Platonic Meditations

Transformation of Soul By Debra Shiin Coffey When I wrote this work it was in the style of my first paper “Reflections on Phronesis” using quotes from various authors. Only this time I was using a range of quotes from Platonic, Buddhist, Hinduism and even Euclid's Elements. Feeling the paper was dense I wanted to make it easier to read so I chose to throw it out and rewrote it in almost a dialog style. In the hope, talking one on one, would make it easier to see and less formal.  In order to follow what I am saying you need to look within yourself for the answers.  This is not a book you set and read in order to understand you need to participate in the exercises in order to see what I am saying.  Also feel free to ask any questions you may have and I will do my best to answer them. Modern men of today have no idea of who or even what they are or where to turn and look. So let us go on an exploration to inquire into Soul and to see what direction one should turn its gaze....

Reflections on Phronesis About 40 plus years ago I wrote this work to share with a few friends. It basically represents my reflections on my explorations into my life experiences and to tie them back to my studies. A close friend Barbara Stecker once asked me "why are you doing all this research?", after asking her for a Greek translation. My reply to her was "I am going to do it". I never saw my studies as something outside of myself. I studied to understand the experiences I have had. In life the only time I was truly happy, when I was young, was reflecting on and re-experiencing these heightened states of consciousness. I started early in life reflecting on heightened states of consciousness due to circumstances of my childhood. Realizing I couldn't talk to anyone about them because they wouldn't understand, in fact even I thought I was crazy. So in order to come to terms with my reality I found not to dismiss my experiences but rather to acknowledge them...