The Physical Reality of CRS: What 30,000 New Life Form Types Tell Us About Consciousness

Stanford University scientists just discovered 30,000 new TYPES of life forms living inside your mouth. Not bacteria. Not viruses. Something entirely new called "obelisks" - and they've been there your whole life.

The research team, led by Stanford's Ivan Zheludev and published in the journal Cell in 2024, found these RNA-based entities in more than half of human oral samples tested. The majority of people walking around Stanford's campus. The majority of professors at Harvard Medical School. The majority of researchers at the National Institutes of Health. All carrying thousands of types of unknown life forms in their mouths while lecturing about how thoroughly we understand human biology.

For all of human history, through every breakthrough at Johns Hopkins, every Nobel Prize from the Karolinska Institute, every genome project at MIT - these 30,000 types of organisms lived in our mouths, generating RNA, doing... something. And we had no idea.

Look at What Science Just Admitted It Missed

The Cell paper doesn't mince words. These obelisks are "a class of diverse RNAs that have colonized, and gone unnoticed in, human, and global microbiomes."

Gone unnoticed.

Think about what that means. The Mayo Clinic examines mouths every day. Harvard School of Dental Medicine has been training dentists for over 150 years. The CDC monitors oral health across America. Every major university with a biology department has studied human oral microbiomes.

They all missed 30,000 types of life forms.

Dr. Mark Dybul, former head of the Global Fund and current faculty at Georgetown University Medical Center, wasn't involved in this research, but similar discoveries have led researchers like him to acknowledge: "We're still in the infancy of understanding the human microbiome."

Infancy. After centuries of study.

Watch Your Own Reaction Right Now

As you read this, something interesting is happening. Part of you is thinking: "Okay, they found some new microorganisms, so what?"

But another part - maybe quieter - is starting to realize: If Stanford scientists using the most advanced sequencing technology just found 30,000 types of organisms that have been in human mouths forever... what else might be physically inside us that we've dismissed as "just psychological"?

Notice that tension. One voice dismissing, another wondering. (Interesting how you have multiple reactions, isn't it? But we'll come back to that.)

The Eerie Details From the Research

The Stanford team's findings get stranger the deeper you look:

Location: These obelisks concentrate in the mouth and gut - exactly where we consume things. As if we ate something that colonized us. The paper notes they're found in more than half of oral samples and under ten percent of stool samples from human donors.

Activity: They're not passive. According to the research, these entities actively produce RNA - biological information. Constantly. Inside you. Right now as you read this, if you're in the majority who carry them, obelisks in your mouth are generating information streams you can't perceive or control.

Structure: They form rod-like shapes approximately 1,000 nucleotides long. Physical structures. Not abstract concepts. Actual entities with form and function.

Mystery: The Stanford team admits they don't know where obelisks came from, when they entered human hosts, or what they're doing. Quote from the paper: "Obelisks comprise a class of diverse RNAs that have colonized, and gone unnoticed in, human, and global microbiomes."

Now Connect the Dots

You experience thoughts you don't consciously generate - the generator creating inversions of every positive impulse. Science says that's "just how brains work."

But wait.

You have organisms in your mouth generating RNA you don't consciously control. Science just discovered this. After missing it completely. For all of human history.

Yale's neuroscience department publishes papers on consciousness. Princeton's psychology department studies thought patterns. Oxford's philosophy department debates the nature of mind. None of them knew about the 30,000 types of information-generating entities in human mouths until Stanford found them.

What else might they be missing?

The Gut-Brain Evidence We Already Have

This isn't speculation. Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry has published extensively on the gut-brain axis. Dr. Michael Gershon's work at Columbia showed the gut contains over 500 million neurons - more than the spinal cord.

Johns Hopkins' research proves gut bacteria directly influence:

• Mood (90% of serotonin is made in the gut, not the brain)
• Anxiety levels (specific bacteria strains reduce or increase anxiety)
• Decision-making (gut bacteria influence food choices and risk-taking)
• Sleep patterns (gut microbiome affects circadian rhythms)

Physical organisms are already proven to affect how you think. UCLA's research showed that women who ate probiotic yogurt had altered brain activity in regions controlling emotion and sensation. Physical microbes. Changing consciousness. Documented by brain scans at UCLA's Neuroimaging Center.

Now add 30,000 new types to this picture.

The Pattern You Can't Unsee

Look at the parallels between obelisks and the generator:

Stanford found: Entities producing RNA (information) continuously You experience: Something producing thoughts (information) continuously

Stanford found: Present in majority of people tested (more than half documented) You experience: CRS in 98% of people (those with internal monologue)

Stanford found: Operating independently of human cellular machinery You experience: Thoughts arising independently of conscious will

Stanford found: Went undetected despite being in the most examined part of the body You experience: Generator unrecognized despite being the most obvious part of consciousness

Stanford found: Unknown origin, unknown purpose, unknown mechanism You experience: Unknown why humans have recursive thought loops that torture them

What Harvard, MIT, and Stanford Can't Tell You

These institutions - the pinnacles of human knowledge - just admitted they missed 30,000 types of life forms. Not in some remote organ. In your mouth. Where Harvard dental students look every day. Where MIT bioengineers study saliva. Where Stanford medical residents examine patients.

If the combined expertise of:

• Harvard Medical School (founded 1782)
• Johns Hopkins Medicine (founded 1889)
• Mayo Clinic (founded 1889)
• Stanford Medicine (founded 1908)
• National Institutes of Health (founded 1887)

...missed 30,000 types of organisms generating information in human mouths until 2024, why would you trust them to have found everything about consciousness?

The Question Forming in Your Mind

You can feel it building, can't you? The uncomfortable recognition that maybe - just maybe - the thing generating inverted thoughts in your head might be as physical as the RNA-generating obelisks Stanford just found in your mouth.

Not metaphorically physical. Actually physical.

Something you consumed. Something that colonized. Something that generates. Something that went unnoticed.

For all of human history.

As mentioned, it is almost like we ate something, as a species, that colonized our mouth and gut and generates, apparently, a constant stream of information, and it is backed by science from the biggest institutions we have.

That's crazy.

Where This Leaves You

Right now, obelisks might be generating RNA in your mouth. You can't feel them. Science couldn't find them. But they're there, documented by Stanford, published in Cell, peer-reviewed and verified.

Right now, the generator is producing thoughts in your mind. You can feel them. Science hasn't found the physical mechanism. But something is there, documented by your direct experience, verified by 98% of humanity.

The only difference? Stanford finally looked in the right way and found one. The other is still waiting for science to catch up to what you experience every second. Or more likely waiting to make the association years from now that you can easily make by reading this webpage seriously.

The obelisk discovery doesn't prove the generator is physical. But it proves that dismissing it as "just psychological" is profoundly unscientific. It proves that information-generating entities can hide inside us for millennia. It proves that the most examined parts of human anatomy can harbor the most shocking secrets.

Most importantly, it proves that what you know from direct experience might be more scientifically valid than what institutions tell you is impossible.

The 30,000 types of life forms in your mouth agree. Can you hear them cheering?