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2 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: plato-allegory-cave, plato-allegory-caves, plato-allegory-of-the-caves

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Jiang uses it as a Western example of the same longing for truth beyond a shadow or false world.

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The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism

2024-12-03, day precision · glossary

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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: the Indus Valley was a peaceful trade civilization whose lost religion may survive as the Indian nostalgia for oneness, false reality, and liberation without the gatekeeper.

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