A Spiritual Science Interpretation of the Cave of Socrates

Abstract

Socrates is perhaps one of the greatest thinkers of all time. He taught that to understand the realities of the spirit world, we would need to look at our internal world rather than the external world, God is within and is only by looking at our interior world that we could understand our spiritual realities. Socrates taught that the starting point to understand the spiritual realities was to realize that what you see, it is not really all that exists but just a shadow cast of the spiritual realities. To explain this important concept of spiritual insight, he used a story that was very popular and made a perfect explanation of his ideas. This is called the allegory of the cave. The paper presents the allegory of the cave of Socrates to better understand human consciousness from the spiritual science perspective. The paper would be of interest to those that want to understand the metaphysical and spiritual science aspects of existence.