There is no self outside of the construct of physical reality. There is no "soul". There is no " substitute self".
I have been thinking about this every night for years, and I know the truth. Dead relatives not coming back to assuage anguish, dead friends not saying hello, and the simple facts of the physical universe lead me to the true knowledge of what the deal is.
There is nothing beyond this physical existence.
Face the facts...You are unique, but you are singular and unimportant, and have no further existence past your own consciousness.
Well hell is a terrible feedback loop. And, if we keep thinking the way we've always thought, we'll keep getting what we've always got. This way, hell could get more and more perilous the longer we tarry.
You've no idea how much slippery slope solipsism has infected your mind. First of all, nothing "physical" is real. If you say so, then fine, let your own chains be tightened, and may your chains be anchored to the earth forever...if that were possible.
Solipsism is fine, if applied to the true Self, or what I call 'Christ'. As soon as you start applying the characteristics and circumstances belonging to Christ to the fake self that substitutes for Christ, then you are in for a world of hurt.
Nothing exists outside Christ's consciousness. To apply this characteristic to the fake self only reinforces the effects of hell upon it. That is not a punishment. Blasphemy has effects. I would remind all, that blasphemy is against the Self, while the effect of the blasphemy is against the substitutes for the Self.
Yes, all of the substitutes are unique. This is one of the attitudes that has caused you to descend from heaven, into hell. In heaven, Christ is NOT unique, being equal to anything that actually exists. There is no such thing as unique. So, this is how you know you're still experiencing hell as a feedback loop: if you look around and see unique individuals.
If dead relatives don't stop by to say hello it's only more evidence of what you say, that death is the truth. Sad, but not proof. Circumstantial. Overwhelming. But not true.
But let's not be confused, if a relative did stop to say hello after the long sleep, it still does not mean that they exist as a self apart from Christ...nor you apart from Christ. It can mean that between reincarnations we are semi-cognizant of earlier personalities that we portrayed, when we substituted for Christ. Just because unique individuals reincarnate, it does not mean that the incarnated are actually alive. Life is a characteristic belonging only to Christ, and it is dangerous to claim it for the substitutes, even briefly.
As a rule of thumb: What can die was never alive to begin with.