"The Allegory of the Cave," like most things in philosophy, can be deciphered in many different ways. It basically says that people are chained to the wall of a cave and they have nothing to look at but shadows on the wall that are provided by another. This is all that they know and have never been out of the cave. That tells nothing on the surface, but once one looks really hard a few …showed first 75 words of 718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 718 total…the process of dying and accention into heaven.         The Allegory of the Cave is and illustration of the way humans look at the Earth and what we feel is reality. Most do not escape this warped thinking until death. Few break free and see what true reality is while on Earth. In both cases however, all of us find out true reality eventually, some are just gifted enough to have found it while still living.