http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

If anybody else is interested in looking into princeton's studies. I've also found a few other interesting papers on it so far. Oh wow, I've been on this site for maybe five minutes and I've already got four other googles open and a page on this guy named Teilhard de Chardin, who upon reading a little bit about suddenly explains the reasoning behind the name of the princeton website. A direct quote,

Originally posted by pierre said
To this end, he suggested that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, was growing a new organ of consciousness, called the noosphere. The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a \"planetary thinking network\" -- an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication.
I'm like a kid in a freaking candy shop right now. I wish I had realized when I was younger how simple the answer to the question \"What do you want to do when you grow up\" was. I want to keep learning... damnit, somebody get me into princeton.


Originally posted by tylenol 3
(Of course, some sort of communication in dreams is possible, according to my experience... but what is the nature of it?... dunno)
That... is a discussion that could be explored for years. Is it a full on seperate plane of existence? How many of these planes could there be? Or is it just your subconscious tricking you into thinking you're communicating with them... or is it a direct link, nothing more spectacular than a form of direct communication without the verbal aspect (which is pretty spifftacular if you ask me actually). OR

Or is it a build up of gases in the lower abdominal region resulting from that quiche you just had to have earlier, even tho you knew you shouldn't, and added to the fact that you've been lazy and haven't gone to the gym the last three days in a row like you were supposed to. I like this theory best.