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I sometimes imagine that all existence is the result of a lonely God having a Cosmic case of Multiple Personality Disorder.
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Thanks RS, I like that.
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The point I think SR is trying to make is that you create your reality and that nothing outside of you has ANY control whatsoever in your life.
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This notion is what I find difficult to integrate with a multiple player reality. How can both you and your children have complete control over your life if you are separately experiencing a shared reality and have separate free wills? For example, if you sit down with your child and flip a coin which one of you has control over the outcome, heads or tails? If both of you are entirely in control then it wouldn't be possible to have separate intentions.
If you consider the multi world theory of parallel universes, the universe will split into two copies. One with outcome heads and one with tails. So then you could each experience different outcomes. But, that begs the question. Let's say you choose heads and your child chooses tails. The universe splits, now your sitting with the child that either didn't get what they intended or a different child that also intended heads.
If you suppose we do experience separately some form of shared reality then there must be some mechanism to sort out what is experienced; heads or tails, win or lose, live or die, pain or comfort, suffering or bliss. What is this mechanism and where is it? Is it in you, is it in me? Who is the "you" that is in control of "your life"? Maybe there is a great battle of intentions, the strongest, clearest most congruent with all of reality wins by design, maybe there is a separate god consciousness that decides or maybe there is only one reality with one experiencer.
In any case I like to think only the ego desires to take control of life. Maybe the best way to improve your experience of life is to just let your life be as it is, disidentify with the ego and become one with the stillness of which and through which all is experienced. Maybe this way suffering can be overcome and life abundant.