A huge amount of detritus in the history of these issues is caused by some major assumpitons about the qualities and nature of this zone of being we think we are talking about.

The notion that there is "man-like" attention coming from a Beingness that transcends all cosmos is somewhat absurd on the face of it, something like requiring a human to listen to electrons individually. You wouldn't even begin to try, and if someone told you that large numbers of electrons expected you to pay attention to their affairs you would graciously and humorously decline the commitment, wouldn't you?

Anthropomorphism is a hard habit to break, especially when it is so ingrained in the legacy of vocabulary.

But until it gets broken, I don't think meaningful insights into this arena are really possible.

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