The picture below is an actual photograph taken by Stephane Vetter, not a computer simulation, and shows the interaction which is happening between the ionosphere and the troposphere, part of the unknown mechanism of solar-planet functioning which gives credence to the spiritual concept that planets are living beings, albeit unfathomably different to our own being, which is but a part of all this.
There are roughly 100 lightning events happening every second around the globe, creating a perpetual electrical activity. Above the ~2000 thunderstorms that are a constant presence in our atmosphere, there occur these enormous sprites, which are fleeting plasma phenomena lasting only a fraction of a second, which shoot tendrils upwards as well as downwards connecting the outer atmosphere which is charged by the sun, to the lower atmosphere of the Earth.
I can't help wondering whether these Sprites that occur high above the thunder clouds are some sort of neural equivalent to ours that might be part of the functioning of a level of consciousness of the planet. It would be impossible for us to confirm or deny, as if there was indeed some form of consciousness happening, it might be very different to our own, and maybe something quite different altogether.
Then again, maybe our own base consciousness is the actual experience of Earth consciousness. It would be the second level of presence, without sensory awareness (because it is us who are those senses of the Earth/Gaia), that would be this shared consciousness state. The totality and absoluteness of this experience, without thought or physical sensation, is not us at all, but the whole planet as one.
As soon as any thinking occurs or even acknowledgement of this state of consciousness, that is the mind of the human in operation. Any awareness of sensation is also the human being and not the base consciousness that is also Gaia. We are the mind of the planet. We would be the higher stages of its consciousness. The detached observer at our root is the planet having a look! The god within us.
Any experience of God for us would be the experience of Gaia. It would be impossible for us to differentiate the Universe from Gaia; any doing so would be but a fictional story of the mind. Gaia is everything in our context, and the greater universe plays little part in this spark of consciousness which includes us. Any consciousness of the universe would be the third level of presence, which is not experienceable.
But the base consciousness of ours that we share with Gaia would continue after we die (albeit without any human individuality), and therefore contradicts what I have said elsewhere that consciousness is the actual base functioning of the brain. As much as I like both ideas, they are mutually incompatible. Unless that is, our base consciousness caused by our physical brain is just the gateway to Gaia consciousness. Perhaps we play a part in the construction of Gaia consciousness and as we are the evolution of Gaia, perhaps it cannot be any other way! I don't really know, and neither does anyone else; it is probably impossible to actually know which is why so many old religions are still extant.
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The ~8 million lightning bolts that are happening every day around the globe, are also believed to be responsible for the Schumann Resonances. The lightning happening between the Earth’s surface and the ionosphere, would produce a wave within this cavity. The speed of light travelling around the globe within this cavity, circumnavigates it about eight times a second, which is about the same as the 8Hz dominant Schumann frequency and also the alpha/theta boundary of brainwave activity which produces dreams and spiritual experiences for us. With their being such a strong correlation between the Schumann Frequencies and human brainwave activity, the concept of us being linked to the consciousness of the planet might be a no-brainer!
All our knowledge of the biochemical and electrical processes that constitute us, could not be extrapolated into the concept of a human being without the foregoing knowledge of what we were studying. Without the foresight of knowing what this Gaia is in its full form, we are in danger of assuming that the components of our knowledge do not assemble into a larger and coherent structure beyond our ability to see it, due to time-scale and understanding of ontology. It could even be that Gaia operates like a synapse and it is us creating the next step that produces its firing in a universe sized brain. Now there's a thought! That thought would be within the mind of God.
Our planet is about four and a half billion years old and half way through its life span. Half way through our human life span is about 45 years, and so to equate time for the planet in proportion to our experience of time for us, we can use the relative difference. 4,500,000,000 years planet age half life equals 45 years human age half life equals 100,000,000 to 1 in years. Therefore one of our years is equivalent to a hundred million years for the planet and one of our seconds is equivalent to 100,000,000 seconds for the planet (1 second to 3 years). If we project our experience onto Gaia, then inversely, this translates that one of Gaia's seconds is like 3 years for us. From the planets perspective, a human life span flashes before the eyes of Gaia in a mere 30 seconds. As individuals we are so inconsequential; we are nothing within the greater scheme of things.
We could be considered to be like the neurons that form the mind of Gaia, working together to manifest the world into how it is intended to be. With this view it is alright for us to mine the resources that have been provided for this time from its past. The oil and coal are intended for now; it won't be needed later. We knew back in the 1990's that global warming was already then past the point of no return, but it still catalysed the changes to produce the alternative power sources that are needed. And everyone seems to have forgotten that in the 1970's we were all worried about the impending ice age that was inevitable. Take a step back and see the bigger picture; there is nothing happening here that shouldn't be. We should not underestimate Gaia or demonize ourselves. We are but its servants and it is inevitable for us to do its bidding for the good of the whole. Only the society media addicted to gloom and despair as it is, presents what is happening in a negative way. Perhaps this is necessary to make us get off our arses to do it.
We are now at the technological epoch where we can start to regulate our impact upon the planet and reverse, re-create and restore the ecology, the climate and the species. This is what is happening now. Anything and everything is becoming possible. This is the process that gets us to be able to control our climate and weather, by forcing us to create the means necessary to make it right.
And the extinction of species is supposed to happen anyway; we wouldn't even be here if all the previous mass extinction events hadn't happened, and their occurrences did nothing to upset the incredible diversity that happened afterwards. It has been shown in the past for this trimming to be necessary for progress to continue. Who are we to say how it should be? It is shown how it is to be by it being it.
Gaia is God from the perspective of the way life and events unfolds on this planet. The power of the process that guides the happenings here on this planet all come from Gaia—the combined workings that produce this module of the universe. We are not separate from it. For every bad thing that we can see, there will be a good thing to counter it, and our anxiousness is our lack of faith in the good way that it has been to get here and its continuing process. The sudden and abrupt ending that the media implies is a naive pessimistic fiction, which is perhaps only a necessary catalyst to encourage our natural path of adapting to the changes that are happening on our path to creating heaven.
If you are one of the wonderful people who are actually involved in the saving of species and climate change avoidance, you will undoubtedly succeed and will have been part of a process that in retrospection will all have been inevitable. You can call it free will if you like, but it is Gaia doing it really; just like it is our own bodies that heal us. You never needed to really worry. It was the social media that got you all hyped up and all the emotion was but an incidental neural storm. It is just the way that it happens. All we need to do is keep faith. Faith in Gaia/God. There is no bad thing happening here. That is just language. The Earth is not fragile; it is an unbelievably powerful organism, and we are part of its working, not us working it.