Just like the show Lost where people crash on an island (wake up) and start finding the deeper causes of their feelings and phenomenon seems to be related to some shadow group called "DHARMA". It's a play on the Buddhist word Dharma, along with DARPA.
You can imagine a child waking up today in 2021 surrounded by so much advanced stuff like the internet, which was a DARPA creation. They can't make sense of it all without perhaps decades of studying the cultural layers we have been thrown into. They are basically lost in the pseudo-reality cast upon them.
Plato explained it thousands of years ago, with allegory of the cave.
The one who is freed from the cave (Cube) is the seemingly mindless one. But actually, he's the one who is free from the shadows on the wall, the only one of the group who can see reality for what it truly is.
Reality is not a bunch of made up shit and assumptions in our heads, like all the other characters in the Cube believe, and use, to try and escape.
They are using soul-derived thoughts ("what it's like to be human") to try and escape the Cube, but these thoughts are like shadows in Plato's cave, the thoughts are not true reality, thus they can never escape. They're just chasing shadows, perceived meanings.
There's another metaphorical layer and that has to do with Jung's concept of the shadow self, and the attainment of enlightenment where you move up and beyond the lower realms of soul-derived thought (feeling-reaction based). This is what the 7 Chakras and Sephiroth/Tree of Life embody, the lower soul realms and the upper enlightened realms (third eye, crown chakra). So to go back to the show Lost once more, there is your Dharma/DARPA meaning. Dharma is the eternal nature of reality, normally beyond human comprehension, but we can actually achieve it, and many people like the Buddha have taught this.
Most of this is the same concept wrapped up in different language and modes of teaching, but you'll find it in a lot of work....we live in "The Republic" after all :)
Just like the show Lost where people crash on an island (wake up) and start finding the deeper causes of their feelings and phenomenon seems to be related to some shadow group called "DHARMA". It's a play on the Buddhist word Dharma, along with DARPA.
You can imagine a child waking up today in 2021 surrounded by so much advanced stuff like the internet, which was a DARPA creation. They can't make sense of it all without perhaps decades of studying the cultural layers we have been thrown into. They are basically lost in the pseudo-reality cast upon them.
Plato explained it thousands of years ago, with allegory of the cave.
The one who is freed from the cave (Cube) is the seemingly mindless one. But actually, he's the one who is free from the shadows on the wall, the only one of the group who can see reality for what it truly is.
Reality is not a bunch of made up shit and assumptions in our heads, like all the other characters in the Cube believe, and use, to try and escape.
They are using soul-derived thoughts ("what it's like to be human") to try and escape the Cube, but these thoughts are like shadows in Plato's cave, the thoughts are not true reality, thus they can never escape. They're just chasing shadows, perceived meanings.
There's another metaphorical layer and that has to do with Jung's concept of the shadow self, and the attainment of enlightenment where you move up and beyond the lower realms of soul-derived thought (feeling-reaction based). This is what the 7 Chakras and Sephiroth/Tree of Life embody, the lower soul realms and the upper enlightened realms (third eye, crown chakra). So to go back to the show Lost once more, there is your Dharma/DARPA meaning. Dharma is the eternal nature of reality, normally beyond human comprehension, but we can actually achieve it, and many people like the Buddha have taught this.
Most of this is the same concept wrapped up in different language and modes of teaching, but you'll find it in a lot of work....we live in "The Republic" after all :)