In observable space, you may notice that life and consciousness continue to become more and more complex with the passage of time. From molecules to cells to fungus to fish with organized nervous systems, and beyond. Now increasingly complex social structures organized by high speed communications - human "cells" begin to congeal into a super-organism.

Is not what we experience here below a shadow of higher orders? "As above, so below". The tendency to organize into organisms of greater and greater complexity would prevail, until a level where all are One, and One is God, no?

Now, lets take a look at a practical item, "reincarnation". Of course, if you subscribe to "scientific reality", you simply discount any and all stories of people with seeming knowledge of past events, posessing characteristics of people who have died, or levels of knowledge they should not have at their age, but this stuff keeps bubbling up anyway.

So our conciousnesses are cells, so to speak, of a larger far more complex collective consciousness. As with the body, cells are continuously dying and being created anew. So the elements of a person disassociate at various levels upon death, and the material of consciousness (soul, if you would) returns to the collective where it contributes to the collective's advancement.

New cells are created, and they incorporate stuff that has returned, so collective experience is gradually incorporated into new cells. Now, perhaps sometimes the stuff used hasn't had time to properly mix, like cards returned to the deck for a new deal, but the shuffle isn't that good, so some sequences in the deck are the same as in the old deal. It's a new person, but the new person incorporates some direct awareness of one who has returned.

All this stuff has been worked on for thousands of years by many cultures, and there's a fair degree of consensus in esoteric texts worldwide. Most of it takes a lot of digging though, because it's been obscured by the curse of "Organized Religion". All of this stuff detracts from the power structure of "authority".

The enlightment of Saint Thomas certainly wsn't welcomed by the church, but he kept quiet so they let it ride. No organizational religious structure controls the "gateway to heaven", it's an entirely individual thing and they cannot control it (but they sure want you to think they can), and no book contains the whole truth and final word. We're just learning, bit by bit, and "authority" is trying to burn it as we do.

. . it follows that All is included within God. If you say God is not All, then you are placing limits on God.

Of course, in the Pagan viewpoint, placing limits on god is routine. You draw a line around the hunk of All you wish to deal with and give it a name and personality. Now you have a "god" (an aspect of nature or natural forces or human characteristics or whatever you want to deal with) defined in a way which allows you to describe it's relationship with other similarly defined entities and how they relate to humanity, all in human terms. Such deliberately circumscribed definitions do not, however, invalidate All, which they are defined parts of.

So are you limiting God in the Pagan manner, or is God limitless, thus All Encompasing?

In particular parasites are minimalist because they aren't complete. They cannot be regarded without their host. All other life is just as interdependent, though not so immediately so.

A human body is made up of a great many separate lifeforms, and some are pretty independent too. The whole cannot survive without all the parts. Where do you want to draw the line to individuate this? A white blood cell probably feels pretty individual. It's all in how you want to look at it.

No living being can survive without the others. Even simple single celled photosynthetic plants cannot survive alone, because they'd eventually drown in their own waste product, oxygen, and at points in the distant past came fairly close. Fortunately, some fungi like item developed into larger and more complex critters called "animals" to sop up some of that oxygen (yes, fungi are genetically considered animals).

So taking the world organism as a whole, since that's the smallest viable unit, it is growing in complexity. Increasing diversity is part of that, as is the development of it's leading edge cells, which we are pleased to presume are ourselves.