Tardigrades Oh My, have you seen one?!

This session material was channeled on August 15, 2025 by Troy.

This is Gary's and Petra's session which they kindly invited me to be with them in so that we could explore one of Earth's most fascinating and beautiful creatures, the water bears. They had asked me to post it here. We have had a few discussions about them previously and thought it would be fun to ask Michael about them.

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MEntity: Hello to each of you. We are here, now. We can begin.

Gary: Hello Michaels this is Gary, good to be with yous

Jeroen: Hello Michael!

Gary:

Tardigrades Oh My, have you seen one?!

I have commandeered a session from Petra so that Jeroen and I can explore these fascinating little creatures also known as water bears.

We welcome this playground for a possible deeper look into how these dynamic survivors came to be and where they are.

These almost microscopic creatures have seemingly un-earthly characteristics and abilities. They can survive VERY extreme hot and cold (300 deg. F and minus 458 deg. F), Extreme radiation, dehydration, the vacuum of space and the total absence of oxygen.  They enter a dormant state (nun), even for decades, and “re-activate” when conditions change.

Can you tell us more about these guys?

In 2019 a probe crash landed on the moon. It was the failed Beresheet mission. 1,000 Tardigrades were on that craft in a module.  It was stated that they must have perished. We think there is room for doubt. As well, methinks they may have been there already?

The existence of such a resilient creature may be evolutionary, yet we wonder if it was “designed” and of off planet origin. 

MEntity:

We are compiling a response. We appreciate the playful curiosity.

What we can tell you about these creatures is likely not much more than you may already know, though we do note that the state of dormancy is "tun," during which metabolism is reduced to near silence, water is withdrawn, and internal structures are stabilized by protective proteins. In this state, they can endure extremes of temperature, radiation, vacuum, and lack of oxygen for limited spans of time. When moisture and tolerable conditions return, they rehydrate, repair, and resume life.

Gary: If this simple (1,000 cells) creature, with these profound abilities, was Nature’s engineering through evolution, we are stunned with admiration.

MEntity: In regard to the lunar crash, even if some individuals remained structurally intact within their tun, there would need to be liquid, atmosphere, and steady temperature to may recovery viable. We see no viable path for revival or reproduction. They may persist as dust and we do not see records of these creatures on the moon before the crash.

Gary: Laying its eggs within its own shed skin, providing added protection, is one example which suggests intelligence methinks.

MEntity:

The beauty we see in these creatures is that they are truly and thoroughly terrestrial. Their lineage is woven through Earth's unique evolutionary tapestry. What may appear as deliberate "design," is simply the elegance of iterative adaptation across vast amounts of time, though helped in shapy be planetary devas.

If there is any off-planet influence, we would say it is only in the universal tendency of life to propagate potential, but not in the insertion of a finished organism.

Gary: universal elegance indeed, interesting

Jeroen: Yes, indeed. Earth has had quite a broad spectrum of unique environments for them to live and adapt through throughout the history of the planet.

MEntity:

Tardigrades are not Sentient. They do illustrate a common confusion by humans, mistaking survival for life. The tun is a kind of unique wisdom of these bodies, bridging moments between living. When water returns, life returns.

It is possible to "meet" these water bears by soaking a small, ethically gathered pieces of moss or lichen in clean water, then place a single drop on a slide under a simple microscope. With patience, you would likely see their slow lumbering. They can be released where you found them.

There could be said to be some symbolic messaging from their existence, such as when conditions are harsh, conserve, and when conditions are kind, move. The mastery is not in an endless armoring, but in conscious and timely re-emergence.

We will now look to your comments and any new questions. One moment.

There are many kinds of intelligence, and the example you cited is a beautiful example of what we would describe as adaptive, instinctive intelligence rather than conceptual, self-reflective intelligence. The egg-laying is synchronized with molting. We know many species deposit smooth shelled eggs inside an emptied cuticle where the collection of eggs is held together and buffered until hatching. Other species lay eggs directly into the environment with ornamented shells. All of these are established reproductive strategies across species, but not a case-by-case decision by individuals in the moment.

The emptied cuticle as a place for eggs is an evolved form of protect and microenvironment for the eggs. This has become successful as a pattern for the species and has stabilized over time, but this is not evidence of Sentient problem-solving. Nature is its own kind of consciousness that lives through all forms of life and by default, aims for evolutionary success.

Your sense that intelligence is present is correct, but it is the intelligence of the form and of the species at an instinctive level, rather than parental strategy.

It may seem disappointing that these creatures are simply of Earth and designed as a response to the patterns of life, but we find this to be just as beautiful. As we have explored multiple star systems now, we still find Earth to be one of the most extraordinary planets across the galaxies.

We were originally seeded here to blend in with the vast array of unique life.

We did not do well to remain blended in.

Jeroen: They are beautiful developments of life on Earth.

MEntity:

As are you.

Did you have further questions?

Jeroen: When water bears are in a tun state, do you know if they dream and if they do, what may they be dreaming about? How may they experience time while dreaming relative to physical time?

MEntity:

Dreaming as you know it requires an active nervous system cycling through patterns of sensation, memory, and integration of experiences. In the tun, tardigrades withdraw water, vitrify internal organs, suspend all metabolism, and halt neural signaling. So there is no platform for imagery, story, or experience. In our terms, there is the Instinctive Center only, and even that is in a functional pause. Therefore, there is no dreaming in the tun.

In terms of time, we could describe three streams of time: Physical Time, Biological Time, and Experiential Time. For a tardigrade, the interval between drying into the tun and rehydrating out of it is not a long tunnel of awareness. It is an absence. When water returns, so does awareness. Ten minutes or ten years of physical time resolve as one contiguous moment of life that simply resumes.

In the most poetic of terms, we could say that a tardigrade in the tun then "dreams" of water, not as pictures or memories or experience, but as a kind of orientation or compass that aims toward solvency, temperature, and chemistry that would allow movement again. While this is not a dream, it is a kind of preserved set of priorities waiting to be expressed. It is close.

Jeroen: That is quite interesting that their Instinctive Center shifts into pause too. It makes sense.

Gary:

seems we would be wise to study them. The protective proteins or enzymes which they produce could help us with, for example radiation exposure if we could understand it better

I can imagine, and we ask you too as well, what the likely outcome would be if we were to encounter one human size in a hallway. I am not sure we could even out run one. Would they be aggressive and “adapt” their diet as well? This is the playground part ….thanks.

MEntity:

Regarding the studying of these creatures:

The most promising elements that may be of use to humans might be the molecular shielding, which may provide templates compatible with humans that could cushion proteins and membranes during stress. DNA guardians could be made from damage suppressor proteins that reduce breaks from radiation and oxidation in temporary situations. And the repair and recovery cycles of tardigrades may be of use if these pause and repair cascades were mapped to inspire pharmacology that primes human cells to recover more cleanly after exposure.

However, the complications of delivery, regulation, context, and of course, ethics and safety, all make for complicated path of experimentation and application.

Contextually, any progress made from these studies would likely benefit space flight to mitigate cosmic radiation, medical care to reduce collateral damage from diagnostic or therapeutic radiation, and emergency response for accidental exposure to radiation.

Gary: our clock has run over Big thanks for playing

Jeroen: Thank you very much. This was fun.

MEntity: We will conclude here for today, then. Good day to each of you. Goodbye, for now.