We exchange information-energy with our mental atmosphere.

Just as we exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the atmosphere, we exchange subtle forms of energy and information with the Psychosphere. These subtle exchanges of energy-information may form the basis for many otherwise unexplainable coincidences.

The Psychosphere is something like our atmosphere—around us and in dynamic flux with us. We breathe in oxygen, nitrogen, and water vapors, and we breathe out carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and more water vapors. We receive energy-information from the psychosphere and release energy-information into the Psychosphere. Our thoughts and emotions contribute to the Psychosphere and our thoughts and emotions are influenced by it. The plants and animals surrounding us give and take from it. The technologies we invent reshape it and are products of it. We are in dynamic relationship with it.

A similar conception was developed by the Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin. He imagined a dimension of reality the Noosphere, which is composed of sparks that arise from the experiences of the human psyche. He imagined that it was an envelope that surrounds the physical earth like our gaseous atmosphere.

Coincidence stories suggest that each of us is part of an intricate web of emotions and ideas that exists both inside and outside our bodies. Our participation in this matrix of feelings and ideas depends on the intensity of our shared emotions.

Group mind leads to Psychosphere

Many discoveries have been made simultaneously by people and groups who have had very little contact with each other. Conventional explanations suggest that that ideas are in the air because subsections of inquiring minds are attempting to address problems faced currently by social organizations using currently established ideas. See Gladwell’s discussion.

The Internet and the Psychosphere

The accumulating billions of internet clicks are providing a scaffolding for energy-information exchanges, increasing the likelihood of what were once thought to be rare coincidences like telepathy and nature-human interactions. The internet is our human creation, our species is responsible for its existence, deeply involved in its use and capable of directing its growth and use. And we are also responsible for the future of the Psychosphere. I doubt that we are the only creatures influencing its development.

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