Hi!
I've been reading Steve's blog for a looong while now, and one thing I've never really thought about but am interested in now is subjective reality. It's really interesting but I don't understand it completely.
In Steve's case, if there is only one conciousness, his conciousness, then why does he speak and give advice to people as if their conciousness is all there is?
Also, let's say you're playing a game of chess with another person. You truly believe and intend that you will win the game even though you've never played it before, and there is no hidden higher belief that you have about this, like the belief that you need lots of experience to win a game of chess. Then, under subjective reality...would you win?
And I don't understand to what extent I have power in my reality. If I'm looking for an accurate model, then doesn't that mean reality works a certain way and has its own rules, so I can't just create my own. If I truly, truly believe I can fly, or the laws of physics are wrong, then I can really fly and make up my own rules about physics?
I also don't get relationships with people in this kind of reality. I understand that the relationships are really your relationships with yourself (right?) but then, if everyone is really a part of me, then me is all there is, and isn't that lonely? I'm trying not to get my ego mixed up in this, but I find that with one conciousness and dream characters walking around in it, being the real me, is still lonely. ...
Sorry if these are silly questions. I want to understand this.