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Originally Posted by say  Now here I think D. was not being thorough enough. If you see a chair, all you can say without a doubt is: there is an experience of a (thought of a) chair. That's it.
So where the hell does "I" come from??? Its existence doesn't make any logical sense.
Regarding personal development: Here, the confusion is between the person(ego) and the self as something greater than that. It can become confusing when you start talking about subjective reality. But then, especially when it comes to SR, I'd say that we (Steve included) can agree that "I" is something bigger than the mere person, it's more like existence, or precisely existence.
In that regard personal development is just developing a (small) part of yourself. So that when "you" as a certain person become wealthy (or whatever) it's not the "real" you who has become wealthy. So why are you trying to make this person (the not "real" you) wealthy? I don't know, people do a lot of crazy stuff.  ( Seriously, you have answer this question to yourself.) |
From my perspective, I see an
Absolute point, and an infinity of
Relative points. The Absolute point has always existed, and is eternal. Relative points are temporary. They have beginnings, and consequently must also have endings as well.
Absolute existence is balanced by absolute non-existence.
Nothing-ness cannot become something-ness, and something-ness cannot become nothing-ness. In other words, because nothingness CANNOT exist, everything HAD to exist. Because relative points are not eternal, they must eventually return to the absolute point. All relative points are the result of limitations or boundaries being imposed on an unbounded essence -- that unbounded essence being consciousness.
The relative points only "appear" to exist when the clear light of the Absolute point is obscured by "beliefs", which act as filters, or warps you might say, for consciousness.
Its like this: the One has no limitations. It is an unbounded essence. While infinite, it cannot experience growth in its omniscience, because growth implies ignorance, which is the complete opposite of omniscience. However, omniscience implies all knowledge, which includes ignorance, paradoxically enough. In order to experience growth, it forges "limitations". This results in energy, or consciousness, being restrained into "form". We could say the One dreams these limitations up. There is no sector of reality that is completely unconscious. The One dreams of the two, the two dreams of the four, the four dreams of the eight, and eventually we have all the multiplicity and separation we see and mistake for reality today.
So you see, the multiplicity is a dream. Once an entity is dreamed up, like you or I, we operate based on the limitations that we were created with. That's not to say we can't eventually break our own limitations, but from that point on, based on the freedoms we were organized (which is a much more accurate word than "created") with, we operate and dream. You see, OUR dreams, are based on how we were created. In other words, an ant dreams of ant things, a tree dreams of tree things, and a human being dreams of human things. All forms of consciousness dream, create, and organize things according to what they are able to cognize. Sometimes a form of consciousness will gain the necessary energy in order to dream of something more. You can't reach for a reality you are unaware of. Even cells are reaching towards the light.
So in summation, the "true I" is the place where subject and object are the same thing, and cause and effect are unified as well. All "others" are merely for the experience of growth or expansion. You see, growth has its place in infinity as well.