The idea that consciousness continues to aggregate above our current plateau, and parallel to it, is deeply intuitive. We can recognize consciousness in ourselves, in animals, and in the shamanic paradigm, in plants as well. There’s all different levels of consciousness in the indigenous understanding of the world as a living organism, and in that macro organism there seems to be a cascading effect where one state of mind can build upon another for an interdependent whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
