The Total Number Of Minds In The

The Self Is Not So Much Linked To Its Ancestors, It Is Not So Much The Product, And Merely The Product, Of All That, But Rather, In The Strictest Sense Of The Word, The Same Thing As All That: The Strict, Direct Continuation Of It, Just As The Self Aged Fifty Is The Continuation Of The Self Aged Forty.

Thus You Can Throw Yourself Flat On The Ground, Stretched Out Upon Mother Earth, With The Certain Conviction That You Are One With Her And She With You. You Are As Firmly Established, As Invulnerable As She, Indeed A Thousand Times Firmer And More Invulnerable. As Surely As She Will Engulf You Tomorrow, So Surely Will She Bring You Forth Anew To The New Striving And Suffering. And Not Merely "some Day." Now, Today, Every Day She Is Bringing You Forth, Not Once But Thousands Upon Thousands Of Times, Just As Every Day She Engulfs You A Thousand Times Over.

The Verbal Interpretation, On The Other Hand, I.e. The Metaphysics Of Quantum Physics, Is On Far Less Solid Ground. In Fact, In More Than Forty Years Physicists Have Not Been Able To Provide A Clear Metaphysical Model.

If You Cannot - In The Long Run - Tell Everyone What You Have Been Doing, Your Doing Has Been Worthless.

Consciousness Is Never Experienced In The Plural, Only In The Singular. Not Only Has None Of Us Ever Experienced More Than One Consciousness, But There Is Also No Trace Of Circumstantial Evidence Of This Ever Happening Anywhere In The World. If I Say That There Cannot Be More Than One Consciousness In The Same Mind, This Seems A Blunt Tautology - We Are Quite Unable To Imagine The Contrary...