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I'm currently getting published in the Journal of Transpersonal psychology researching the nature of consciousness using a Jungian framework under the assumption of a collective unified consciousness that gives each individual conscious it's consciousness. 

Mainstream cognitive psych will give you no answers here, however the best ideas I've found are in depth psychology, transpersonal psychology and parapsychology. An idea my colleagues and I have been working on is that we all are part of one collected (i.e. connected) consciousness, and this is where we get our conscious life from, and when our material body dies, our individual consciousness returns to the whole collective conscious to be reunited as a unified whole (i.e. circle of life).

Very new theory but philosophically it's gaining traction, see panpsychism for good arguements as to why. The existence of the quantum realm (aka the flawless wave function) and String Theories mathematical proof of multiple dimensions needing to exist for reality to be possible is leading consciousness researchers like myself in this direction. 

In a very short description of a very complicated topic, basically we are all one conscious being (aka. a god/goddess, like the Hindu belief that Atman is Brahman, i.e. man/animal/plant all = god) and we are the cells of that god/goddess. Think of a human body, exactly as when your cells die you continue to live on healthily without noticing, when you die you continue to live as the consciousness of this god/goddess as 'One' in the flawless consciousness, this realm we currently believe to be the Quantum Realm. 

This theory also supposes that consciousness is quantum, which explains why it cannot be explained by classical physics.

I've spent a lot of time as a parapsychologist on consciousness theories and potential explanations for conscious existence and reality, and this is by far the one that fits the best with objective and subjective science imo.
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Do you have some literature to share on this topic?