I went like 10 minutes with no stimulation (phone, tv, music, internet) and has an idea for a story in which all life on earth descended from a lonely super organism that kept splitting itself into smaller and smaller pieces so it could have more life to interact with, and the story unfolds in the reverse of the process as life becomes untenable on the planet and the super organism recompiles itself one death at a time as told through the eyes of a handful of characters who begin to acquire foreign memories as people and animals die
It’s 5am, and I’ve just woken up for like 5 minutes and I’m about to go back to sleep, so I may be reading more into that than there is, I’m not sure. But that sounds strikingly similar to the ideas found in Hindu qualified nondualism, or vishishtadvaita, in which all that exists is Brahman, and each time one of us escapes rebirth we are rejoined to Brahman and become one
I went like 10 minutes with no stimulation (phone, tv, music, internet) and has an idea for a story in which all life on earth descended from a lonely super organism that kept splitting itself into smaller and smaller pieces so it could have more life to interact with, and the story unfolds in the reverse of the process as life becomes untenable on the planet and the super organism recompiles itself one death at a time as told through the eyes of a handful of characters who begin to acquire foreign memories as people and animals die
It’s 5am, and I’ve just woken up for like 5 minutes and I’m about to go back to sleep, so I may be reading more into that than there is, I’m not sure. But that sounds strikingly similar to the ideas found in Hindu qualified nondualism, or vishishtadvaita, in which all that exists is Brahman, and each time one of us escapes rebirth we are rejoined to Brahman and become one
Oh yeah, no. That sounds kind of exactly the same. Guess I’ll have to read up lol