Nope, I do not mean in the vein of the movie with Bruce Willis "The 5th Element"====
I am pretty confident that we are currently "holding onto" a little sliver of the universal consciousness right now, and it, ironically is both what provides with the ability to be so completely detached from the ethereal, all pervasive consciousness that fills the universe--from whence we came from and to which we shall return when we die--And its also the very same feature that enables us to find momentary communion with that consciousness while here in life--- A glimpse of what we really are.
I think life evolving towards a more enlightened state in which we actually can realize what we are and who we are and what we should be doing here is the general rule, throughout the universe, and the main reason for that--indeed a reason for anything to happen at all---Is that the conscious universe cannot experience itself from any point of view, nor can it understand what it would be like to be a smaller, less omniscient consciousness living within the physical dimensions contained within itself---And so life essentially borrows from it, lives, experiences, loves, (or hates, unfortunately) and then dies. It is not a God, it did not create us, it is not expecting us to follow certain religious rules....
I believe how this all came to be is as much a mystery to the universal consciousness as it is to us--- And yet, it is constantly pulling us in the direction of a more enlightened species even though it may not necessarily be a goal that it has, to make us more enlightened. Its just the nature of consciousness that we are constantly moving closer to enlightenment. I go so far as to suspect its due to consciuosness being a 5th, unavoidable, inescapable force of the universe, along with the strong/weak nuclear forces, electromagnetism, and gravity. And all fundamental forces have certain properties that define them. I think consciousness shifting in a species of life towards the more enlightened is one of the properties that define this one.
All of our life experience is equally as important as anyone elses, no more no less, because your life is novel, and the only time it will ever happen. Whatever experiences you essentially imprint as your own, are equally shared by the universe.
This is why our job is to make the most of our time that we have here, and everything else is just a distraction. When we die, we become, once again, a part of the consciousness pervasive in everything that surrounds us even this moment and we will have only whatever kinds of things a conscious universe wonders about that we will not know the answer too, I do not truly have any idea, if my thinking is the way it is, with certainty. But if I had to place some sort of cosmic wager, this is where my money would be placed.
