Has anyone realized that if EVERYONE is part of a single consciousness, meaning Steve, Me, You, and everyone else are little parts of a single consciousness, it pretty much defeats the "power" within the SR paradigm.
Meaning, lets say something "bad" happens in Iraq. Under the multi-mini-consciousness paradigm everyone's describing it's easy to say "It's not *my* fault, I have nothing to do with that.... maybe some little distant part of my conciousness living a life as a different person caused that, but it wasn't the *me* I'm living right now, so I can't control that person so why worry about it?"
I don't think Steve is saying that. I think Steve is saying that under his SR model *HE* creates everything in his life. Even the murders on campus, he referred them to being symbols of parts of him dying with numbers like 33 having significance to STEVE personally.
If one was to say that all SR is saying is that everything in the universe is connected, then it wouldn't be any big deal --- OF COURSE everything is connected, we're all part of this universe so we're all connected somehow.
I think the POWER of the SR model comes from thinking along the lines of YOU creating everything you see PERSONALLY, just like in a dream you have at night and trying to understand WHY.
For example, if someone fingers me and then cuts me off in traffic using the SR paradigm, I think to myself "Why would I create such an event in my life?", basically thinking that I create EVERYTHING in my life. I don't look at it like "Oh, some guy out there who's part of this universe and part of the mass consciousness cut me off, but I have no idea why, probably because he's a dumbass, and it's really irritating but there's nothing I can do about the situation except maybe honk and yell at him..."
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