do believe our ego and spirit/soul is just us making sense of our consciousness and that is only possible with the accumulation of live cells and matter that makes us, us. Consciousness is such a fascinating subject.
I've not been studying it like I want to - just thoughts 

 

Glenn F. Smith

Humans are not parasites, it is the current culture that devolves into a parasitic behavior.

 

Richard A. Nichols III

My first thought was exactly what Glenn F. Smith said. I agree with the rest of what you said except the part where there's no soul as such and consciousness is only possible by means of cells. I believe consciousness is ubiquitous; the universe is made up of it. There's been plenty of paranormal research and events to show that consciousness and/or conscious perception isn't limited to the cells in our bodies.

 

Caroline Wright

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Richard A. Nichols III can you share some please? I'm interested I just don't believe. I've had odd experiences happen to me but I believe there is more likely another way to explain it other than a soul

 

Richard A. Nichols III

I've read of studies in parapsychology (guessing what shape card someone is looking at, and other things like that) where they got statistically significant results. I don't know the specifics of the studies, but some of them were in The World of Psychic Research by Hereward Carrington ( https://www.google.com/shopping/product/2758086702156213307?hl=en-GB&q=the+world+of+psychic+research&prds=epd:749922351984783566,eto:749922351984783566_0,prmr:1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ-uG_kMjtAhUKQq0KHc-EALEQ9pwGCAU ). It's been a really long time since I've read any books about it, so there are probably more recent books on the subject. I believe there's also a successful experiment mentioned in the YouTube video The Taboo of Psi by Dean Radin ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_O9Qiwqew ).

I've also seen some results of viewing tests, some of them even carried out by the military, where the people's drawings were spot on. (I believe if consciousness were limited to our cells then people wouldn't be able to access information outside of sensory input like that.) And I saw two videos where Joni Dourif from TRV-Psitech used a technical remote viewing process for test done live by a news network and surprisingly accurately described some of what was going on at the target event. The process, which they call technical remote viewing, was devised by Major Ed Dames for the military, after which he went on to found his own private company using and teaching the technique.

I even tried remote viewing myself once, with someone on the internet, and I said that his monitor was white and had speakers protruding from the sides. I was right. I also said there was something white and making a swirling motion next to his door. He said there was a white floor fan running next to his door. I think those were the only two things I said about it.

Then there are the things I mentioned in this post: https://www.facebook.com/.../permalink/3981407321891781/... . If you don't have access to it, it says, "For one, people have been temporarily braindead on the hospital bed and have come back and accurately reported what people in the room had said in conversation while they were braindead, which should be impossible. Sometimes they've even reported floating above their body and seeing things in positions that they'd have no line of sight to from their position on the bed--things which were verified to actually be there.

Another thing is both children and adults have remembered details (sometimes through hypnosis, sometimes not) about other other lives that they'd have "no way of knowing" that have been factually verified.

Even the reports of near-death experiences without factual verification have been amazing and inspiring, and have been more real than real to the people experiencing them. Of course, people who don't want to believe in life after death assume this is a product of the central nervous system dying, but that seems unlikely/reaching to me. I think that view is overly skeptical/biased given the particular nature of the experiences."

I've heard of plenty of cases like these, but unfortunately, I don't collect references on them, and I don't have a very good memory so I can't cite any, you'll have to search for them yourself. =d

I think a lot--probably most--of people have had odd experiences like yours but write them off, ignore them, rationalize them away, etc., because they don't accord with the way we're taught to think in modern scientistic culture. People believe that thinking rationally or scientifically implies not believing in anything parapsychological, but there's no justification for this. There's no scientific experiment that proves that reality is merely physical, or that psychism or even mysticism is false, or that consciousness is strictly an emergent property of brain processes, etc. Those are simply assumptions made because they support the wholly non-living, mechanistic view of the universe that science is based on. Mechanical, physicalist thinking is so effective in the sciences, and is so convenient because it's so straightforward and objective, that academia has made the leap of presuming it's all there is to the nature of the universe or of rationally thinking about it. Everyone is duped, and we've been tragically disconnected (even further) from magic, from the cosmos, from our sources.