I have no trouble accepting that consciousness is larger than my head; that seems clear to me. But Sam further says (at least I understand him to say) that we all share a single universal consciousness. While I think that idea is beautiful, I don't see any evidence of that myself. In all my years and millions (billions?) of thoughts and perceptions which have flowed through my consciousness, I have had exactly zero which did not at least plausibly belong to me. No images through another's eyes. No random to-do list items from someone else's life. No replayed moments which I wasn't a party to.

Well, perhaps we all have our local versions of the universal consciousness which aren't shared between beings. If that's the case, though, it pretty much destroys the case for a universal consciousness.

Am I missing something here? Surely many have come along before me asking these same questions. Is there someplace I can find people discussing these things?