The Untethered State of Consciousness

With the understanding that thoughts, emotions and sensory objects are simply passing before your consciousness, it becomes reasonable to question whether your state of awareness need be limited to this experience. Would you become untethered from the bonds of the personal self and be set free to explore beyond? And how exactly did consciousness become bound to the personal self to begin with? The problem with even attempting to consider these questions is that they call for a discussion of what exists beyond the confines of the mind. For this reason, we will begin exploring the untethered state through the use of an allegory. Much like Plato used dialogue to tell his allegory of the cave in 360 BC, we will use a short