“Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes’ and that it was better not even to think that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if anyone tried to loose another and lead him up up to the light, let them only catch the offender and they would put him to death” -Plato
What would it mean to break the chains of someone else’s control over your mind? What would that process look like? What would be the fiat, or currency from the full and complete navigation of this experience?
The confines of the cave and the limited mobility from the chains create a negative existence. For some, this lived experience that is negative, diminishes the quality of life of those stuck in the complacency of utter dependance. This complacency, is the result of a specific want that is created by a need. The desire of the colonizer and the needs of the colonized. Both dependent on each other for their sustenance. From the feast of the power brokers and the croni-proletariate to the scraps that are given to the underclasses stuck in the under-commons.
The bonds formed from bondage are not always supportive and demonstrative of healthy attachments.
“The prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me is you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my own belief”
Who is the prisoner who has broken free?
What of the prisoner who has yet to see the need?
Where is the mind that has been found?
When it speaks to the heart, does it make a sound?
The process of unfoldment is traumatic. It is a constant violent uprooting of concepts, changing of behaviors, and shifting of narratives. It is an internal process by which the fight to overcome, can and will, overwhelm.
If and when you begin to navigate this process, do not fret the energies that oppose this process and deny the sovereignty you possess to experience the healing affects of the souls ascension from the cave into the intellectual world.
The collective environment may not be ready to move beyond its own depravity, which is all the more reason that “The Self” should be the focus. Don’t allow yourself to be blinded by the vitriol you may experience from your ability to ascend beyond the mundane energies of those who would rather dim your light than allow others to experience the healing that you radiate.
-Yogabrofessor
Goldblatt, D., & Brown, L. (1997). Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts.
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