Monistic Idealism. - Attempt at Explaining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monistic_idealism


I learned about Monistic Idealism through my English teacher, Dan Bristol. He barely brought the subject up, practically just flying through a sentence and those 2 words caught my attention.

To me as I interpreted this, its a theory, belief, etc. That is just based around everything in the universe existing merely in consciousness. Now this is actually pretty interesting, because we can't really prove anything outside of our own conscious. People usually start to become skeptical of things similar to that around age 10 even. I would love to say that its unlikely, but its the only theory I've found personally that wasn't possible to disprove but couldn't necessarily be proved. Religion is both, can't be proved or proven. This has a slim line of possibility.


Me posting this is obvious. Does it exist to you? Do you exist to me? And do I even exist? To what degree do I even exist, and what am I?

It breaks down farther and farther, but it all concludes to the idea that none of those thoughts are possible to prove outside our own mind. It does tie somewhat like religion where you believe what's in your head, but this is much more literal.