Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

That's beautiful.

You're absolutely right.

And so as I say then, Christ consciousness is the permanent awareness of the inner journey of all other beings, including the sea otters or whatever.

But I think that we experiment in 3D density.

We experiment with all different life forms, all the way from flora to fauna to homo sapiens and beyond.

And so we have to experience what it's like to be in that level of densification.

So in some parts of the animal kingdom, they're driven by pure instinct.

There's no rationality involved in that thinking stuff through.

And so there's an instinctual attraction to protect your own or to savage somebody else's.

A lion will kill all the cubs with a female by another male.

And so it's like there's an instinct to respond to any life situation in the lower levels of the animal kingdom.

Now within the species then very often there's an affinity and a protection of them.

So as we kind of scale up to different experiences of incarnation, all the way up to the human family, the human family for me may be the first level at which we truly have the capacity

to experience the suffering of others who are not part of our kin or even part of our species.

And so I think there are levels beyond that.

I think there are the great seven levels of Hinduism, that there's a physical body, there's an etheric body, there's an astral body, there's a mental body, there's a psychic body, there's a soul body, and there's the source self.

And at this stage of human development, I believe we're somewhere in between the kind of the astral and the animated.

So I believe that planet Earth itself, Gaia, and you and I talked last night, you had this beautiful piece that you read about Gaia Sophia, this beautiful notion of Gaia Sophia.

I think that Gaia herself has seven different levels of body as well.

that there's the physiosphere, the third rock from the sun in the solar system.