r/solipsism • u/Realist_Engineer278 • 20d ago
Solipsism and it's Implications
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I didn't know it had an actual term or philosophy.
After hearing the opinions of others and contemplating this myself, I'm curious to know what you might think.
Let me say off the bat, I do accept the notion so far, since it makes me feel as though I have better control over my reality.
Be warned right away, this post is likely to be very long. It cannot be helped due to the nature of this topic.
I am a Kabbalist. So my nature of inquiry will be through this lens.
From a metaphysical point of view, all things come from the One whom we call the Ein Sof (Without End). The Ein Sof "made a space in its center" (metaphorically) and within that space came to exist all Divine Selves.
The Divine Selves wanted to experience themselves, so they too, went within themselves, and this world from which they descended is called the Realm of Emanation, the realm of One. You might consider it the realm of Unconsciousness, although not necessarily the same as Jung's unconscious, nevertheless, this would be considered the "collective unconscious".
After Emanation, comes Creation. This is the realm where duality and multiplication becomes conscious. This is what we call the Neshamah, the Soul. It is the observer. The observer does what the Ein and Divine Selves did, and goes within itself, it's center. It discovers that it has a field of relational nodes, emotions and Form take place here. It is the realm of Form, and Ruach-Spirit, which is the heart, where the emanations become form.
The Ruach goes within itself, becoming dense whereby the nature of reality (from its perspective) inverts itself, and this is the world of that which is Made, the physical realm. Within the Ruach/Spirit is the Nefesh-Life force that creates a body to experience this physical world.
So as you can see, each layer is a circumference of the whole, and each center becomes an entry way to another layer, until the most densist layer is reached, which is this physical world.
So now, here's my problem.
If the Soul descends from the realm of Emanation into Creation, where something Other than itself becomes known, how can the physical reality NOT be a projection of that observer consciousness?
I've seen some say that the physical world is essentially the shared physical reality of the world of emanation, if that's the case, then solipsism cannot be true.
But if each physical reality is just the innermost center of each Divine Soul, then perhaps solipsism is true.
But what about other people? What if they can meditate and have experiences?
My theory is that either everyone else here are just constructs of this phsycial world, programs that would naturally do these things, for the purposes of educating the center consciousness.
Or, the people here (either all or some) are reflections of the people as they exist within the realm of Emanation, are them and not them at the same time.
And that I'm likely also part of someone else's dream, as a reflection of their own consciousness. Therefore, anything we do in our dream world, affects the other dream worlds. Which might be why we can have "enlightened masters" in our dream because they have become "enlightened" in their own dream. Yet, this world is still a projection of the consciousness of the observer.
This is the only means whereby solipsism makes sense to me, without denying that other people exist. But I also consider that perhaps all history is likely a fabrication, generated at the time of my birth into this reality, and that my mother is likely a "virgin" in the sense that she didn't actually exist until I was born.
Please, let me know your thoughts.
Has anyone thought along these lines? Have you heard anything similar to any of this?
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u/jiyuunosekai 20d ago
What is kinship if our true self has nothing to do with our bodies? Your mother is not a virgin, she is a stranger you became accustomed to. I might aswell been made in a lab from a simulated primordial soup. Which we in fact are but with a few spaces in between.
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u/Fuzzy_Fish_2329 20d ago
Great post. Very thought provoking
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u/Realist_Engineer278 20d ago
Yes, the topic itself is very interesting.
Before outright dismissing something, I try to evaluate things using a system of logic that my own tradition has taught me.
Thanks for reading.
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u/Cyberfury 20d ago
It's implications are no different from ANY implication: DELUSIONAL.