Posts Categorized: Nous

‘KNOWING’ OR ‘BELIEVING’? ‘RELIGION’ OR ‘CULT’?

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Tweet Share When the Eye of the Soul awakens, we experience a high level of reality – pure ideas, Archetypes, what Plato called the ‘Forms’: essential meanings, revelations, universal truths, which are only accessible to the “intuitive intellect” above mere Reason. This is when real Faith becomes possible. Faith is notthe same thing as ‘opinion’…
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PLATO’S PARABLE OF THE SHIP

Posted by & filed under Eye of the Soul, Greek Philosophy, Insight, Nous, Parable of the Ship, Plato, Socrates, the Good, The Republic, What is Spirituality.

Tweet Share Long ago, Socrates knew that nations (like souls, to which he compares them) are not very well-ordered: few citizens do what they are best suited for, everyone wants to interfere with everything, and only buffoons are typically in charge. In The Republic, Socrates narrates a wonderful parable to demonstrate his point. “Imagine then…
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