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...Is it possible for all our minds to be interconnected, yet the connection is out of reach to the ordinary human beings? The stories about finding this connection by meditating, can they somehow be true? Can our minds be far older than our physical bodies since they are a part of a 'universal mind' which has lasted for years and will last for an eternity?

An emphatic "yes": "We (humans) are spiritual beings with a mission in the physical universe."

We enter the physical world at conception, ready to acquire our flesh-and-blood spacesuit...

The following new podcast by the authors of Partially Examined Life addresses the concept Oversoul of American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Hello value,

If the mind is synonymous with other information processing systems which provide for self organization, and information processing itself is fundamental to reality, this implies we are all part of a 'universal mind'.