Your stumbling block

[judge45]

I think this is a big stumbling block for people trying to get a grip on SR.

Other people.

In SR you can accept that nothing is real outside of your present moment awareness and you accept that your true self (TS) is actually a consciousness running the reality and everything in it.

But the real issue is who/what/where are other people?

The answer lies in what you as a person is. You are a projection of TS (true self, the true version of you) and so is everyone else, but your perspective of reality is the only one that matters because it's yours.

You as TS centers on your avatar/body/mind to get the most enjoyment out of the reality you built. Other people are avatars you created to interact with. The real problem is they seem so real, but that's because you seem so real, but they're not, because you're not. When I say real, that's defined by being real in this version of reality you've created.

If you want to accept SR as a way to live, you have to grasp that everything is a creation of you (including you) and that includes other people and that can be hard when they seem so darn interactive. They are the most interactive part of the simulation, because they seem so outside of your control, but they are not. You can bring other people into your present moment awareness as easily as money, health, joy and rain and yes you can even make them do stuff.

Your big problem is responsibility. You might be able to accept that you create your reality and attract things into it, but the stumbling block is the people that seem so outside your control, outside what you can affect by intention and thought. You want to be responsible for attracting stuff into your life, but you don't want to manipulate other people, but that's what you do everyday. Just as you build reality everyday, so you build the people in it.

If you want money, somewhere along the way someone else has to give it to you and on some level you have to be responsible for making them give it to you. If you have the tinest belief that your existance is a subjective one, then you are totally responsible for everything and that includes all those people you bring into your PMA and the money they bring with them to give to you.

That's also why there are not 6 billion people in reality, because you can't fit them all in your lounge room You can only fit a few in there and they are the only ones that are real in your PMA, when they leave they cease to exist.

I may not have articulated this very well. But in essence, that physical thing you can render in the mirror is the projection of TS that you identify with the most because it's in PMA. You only identify with other physical things when they enter your PMA, people are the hardest to render because of the level of interaction required.

But they are no more controllable and/or difficult to interact with than your own version of other people........which is you.

HTH

Jeff

PS In truth, you cease to be rendered physcially everyday and return to TS everday, when and how???

It's called sleep.

[TheColonel]

Great post.

By the way, what does HTH mean?

[judge45]

Because I'm moving over to SR it means Hello Thy HigherSelf

Actually I just made that up, it actually means Hope This Helps

HTH

Jeff