Can it be possible for one person's consciousness to be in multiple bodies?

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What I mean by this is this hypothetical situation:

–There are 7 billion living human bodies on the planet.

–There is only 1 conscious human though out of all of them, and that one person’s consciousness is in all 7 billion of those bodies. It’s not 7 billion different individuals with their own consciousness, but just one individual’s consciousness in 7 billion different bodies, but this person doesn’t realize it and so all these different bodies believe they are their own individual.

–The conscious person is not aware that everyone else is really just him/her thinking through a different body that has experienced life in a different way.

Could this be logically possible?
 
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No. Each living person has a unique soul that facilitates life, awareness, sense of being, and consciousness. You are not me and I am not you. Only God is ever-present in Creation.

Now, what brought about this question?
 
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No, everyone is made an individual, and one person can’t be conscious of others except through their own bodies, through their senses. We can’t experience another’s consciousness.
We can only understand their experience through their communication of their own consciousness.
 
This was brought about from a mix of a weird dream I had last night where I seemed to be thinking as 3 different people…as well as the logic of the Trinity, where one being can be 3 different people.
 
That is God, and we are human. Two different natures altogether.
 
I should also clarify.

That while all 7 billion of these people are the same person’s consciousness. They have different thoughts due to their different sense perceptions, cultures, etc. but ultimately it is the same one person thinking their thoughts at the same time. So one person thinking 7 billion different thoughts at once.
 
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We cannot even come close to understanding the Holy Trinity. Our carefully worded Theology is all we have.
 
Interesting thought, but it’s not possible. Buddhism actually has something similar in it’s conception of Buddha and being. All being is one, kind of like pantheism without God. The whole religion is founded on the idea that “reality is an illusion”, but such an idea in itself is an illusion and false. Reality exists, and individuals only live once and experience life in their own way. They can know others and their experiences, but they are not other people. Each person is their own separate being.
 
What I had more in mind was an actual, real material world. Not something like pantheism or solipsism where everything is in the mind of one being.

The bodies are not illusions and the objects in the world are real material objects that are correctly observed by sense percpetion…It is just one person “sensing” through 7 billion different bodies uniquely according to the body that is sensing. I’m just limiting this power to humans. Not objects or anything like that. So the objects wouldn’t have any consciousness at all.
 
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Well, whatever the purpose of this thought experiment is, it has no basis In Catholicism. :man_shrugging:t2:
 
The answer to the OP is no. After researching various occult matters for years, some people may have certain abilities while some just imagine they have them. Speaking generally, there have been many con artists who claim to have certain abilities but use certain methods to create the illusion they do to defraud others.

God makes/wills each of us as individuals with a personal, unique soul and body.
 
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I’m a psychic person, I have a different type of consciousness to most people which was grown by years of meditation and prayer, and work with specific angelic beings.
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Okay, I’m going to suggest talking with a knowledgeable Priest.
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I can bilocate, and I’m aware of my own existence in more than one body. I can walk out of my body and into other realms.
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This needs brought up with your Primary Care Physician.
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What I see is often the opposite of the catholic belief system, but…it’s what I see.
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Yeah, that’s not good.
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all my experiences so far set me on a sort of…parallel path.
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There’s no parallel path. Regardless of what “strange spirits” tell you, there’s just the straight and narrow path. The only other option is the road to perdition.
 
Hypothetically, as a thought experiment, such a world as you posit–where one consciousness inhabits 7 billion bodies, unaware that it is doing so–is somewhat conceivable and possible. It’s not possible within Catholicism, and in Catholicism human nature just isn’t capable of that. But it’s conceivable that a being COULD exists which was somehow capable of “bilocation” on an enormous scale in the billions, since consciousness itself isn’t bound by space and time, necessarily. If that being was humanity, it would have to be radically different than humanity actually IS, at least in this life, since in this world our consciousnesses ARE mostly limited to one body’s experiences. But it’s conceivable. In other words, I think this is a case where we say something is “philosophically possible” but not “actually possible.” It’s philosophically possible because doesn’t necessarily violate the law of non-contradiction, given that immaterial things (like consciousness) don’t have to go by material rules, but it’s not actually possible because it does violate our actual reality.
 
According Slavan-Arian Vedas and Book of Veles- russians free to matrriage and have sex with unlimited count person. This is gentiles (from word genitalia). But christians in monogams, and bless on eucharist first virgin marriage.

In results: our visible light is star-SOL, that have one proton. Therefore christians have one wife.
 
No. The soul has no front or bottom, it has no color, taste, or weight. But like thoughts the spirit is just as real and just as solid. If you are interested in learning about the soul I strongly recommend reading a very short book called:
Theology: For Beginners
By Frank Sheed
 
Ooh I know what you mean with that dream. I once had this really weird dream where I was dying and so my parents were to have a child that was me, but this child was a girl and grew quickly. I started seeing the world through both my view and hers, but she was me yet not me at the same time. How odd.
 
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Thanks! Might as well settle in and watch 🙂
 
I’d have to ask, what makes it one consciousness if it is so divided? What makes it one person if it is manifestly 7 billion?
 
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