[impaul99]

I know this was mentioned in a few threads, but I wanted to open up a discussion on what you guys think about the concept of a Single Ego vs. Multiple Ego Subjective Reality.

Let's not argue the validity of Subjective Reality or IM as that's already being discussed in other threads, but lets just assume that both SR and IM work for the purpose of this thread.

Now, the question is whether this is a Single Player/Ego/Avatar game of life or a Massive Multi-Player/Ego/Avatar game.

If only one ego exists, meaning our own, then that means nothing really needs to be cured except my own ego. For example, if I see an alcoholic, that simply means that *I* (ego) am projecting the image of an alcoholic because some part of MY ego is addicted to something perhaps, or feels guilty about something or whatever, and there really is no point judging the other person since they are not real. Only *I* exist so I must seek to cure whatever I see wrong with the world in myself.

If multiple ego's exist, then it's a different story. If I see an alcoholic, that's really HIS ego that has an addiction problem and maybe I can help him out by getting him checked into AA or something of that sort.

Another way of looking at it is in regards to Steve Pavlina's site. Lets say he figures out a way to get in shape and eat healthy. In a single ego universe, once he cures his addiction to bad food he doesn't really have to worry about anyone else since they dont' exist so he'll slowly create less and less overweight people. Him writing an article about being healthy isn't really important except in as much as it is needed for him to organize his thoughts. But really, nobody is there to read it. The writing of the article will change his projections of the world, but only because he needs that to explain why all of a sudden people are not overweight anymore in his world.

In a multi-ego universe, Steve's ego has problems, and all of our ego's have problems and by Steve figuring out a way to overcome something he can share that info with us via his website and our ego's can hopefully also cure themselves of this problem.

The plot thickens:

In a multi-player universe, we also can't diminish the role of our "true self" or spiritual side which is connected to a superconsciousness which interconnects all of us together, so if Steve's ego overcomes food addiction, does that not also overcome food addiction at the spiritual interconnected level and therefore curing food addiction in all of us just a little bit?

What are the practical implications of this:

The practical implications of either side is that in a single player universe, it is much more useful to cure 1,000 problems of your own ego and just let the world fix itself since it is being created by you. However, in a multi-player universe it might be more useful (for humanity) to cure 1 problem with yourself and to find a way to cure that same problem in a million people, assuming you only have enough time to do one or the other, not both.

What do you guys think?