The first time I heard the lightning metaphor (I think it was on a YouTube channel called "Seekers of Unity"), lots of things clicked for me; even though I knew the story of Plato's Cave from my philosophy class, I didn't really understand it until I heard the lightning metaphor because we get moments, fleeting moments where everything is connected and it seems like we can change the world by only changing ourselves, but it's so much harder to get to that point of true ecstasy than it is for that feeling to leave you.
Exactly. As long as you remember that line I wrote "...But let’s make no mistake: despite it’s elusive nature, the Rambam describes that the ‘flash’ can be as clear as day." Our "lightning" experiences are actually elusive as we are the beginning of the journey (as I described in "Angels?") but the ultimate "lightning" is as clear as clear can be.
The first time I heard the lightning metaphor (I think it was on a YouTube channel called "Seekers of Unity"), lots of things clicked for me; even though I knew the story of Plato's Cave from my philosophy class, I didn't really understand it until I heard the lightning metaphor because we get moments, fleeting moments where everything is connected and it seems like we can change the world by only changing ourselves, but it's so much harder to get to that point of true ecstasy than it is for that feeling to leave you.
Exactly. As long as you remember that line I wrote "...But let’s make no mistake: despite it’s elusive nature, the Rambam describes that the ‘flash’ can be as clear as day." Our "lightning" experiences are actually elusive as we are the beginning of the journey (as I described in "Angels?") but the ultimate "lightning" is as clear as clear can be.