Osiris and the scattered self

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Personally, I sort of see both. I see a individual 'linear' progression of consciousness stretched out across many lives (and in between) along the axis we know as time. Yet I do not see 'ownership' in this progression as I see every point of consciousness as a 'node' in a vast web of life, Indra's Net as it were, which are tied together by many streams of consciousness experiencing these nodes in phase, like a song playing out. Thus, individuated consciousness is the cross between the stream and the node, resulting in an individuated awareness at every single point of time, and in each and every node multiple streams of consciousness may 'pass through', sometimes many in a single moment.