based post three thoughts it inspires in me: a) what if the parasitic infection is what drives our society to be exploitative? i recommend reading more about this concept by searching for the term "wetiko," a native american term referring to a "mind virus" similar to the dsm-5 cluster b category of antisocial personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder- our society's sickness seeking to dominate and extract value from others instead of living in peaceful reciprocity b) many people think earth was originally seeded with life by fungal spores traveling on solar winds from outside the solar system- this is usually called the "panspermia hypothesis." other people think consciousness arose from monkeys/proto-humans eating psychedelic mushrooms. what if what we experience as "consciousness" is just the mushrooms using us as a vehicle to spread itself across the stars? working symbiotically with species to develop consciousness and become interplanetary is probably a much more efficient way to spread across the stars than just randomly drifting. c) i would draw your attention to works in ufology suggesting that reality is not what it seems and actually "anomalous" or "paranormal" phenomena like ufos and esp are interdimensional in nature, not interplanetary. what if technology is given to us by an extradimensional force attempting to break into, colonize or parasitize our native home 3d world? charles upton's "cracks in the great wall" (building off the work of rene guenon) and the works of jacques vallee and john keel broadly refer to this concept welp that's enough thinking for me. on to the next bbc thread! i'll come back in a while and check for responses to any of the 3 topics i brought up.
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