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Genus wrote:  What I said was it’s very likely that “universal consciousness” exists prior to the human capacity to experience that consciousness and every individual enters into this universal consciousness to varying degrees. A person who is introspective to a very subtle degree is a very different kind of person from one who is crude and thoughtless which is why we call such people thoughtless.

You could also look at universal cosmic consciousness from the other direction.

Let me share the steps.

I myself am fine with believing every living creature has a spirit/soul, in direct proportion to it’s neural and physical sensory and manipulatory abilities.  At death this spirit is reabsorbed by the “universe”, so yes, the individual is fini (we need to get over that detail).

The Cosmic What If.  What if Evolution was all about the “universal consciousness” trying to understand itself.

Of course, atoms are limited in their interaction with the universe.  Molecules less so, basic living cells must constantly interact with their universe, complex animals engage in even more interaction, and thus appreciation and awareness for the increasingly complex universe surrounding them.

Now we have humans on this Earth for a short while, and the “universal consciousness” can gaze back upon itself through our eyes as never before.

To know things “it” could never know if limited to the eyes and awareness of dinosaurs, or that of flat worms, etc.

Of course, this is all philosophy and mind games, that fit with my personal perspective and sound harmonious with my basic outlook on life.

But that’s how it’s always gone, we create our religions to please our personal desires – not to comprehend the universe.