The Garden of Eden

We are humans walking in our own garden.

How can any one person believe that he or she has an individual state of consciousness when we are a combination of organisms? If all life has  'consciousness' then surely each of us is a garden of consciousness? How then can humans continue this sense of superiority? And how can we really call ourselves 'human' if only some 43% of us is actually made of human cells and the rest constitutes our microbiome? Genetically we are totally overpowered. If we add together our own 20,000 genes and those of our microbiome which do have an effect upon our own, the total arrived at is between two and twenty million genes.

This means that with the overwhelming amount of genetic material that isn't actually human but is a garden of flora and fauna, that the human element of us, exists in our own personal garden. 

Understanding consciousness and the mechanisms that produce our perceived reality fully allows us the knowledge that the prophets and seers who wrote the Old Testament story of the Garden of Eden were actually attempting to describe the very same thing in the only language of description they had available to them at that time. The stories we have adopted as religion have a completely different and more meaningful purpose. That purpose was to give us a far deeper understanding of ourselves. The authors of those writings were literally way ahead of their time. And yet, as I'll explain in another blog post, time does not exist. In the meantime, the search for Eden will continue until it is realised that Eden is the name of a person and not a place. 

If we have our own DNA but also the DNA of our microbiome, are we really human or are we something else? And how does this affect our consciousness? From all of these microscopic entities that make up what we call 'ourselves' as a human system, are some of us therefore able to 'remember' the origins of life?  The answer is a resounding Yes. The problem is the disentangling of that information. It is like removing to examine one ingredient from a large soup! But it can be done.

In the same way that all the individual entities that combine to form the image and the mechanics of a human being and the sensation of individuality of mind, could each of those complex combinations be simply the description of how consciousness works? Yes. Consciousness is the coalescence of all information and our perceived reality is the coalescence of all consciousness.

The whole human represents the coalescence of a multitude of individual organisms that 'individually' recognise one another, communicate and respond to situations such as foreign bodies within that system.  Those non-human organisms have a profound effect on our health and wellbeing, both mental and physical. Therefore, it is important to feed our garden and its occupants well.

Each individual cell that forms the system we recognise as our human self creates a specific unit within  the integration of communication we have which gives us 'mind' and a sense of being alive. With this understanding, we can then place that whole system  into a much greater system, one we have understood previously to be God. It is not God but is in fact just as divine as that previous concept. Everything then becomes one whole being within and without. We have no separation from it. We are part of it, woven into it and integral to it. 

We are the fruiting bodies of consciousness. Through us, consciousness is expanded and the connections within it strengthened.