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Originally Posted by LifeIsNotADressRehearsal  I can't quite figure out if the author is claiming that the reader is the only person in the universe? On Earth? |
There are many "persons" in the Universe. You are one of them. But what is a "person"? You're not your body, you're not your thoughts, you're not your ideas, you're not your memories, you're not your job, you're not your gender... After you take away all the things that you're not, what ARE you? Just a unique point of consciousness. You're a sort of lens for Universal Consciousness to use. You FEEL like you're a separated being, but that's all part of the illusion. "You" are an illusion. So am "I". So is my desk, so is "Steve Pavilina", so is everything. That's the point of the hologram metaphor.
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Originally Posted by LifeIsNotADressRehearsal If EVERYTHING in my world is just a hologram I created to play with it, who are all the other folks? Is there only one person in the universe? |
There is only ONE continuous, undivided, infinite Consciousness in the Universe. There are billions of unique Points of View (i.e., Persons) used by that Consciousness. All of us Persons all have our own, unique reality because we are all unique Points of View. By assuming the role of Absolute Creator within your own reality, you automatically assume that other persons are merely players in that (and from your Point of View, they are).
Does that make any more sense?