Re: Illusion 103.1

2004-3-28 14:56:00

Glenys quoting JJ:
Thanks for your comments on illusion. Glenys makes a good point when she says: "I would have thought you could say that about any illusion as isn't all illusion a result of skewed vision?"

Yes, in every illusion has as part of its cause - a truth or piece of the puzzle which is hidden, or not seen.

Let us say you are putting together a puzzle of a 1000 pieces and only one piece has red in it. You have all the pieces together except the one red one. A friend looks at the picture created and comments - the picture has all the colors represented but no red.

Then Glenys writes:
I'm struggling a bit with this analogy because I think the friend is right when he says, 'this picture has no red' because that's the truth; the picture as it is has no red. So there is no illusion.

When the missing piece is added we are dealing with a new scenario and if the friend still said 'this picture has no red', that is when he is under illusion.

But I guess you mean that if he says 'this picture has no red' without taking into account that the missing piece might have red, then he is possibly under illusion. But he can't be sure that he is deluded until he sees the missing piece. Quite interesting really..........it seems we can only know we've deluded ourselves after we've overcome the delusion, although of course, we can postulate ('maybe the missing piece has red in it and I'm not seeing the whole picture').

Right now I feel as if my jigsaw is missing a piece :-)

JJ:
When I refer to the picture I am talking about the complete picture, not the picture missing a piece or pieces. Both the friend and the person with the puzzle realize this. The friend is assuming with surety that the final piece will have no red and this is the principle wherein illusion lies.

Those who are in glamour but not yet able to even see or comprehend illusion will look at the incomplete picture and not question whether it is complete or not but just seek to enjoy and benefit from what they see.

Those who are able to approach illusion yet trapped in it will question the completeness of the picture but have wrong assumptions concerning the missing pieces or even be unaware of how many missing pieces there are.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. -- James Callaghan