What I like about the universal c...onsciousness things - the
gaia mind - is it explains a lot of world history. Perhaps the
mechanisms used by the world mind is due to commerce (chinese
ships trading spices with ancient greece, bringing the idea of
the Tao to Plato (as the Tao and Plato's "Word" are very nearly
identical concepts and they sprung up within the same generation
of people geographically separated by thousands of miles - about
500 BC))"