04-16-2014, 02:50 AM
If you take the solipsistic point of view and apply it simultaneously to every individuated entity then it is somewhat accurate if we infer that there is thus only one self which is simultaneously the singular self behind all selves.
I think "the self" is often blended or undifferentiated from the personality for many people but to me personality and identity is not the essential self but something which is built upon the essential self like a house upon a foundation. Foundation as an archetype is required for the building of any and all houses. We share a foundation of consciousness, an aware self, but 'we' build different houses of personality.
That being said, my answer is simultaneously all three things. We are all things, in potential, kinetically and not at all. We are simultaneously all that is, and a limited, partial aspect of all that is. Our journey of consciousness is a seed unfolding, beginning at a point of individuated awareness and unfolding into awareness of the Infinite Self. We are in the process of nature occurring right this very moment. In this moment, you all, the Creator, are experiencing yourself, and I, the Creator, also am.
I think "the self" is often blended or undifferentiated from the personality for many people but to me personality and identity is not the essential self but something which is built upon the essential self like a house upon a foundation. Foundation as an archetype is required for the building of any and all houses. We share a foundation of consciousness, an aware self, but 'we' build different houses of personality.
That being said, my answer is simultaneously all three things. We are all things, in potential, kinetically and not at all. We are simultaneously all that is, and a limited, partial aspect of all that is. Our journey of consciousness is a seed unfolding, beginning at a point of individuated awareness and unfolding into awareness of the Infinite Self. We are in the process of nature occurring right this very moment. In this moment, you all, the Creator, are experiencing yourself, and I, the Creator, also am.