What's Plato's Myth O?

This is participatory knowing. I'm not just changing my mind. This is knowing with the very machinery of myself. Here's the surface right pathway going downigt that leads into this inner cavern, right? There's a fire here. And what happens is an individual gets free. That individual turns and sees the fire, and that allows them to realize that the shadows and the echoes aren't the real things. They're shadows and echoes. Now, notice how this journey works. When they take a step forward, they have to wait for their eyes to adjust. The self has to e transformed.