I'll be honest, when it comes to details, I really don't know. I was going for a kind of Star Wars "force" kind of vibe here. I also remember recently seeing or reading something to the effect that when people have out of body experiences, it's not so much that they're leaving their body so much as that they are rejoining the collective intelligence out there. But I have no idea how it's all supposed to work or how to measure it.
I really liked a show called "
Ghost Hunters" that aired for 12 years, as they'd attempt to find scientific evidence that ghosts really do exist. I believe they found some evidence. I also really like the idea that psychoanalyst Carl Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli came up with called synchronicity. Wikipedia's introduction to the term:
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Synchronicity (German: Synchronizität) is a concept introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung to describe events that coincide in time and appear meaningfully related, yet lack a discoverable causal connection.[1] Jung held this was a healthy function of the mind, that can become harmful within psychosis.[2][3]
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Source:
en.wikipedia.org
Another concept I like from Carl Jung is the collective unconsciousness:
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Collective unconscious (German: kollektives Unbewusstes) refers to the unconscious mind and shared mental concepts. It is generally associated with idealism and was coined by Carl Jung. According to Jung, the human collective unconscious is populated by instincts, as well as by archetypes: ancient primal symbols such as The Great Mother, the Wise Old Man, the Shadow, the Tower, Water, and the Tree of Life.[1] Jung considered the collective unconscious to underpin and surround the unconscious mind, distinguishing it from the personal unconscious of Freudian psychoanalysis. He believed that the concept of the collective unconscious helps to explain why similar themes occur in mythologies around the world. He argued that the collective unconscious had a profound influence on the lives of individuals, who lived out its symbols and clothed them in meaning through their experiences. The psychotherapeutic practice of analytical psychology revolves around examining the patient's relationship to the collective unconscious.
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Source:
en.wikipedia.org
A little more from the same article on the collective unconscious that I found quite interesting:
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The term "collective unconscious" first appeared in Jung's 1916 essay, "The Structure of the Unconscious".[4] This essay distinguishes between the "personal", Freudian unconscious, filled with sexual fantasies and repressed images, and the "collective" unconscious encompassing the soul of humanity at large.[5]
In "The Significance of Constitution and Heredity in Psychology" (November 1929), Jung wrote:
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