If You think . . . (2)
Earth is Just Our Temporary Home It’s Plato’s Fault If you think that earth is just our temporary home and we have something better, much better, awaiting us with God in heaven, well . . . whether you know it or not you have Plato to thank for it. Yes, Plato. The ancient Greek philosopher. He’s the one that taught us to divide the world into two realms. A material one, inferior, constraining and keeping us from realizing our true selves. Those true selves are spiritual and really belong to a spiritual realm which, inward and immaterial, is superior to the material realm and to be preferred in every way. He envisioned the body as the prison of the soul which our true selves can finally flee at death and return to their true home. This idea of the two realms, the material and the spiritual, called dualism, has become so ingrained in our cultural tradition that ...