http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/ Personal Development for Smart People Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:43:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/#comment-46563 Are You a Yogi? | Fearless Advisor Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:16:27 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/#comment-46563 [...] To understand this relationship, we must understand the triad of knowledge: the knower, the known, and the act of knowing. This goes along the lines of what Steve Pavlina discusses as subjective reality, in which you are the consciousness which encompasses everything. With the triad of knowledge, you are the center of your universe. As such, you are the witness of that universe. Everything you perceive is an object. Thus, you are the knower, the perceived universe is the known, and when you perceive the universe, it’s the act of knowing. In this philosophy, if you stopped existing, your universe no longer exists, because the act of knowing the known requires the knower. Without the knower, nothing exists. [...] [...] To understand this relationship, we must understand the triad of knowledge: the knower, the known, and the act of knowing. This goes along the lines of what Steve Pavlina discusses as subjective reality, in which you are the consciousness which encompasses everything. With the triad of knowledge, you are the center of your universe. As such, you are the witness of that universe. Everything you perceive is an object. Thus, you are the knower, the perceived universe is the known, and when you perceive the universe, it’s the act of knowing. In this philosophy, if you stopped existing, your universe no longer exists, because the act of knowing the known requires the knower. Without the knower, nothing exists. [...]

]]> http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/#comment-17659 Transcending Subjective Reality - Martial Development Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:13:13 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/#comment-17659 [...] Steve Pavlina is a professional speaker and writer, and one of the inspirations for this blog. Much of his personal development advice is smart—by which I mean to say that I agree with it. His theories on the nature of reality, however, are inaccurate and misleading. [...] [...] Steve Pavlina is a professional speaker and writer, and one of the inspirations for this blog. Much of his personal development advice is smart—by which I mean to say that I agree with it. His theories on the nature of reality, however, are inaccurate and misleading. [...]

]]> http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/#comment-12323 Deep Surface » Pavlina and Subjective Reality Sun, 21 May 2006 22:32:44 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/more-subjective-reality-qa/#comment-12323 [...] In his mostly brilliant second post, he describes his first experience with this perspective: I tried to imagine what it would be like to perceive the world through the lens of non-localized consciousness. Just then I felt my sense of consciousness expand. I instantly understood that the wall in front of me was just as much “me” as my physical body was. My consciousness was no longer localized — suddenly it was everywhere. I had an intense surge of positive emotion, but it was so overwhelming that it knocked me out of that state, so the whole experience only lasted a few seconds. It was like the first time I had a lucid dream — I got so excited that I immediately fell out of the dream state. And no… I don’t smoke, do drugs, or anything of that nature. [...] [...] In his mostly brilliant second post, he describes his first experience with this perspective: I tried to imagine what it would be like to perceive the world through the lens of non-localized consciousness. Just then I felt my sense of consciousness expand. I instantly understood that the wall in front of me was just as much “me” as my physical body was. My consciousness was no longer localized — suddenly it was everywhere. I had an intense surge of positive emotion, but it was so overwhelming that it knocked me out of that state, so the whole experience only lasted a few seconds. It was like the first time I had a lucid dream — I got so excited that I immediately fell out of the dream state. And no… I don’t smoke, do drugs, or anything of that nature. [...]

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