Are there really other selves at all

[anagogy]

If we are all one, none of us are real, just an experience for the creator. Transient I'm not complaining guess I liked the fairy tale of reincarnating as my essence and getting to be in a more suitable world.

Thanks for sharing.

I suppose it depends how you define yourself.  I don't believe that when you die, you stop being "you" the personality.  I don't think anyone forces you to give it up either.  If you give it up -- if you stop wearing the lens of "Glow" it will fully be your choice to take off that lens that your consciousness is looking at the world through.  Earth reality is a dream, true, but the life after is also a dream, and we don't stop dreaming it at death.  I believe that our earthly egos are expressions of a broader discarnate ego and that each role we take on in this world is that entity expressing itself in specific ways to its personality.  We are sort of like onions -- layers within layers within layers.  Eventually all egos are discarded in the end, but I think that is a variable process that occurs at whatever pace a being is ready for it.  Essentially, the narrative that we are a individual soul developing over multiple lifetimes is not invalid from my perspective.

I guess what I'm saying is: I understand your point of view, I just don't feel one reality makes the other completely nonexistent and invalid.  So what if we are the one infinite creator and that individuation is temporary?  I see it more as a freedom then a case of getting jipped.  You can explore the reality of being a "reincarnating developing essence" as long as you like.  Time is an illusion.  That experience is just as valid as any other experience wouldn't you say?  The whole reason we created this construct was for the experience it provided us.  There is nothing wrong with valuing that construct even if the ultimate reality is that we are all one. White light is beautiful, but so is that same white light separated by a prism into the rainbow. Both have their value.