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I *highly* (and I know you get book suggestions all the fucking time) suggest that you check out “Shadow Strategies” by Glenn J. Morris. He’s a martial artist (Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu) who deals a lot with esotericism; believe me, you don’t have to be into martial arts to dig this book.

He talks a ton about what you just mentioned in your quote, and in a really frank and honest way. He also seems to draw a lot of inspiration on Jungian psychology.

This book is my primary spiritual inspiration–’probably the reason why I’m so attracted to your site is that it deals with a lot of common ground with Morris’s books.

If you look at the 8 circuits of consciousness philosophy, you instantly see that it relates specifically to Plato’s Allegory (with 2 circuits, or perhaps one conflict of circuits, per level of the Cave). Circuit 4 is primary consciousness, at least as we know it. This state of consciousness ties directly to the worshipping of the fire in the cave. The fire represents Science (the anti-occult fields), Monotheism, and Social Controls (whether society-based or “archon”-based). To leave the cave, you need a mentor of some type. These mentors, at least in today’s standards, are shamans and monks. The shaman (or monk) can help you reach, accept, and control higher states of consciousness. There are two ways of doing this: controlled or disciplined drug trips (using meditation and other self-discipline techniques to avoid being “blinded by the Light” or the truth) and deeply committed yogic meditation. Either way, a guide is almost always necessary to help the cavedweller through the tunnel and into the light. Many attempting to reach this through drug trips, or at least see a glimpse of this “other side”, experience alien-like contact as well as other extra-dimensional beings. What if the Cabiri and “UFO dwarves” were part of this group of beings? What if they existed on another plane of existence, a plane that one needs to stimulate other levels of consciousness to reach (much like astral projection)? What if aliens, angels, archons, ghosts, “spirit guides”, fairies, and other mythical/mystical beings were a part of a plan of existence that is beyond us? What if these beings reside in the outside world of Plato’s cave? Thus when we experience them in the “real-world”, they are in a sense, traveling down to the cave (would explain the “bright lights” and other phenomenon).

Just a thought to feed the blackhole of humanity’s thrist for truth.