Expand Your Definition of Life

Only by transforming both our conceptual models and institutional approaches can we truly prepare ourselves to recognize life in all its possible manifestations.

In a recent video, YouTube creator Cleo Abram explores an exciting discovery. Scientists have detected potential biosignatures on a distant planet. They did this by analyzing its atmosphere. And yes. This research represents a remarkable achievement in our search for extraterrestrial life, but it also reveals an inherent challenge in how we approach this search. The hunt continues. The scientists are looking for chemical signatures similar to those produced by Earth-based life—essentially searching for a carbon-based, oxygen-breathing cousin of terrestrial life.

But what if we're looking through too narrow a lens? While it's logical to start with what we know, the universe might harbor forms of life so different from Earth's biology that they would be unrecognizable to our current detection methods.

The ancient Yogis have long taught that consciousness and life exist in myriad forms throughout the universe —some so different from our earthly experience that they transcend our material understanding. These could be beings that don't rely on oxygen, that exist in states of matter we haven't yet discovered, or that experience time and space differently than we do.

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