31: Plato's Cave Revisited

Gabe shares personal updates, including his recent marriage and move, and discusses how meaningful it is when listeners reach out. He shares the creation of the Mystics and Muons Facebook group as well as the Mystics Collective, an 8 week container to learn, practice, and discuss together. Follow the links below to join the Facebook group, and meet with the Mystics Collective. We'll meet on Zoom for the next 8 Saturdays at 9AM, starting Sep 21, 2024.

Mystics and Muons group

The Mystics Collective

Zoom link for Sep 21

Gabe then gives a preview of his book in process on entropy, sharing a chapter reimagining Plato's Cave. In this version, we follow a prisoner that carefully develops models explaining the shadows. He undergoes significant paradigm shifts that lead him to conceptualize higher dimensional truths, such as the fire and objects behind him. Once he breaks free, he encounters others who have awakened, only to find that there are deepening layers of reality beyond the cave. He then experiences the difficulty in transmitting what's he's experienced to those who have no conceptualization of such things, including those who have broken free from the cave wall.

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Chapters

0:00 The Mystics Collective and Facebook Group

05:08 Hearing from Listeners

06:56 Reflections on the Sunstone Symposium and Podcast Impact

10:50 Adaptation of Plato's Cave

16:15 Our Prisoner Gets Anesthetized

20:22 Breaking the Chains and Beholding the Fire

23:29 Objective Truths vs Patterns and Relationships

25:54 Takeaways