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Shindra · 03-19-2007, 11:15 PM

you create *now*, and your creations include their own histories.
Think of it as a dream - that makes it easier.
You can dream you meet an old man that tells you something about the life he's lived, including his childhood. Yet he only exists within your dream - your consciousness. And he didn't exists before you had that dream. You 'dreamed him up'.

Steve is not conscious. He is a character in *your* dream, a persona maintained by your consciousness. There's only one consciousness. It is the one that is aware of being aware.
I'm sure you can imagine a computer game with lots of characters that say 'I am aware'.
It's important to remember that awareness is not an ego/avatar/person/persona/character. And most of the continuous creation of the eternal present moment does not happen in the rational mind. When you dream (when you live) you do not look at someone and think "he has a personality like this and that, so when I say 'this' he'll say such-and-such because of those personality traits..." you just dream it up and know it as it is happening.

Steve, SecretSeven, Shindra - all exist within the one consciousness.

Others' memories are actually nothing more and nothing less than your ideas. This post also only exists within the one consciousness.

I once became a bit lucid in a dream - something seemed off as a bit of my logical mind came back online, and I asked another person if it was a dream. The person said, dismissively, that it wasn't a dream - and I believed that. When I woke up I knew that what that person said wasn't true. However, I didn't see it as a lie - it was just my dream. Now the characters of this top-level dream are beginning to say more accurate ('honest') things. You can have many dreams within dreams, but they only exist within the one consciousness. To not be dreaming would be to have an empty consciousness. The wonderful thing is to be aware that you are dreaming always - that there is nothing outside of you to fear. That you are not a fragile ego, but an infinite consciousness.

These are your words, that you might imagine to be coming from somewhere else, just because your primary ego didn't write them. But it *is* consciousness that is now creating and seeing these words. Only one consciousness. One.

03-19-2007, 11:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
Shindra Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 142	you create now, and your creations include their own histories. Think of it as a dream - that makes it easier. You can dream you meet an old man that tells you something about the life he's lived, including his childhood. Yet he only exists within your dream - your consciousness. And he didn't exists before you had that dream. You 'dreamed him up'. Steve is not conscious. He is a character in your dream, a persona maintained by your consciousness. There's only one consciousness. It is the one that is aware of being aware. I'm sure you can imagine a computer game with lots of characters that say 'I am aware'. It's important to remember that awareness is not an ego/avatar/person/persona/character. And most of the continuous creation of the eternal present moment does not happen in the rational mind. When you dream (when you live) you do not look at someone and think "he has a personality like this and that, so when I say 'this' he'll say such-and-such because of those personality traits..." you just dream it up and know it as it is happening. Steve, SecretSeven, Shindra - all exist within the one consciousness. Others' memories are actually nothing more and nothing less than your ideas. This post also only exists within the one consciousness. I once became a bit lucid in a dream - something seemed off as a bit of my logical mind came back online, and I asked another person if it was a dream. The person said, dismissively, that it wasn't a dream - and I believed that. When I woke up I knew that what that person said wasn't true. However, I didn't see it as a lie - it was just my dream. Now the characters of this top-level dream are beginning to say more accurate ('honest') things. You can have many dreams within dreams, but they only exist within the one consciousness. To not be dreaming would be to have an empty consciousness. The wonderful thing is to be aware that you are dreaming always - that there is nothing outside of you to fear. That you are not a fragile ego, but an infinite consciousness. These are your words, that you might imagine to be coming from somewhere else, just because your primary ego didn't write them. But it is consciousness that is now creating and seeing these words. Only one consciousness. One. Last edited by Shindra; 03-19-2007 at 11:35 PM.