Conscious hopping
Life of every specie is a slave to the conscious Element. that Created and controlled them.
In normal situation, every life is confined to a small Capsule called Time-Space.
The mystics are those understand the truth:
The life, by itself, is a dumb slave.
The life can hop from one consciousness to another.
One can feel what if he were an elephant, a tiger, an ant, perhaps every celestial entities found in the sacred texts.
All these happen because life breaks open the Time-space encapsulation and freed fromy the limitations imposed by the bodily sensors.
Krishna Consciousness:
Perhaps, the Krishna consciousness is the highest one can aim.
Each large Branch in the tree called Universe could be one of the 14 worlds or planes, the mystics describe.
Why one needs Guru?
Breaking open one’s Time-space encapsulation is not any great feat. Every one of us escape from the capsule for a short period of time only to be put back into it.
We experience during that time, which we are unfamiliar. So the experience if forgotten.
A longer escape from Time-Space Capsule could have painful consequence.
Once escaped from the familiar life inside the capsule, one does not have a pointer where he is. No clue on what to do! Still worse, they won’t know how to get back into the familiar Capsule which gives the comfort.
The mystics suggest either you have “Knowledge” or a Guru, a guide who is an adept at the world outside the Time-space capsule.