There is a book just published – why are we here ?
He has the following story from Plato
Plato’s allegory of the cave, where he likens our existence to people trapped in a cave, being forced to look at the shadows of reality from the light cast behind them on a wall. And he said the job of a scientist essentially is to interpret those shadows to understand the reality underneath. And when we look at the universe around us we’re seeing the shadows of reality. And what we’ve been able to do is peer underneath to discover the real world, which is really quite different.
The very title of the book shows he did not understand Plato. Plato was a yogi. Like Socrates. They had experienced something very very high. And based on that they came out with brilliant stories.
The world is a shadow ! Or a shadow of a shadow ! Enough said. Find the real and you will know what I mean. Otherwise you will merely have a conjecture
Bhavin