Unplugging From the Matrix

I'm a big fan of the movie "The Matrix". In it, the main character Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) comes to the understanding where he knows he is trapped, but he doesn't know exactly how or in what way. Still, he questions until he finds people that help him discover the answer. The truth he learns is that the life he thought was real is actually illusion, totally played out within the confines of his mind through the use of an elaborate computer system known as the matrix.

In many ways, this movie parallels life on planet Earth. We have been fed a series of illusions--lies so big and elaborate it is difficult to believe they could be real. We, like Neo, sense that something is not right. We struggle to make sense of our world--the senseless violence, the tremendous poverty of many and greed of the few, the disease which gets more prevalent instead of less common. Most days it feels as though we are spiraling out of control without much hope.

We are on the verge of a breakthrough! Like Neo, we are asking and seeking like never before! It is asking the question that allows us to come to new understandings. By looking at things we ignored in the past we are able to identifying our own chains. It is all about waking up.

The movie clip I posted is scary. Neo wakes up to find he is not in his apartment but in some fluid filled tank surrounded by thousands of other fluid filled tanks, each containing another human. It's akin to waking up and finding yourself in hell.

Although waking up is not a pleasant experience, it is a necessary one. We cannot change the constructs we fail to recognize. As long as we think inside the matrix, we cannot free ourselves from the illusions created by others to feed on our energies. Our lives are not our own.

Creating a better world involves detaching ourselves from the illusion and building something new from the ground up. Believe it can be much better than the ugliness that surrounds us. Freedom is ours when we unplug ourselves from the matrix.

~CSE