Is There a "Universal Consciousness"?
It has been given multiple names. The most used ones are variants of universal or cosmic consciousness or mind . Psychologist Carl Jung called it the Collective Unconscious . One of the fathers of quantum mechanics, Erwin Schrödinger was obsessed with the concept of Brahman used in the Sanskrit writings of the Upanishads. The physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla and the philosopher Erwin Laszlo popularized the terms Akasha , also borrowed from ancient Sanskrit philosophy. The Chinese call it Tao. Even the concept of God , present in every culture appears to refer to the same entity. All these terms sound very abstract at first sight, but they imply a perfectly real manifestation in real life: the capacity of us humans (and possibly of any living organism) to access any information, past, present or future anywhere in space-time, absurd this might sound to our conscious and presumably rational minds. The concept is similar to that of a hologram, containing all the inf...