INTERPRETATION OF PLATO'S CAVE BY ALICE For me the purpose of this allegory defines clearly
the process of enlightenment. For a man to be enlightened, he must above all desire the
freedom of exploring and expressing himself. This urge has to become an intense need, a
driving force that unlatches deep within him a necessity to discover a new way of
understanding and experiencing his relationship with himself and the world in which he
lives. This driving force that pushes him to explore and search for something that at first
he cannot yet define is the same one that pervades and operates in nature, pushing
everything within creation to transform itself continuously... Therefore, we understand,
that this force is a natural underlying energy permeating and influencing the physical,
psychic and spiritual substance of all created and living species allowing them to
continually transform and develop...Hence, we observe, that this same process of
transmutation and change also affects and influences man's physical, psychic, and
spiritual characteristics and attributes. Indeed, these three aspects in man come under
the same governing laws of nature, and there is no exception to the process. In other
words, man is bound by an unknown driving force that pushes his whole being towards an
unknown goal and destiny. This wondrous and unfathomable energy urges him to move
on, and follows a specially designed path... This path unfolds gradually, subtly shifting
his ways of perception and understanding... However, man's destiny remains a mystery to
him for a very long time to come... indeed it stays concealed within his being through
many cycles of incarnation... until consciousness within him is able to adjust and expose
itself helped by a new surge of universal influence. This influence is a cosmic and divine
energy that pervades everything within creation and the centre of this source is found
within his own spiritual dimension
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