Book II. Plato’s Cave:
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For anyone who knows the Plato’s Cave allegory, this is how the second tale starts, which is inside of a cave, which is synchronistic, considering Book I. Jack & His Furry Black Demon Named Drudge, ended, pretty much, inside of the cave with Jack’s enlightenment.
For those of you who do not know the Plato’s Cave allegory, I will lay it out for you here swiftly: There are people inside of a cave, shackled, and forced into facing the wall in front of them. Behind them is a fire. And in between their backs and the fire are things/objects that produce shadows on the wall that they are faced to stare at. In my book’s case, they are critters or animals, such as a spider or a bat.
So, Jack is shackled there with two characters named Lost & Found, and there is the shadow of a bat flying around this rock wall – just the shadow. And Lost & Found are rather amazed by this shadow, which they call a “real thing”:
Lost: [2] Look! Look! There it is again!
Found: [3] Oh, it is dancing around this time! What is this reality? What do we call this real thing?
Jack: [4] Are we certain that this dark spot moving along this rock wall is a concrete reality?
Lost: [5] How may this dark spot moving along this rock wall not be a concrete reality, Jack? I do see it, don’t you?
Found: [6] And look at it go! You do see it moving along this rock wall, don’t you, Jack?
Jack: [7] I do see the movement, and the spot, and the morphing shape. But something inside of my psyche mourns in disbelief.
Lost: [8] It is real, Jack.
Found: [9] It is just as real as us, Jack.
Jack questions the shadow, and says:
Jack: [10] I don’t know.
And I will not go into mass details, as I want you to buy my book Jackism, The Fairytale Religion, and get the details for yourself, but let’s just say that Jack’s shackles fall, since he had questioned, and he is free to wonder off and out of the cave.
What do the shadows on the wall represent symbolically to this life? For the most part, it is judgement onto people and things, which are typically projections: “Well I would never lie about so and so, and so, this person must be telling the truth.” While in fact they are being tricked and lied to, and so they know not True Form – they believe in shadows. And of course, we can get into much other things that the shadows can represent, but you understand the gist.
So, Jack leaves the cave and experience’s color and life for the first time, and he is an awe; and Plato greets him. So, Plato is in this tale and sort of acts as Jack’s guide after the enlightenment of Book I.
There is a point to this. As the Buddhist know, once Satori or Union with God is attained, you have been birthed into the realm of Spirit and are not-of-this-world, so to say, and so you desperately need Grounding to be able to function as a human-being with an ego again, but with a big secret. Because if you are not grounded, you are likely to go Jesus-Christ-Mode, and it is very, very weird to people, and you may end up in an insane asylum somewhere in Rhode Island with a bunch of crazy people, while you are actually as sane as the day is long; perhaps too sane. Which in a world upside-down appears as mad.
So, Plato is here to guide Jack, The Pumpkin Headed Son of Earth, out of the cave for grounding. Jack see’s things that bewilder him, such as a rainbow. And, as rainbows tend to do, when you walk up to them, they disappear; and this makes Jack question reality, and what True Form is. So, he has escaped the cave of shadows by understanding that it is not True Form, but now he is questioning the True Form of even the things that are not shadows, and he can see. And this leads into some philosophical discussions with Plato the philosopher. It is a journey of experience, and pretty much, Jack trying to get a grasp on True Form, which eventually he does do, but I will not let on about it here so that you may buy the book Jackism, The Fairytale Religion, and read it for yourself.
If you look and are perceptive enough, it is quite difficult to grasp onto the True Form of anything in this world – for even you and I are not the same form that we were yesterday; change is a constant. Everything withers away, including us, and anything that deteriorates is illusion; anything that lives on forever is real and True Form. So, this avatar and body is indeed illusive, whilst our Soul and Spirit is eternal, everlasting and real – True Form.
I have noticed that God uses illusiveness quite a lot in guiding me with things with synchronicity – which is The Organizing Principle. And if you do not know what synchronicity is, it is just a coincidence that makes sense and resonates. The more you understand that coincidences are not coincidences, the more “coincidences” (synchronicities) begin to unravel before you. They say “seeing is believing”, but I prefer the inversion of that phrase – “Believing is Seeing”. The more you believe that the coincidence is not just a coincidence, the more you will see them.
And so, synchronicity is The Organizing Principle, as I’ve said; they let you know where you are, and are a guide to where you may go. And often times, when I follow the synchs, I have a Judgement of where God’s breadcrumbs are leading me – but it is never what my judgement is (it’s illusive). And God ends up bringing you to something completely different, but the thing that he brings you too resonates on the same exact frequency as the thing you judged it to be. It is always a surprise. And even though I know that this will happen, it is still hard as a human to not cast a judgement onto where I am being lead. But I think that there is a point to us judging this creative process. I think that judgement, which typically forms a type of excitement (high frequency) in you, is what sets the tone of the Gift that God will match. In other words: The Frequency of God’s Gift is conjured up and matched by The Frequency of Your Judgement. God says, “Oh, you want that frequency? I have something for you for that.”. This is an example of you thinking you know the True Form of a thing, and God saying “Nuh-uh, but good try.”.
Anyway, I am awfully lazy with the pen today, so I will probably leave it here. Though, there is one more lesson in here that Plato must teach Jack, which is that “The Gospel (good news) is not for all.”. In other words, don’t cast pearls before swine. Not everyone is capable of learning about Spirit. There are 3 types of people in this world, as the great Leonardo Da Vinci had said: “People who see, people who don’t see, and people who see when shown.”. Some people are just Not going to see in this lifetime, and probably have a few more reincarnations to go in order to even get to the middle group. And that’s who this book, Jackism, The Fairytale Religion, is for – the people in the middle; the people who Can see when shown. And Jack learns this with Lost & Found.
To me, the people who already see don’t matter – they already know; they already have the secret. On the other side of the spectrum, the Lost people who will not see do not matter – they will not see. The middle group is all that matters. I am not a high intellectual who cares much for knowledge and big words and all the bells and whistles; I am a man of simple wisdom and easy understanding. And so, I cannot help but resonate with a quote by Mark Twain in regards to my book, Jackism, The Fairytale Religion:
“Those books of great geniuses are like fine wine, and my books are like water – but everyone drinks water.”
Strength & Honor,
JackOBat