The Cave

A detailed Summary of The Cave

Putting the Allegory of the Cave into my own words seems comparable to

the Christian idea of using the lord's name in vain. First, I'd like to

introduce a phenomenon I have observed throughout my life time. I call it soul

resonance. Bear with me here. When two objects emit sympathetic vibrations,

the sound or force multiplies. Example: Two tuning forks of the same frequency

are struck upon each other and held a few feet apart. The vibration is much

stronger. Something basic about each object recognizes a similar quality in the

other, and amplifies it. As with so many other laws of science, this law

applies to many other phenomena. I believe this is what people feel when they

first hear the Allegory of the Cave . . . soul resonance. Somehow, something

deep inside tells them that here we have found a singular truth.

The Allegory, taken as the story of one man, narrates his life from

ignorance to enlightenment. He sits within a cave, facing away from a blazing

fire. He stares at the wall opposite him, watching pretty shadow puppets. He

listens to the exotic, wonderful, and large words whispered in his ears by the

puppeteers. He would naturally turn around, or perhaps even stand, but chains

can venture into the third level. And only when we can stare directly into the

fire blinds him. The puppeteers, seeing they have lost another to knowledge,

his demise on the rocky ground below. He pauses often. Until there comes a

into two subsections. The lowest section is the World of Images. If I tell you

telling him what God is, what Ideals are, and what his morals should be. These

The purpose of the Allegory of the Cave, I believe, is twofold. To help

highest realm is the World of the Higher Forms. A realm of Absolute Truth,

losing hope, a reminder that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

dirty, almost broken. These lost ones who have just begun their journey and are

young he may have questioned these ideas, but if you say something enough to

Plato divides Everything into two worlds, and each of these two worlds

things with this money, or you can deposit it in a bank. You have experienced

all types of hair imaginable, etc. This world is a world of perfection, filled

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