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🗓️ 27 June 2024
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave is a powerful tale. Not only is it one of the oldest versions of what, today, we'd call the "matrix" or "simulation" scenario, it's the most practical, prescient, and esoteric. In fact, Plato's cave and the Republic at-large contain occulted layers of meaning that scholars are still discovering and debating about to this day. In this transmission, we'll summarize the tale and do a deep dive into its more esoteric, often missed layers of wisdom.
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0:00.0 | Now administering third eye drops. Welcome back to the transmission, my dear audio only initiates, speaking of you, |
0:24.0 | it's been a minute since I have offered you anything |
0:28.0 | bespoke for the audio only dimension, |
0:31.0 | so I wanted to do that, |
0:32.0 | and I'm especially elated to do so as a counterpart as a |
0:37.8 | addendum or I guess a prologue depending how you look at it. To this topic, to the esoteric layers of Plato's Cave |
0:47.0 | because for one, this is content that's really near and dear to my heart |
0:52.0 | that is borderline sacred. I definitely put the most work into this one of any solo transmission I've ever published already, but there are actually quite a number of other things I did not include. |
1:07.6 | Actually, I think it's going to make more sense to have this be an addendum, so I'm going to tack this on to the end. It'll slap more nicely |
1:17.3 | with the context of having consumed the main transmission. So do stay tuned for a good 10 minutes of additional riffage. |
1:29.2 | And speaking of riffage, |
1:30.8 | enjoy this rather girthy one on the esoteric layers of Plato's Cave. |
1:37.0 | Take a look around your room. What do you see? I'm going to guess some walls, collection of objects my face flapping away on your |
1:45.8 | screen however if you look slower look deeper at any given object you're gonna |
1:51.8 | find something strange. |
1:53.5 | Give this a try. |
1:54.4 | If you stare at an item for even a couple of minutes |
1:57.8 | with unbroken sight, what seems still and solid suddenly becomes considerably more wiggly, almost vibrating. |
2:08.0 | Maybe it's just a trick of the sense as you say. Well, science too tells us that nothing is really still. The atoms that make up objects |
2:18.2 | are vibrating. And you've got to see this according to the most advanced imaging technology we have, cells themselves are like these |
2:27.2 | cosmic flowing ecosystems. Great philosophers and contemplatives say the same thing to quote Professor Eric Steinhart who's paraphrasing the great neoplatonic philosopher platinus |
2:40.0 | Every production of matter is a lot is no true reality but a merely deceptive simulation. |
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