Have you ever felt that everything happening around you is like a dream? A surreal feeling?
Have you ever wondered who you are in reality?
Have you been, even once, inclined to feel that death could not be real?
If you have felt these, consider yourself lucky! I will explain why later on.

This is a probe into the deeper meaning of life. I can only go into myself, my own mind. Even more, I can only be myself . I cannot be you. Even if we develop a technology to download you into my brain then I can know you as a collection of experiences/thoughts/memories. I have you now, maybe even your body. But I am aware that "I am" you or "I am" your body. You can erase my past, in which case I will be you as much as you are you as and when the downloading was done! After that point in time I don't have the new thoughts and experiences you are having. On top of that I can look at you and be dead sure that you are not thinking what I am thinking at any given point in time. I really am not you.
I can only be myself.

If you understood the previous paragraph you will have become aware that you are something beyond the collection of thoughts and memories and experiences.
Now you are ready to go here.

You are able to become aware of your mind and your "self" because of the evolutionary developments in brain that happened about a million and half years ago. Now did desires lead to mutations or was it a random phenomena?

Did the combination of molecules and the resulting chemistry lead to conciousness? I think not. Read this.

Lower animals are aware too, but only of their immediate environment. They can sense even subtle changes in environment even we cant sense. For example an eagle can spot a duckling from half a kilometre above the way we can spot a can of beer when we open the refrigerator.

The acuity and quality of the senses vary from animal to animal because of the variations in the brain anatomy.
But what of those deers and birds that "predict" earthquakes? Governments have employed people who can see things that are or are going to happen in another part of the world. Is it a sixth sense?

Why are some people able to bend spoons or levitate a cofee mug (making a mess afterwards . .). How come most of us can't do this? I still need a remote control to change channels on my TV set.