I think we are mind flesh and soul. I believe that we experience the soul through the body. I think we are semi aware of our awareness, but that there are levels of awareness - for example, some people seem totally asleep - they have no sense of the impact of their actions on others, it's not that they don't care it's just that they exist solely inside their heads and don't have a sense of their personal power. And perhaps animals are even more aware than us, of course we can never know. What I like to think is that everything "out there" is a reflection of me, the animals, other humans, matter, it's all part of my own creation. In other words, there is only one source of everything, that we all come from so maybe the illusion of collective minds and bodies are really just part of the one whole. We are Gods - this is becoming true for us in a very real sense, we are now creating intelligence. So God, to me, is within all of us, we are all aspects of God. Or source, or whatever it is that we all come from and are made of.