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Originally Posted by Andrew Brunelle  You are consciousness. You are everything. Your physical body is a manifestation of your consciousness, as is everyone else's. Why consciousness chose this body to see things through, I don't know. Why my perspective is here and not within you, I don't have a clue. That is the one thing that isn't really explained. Sure, I'm everything, but I'm tied down here to some degree. Why? So I can interact with what I've created? How come I am me and not you? If I want to interact, it makes sense I choose a body, but why this one and not that one? |
Please read my thread entitled "Who Is Projecting Who?"
Basically, I present the concept that the One Cosmic Consciousness (OCC) chooses ALL "bodies" or Points Of Experience (POE's) to see things through, as you put it. The reason that we each believe that we are the sole focus of that OCC is because WE ARE.
The explanation goes to the All Things Happen At Once theory. I propose that what that really means is that All Things Are EXPERIENCED At Once... by the OCC from OUR perspective, and NOT from the perspective of the OCC.
Through each of "US," these countless POE's our waking ego's believe to be separate individuals, the OCC focuses Its attention CONSECUTIVELY.
However, because the OCC exists outside of the space-time physical universe, "our" perception of a separate individual consciousness within every other POE is nothing more than an illusion that the OCC has divided up Its focus infinitely, when perhaps the reality is that what we really perceive as happening "at the same moment -- i.e. focus of OCC consciousness -- is actually happening at ANOTHER POINT IN TIME from the perspective of the OCC itself.
My working analogy is your typical time travel flick, like Time Cop, where Officer Max Walker visits himself in the past and they work together to solve the conflict. The SAME CONSCIOUSNESS occupies both Walkers; both occupy the same physical space-time, but each perceives himself to be a separate POE from the other.
So the answer is NOT to view all other people as projections of you, but rather as YOU from another point in your personal timeline experiencing reality from a completely different perspective within the timeline of your current personality/avatar/subself, etc. Make sense?
~ RS