Matrix or Truman: Which Did You Experience?
A Hopeful Series on Post-Religious Identity Reconstruction
“The Matrix”
Will you be taking the red pill or the blue pill? At some point in our earthly lives (or many points), we are probably all faced with this internal, barely conscious dilemma as presented in the movie.
The depiction of the human journey decision point felt intuitively solid: the world is a form of virtual reality designed to entrap humans into blind obedience to an organized, subversive system, and the only way to escape the mental and spiritual shackles of this system, is to make a deliberate, active choice to wake up by taking the red pill being offered at a critical juncture. Though I agree with the premise, I had a hard time getting through the predictable Hollywood algorithm of action-packed, high testosterone vibe meets dark, techno-cyber-fantasy. Oh, and let’s not forget the fear-mongering. 🥱🙄 It was too much for me.
For most of us, waking up to the fact that you’ve been unconsciously living in a false reality does feel dystopian, fear-inducing, and disorienting. It’s a no-turning-back point of dropping yourself into a bottomless chute, white knuckling it toward some unknown blinding light of disclosure that you perceive rightly will alter your destiny. Or…you can choose the blue pill, where you fall effortlessly back into the lazy river of unconscious programming, back into a safe, predictable, albeit full of difficult-to-bear conundrums (and distressingly underchallenged) life.
Sadly, “The Matrix” movie presents waking up as the worst possible option you could ever choose. To take the red pill, it tells us, requires you will have to subject yourself to violence, torture, and potentially death. It’s as if the intent of the movie was to disclose the fact that there is a Matrix (or rather, a Godtrix as it will be called hereafter), and to assume our consent to actively participating in it. Once that is accomplished, the only sensible choice is to lull oneself back to sleep, due to portraying a cost that is not tenable for anyone but a Hollywood stuntman.
Having said that, there is a huge plethora of brave souls throughout the centuries who have presented a significant public threat to the Godtrix, suffering the loss of life. It still happens every day. Holistic doctors, research scientists, authors 🫣 😰, journalists, whistleblowers, inventors, politicians—people in all walks of life who hit a central nerve get offed. I could name many such heroic figures in the past five years who were often quoted that they were receiving serious threats for their bravery in trying to turn the world right side up.
For the rest of us small-influence, non-threatening folk—the ants—waking up to one’s power carries less drastic, personal consequences. But the consequences can still feel quite profound. You stand to lose the world as you know it—your foundational ideologies, beliefs, worldview, subculture, friends, family, profession, and even your ego or self-identity. All of these are held to the fire when you discover that the reality you thought you lived in does not exist but is merely a construct, whereby the powers that be benefit from your unconsciously participatory life force (a.k.a. slave system)—so they do everything in their power to maintain status quo.
Cognitive Dissonances
Leading up to epic red pill decision points, there are many moments in life (more identifiable when looking back) where something stands out as odd, or off kilter, or untenably hypocritical, or completely contradictory to our normal perception of reality. This is the experience of cognitive dissonance. Some significant cognitive dissonances for me along the way:
*How could a “loving God,” who commands us to forgive others 70x7 (symbolic number for “perfectly” or “completely”), who tells us that “love never fails,” send people to hell to be tortured for millions and billions of years? This is the topic of my most recent book.
*How is it in our modern world that specialty doctors and innovative treatments that heal root causes (in a country supposedly committed to “the good of all”) are being suppressed or persecuted? How is it that said country spends far more than any other country developing and implementing healthcare, yet is one of the sickest countries in the world (with one of the highest infant mortality rates)? If this country’s treatments are so advanced, beneficial, or effective, how is it possible that the citizens are only getting sicker and dying younger? Who is suppressing (or killing) the ones actually healing people and why would they do that? Incidentally, I’ve had several Yewtoob videos censored (with threats of closing down my channel) that offered empirically sound, research-based healing modalities and preventions for recent public interest events.🤬🧐
*What about the political mantra, “my body, my choice?” (FYI, I identify as “apolitical”). It works for the special interest group who coined it as long as it applies to only what they want it to apply to. For instance, it does not seem to apply if a person doesn’t want experimental injections (or any injections, which are all categorized by the federal government and Supreme Court as “unavoidably unsafe”). The entire political populace will label this person with a tight rein on their body, their choice as a “grandma killer who deserves to die” (SMH). I find that ironic in light of several comments on a discussion board about the definition of this political party’s ethos:
[Quote]: “Liberals believe in basic freedoms—to believe, vote, live etc as the individual sees fit. They don’t discriminate against others purely on the grounds of the way that person votes/believes/lives etc. They don’t like authoritarianism in Govt, and prefer Govt resources go to infrastructure, pragmatics, and security - rather than to cultural manipulation. … Liberalism is a verb, essentially. …If you’re not living liberally (ie aligning with the above [description].. without prejudice or ideology), then you are not a liberal.” [Unit]
[Quote] “In the classical sense, liberalism is a political ideology that applies to both social and economic issues, advocates individual liberty, and opposes government control over private citizens for both social and economic issues. The word ‘liberal’ has been very corrupted over the last century (especially in the US) to often refer to the exact opposite: authoritarian statism. But ‘liberal,’ in its most literal sense, means ‘advocate of liberty.” [Al Jones]
I don’t know about you, but I rarely see any of these principles applied in liberal politics. It often feels like total hypocritical bait and switch—"we advocate for liberal ideology UNLESS you disagree with how we see fit to define and enforce it.”
These and oh-so-many other cognitive dissonances fill our everyday reality. What do we do with them? Most people ignore them, or dismiss them as insignificant or too trivial, or too controversial to pay attention to. But the fact that you are here reading this blog means that these moments (specific to your journey) became not so trivial to you. You noticed them, they grew in significance in the quest for your authenticity, and knew that you had a responsibility to yourself to do something with them.
The Truman Show
Long before we get to that finite decision point presented in “The Matrix,” we are often following a similar, subtler trajectory to that of Truman Burbank in “The Truman Show” (1998), where odd moments are reflected in the plot described as a “psychological, comedy drama.” Truman (love the word play) is a man living out his whole life in the small, friendly, suspiciously perfect town of Seahaven. Every day is predictably the same—same exact rhythms and patterns of people and events. Life is easy, good, safe, and predictable—as far as he knows. This is just how life is, there’s nothing to question.
The developing plot (spoiler alert ) is that he was sold as a baby to a filming company, who proceeded to make a 24/7 “living documentary” out of his life, without his knowledge or consent. He has no privacy, no “free will,” as everything in his life is contrived without his awareness. In reality, he is the only “True Man” living in his reality bubble, but none of his perceptions are true. As a result, he is completely powerless over his life and destiny.
But there are cracks in the veneer. One day, he witnesses a stage light fall to the ground from the sky, right near where he is standing. His “radio,” operated by camera crew, suddenly broadcasts that an airplane overhead lost parts (to keep up the farce). Another time, his radio picks up stage crew describing his exact location. He also starts noticing that certain people he encounters in his day are people he saw in other places and roles. A big red pill moment for him is when he sees his “father”—who Truman witnessed dying in a boating accident at sea when he was a child—as a homeless person on a park bench. Many incongruencies compile over time for Truman, forcing him to a decision point. Taking the red pill, he ends up finding his way to the limits of his reality bubble, forces his way into the crew filming room where he engages in a conversation (and complete identity shift) with the reality show producer, Christof (I’m sure a lot could be conjectured from that name symbology).
Discomfort is the Precursor to Waking Up
Every partial awakening in my life has been preceded by some combination of disillusionments, disappointments, cognitive dissonances, and/or psychic pains of some sort. The discomfort can go on for years, frequently with awareness of unrewarded investment or even enslavement, before one finally hits a rock bottom and is ready for true change or solid answers. This is the premise for AA and any other recovery program for addictions, which to me feels similar to our incessant need to hold onto illusions for our comfort. Why do we often wait so long to find our liberation and light?
I think the answer is that our human “avatars” were designed this way. The human body follows a strict homeostasis model, physiologically speaking. We humans are designed to operate on rhythms that produce a tight equilibrium across all of our systems. So great is your body’s dedication to keeping balance, you even have little “clocks” that help maintain order, stability, and predictability in nearly every cell! Getting out of balance in any way results in dis-ease. But this isn’t a blog about the physical body. It’s about the similar method of patterning or programming that operates your mind and conscious awareness. For most of our lives, we are programmed to stay in a predictable, comfortable, auto-pilot groove that keeps us from identifying cognitive dissonance and mental chaos (more on the programming next week).
It can be quite destabilizing when you realize that you can’t trust your own intelligence or perception of reality, or that the identity structure that you believed to be sincere and valid hasn’t been capable of perceiving the truth, even when right in front of your face.
And then there is the problem of realizing that it wasn’t happenchance—the contrived world you have been living in has been methodically, intentionally steered into an identity structure, without your awareness or conscious consent.
Most of my life I thought that large scale evil and corruption were random, isolated phenomena conducted by unassociated people and collectives. For example, I thought that the corrupt governments of the world just happened to all be corrupt in enclosed systems, with the possibility that other governments could be beneficent. It is true that evil and corruption can be found almost anywhere and is a widespread problem of the earth realm. But in WAKING UP, you find that there is a very systematic, intentional, organized plot for running a very successful slave system on earth—one that has far-reaching tentacles into every government, religion, major educational institution, military, medical school, and major corporation. Even the word “government” means to steer or rule (govern) the mind (ment). I’m planning to devote a forthcoming blog to word magic and how many of our English words tell us right in our faces what is going on, we just don’t realize it.
We’re not going to spend time talking about the WHO (not the W.H.O., but they are certainly part of the WHO🤪🤯) is behind the organized system—namely the 13 families with their major companies currently eclipsing the world markets (Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street) or the Bilderberg Group, Cabal, Big Pharma, the pharma-military-industrial complex, and of course, organized Religion. Yes, all the forementioned appear to be in collaborated effort together. It is important to know that this WHO is invested, strategic, intentional, and able to access every level of society in most of the world.
On a Positive Note
Tension of any kind is the catalyst for change. Tension (stress, discomfort) will be resolved either by backing away (blue pill) or by going into and increasing the tension (red pill). It’s simple physics. An opera singer will shatter crystal with the massive tension created by sound vibrations. Lightning strikes are the result of tension among the electric polarities that must find release. A baby chick (or human baby) will be forced to break of out its confines no matter how difficult the struggle. There is an “innerstanding” that once you let in any light of awakening, or start the labor pains of being birthed, or loose part of your wings during a metamorphosis, you can never go back to the prior smaller state of innocence or naivety. Life is always moving forward.
The key is that our discomfort must be great enough to warrant a move out of homeostasis or equilibrium. It is a rare few who are willing to push into the tension to find the light. It’s an ego death. But eventually, if we don’t push our way out, we are pushed to our limit. It’s one of the ways of the universe. We can’t stay asleep forever. If we can’t do it on our own, I believe we will be nudged along.
None of this waking up business is new. The world has been subjected to these mysterious sleepy mind-control tendencies since time immemorial. Socrates depicted the exact same story of the difficulties of waking up in “Plato’s Cave.” I guess it should be somewhat comforting to know that the world is no worse and no better than it has ever been. It’s a realm. The struggle here in this realm has always been part of being human in an individualized experience. We all came here to do the same thing, albeit in our own unique ways.
Be proud of yourself. This realm is only for the brave of heart. You are here because you are brave, and at some higher level of consciousness not subject to space and time, you believed in yourself enough to know that you could overcome this challenge at this time. Let yourself fully wake up. You have nothing to lose because it’s ultimately a safe universe where your True Essence is powerful and invincible.
In the next blog, we will explore some of the devices that are used on the human mind to achieve these effects. It’s a grand psy-op that you won’t want to miss!
Very well written. The word play available with English language is quite unique, as the paradox is easily displayed, yet so easily overlooked and often portions are never looked. Almost as if one available side of perception is deemed more or less required in that portion of time, yet never officially given the opportunity to exist.