I think your internalization is interesting — that you can represent everyone in the cave at once. I think that we can all be different persons in the cave, including the ones casting shadows, but not all at once. How can you go back to being the chained shadow watcher once you know the truth about the shadows? Figuring out what is and isn’t shadow is really the lesson and you won’t figure it out by representing those inside the cave.
That is an excellent question. I'm of the mind that it is surprisingly easy to return to the shadows because of various internal and external pressures. I've often felt the temptation to make a rhetorically strong but philosophically weak point to appear more persuasive. I've also "bumped" into an unexamined presupposition that I let slide for the sake of comfort. I used that "negative" return to the cave imagery for such a pressure.
Otherwise, I am still unsure what kind of thing "truth" must be such that we sufficiently discern light from shadow in all cases and at all times. One extreme would be Pyrrhonism, and on the other, rigid dogmatism. Perhaps it does not even lie along such an axis.
Otherwise, thank you very much for reading and for your response!
...we are ALL base... and simultaneously sourced from what is termed "ascended" state. The only separation of states is our imagination... our discomfort... our dissatisfaction. Either I Am expressed perfectly, or there is no I Am.
I think your internalization is interesting — that you can represent everyone in the cave at once. I think that we can all be different persons in the cave, including the ones casting shadows, but not all at once. How can you go back to being the chained shadow watcher once you know the truth about the shadows? Figuring out what is and isn’t shadow is really the lesson and you won’t figure it out by representing those inside the cave.
That is an excellent question. I'm of the mind that it is surprisingly easy to return to the shadows because of various internal and external pressures. I've often felt the temptation to make a rhetorically strong but philosophically weak point to appear more persuasive. I've also "bumped" into an unexamined presupposition that I let slide for the sake of comfort. I used that "negative" return to the cave imagery for such a pressure.
Otherwise, I am still unsure what kind of thing "truth" must be such that we sufficiently discern light from shadow in all cases and at all times. One extreme would be Pyrrhonism, and on the other, rigid dogmatism. Perhaps it does not even lie along such an axis.
Otherwise, thank you very much for reading and for your response!
...we are ALL base... and simultaneously sourced from what is termed "ascended" state. The only separation of states is our imagination... our discomfort... our dissatisfaction. Either I Am expressed perfectly, or there is no I Am.
Thank you for reading, and for your thoughtful reflection!