Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:25 am
...Seeds's picture is another image of the same idea that Plato's Cave image portrays. For all we can know the idea may or may not be true .
Neither Seeds's starry image nor Plato's Cave image say anything about life after death.
Like I have already stated many times in other threads, if our lives truly do continue on in a higher context of reality after death, then we simply cannot be allowed to have any kind of definitive proof of that fact.
And as to the
"starry image," according to Wiki, it's called the "Flammarion engraving"...
wiki wrote:
The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology")....It has been used as a metaphorical illustration of either the scientific or the mystical quests for knowledge.
To me, the Flammarion engraving is just an imaginative artistic representation of the fact that many humans down through the ages have caught glimpses of what seems to be a higher dimension of reality that exists above and outside of the mundane illusion of the bubble of reality that we call a universe.
And as I implied earlier, aside from becoming an advanced practitioner of eastern methods of achieving enlightenment, if you have a near death experience, for example, or experiences with LSD under the right circumstances as another example, then you too will be popping your head through the veil depicted in the engraving.
I truly believe that what lies on the other side of the veil portrayed in this classic image...
...is so wonderful that it must be kept hidden from us until death so that we are not tempted to seek it out prematurely.
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