“If you wanna be out of the cave, a death has to occur” this hit me hard. I used to be a whole ass piece of shit. Blinded by my ego. Losing my son to brain cancer changed me. Instantly. Ive been on a spiritual path ever since. 6 and a half years trying to figure this all out. Thank you so much man. Your teachings are really helping. And I really appreciate it

Thank you, Howdie. I am now 80 and found you when I was finally ready. Have been searching for the truth all my adult life.

The Matrix (movie) is also Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Neo - "Why do my eyes hurt." Morpheus - "Because you've never used them before." Cypher in the movie representing those who get angry when the man who has seen the "outside world" comes back in to tell them about it. The interesting thing about the Matrix that can possibly be applied to PL-Alleg is Neo and Morpheus are most likely (99%) STILL INSIDE the matrix. They have simply been fooled into thinking they "escaped" so they can be used and played by the master system. If this is true, then perhaps the "man who escaped" the cave is potentially "not really out," but just in a different level of the same deception.

It is difficult to free people from the chains they revere - Voltaire

Matt below reminded me of something I forgot to say, but was in my notes. That is there is a catch to leaving the cave...that being believing it to be ultimate reality without testing it. It could just be another much larger cave system. This is like Neo when he leaves the Matrix never checks to be sure that the world of Morpheus and the Nebercanazzer and what not are real, or just another finer level of the matrix world. It is so important that I felt I better add this comment. You always have to be testing reality, every step of the way

Thank you Howdie! I find myself retreating unto myself again. I stood up and started exploring the cave about 17 years ago...then sat back down. Stood up and walked out in May this year and I've been putting my fragmented self back together ever since. Straddling both worlds becoming easier, death will be a welcome respite. Letting my light shine as bright as it wants to continues to draw & repel others. My purpose still eludes but I have a deeper concentrated peace that I've not known before & thereby grateful to have shattered my false reality. Much love to all on this journey. We are alone but altogether as well. 💚😊🎶🔥👣🌟

This is by far your best video. I learned a lot from your interpretation.

I love this. It's truth. I've tried discussing Plato's Cave with friends this year who believe CNN/MSNBC/Fox is real news and they have responded with either anger or blank fluoride stares and a request to change the subject. Keep doing what you're doing!!

"The Thirteenth Floor" alternate ending has an interesting take on realizing the reality. The main character 'wakes' up in a sepulcher/tomb/cave like area, screams for help, bangs on the wall and finally decides to sit down to laugh/sob while a door opens and sees a silhouette walking closer to him and its the character he fell in love with in his former Matrix. He asks "Where am I?" She repies "Ill show you." A window opens with a bright light and you can hear waves and birds. At first his expression is that of relief and happiness and within seconds as the movie is about to end turns to a more somber, concerned and potentially sad state of being feeling as if he had been hoodwinked into another potential Matrix. This ending is so much better than the theatrical version. Much more emotional and fits the movie.

I’ve listened to this 5 times already and I can’t say I won’t do it again. Well structured and intelligently presented material and personal take. Absolutely brilliant! Also, it doesn’t hurt that your voice is pleasant to listen to. Cheers friend

"It's All An Illusion" I have a saying about the world being an illusion, “ If you think this world is an illusion put your hand in a door jam and let me slam it. ” I say that because often those who have looked into the more ethereal qualities of existence often tend to explain the world as if that’s “ How it REALLY is ”. That because there is dreamlike or holographic quality that few can see or experience then by default the nature of reality is “ That way ”. Howdie and Matt both say this often... “ It’s NOT REAL , IT’s NOT REAL !” Or “ We live in a dream, a hologram , matrix of illusion. ” I find this expression to be inaccurate. Not wrong, just inaccurate. We exist in a paradox. That is very clear to my own experience. In that paradox the world is both a physical reality and and an ethereal one. “ Form is emptiness , emptiness is form. ” They are both present at the same time. This world is not ONLY an illusion, it’s real as well. By real I mean it has form and karma (cause and effect). Cut me with a knife I bleed. Murder my dog in front of me I agonize. Tell me you love me and kiss my cheek I bloom in satisfaction. There is no reason why any of these experiences should be considered an illusion. The illusion is thinking that it’s ALL THERE IS. But the dream like quality of this realm is just the other side of the physical world we exist in. “ If you see the Buddha kill the Buddha.” If you have figured it out you are in illusion. As long as we are talking and sharing experience we are in the paradox. We can point to one side or the other in accordance with what is most important to our experience. For instance if your dog dies it is more important to dig a grave and grieve your loss than to walk out the door and meditate for 3 years. Of course you never know for sure but I’m speaking generally to most humans experience. When we use the words surreal, or ethereal the word REAL is still involved in the definition of what is unreal. Everybody wants and answer, everybody wants an “out” to this quandary of existence. Of life and death. There is an answer but it is a non answer. The non answer is both are always dancing all the time. There is a reality AND there is an illusion. To be truthful is to honor both “sides” at all times. You may need to focus on one more than the other at any given moment but while we are here both are always inherently present in this realm of existence. It takes practice to get more comfortable with that. Blessings on the path.

"You will only be able to end a dream if it turns into a nightmare." That's hilarious. I would add that boredom can also be the nightmare. It doesn't have to be the Iron Maiden. You can also awaken and adjust the dream. Again, it doesn't have to be so violent, it can be a subtle awakening.

Viewing this vid was an experience that touches. My friend went willingly to death. I always knew he would because he talked about it throughout the years, suicide, and then he did its. He was always an adventurer and he extremely left me.

Howdie! I recently just discovered you, but your videos give me goosebumps constantly while listening. I resonate so much with your work please continue to make this type of material

I was seriously ill as a very young child and should have lost my life. I believe that not only is our society run on a predetermined script, but also each individuals life also follows a script. The individuals script I feel stops at the point were that individual should have died. For me this was at age four. I have also felt outside of the group think and noticed some absurdities with reality at a very young age, which my mother did her best to explain away. Only recently have I started to hear more people questioning the things I have pondered for years.

My soul was fluttering with every second of this video. Just want to share something. This video was reccomended to me by a sweet lady I met couple days ago. I've talked about most of these things (metaphores and thoughts from this video) from my point of view, my direct experience with her. Spent a few days with her afterwards (which felt like a little bit of heaven on Earth), totally unexpectedly. I have fell in love with her (Just haven't told her yet :)). Few hours after we depart she sends me this. And I'm honestly lost for words... Brilliantly put together, coherent, thoughtful video. Saving this for our potential future kiddos :D. Wish You All Good Luck in Your Journeys.

Funny how we find these things at the time we really need them. Thanks for this. Sometimes I just want to stop looking. Information overload. There’s endless corridors in this maze. We all have to be patient and just continue on the path. It’s the reason we’re here.

I feel like if it takes me 10yrs to understand 50% of this, it will be time well spent .

Thank you Howdie, from a fellow philosopher who first stood up in the cave 42 years ago.

Thank you for restoring my hope. The last 11 years I've been immersed in spiritual warfare and was losing the battle. I felt disconnected to Source and completely alone like never before in this life. It helps to know the connection is still there, I just need to figure out how to re-connect.

Thanks howdie..I took a suggestion from you and started listening while riding a scooter in remote nature only backroad in VA. An occasional farm but otherwise no people,cars.just raw nature..a few hours of that and I'm truely relaxed..and adding your soothing narrations adds to that.thanks

Fascinating. I hope you will do more on this topic. Thanks.

Thank you. Heard your testimony through Crow. Your truth resonates with me. It moved me to a new paradigm shift and trust me I’m a very stubborn being . I commend you on your Infinite wisdom during this time of so called Uncertainty . You are connecting at a level for those to hear and eyes to see. See you on the other side my friend.

Great Talk Howdie. I am grateful that you are willing and able to share your thoughts. Its good stuff.

I wanna see what you saw when you stepped outside of the cave. Fantastic post my friend! My wife adn I listened together. We must have stopped it to discuss what you were sharing several dozen times. I lost track of how many hours it took us to get through this hour long video but needless to say, it didn't happen in one sitting. Thanks so much for sharing.

My favourite channel on YT for sure ... So many of the questions I have and had are being answered here by your amazing work. Once I thought I was the only one having these questions and looking at this loop with different eyes, but now I know that I'm not the only one, thank you.

This is great! Really appreciate your approach and breadth. I liked the ladder analogy. Right at the end I was reminded of CS Lewis’ “The Great Divorce.” Well worth a read if you don’t yet know it. Thank you!

Once you pass a point and no longer desire acceptance it is impossible to sit down.

Thank you for explaining and bringing forte this allegory ! It is a mind-expanding experience to listen to you ..I feel blessed to come across your work !!

Thank you, Howdie. I got a lot from this. As I listened, I understood some things in a different way. I want to be "awake," but I don't know if I am. And if not, I don't know how to find that exit door. I appreciate your videos because you speak to us, your viewers, as mature adults. There is none of the dumbing down which is so prevalent on UTube or other platforms. This is one of the reasons why I have stopped watching so many channels. I appreciate this very much. In brief, I had been treated like a child by people who expected me to act like an adult. It really messed me up. I had to first realize that I needed to make changes in my life and way of thinking to break out of that unhealthy cycle, before I even started to put it into practice. It's like I was taking myself apart and putting myself back together, which I'm still doing. Who I thought I was had been only a reflection of what others wanted me to be, at which I was failing miserably. Was I the failure and loser I believed myself to be, and I still believe, to a degree? I had to prove to myself, with great trepidation, that I was not that. I had to stop being the "traumatized one" who was afraid of asking for help which I needed, but I didn't need. (If that makes any sense.) I hope you see this, even though it's on an older video. I want to let you know that I very much appreciate your videos. When Moses asked God to see Him, God said that no man could see Him and live. God is the Creator, the Source. Thank you.

I'm very grateful that I found you and I'm getting ready to grab my clipboard and notebook and re-watch this and start taking notes so that I have it on paper in ink. Thank you, thank you, thank you ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️

This video was perfect timing for me. Just what I needed to hear... and quite brilliant.

This was a masterpiece ! I haven never heard such a full rounded view of what's going on, the different factions, the dream we are in, including my suspicion that there must be an actual physical place to walk out of this reality, I am so glad I came across your channel, it was timely too, as I have felt I was stagnant and it was time for a further dive into reality/illusion. Thank you for being the guide.

Thanks for all your efforts and sharing your knowledge and experiences. I stumbled into your channel a week or so ago, glad it was recommended into my feed. Please keep going, you're very legit

Thanks for your videos Howdie. I enjoy listening to them and thinking about what you say-resonates.

Wow, this is fantastic.I'm so happy I found this channel.

Remember - there is only one of us here ;)

It's the story of Jesus. He showed us the way to escape, only for those with eyes to see.

This is really amazing to find someone who has actually experienced what is called 'illumination', if that is the same thing. There have also been many poets who are said to have accomplished this, for example here is a statement from Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 to 1892): "A kind of waking trance I have frequently had, quite up from boyhood, when I have been all alone. This has generally come upon me through repeating my own name two or three times to myself, silently, till all at once, as it were, out of the intensity of the consciousness of individuality, the individuality itself seemed to fade away into boundless being, and this not a confused state, but the clearest of the clearest, the surest of the surest, utterly beyond words, where death was almost a laughable impossibility, the loss of personality (if so it were) seeming no extinction but the only true life… I am ashamed of my feeble description. Have I not said that the state is beyond words?"

Absolutely brilliant. I'm going to use this to describe this realm. It makes so much sense. Thanks howdie.

Thankyou! really helpful information to hear in a very tough moment in my life.

Every word you are saying has weight, meaning and significance to it! You gave me more clarity and more understanding and more realization about the Matrix /or Cave/ reality than the most material or speaker that I have been come across before!!!! And I am forever grateful to you for that!!! thank you! And yes, whoever is attempting to raise awarenessand and trying to elevate the consciousness of humans has been tried to be silanced throughtout history!

I love how this guy casually suggests improvements to Plato’s allegory. 😂

You've got my attention. I feel sad that you get anger from people. Keep teaching. You have the education most of us did not get...but because I didn't it is easier to see the Truth with Intuition. ❤️

This is absolutely brilliant, great advice, THANK YOU

This Channel is Outstanding!!

Thanks to you Howdie and Matt, and your fantastic research I have grown personally in ways I could only dream of at the time when this movie was posted, and many years before that as well. Thank you again for all the INNsight. God Bless you guys 🙏

Profound information. Really appreciate you sharing this.

This is a really great video!..your channel has helped me grow as a person..Im so glad i came here..Thank you!

Wonderfully helpful. Still feel like one of the little people but that’s okay I’m learning

Love your videos Howdie. There have been a NUMBER of movies, TV shows, etc that drop truth bombs. I love your analysis of many of them (Lost, Donnie Darko, EWS, etc). One show I find surprising is South Park. They spill a lot of truth in their episodes. Season 18 Ep 7 - Grounded Vindaloop - explores "the dream" (our current reality) vis a vis reality vs virtual reality. As you know, comedy is an excellent way to explore topics people are hesitant to discuss or even accept. I encourage you to watch this episode as well as the rest of the series. Truths are being presented/discussed more than some might know. Keep up the great work Howdie!❤

I love your work. I’m addicted! Thank you so much. Quick tip though, if you move your mic down your shirt a couple buttons, it will remove the throat swallowing sounds that are a little bit distracting. Thanks again for your great work.

Very well explained and of course it’s just what I needed at this time 💥

Thank you!!! First time watching you and I love it! Viva Exodus of of the Cave!

I'm shur I ran across your channel at just the right time for me thanks for sharing I'm getting closer every day 😘

The cave hides the stars 🌟 yet the stars are trapped in the cave

I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation from the comfort of my super luxurious cell. Thank you.

This is the highest level video I've yet seen. I'm still in the cave. I know about the soul trap and have been preparing to leave for a while now. Thanks

Mind blower! Thank-You

Thanks Howie, this was one of my favorite videos from you. I also really enjoy anything on the Worlds Fairs that topic is fascinating to me. Much Love and Thanks

Thank you ❤️ hope you are well

Love the healing video idea...💚💜🙏

Another great video! I would just like to say, almost everyone knows of Socrates and Plato, but almost no one ever talks about Plotinus... I think he was the best of all the ancient philosophers... Just my opinion.

New subscriber. Love your content so far 👊

Thank you

Excellent! ... and Thank you. :-) Holes - The skylights/sun/moon/stars. The bubble as we know it with the blue sky, it makes me wonder, if we're not already living by 'Project Blue Beam'? ... ;-) The 'red door' that says 'D-ANGER'! .... decondition your anger? ... or D-rop the ANCHOR? If you go through that door the movie is over and who ever built this 'air-bubble' will not be able to feed off the human e-motional stream anymore. As it seems, the builder feeds of negative energy in this human energy extraction matrix. People in the back, those different groups. Although they are gaining an over-view of all of it they are still not free, nor are they outside of the theater. They simple are looking at it from a different angle as they have stepped into a differentiated mental realm of seeing/seeding things. It's still a feed-back loop for that these people merely process the same 'gooo' in a diverse manner than the others. Those who wish to change their feelings about the movie by literally working on eradicating negative e-motions are those who are promoting the 'New Age Spirituality' type of B$. (Money-making system!) Why do I call it 'B$'? ... It's because they are desensitizing their emotional intelligence into obedience to the movie without diversifying what is going on inside of them anymore as for what is an emotional intelligence-detector when something has a certain type of feeling-frequency. They are literally training themselves to no longer feel what is natural for a human being. ... and they still aren't escaping the movie either. So here the movie works as a training-program while the effect is to 'de-humanize' those beings. When a human being feels 'negativity' it's a sign that something is in dissonance with the natural self. It's also a sign that one should distance themselves from what makes them feel ill and brings this type of pain-stalking discomfort so to protect ones health and life. Those who want to get to the core of it all so to find the source of the horror movie for turning it off, yes, those are the one who could actually free humanity from this trip, you know. The other question is, what happens to those who want to keep on seeing the movie, because they are actually enjoying it? Why wake the sleeping sheep, when they don't want to be woken? Does anyone have any right to temper with their free will? .... I'd say 'No'! Wouldn't it therefore be better to simply leave the theater? ... I mean, those who want to get out have an intrinsic right to leave the theater and it would be most fair to say that they should inform others who want to leave as well, once they know the way out. Anyone who wants to leave the theater could then exit as well. The rest can stay, or leave when ever they like. After all they now know where 'the door' is. This way it's not tempered with anyone's freedom of choice to decide for oneself. Religions are Gate-Keepers! They don't want the sheeple to leave the theater, because it's the church's energy supply since they are even claiming themselves that they are here to make the connection between humans and 'god' (whatever they claim 'their god' is), and that only they know supposedly, and only they want to be the keepers, and therefore the right granted to manipulate the minds of mankind, of course for their personal egotistic gain which destroys lives in the first place, and that is why 'the cave' was created in the first place. The trick here is to hold human beings in beLIEf, accepting information that can not ever be proven or fact-checked in regards to its content of truth. They wrote the script eons ago, then playing it out over many centuries while the sheep thinks that someone performed a miracle, just because what was written 'in the book' has manifest thereafter. The sheep thinks of it as a present when in fact it is all pre-sent! ;-) What the gooneys are doing is black magic! ... nothing more, nothing less, and it's a set of mind-f@ck! ;-) The church's statement that the only way out is through the physical death, in my assumption that's bogus for that it's 'Them' who don't want people to leave, but to keep sticking around as long as possible where it's even them who control people's death through Big Pharma, the Cancer-Industry, anything that brings them more human life-force-energy traded (traitor!) into their monetary bills while hardly anyone dies of a 'natural death' these days anymore. As they live off our physical bodies, riding our backs, and the energy/those frequencies that run through our bodily vehicles is their main interest, if not their only interest so to control it all! :-( So here they create the narrative of the 'fear of death'. Also, 'to die', to simply changing our hue, i.e. 'colors'. ;-) Thank you Howdie for sharing this. I am very much resonating with what you're explaining here. Now, I have not been able yet to see out-side of the cave, but I'd love to. :-) Also, how could anyone make an honest decision for their life, if they are never given the option to choose for themselves whether they want to be stuck in the movie, or if they would like to leave the cave/theater? I feel that it is right here were things must change! What are these gooneys scared of anyways? There will be enough people left who don't even want to leave the theater, you know. Those who are sick and tired of all the B$ won't be great for 'energy harvesting' anyways for that we are vehemently looking to expose this system for what it really is. The gooneys are stupid to keep us around by force for that it's us who will make their 'house of cards' drop to the ground, turning it 'Zero', and they should simply get out of the way so we have access to this door into free-dom(e), you know. ;-) If they 'kill us off' they are guilty of taking lives that aren't theirs, which will have dire consequences for them, and they know it! It is clear that this is why they are using other 'cave-members' to kill those off who may get uncomfortable to their up-keeping of the illusion/matrix/maya, this so called 'wool' they've pulled over our eyes. Ok. I have an intended question for you and everyone else here who would like to take it in, and possibly comment. When in the theater, or even outside of the theater, experiencing through the physical body, and for mind's sake, ponder this! 'Who is watching?!' ;-)

Very well said!

It’s a lot like the new sphere arena in Las Vegas. It’s a 360 half dome with video inside the full dome.

This was amazing

Wow I had shackled myself into believing no matter what is on the screen, it’s perfect and unable to alter. As in “god’s creation”. When you said you’ve seen it change, a new light bulb lit up. I’ve read several Castaneda books including the power of silence. The assemblage point***💡💡💡Piecing all of it together feels like the goal or at least necessary to get to the goal. Thank you very much for this video.

Great video.

The part about only being able to talk to people 1 level above or below is a huge validating in releasing that burden to help\awake others who just aren't ready. That topic in general, not waking the asleep, is a big part of this video and I'm eating it up.

REALLY APPRECIATE THE PERSPECTIVES HOWDIE! LONG TIME READER OF CASTENEDA ETC ETC.....

Death changes the play

Opening of the Way by Isha has some nice straightforward visits to the CAVE. Simple

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Thank You.

Mind blown! 💥

lot's to think about ~ 👍

Thank you.

I’m trying to understand why I am wake and most others are not. I have been subjected to the same shadows. Even all in my family are not awake. I’m referring to what’s happening around the world in 2021/22

They told me the movie would only last for 2 hours tops. So i thought why not.

Made so much sense thank you my daughter heard it also she is wise

Pretty brilliant…!

That was stirring

This theory makes so much sense and explains so much, it's really scary. It resonates so much with me. I know deep down, at least some parts of this explanation is true, I just know it. I know there is more, and I know it's intentionally hidden from me.

I wonder how Platós cave relates to the birth canal.

13:02 Egoic mind/assemblage point 14:15 16:10 Bubble of perception 24:19 33:38 34:29 Extrinsic relation 36:33 39:59 46:24 47:27 48:29

The big black pyramid in Lust Vagus is the only pyramid I've been in . Worked there a couple hours a week for more than a year ... 2016-ish . I hated going there , it felt like the walls were closing in . The air of anxiety and heaviness was thick and almost physically tangible . Felt like leaving prison every time I left . Dig the talks Howdie . Thanks👍

If you ever get a chance I would like to see a breakdown of the movie Jacob's Ladder

Fascinating, now do Dante's Devine Commedy 🙏 please and thank you

Living under a rock. Instead of trying to leave the rock, realize that you and the rock are one in the same. Then you will realize that you were never trapped. You're just perceiving the human under the rock, in a much bigger world that is also another mask of YOU. To escape the concentric matrix, you must kill the belief temporarily and let your divine intuition lead you to the place you must go next. Everything is Will.

I found that was a fundamental problem...that no one ever checks their own shit... And discovered from listening to a rabbi that this was actually the original sin,,. "It's really that guys fault." Which is intetesting whrn you consider that what I found the source of the problem/solution was myself..

We are spiritual beings in a material body. My body died, flat lined in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. My conscience went to a beautiful place where everyone I loved was there living in harmony with all creatures. No money was need and food was for enjoyment only the buildings were crystal like, beautiful beyond words. I loved it so much there and wanted to stay but I was told I had to return for my daughter's sake by a male voice. Next thing I knew I was in the ambulance looking out the window at my daughter driving behind us to the hospital. The ambulance driver was saying I need you to breathe now ma'am. My lawyer read the hospital transcripts after I told him this story and he confirmed that endeed I had died. So death holds no fear for me because I have already seen the other side and it is heaven.

The unified experience (from my experience) is still just a lesser reality and there is Truth beyond that relative reality. It seems to be that the traditional enlightenment description that most people claim is a magnification if the mental/astral body. The self is magnified so greatly that it encompasses the entire mental plane but there’s a Self beyond that self from what I’ve experienced and there seems to be great mystics who claim something similar and probably more precisely than I could currently articulate. From my experience that Truth is what were eventually supposed to bring down into these lower planes. “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” to penetrate that individuality deep into matter which seems to be the mystical distinction between Buddhism and Christianity from what I can perceive.

Just read the text of Plato’s cave allegory. Seems like Plato thought the person who leaves the cave and becomes enlightened should go back into the cave and help the people in the cave. Although he said you cannot teach people knowledge or convince them to leave the cave and see for themselves. Seems like he was saying that smart people should learn philosophy and then go back and contribute to the State, out of goodwill, not greed. Anyway speaking of layers of deception, the Cave is an allegory (fictional) in conversation between Socrates and Plato’s brother (did they exist?) in a book written by Plato (did he exist?) supposedly in Ancient Greece (fictional?) and the earliest confirmed edition of the book is the 1500s-ish. I think it’s an allegory between fake people written by a fake author in a fake book from a fake time.

i wonder whats behind the seemingly universal behaviors between people who have often never met and likewise never experienced the same 'realities', such that most never stand up as you call it, and most of those sit back down, and most never go through the door?

Thete is a difference in Time there ... in The way of interpretation of The Allegory ... in the time of Plato & Aristotle there were initiations On Plato & many Others took part in & experienced So They could share - in a way ...

Thank you! (:

Yes, I have seen reality change (as described in a comment on one of your other videos)! A flower planter became a public telephone box and then changed back again. So weird, but it proves reality is not "real" 😃