883: Who am I Among the Dwellers of Plato's Cave?

Published: Nov. 11, 2022, 3 p.m.

\u201cA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.\u201d - Saul Bellow / How deep is my need for illusion? / Our home is the spiritual world / Plato\u2019s allegory - Life as we know it, is like being chained in a cave and forced to watch shadows of reality projected on a stone wall / Who am I, among Plato\u2019s cave dwellers? / things in the physical world are flawed reflection of the ideal forms in the spiritual world / Is there a source of light that will reveal the falsity in even our most basic assumptions? / physicists speak of a real world behind the world of perception and change / when the living entity wants to enjoy himself, he falls down into the material world / how we both fall and never fall, from the spiritual world / you should try to realize the meaning of what I have said through cit-samadhi, spiritual meditation

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