Are there 'macro' levels of being above us, just as microscopic levels below us?

Question

As Swift said "big fleas have smaller fleas upon 'em", but I've never come across a theory considering the possibility that we are just a microscopic dot in some bigger being's world, and so on up a ladder. Have you?

Answer 1

When I was a kid I used to imagine (like a million other kids I guess) that the world was a grain of dust underneath a giant's fingernail....

Gaia theory is a good call - it says that the Earth could be understood as a self-regulating organism. But it doesn't go so far as to say that the Earth is a living being in the same sense that we are.

Answer 2

Yes, I was in one of those macroscopic bars just the other day, this is a v. old stoner theory that for some strange reason no-one ever seems to have written down.
How do you know there aren't really micro levels above us, if the macro levels are in fact below us maybe that's the real reason why even though the eye's lens flips everything upside down it appears right side up..smoke on..

Answer 3

Actually there was a popular view in the 1970's (I believe called the Gaya Theory) that held that the earth is a living entity unto itself made up of the symbiotic relationships of all of its smaller inhabitants.

Answer 4

Well, as far as scientists have known, there isn't really any other "beings" at the macro-level higher than us, but still... who really knows??? It goes back to the question of "is there some sort of life on other distant planets???"

You could count gigantic asteroids / comets, fiery huge stars (such as our Sun) and planets... but they aren't technically "living beings" though... (although some people allude to the Sun as "living" on hydrogen and other gases).

Answer 5

Good question! It's kind of like are we all in a universe that's like situated inside an alien marbel!

Answer 6

i cant c that..