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Old 07-05-2007, 12:33 PM   #22 (permalink)
absvan
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Originally Posted by Anagogy View Post
I could be completely wrong, but Steve has said on multiple occasions that the belief that you are the only person walking around and everybody else is just a bunch of mindless robots is not the version of subjective reality he subscribes to. That is called solipsism. Max's version of subjective reality is closer to Steve's, where he identifies with consciousness itself apart from the body POV.
I agree and thats what I believe about SR too. Everything you see that we call an illusion was created by Consciousness (caps C).

What about all the wars, murders, diseases?? I say that those were created by ego consciousness. So the question would be who created ego consciousness?? I would say its again Consciousness.

Consciousness created the illusion/ego consciousness for us to grow and realize our true nature. Instead we created wars, murders, greed etc etc.....so its upto human/ego consciousness collectively to fix the problems on earth and so created the cycle of birth-death, Karma, LOA and other laws. Karma isnt a person sitting somewhere and watching us. Its the law of energy. To use energy you have to give out energy and if you give out energy then you get energy.

The only way to break free from the cycle to rebirth, death and Karma is by merging with consciousness which is what Nonduality/SR/Advaita talks about. Atleast this is what makes sense to me.
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