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Originally Posted by Nani  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? |
Consciousness is communicating with itself. That can be expressed in many ways I guess. I'm you talking to you now. Or is it me talking to me now? It's both.
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Originally Posted by Nani 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?  |
Probably. But could someone in the human experience pull this off? Doubtful. There way too much denial in our experience.
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Originally Posted by Nani 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 |
You create your experience. 100% of it. Reality is a reflection of you.
If you're looking for an accurate model to create reality with, you're trying to see consciousness with the mind. You can't. The mind is an expression of consciousness. It is created by consciousness. It can't see how it or anything else comes into our reality.
You can fly in the world, but you need to get through a lot of denial first. First one being -- I am the creator and I create all my experience, now
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Originally Posted by Nani 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. ... |
Yes you're having a relationship with yourself. I don't know about the dream characters part. They ARE you. 'They' are consciousness just as you are. They're not fake. They're you. Go hit one and find out. They're quite real in one sense, and everything in this reality is an illusion in another sense. Gotta love ambiguity.
I think the lonely part is coming from your mind. When I experience everyone I meet as myself I find I'm quite fascinated. I am huge. There's a lot to me that I never see.