Panpsychism can be clinically inferred from dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder. The universe as such is conscious and consciousness is an intrinsic nature of all subatomic particles living and non-living things. The universal consciousness or force can influence animate and inanimate things, stars, computers and human beings. The universal consciousness or force is a mysterious energy that permeates to galaxies and which all life forms interact but rarely few can harness. The living force or consciousness connects everything in existence and affects all of us and some of us can manipulate the force and other individuals as well as objects. Everything in the universe is conscious. Consciousness is a fundamental part of matter. Substrate of everything is of mental character. The quantal state merges with the macroscopic world in panpsychism. The quantal state can have the simultaneous presence of the past, present and future. This forms the basis of astrology or Jyotisha formulated by Bhrigu.

Dr Ravikumar Kurup is the Director of the Metabolic Disorders Research Centre, Trivandrum. His areas of interest are Symbiotic Biology and Metabolic Medicine.