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Originally Posted by impaul99  Are you saying that the reality your ego creates is one, and the reality my ego creates is a different reality? And they co-mesh together in a way? ie. Each Ego gets his/her own "holodeck" to play with, but they sometimes co-mesh together? |
Not quite. I'm saying those egos are merely filters of a larger consciousness, like a right eye and a left eye. They're looking at the same thing -- at consciousness itself -- but they're seeing different aspects due to the nature of each filter.
Each ego perceives only a limited projection of consciousness, a tiny slice of the true multi-dimensional reality.
The fun part is when those egos interact. "I see this." "I've got this piece." "Hey, everyone. Look at this over here." Then we all try to make sense of it at the ego level.
Of course, at the individual ego level, reality makes no sense because the ego's perspective is too narrow. It's like a single eyeball trying to understand the visible universe... with no assistance from other observers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
Subjective reality is the perspective that pulls back from the individual egos and aims to see the big picture, which simultaneously incompasses all egoic perspectives yet is independent of them, including the first-person perspective (which is where solipsism gets stuck).
SR recognizes that a pointer towards an egoless perspective is the act of becoming as aware as possible of the full perspective of the individual ego. No detail can be ignored. Everything is significant because it's a piece to the larger puzzle.
What happens to the ego after embracing SR is that it takes on a different role. It's no longer regarded as one's true identity. Instead it becomes a tool for exploration and interaction with the physical manifestation of consciousness.