Mark Lilla: Yearning for Questions S1 E16
Meditations with Zohar
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The Cave Allegory - It's Not Better to Be in the Cave Than Inside the Cave
In plato's cave allegory, the standard reading of it is that you want to return to the light. But in mary jane rubenstein's reading she says: 'The point isn't to leave the cave' In a book i'm writing about ignorance and bliss, which means wanting not to know. By being forced to go back down and explain yourself to other people in the dark, your eyes are not accustomed to the dark. And also learn thatthe thing you most have to learn is about human beings. If you are going to somehow help enlightenment. You have to understand why people resist you.
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