Can you tell me about the Matrix anyone?

[eilen]

My friend has had a recent vision of a woman saying "We've met on the matrix." She has an intuitive healer who says that her spirit says "I want to be connected to the matrix".

Girlfriend is a gifted healer but has not heard about the matrix before. Grid yes, but matrix no.

She is so sweet she is giving me some much needed reiki this week. Work has been rough and I feel raw emotionally and tired physically. I told her I would ask all the experts I know and you are it!

[conscious evolution]

1. The matrix

is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Tell your friend to go watch the movie The Matrix.It is one of the most important movies of the twentieth century,imo.It will explain a lot.
If your friend reconnects make sure she does not take the blue pill to do so.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. "The illusion of separateness", "The illusion of scarcity of abundance",

"The illusion of 'Do what we say or else'", etc.

[liberalmuse]

3. Wow.

I got the chills/creeps after seeing, 'The Matrix' because I just knew it was real. Same with 'The Truman Show', but not as strong. Both movies were disturbing, but enlightening at the same time. I'm glad someone else feels this way, too.

[get the red out]

4. The Truman Show-perfect media metaphor

I sometimes turn around looking for the "candid camera".

[eilen]

6. When I was a kid

growing up, I always felt watched like that. I was shy and read books a lot, introverted but truly felt like I was being watched/observed and possibly recorded. Weird.

[Orrex]

5. This is a common and interesting theme

I should disclaim that I really enjoyed The Matrix but found the sequels utterly unwatchable, so I can't speak to any themes portrayed in the latter two films.

However, Philip K. Dick repeatedly explored this "world pulled over your eyes" concept in the wake of his own transcendent, life-altering experience in February/March of 1974. His most explicit fictional examinations of the theme come in Valis and Radio Free Albemuth. He also wrote thousands of pages in his Exegesis in which he tried to relate his experience and its implications. A lot of PKD's writings, in fact, dealt with the concept of "what is real?" even before his experience.

Additionally, there was a roleplaying game called Kult whoes entire premise was that humans are divine creatures imprisoned in a grim and gloomy illusion known as reality, with only rare glimpses of the true world beyond. The game is quite dark and not very playable, but I've long enjoyed reading the source material just because it seemed cool to me. The game was conceived as a fiction but drew inspiration from a lot of Gnostic thinking, and it makes no claims that it represents the world that we live in.

PKD, however, wrestled with the implications of his experience for the rest of his life.

[conscious evolution]

7. The sequals were pretty bad.

I have always felt that they were made to distract attention away from the first movie.More world pulled over the eyes,so to speak.
Has anyone evr noticed how there seemed to be two camps when it comes to the sequals?One camp loves them because they are pretty good action flicks and the other camp thinking that,while they would agree they are not bad as action flicks,as far as carrying forward the theme of the first movie they completely sucked? I know I heard a lot of debate when the sequals came out.

Phillip Dick. Thanks for that tip.I'll check him out.

Kult sounds interesting. I do know that some buddha schools say that earth is a school we are sent to from another level or dimension of reality and that we do not graduate,aka end samsahra and the cycles of reincarnation, until certain lessons are learned.They also teach that when we are near graduation time we start catching glimpses of the other side.This is done to sort of nudge us into starting preparations for graduation day.
If that is the case then pretty much everyone posting in this group is near that point,according to that school of thought.Otherwise we would not be here.Hey Orrex,that includes you by the way.LOL!!
Same with Odin,also.

One hing I do know about the rabbit whole we have entered-Its deep.And no one ever knows where one is going until we get there.

[Orrex]

8. LOL!

A good buddy of mine is into Ken Wilber and really liked his influence in the sequels, though I don't know enough about it to say more than that...