Some spiritual persons says the world is just an illusion . Why?

Question

Ineed a detailed explanation what makes the world baseles

Answer 1

I second the advice for you to watch the film 'What the bleep do we know?' You could also look at (maybe a summary of) the book 'The Elegant Universe' by Brian Greene.

A lot of recent quantum mechanics theories centre on the idea of there being up to 11 dimensions. String Theory suggests that rather than thinking of dimensions in linear ways, we should consider the idea of their being coiled and twisted around one another.

Another finding is that one particle can exist in two or more different places at the same time, and our thoughts seem to have an effect on this. If this doesn't add weight to the 'illusion' argument, I don't know what does. Added to this is the fact that particles constantly fluctuate between existence and none existence, appearing and disappearing. 'What the bleep do we know?' covers this, too, along with, I'm sure, many articles and papers out there. You mind find this one interesting:
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/archive/index.php/t-34568.html


P.S.

For a completely different (non-quantum physics) version of why reality is subjective, read Orwell's '1984'. Toward the end there's a fantastic section on 'doublethink', illustrating how two possibilities can both be true (even when you know that factually one isn't) and throughtout the book there are examples of how history, and people's memories of it, can easily be overruled and altered.

Answer 2

Well, I believe the world is an illusion. I believe this because every living thing sees the world differently. So, if everything perceives the world differently, then which way is the real way? And I just feel that my mind is my brain, and my brain is material, which means that everything I feel is not really what I am feeling. There isn't really me and I don't have a self or soul. I am just material and my brain makes me feel things and it's just cells and chemical reactions and stuff like that. All of the feelings I have, I believe, are not real. The rest of this is hard to explain. I guess, when I imagine the earth in space, and then past that in space, and imagine as far as I can into space, it just stops. I can't imagine anymore. So, I suppose my believing that everything is an illusion could just be ignorance and someone once explained to me how the world can't be an illusion and it made sense, but I still believe it's an illusion.

I know that's not a very good explanation, and I just threw some random thoughts out there, but that's the best I can do. Oh yeah, and I'm an atheist and not spiritual at all.

Answer 3

The way judgebill explained it, this is a totally appreciable concept for anybody: the experience of the world is shaped by your birth and your subsequent conditioning, most importantly your intentions.
However, there are also the so-called idealistic theories, where it is believed that the world is a dream, i.e. everything you see is just in your mind. One is solipsism, where the idea is basically that there's just you and everything else outside is just an emanation, something coming out of you. There are also others.
But this is not very likely. Dreams are much more malleable, fluid and confused than the reality we experience. We can not shape our world to a great degree just by thinking or projecting differently (e.g. try to make it snow in the Sahara). Even after major life changes there are very similar constants, both inside and outside.
No wise man or saint who ever taught believed this because if he had he wouldn't have spoken to anybody, since everybody would then just be an apparition.
It's an important thing to understand to clarify several moral questions. For example, if everything was just a projection or dream there would be no need for gratitude and you could harm 'people' without hurting anybody.

Answer 4

How do you know that this is reality...and that when you are sleeping, that that is an illusion? Both are realistic to you at the time. What makes one different than the other? They both incorporate elements or remembrances of the other...yet one is real and the other a trick, an illusion, fake? They are both essential to life. Strange. I don't know what to say. I am generalizing, loosely, some of Descartes ideas. You should read his thoughts about this subject...very interesting.

I honestly don't know much about Descartes. He could have been an atheist for all I know.

Answer 5

Consider that everything we see, hear, feel, taste and so forth is interpreted by our own personal experience. Example. If I like the color red, for whatever reasons of prior association, and now I see a red car, I may like the car because it is red. You, on the other hand, have bad experiences with the color red and when you see a red car, you don't like it. We both see the same car but when I see it I like it and you don't. Even though the car is the car is the car, what each of us sees is something different. What I see is not the car but the illusion of all my life's experiences interpreting what I am looking at, or touching, tasting, hearing, etc. Thus whatever I experience is my personal illusion, interpreted by my personal life's experiences. What I experience is going to be different from what anybody else in the universe experiences. It is my illusion.

Answer 6

It is especially more so in Hindu philosophy of negativism was invented by the saints and preached since time immemorial. The material world before us is termed as Maaya an illusion. The theory is opposed to materialism and rational thinking. If followed in letter and spirits the future would be gloomy. Now it is only confined to sacred books and really not practised.

Answer 7

We are unique forms of energy, destine to keep improving our form by incarnation in different lives until we "get it right", and are ready to move on to the next level of existence. We are part of the universe and like the equation E=MC2 says are neither created nor destroyed, we just change form.
Watch the DVD "What the"Bleep"?, Down the rabbit hole"

http://whatthebleep.com/rabbithole/...

It is a DVD about Quantum Mechanics, life and reality explain for the average/non scientist person, explaining (by scientists, etc) what we are finding out about the reality/Universe we live in is really like, and the possible explanations of why we are here.

I highly recommend it.

Answer 8

This is difficult for me to. I think if one views the world as being full of illusions than one can avoid suffering by abandoning attachment to things we put irrational feelings to. Life is perception. Something like that. It's a Buddhist thing. Have a great day.

Answer 9

because the world as we perceive it is completely false. mainly because everyones view of reality and the world is different than everyone else's view of it. but also, a veil of sorts has been put over our eyes to mask the mask the world that the spirit sees. through various different ceremonies throughout the world, all using fairly similar procedure, persons of deeply spiritual kind use hallucinogenic drugs, such as peyote or mushrooms, to see into the realm of the spirits. its all very real to the people going through the ceremony, and very large, important life cessions can be learned from them. for a more detailed expliation, read the teachings of don juan by carlos castenita.

Answer 10

To them, illusion is materialize concept which leads to jealousy, hate and vengence and all other things bad.
The world is not baseless, it is full of evolution development that needs to be put together under control and in state of mind.
Big question. This could take years. Try some thing smaller.