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Plato's cave is presented as the best metaphor for the human condition, explaining who humans are, where they came from, and where they are going.
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Plato's cave is presented as the best metaphor for the human condition, explaining who humans are, where they came from, and where they are going.
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The ordinary world mistaken for reality is a corpse or dead zombie world, while the world outside the cave is beautiful, infinite, diverse, and alive.
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Plato's cave becomes Jiang's metaphor for Asha: liberation is incomplete until the freed person returns to help others escape.
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Rumi's prison-for-drunks image is interpreted as another version of Plato's cave: the soul comes from elsewhere and must return to the Monad.
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The descent of Nietzsche's Zarathustra repeats the cave model: solitary wisdom is incomplete until it is given to others.
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"...metaphor that we have is something called Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Plato's Cave. And this helps us understand who we are, where we..."
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"Okay? So this is a metaphor, an allegory that helps us understand what it means to be human and the human condition. Okay. So..."
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"Thank you. All right. All right. It, it, it all makes sense, okay? All right. All right. So, you go out into the world...."
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"...understand Aster better. Okay? He calls it the Allegory of the Cave. So imagine this. Imagine that we are in a cave. Okay? We're..."
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"...the chains disappear. And so we stumble upwards out of the cave. Okay? And now we're suddenly in the light. Right? We see the..."
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"...my friends. My friends. My family that are stuck inside the cave. Therefore, for me to fully achieve Asha, I must go down and..."
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"...beautiful. And it's also a rewriting of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Right?"
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"This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return..."
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"...notice is that this is exactly like The Alligator of the Cave. Okay? All right. When Zoroastria was 30 years old, he left his..."
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"...thou shyest? For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave, though would have weather of thy light and of the journey, had..."
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"Okay? So, Zoroastria has hid himself in the cave. And inside the cave, there is nothing. In the cave, in solitude, he has discovered..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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