2.2 - The Cave

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome back. For anyone familiar with the basics of philosophy, they'll be beginning to notice that much of what the CCRU exposits and explains is very alike to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, an allegory which has been spoken about to death, and can be applied in some form to almost anything. However, for those…

• 00:01:58

  The thing which takes place of reality in people's minds, or the thing they believe to be reality. Now, Plato then supposes that a prisoner is freed, that prisoner looks around and sees the fire, and if told that he was seeing the real, he wouldn't believe it due to his complacency regarding what he has always known…

• 00:03:31

  the viewer willingly chains themselves to the wall with regards to TV once they've become accustomed to it. They believe the wall is good for them. Arguably, the same is true for Plato's allegory. However, back to the CCRU. When viewed in a Kantian manner, or in the manner of the CCRU, the allegory of Plato's cave…

• 00:06:32

  You can tweak around with the allegory and say that, metaphorically, this is sort of what Plato's on about, but I don't personally think so. And so, the entire allegory of the cave is a metaphysical error. What we need to escape is the actual way we synthesize shadows. One of the interesting facts that Plato overlooks…

• 00:08:07

  place within will generally, which means to say that the will of another can cause change within your will. The magic that the CCRU are alluding to is the reality-altering magic projected onto the walls of multiple caves as a way to cause changes within your will. To such a meta-extent that your notions of will…

• 00:09:27

  The superior form of transcendental temporality is that which controls and forms the successive modes of temporality which man exists within. The reason this section is entitled Spheres and Degrees is largely due to this formulation of superior and inferior modes of temporality. Architectonic order of the eschaton…

• 00:10:25

  Now, teleoplexy is... something I'll get into much later. The AoE, then, is the order which controls the entire structure of temporal superiority and inferiority. It's of note that evidence relating to connection between the AoE and AI research, or UFO phenomenon, is not available to first-degree initiates. That's…

• 00:11:29

  We need an entirely new structure to address it if we are to attempt to exit it. See you in the next lecture.