Is it?... Watch ths video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBVeRdpCeSo
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Is it?... Watch ths video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBVeRdpCeSo
Freidrich Nietzsche explores this idea in great depth and everything that goes along with it. If I were to give you my perspective of it... I would probably never stop typeing. You can read up on it pretty easy by searching for his name and audio books. If your really interested in this topic, I highly recommend the works of Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen Higgins; 2 professors from Texas University have explored many of his works and have a lot of material, unless you want to read straight up german or translations of german. Walter Kaufmann is a boring translator in some of his works - R.J. Hollingdale is brilliant (but limited).
Immanuel Kant touches only on Epistomology when it comes to the subject... But I never really cared for him as a philosopher.
I've seen that movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEYHQ9dscY
Deep deep thoughts.
The world is NOT an illusion...but you ARE in a dream state.
cant
you can feel, touch, smell, hear, and taste things
in dreams you cant do any of those things
Totally pointless. Even if the world is an illusion it is still the interface through which you have to deal with incoming signals.
You know this guy, Burt Harding, is full of shit. This is from his Website explaining his Lineage in his teachings.
Burt started teaching after an experience with Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi ( another man full of shit who died at the age of 71 in 1950), who appeared to him in 1974 while he was living in Toronto, Ontario. As a result of this experience, he acquired the sure knowledge that the only reality lies in the present moment, the Now, and that everything else is just an illusion. His spiritual search ended in that realization.
Moral of the story: Please direct your attention and intelligence to true scientific research and documentation if you are interested in real answers to your questions.
I was talking more Buddhist philosophy ans less Inception. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brent Elton
yep indeedQuote:
Originally Posted by AJ Camacho
11th dimension
that is all
Whoa big topic you have brought up. Way too big for me to really go into detail on this site but I'ii give you my view on it.
Years ago I really got into Yoga and Eastern philosophy. I studied alot of the Vedic texts and tried to find out as much as I could about the Yogic philosophy, Chinese Taoism and even some of the Korean view of stuff like this. One thing that struck me was a quote from B.K.S Iyengar who said that the minds NATURAL pre-occupation is with the OUTSIDE world! Meaning that turning it in on itself through meditation and strange breathing techniques was an UNNATURAL thing. I had this quote clarifyed by a certified Iyengar teacher who had studied extensively with him in the 1970's. So one could conclude all these different perceptions of the world attained through meditation and other forms of drugs could be possibly seen as an unnatural view of the world depending on how you look at it.Now I know what I have just wrote can be debated endlessly and I have gone through that discussion many times.
Back to the question is the world an illusion? Well I think it is to a certain extent in my view. We can only see visible light, we cannot see in the dark like some animals. We can only hear certain frequencys whereas other creatures can hear sounds that we cannot. We can only smell certain smells etc. We also cannot perceive things like Carbon Monoxide with our 5 senses. So what we see and what we hear and what we can feel is only a fraction of what is actually out there.
Personally I do not subscribe to the Eastern panthiestic view of the world. It leaves way too many unanswered questions just like the Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. I do not believe everything is one. Connected yes but not one. I believe is a reason why we percieve the world as individuals in the same physical reality. So the answer to your question in the sense that Burt Harding is talking about then no I personally do not believe the world is an illusion. I do believe we see the world as being incomplete as we can only perceive a fraction of it for whatever reason. I think there is a logical reason why we all perceive walls and cannot walk through them. It's nothing to do with brainwashing or conditioning in my view because babys and children cannot go through them either can they? In fact no-one can with their physical bodies. Maybe in dreams but that is just your imagination and only you can experience. In the reality we all experience we are suject to physical limitations. Just because you can fly through perceived astral projection of your consciousness does not make it a reality in my view.