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Originally Posted by 001  Okay, so basically what the blog post is saying is that I'm the only conscious being and everyone else is just "imagined" in a sense? That all seems a bit silly to me. I mean, why would you even bother posting on this forum or making a blog if in fact no one else will really read it, since you are actually just dreaming?
I don't think I imagined all of the forum posts I read here. I don't think I imagined his blog post about everything being imagined. I may have attracted them, but I didn't create them subconsciously, as if I were dreaming. In fact, this is pretty much the opposite of what The Secret said, which is that we are all operating in the same universe.
When I talk to someone, I believe that he is a conscious being like myself who can see me and hear what I'm saying; not a figure of my own imagination. Call me crazy. |
Not quite. You have to understand that for Pavlina your egoic self (whoever you are behind the 001 title) and your consciousness are different. As an example, have you ever had the experience of meditating and having no thought yet retaining some sort of awarness? That awareness is consciousness.
Pavlina's clarified his idea of subjective reality in other places. It is not that you are the only "real" being, that would be solipsism. You and everyone in your reality are all consciouness that's decided to manifest as invidual beings, but you are all connected and all part of the same consciousness that simply chooses to put on different avatars.
I dunno how much I agree with this concept but that's my understanding of it.