As is currently typical for threads like these, there are several explanations laid out here. I will continue to write (as well as I can) about the belief system that Steve has written about, in which there is Only One subjective reality.
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Originally Posted by SecretSeven Alright, so let me see if I have this right. -Everything is subjective. We are all feeling/thinking beings, but all come from the same consciousness? In a dream, there's only your ego and no other egos. So, the dream analysis isn't a hundred percent correct, because there are other beings, and other people that think, feel, right? |
ego=person. There can be many people in a dream.
People are sentient (can feel things) because you believe they are. People show some manner of intelligence because you believe they are intelligent.
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Originally Posted by http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/09/your-true-identity-ego-or-awareness/ Ego
The way I use the word, ego refers to your objective, physical world identity. This includes your physical body as well as your mind. Your ego includes your name, your job, your home, your relationships, your personality, your habits, your favorite movie, your spiritual beliefs, and so on. The contents of your mind are part of your ego. Your ego is your human character and all its individual trappings in the physical universe. |
Remember, subjective reality isn't a projection of you *ego*, just as in a non-lucid dream you identify yourself as one character (ego) in that dream among others, and the dream does not come from that one character - it comes from the dreamer, which has identified with the ego temporarily.
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Originally Posted by SecretSeven So, is there 6 billion subjective realities? Does each person on this planet have their own subjective reality? |
No, not according to Steve Pavlina's belief system. There is only one.
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Originally Posted by SecretSeven In one of Steve's posts he said everything that happens is of my own creation. So, if a child is being abuse I am responsible for it. But statistically, couldn't someone else have been responsible for it, and intended it to happen since every human sends out intentions? |
Child, abuser, Hitler, Mozart, all are but projections of the one consciousness. There is child abuse in the world because you belive there is. Also, what you see most of in your world is what you hold in your awareness the most, what you believe in, what you think and feel most. So if you, say, feel much shame and harbor thoughts of violence, for example, you are likely to see more child abuse, and similar themes, manifest in your reality - people you talk to, news you watch etc..
There is only one that has intentions.
An important point in Steve-sub-R is that
nothing exists outside your consciousness.
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Originally Posted by http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/subjective-reality-qa/ In a truly subjective universe, there is nothing outside your own consciousness — no world, no bodies, no brain. Suppose I ask you the question, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” With an objective belief structure, you might say yes, but you might also say no, depending on your views on quantum physics. However, if you believed in subjective reality, you have to reject the question entirely. You’d say that there’s no such thing as a tree outside your awareness. That tree doesn’t even exist. Nor does the forest for that matter. If you are not there to observe it, it doesn’t exist at all. Without consciousness there is no existence.
So in this paradigm, you are not a body with a mind walking around in a physical universe. You are pure conscious awareness, and the physical universe is “walking around” within you. And that includes what you think of as your body and your mind too… as well as every other body you perceive. |