Peter Kingsley suggests the dark Cave for lying down, as an active vehicle for interior travel which lends a different aspect to "leaving the cave" . Would love another teaser or focus on what the heck the "forms" could be and is this concept a side alley or an articulation of the interiority, a second cave within, relative to the environment(forms/shadows) outside the "cave
We must be careful with the virtual world. That we, as thinkers or disparate people or whatever you want to call the unfinished 'us', have become more used to communication over digital mediums is worrying. In order to use a digital medium, we must already have met a number of criteria, particularly related to money (so it will come down to inherited wealth or wage-labour systems). This means that a relationship pre-exists even the potential for our communication. It is only in our physical, temporal, and proximate location to one another, and our able to speak our truth within these contexts, that we exist without the pre-conditions of social demands, and so remain open. Social demands are not only legal-contractual but also on the level or moral/emotional. There is a kind of feeling that passes between us, where our words are not only weighed on factual bases but on another level - it cannot be clearly demarcated as a level of values or of emotion, because even within social contexts we create differentiation by what we sometimes call our character, some people refer to more vaguely as vibration, but it also includes stances, allegiances, preconcpetions, and more. The virtual realm is also a realm of pure representation, in the literally sense. Even if you take a camera and photograph, the image need not necessarily be true. One might ask whether, in framing a scene, one did not purposely avoid other objects which are moved out of the focus of the lense, and so on. Nonetheless, the digital world works within the choreographed rather than the spontaneous. It is a realm which is being selectively created so that the rules and limitations are set and limited. (Remember, censorship on a digital platform is not censorship by a government, because it's privately owned.) Our only true relation can be face to face, and with knowledge of how we relate to the world concretely. That I need to consume nourishment to survive does not mean nature = super market, nor products whose ingredients we do not know or recognize and are being created in a laboratory. To what extent do you have any control at all over the food that you eat and the construction and reparation of your dwelling? What might happen if those things we taken away from you by the same people who decide to put it out for you?
This gives new life to ancient philosophy 👌
Thank you 🙏
Peter Kingsley suggests the dark Cave for lying down, as an active vehicle for
interior travel which lends a different aspect to "leaving the
cave" . Would love another teaser or focus on what the heck the
"forms" could be and is this concept a side alley or an articulation
of the interiority, a second cave within, relative to the environment(forms/shadows)
outside the "cave
We must be careful with the virtual world. That we, as thinkers or disparate people or whatever you want to call the unfinished 'us', have become more used to communication over digital mediums is worrying. In order to use a digital medium, we must already have met a number of criteria, particularly related to money (so it will come down to inherited wealth or wage-labour systems). This means that a relationship pre-exists even the potential for our communication.
It is only in our physical, temporal, and proximate location to one another, and our able to speak our truth within these contexts, that we exist without the pre-conditions of social demands, and so remain open. Social demands are not only legal-contractual but also on the level or moral/emotional. There is a kind of feeling that passes between us, where our words are not only weighed on factual bases but on another level - it cannot be clearly demarcated as a level of values or of emotion, because even within social contexts we create differentiation by what we sometimes call our character, some people refer to more vaguely as vibration, but it also includes stances, allegiances, preconcpetions, and more.
The virtual realm is also a realm of pure representation, in the literally sense. Even if you take a camera and photograph, the image need not necessarily be true. One might ask whether, in framing a scene, one did not purposely avoid other objects which are moved out of the focus of the lense, and so on. Nonetheless, the digital world works within the choreographed rather than the spontaneous. It is a realm which is being selectively created so that the rules and limitations are set and limited. (Remember, censorship on a digital platform is not censorship by a government, because it's privately owned.)
Our only true relation can be face to face, and with knowledge of how we relate to the world concretely. That I need to consume nourishment to survive does not mean nature = super market, nor products whose ingredients we do not know or recognize and are being created in a laboratory. To what extent do you have any control at all over the food that you eat and the construction and reparation of your dwelling? What might happen if those things we taken away from you by the same people who decide to put it out for you?