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Originally Posted by Andwan  Why do you think everybody has a hard time accepting subjective reality? Is it because they feel that their're all alone in the universe? Is it because they feel they have no God, so if they adopt this belief system they'll have to give up pointless activites like praying, fasting, and everything else that they've gotton results with? |
For a long time the vast majority of us have to educated in a hard, tangible reality. I'd say this stems from the rise in importance as science has replaced mysticism in our culture over the last 200 or so years. I wonder if perhaps there has been a need for a concrete shared reality which has pushed subjective experiences to the side. In a world of increased communication and structure, it becomes necessary to have a common belief structure to hold society and technology together.
Subjective reality doesn't suggest that you should abandon prayer or fasting. It merely is a lens which suggests that the reason those things work for you is because you believe in them, rather than there being some outside objective force which gives them power. The whole purpose is to return you to a point where you can take control of your reality again.
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Or do they feel that if they believe in subjective reality they are clearly believing in something that contradicts what your wife can do? I just don't understand how your wife can communicate with spirits if Im the only one who's there? I kept trying to ask was your ego/spirit still aware after you're dead? I guess she believes so, but I don't understand how its possible in a subjective reality world...Have you ever gotton the ideal to write about subjective reality from a more spiritual point of view? Or maybe ask Erin to write a less complicated version in her blog?
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The way that I interpret this is that you are the space or container in which everything happens. Ultimately everything is a product of your beliefs. However within that belief structure, there are beliefs that are a consequence of other beliefs. You believe there are other people and those people can have beliefs that are different than yours. It allows for a richer experience, as well as enabling you to discover other perspectives you might want to try. Without Erin, how would you even consider communicating with spirits?
Applying a spiritual lens to subjective reality would just complicate matters further. Within SR it's just as reasonable to believe that when your friends & family die, they just _disappear_. After all that's what you believe now. It's just more empowering to consider that there's a way to communicate with people who are important to you but no longer alive. Depending on what you believe, you could experience that they're in heaven/hell, a different spiritual dimension, or reincarnated. You choose whichever appeals to you.