Why the world is not what it seems?

Answer 1

Paul says this:

"For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. "
(for we walk by faith, not by sight.)
II Corinthians 4:17-18; 5:7

Answer 2

I am going to have to say Don and DazMaz nailed it!

However, I have a quick interjection, and slight continuation to what DazMaz has said...

Yes, you're world is what you imagine it to be, however the mind IS a tricky playground. Going off of the "there is no spoon" example, any one of us could pick up a spoon right now and cause it to bend with the energy within us, our imagination, harnessed by the power of mind (and I am not talking about brute force).....

However, the reason why this doesn't happen for so many people is due to limiting beliefs. If I came up to you, and handed you a spoon and said you have the power to bend this with your mind, your mind is then going to subconsciously remember anything and everything in your past that you have held as a belief that would tell you "That's not possible!"

Our mind is like a massive storage space for beliefs. They never go away, unless you consciously will them away. Everything we learn, from the very beginning, is all locked away in the mind. Ready to be tapped into when any thought is needing to be produced. AND, more and more are being added as those thoughts come and go...

Thus, we must begin by loosening our minds and throwing out old limiting beliefs, which the ego desperately wants to hold on to, and begin to imagine and truly believe it possible, before you will be able to 'bend that spoon.'

Sound difficult? Well, the answer is that it is as easy or as difficult as YOU imagine it to be. That's is the rub!

Call us crazy... Tell us it's impossible... And all you are doing is further limiting yourself in your natural born limitless power of mind. ;-)

Peace and Love!

Answer 3

Whoa Don, that was great !

Back to question.

If I may add a few twiddly bits of my own to Don's excellent answer, if we go on from all that empty space, with precious little 'stuff' actually comprising all this 'material manifestation' we have to go right back to the 'drawing board' and ask what 'stuff' really is.

The answer is all around us, like the 'potential' in Matrix I, "to understand you only need to realise the truth .... there is no spoon". I don't know what others took from that, but for me it was clear as crystal, all 'material' is made of 'energy', energy that has been slowed down in frequency ( vibrations ) and condensed into something more 'tangible', now what makes that this or that 'stuff' ?

The answer is rather freaky, the 'catalyst' by which random energy is caused to appear 'solid' is human thought. We actually possess the ability to interact with electromagnetic energy and cause it to 'manifest' as material. And we do so individually, in groups and as 'One', the collective.

The point is that we are all using the same energy ( I call it the Lattice ), which is freely available all around us, all of the 'time', and what we 'see' depends entirely on what we expect to 'see'.

Thus your 'spoon' could be my glass, your car my horse, your dog my cat, and so on and so on.

Thus the world is not what it seems because it is not anything at all, in the objective sense, it is comprised entirely of our own subjective opinions of how we 'see' the energy manifested. If someone else were to suggest to you that your car was, in fact, a flying saucer, for example, you would only have to agree for your fine BMW to immediately transform into a 'George Lucas' Mk V Starlifter.

It's as simple as that, your world is whatever you imagine it to be ....... and so is everyone else's. :-)))

Thanks 1L, indeed people think that it's what we believe that's important, but equally so is the suspension of the conditioned response of disbelief, I frequently suggest to people that they try to suspend their disbelief and see what happens ! ;-)

Answer 4

Kinto: Your question is quite ambiguous ! In general, "things" seldom are what they appear to be. As we mature mentally, we arrive at the place in our thinking where we find ourselves in a mindset of subjectiveness. All things are relative; therefore, we experience many pleasant and terrible things (peaks & valleys) within our lives. But to arrive at an objective conclusion about the world, this comes from the many experiences life throws our way. The society around us is immersed in beauty, bucks and brains. If one does not meet this (for most) standard, society tends to treat those as "less than" and values more, those who do have the three "Bs" [beauty, bucks and brains]. For certain, our value systems are tainted with the persuit of these false values.

Answer 5

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

It indeed is what it seems, to our physical senses. Therefore whatever we perceive by our senses is perishable, as we ourselves are.

If we realise our eternal self, your question will start making sense. We then will see the eternity without fearing the perishable nature of this world.

Answer 7

Dreams make the world real

Answer 8

the world is a satanic illusion....all the things that we think are good are evil and alot of things we think are evil are good...the world has been designed under the guise of goodness but really it's evil forces behind it....if I want you to drink poison, I'm not gonna tell you it's poison, I'm gonna make you believe it's a delicious beverage!

Answer 9

Because there is more to reality than our primate senses can detect. We have evolved along a certain need, so didn't need to develop means by which to detect certain things. When we became sentient, we noticed that stuff was there, but have no natural ability to detect it.

Answer 10

Well I can imagine a successful bout of rehab might make it appear so.