You seem here to be going out of your way to ignore two key elements in Emerson's description of his experience. First, that what he is experiencing is the obliteration of the self -- not the projection of self, and certainly not of a particular self with a name.
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Obliterating the self by expanding it to the size of the universe and affirming the self by shrinking the universe to its limits are an inch apart... For the same reason that monistic ontologies like idealism and materialism tend to turn into each other -- once you efface the difference between "idea" and "matter" they are identical concepts. It's a problem with all monisms.
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