The title of this article is brilliant! I also find it to be a pretty good analysis of the topic. Would it stand up to academic philosophical rigor? No, but that would not be a fair rubric to judge this piece by. The ideas here are in fact brilliant and absolutely should be explored more. But maybe I’m biased, being a philosopher, mystic and poet myself.

Here’s another old Taoist metaphor that fits right in with the paradigm you’re operating in. If the ocean is the panpsychist universal consciousness, then the river is our subjective experience of that consciousness, the brain/body is then the riverbank and land topography over which the river flows to back to the ocean.