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Hi. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie. Hi, Nathan. How are you today?

I am wonderful. Good to be back again. Yes, we are here today to do a part three of a four-part series where we have been discussing. It's a section of Plato's book called The Republic, and it is the allegory of the cave that we are specifically focusing on.

And if you have not done so already, you know what I'm about ready to say. Jump back two episodes

where we start at the very

beginning and give you a little bit of an overview of what the cave allegory is and why it

applies to the faith journey in general and to what we're doing here in the faith expansion

space here in and around the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in specific. So last episode, we spent the entire time really

exploring and doing quite a deep dive into about the first half of Plato's allegory of the cave. Right now,

what we're going to do is we're going to sort of start about halfway through the allegory.

If you'll remember, the very last thing we talked about in Friday's episode is we talked about

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