The World Beyond The Skeptic's Cave
A skeptic sits in their cave and judges the world outside, having never seen, heard, or tasted a drop of what lives beyond the confines of their limited experience. Yet, they judge with absolute certainty which can only be defined as blind arrogance.
This is not different from the believer who also blindly accepts what others have seen outside the cave, because both the skeptic and the believer have never stepped outside.
What creates this blind arrogant confidence? The answer is completely counterintuitive — Fear.
Stepping out of the cave is terrifying. You have no idea what is beyond. Even if others have said it’s the most ecstatic beauty and joy you can ever experience, still, it’s easier to sit in the cave and dismiss that.
The cave is the rational, logical mind. And the walls of the cave are reinforced with scientific rigor. With the most intelligent philosophers and thinkers validating the decision to stay within the cave.
The only time you are allowed to leave the cave or let the walls expand, is when the scientific leaders tell you it’s safe. Because now they know it’s “real”. Now they have proof it’s real.
It was real all along. Dismissing reality doesn’t make it unreal. Your decision to wait for authorities to approve and validate your reality is the most disturbing thing our culture has ever created. We have replaced popes and clergymen with scientists and professors.
The same scientist that dismisses a “spiritual” or “metaphysical” concept, tomorrow says it is real with a different name. Because it would be too embarrassing to say that anything spiritual is real, so they take the cowardly route to rebrand it. And with shameless arrogance they call it their discovery. Something millions of people have known and experienced for millennia is now the official IP of the scientist who discovered it.
Those who don’t see the irony in all of this, and continue to put scientists and science on a pedestal over their own ability to explore reality through higher consciousness, are immature devotees, no different to religious believers who did the same with prophets and gurus.
You call your guru a scientist and legitimize it, but you can no longer fool yourself that you are any different from other religious believers. You are also part of the religion of science. Different titles, different terms, same attitudes.
You need someone else to reaffirm and reassure you about reality. That is the deeper layer that every human has struggled with throughout history. The cowardice to take an independent stance based on your own experience is what makes you submit to authority.
It takes immense courage and boldness to go explore reality and discover your own truths. It’s an even wilder, more radical act of bravery to stand in your truth.
I’ve seen so many people who have experiences that in their own words are more real than anything they have ever experienced, and yet, dismiss it soon after because they are “not sure”, because it doesn’t conform with the science of the day.
Just because science has not reached there yet, doesn’t make it unreal. This has been the most disgusting consequence of the scientific institution, to blatantly and absolutely dismiss everything “non-scientific” as untrue or unreal.
That’s not a true skeptic who dismisses a claim. They investigate it, until they experience it themselves. Not until they prove it’s untrue, because there is no way to prove a negative. A true skeptic goes as far as it takes to get the proof. In the trust that the other person, or millions of people, have no reason to lie.
That is the determination required to obtain the proof. And when it’s there, the proof comes quickly. It’s only as long as you are invested in your skeptical cynic being right that you will keep finding “negative proof” of it “not working”.
That’s the skeptic’s survival mechanism. That’s the sabotage to stop just before the proof becomes real. And it’s hideous. When you are on the other side, and when you finally have the “proof” from your own experience, it’s disgusting to realize how much you compromised your integrity to believe others who were clueless themselves.
Scientists also haven’t had the experience. They too are the skeptics sitting in the cave and judging the world outside without a clue. They are in fact worse than the skeptics sitting in the cave. They are the ones guarding the cave making sure you don’t go out and prove them wrong.
The question is, after reading this, who do you choose to be?
Are you ready to venture beyond, without the security of being validated by scientific authorities? Or do you choose to sit and wait for daddy and mommy’s approval?