Alright thread starter...I love you. This is my favorite of all Plato's works.
I've done DMT dozens of times, and the similarity between the triptamine plane of existence and the real world in the allegory are metaphorically the same. One grounded in this reality can't hope to understand but that world is as foreign as the cave dweller's surface. Being here is akin to watching the shadows, but breaking through is like being born again. Our reality seems like a dream to me now because I've been somewhere way more real. And every now and then in the trips I see something that vaguely reminds me of our planet, like when the prisoner sees his own shadow. You just made me smile guy. : D
I've done DMT dozens of times, and the similarity between the triptamine plane of existence and the real world in the allegory are metaphorically the same. One grounded in this reality can't hope to understand but that world is as foreign as the cave dweller's surface. Being here is akin to watching the shadows, but breaking through is like being born again. Our reality seems like a dream to me now because I've been somewhere way more real. And every now and then in the trips I see something that vaguely reminds me of our planet, like when the prisoner sees his own shadow. You just made me smile guy. : D
