[M.D. Holloway]

I was fishing after dinner with our Son. We spotted a couple schools of catfish hatchlings – our so they looked like catfish hatchlings. As we watched, I told him to notice how they all swim in the same direction and turn almost as if they were one. How do you suppose they do it so easily?

He said: “Maybe they talked to each other in a langue we couldn’t hear.”

I said: “Could be or maybe they share the same consciousness. Do you know what consciousness is?”

He shook his head yes…paused… then smiled and said no.

“Don’t worry lil buddy, I’m not really sure what it is either but best I can tell is that it is the ability to understand your place. You know that you are actually living and are experiencing things and that all actions have consequences.”

“So ya mean fish and birds and turtles and stuff don’t have comshushness?”

“Well, they may to a small extent but we really can’t tell like we can with people.”

“Cuz we don’t know what they think right Dad?”

“Ya, I would say that is fair to say. But look at that school of fish, it’s like they are all using just one brain.”

“Maybe that’s why they call it a school cuz all the fish all learn to be like all the others and become all the same and they are in a school to learn the same stuff.”

I like fishing with my Kids.

And now this has me thinking, is consciousness a universal? Do we actually share it with all things? Is it some sort of energy path oscillating at a particular frequency that is picked up by a place in our brain or maybe it resonates parts of our DNA? Does it help alter and change us? To assist in the success and continuation of life? Is it God?

The stuff that is passed on to offspring is not always taught by the parent. Somehow they know it through instincts. How is that? Could it be that a living conscious is analogous to the internet? An endless stream of information? Some people never get “on-line” while others have a “high-speed connection”?