Reality 102: Souls

0. It’s all you. Always.
• You’re not a person in the world. You’re the world with a person-shaped hole in it.

2. The frog
• There is only the experience of a frog. And that experience is always you, in part
• And from the frog’s perspective, the experience of being a frog
• “That is all.” There is nothing else.
• Tangent: 102 covers only individuated souls. There are different constructs. Most of the magic is in emergent phenomena between, among, and throughtout. These are many separate lessons (a visual of 103, 104…201, 202,… into the thousands and beyond. There is no end to the nuance and study in fine-grain control). Suffice to say it’s all conscious.

3. The rat
• Suggestion. There is rat on your face. Why do you see it?
• Why do you not see it, physically? The sequestered self in a bodily experience
• The rat bites your face. Why did it not hurt? Sequestered layers of the self, their alleigance to you, and their roles
• Tangent: The rubber hand experiment recruits more layers to create pain without physical injury
• Tangent: Psi and recruiting sequestered layers

4. The human
• There are two people in a room looking at one another A and B. What does A see? (Person B). If it is all you, why? Allowing vs not-allowing. Note: maybe drop Person A/Person B language and keep the second-person pronoun “you” for clarity
• You make (…are) your reality. Full stop (shoutout to Seth). Then, how is it you’re not forever alone in a world filled with NPCs? Open vs closed (a state of passive, standing allowance or non-allowance)
• Person B is only in person A’s reality because person A allows it. Existence by permission.
• Tangent: Nightmare experiences (or re-use rat bite) and dismissing daydreams as example of closing. There is no rejection, only open and closed. You are either open to a potential aspect of reality or closed to it. (Term clarification: allowing and not-allowing are my terms for the consciously aware, willful verb equivalent of passive open and closed states. I could just use open and close though to simplify)
• By definition Person A only ever sees themselves, so how does Person B control person A’s experience of Person B? Avatars an explanatory model. Openness permits agency through the same suggestion and allowance mechanisms as shown in The Frog and The Rat
• But there must be some consensus mechanism! “There is no consensus mechanism.” It is always your reality. You are the consensus mechanism.
• In theory it’s all you and thus all potentially within your awarenss and control — but in practice, there’s a multitude of factors that influence whether what potentials you are open or closed to. This ranges from the familiar (peer pressure, culture, environment, mood, etc.) to the unexpected (egregores, cycles of cosmic patterns, collective consciousness, non-physical actors like spirit guides, etc.)

5. Further inquiry (to be separate articles)
• Explaining some weirdness. Your experience is consistent with your expectations and beliefs. Where you are open, you allow space for agency and co-creation. Where you’re closed you reserve that canvas for yourself.
• If you are closed to one aspect of an object of experience you will fill in the blank with yourself. (I just think that’s wild.) This creates enormous potential for conflict within oneself and with others via agency misattribution. That is, we ascribe the responsibility for an experience to the wrong person. I.e. You thought it was them, but it was actually you controlling their avatar. Or, you thought it was yourself but it was actually an outside influence.
• Tangent: “There is no partial closing.” You are either closed to an aspect or open to it. (Don’t ask me. I just got that clarification myself. /shrug. Even that may not be quite right. Apparently it’s a complicated topic and best left out of course level “102”)
• The limits of opening and closing in a human physical bodily experience. The sequestered layers of self are both grounding, and inhibitory. They create stability and predictability here.
• So how do we explain magic and psychic powers? This isn’t surprising, but expected. You are your world. Most of you is sequestered. Awareness gates potential. Recruiting these sequestered layers brings them back into the fold, so to speak, and with awareness you get some conscious influence over “the world”.
• This opens up all kinds of previous-impossibilities like mind-to-matter interaction, healing, and powers of expanded perception. It only looks like magic because we didn’t recognize these parts as ourselves because they are usually sequestered outside conscious awareness.
• Soul-centric reality and existence by permission interact with other metaphysical ideas in very complex ways.
• Thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and imagination are your primary tools for authoring your reality — even in our more limited physical bodily experience. “Post-death” they work they same way, they’re just way more unhibited. In life these still function, but they appear more indirect and their mechanisms of action are outside our usual awareness.
• The Law of Confusion explains why you can have undesirable experiences because fear opens you to potentials, but in reverse. (this might be important enough to include in the main articles)
• Agency misattribution can create problems here too. The canvas upon which we draw our experience is automatically populated by ourselves. When we close part of an experience because of an insecurity — ”I fear professional rejection because I often believed I wasn’t smart enough” — that “blank” parts can be filled in by (or at least colored by) the insecurity itself! Now you cover up some portion of your interactions and fill it in with your fears, thinking all the while that it was actually someone else doing this to you. This is doubly insidious because your misattribution prevents you from fixing the real source of your self-torture.
• Of course, other people can be dicks! That’s true too. Just don’t forget that you’re the one who let ‘em…

The Frog

The Rat

The Human