From: rlauzeckas@yahoo.com   
      
   Paradox Balance wrote:   
   >   
   > "G EddieA95"  wrote in message   
   > news:20040421154256.13709.00000217@mb-m21.aol.com...   
   > > >don't need individuality any more because it has no   
   > > >function apart from absorbing the lessons of life on the physical plane.   
   > >   
   > > If there is no "you" to know or remember anything, what would be the point   
   > of   
   > > learning?   
   >   
   > Analogy:   
   >   
   > The president would like to know how many nuclear missles are in Europe.   
   >   
   > The CIA sends 100 agents to various locations throughout Europe, each agent   
   > responsible for collecting isolated bits of information in her/her specific   
   > location.   After each one reports back to Washington with whatever he/she   
   > has learned, the various reports are compiled into a cohesive picture which   
   > is presented to the president.   
   >   
   > None of the 100 agents through which the entire picture was channeled ever   
   > see the cohesive report.  Their only purpose was to collect the picture in   
   > its dissociated state, and send the pieces back for the president to view as   
   > a whole.   
   >   
   > In like manner, the individual states of consciousness which we find   
   > ourselves to be, may only exist to compile a cohesive understanding of our   
   > collected lives elsewhere.   
   >   
   > This may or may not be a good analogy.  And presenting it doesn't mean I   
   > agree with it.  I'm just offering a way to play with the question.   
      
      
   I like your analogy, it works. I see most people confuse their mental   
   labels of identity with their core sense of self.   
      
   You go to movies. Each story you become involved in. One of the biggest   
   thrills in watching a movie is that for a moment, you get so involved in   
   it, your forget yourself, your life, and who you think you are. This   
   also goes for novels. But each movie is viewed from the same   
   core-of-self. Each novel is read by the same reader inside. Each life is   
   lived by the same core self, the same soul. That soul grows with each   
   life lived.   
      
   Look inside yourself, isn't your deepest sense of your inner self almost   
   the same as when you were a child? You know more about the world, you've   
   changed with the growing information, but what learned inside, the inner   
   sense of self, remains the same.   
      
   Lives almost taste like movies to a soul. No matter how great any one   
   movie is, you want it to end sometime, so you can go on to the next   
   story.   
      
   Its hard to put into words, because the way you understand it when   
   you're dead, goes beyond what words can capture. The best you can do is   
   to awaken the knowledge in someone by saying something which helps jar   
   that buried information in every soul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)