Hacking Reality: Subjective Objectivity – Steve Pavlina. As my 30-day subjective reality experiment concluded last month, I shifted to a different mode of living.
I finally got used to seeing the world through a dream lens. It was seriously challenging to hold that perspective at first, but after a few weeks, my subconscious took over, and I no longer had to consciously remind myself that this is a dream. Eventually the dream perspective became my default way of thinking. Asking the Big Questions – Steve Pavlina. When I was younger, I decided that I didn’t want to reach my deathbed feeling like I’d missed the whole point of this life.
I realized that in order to avoid that problem, I’d have to create a connection between exploring the big questions and my everyday life. What Are the Big Questions? The big questions are yours to discover and explore. Here are some of mine: What is the nature of this reality? A Dose of Caffeine for Your Consciousness – Steve Pavlina. Would your experience of shared objective reality continue to exist if you stopped believing in it?
What would happen if you started to suspect, wonder, and maybe even believe that reality is at least partially created by your own thoughts? What is this non-scientific poppycock I’m spouting? Let’s address the “scientific” objections first then, shall we? The Pseudoscience of Science. Is Reality Objective or Subjective? – Steve Pavlina. The benefit of asking the big questions is that sometimes you can use reasoned logic to answer them.
There are a few big questions that I’ve successfully answered to my satisfaction, and I don’t expect my answers to change with the passage of time. Is Reality Objective or Subjective? One of those big questions is whether this reality is objective or subjective. I eventually understood that the answer is always going to be unknowable when asked from the perspective of a conscious being. Even if I die and remain conscious and aware in some form of afterlife, I still won’t know the answer. Subjective Reality Simplified – Steve Pavlina. This is perhaps the simplest way I can explain the perspective of subjective reality at present — and why I’m such a strong advocate of it.
First… some definitions: Objective Reality (OR) is the perspective that you’re the character in the dream world, and the dream world is solid, real, and objective. An OR person wouldn’t normally think of the physical world as a dream at all — they accept the (socially conditioned) notion that the dream world is reality itself. The objective world itself is seen as the basis for knowledge. Subjective Reality Q&A – Steve Pavlina. I’ve received abundant questions about the notion of subjective reality since the last blog post, so I’ll cover some of the basics in Q&A form.
Most people asked questions from a perspective that tries to shoehorn subjective reality into an objective framework… hence confusion is the usual result. Subjective reality requires a very different framework. More Subjective Reality Q&A – Steve Pavlina. The questions on Subjective Reality keep rolling in, so here’s a bit more Q&A on this topic.
These questions will cover my personal experience with this belief system. What is your personal experience with the subjective reality belief system? I started learning about it in early 2005 while I was reading about consciousness. One day I was having lunch in my backyard and watching some birds. Subjective Reality Q&A 3 – Steve Pavlina. Here are a few more answers to questions I’ve received about Subjective Reality.
Aside from the first answer, these will focus on your personal egoic perspective instead of my perspective or the perspective of God-consciousness, so it may be a little more understandable this way, since this is the default perspective you’re already used to. Is subjective reality the same thing as solipsism (aka egoism)? No. In fact, from a certain perspective it’s almost the opposite of solipsism. Solipsism comes from the Latin words for self and alone. Philosophical Open Loops – Steve Pavlina. Lately I’ve been thinking about how the concept of open loops (i.e. incomplete tasks and projects) connects with our models of reality.
When we have holes and inconsistencies in our mental models, those models remain incomplete. It’s hard to act rationally when we lack a decent model of reality. How are you supposed to make intelligent decisions about your life when you’re not even clear about what kind of reality you’re in? Living Subjectively – Steve Pavlina. Apparently there’s a lot of interest in this 30-day inspiration trial.
My various e-inboxes have been surging with messages expressing support and curiosity. Many of them have to do with the subjective reality aspect of this trial, so that’s what I’ll address in this Day 6 update. Inception. Physical vs. Non-Physical Reality – Steve Pavlina. If you can clearly and vividly imagine what you want, why does it take so long for that vision to show up in physical reality? I’ve addressed this question once before in the article “Why Do Intentions Take So Long to Manifest?” In this article I’ll answer this question from a different angle. The first step to change your reality — your experience of reality, that is — is to intend precisely what you want to experience. You do this by imagining it as already real and by getting excited about it. Your 10-Dimensional Self – Steve Pavlina. If you think of yourself as a complete being outside of time – like a 10-dimensional version of you that has facets in all dimensions and all times simultaneously – it bestows a different perspective on what it means to be you.
Some aspects of you are temporary, perhaps contained within a single decade of your human life. They may sculpt your personality but don’t serve to define you as a timeless being. For instance, I was in Toastmasters for 6 years, but I’m not in Toastmasters today. Your True Identity: Ego or Awareness – Steve Pavlina. Perhaps the most difficult concept of subjective reality is the identity shift from ego-centeredness to awareness-centeredness. In this post I’ll do my best to explain this shift. Such an awareness shift, however, can be very challenging to express in words, so if parts of this article sound confusing, it’s largely the nature of the problem that makes it so.
Ego The way I use the word, ego refers to your objective, physical world identity. This includes your physical body as well as your mind. Synchronicity – Steve Pavlina. I’ve written many times about how synchronicities tend to increase when I’m in the flow state. I often think of synchronicities as acknowledgements from the universe when I’m successfully following my path with a heart. Let me share some specific examples of what these synchronicities look like. Lately I’ve been enjoying speaking about social skills, relationships, and sexuality. Subjective Reality vs. Solipsism – Steve Pavlina.
I want to make a distinction between subjective reality and solipsism, since many readers still confuse the two. I think the best way to explain the difference is by way of a simple analogy: lucid dreaming. Imagine you’re having a lucid dream. This means you’re lying in bed having a dream, and while still within the dream world, you become conscious and aware that you’re dreaming. In the dream you might be playing some role other than your real-life persona, but you know the real you is lying in bed asleep, and that your dream persona is just a character you can control. Subjective Reality and Nonviolence – Steve Pavlina.
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