The Law of Atraction
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Current Events, Political Science, Government, Local Government
| Author: | Steve Pavlina, Ana Carvajal | ISBN: | 1230000740999 |
| Publisher: | Ana Carvajal | Publication: | October 26, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Steve Pavlina, Ana Carvajal |
| ISBN: | 1230000740999 |
| Publisher: | Ana Carvajal |
| Publication: | October 26, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
What is the “you” in subjective reality?
This point is crucial to really grasping subjective reality. In subjective reality, “you” have a completely different identity. “You” are the consciousness within which everything exists — time, space, people, places, events… EVERYTHING. You are NOT a human being with a body and a mind. You are consciousness, and there happens to be a human being with a body and a mind within you. So everything you perceive must be interpreted relative to the perspective of consciousness, not from the perspective of any particular body-mind, including the one you identify as your own.
Imagine a first-person video game with an on-screen avatar that you control. You can move it around and interact with other characters in the game world. In an objective reality, you perceive that character to be you. You identify with it. Everything else within the game world is therefore “not you.” And of course in most video games of this nature, the interactions between your character and the rest of the game world are usually based on conflict. You vs. not you.
But in a subjective reality, you would not identify with that on-screen character. You’d identify with the container in which the whole simulation occurs, and there would truly be nothing outside that container — no outer world at all. So there’s this character running around inside you, along with many other characters. Because you don’t identify with the character, its fate is of little concern to you. What matters is the state of the game universe as a whole. The role of your avatar is only as a means of influencing the game world and helping to make changes within it. But such interactions would not be centered around conflict because there is no sense of you vs. not you. The whole thing is you. Additionally, nothing outside of this simulation exists, not even time or space. That’s the entire universe. So the simulation isn’t running within a larger objective framework — it is the framework.
Are you saying that in subjective reality, everything I experience is just occurring inside my own head?
No. Everything you experience is occurring inside your consciousness, and that includes your head too. So your head is inside your consciousness, not the other way around.
So is everyone else just a projection of myself — my spouse, children, etc?
Yes. Within a subjective belief system, EVERYTHING is a projection of consciousness.
Are other people just shadows of the real me then?
They aren’t shadows. They are just as much YOU as your own body-mind, equal components of your own conscious awareness.
So within a subjective belief system, are other people conscious like me too?
People are not conscious. Only consciousness is conscious. So in a sense, there are no other conscious people. There is only one consciousness, and all the people you perceive exist within it. And that consciousness is who and what you are. There’s only one consciousness, so there’s only one you.
In the physical universe, you can go around counting the human bodies you perceive. And you’ll find lots of them. But how many consciousnesses can you detect? Count them, and you will find you can perceive only one.
What is the “you” in subjective reality?
This point is crucial to really grasping subjective reality. In subjective reality, “you” have a completely different identity. “You” are the consciousness within which everything exists — time, space, people, places, events… EVERYTHING. You are NOT a human being with a body and a mind. You are consciousness, and there happens to be a human being with a body and a mind within you. So everything you perceive must be interpreted relative to the perspective of consciousness, not from the perspective of any particular body-mind, including the one you identify as your own.
Imagine a first-person video game with an on-screen avatar that you control. You can move it around and interact with other characters in the game world. In an objective reality, you perceive that character to be you. You identify with it. Everything else within the game world is therefore “not you.” And of course in most video games of this nature, the interactions between your character and the rest of the game world are usually based on conflict. You vs. not you.
But in a subjective reality, you would not identify with that on-screen character. You’d identify with the container in which the whole simulation occurs, and there would truly be nothing outside that container — no outer world at all. So there’s this character running around inside you, along with many other characters. Because you don’t identify with the character, its fate is of little concern to you. What matters is the state of the game universe as a whole. The role of your avatar is only as a means of influencing the game world and helping to make changes within it. But such interactions would not be centered around conflict because there is no sense of you vs. not you. The whole thing is you. Additionally, nothing outside of this simulation exists, not even time or space. That’s the entire universe. So the simulation isn’t running within a larger objective framework — it is the framework.
Are you saying that in subjective reality, everything I experience is just occurring inside my own head?
No. Everything you experience is occurring inside your consciousness, and that includes your head too. So your head is inside your consciousness, not the other way around.
So is everyone else just a projection of myself — my spouse, children, etc?
Yes. Within a subjective belief system, EVERYTHING is a projection of consciousness.
Are other people just shadows of the real me then?
They aren’t shadows. They are just as much YOU as your own body-mind, equal components of your own conscious awareness.
So within a subjective belief system, are other people conscious like me too?
People are not conscious. Only consciousness is conscious. So in a sense, there are no other conscious people. There is only one consciousness, and all the people you perceive exist within it. And that consciousness is who and what you are. There’s only one consciousness, so there’s only one you.
In the physical universe, you can go around counting the human bodies you perceive. And you’ll find lots of them. But how many consciousnesses can you detect? Count them, and you will find you can perceive only one.
