The Practical Handbook for the Solipsist

[RisingLane]

This is a unique book that hasn’t been published in English, so I decided to use AI to translate some of my notes and share them, as they might be useful:

• In solipsism, responsibility is defined as coherence and sincerity in dealing with your own consciousness.
• This means taking your own appearances seriously, reflecting on their meaning, and dealing with them in a way that is not arbitrary.
• Responsibility means consciously engaging with the world that appears in your mind.
• If a person suffers in this world, then this suffering is part of your consciousness field.
• It is your experience, and thus you cannot simply turn away.
• To act responsibly, you must acknowledge the wholeness of your experience, reflect on contradictions, avoid repression, seek clarity, and make decisions that align with your mental self-image.
• Act so that you are at peace with yourself.
• The world is an expression of your own mental life.
• To act responsibly means to engage with your own mental world in such a way that it neither breaks apart nor becomes a place of lies, repression, or inner alienation.
• The self is like a rock in the sense that it is the inescapable condition for every experience.
• The self is not a thought, but it is not experience-free either.
• It is always present in the mode of experiencing but never as something that becomes completely transparent to itself.
• In solipsism, fiction represents what appears to you as the world, as part of your consciousness.
• The appearances are real in the sense that you experience them.
• Therefore, accept that the world does not want to deceive you.
• It is actually a stage where you meet yourself.
• In everyday life, this means: You can and should interact with the world, even if you know it is an appearance.
• Care for your world like a garden.
• Order in the external world is an expression of inner care.
• Take care of what appears to you because it is an expression of your self.
• Act to unfold yourself.
• Their reactions are meaningful to you because they tell you something about yourself.
• You speak and listen because the world gives you an experience through this encounter that you should take seriously.
• You live in a world that unfolds as an inner mirror of yourself.
• When you show another person justice and compassion in your experience, you cultivate a world in which your own experience remains resonant and open.
• Observe your world like a mirror that shows you your own inner relationships.
• When you look at your appearances with respect, your world will respond with clarity and coherence.
• Every encounter is a message from within.
• Allow yourself imaginary dialogues with figures that seem meaningful to you, even if they only exist in your mind.
• Even if no one is "really" there, how you engage with your appearances remains significant.
• Be attentive and respectful because it honors your world.
• "If everything is within me, then every gesture outward is a form of self-respect."
• Surprise is the experience: Something within you knows more about you than you were consciously aware of.
• Pay attention to the things that provoke a form of inner resonance in your experience.
• These are moments in which meaning reveals itself.
• It could be a glance, a thought, a feeling, a sound, or a gesture.
• You should notice the meaning.
• If something seems meaningful in your world, follow it.
• When you view your world as a staging of yourself, everything you encounter bears the signature of your consciousness.
• A life as a work of art means making decisions that are less purpose-rational and more aesthetic-ethical.
• Do not ask yourself: "Have I achieved what I should have?"
• The correct introspection is: "Is my life shaped, is it imbued, is it true within itself?"
• If no instance outside your consciousness is securely existing, then all binding claims to power from the outside that would subordinate you fall away.
• Since every appearance potentially says something about yourself, everyday life becomes more meaningful: No encounter or feeling remains insignificant.
• If a word, a glance, a detail catches your attention, pause for a moment.
• Ask yourself: "Why is this meaningful to me?"
• Pay attention to the voices, gestures, glances, the rhythm of discourse.
• What you encounter is a form of yourself.
• What appears to you is connected to you, even if it was not "caused" by you.
• It does not show your intentions, but it shows your world.
• Solipsism does not mean there is no world.
• It means: The world is not independent of your consciousness.
• Ask yourself: "What world do I want to show myself?"
• Respect the function of your figures.
• Even in solipsism, life awaits a decision from you.
• The people in your world appear as scenic figures in your consciousness.
• "This person is part of my world. And how I treat them says something about how I treat myself."
• What you encounter is part of your own mental expression.
• When you record these observations, you trace the traces of your own inner dialogue.
• Other people, places, and things are as "real" as is possible.
• Whatever appears to you, it is and remains your world in which it takes place.

[Terell Kirby]

Solipsism is useless without  the God Realization that comes with it.

AI can’t fathom how profound it is, but the good news is you can

Edited Saturday at 09:48 PM by Terell Kirby

[RisingLane]

11 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

Solipsism is useless without  the God Realization that comes with it.

I have not yet experienced God-Realization.

12 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

AI can’t fathom how profound it is, but the good news is you can

Inshallah.

[aurum]

8 hours ago, Terell Kirby said:

Solipsism is useless without  the God Realization that comes with it.

AI can’t fathom how profound it is, but the good news is you can

Exactly this.

Just declaring yourself a solipsist does not mean you understand God or what solipsism is.