Plato's Allegory of the Cave

[Mystic]

Coming out of the cave, can be said coming out of what you think you are due to false perception of society, to what you really are.

Something that scares me, is how we look at the people of the past, and their morality, and we look at them negatively.

When we come out and see the sun, how will see ourselves?

Perhaps it's a grace from God that we are designed so we will be not see it, till we ourselves evolve out of the cave so we would have no shame.

Well, we also see people of the past as noble, heroic, and good. It doesn't seem too presumptuous to suggest that we may see our selves (as relics of the past) with the same mix of positive and negative value judgements...whatever they may one day be.

That's true, it's just that right now it's hard to see the "evil" side of us.

I know when I was all into Islam, it was hard to see anything negative in Islamic teachings.

I would say a lot of Islamic teaching are morphed shadows - blinding us to the core goodness/command/morality/beauty/honor in us. For example, killing apostates, blinds us to mercy, compassion, and tolerance. Disbelievers being fried in hell and to be hated by God, blinds us to love and forbearance. It's morphing of how justice should be applied.

But when you into the zone, we want to stay in the cave and all the shadows seem like it's the Sun (absolute truth/absolute morality/absolute justice).