I started reading an eye-opening book by Dr. Stephen Gundry. I had no idea that our mitochondria, which regulate cell reproduction and operation, are not human. They have their own DNA. I gather from Dr. Gundry that our beneficial intestinal bacteria, which he calls our gut buddies, communicate with our mitochondria through bio-chemicals. The bacteria and the mitochondria are not sentient, although maybe by the time you finish reading this, there will be a news announcement about their personhood, such is the speed at which knowledge seems to grow these days. If they were sentient and engaged in dialogue, we would conscious beings that each of us humans are hosting within. The model reminds me of some people regarding Mother Earth as a living being that hosts us. And just as we, like the bacteria and mitochondria, communicate with each other while hosting those beings within our internal world that talk to one another, maybe the planet is communicating with other cosmic bodies that are each hosting a world of inter-communicating sentient lifeforms. I don’t believe any of this speculation, but hypothetically the pattern within our own bodies might be replicable on a larger scale.
By the way, Dr. Gundry informs us that a fat rat ingesting fecal matter of a skinny rat can become skinny, and vice versa. He tells us that depressed people given enemas containing fecal matter of happy people tend to become happy. It all has to do with the transference of gut buddies. Interesting reading.
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