“Well . . . ” said Johnny. “It all comes down to understanding of what life is. Life . . . of all living things is made up of a complex amount of mass, which is governed by what sort of DNA it has. Not long after birth, a ‘life-force’ enters this mass, joins with the DNA and Central Nervous System, and creates life. Until that happens, everything is surviving on its parental DNA and nervous system. Everything that is alive, plants, animals, humans, and even the smallest bacteria, has a ‘life-force’. In humans and some animals, the ‘life-force’ enters the body not long after the umbilical cord is severed. With those born from egg or seed, the ‘life-force’ enters when the shell is broken, or when germination begins. The ‘life-force’ that enters all things, is pure energy, that when mixed with DNA and the Central Nervous System, becomes ‘a soul’, and therefore . . . life.”

“OK . . . ”

“This pure energy moves around in the atmosphere, waiting to attach itself to anything that is born, and when something dies, this ‘energy’ or ‘life-force’ is released into the atmosphere, ready to be used again.”

“So . . . ‘life-force’ and ‘soul’ are different?”

“Yes!” Said Johnny. “Soul is a culmination of everything that is in our makeup, and ‘life-force’ is only one part of that. When we die, only our ‘life-force’ survives. Our soul, which includes all our memories, disappears.”

“Hmmm, that’s interesting . . . probably not what religious people would want to hear.” I said quietly.

“Every living thing has an ‘aura’,” Johnny continued, “and as the planet is crowded, these ‘auras’ blend together to create a field of ‘energy’ that encompasses the planet. The amount of ‘energy’ created becomes greater than the number of ‘auras’ involved, and becomes a ‘collective’, the ‘fifth element’ so to speak.

Once you can get to the point, where you can sense ‘auras’ of everything, you will then start to see how every living thing, every plant, animal, and human, is connected and you will have recognized a ‘collective sixth sense’, and realized ‘collective-consciousness’.

This consciousness allows communication between every living thing, and allows communication to take place over vast distances, even to the other side of the world . . . almost instantly.

Everybody has this ‘sixth sense’ within them, and while not being totally aware of it, they themselves are being used as a communication device.”

“Guardian angels have been used to explain coincidence and other unexplained situations that happen to benefit the recipient, for a very long time. They are, in fact, really only a by-product of religious belief”, he said.

“Oh . . .?”

“What they actually are”, continued Johnny, “is the end product of collective-consciousness. When someone is in a particular situation, usually in need of assistance, that person taps into part of their un-conscious area of their brain that then connects to this ‘collective-consciousness’. When that occurs, their ‘life-force’ and ‘aura’, connects to other ‘auras’, and a message is sent to whoever or whatever concerned, and then something beneficial happens to the person in need. Guardian angels are thought to be spiritual beings . . . in actually; they are only a form of spiritual consciousness . . . or only part of . . . ‘collective-consciousness’.

“Religious people, who pray, sometimes tap into the same part of the un-conscious brain, and if and when, they get an answer, they refer to it as ‘God’ talking. It is, in fact, only themselves and collective-consciousness at work. And when people have a ‘hunch’ about something, or experience déjà vu . . . it is only another phenomena connected to collective-consciousness. It all relates to the same part of the brain that is considered ‘the sixth sense’.

As I listened, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed about Johnny’s thoughts on guardian angels as they had meant a lot to me, and I felt a bit sad that there was no such thing.

“The point,” continued Johnny. “Is that, once you understand this energy or ‘life-force’, you can draw on collective-consciousness to live an amazing life. This is the reason why you need to create a ‘life-force’ that grows instead of one that becomes smaller. A strong ‘life-force’ has a strong ‘aura’, and a strong ‘aura’ creates a greater collective-consciousness. This all leads to a greater understanding of the planet itself and your place in it, and makes for more contentment that breeds happiness, and harmony.