I thought this article was great, because I'm a linguaphile, but it also reminded me of a martial arts thing (can one be a martial arts nerd?). In any case, it was a random connection that happened in my head while learning forms for our dojo's Okinawan karate; forms, at least on the English side of things (as opposed to Japanese kata), I thought, might be kind of like Plato's forms. That is, in the sense that they are an ideal to work towards; the trick is, the exact movements are almost never something that one would use in a practical sense, so to me that's like the ideal never quite showing up in our perception of the real world/real fight. We take what principles and ideas and sequencing we can from the forms, but we still have to live in the shadowplay real world. Maybe that's trite, but it's a work in progress, so neener.

From the aforementioned article, an interesting way of description, haven't quite figured it out yet: "...the higher, intuitive, self-knowing mind, which connects with consciousness; the lower-thinking, rational mind, which connects consciousness to the outer world via the senses; and the ego, which exists in a space between the higher and the lower mind."