While the conventional understanding of reality presupposes a universe composed of inert matter, partitioned into discrete objects that may or may not interact, a range of ancient teachings and contemporary scientific theories challenge this fragmented picture.
Hermeticism, a philosophical and esoteric tradition rooted in writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus—a syncretic figure merging the Greek god Hermes with the Egyptian god Thoth—emerged in Hellenistic Egypt, particularly in Alexandria, during the early centuries of the Common Era. This tradition asserts that the One, or God, is the ultimate source of all existence, simultaneously immanent and transcendent. From this principle emanates a second living entity: the cosmos, conceived as a living being endowed with both soul and body. Within this animate whole, nothing is fundamentally separate; the same vital force courses through all things, meaning that a leaf on a branch and a distant star are not composed of essentially distinct substances but represent varied outward expressions of a single cosmic spirit.
Certain Hermetic texts develop the concept of cosmic sympathy, according to which the entire cosmos is bound together like a single organism by invisible threads of affinity. Plants, metals, gems, animals, planets, and parts of the human body are all understood to possess occult correspondences. Gold, for instance, corresponds to the Sun, the heart, vitality, and kingship. This worldview gave rise to practices such as alchemy, astral magic, and sympathetic medicine, all predicated on the idea that a precise and intentional influence exerted on one element can trigger effects elsewhere, as the universe responds as a unified, living entity.
The Emerald Tablet, a foundational Hermetic text, encapsulates this principle in the dictum “As above, so below,” signifying that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm and vice versa. The entire cosmos (the macrocosm) is mirrored exactly in the individual human being (the microcosm). Planetary orbits, natural cycles, and celestial intelligences exist in miniature within each person. The body, emotions, and mind are not isolated from the universe; they replicate it on a reduced scale. Consequently, events in the outer cosmos may influence the individual, while inner transformation can resonate throughout the greater whole. By coming to know the self (the microcosm), the Hermeticist can come to know the entire universe (the macrocosm), since the two are structurally identical and ontologically linked. The ultimate aim is to realise that the boundary between self and cosmos is an illusion.
In quantum physics, the phenomenon of entanglement illustrates a similar interconnectedness: particles such as electrons or photons can become correlated in such a way that their properties depend on each other, forming a bound system whose quantum states remain interdependent regardless of spatial separation. The quantum potential is a field that interconnects all the particles so that they function as an indivisible whole which transcends space and time. This non-local connection extends to macroscopic scales, suggesting that every point in space and time may be fundamentally linked.

The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics says that instead of a single reality where the wave function collapses to one outcome, the universe constantly forks into parallel branches, each containing a different outcome—all equally real. According to this view, once branches separate through decoherence, they cease to interact; each parallel timeline unfolds independently, without any exchange of information or causal influence between them. However, I wish to push the theory further. I am proposing these alternate realities do not remain isolated but remain fundamentally connected and continuously exchange information. Human beings, in this framework, are understood to interact in some manner with their alternate selves inhabiting parallel timelines, subconsciously experiencing and shifting through an immense multitude of parallel realities at every moment. All possible histories of the universe occur and interfere with each other.
Quantum entanglement also furnishes a conceptual basis for the idea of portals, both artificial and natural. Some portals connect distant locations within the same realm, while others serve as doorways into other dimensions of reality. Ancient rituals could open such portals, enabling communication with interdimensional entities and other spiritual beings. Portals vary in scale, encompassing entire astral bodies like stars as well as smaller structures such as human bodies, brains, and DNA. Every point in the human brain is connected to every other point in the universe. Because consciousness is posited as the very substance of reality, portals are inseparable from consciousness itself. Sightings of cryptid creatures, for example, can be interpreted as instances of a portal opening from one’s consciousness into other dimensions. This framework also accounts for anomalous phenomena, such as sightings of pterodactyls, by positing a consciousness portal opening onto the era of dinosaurs.
Reality is constituted of pure, immaterial information. And because the cosmos is mental in nature, a set of information from a particular location can be channelled by a mind. For instance, when Steven Spielberg created the film Jurassic Park, his consciousness was connected to the realm of dinosaurs, as if a portal opened within him, allowing communication with their consciousnesses. Similarly, viewing the film might connect an audience member’s consciousness to the collective consciousness of dinosaurs. It is conceivable that Spielberg’s higher self sought to draw human and dinosaur souls closer together.
Extending this logic, an infinity of portals connects every point in the universe across all dimensions, densities, universes, and timelines. This holds not only for space but also for time: past, present, and future exist simultaneously in a single point, so that every moment on the time continuum is interconnected. All universes within the multiverse are superposed and interpenetrate, encoding information from multiple realities in every symbol, dream, and work of art. Possible futures already exist and influence both the present and the past through mechanisms of retrocausality. Numerous extraterrestrial and interdimensional civilisations utilise time travel, thereby affecting an infinite array of dimensional and spatiotemporal locations.
Interconnection likewise operates at the level of the incarnation process. Any given soul carries with it a wide range of past and future incarnations, spanning not merely a single planet but an infinite number of planets across the universe. On Earth, the term “starseed” denotes a human whose soul originates from another extraterrestrial civilisation. A being thus aggregates multiple aspects of self incarnated in different spatiotemporal locations, resulting in a massive flow of information that traverses the universe. At a higher level, every being is the incarnation of every being.

Everything in the cosmos is therefore interdependent. A war between extraterrestrial civilisations billions of years in the future on the far side of the universe will affect geopolitical events on Earth in our present. Likewise, the ascension of humanity toward higher densities moves the entire universe. The universe is not a collection of separate components but a dynamic web of interconnected occurrences in which every element influences the overall structure of the whole.
Stars and galaxies are compared to a network of brain neurons, a brain-like structure serving as a vehicle for cosmic consciousness. Panpsychism extends this line of thought, proposing that even the most elementary particles—such as electrons or quarks—possess an extremely primitive form of inner being, a tiny, featureless spark of subjective experience. Complex consciousness, including human thought, arises when these basic conscious units are combined into highly intricate structures such as brains. In this scheme, consciousness units encompass other consciousness units, much as cells constitute a body.
The British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has advanced the theory of morphic resonance, which challenges the notion of fixed natural laws. Sheldrake suggests that the regularities of nature are not immutable but are better understood as habits that evolve over time. The mechanism behind this is morphic resonance, a process through which organisms draw upon the collective memory of their species across both space and time. This memory is encoded in invisible morphic fields—organising fields that shape the form, behaviour, and development of systems. According to Sheldrake, everything from crystals to plants, animals, and societies possesses its own morphic field, meaning that entities are not isolated but are connected to a larger whole.
Certain physicists have proposed that the cosmos functions analogously to a hologram. A hologram is a three-dimensional image produced using laser light: when a laser is directed through a photographic plate that holds the recorded interference pattern of an object, a 3D image of that object appears on the far side. By analogy, all that exists arises from a singular, extensionless locus and a single eternal instant, yet we perceive spatial depth and a sequence of distinct moments. What we call “different places” and “different times” must actually be that very same location and that very same now, encountered from varying vantage points. As one moves around a holographic plate and illuminates it, a three-dimensional image is revealed, with every perspective encoded across the entire surface. By altering our observational angle, we see another face of the object. In a similar manner, shifting our observational stance relative to that one unextended here and that one timeless now generates the appearance of separate moments and locations, though it remains the same place and the same instant, witnessed through a different lens.

Consider a reel of motion-picture film composed of countless static frames. The entire strip holds all frames simultaneously; a projectionist can view them all at once on the editing table. When those frames are fed through a projector onto a screen in rapid succession, the illusion of flowing time and expanding space arises. Our awareness moves through billions of these frozen snapshots, none of which intrinsically contains motion or duration. Experienced sequentially, however, they fabricate the feeling of passing time and volumetric space—a construct generated by consciousness.
The metaphor of Indra’s Net, from Buddhist and Hindu philosophy (particularly the Avatamsaka Sutra), illustrates the radical interconnectedness of all phenomena. Imagine a vast, infinite net belonging to the god Indra, stretching endlessly in all directions. At every knot lies a brilliant, multifaceted jewel. Each jewel reflects not only every other jewel in the net but also all of their reflections, so that any single jewel contains the image of all jewels, ad infinitum. Every event, person, or thing is thus intimately connected to all others; nothing exists in isolation. Just as one jewel reflects the entire net, each individual thing reflects and includes the totality of the universe, a relationship that goes beyond simple cause and effect to mutual codependence. The universe emerges as a fluid network of interconnected events, in which any change in one jewel instantly transforms the reflections in all others. Because these reflections are simultaneous and infinite, the net transcends linear time and space.
Advaita Vedanta, one of the most influential schools of Hindu philosophy, presents a radical non-dualism. Its central claim is that ultimate reality is non-dual: there is only one fundamental reality, and the apparent multiplicity of the world is not ultimately real in the way it seems. According to the philosopher Adi Shankaracharya, the most renowned systematiser of Advaita, reality consists of a single, infinite, indivisible principle called Brahman, which is pure consciousness—eternal, infinite, unchanging, and beyond all distinctions and attributes. At the absolute level, therefore, interconnection as such does not exist, because cosmic consciousness is a homogeneous substance devoid of separate objects. Interconnection belongs to the relative level, which Advaita acknowledges as provisionally real. The universe, time, space, causality, and multiple individual beings are all real as long as one operates within that level.
A classic analogy is the dream: while dreaming, the dream world is fully real to the dreamer, who experiences joy, fear, and hunger. Upon waking, however, one recognises that the dream was a mental projection, not an independently existing reality. Māyā is the power through which the non-dual reality appears as the diverse world of everyday experience. The classic Vedantic analogy is that of the rope and the snake: in dim light, the rope’s true nature is veiled, and the mind projects a snake. The snake is an appearance with no independent reality; it is a superimposition on the rope. Similarly, the world is superimposed on Brahman through Māyā. Ātman, the innermost true Self of the individual, is identical with Brahman; our deepest self is not separate from ultimate reality. According to Advaita, we experience ourselves as separate individuals due to avidyā (ignorance or misunderstanding). The goal of Advaita is moksha, liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth, attained through the direct realisation of this non-dual identity.

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