Beautiful! ❤️ this is something I think about a lot with my kids as well. And it's so important to have them experience life rather than study ideas about life. To watch the bugs in the dirt rather than reading about someone else's idea about specific bugs. This is probably what detaches man and children from nature and reality.
Unfortunately here in sweden, homeschooling is illegal. So we are thinking about how to approach this or move abroad.
so sorry it's not legal in Sweden. It was not legal in Nebraska, USA until 1984. Eight men went to jail for homeschooling in 1983 and the mothers and children fled to another state because they were afraid the Child Protective Services would confiscate the children.
Wow, I just read an article on Sweden. This organization has been very helpful in the states for decades. Maybe it can be helpful for you. https://hslda.org/post/sweden
I certainly hope the best for you and your family!
Fortunately we still have a few legends here still :) http://askofamilycamp.info/#eng for instance who provides a space for families from all over the world who are homeschooling or interested in homeschooling and wants to meet other homeschooling families during a week ❤️
Confiscate? Don't you mean KIDNAP? And what is the PENALTY for kidnapping? DEATH. I had an instance take place when my children were younger that almost caused a dead cop and social worker because of their threats. And I may have died protecting my family but with my training "they" would have suffered way more causalities than just that cop and social worker. I was called a name many years ago that stuck. COURAGEOUS LION. Ever see what a LION will do to protect His pride?
In the USA where I lived it was "illegal" unless you followed certain protocol. Welllllll...my attitude was KMA and we homeschooled under the radar. I would suggest you move to an area of Sweden and that you keep low profile by never having your children in public during those hours designated for the brainwashing sessions and say the same thing we did to the "authorities". My attitude was always you screw with my family and you'll find out first hand what a S&W 500 magnum can do to your face.
As a victim of the 10th Plank Communist manifesto school system, yes, that is what it is in the USA and is supported by the 1st plank that forces you to pay for it every year in the RENT you pay on your home and "property." I and my wife homeschooled all four of our home birthed sons that never had a single vaccine in their lives, until the second youngest took the CONvid poison. And his personality changed within two months and here I am three years later cancelled by him for being one that insisted he not take that shot as well as not being happy with his live in cougar sex doll he is degrading himself being around and listening to her which is why he took the shot in the first place. After all, she has to be smarter than his own father.
We are the divergent among a population that are basically automatons run by the will of their controllers. I find my solace in my personal relation ship with my Creator. That is who has been directing my life from an early age with periods of rebellion on my part. But what son doesn't rebel against his own Father to some degree or other? Most people are just mediocre minded cowardly conformists because it's comfortable and simple. I'm not one of those people.
I love the reality that so many are waking up to where the world is due to the controllers behind the scene. Posts like this one by Erik are calling cards showing us that reality is not what we think it is. I could have written this myself and anyone who starts looking at my stack realizes that I am NOT an ordinary every day follower of consensus reality but rather one that will stick my finger in the eye of the "illuminated ones" represented on top of the pyramid on the "dollar" bill.
Another excellent article, and one that hits sorely close to home, as it's a pattern most "alternative" thinkers fall into.
We question the official narrative. We fall into the "alternative," a lot of which is nonsense. After grasping at straws, we grab onto a narrative construct to help us categorize the alternative. I was an "anarcho-capitalist" for a long time because it was a comfortable and pre-packaged worldview to help me (overly) simplify complex information streams.
But that, too, fell under its own weight eventually. Too too much incongruousness. Your LUCID method is very similar to Gene Odening's Trivium Method:
Both are invaluable tools for taking back your autonomy. As I'm sure others have noticed, we no longer argue with "normies," but the ostensible "alternative" crowd who've yet to realize they're already the forefront of the new Information Matrix.
Thank you, and yes - I think what your describing is something many of us has been through and many of us are still going through. I think there's been a while now where so many of us thought we had it all figured out, and we're slowly realizing that we've been mislead, mistaken or right out played just as much as the next. And that kind of creates a existential crises within us, that we are not as immune to manipulation as we thought.
But it's also a humbling experience that is the first step to finally seeing clearly and breaking out. We just need to get more people to realize this, faster.
The most encouraging aspect of the current information landscape is that the actual direction of humanity vs. idealistic partisanship are now so divergent that it presents a lot of opportunity for pointing it out.
But it requires that critical, "I was wrong" moment. Or moments. Which are hard.
Excellent article, again! Although it is done every time, especially since 2020 the skeptics (that would be us) have been confronted with layer after layer of narrative, all designed to distract, waste time and lead to cul de sac's. I expect that is leading to more and more people slowly beginning to realize that every wall in their invisible prison has been constructed to prevent their thinking from really embracing reality
Thank you! Yes, that's why it's so important for us to move forward with flexibility and humility and be extra dicerning going forward - because the traps are everywhere and we need to hold eachother accountable, sane and clear sighted.
Erik, that perfectly summarizes another thought I've had recently. After the thorough and effective brainwashing we Americans have received, the majority of people here will simply nod their heads when someone says "America is the greatest country in the world". So now when I hear that, I ask the speaker why they think that and what other countries they've lived in that enables them to make a comparison statement like that. They usually bark back with some variation on "well if you don't like it, where else would you want to live". To which I say, I never said I didn't like it, nor do I pretend to know enough about other countries to say I would or wouldn't rather live in any of them. But I do know that living here minimizes the chances of having a "Made in the USA" bomb land on my head. Cue the exploding head. All because I asked a simple question, LOL.
Just BRILLIANT! I was trying to express some of this in a conversation over dinner just last night. It was difficult because I was constantly being interrupted and confronted and couldn’t get my thoughts in line. This is perfect and I’ve shared it with those who were not letting me get my thoughts together. Thank you so very much.
Love it! It's not easy sharing deep thoughts during a dinner table I can tell you that from YEARS of trying to share what I consider profound insights or revelations - and you can't even get passed the first two sentences without interruption, push back and you loose your train of though get pulled into irrelevant side-topics or get stuck on details.
SUPER FRUSTRATING 😄 you just want to be able to present the idea - and then if you think it's wrong or stupid or whatever we can have that discussion but let me just lay it out first 😆
The funny thing is, this was the EXACT reason why I wrote The Triumph of Technocracy. I was talking with a friend and he didn't get it and I couldn't get the words out the way I wanted and I was like- fuck it- give me a couple of days and I'll write it for you as CLEARLY as I can - because I can't imagine you won't even consider it a possibility if I get to present rhe argument in a proper way.
In glad to be of service to help you express on paper what's going on in your mind :) ✊🔥
Brilliant. I have been feeling like I'm waking up from the matrix (the one from the movie) but also into the one you describe as well. Sometimes it takes a traumatic event that nothing in your current framework can explain to start to see the cracks.
Lately it seems that in their rush to consolidate power, the ruling elite that have been managing the narrative all this time, have let their masks fall, and that's why so many of us are waking up more and more. There's too much inconsistency.
Regardless the reason, the awakening i happening. It's not like the bliss of spiritual growth mythology, it starts with seeing that something very very dark and cruel has been stiffling humanity's expansive growth for their own sick depraved addiction to power.
We were taught to believe we were powerless. We were taught to believe this was the way things had to be. It's the biggest lie of all. The fury is overwhelming, but overdue. And it' so relieving I'm finally not directing it inward at myself. I'm finally directing it upwards.
You absolutely nailed it… reading this felt like you mapped out the entire journey.
And you're right, "awakening" isn't some blissful, love/light mythology. It's brutal. And it starts with seeing the massive scale of the deception and the cruelty that's been normalized.
And that final paragraph... that's the key that unlocks the cage. The system is built on us blaming ourselves. It NEEDS us to turn that poison inward. Directing it upward isn't just a relief, it's revoloutionary.
This is exactly the clarity we need right now. thanks for articulating it so powerfully.
Thank you. This article maps out the whole terrain of waking up from/into the matrix from a zoomed out perspective that gave context for my personal experience over the past few years. Really excellent piece.
The idea of redirecting the fury became a battle cry for a me last year. I had subscribed so much to self-help and watered down Buddhism, which totally miss the context of interconnection, and the fact that you can't heal trauma born of relationship fracture in a vacuum or by quieting the mind alone.
I believed that forgiving everyone for their mistakes and taking as much ownership over what I could as possible was the best way. It's true that most people "know not what they do" so I had that part right - not doing the "us and them" with my neighbors as best I could. But I still took all the responsibility for my entire experience of life, reinforced by parents that scapegoated me, which was why I couldn't do it to others.
But my refusal to scapegoat others, and not knowing there was a responsible party, meant I owned it all, I scapegoated myself. And no amount of meditation or forgiveness or self help can heal trauma born of violence from another. Not on its own.
When an acute trauma knocked me off my feet in 2023, and I faced real evil directly for what felt like the first time, and I couldn't process it, I came to the conclusion that you cannot process the guilt that belongs to someone else. That's why we get stuck generationally and culturally. We are taught to forgive our offenders, and go to therapy. We spend decades trying to "fix ourselves" when we didn't even do most of the guilty things we are feeling shame about.
I proposed a new law, like conservation of energy. Conservation of Shame. It cannot be created or destroyed, and it cannot be transmuted by the victim who wasn't responsible for it. The victim must put it back onto the perpetrator. Maybe they don't actually go to trial - they may not even be alive, but so long as the victim holds onto the shame that is someone else's, no one heals.
Self help was a way to feel in control of the world, and easy to cling to "if I just fix myself, everything will change, and I too can have a beautiful life." But it didn't work because it was based on an inherently flawed assumption: that i had done something wrong that "deserved" the violence. t was relieving to finally see there really was something else at work actively interfering with whatever I was trying to achieve through meditation and healing. Something else that done harm to me that I wasn't responsible for.
It's not that there's no such thing as oneness, the way an infant does not see where it ends another another begins. But there is such a thing as degree of responsibility. It is an irrefutable law of nature, a mathematical reality, (in my mind) that more power = more responsibility.
It's not that certain wise adages weren't true about oneness and the importance of forgiveness (which is a tool but not the solution). But they were incomplete, diluted, or taken out of context, which essentially wound up causing as much harm as an outright lie sometimes.
Even the idea of love I came to understand was distorted. My theory now is that the experience of love (presence, being in the moment, peace, attentive, able to get outside of ones self) is primarily accessible via a functioning pre-frontal cortex (PFC). It's a sense of oneness and safety that basically all mammals have the capacity to feel. We see animals go into fight flight for short periods of time when there's a predator or a storm, but most of the time they are purely existing.
What has happened to humans, is we got severed from the PFC through oppressive regimes that INTENTIONALLY (not inadvertantly) keep people in fight/flight so they don't access the long-term thinking, reasoning, peace of the pre-frontal cortex which allows access to seeing through the fog.
I saw wealthy people seeming to be more full of grace and loving and incorrectly connected inner love with outer wealth. They were correlated but not causal in the direction I thought. All wealth does is potentially give someone access to a regulated nervous system (they are not under threat of homelessness or starvation) allowing their pre-frontal cortex (which is a basic mammalian right and capability) to come online, which allows the space to FEEL more relaxed and explore the emotions we idealize like love and peace. But the appearance of someone having grace and love is not necessarily being cultivated by inner wisdom. More often it's wealth buying the ability to feel the peace that EVERYONE born with - and should have a right too - but which is stole from us..
Working Class Hero has been coming to mind lately. We feel the truth when we hear it but don't realize, wait, that's really what it is, it's not metaphor. It's not just about parents or the school system. It's the whole system.
I built a whole world for a dystopian fantasy about someone who has to unravel their ancestry and put the shame back where it belonged through a series of quests to "break a curse". What starts out as a personal journey to "pay for the sins of ones own family" turns into a journey to "avenge the crimes committed against humanity". But not in a revenge/vengence way, in a hold accountable and dismantle the systems of power kind of way.
But now I realize. It's not urban fantasy. It's not even metaphor. It's real.
(I know this is long, no pressure to read it, but in case it helps your own ideas)
i read it with pleasure. I don't always read really long ones, but sometimes i feel called to do so and this was one of them. There is so much to unpack here but i appreciate you taking the time to use me as a mirror of reflection. That's how i feel most of the time when i'm writing longer introspective comments, i'm really writing to myself using the other as a mirror.
I would recommend you read "The Last Red Pill: Becoming Truly Unfuckwithable" next if you feel drawn to it. That one was an attempt at something deeper - not sure how well i succeeded, but i feel at least alright - and would love to hear what came up for you when you read it - no pressure of course :)
I see my journey as a spiraling onion if that make any sense - it probably doesn't but it's a journey of shedding more and more of what i am not - to find the essance of what i am - and from the essence of what I am - i am free to see that what i truly am is beyond anything this world can touch, yet it contains the whole world - so from that space i am a little more free to play, to not get so caught up in my own drama - i still do of course - but it's much lighter than it used to be - and sometimes i've wished for my journey to be easier, for things to go more my way - then i realize that in order to become who i envision myself to be - the path to that is paved with hardship and struggle - not because the universe is mean, but it's in the hardship and struggle my being is forged - where i become more resilliant, stronger, wiser, more compassionate and loving - and if my path were easy, i would be an idiot - just coasting through life, never having to struggle, never facing letdowns to strengthen my resilliance, never facing pain, hopelessness, sorrow that deepens my compassion.
There is a concept i've embodied for a long time which is an opposite of the word paranoid - which is believing that people or the universe is conspiring against you. The opposite to paranoid is pronoid - it is the belief that the universe is conspiring for you. That everything that happens to you, is for your own highest good - it's to realize the vision you have in mind for yourself. And if your vision for yourself is large, the challenges that is put before you are not obstacles to that - but the actual path towards that. It is the experiences you need to go through in order to craft yourself into who you are meant to become. I take comfort in this belief, but it's also a belief that has sprung out of experience and wisdom. That I am able to see how even the worst experiences of my life, some i wouldn't wish upon anybody, has given me immense gifts and power. I think it was Carl Jung who said; For a Tree to grow to heaven, it must have its roots in hell. And there's profound truth in that. Because if you are a leader, a true teacher - and feel a calling in your heart to help humanity to heal and move forward - you need to walk through the depths of hell and come out the other side, you need to go through all the trauma you are meant to heal. You must deepen your compassion and your ability to relate and say, I know - me too. Sometimes i still wish things were easier - but i know if i knew what easier would lead me, i wouldn't want it. So i trust the journet, whatever it place in front me, i know i can handle it, walk through it and emmerge on the other side - a little closer to the powerful being i am meant to become.
I'm not sure why all this came up, it just came up as i wrote to you, was it for me or for the both of us - i'm not sure - but its what came out when i let go of the reigns of trying to formulate a specific response and just let the response happen.
Thanks for your beautiful repsonse that triggered it in me because i needed it.
I love the onion metaphor, that resonates. It’s like we spend a lifetime undoing the conditioning to get back to where we started. Which is often a metaphor I see in eastern religions. But no one ever said - “hey, this isn’t inevitable. We could live our whole lives from a place of who we really are if we just dismantled capitalism/the heirarchical oppressive systems that perpetuate the lies.”
I’ve never heard pronoia described that way. I fell into a blend of magical thinking/toxic positivity for a decade, but this is different. This is not just trying to find the good in everything, which I did more out of fear or self blame if something bad happened (because that meant I deserved it - infant reasoning). It’s a deeper belief that the challenges are literally the wheels that sharpen the tools. That they ARE the path. I’ve read the words before, but I can see why more now.
I’m actually reading another of your essays now - the 50 year heist. It’s such a grounded explanation of the system - how you explain things so well in such a short amount of space it beyond me. Same with this one.
I’m going to send it to some of my friends - both those who don’t have houses to help have more compassion for themselves, and also those who do have money to help them have more compassion for others. A huge heartbreak I feel is seeing a friends money keeps consolidating while mine keeps shrinking, but them not understanding it’s not because they are better than me morally or spiritually or because they are doing something more virtuously right and I’m doing something wrong. I admit that I should have done more research when I bought my first house (which lost me so much money), and I may not have made as many good decisions. But the level of wealth disparity between us is way too vast for it to be explained by merit or virtue alone.
It’s really a barrier in one of my best friendships. Because I need them to understand and stop judging me. Or maybe it’s me that needs to stop judging me.
I’ll check out the other one the Last Red Pill soon!
The original tragedy is the tragedy of Oedipus the King. He slowly detects that there is something profoundly wrong with the mainstream narrative, he tries to get people to tell him the truth, and finally he starts to force them to tell him the truth against their will to keep things normal. But when Oedipus starts to.learn the true truth, he discovers that he, without knowing it, was at the center of this system. He learns that evil is everywhere and he was blindly wandering though it as a central player. He can no longer stand to look at the World because everything he sees reminds him of his sins. So he puts out his eyes. Only then, for the first time, having lost his sight, does he start to see things as they are. And us, every time we bought some cheap plastic thing made in Thailand, every time we ate at a fast food joint, every paycheck, we too were all part of it. Are we ready? Well, at this point we have no choice. Only the truth will set us free.
Not only do we not know what we don’t know, in itself a befuddling concept, even what we believe we do know is nearly always based on secondhand opinions of what should be believed, which over time and in all areas (history, science, etc) then gets “shown” not to have been “correct” or to be believed in the first place!
But what I can be pretty certain of is that “the system” IS built on blaming ourselves. So whatever steps we take from here, we will do well to drop that bag.
The deception is a generated facade made real by group think and repetition, repetition, repetition.
We are cocooned within the fabricated silk, spun by those who have simultaneously dumbed down and poisoned the masses whilst advancing their own health and intelligence to create an exponentially widening gap between the two groups.
The deeper one goes the more 'known reality' dissipates like piss in a pond.
cocooned within the fabricated silk… nicely put. i believe that is why it’s so uncommon and scary to be sane in this world, because it requires a lot of strength and belief in your own power to handle not knowing.
it seems silly but not knowing is one of the scariest thing there is, we rather claim for anything than be left with nothing. but it is from the ground of nothing that clarity can begin to grow.
Great thought provoking. I have been walking in an "i don't know space" and "maybe everything I believe is wrong space" and now that space is expanding. The stepping stones I laid out keep shifting from their place. The roads are moving on the map. The signs I'm following like clouds are changing shape. What I think are solid structures could collapse. I walk the earthquake fault line, looking for the cracks. Lines from song I wrote in 2015
Good effort and some great observations about our mental reality. This is a move into the right direction, but it is much simpler:
There is only the conscious experiencer and the content of conscious experience.
What we experience doesn't matter.
Only "who" experiences does.
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The only thing that is (the only thing that is not mind-based and therefore real) is the sense of "I Am". We know that we are.
Focusing our awareness on this sense of "I Am" (pure Beingness) will slowly or rapidly (for some) move us away from getting constantly entangled in "conscious experience" or "The Matrix".
The Matrix is the same as "conscious experience" and attaching to it.
We can't stop "the experiencing" because that is life itself happening.
But we can detach from it, ignore it, and focus on the "I Am", pure beingness instead.
In that state, the Matrix becomes irrelevant and true liberation is achieved on a very real, non-mental level.
This is old knowledge.
It is called Advaita Vedanta - non-dual spirituality - and must become the dominant form of spirituality if humanity wants to survive.
Yes, I am well aware of the I AM presence. :) However, one can still reference the experience which at least seem to be presenting itself in a consistent way - and the experience is not seperate from the I AM presence, since nothing can exist outside of it - so the experience from my perspective have meaning and purpose, a telos.
From my understanding that is what the I AM does. It fragments itself into a multiplicity and explore itself on the way back to wholeness - and the journey back is the I AM experiencing the vastness of itself.
So that is the absolute. Now, there is the relative plane - which is the human experience - and the human experience is basically an informational matrix. This matrix can be hijacked or influenced by other entities or beings, humans, physical, non-physical - whatever can transmit information to me basically.
I think we can just rest as the I AM presence, "ignoring" reality. But we don't have to. We can immerse ourselves in it, play with it, feel and experience it fully - all of it - the good, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
I think this is a common trap in non-dual spirituality - the idea that we should ignore reality and detach from it - like it were something bad.
I think this comes because for the ones still fully trapped in the experience, this is a first good step into learning that you can go in and out - you can be in the world but not of the world.
But many people think they need to only focus on the I am and devalue experience as lesser - but th experience comes from the I AM - it is there for a reason, it is your canvas to play grow and learn - you can rest fully as the I AM presence, yet be fully immersed in the reality and be a flawed human on a path to realizing itself at the same time - and close the gap between the human aspect and the devine aspect and grow as a conscious co-creator.
Now this play wouldn't be as thrilling or meaningful without the anti-you there to present itself as the resistance to push you towards growing beyond what you believe yourself capable of, or just as a thing that keeps you on your feet.
Decoding reality, align with it and becoming all that you are while letting go of all that is holding you back and all the things you are not - while being fully immersed in life and working on making it increasingly epic and taking on the adventures and challenges presented to you is what I am at least currently intending to do. Not always succeeding, but that is not the point - the point is the journey in itself.
Hi, I just wrote about six paragraphs and lost it all - lol- which I always take as a sign that I talk too much.
I agree with most you say here - thanks for clarifying.
Residing in the "I AM", however, when fully mastered, is not ignoring the relative information matrix at all.
It is just seeing as a play that has nothing to do with who "I Am", pure observing awareness still localized in that matrix as "identity". Nothing good or bad about the Matrix. It just is. No judgment.
The detachment and "trap" of non-duality you talk about is real, but only a necessary first step on the way.
It is a countermove, so to speak, to get us out of our permanent default mode, which is "experience only." So for a while, those people practising Advaita Vedanta look wooden, aloof, dead and not much fun, granted.
But eventually, everything comes together as you point out.
I lost you a little bit in the last two paragraphs, though, with the concept of anti-you and resistance. Also, I can't relate to "decoding reality" at all.
For me, when in that state, there is no "doer" left. Everything just happens. The body-mind is doing stuff, of course, experiencing stuff, gets excited, happy, sad, but the "I" is just at peace watching it all, motionless, still, unruffled, in love with the totality of it all.
I did the same 😄 I think that's just ourselves saying.. Try again and we get an opportunity to write things in perhaps a more consice or higher way. But honestly your comment realigned me and I haven't stopped writing since. So thank you.
For me, my experience of it however is a little bit different. The I is always there watching, motionless, still at peace.. In love with the totality of it all at all times? Not really - so I have probably some work to do there for sure to unblock that aspect - which I also assume is part of the game.
But there are definately no separation between the watcher and that which is being watched. I feel a complete sense of agency, but not a controlling kind of agency or an "I need to have thing my way" type of agency, but more of a silent mover through a reality construct fully immersed yet not attached.
I had for a longer period of time previously been more towards what you are describing - more in love, parked in the I am enjoying the perfection unfolding. But after, perhaps years of aiming to perfect that state something felt, a little off - and I was beginning to feel numb to reality - and even if I could at any moment induce a state of serene amazement at the wonder of it all, I was kind of bored with it - it was starting to feel like a trap.
So I decided to let go of my attachment to the I am state, and fully immerse myself in my human state - fully aware of my I am state but no longer a spectator of reality but a Player with a big P. Not attached to certain feeling states or aversion to certain emotions, but embracing it all - transmuting it consciously and becoming an alchemist - and learning to become a conscious creator. No longer settling to be the spectator of life, but the complete being with complete agency trying to align and perfect the connection and communication between the higher and the lower.
And my life has become so much more exciting, fun and loving and creating and this feels more aligned than ever.
What I mean by decoding is that now I see myself as the I am, playing the greatest and most epic co-creative virtual reality game ever, the game of duality. Of life and death, light and darkness, good and evil. And this game is filled with Easter eggs and sidequests and journeys and missions and it also have the opportunity to really join the larger game of battle for earth and it's just so fucking epic. And I am there, inside of my character - and in not only watching - I have been watching for far to long - sidelined myself thinking I needed to prefer the non-dual state - now that I think about it it might even be a conscious trap by the dark forces to get the most conscious of us to sideline ourselves from the game because "it's all perfect". It is perfect, because how can it not be? But the game is still happening, creation is always happening, you can either chose to watch it from the sidelined or join in the game. I am doesn't care which.
I AM doesn't need you to be the I AM all the time, I AM already is the I AM all the time. I AM needs you to be you, your human you - and play. Play not with a detached non-invested attitude, but play with your full heart - with the fill extent of your being - and see how fucking far you can go in one lifetime. Play to win. But win the I AM way. Become all that you can be from the potential that exists in this form, strive to the ideal because it's within your reach as the i am.
Grow, transmute, strategize, try fail, try again, and again and again, remember who you are, keep going, help people, dance, love, become angry, sad, feel itt deeply, don't get stuck in it but use it to further craft yourself into your ideal self, show the world how fucking epic it can become, form alliances and bring down the darkness and bring in an era of celebration and creation from a whole new higher place, then start to face new higher obstacles and challenges and continue the endless journey onward.
I'll leave it at that. Peace brother, and thanks again 🔥✊❤️
Thank you, I think I get it now. And I love it. I think you are right. I want to try that. Move towards that. I wonder if it has to do with dialing down the observer but not getting fully attached to the experieve either. Or maybe better, being fully in the experience without forgetting the big picture?
Beautiful! :) It's something we must balance within ourselves and i don't think there is a specific recipe - with that being said, this conversation has set me off to finish an article on the subject - so we'll see how i can tie it together and how it will be received. :)
Thank you for a brilliant article deepening our knowledge and understanding of the Matrix.
I had come up with the term Mind Control Matrix, and proposed that it is used for Manufacturing Consensus, but the concepts of Consensus Reality and Perceptual Sovereignty really deepen this understanding. Are these two terms 'Consensus Reality' and "Perceptual Sovereignty" terms that you coined yourself - I'd like to know so that if I ever use them I can credit them to you.
Thank you! Yea it's definitely good to have these phrases that point to a model of how we can understand what is happening while also creating a framework and recognizable terminology I can use in future articles without needing to re-explain if you've read my previous work.
"Perceptual sovereignty" is a phrase I really liked the sound of - I'm a sucker for delicious words and it really fit what I was trying to explain.
"Consensus reality" is just how I've described it for a long time and I'm not sure where it originated or if it was just the straightforward way for me to say it.
Yes, you are right we definitely need a whole set of phases and terms to help construct models and frameworks of what we are facing.
I have created a whole new set along the way myself. Here's some you might like.
I define the ruling ideology that runs the world as the "Crown Monarchy Imperialism" - which dates back to Babylon, and has been carried forward to this day - and in fact the world is still ruled by the monarchy powers.
I argue that Communism is simply a rebranding of Crown Imperialism with a new religion of atheism to allow the psychopaths to rule, so it is a "Neo-Monarchy" as in fact are all the International Organizations like the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the WHO, the IMF, the World Bank etc., they are rebranded monarchies, and my strongest argument for that is that they have all been given immunity from everything - no investigations possible, no arrests possible, no trials for crimes against humanity possible, no taxation, and no visas needed - all of this granted by acts like the US Congress 1945 IOIA - International Organizations Immunity Act.
But the supreme monarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is still in place, and a worldwide empire, and the British monarchy still rules over the majority of the world through the British Commonwealth and their "special" Anglo-American relationship, and numerous other monarchies around Europe and the world all march in lockstep to the diktats of the agendas of the ruling monarchies-climate change, CBDCs, EVs, Green Energy, Net Zero, Pandemics, Digital everything etc.
I argue that the "Roman Imperial Empire" is the true hidden deep state worldwide, and it is through the Roman Imperial Aristocracy, especially the monarchies, bankers, and billionaires, that they keep control and push mankind in the directions that they want us be herded.
Crown Monarchy Imperialism and its totalitarian nature is exactly what Thomas Hobbes defined in his 1651 book Leviathan - it was just a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church, which was a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Empire, which was when the elites decided they'd had enough of the Republic and reverted to Crown Monarchy system of their ancestors in Babylon.
Ah, Erik, I am running off at the mouth - there is so much to talk about with regards to the Evil that Rules Humanity, that it's easy to do.
It is precisely this line of thinking that drives my own substack page.
The only difference between us is that I have been following an historical approach of tangible examples of how our understanding of the world has been deliberately shaped.
Such as how the Venetians promoted Galileo and Francis Bacon so that the views of Kepler would not dominate; and later how they actively intervened in the row between Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton so that Leibniz would not prevail. They sent the Abbe Antonio Conte deliberately to London in 1715 to deliberately befriend Newton.
No coincidence that left-brained thinking began to emerge more strongly from around this time (early C18t) as a result from around this time. Left-brained thinking is what helps the evil parasites.
Absolutely facinating! Love this to see and follow the threads on how the information matrix has been shaped and subverted during history. I'll definately check out your articles!
Yes, we're writing about the same thing. You're doing it perhaps more eloquently than I :) but never the less, I see it too. And so do millions of others.
This is great. For that step 5 prioritize direct experience I think the McGilchrist master and emissary narrative is helpful. Understanding the basic neuroscience behind hemispheric differences explains why elevation of the right hemisphere with its specialization in direct experience is essential to escaping the matrix.
I’ve read a bit on that and I agree, haven’t read that particular work though so thanks for the recommendation, i love the title so i will add it to my list! :)
I have described my belief system as gooey. Somethings are stuck in there more than others but it has to be somewhat fluid once you realize how many things you thought were true are not.
The question I have wondered lately (maybe since the story on what’s beneath the great pyramids) is “is do the narrative shapers have an accurate history themselves. Are there keepers of ancient knowledge or history?”
That's a really interesting question. Do the people who distort our past have a true account of our actual past - or is our true past forever lost in time? Or is even our concept of our past more fluid, and stranger than we even could imagine?
Thank you for expressing this so well. As a teenager I studied journalism as I wanted to be that person investigating and telling the "truth". I very quickly recognised/learned that I'd only ever be telling an editor's version of the truth (or their paymaster). I didn't last long. So many things resonate with me in what you have written. We choose to feel "safe" within the confines constructed for us - or not.
I can relate to that story from my own teenage years studying journalism as well but switch over to graphic design once I got a glimpse of the profession and very quickly understood how little truth can actually even be written from within the system. Thanks for sharing!
“to participate in reality’s unfolding rather than unconsciously consuming its representation “
Wow this is fantastic!! To directly experience life and living.
Homeschooling is my background so I ponder learning a lot.
Freedom is my passion so I notice the world of control!
One thought: if children are forced to study books and memorize bugs and plants, they often learn to hate nature because they are forced to remember.
Instead we went outside and noticed our world and experienced it directly. Then you discover reality. I cherished my many years with my 7 kids!
Beautiful! ❤️ this is something I think about a lot with my kids as well. And it's so important to have them experience life rather than study ideas about life. To watch the bugs in the dirt rather than reading about someone else's idea about specific bugs. This is probably what detaches man and children from nature and reality.
Unfortunately here in sweden, homeschooling is illegal. So we are thinking about how to approach this or move abroad.
Thanks for sharing! ❤️
so sorry it's not legal in Sweden. It was not legal in Nebraska, USA until 1984. Eight men went to jail for homeschooling in 1983 and the mothers and children fled to another state because they were afraid the Child Protective Services would confiscate the children.
Wow, I just read an article on Sweden. This organization has been very helpful in the states for decades. Maybe it can be helpful for you. https://hslda.org/post/sweden
I certainly hope the best for you and your family!
Fortunately we still have a few legends here still :) http://askofamilycamp.info/#eng for instance who provides a space for families from all over the world who are homeschooling or interested in homeschooling and wants to meet other homeschooling families during a week ❤️
That camp sounds lovely!
Confiscate? Don't you mean KIDNAP? And what is the PENALTY for kidnapping? DEATH. I had an instance take place when my children were younger that almost caused a dead cop and social worker because of their threats. And I may have died protecting my family but with my training "they" would have suffered way more causalities than just that cop and social worker. I was called a name many years ago that stuck. COURAGEOUS LION. Ever see what a LION will do to protect His pride?
In the USA where I lived it was "illegal" unless you followed certain protocol. Welllllll...my attitude was KMA and we homeschooled under the radar. I would suggest you move to an area of Sweden and that you keep low profile by never having your children in public during those hours designated for the brainwashing sessions and say the same thing we did to the "authorities". My attitude was always you screw with my family and you'll find out first hand what a S&W 500 magnum can do to your face.
As a victim of the 10th Plank Communist manifesto school system, yes, that is what it is in the USA and is supported by the 1st plank that forces you to pay for it every year in the RENT you pay on your home and "property." I and my wife homeschooled all four of our home birthed sons that never had a single vaccine in their lives, until the second youngest took the CONvid poison. And his personality changed within two months and here I am three years later cancelled by him for being one that insisted he not take that shot as well as not being happy with his live in cougar sex doll he is degrading himself being around and listening to her which is why he took the shot in the first place. After all, she has to be smarter than his own father.
We are the divergent among a population that are basically automatons run by the will of their controllers. I find my solace in my personal relation ship with my Creator. That is who has been directing my life from an early age with periods of rebellion on my part. But what son doesn't rebel against his own Father to some degree or other? Most people are just mediocre minded cowardly conformists because it's comfortable and simple. I'm not one of those people.
I love the reality that so many are waking up to where the world is due to the controllers behind the scene. Posts like this one by Erik are calling cards showing us that reality is not what we think it is. I could have written this myself and anyone who starts looking at my stack realizes that I am NOT an ordinary every day follower of consensus reality but rather one that will stick my finger in the eye of the "illuminated ones" represented on top of the pyramid on the "dollar" bill.
Another excellent article, and one that hits sorely close to home, as it's a pattern most "alternative" thinkers fall into.
We question the official narrative. We fall into the "alternative," a lot of which is nonsense. After grasping at straws, we grab onto a narrative construct to help us categorize the alternative. I was an "anarcho-capitalist" for a long time because it was a comfortable and pre-packaged worldview to help me (overly) simplify complex information streams.
But that, too, fell under its own weight eventually. Too too much incongruousness. Your LUCID method is very similar to Gene Odening's Trivium Method:
https://www.triviumeducation.com/
Both are invaluable tools for taking back your autonomy. As I'm sure others have noticed, we no longer argue with "normies," but the ostensible "alternative" crowd who've yet to realize they're already the forefront of the new Information Matrix.
Thank you, and yes - I think what your describing is something many of us has been through and many of us are still going through. I think there's been a while now where so many of us thought we had it all figured out, and we're slowly realizing that we've been mislead, mistaken or right out played just as much as the next. And that kind of creates a existential crises within us, that we are not as immune to manipulation as we thought.
But it's also a humbling experience that is the first step to finally seeing clearly and breaking out. We just need to get more people to realize this, faster.
Thanks for sharing!
Humbling, indeed!
The most encouraging aspect of the current information landscape is that the actual direction of humanity vs. idealistic partisanship are now so divergent that it presents a lot of opportunity for pointing it out.
But it requires that critical, "I was wrong" moment. Or moments. Which are hard.
Thank you.
Long ago and far away on a moonless night, sitting around a fire, they were in total awe and overwhelmed by the infinity of stars.
Breaking the silence, one asked, “where did all of this come from?” Each not knowing, the first one responded, “Let’s make up a story!”
And ever since then, beyond experience, everything thing is a story.
“In the beginning was the word”, is highly probable.
Beyond that, the Mystery holds many things.
Excellent article, again! Although it is done every time, especially since 2020 the skeptics (that would be us) have been confronted with layer after layer of narrative, all designed to distract, waste time and lead to cul de sac's. I expect that is leading to more and more people slowly beginning to realize that every wall in their invisible prison has been constructed to prevent their thinking from really embracing reality
Thank you! Yes, that's why it's so important for us to move forward with flexibility and humility and be extra dicerning going forward - because the traps are everywhere and we need to hold eachother accountable, sane and clear sighted.
Everything is in plain sight if you choose to see.
It sure is. But like a fish in the ocean, it can be hard to realize you've been swimming in water unless you jump out of it and feel the air.
Erik, that perfectly summarizes another thought I've had recently. After the thorough and effective brainwashing we Americans have received, the majority of people here will simply nod their heads when someone says "America is the greatest country in the world". So now when I hear that, I ask the speaker why they think that and what other countries they've lived in that enables them to make a comparison statement like that. They usually bark back with some variation on "well if you don't like it, where else would you want to live". To which I say, I never said I didn't like it, nor do I pretend to know enough about other countries to say I would or wouldn't rather live in any of them. But I do know that living here minimizes the chances of having a "Made in the USA" bomb land on my head. Cue the exploding head. All because I asked a simple question, LOL.
America hasn't been the greatest country in the world for a LONG TIME.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk
Great clip, and so true.
Just BRILLIANT! I was trying to express some of this in a conversation over dinner just last night. It was difficult because I was constantly being interrupted and confronted and couldn’t get my thoughts in line. This is perfect and I’ve shared it with those who were not letting me get my thoughts together. Thank you so very much.
Love it! It's not easy sharing deep thoughts during a dinner table I can tell you that from YEARS of trying to share what I consider profound insights or revelations - and you can't even get passed the first two sentences without interruption, push back and you loose your train of though get pulled into irrelevant side-topics or get stuck on details.
SUPER FRUSTRATING 😄 you just want to be able to present the idea - and then if you think it's wrong or stupid or whatever we can have that discussion but let me just lay it out first 😆
The funny thing is, this was the EXACT reason why I wrote The Triumph of Technocracy. I was talking with a friend and he didn't get it and I couldn't get the words out the way I wanted and I was like- fuck it- give me a couple of days and I'll write it for you as CLEARLY as I can - because I can't imagine you won't even consider it a possibility if I get to present rhe argument in a proper way.
In glad to be of service to help you express on paper what's going on in your mind :) ✊🔥
Just after I read your piece I asked the universe to please give me an example of what you discussed and OMG this was the next article in my inbox:
https://open.substack.com/pub/stylman/p/the-corporate-veil?r=bb5t5&utm_medium=ios
Brilliant. I have been feeling like I'm waking up from the matrix (the one from the movie) but also into the one you describe as well. Sometimes it takes a traumatic event that nothing in your current framework can explain to start to see the cracks.
Lately it seems that in their rush to consolidate power, the ruling elite that have been managing the narrative all this time, have let their masks fall, and that's why so many of us are waking up more and more. There's too much inconsistency.
Regardless the reason, the awakening i happening. It's not like the bliss of spiritual growth mythology, it starts with seeing that something very very dark and cruel has been stiffling humanity's expansive growth for their own sick depraved addiction to power.
We were taught to believe we were powerless. We were taught to believe this was the way things had to be. It's the biggest lie of all. The fury is overwhelming, but overdue. And it' so relieving I'm finally not directing it inward at myself. I'm finally directing it upwards.
You absolutely nailed it… reading this felt like you mapped out the entire journey.
And you're right, "awakening" isn't some blissful, love/light mythology. It's brutal. And it starts with seeing the massive scale of the deception and the cruelty that's been normalized.
And that final paragraph... that's the key that unlocks the cage. The system is built on us blaming ourselves. It NEEDS us to turn that poison inward. Directing it upward isn't just a relief, it's revoloutionary.
This is exactly the clarity we need right now. thanks for articulating it so powerfully.
Thank you. This article maps out the whole terrain of waking up from/into the matrix from a zoomed out perspective that gave context for my personal experience over the past few years. Really excellent piece.
The idea of redirecting the fury became a battle cry for a me last year. I had subscribed so much to self-help and watered down Buddhism, which totally miss the context of interconnection, and the fact that you can't heal trauma born of relationship fracture in a vacuum or by quieting the mind alone.
I believed that forgiving everyone for their mistakes and taking as much ownership over what I could as possible was the best way. It's true that most people "know not what they do" so I had that part right - not doing the "us and them" with my neighbors as best I could. But I still took all the responsibility for my entire experience of life, reinforced by parents that scapegoated me, which was why I couldn't do it to others.
But my refusal to scapegoat others, and not knowing there was a responsible party, meant I owned it all, I scapegoated myself. And no amount of meditation or forgiveness or self help can heal trauma born of violence from another. Not on its own.
When an acute trauma knocked me off my feet in 2023, and I faced real evil directly for what felt like the first time, and I couldn't process it, I came to the conclusion that you cannot process the guilt that belongs to someone else. That's why we get stuck generationally and culturally. We are taught to forgive our offenders, and go to therapy. We spend decades trying to "fix ourselves" when we didn't even do most of the guilty things we are feeling shame about.
I proposed a new law, like conservation of energy. Conservation of Shame. It cannot be created or destroyed, and it cannot be transmuted by the victim who wasn't responsible for it. The victim must put it back onto the perpetrator. Maybe they don't actually go to trial - they may not even be alive, but so long as the victim holds onto the shame that is someone else's, no one heals.
Self help was a way to feel in control of the world, and easy to cling to "if I just fix myself, everything will change, and I too can have a beautiful life." But it didn't work because it was based on an inherently flawed assumption: that i had done something wrong that "deserved" the violence. t was relieving to finally see there really was something else at work actively interfering with whatever I was trying to achieve through meditation and healing. Something else that done harm to me that I wasn't responsible for.
It's not that there's no such thing as oneness, the way an infant does not see where it ends another another begins. But there is such a thing as degree of responsibility. It is an irrefutable law of nature, a mathematical reality, (in my mind) that more power = more responsibility.
It's not that certain wise adages weren't true about oneness and the importance of forgiveness (which is a tool but not the solution). But they were incomplete, diluted, or taken out of context, which essentially wound up causing as much harm as an outright lie sometimes.
Even the idea of love I came to understand was distorted. My theory now is that the experience of love (presence, being in the moment, peace, attentive, able to get outside of ones self) is primarily accessible via a functioning pre-frontal cortex (PFC). It's a sense of oneness and safety that basically all mammals have the capacity to feel. We see animals go into fight flight for short periods of time when there's a predator or a storm, but most of the time they are purely existing.
What has happened to humans, is we got severed from the PFC through oppressive regimes that INTENTIONALLY (not inadvertantly) keep people in fight/flight so they don't access the long-term thinking, reasoning, peace of the pre-frontal cortex which allows access to seeing through the fog.
I saw wealthy people seeming to be more full of grace and loving and incorrectly connected inner love with outer wealth. They were correlated but not causal in the direction I thought. All wealth does is potentially give someone access to a regulated nervous system (they are not under threat of homelessness or starvation) allowing their pre-frontal cortex (which is a basic mammalian right and capability) to come online, which allows the space to FEEL more relaxed and explore the emotions we idealize like love and peace. But the appearance of someone having grace and love is not necessarily being cultivated by inner wisdom. More often it's wealth buying the ability to feel the peace that EVERYONE born with - and should have a right too - but which is stole from us..
Working Class Hero has been coming to mind lately. We feel the truth when we hear it but don't realize, wait, that's really what it is, it's not metaphor. It's not just about parents or the school system. It's the whole system.
I built a whole world for a dystopian fantasy about someone who has to unravel their ancestry and put the shame back where it belonged through a series of quests to "break a curse". What starts out as a personal journey to "pay for the sins of ones own family" turns into a journey to "avenge the crimes committed against humanity". But not in a revenge/vengence way, in a hold accountable and dismantle the systems of power kind of way.
But now I realize. It's not urban fantasy. It's not even metaphor. It's real.
(I know this is long, no pressure to read it, but in case it helps your own ideas)
i read it with pleasure. I don't always read really long ones, but sometimes i feel called to do so and this was one of them. There is so much to unpack here but i appreciate you taking the time to use me as a mirror of reflection. That's how i feel most of the time when i'm writing longer introspective comments, i'm really writing to myself using the other as a mirror.
I would recommend you read "The Last Red Pill: Becoming Truly Unfuckwithable" next if you feel drawn to it. That one was an attempt at something deeper - not sure how well i succeeded, but i feel at least alright - and would love to hear what came up for you when you read it - no pressure of course :)
I see my journey as a spiraling onion if that make any sense - it probably doesn't but it's a journey of shedding more and more of what i am not - to find the essance of what i am - and from the essence of what I am - i am free to see that what i truly am is beyond anything this world can touch, yet it contains the whole world - so from that space i am a little more free to play, to not get so caught up in my own drama - i still do of course - but it's much lighter than it used to be - and sometimes i've wished for my journey to be easier, for things to go more my way - then i realize that in order to become who i envision myself to be - the path to that is paved with hardship and struggle - not because the universe is mean, but it's in the hardship and struggle my being is forged - where i become more resilliant, stronger, wiser, more compassionate and loving - and if my path were easy, i would be an idiot - just coasting through life, never having to struggle, never facing letdowns to strengthen my resilliance, never facing pain, hopelessness, sorrow that deepens my compassion.
There is a concept i've embodied for a long time which is an opposite of the word paranoid - which is believing that people or the universe is conspiring against you. The opposite to paranoid is pronoid - it is the belief that the universe is conspiring for you. That everything that happens to you, is for your own highest good - it's to realize the vision you have in mind for yourself. And if your vision for yourself is large, the challenges that is put before you are not obstacles to that - but the actual path towards that. It is the experiences you need to go through in order to craft yourself into who you are meant to become. I take comfort in this belief, but it's also a belief that has sprung out of experience and wisdom. That I am able to see how even the worst experiences of my life, some i wouldn't wish upon anybody, has given me immense gifts and power. I think it was Carl Jung who said; For a Tree to grow to heaven, it must have its roots in hell. And there's profound truth in that. Because if you are a leader, a true teacher - and feel a calling in your heart to help humanity to heal and move forward - you need to walk through the depths of hell and come out the other side, you need to go through all the trauma you are meant to heal. You must deepen your compassion and your ability to relate and say, I know - me too. Sometimes i still wish things were easier - but i know if i knew what easier would lead me, i wouldn't want it. So i trust the journet, whatever it place in front me, i know i can handle it, walk through it and emmerge on the other side - a little closer to the powerful being i am meant to become.
I'm not sure why all this came up, it just came up as i wrote to you, was it for me or for the both of us - i'm not sure - but its what came out when i let go of the reigns of trying to formulate a specific response and just let the response happen.
Thanks for your beautiful repsonse that triggered it in me because i needed it.
I love the onion metaphor, that resonates. It’s like we spend a lifetime undoing the conditioning to get back to where we started. Which is often a metaphor I see in eastern religions. But no one ever said - “hey, this isn’t inevitable. We could live our whole lives from a place of who we really are if we just dismantled capitalism/the heirarchical oppressive systems that perpetuate the lies.”
I’ve never heard pronoia described that way. I fell into a blend of magical thinking/toxic positivity for a decade, but this is different. This is not just trying to find the good in everything, which I did more out of fear or self blame if something bad happened (because that meant I deserved it - infant reasoning). It’s a deeper belief that the challenges are literally the wheels that sharpen the tools. That they ARE the path. I’ve read the words before, but I can see why more now.
I’m actually reading another of your essays now - the 50 year heist. It’s such a grounded explanation of the system - how you explain things so well in such a short amount of space it beyond me. Same with this one.
I’m going to send it to some of my friends - both those who don’t have houses to help have more compassion for themselves, and also those who do have money to help them have more compassion for others. A huge heartbreak I feel is seeing a friends money keeps consolidating while mine keeps shrinking, but them not understanding it’s not because they are better than me morally or spiritually or because they are doing something more virtuously right and I’m doing something wrong. I admit that I should have done more research when I bought my first house (which lost me so much money), and I may not have made as many good decisions. But the level of wealth disparity between us is way too vast for it to be explained by merit or virtue alone.
It’s really a barrier in one of my best friendships. Because I need them to understand and stop judging me. Or maybe it’s me that needs to stop judging me.
I’ll check out the other one the Last Red Pill soon!
The original tragedy is the tragedy of Oedipus the King. He slowly detects that there is something profoundly wrong with the mainstream narrative, he tries to get people to tell him the truth, and finally he starts to force them to tell him the truth against their will to keep things normal. But when Oedipus starts to.learn the true truth, he discovers that he, without knowing it, was at the center of this system. He learns that evil is everywhere and he was blindly wandering though it as a central player. He can no longer stand to look at the World because everything he sees reminds him of his sins. So he puts out his eyes. Only then, for the first time, having lost his sight, does he start to see things as they are. And us, every time we bought some cheap plastic thing made in Thailand, every time we ate at a fast food joint, every paycheck, we too were all part of it. Are we ready? Well, at this point we have no choice. Only the truth will set us free.
Thank you very much Erik for sharing your work.
What a conundrum we find ourselves in!
Not only do we not know what we don’t know, in itself a befuddling concept, even what we believe we do know is nearly always based on secondhand opinions of what should be believed, which over time and in all areas (history, science, etc) then gets “shown” not to have been “correct” or to be believed in the first place!
But what I can be pretty certain of is that “the system” IS built on blaming ourselves. So whatever steps we take from here, we will do well to drop that bag.
This is brilliant and spot on !
The deception is a generated facade made real by group think and repetition, repetition, repetition.
We are cocooned within the fabricated silk, spun by those who have simultaneously dumbed down and poisoned the masses whilst advancing their own health and intelligence to create an exponentially widening gap between the two groups.
The deeper one goes the more 'known reality' dissipates like piss in a pond.
cocooned within the fabricated silk… nicely put. i believe that is why it’s so uncommon and scary to be sane in this world, because it requires a lot of strength and belief in your own power to handle not knowing.
it seems silly but not knowing is one of the scariest thing there is, we rather claim for anything than be left with nothing. but it is from the ground of nothing that clarity can begin to grow.
Great thought provoking. I have been walking in an "i don't know space" and "maybe everything I believe is wrong space" and now that space is expanding. The stepping stones I laid out keep shifting from their place. The roads are moving on the map. The signs I'm following like clouds are changing shape. What I think are solid structures could collapse. I walk the earthquake fault line, looking for the cracks. Lines from song I wrote in 2015
Beautiful, thank you! 😊❤️
Good effort and some great observations about our mental reality. This is a move into the right direction, but it is much simpler:
There is only the conscious experiencer and the content of conscious experience.
What we experience doesn't matter.
Only "who" experiences does.
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The only thing that is (the only thing that is not mind-based and therefore real) is the sense of "I Am". We know that we are.
Focusing our awareness on this sense of "I Am" (pure Beingness) will slowly or rapidly (for some) move us away from getting constantly entangled in "conscious experience" or "The Matrix".
The Matrix is the same as "conscious experience" and attaching to it.
We can't stop "the experiencing" because that is life itself happening.
But we can detach from it, ignore it, and focus on the "I Am", pure beingness instead.
In that state, the Matrix becomes irrelevant and true liberation is achieved on a very real, non-mental level.
This is old knowledge.
It is called Advaita Vedanta - non-dual spirituality - and must become the dominant form of spirituality if humanity wants to survive.
Yes, I am well aware of the I AM presence. :) However, one can still reference the experience which at least seem to be presenting itself in a consistent way - and the experience is not seperate from the I AM presence, since nothing can exist outside of it - so the experience from my perspective have meaning and purpose, a telos.
From my understanding that is what the I AM does. It fragments itself into a multiplicity and explore itself on the way back to wholeness - and the journey back is the I AM experiencing the vastness of itself.
So that is the absolute. Now, there is the relative plane - which is the human experience - and the human experience is basically an informational matrix. This matrix can be hijacked or influenced by other entities or beings, humans, physical, non-physical - whatever can transmit information to me basically.
I think we can just rest as the I AM presence, "ignoring" reality. But we don't have to. We can immerse ourselves in it, play with it, feel and experience it fully - all of it - the good, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
I think this is a common trap in non-dual spirituality - the idea that we should ignore reality and detach from it - like it were something bad.
I think this comes because for the ones still fully trapped in the experience, this is a first good step into learning that you can go in and out - you can be in the world but not of the world.
But many people think they need to only focus on the I am and devalue experience as lesser - but th experience comes from the I AM - it is there for a reason, it is your canvas to play grow and learn - you can rest fully as the I AM presence, yet be fully immersed in the reality and be a flawed human on a path to realizing itself at the same time - and close the gap between the human aspect and the devine aspect and grow as a conscious co-creator.
Now this play wouldn't be as thrilling or meaningful without the anti-you there to present itself as the resistance to push you towards growing beyond what you believe yourself capable of, or just as a thing that keeps you on your feet.
Decoding reality, align with it and becoming all that you are while letting go of all that is holding you back and all the things you are not - while being fully immersed in life and working on making it increasingly epic and taking on the adventures and challenges presented to you is what I am at least currently intending to do. Not always succeeding, but that is not the point - the point is the journey in itself.
Much love<§
Hi, I just wrote about six paragraphs and lost it all - lol- which I always take as a sign that I talk too much.
I agree with most you say here - thanks for clarifying.
Residing in the "I AM", however, when fully mastered, is not ignoring the relative information matrix at all.
It is just seeing as a play that has nothing to do with who "I Am", pure observing awareness still localized in that matrix as "identity". Nothing good or bad about the Matrix. It just is. No judgment.
The detachment and "trap" of non-duality you talk about is real, but only a necessary first step on the way.
It is a countermove, so to speak, to get us out of our permanent default mode, which is "experience only." So for a while, those people practising Advaita Vedanta look wooden, aloof, dead and not much fun, granted.
But eventually, everything comes together as you point out.
I lost you a little bit in the last two paragraphs, though, with the concept of anti-you and resistance. Also, I can't relate to "decoding reality" at all.
For me, when in that state, there is no "doer" left. Everything just happens. The body-mind is doing stuff, of course, experiencing stuff, gets excited, happy, sad, but the "I" is just at peace watching it all, motionless, still, unruffled, in love with the totality of it all.
I did the same 😄 I think that's just ourselves saying.. Try again and we get an opportunity to write things in perhaps a more consice or higher way. But honestly your comment realigned me and I haven't stopped writing since. So thank you.
For me, my experience of it however is a little bit different. The I is always there watching, motionless, still at peace.. In love with the totality of it all at all times? Not really - so I have probably some work to do there for sure to unblock that aspect - which I also assume is part of the game.
But there are definately no separation between the watcher and that which is being watched. I feel a complete sense of agency, but not a controlling kind of agency or an "I need to have thing my way" type of agency, but more of a silent mover through a reality construct fully immersed yet not attached.
I had for a longer period of time previously been more towards what you are describing - more in love, parked in the I am enjoying the perfection unfolding. But after, perhaps years of aiming to perfect that state something felt, a little off - and I was beginning to feel numb to reality - and even if I could at any moment induce a state of serene amazement at the wonder of it all, I was kind of bored with it - it was starting to feel like a trap.
So I decided to let go of my attachment to the I am state, and fully immerse myself in my human state - fully aware of my I am state but no longer a spectator of reality but a Player with a big P. Not attached to certain feeling states or aversion to certain emotions, but embracing it all - transmuting it consciously and becoming an alchemist - and learning to become a conscious creator. No longer settling to be the spectator of life, but the complete being with complete agency trying to align and perfect the connection and communication between the higher and the lower.
And my life has become so much more exciting, fun and loving and creating and this feels more aligned than ever.
What I mean by decoding is that now I see myself as the I am, playing the greatest and most epic co-creative virtual reality game ever, the game of duality. Of life and death, light and darkness, good and evil. And this game is filled with Easter eggs and sidequests and journeys and missions and it also have the opportunity to really join the larger game of battle for earth and it's just so fucking epic. And I am there, inside of my character - and in not only watching - I have been watching for far to long - sidelined myself thinking I needed to prefer the non-dual state - now that I think about it it might even be a conscious trap by the dark forces to get the most conscious of us to sideline ourselves from the game because "it's all perfect". It is perfect, because how can it not be? But the game is still happening, creation is always happening, you can either chose to watch it from the sidelined or join in the game. I am doesn't care which.
I AM doesn't need you to be the I AM all the time, I AM already is the I AM all the time. I AM needs you to be you, your human you - and play. Play not with a detached non-invested attitude, but play with your full heart - with the fill extent of your being - and see how fucking far you can go in one lifetime. Play to win. But win the I AM way. Become all that you can be from the potential that exists in this form, strive to the ideal because it's within your reach as the i am.
Grow, transmute, strategize, try fail, try again, and again and again, remember who you are, keep going, help people, dance, love, become angry, sad, feel itt deeply, don't get stuck in it but use it to further craft yourself into your ideal self, show the world how fucking epic it can become, form alliances and bring down the darkness and bring in an era of celebration and creation from a whole new higher place, then start to face new higher obstacles and challenges and continue the endless journey onward.
I'll leave it at that. Peace brother, and thanks again 🔥✊❤️
Thank you, I think I get it now. And I love it. I think you are right. I want to try that. Move towards that. I wonder if it has to do with dialing down the observer but not getting fully attached to the experieve either. Or maybe better, being fully in the experience without forgetting the big picture?
Food for thought, thank you again. :-)
Beautiful! :) It's something we must balance within ourselves and i don't think there is a specific recipe - with that being said, this conversation has set me off to finish an article on the subject - so we'll see how i can tie it together and how it will be received. :)
Hi Erik,
Thank you for a brilliant article deepening our knowledge and understanding of the Matrix.
I had come up with the term Mind Control Matrix, and proposed that it is used for Manufacturing Consensus, but the concepts of Consensus Reality and Perceptual Sovereignty really deepen this understanding. Are these two terms 'Consensus Reality' and "Perceptual Sovereignty" terms that you coined yourself - I'd like to know so that if I ever use them I can credit them to you.
Ivan M. Paton
Thank you! Yea it's definitely good to have these phrases that point to a model of how we can understand what is happening while also creating a framework and recognizable terminology I can use in future articles without needing to re-explain if you've read my previous work.
"Perceptual sovereignty" is a phrase I really liked the sound of - I'm a sucker for delicious words and it really fit what I was trying to explain.
"Consensus reality" is just how I've described it for a long time and I'm not sure where it originated or if it was just the straightforward way for me to say it.
Thanks for sharing
Yes, you are right we definitely need a whole set of phases and terms to help construct models and frameworks of what we are facing.
I have created a whole new set along the way myself. Here's some you might like.
I define the ruling ideology that runs the world as the "Crown Monarchy Imperialism" - which dates back to Babylon, and has been carried forward to this day - and in fact the world is still ruled by the monarchy powers.
I argue that Communism is simply a rebranding of Crown Imperialism with a new religion of atheism to allow the psychopaths to rule, so it is a "Neo-Monarchy" as in fact are all the International Organizations like the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the WHO, the IMF, the World Bank etc., they are rebranded monarchies, and my strongest argument for that is that they have all been given immunity from everything - no investigations possible, no arrests possible, no trials for crimes against humanity possible, no taxation, and no visas needed - all of this granted by acts like the US Congress 1945 IOIA - International Organizations Immunity Act.
But the supreme monarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is still in place, and a worldwide empire, and the British monarchy still rules over the majority of the world through the British Commonwealth and their "special" Anglo-American relationship, and numerous other monarchies around Europe and the world all march in lockstep to the diktats of the agendas of the ruling monarchies-climate change, CBDCs, EVs, Green Energy, Net Zero, Pandemics, Digital everything etc.
I argue that the "Roman Imperial Empire" is the true hidden deep state worldwide, and it is through the Roman Imperial Aristocracy, especially the monarchies, bankers, and billionaires, that they keep control and push mankind in the directions that they want us be herded.
Crown Monarchy Imperialism and its totalitarian nature is exactly what Thomas Hobbes defined in his 1651 book Leviathan - it was just a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church, which was a rebranding of the tyranny of the Roman Empire, which was when the elites decided they'd had enough of the Republic and reverted to Crown Monarchy system of their ancestors in Babylon.
Ah, Erik, I am running off at the mouth - there is so much to talk about with regards to the Evil that Rules Humanity, that it's easy to do.
Cheers
@Erik. I agree with you.
It is precisely this line of thinking that drives my own substack page.
The only difference between us is that I have been following an historical approach of tangible examples of how our understanding of the world has been deliberately shaped.
Such as how the Venetians promoted Galileo and Francis Bacon so that the views of Kepler would not dominate; and later how they actively intervened in the row between Leibniz and Sir Isaac Newton so that Leibniz would not prevail. They sent the Abbe Antonio Conte deliberately to London in 1715 to deliberately befriend Newton.
No coincidence that left-brained thinking began to emerge more strongly from around this time (early C18t) as a result from around this time. Left-brained thinking is what helps the evil parasites.
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Absolutely facinating! Love this to see and follow the threads on how the information matrix has been shaped and subverted during history. I'll definately check out your articles!
Yes, we're writing about the same thing. You're doing it perhaps more eloquently than I :) but never the less, I see it too. And so do millions of others.
glad to hear. and yes, the veil is swiftly falling, or so it seems
This is great. For that step 5 prioritize direct experience I think the McGilchrist master and emissary narrative is helpful. Understanding the basic neuroscience behind hemispheric differences explains why elevation of the right hemisphere with its specialization in direct experience is essential to escaping the matrix.
I’ve read a bit on that and I agree, haven’t read that particular work though so thanks for the recommendation, i love the title so i will add it to my list! :)
I have described my belief system as gooey. Somethings are stuck in there more than others but it has to be somewhat fluid once you realize how many things you thought were true are not.
The question I have wondered lately (maybe since the story on what’s beneath the great pyramids) is “is do the narrative shapers have an accurate history themselves. Are there keepers of ancient knowledge or history?”
That's a really interesting question. Do the people who distort our past have a true account of our actual past - or is our true past forever lost in time? Or is even our concept of our past more fluid, and stranger than we even could imagine?
Amazing work man!
Thank you Chris! ✊🔥
Thank you for expressing this so well. As a teenager I studied journalism as I wanted to be that person investigating and telling the "truth". I very quickly recognised/learned that I'd only ever be telling an editor's version of the truth (or their paymaster). I didn't last long. So many things resonate with me in what you have written. We choose to feel "safe" within the confines constructed for us - or not.
I can relate to that story from my own teenage years studying journalism as well but switch over to graphic design once I got a glimpse of the profession and very quickly understood how little truth can actually even be written from within the system. Thanks for sharing!