Imagine one of them is set free from his shackles and immediately made to stand up and bend his neck around, to take steps, to gaze up toward the fire.What do you think his reaction would be if someone informed him that everything he had formerly known was illusion anddelusion, but that now he was a few steps closerto reality, oriented now toward things that weremore authentic, and able to see more trulyWould he, rather, believe that the shadows heformerly knew were more real than the objects nowbeing shown to him?