At the risk of getting super-nerdy/philosophical, I'm basically in line with what Houston Lee said above.
Based on everything we're learning about quantum mechanics, combined with other scientific theories and yes, even certain religious philosophies, I'm increasingly of the opinion that God/consciousness (which is basically the same thing in my book) is the baseline/default of reality, from which all dimensions, universes, space, time, matter, gravity, etc springs. If so, one theory is that all living beings, from NHI to humans to animals to plants, etc are manifestations of a desire by that God/consciousness to essentially filter himself/itself into an infinite amount of experiences, in order to A) interact with an "other" besides himself/itself (basically, the ultimate act of empathy), and through those interactions B) gain experiences of love, hate, knowledge, etc that are shared/absorbed into the "collective," as Houston Lee put it.
To that end, if we indeed are all connected on a base level, via a baseline consciousness - and are basically all one and the same - it wouldn't surprise me if, like you said, certain non-verbal persons can communicate with each other, there's such thing as remote viewing, etc. Hell, my guess is we're all capable of telepathy to some degree, but it's an ability that simply hasn't been "unlocked" for most of us yet.
Where I draw the line/differ from a lot of people is that, regardless if all of the above is true, the concept of hell simply makes no sense to me. An all-powerful, all-knowing God who forces billions of souls into existence against their will, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that the majority of them (non-Christians) are going to burn in hell, is literally the most evil, sadistic thing I can imagine. It's an ultimatum/eternal "or else" masquerading as "choice" and "love." To that end, a "savior" who "saves" us from…
himself... and what he's going to do to us if we don't love him back… isn't love. It's manipulation and abuse. It's also Santa Clause for adults, and IMO, reeks of a story twisted by man to keep power and to keep other men in line.
However, I absolutely believe in intelligent design and, like I said, am becoming more and more convinced, via study after study, that a quantum consciousness/God is, indeed, the baseline of all reality (or at least our reality). In fact, the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
proved that reality isn't local, which obviously hints at an "underlying" reality beyond the three dimensions we experience. I just don't believe in an underlying "hell" that we're sent to if we don't get the right test answer in our limited time on this vastly uneven, vastly unfair playing field we call Earth. A much more compassionate, and far more beautiful story, IMO, is that God is us and we are God, to the point that no matter how our lives are lived in this existence, they continue on in and contribute toward a greater consciousness/goal, one we rejoin/"remember" once we die.
