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2. I don't think FFVII and FFX are related at all. The Shinra in FFX(2) was merely an easter egg and the pyreflies and lifestream don't really have a connection the way I look at it. Their purposes were different.
Not bashing ya or anything Hambone, but Kazushige Nojima and Yoshinori Kitase, who were the scenario writer and producer, respectively, confirmed in interviews that (SPOILER)the child named Shinra in FFX-2 is the ancestor of the people that left Spira and landed on Gaia, and created the Shin-Ra Electric Power Company.
You can find these interviews in the FFX-2 Ultimania Guide.

But as I'm trying to find the info about the lifestream and the Farplane, the only connection I'm seeing is (SPOILER)that both condense to form physical objects, (Materia and Spheres) both can be harvested as an energy source, (Or so Shinra thinks in FFX-2) and, as stated above, the main harvester of mako in FFVII is the Shin-Ra Electric Power Company, and Shinra in FFX-2 has theories about the Farplane being harvested as an energy source. So, I may be wrong about the Farplane being the same as the lifestream.

But as I'm typing this, my mind keeps going back to one of my initial questions, is it possible the (SPOILER)Spirans who left Spira and ended up on Gaia are the Ancients that are discussed in FFVII? I may be wrong, but in FFVII, doesn't it say the Ancients were nomads who traveled to different planets?
Thanks for taking the time to read this.