Comments on: Communion, reality, Plato’s Cave and parallel universes http://aldenswan.com/2008/08/communion-reality-platos-cave-and-parallel-universes/ free speech, critical thinking, and really good coffee Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Quixote http://aldenswan.com/2008/08/communion-reality-platos-cave-and-parallel-universes/comment-page-1/#comment-844 Quixote Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:33:38 +0000 http://www.aldenswan.com/?p=424#comment-844 I'm no Platoniac, but the Apostle Paul's "through a glass darkly" has a bit of the cave allegory in it, I would think. Still, we devalue the world by thinking, as Lewis speculates, that heaven is "realer" than the here and now. Both are equally real to the fullest extent as different modes of the same totality. Lastly, I appreciate your concluding couplet. Robert Palmer would be pleased. I’m no Platoniac, but the Apostle Paul’s “through a glass darkly” has a bit of the cave allegory in it, I would think.

Still, we devalue the world by thinking, as Lewis speculates, that heaven is “realer” than the here and now. Both are equally real to the fullest extent as different modes of the same totality.

Lastly, I appreciate your concluding couplet. Robert Palmer would be pleased.

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