Bacteria, from a spiritual perspective

Ok, here's my wacky question for ya'll. What do you think the bacteria is like, from a spiritual perspective?

-Does each bacteria cell have its own tiny little soul?
-Are groups of bacteria really part of some collective mind that people just don't recognize? (like the way a person is made up of a whole community of cells, and yet is one)
-Are they just little units of existence tuned into specific spiritual forces that can be manipulated and changed spiritually by whatever spirits are acting upon them?
-Are they completely un-spiritual, and actually more like little robots?

What are your thoughts? And if we want to go even farther, what about viruses? Those things are basically just little syringes full of DNA, what possible positions they have spiritually?

Bacteria contains energy, but it is not pure, therefore it does not have a soul. Pure energy is what we call love which is soul. Bacteria is not pure energy.

Originally Posted by drake

Ok, here's my wacky question for ya'll. What do you think the bacteria is like, from a spiritual perspective?

-Does each bacteria cell have its own tiny little soul?
-Are groups of bacteria really part of some collective mind that people just don't recognize? (like the way a person is made up of a whole community of cells, and yet is one)
-Are they just little units of existence tuned into specific spiritual forces that can be manipulated and changed spiritually by whatever spirits are acting upon them?
-Are they completely un-spiritual, and actually more like little robots?

What are your thoughts? And if we want to go even farther, what about viruses? Those things are basically just little syringes full of DNA, what possible positions they have spiritually?

Bacteria to us, is what we are to the planet, and the planet to the solar system, and the solar system to the galaxy...

[Lynn]

Hello

I take the view that all things are living....even things that we do not term living as the all took that spark of energy to be created. So in that spark of enery lies a soul coming in.

Just how I see it.


Lynn

[Lynn]

Hello

I take the view that all things are living....even things that we do not term living as the all took that spark of energy to be created. So in that spark of enery lies a soul coming in.

Just how I see it.


Lynn

Time, could you elaborate what you mean? What are we to the planet? Are you saying the planet itself, the round ball of rock and dirt we live on, is more sentient and spiritual than the lifeforms living on it??

All forms of life "possess" Consciousness and are one with the Whole.

The Spirit imbues all things in Creation.

In effect, due to the biological nature of bacteria, all bacteria are in essence one being. When a single bacterium "splits" into two bacteria, the two are indistinguishable from the one. We can see this process more clearly in some of the fungi (Fairy Rings) which are among the largest and oldest of all living creatures. An aspen grove is another good example, easy to visualize. A huge grove of aspens, which to our perception consists of thousands of trees is in reality one single organism all living on the same root; it is our perception which is flawed.

If we look a bit deeper, we see that our own human body, each cell in that body, contains bacteria which are not "us" (the mitochondria) and yet are vital to our continued existence. This points toward the fact that we are the creations of bacteria who invented a new way of living by creating us.

If we take the butterfly as an illustration, this beautiful creature goes from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly to egg again...and there is no point at which we can say where it begins or ends, simply because it does neither. It grows and evolves. The leaf it ate this morning becomes part of it, as does the air, the water, the sunlight.

If we look at humans (and all other living things) from a Darwinian perspective we see that the division between human and ape, ape and Pelycodus, Pelycodus and even more primitive mammals, the earliest mammals and their predecessors.....like the butterfly is an unbroken chain, with branches going in all directions within the Kingdom of Life. It is only our blind arrogance that keeps us from seeing we are all One.

And in fact, the Earth itself and all that lives upon it were once a giant star that imploded on itself, exploded and produced the chemical elements that are essential to our bodies [no other place in the universe contains enough energy to produce these elements]. So the question should be, does a star have a soul?

Because all life comes from a single source, and all life is in reality one...then there must be but one soul. [I still hold that there is no individual, personal and immortal soul; our soul is the fusion of body with Spirit, and when the body dies that personal soul cannot continue in existence. It is the Spirit within us that is immortal, and that is not "individual." Our insistence on a personal soul springs from our fear of mortality, our terror at thinking "I" might have an end. It is our little ego talking.] Any system of belief that is not exactly congruent with reality must be false. There is absolutely no evidence for a personal immortal soul. But the evidence for a universal Consciousness, which is the Spirit, is everywhere to be seen, and we are one with that Consciousness and eternal, simply changing form like the butterfly.

Originally Posted by drake

Ok, here's my wacky question for ya'll. What do you think the bacteria is like, from a spiritual perspective?

-Does each bacteria cell have its own tiny little soul?
-Are groups of bacteria really part of some collective mind that people just don't recognize? (like the way a person is made up of a whole community of cells, and yet is one)
-Are they just little units of existence tuned into specific spiritual forces that can be manipulated and changed spiritually by whatever spirits are acting upon them?
-Are they completely un-spiritual, and actually more like little robots?

What are your thoughts? And if we want to go even farther, what about viruses? Those things are basically just little syringes full of DNA, what possible positions they have spiritually?

Remove your spiritual perspective and then re observe all that you have and you may find yourself formulating different questions.

Which then makes your perception of reality the issue and not viruses.

Originally Posted by drake

Time, could you elaborate what you mean? What are we to the planet? Are you saying the planet itself, the round ball of rock and dirt we live on, is more sentient and spiritual than the lifeforms living on it??

Just a comparison. As in, think of what cells are compared to us: Small systems of the same cell, and different groups, all achieveing the same thing, and size as well.

Now think of what I said...

@alternative carpark

As we wind on down the road
our shadows taller then our soul
there walks a lady we all know
who shines white light and wants to show
that everything still turn to gold
when all is one and one is all
to be a rock and not to roll

for me, bacteria = living = soul. even a rock has its own level of energy.

Many aspects when attempting to seperate the oneness in order too understand just how grand the collective really is.

I hear humans mimic bacteria, feeding off the planet and giving nothinig back in return.