Staminamaker.com(as in meditation or induced trances) or unintentionally (as in brain damage due to accidents or medical conditions) broken down or "switched off". The life-forms lower down the evolutionary chain (with no or tiny brains), however, may be using universal intelligence almost all the time. Universal Brain and Cosmic Consciousness The Earth appears to have a brain but how does it get sensory inputs? One way is to generate life-forms. The myriad of life-forms (including human beings) on Earth are in fact the many eyes and ears of the Earth. The networks of currents in the brains of life-forms are an integral part of the network of currents in Earth's brain. .