Visionary truth, objective truth | Vividness

In his famous analogy, he describes the things and qualities of our everyday world as if they were shadows cast on a back wall of a cave. We look at the shadows and mistake them for real things, but we miss the fact that they are mere umbrageous shapes and silhouettes. Plato believed it to be the job of philosophers to direct our attention towards

there is the reality that, from any one standpoint, only a partial vision is possible. The opposition of ‘standpoints’ is a way of speaking of difference wrought by context. As Whitehead put it, ‘there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil’.29 Each truth conceals another, op

As a methodology is practiced within the logos of a particular teaching, objective reality will reveal itself in forms relevant for the journey of self-realization undertaken through that teaching.

Objectivity – the deliberate elimination of every subjective aspect of an experience – has become an unquestioned and seemingly universal standard in every field of research. While objectivity is certainly necessary in, for instance, medicine and some fields of physics, it causes real problems when it is applied to all modes of human enquiry. Today

REALIZE THAT TRUTH ISN’T IN CONFLICT WITH YOUR OTHER GOALS Many people actively resist viewing reality accurately because they believe that accuracy is a hindrance to their goals—that if they want to be happy, successful, and influential, it’s better to view themselves and the world through a distorted lens.

Absolute truth is the true nature of the relative—there is unity underlying all distinctions. Relative truth is the manifestation of the absolute—we experience the world through our disparate circumstances. Denying either side of this paradox leads to not belonging. Our collective freedom depends on us remembering that we belong to everything and a