Throughout the entire span of his dialogues, Plato skillfully placed a unique and crucial moment of discovery of principle through which he showed how the mind is able to reach a higher level of creativity, beyond anything it was able to do before. He didn’t do it with a lot of fanfare and fireworks. He did it by taking one step back and two steps forward and called this axiomatic experience of discovery of principle an instantaneous [exaiphnēs (ἐξαίφνης)] moment of eternity.
This exceptional moment of discovery is fundamentally related to experiencing an axiomatic change that takes place inside of your mind whenever a sharp and sudden [exaiphnēs (ἐξαίφνης)] change occurs in your life, producing an unexpected transition to a new, higher, and better manifold of understanding and of thinking, which generally appears as a sudden change of going from a state of perplexity to a state of joyful laughter.
