{"id":217789,"date":"2025-07-13T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-and-how-the-universe-is-an-illusion"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:02:48","slug":"why-and-how-the-universe-is-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/why-and-how-the-universe-is-an-illusion","title":{"rendered":"Why and How the Universe Is an Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-and-how-the-universe-is-an-illusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some ancient philosophies, such as Advaita Vedanta, claim that the universe is an illusion. Not only spiritual people quote this statement, but also some influential Western thinkers. Albert Einstein said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>\u201cReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.\u201d (Albert Einstein)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In what sense is the universe or reality an illusion? In the following, I bring clarity to this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ancient philosophies, such as Advaita Vedanta, claim that the universe is an illusion. Not only spiritual people quote this statement, but also some influential Western thinkers. Albert Einstein said: \u201cReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.\u201d (Albert Einstein) In what sense is the universe or reality an illusion? In the following, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}