Paul,
You're still playing with separation. If there's 7 billion people in the world and they're all you, how are you not responsible? I don't think you're taking into account how BIG consciousness is. Our awareness isn't big enough to fathom that much interrelated activity and still see it as ourselves. I limit my scope to the people around me an major events (like the Iraq war) and leave it at that. I know that everyone I meet is a reflection of me and I won't agree with half of them on certain issues. It's ok, I'm just showing me another part of me I didn't know about.
In the Iraq war example you're not seeing those pieces of self as you. You're still separated. You might say, "I'm totally against war... those pieces of me don't mirror me one bit." Oh, but they do. This is the tough part of oneness. Welcome to yourself. You like war. You've been doing it for thousands of years.
(This is what you do about it... you're not powerless. The war you need to fix is the war within yourself. Find those places inside yourself where you fight yourself and 'others'. Choose peace instead. Choose connection to self. Let go of the drama and agitation. That will effect the outside events. That will effect the leaders of the world (who you may not agree are you.))
In your $1M it's quite apparent. You have to fight with all these 'others' to get your 1M bucks, cuz they're not going to let you have it. If the people don't want you to have it, that would be a reflection of your choice NOT TO have it. That choice is probably not in your conscious awareness, but the world, your trusty mirror, is showing it to you so you can address it.
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Originally Posted by impaul99  It then makes this world exist whether or not Paul is conscious at all, and thus limits the amount of responsibility I (Paul) has for this world to about 1/Few Billion. |
In this world we play with truck-loads of denial. There's plenty of stuff we are unconscious about, but we are still responsible even though we are layering denial over it. If you erased your thoughts of the Iraq war it would still be going on, outside your awareness.