24. Solipsism — why the theory is not that
It is a natural question: is this not solipsism? If KNOWING is primary and manifest reality arises through experience, is the world then not merely a construction in a single mind?
In the EC/HE theory the answer is precise: no.
Solipsism holds that only the individual mind is real, and that everything else — other people, the physical world, the past — is a construction of that one mind. KNOWING in this theory is the opposite of a private mind. KNOWING is the universal, timeless and complete totality of all relations and understandings — existing independently of any local focal point.
The local ego-tree is not KNOWING. It is a limited and dissociated view towards KNOWING. When a focal point experiences, it experiences relations that exist in KNOWING independently of whether they are experienced or not. Other focal points experience the same relations from their own positions. The manifest world is not one person’s dream — it is the shared manifestation of relations that are universally present in KNOWING.
The theory is therefore not solipsistic, but idealist in the technical philosophical sense — related to Leibniz, Berkeley and Schopenhauer, but with a crucial distinction: the primary is not the private mind, but the universal relational totality from which all minds spring and from which they experience.
Solipsism collapses because it lacks an explanation for why other people behave consistently and independently of my observation. In the EC/HE theory the answer is simple: because KNOWING is one and shared, and all focal points experience from the same relational field.
