Breaking free from our mental caves

Breaking free from our mental caves: a journey into truth. Delve into the rich and captivating narrative of 'God in Black and White.' Brother Joseph, in “Breaking free from our mental caves” he illuminates the intersections of faith, diversity, and community, offering a profound exploration of the divine presence amidst the dynamics of racial identity and spiritual interconnectedness

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This world where we live is in so much confusion, we have so many varying views on our life and how we exist. We would not be so confused if we only realise what has been done to us over the past centuries, and the purpose behind actions which has blinded us for so long. The truth I am about to reveal will show that we have not only been kept blinded, but far worse than that, we have been falsely encouraged to feel righteous when we also blindfold our own children.  We have been indoctrinated with so many lies that we exist in a continuous circle of self- generated ignorance. The truth that we have been constantly lied to is something we all know, I am sure of that, and yet we still wonder around aimlessly like mindless automatons, infecting each other with negativity while wondering why things cannot change.
I’ll be getting right into reasons for our confusion but first, please continue to listen, as everything revealed here is for -- your protection, helping you to clear your head of all the junk we have been fed. Creating a lighted pathway of truth out of the indoctrinated darkness.
Over the centuries there have been a few enlightened men, better known as philosophers, who have tried to encourage us into a higher level of thinking, with the intent to rescue our minds from the induced darkened enslavement we live in.  
When we investigate these learned individuals, (who were mostly of Greek heritage), we are taught the greatest of these was the one known as Plato, and this cannot be further from the truth, as Plato was just a very clever dangerous and manipulative thief. Plato was a student of Law whose brother Glaucon was a student of Socrates. Now, whereas the Greeks had many Gods, Socrates, was a man of east African heritage (features he would partly blame for his eventual incarceration), he was steeped in spiritual wisdom, and a monotheist, a belief which was strictly forbidden in Greek society at the time. Plato, the Law Student, learned all he could about Socrates from his brother Glaucon and then personally befriended the philosopher, once he had learned all he could from Socrates, the law Student reported him to the authorities. Socrates was arrested charged with teaching his students foreign ideologies and sentenced to death, with a choice to poison himself whilst incarcerated. Plato then relented from his study of Law when he was funded sufficiently to develop a university utilizing the works of Socrates.

 That’s a very short summary of the man this piece refers to, so now, let’s get right into it: this is what Socrates, the greatest philosopher known to man had to say about our human condition in the form of an allegory (A story which reveals a hidden meaning, moral political or spiritual). -- Yeshua was exceptionally good at that 

Socrates describes people who have spent their entire lives chained by their necks and ankles in front of an inner wall with a view of the empty outer wall of a cave. They observe shadows projected onto the outer wall by puppet masters who are invisible to them, and who walk along the inner wall with a light behind them, creating the shadows on the outer wall in front of the prisoners. They pronounce the names of the objects, the sounds of which are reflected near the shadows and are understood by the prisoners as if they were coming from the manipulated marionettes themselves.

Only the shadows and sounds are the prisoners' reality, which are not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent distorted and blurred copies of reality, only, perceived through their senses, while objects under the Sun, represent the true forms of objects that we can only perceive through reason. 

Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not the direct source of the images seen. The philosopher understood and perceived the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave did not desire to leave their prison, for they knew no better life. 

Socrates remarks that this allegory can be paired with previous writings, namely the analogy of the Sun and the analogy of the dividing line between reality and falsehood.

Glaucon, his student and the brother of Plato the usurper of the great man’s work, visits him in his condemned cell Socrates asks him to imagine a cave where people have been imprisoned from childhood. These prisoners are chained so that their legs and necks are fixed, forcing them to gaze at the wall in front of them and not to look around at the cave, each other, or themselves.  Behind the prisoners is a light, and a raised walkway with a low wall, behind which people walk manipulating objects or puppets "of men and other living things"  

The people walk behind the wall so their bodies do not cast shadows for the prisoners to see, but the objects they manipulate do ("just as puppet showmen have screens in front of them behind which they work their puppets") The prisoners cannot see any of what is happening behind them; they are only able to see the shadows cast upon the cave wall in front of them. The sounds of the people talking echo off the walls; and the prisoners believe these sounds come from the marionette shadows. 

Socrates says, the shadows are reality for the prisoners because they have never seen anything else; they do not realize that what they see are shadows of objects reflected by the light behind, much less that these objects are inspired by real people inside the cave which they do not see 

He continues, should the prisoners be released, the freed prisoners would look around and see the light. It would hurt their eyes and make it difficult for them to see the people casting the shadows with the marionettes. If they were told what they were seeing was real instead of the other version of reality they saw on the wall, they would not believe it. In their pain, the freed prisoners would turn away and run back to what they had been accustomed to (that is, the reflected shadows). The light "... would hurt their eyes, and they would escape by turning away to the things which they were able to look at, and these they would believe to be clearer than what was being shown to them outside in the light of the sun".

Socrates continues: "Suppose... that someone should drag them... by force, up the rough ascent, the steep way up, and never stop until he could drag them out into the light of the sun". The prisoners would be angry and in pain, and this would only worsen when the radiant light of the sun overwhelms their eyes and blinds them. 

"Slowly, their eyes adjust to the light of the sun, at first they can see only shadows. Gradually they can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually, they can look at the stars and moon at night until finally they can look upon the sun itself" Only after they can look straight at the sun "are they able to reason about it" and what it truly is  

He continues, as the sun illuminates the visible with light, so the idea of goodness illuminates the intelligible with truth, which in turn makes it possible for people to have knowledge. Also, as the eye's ability to see is made possible by the light of the Sun so the soul's ability to know is made possible by the truth of goodness.

 And the moral of this episode is: We are all taught this religiously so let’s agree there is nothing wrong with any religion, our wrongfulness occurs due to a lack of investigation and interpretation. We must open our eyes, study and see for ourselves, and open our ears and hear or forever dwell in a realm of darkness and despair 

 I’m Brother Joseph saying: until next time, please be good to yourselves. And thank you for listening.

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