I was impressed with how
practical Steve's model of a subjective, one-consciousness, reality seemed, so I've been thinking a lot about it lately.
At first I thought I would take his recommendation to try some intention-manifestation(IM) and see how it works, but as Steve said, in order for IM to work you have to truly believe the intention will come true. To do that, I would need to truly believe in subjective reality(SR). This is because SR is the only model of reality in which IM could work (see SR podcast for Steve's excellent reasoning on this claim). So, I concluded that I must first explore the possibility of SR before exploring IM.
Okay, so Like Steve, I started with what I truly knew, which is that I am having certain experiences and sensing certain things. I think my train of thought when considering other people was the exact same as his: My experiences suggest that there are other people and that they are human just like me. They seem to have thoughts and emotions just like me, and I even sometimes experience a spiritual connectedness with other people (sensing consciousness). But I don't know for sure if they are real; I suppose they could in fact be just projections of my counsciousness.
So do other people have their own consciousness or are they just projections of mine? Well, since I have nothing to suggest they
are projections of my consciousness, the most probable answer is that they have their own consciousness, because that is what my experiences suggest.
Steve had the perception of successful IM experiences to use as a suggestion that reality is subjective, and that other people are therefore projections of his consciousness, but as I've shown, there is an inherent flaw in using IM without first believing in SR. (It isn't possible to do.)
I think Steve's successes are more attributable to the law of attraction(LoA). This is something I already use in my life to great effect, but it doesn't lead me to a subjective reality. There are many explanations for it. (It gives me a healthy outlook on life, keeps me focused and I therefore get good results. It is very useful because all your thoughts truly have an impact on your psyche and perception of reality. Also, the so called "synchronicities" could be a result of God helping us along on the right path, or they really could be just coincidences (our brains might just underestimate how common coincidences really are))
One last thing: I take issue with the dream argument I see being used to support the possibility of subjective reality. People say that since our consciousness can create life-like sequences in dreams, it should also be able to produce our complex daily experiences. I think this is wrong because dreams are always made up of images from your daily experiences. Although the mind does a lot of mixing and matching of different objects, places, people etc., it never actually creates something truly new in a dream. (It could even picture a person with a goat's head, but that still isn't creating something new) In reality we do see completely new things, like for example a totally new animal species unlike anything we could have imagined.
Please let me know what you think of my reasoning! Also check my profile to see some info on me and feel free to drop me a line.
