New Radiation Belt

[zenmaster]

My reluctance to explore this in the way that you were prompting is because I was worried that this imaginative scenario was being taken as something more, as if I felt I had a "special knowing" and you were trying to dissuade the interpretation rather than explore it.

Someone will always take it as something more, and sometimes run with it. People actually make a living off of that. The irony is that consciousness does indeed provide deeper insights (and so does provide "special knowing") as it is used, that's just the nature of consciousness. What I do see is people using their evidence of awareness - so-called being "awakened" - as some kind of transcendence over accountability to whatever they may conjure. In "magical thinking", the vague but compelling apprehension is that the allegorical nature of reality is higher, or primary to the literal or historical nature of reality. This is actually true and is why so-called magic works, but when that initial level of consciousness is reached (at Green vMeme) it's not consciously appreciated at all and so you have something like a participation mystique unless and until it can be grounded through effort at providing experience (worldview).

I certainly encourage "bringing consciousness to bear" on these intuitive notions but your continued line of questioning probably wouldn't serve this function too well for me, as my initial response ("It may have been a reaction to an opportunity to interpret evidence towards an intelligence in the Earth, or in the way the Universe functions") is a platform I would use to explore this and I didn't see that in your questions that followed. Luckily I had my own line of questioning in my head

Well, then you'd necessarily have a split between what can be known about the phenomenon which is the subject of this post, and filling in the blanks about other notions which came up in perceived connection. With what little has been discussed so far, there has already been conflation.

I can see the correlation between that line of thought and why people can get away with irresponsible conspiracy theories, and I appreciate your attempt at helping to cultivate an environment where these ideas are explored rather than indulged.

It's not just conspiracy theories. It's all manner of social framing, religion, politics (and ET politics), medical advice, dietary advice, channeling, predicting the future, etc. Notional pareidolia is contagious when it serves to reinforce an unconscious bias.