Is Reality an Illusion?

Enlightenment, to me, means the lifting of belief systems and conditioning, and a “lighter” way of seeing the world.  Most people see enemies, separation and catastrophe when they step foot into the world. The cave represents the imprisonment of our mind that we reside in. The prisoners are chained from infantry to keep their heads and eyes on the wall of the shadows. I know this is extreme, but the chains are a metaphor to our cultural and societal conditioning, and represents the control that we endure of what’s expected of us; what is “normal”. [Read more] ...