[ethereal]

At first I thought SR was just an explanation of Unified Consciousness, but these new articles clarified it up for me as a completely different paradigm of thinking.

I agree that if you hold a SR perspective, then the article makes perfect sense.

But I heavily doubt the validity of SR as it relates to Truth. It may make you more proactive and happy, but I respect Truth over pragmatism.

I think there seems to be a problem of context. Steve's SR perspective views collective human consciousness as a reflection of his own consciousness, but I think it's obvious that individual consciousness is a reflection of human consciousness. Free will decides which LOC your individual consciousness reflects.

Subjective Reality just seems like usurping the power of God and claiming it to be your own. Empowering indeed, but I fail to see the truth in it.

I see the same thing with Steve's analogy of the body and thumb -- yes, the thumb is the body, because it is part of the body and cannot be separate from it -- but the thumb is still a thumb. You can't say the thumb is the body (which really just leads to megalomania if unchecked), you can only take the label "thumb" off of it because labels do not apply to Reality. Saying the thumb is the body is just another subtle label and duality, and will not lead to true non-duality. Subjective Reality seems to me, to be analogous to the thumb claiming credit for all that the body does and "creates". Maybe it's a useful belief system, but it's still just another SR lens that must be discarded along the way.

To clarify, there is only God and God's Will. There is no "you". "'I' am God" (which seems to be the crux of SR) is still a duality, and a dangerous one as history shows over and over again. God is creating everything, including "you" and "your" actions / roles / manifestations. That is what the Tao and non-action of action means -- everything is spontaneously happening on its own, as an expression of that which it is, as a creation of God.