The Interconnectedness of Life: Science, Bugs and Nonduality

http://www.ScienceAndNonduality.com

90% of our body is made of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi.... 100 trllions of them! And each of these "living entities" has a clear evolutionary agenda. New research prove that bacterias in our guts "can" control our thoughts...
"Your honor, it was not me... The bug made me do it!"...and we know that there is a parasite that can "convince" a rat to stop being afraid of cats so that he can reproduce itself...

We should start considering our body not as a separate, unified, entity but a living conglomerate of decision making creatures with, at times, contrasting evolutionary needs...

This video was inspired by an article written by Christopher Koch on the May 2011 issue of Scientific American.

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[scienceandnonduality]

Hard to digest the idea that we are not the one digesting it... :-)

[RedLetterChristian]

i believe that you are wrong and this is why i think this way.

as a person i have many "bugs" that i live in and on me at all times. now the healthy ones (not trying to kill me) are living in a symbiotic relationship where the 2lbs of bacteria in my gut should be able to have some way of telling me what is good or bad for them because this affects me, the larger organism. now i can choose to 'listen' to them or i can eat 'bad' food that will affect them and myself. i am > grass. i am body & soul

[scienceandnonduality]

@RedLetterChristian I actually agree with you. I am simply proposing that we are not "one" undivided organism but an organism that lives in symbiosis with many other, smaller and larger organisms... And these organisms have an evolutionary agenda of their own... both the one that help you digest your food and the one that try killing you...

We are part of a large web of relationships other then simply "me-me-me"...

... just a thought... :-)

love, Maurizio

[scienceandnonduality]

:-) ...very, very clever... why not???... :-)

I am simply hinting that our sense of self being in charge of our body, thoughts and action is an illusion... And if that sense of self is an illusion, or at least is influenced by "things" inside and around us, we will have to admit "life" is a dance involving infinite forms, from bacterias to stars, having their evolutionary agendas creating "what is".

We are deeply interconnected... :-)

[ItsInYourSoul]

Interesting possibilities here, Maurizio. Thanks for sharing. Most human beings would perish the thought that a parasite or any other entity could be controlling their thoughts but each new day brings more fascinating insights contradicting what we have always believed to be true before. My 20-something son forwarded this video onto me (tongue in cheek) perhaps in regards to his recent erratic driving skills :) or he's SUBTLY trying to tell me something else as I'm intolerant to many foods.

[opalgoblin]

My body is full of parasites, huh? A good time to consider self-immolation.

[gorsbdvichar]

Self seems no illusion because the one that manifests as self that talks, listens,sees, reflections,senses all is truth, no illusion, what is illusion is to doubt that True self. What originates from thoughts of this doubt only with out considering the true self is illusion, not the SELF that One is, Yes that true self/life force is dancing infinitely in infinite forms