Developing a social memory complex

[jafar]

Within Yogic conception.
Everything that one experienced and exist in this world is "Maya" (Virtual).
Even an identity is Maya.
Identity is a 'karmic construct' and one day shall be obliterated.
You are Maya, I am Maya, Blavatski is Maya, Steiner is Maya, Ra is Maya, Tree is Maya, Cat is Maya.

Yes, the Hindu concept of Maya is of all manifested reality as I understand it. What made me surprised was that Steiner made a distinction between  ordinary people and people appearing as what he called Maya. Or I could have misinterpreted what he said. I found this quote:

"The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality." - Rudolf Steiner

Within Yogic conception , even all layer of 'soul' (identity construct) is Maya (Virtual)
1. Anna maya Kosha, the physical body, hands, eyes, ears, legs etc..
2. Prana maya Kosha, the pranic / chi body, the layer of chakras etc..
3. Mano maya Kosha, the mental body.
4. Vijnana maya Kosha, the intuitive / perception body.
5. Anada maya Kosha, the bliss body.

The only thing that is not 'maya' is the consciousness, wrapped by many layers of kosha (sheathing).

Consciousness is like air, the koshas (sheating) is like a bubble.
Bubble contained / limit the air inside in order to define / limit the air as the air inside a bubble, separated from the the air in other bubble and the all / boundless air, the air outside the bubble. Bubble then can be joined with other bubble, or splitting itself to form two or more bubbles. Each containing air.
But when the bubble burst, the air inside the bubble will rejoined with the all / boundless air.

While viewing every 'thing' as maya/virtual can be easily comprehended with how we see and experienced 'games'.
Everything inside the game are virtual, no matter how much 'realistic' they are.
Even your own identity and body inside the game (avatar / character) is also virtual.
When the body dies, you can respawn into the game with a new body.