What if this world, as real as it is for what it is, is at the same time a reflection of another more solid and substantial reality? I think Plato had a suspicion of the possibility that finally became a belief.
We typically suppose our surrounding snow globe of a cosmos to be in its physicality fundamentally solid, dense, and firm, within all its open emptiness, but our odd friends, the physicists, tell us it’s mostly that emptiness, even lurking beneath the solidity, vastly empty space filled by enigmatic energy packs that are themselves barely substantial at all, beyond the sheer mathematics that may actually comprise them. What if then we merely mirror a more robust reality beneath or beyond it all?
We think of the body as solid and the spirit as, well, more like the merest gas or steam, or an insubstantial shadow. But what if it’s the other way around? We need to keep our minds and hearts open to the deeper possibilities, the stranger things, however outside our normal experience, as we take in the beautiful and terrible reflections in this world.
Plato even joked that we're just in a cave and that the bright light of reality yet awaits us outside it. I like my little cavern, but perhaps it's preparing me for something yet more and greater and beyond my ability now to grasp. Let's keep in mind the vision, as we interact with others today and tomorrow, leaving room for the greatness they may be here to mirror, even when they don't shine brightly.
