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I talk about the System or Matrix a lot. To me, both terms are interchangeable, but most people will feel it makes more sense to think that the System is this real and palpable structure we can easily talk about and discuss, whereas Matrix sounds more like an interpretation of how this System controls us, similar to the movie trilogy that, not surprisingly, became synonymous with the Control System, as it explains how we humans have been living in a fake reality. With the definition of those two in mind:
- System will be used to refer to the structure and;
- Matrix will be used to refer to the illusion projected by them to exert the control.
As an example, people are usually comfortable saying that politicians (System parts) are simply puppets to give us the illusion (Matrix projection) of protection and decision-making contribution.
The construct
This could be an article with many interpretations and more depth into what this really means, and what lies under the Matrix (I’ll soon give you the Rabbit Hole post), but here I wish to make it on how I perceive it as a whole and its influence in us. I may now and then throw in ideas that are well known as possible explanations of why they are set the way they are, but what I am concerned with here is to give my perspective.
If you are here reading this, I assume you have at least a vague idea of what the Matrix is, the one controlling your perception of reality and making you feel in ways you don’t agree or feel part of. You may be living in conditions that are not what you wish they would be, and strangely enough, this is not for lack of comfort you can agree is basic and essential. You have shelter, food, health and to a small degree, some disposable income.
So, what is it that started bothering us that had all these things we can agree are fundamental for all humans, yet unsatisfying? The first thing we all notice is the lack of time we have to do the things we like doing. Our time seems completely devoted to a never ending chase for money, after all we need it to survive.
By design, money is at the core of the structure, it became the prey of any hunter in modern society, and we are expected to come up with it if we are to live, just live. So, we all agree here that this is the medium by which the physical imprisonment starts in the System. I could go on for a while talking about money and its effects on social mentality, but I’ll stay within the scope of the post.
Next, we find the injustice of powerful institutions and powerful people to exert their will on us, oftentimes being detrimental to society in one way or another. It starts with these institutions and people, mostly corporations and politicians, and banks, oh yeah our precious banks.
This is a good start, and if you ask anybody on the street, 90% or more would agree that politicians are corrupt and corporations are destroying the planet. Yeah I know, there are still a some of those people that Peter Joseph accurately termed “Self appointed guardians of the status quo”, who will defend corporations and won’t get a glimpse of what’s actually going on, because of the economy and how important that is for the society… sure.
So, that’s the System as we know it, a bunch of politicians safeguarding the interests of corporations so they all make money. But the question that still needs to be asked is, how does that really affect us?
They control us
By ways of making us believe we need their safety, their provision, their health system, their food, and everything else that makes up this civilization of the 20th Century, they have a strong grip on our lives, and they designed a Control System by which they can manipulate our behaviors and willingness to serve them.
We do so knowing that to live in their territory, we need to play their game. But deep inside we don’t want to, and we become rebels of some sort, even if you only argue against the current politician in power. I have been called a rebel for the majority of my life, I can identify this rejection for the way I lived, the way my freedom was bent to the rules of a school, the morality of a culture, the will of an employer, or the laws of a State.
And we are left to obey, and obey, and obey, warping our true perception of nature and reality. The mechanisms in this Matrix have been fine tuned to fend off rebels, we always pose a threat to their structure given that we are the ones who desire change, knowing that stagnated water always putrefies.
That makes them fearful of us, so alienation is one method of physically disempowering us, but clever dominators can device other ways of maintaining our energy suppressed or channeled somewhere else.
Enter the corruption of our societal structure.
This is where that 90% of the people who agreed how bad politicians and corporations are, gets reduced. A lot of people have already bought the beliefs of an institution, a culture, or some dogma and they will defend it since it became part of who they are. Ego is our worst enemy.
Honestly, this becomes delicate for a lot of people and I will say here before continuing that if you are easily offended by the challenging of your beliefs, then maybe stop reading. In fact, those who love big corporations and are devoted politician followers probably left the article long ago. Ready? Awesome.
The infection
I know, it sounds dramatic but I thought it’s so appropriate to describe the next section.
Our institutions and belief systems were the source of our sustenance, physically and mentally, so it made sense that the creators of the Matrix would infiltrate them and stir them in the directions that could further their agenda.
Think of parasites inside bodies, harbored in the positions of power within the structure, making all the decisions and designing a System that will perpetuate them in the planet, while at the same time shaving away those who would naturally oppose them, real ideas for change, or people that could challenge their Matrix.
Spirituality
“No religion should ever appropriate truth“
Some of the most prominent religions in the world have been associated with abuse of power, secret dealings, dark ritualistic practices, and so many other aberrant behaviors throughout history. These were not the founding principles of any religion, but somehow over time they have become acceptable and normal.
Religion, by many of us, has already been admitted to be part of the Control System for a long time, its original purpose twisted to the manipulative doctrines that people are taught and trained in, stripping away natural tendencies and rights, and in many cases substituting them for their interpretations.
Perhaps the most abhorrent interpretation and use of it has been to wage war against other people in the name of their beliefs, it’s completely backwards if you ask me. But even to a smaller degree, they distort perception of what life is; they may classify homesexuality unacceptable, create conflict between religions, condemn sex, or simply tell you what to think of your spirituality.
This is the most natural tendency any individual can have, the faith in the unknown and the sacredness that evokes the belief that we are part of a bigger whole, and not separate entities. No religion should ever appropriate truth, because we are not meant to know and understand everything in the Universe, let alone the ultimate truth.
Yet, with the centuries our belief systems have been stirring us in clear wrong directions, with all the history we now perceive as unacceptable at best, and horrifying past events that were considered normal practices then. So, for me to think at this moment that religion has lost all that power and are now operating in the best of humanity, makes me feel very naive.
Medicine
“A sick population that requires constant treatment is one that is willing to remain part of the system and not rebel “
So called modern medicine has been identified as deviating from their original purpose: healing people. Just like I’ve said before, most people if not all of them will agree that the current state of this institution is not working for the benefit of the population in general. And why is that?
Let’s start by acknowledging that modern medicine has been treating symptoms for years and not curing anything, certainly not the most common causes of disease. A sick population that requires constant treatment is one that is willing to remain part of the system and not rebel, and at the same time others are drawn to play the Matrix game, as the inherent altruists the majority are in the health sector.
The health system has been completely replaced by a pharmaceutical approach, and completely stripped of the natural techniques that healers had been using for millennia around the world. There have been many great scientists in the field that have developed modern use of medicine in actual helpful ways, but most of them have been shut down and only a few got away with their magnificent contributions.
But for the most part, it has been absolutely based on synthetic compounds that can ameliorate the symptoms, only to return later on when the drug wears off. The reason as we all know by now, is profit. I don’t need to explain how profitable it is to run an industry with ever growing customers; if they can somehow manipulate the flow of patients through an artificial lack of methods that can eradicate the cause of the problem, they will.
I worked for over a decade in the pharmaceutical industry, and I can tell you there is no humanity in these facilities, other than what some of the souls that work there can create and bond with, the industry does not care.
Government
“We have been ruled for decades by corporations”
The politician arena is a glorified form of entertainment for those who enjoy that genre. Once again, most people will agree that politicians are full of it, yet they still go and participate in the election of these mummers, I feel that’s just a way of buying a ticket to the following 4 years or more of entertainment.
Still, people have always looked for salvation in these popular figures and trusted that, in some particular way, they help the population by making the decisions that will save them from impending doom. They also think this structure has the best interests in mind when planning the future of the State. I know, I know…
So this one is pretty straight forward, the Matrix uses this show to make people believe they have control over the major decisions of the country, and that an improvement of their liking is right around the elections, when in fact all politicians are doing is covering the interests of the biggest money makers that support their agendas, and it’s all in greater benefit of those controlling the Matrix.
We have been ruled for decades by corporations whose industries have been producing the most money for the country, and as they buy and control the politics of our countries, their puppets do their bidding as priority as long as they both continue to agree with each other.
Their best weapon of control is the law, there to allegedly protect the citizens, and with it they conveniently take away freedom as well. While some laws may seem enticing to believe that they serve a purpose, the majority and especially the most modern ones are without a doubt to instill fear, create isolation, extract money, strip liberties, cloud compassion from the population, and for the sake of keeping it short I am excluding a lot more intentions these laws have at their core.
Education
” They are not interested in novel thinking “
Our next stop has an equal amount of supporters when we rebels claim that the System has deteriorated our school and learning opportunities. Everybody agrees that things have gotten wrong here, we like to point out where the problem is, how the “good ol’ days” were better and so on. But rarely do we check to see where the Matrix feeds from it.
The System is interested in forming citizens from their youth to conform with their society following the rules of the game, to produce subservient people of the status quo. At this point I’m sure some people may wince at the idea that schools are facilities to brainwash the young ones, and forge them into the cogs that fit the social machinery, but no one said reality is pleasing.
Those who are too wild and resist the indoctrination are cast aside, they become outsiders and treated as such. They plan for the rejects to end up alienated, away from society. They have mental institutions, drugs for ADDs, slums, and other tools to make sure they don’t get any meaningful attention.
They are not interested in novel thinking, or any group that goes against the rules, or those who disagree with the curriculum. These people pose a threat to the stability of the System, so they have been often ridiculed and repudiated, and despite that, some of them have managed against all odds to change the world.
And so, the education system has been shaped to represent the values of the State at large by categorizing what you can be good at or not, they desperately look to place you somewhere in their boxes, they may even convince you that what you are good at is something that somehow piqued your interest, but it’s not your true passion.
The human being is capable of more than those meager categories we call professions, and it has been able to do it way before this Matrix was established and maintained for thousands of years. We are not heading towards an integrative, cohesive and holistic future of humanity with our professions, what we are doing is perpetuating the establishment with them.
Food supply
“The promotion of the lowest frequency foods is what’s prevalent in society”
While this is closely related to the Medicine part, as it’s directly impactful on health, it deserves a section of its own given all the details in how it has been transformed into an aberrant practice that has caused uncountable issues in society.
As a nutrition and training coach I have been studying and working with the issue of nutrition for years, I have seen how the population constantly seeks a solution to their problem, which varies from person to person. There clearly is an inherent issue with the food supply as it stands today.
The obesity epidemic is already popular culture, everybody knows how over the last decades we have created a new standard in the average weight of civilized countries. I can go on about this topic, but to stay in line with the intentions of the post, I’ll simply say that by engineering the most palatable foods, once again thanks to the wonderful industry, the System created a control over people’s notion of nourishment.
This caused an increase in food consumption that, coupled with the sedentarism present in the modern world, breeds obesity and all the diseases associated with it. We have become obsessed with food to the point that the same industry preys on our desire to change and revert that which was created by them, offering us false solutions through their marketing. What a realistic example of supply and demand.
Aside from the distortion in food perception, we find that the quality of it has been terribly diminished. There is very little question that the vast majority of products out there have been losing the amount of nutrition they provide over time due to its production. The nature of the supply makes the methods of production a great way to fill the products with contaminants, toxics, harmful and synthetic compounds that are not the best for our bodies.
Food nowadays is loaded with detrimental stuff, and lacks a lot of the nutritious elements that should be present on our plate. Of course, the most affordable items are those with a higher content of harmful ingredients and highly savorous, all the better to subdue the consumers to the taste while creating the perfect environment for dependency and disease.
The System has been working for years to create a chemical inducement in our bodies, through pharmaceuticals, food, air and water. The reasons vary, but they all coincide with creating a reliance on their institutes and its products. A sick society needs attention, and it’s especially profitable if you provide the problem and the fix for it.
Here is where the Matrix benefits from our compliance, living in these conditions certainly lowers your body’s vibration and attracts negative energies that enlarges people’s problems. I have written before about how I envision high frequency foods, and when you analyze it, it makes sense that the promotion of the lowest frequency foods is what’s prevalent in society.
By having a firm grip on your food desires and customs, they got you by the neck, you become very closed to the idea of changing eating habits and married to the few select foods that have been exciting the reward system of your brain, producing those lovely addictive patterns that we deny over and over again.
At the same time, they can easily supply all the substances that deteriorate your health so you can eventually take part in their health system, which anybody who has been sick or suffer from any illness can attest how awful it is to live with conditions that are not cured, only treated. This sick population feeds into the overall depression state of civilized countries, another source of loosh to those in power.
The vantage point
“its power is only as strong as you decide it to be in your life”
Now, I have described the components of what we call the System that generates the Matrix we talk about, and the first thing I want to say is that the System is like an amusement park, we decide to take part in it and the consequences are simply part of what you experience and how much you interact with the different attractions.
Living in the System is on its own a draining experience, but things get worse when you submit to the Matrix. It generates a fear-based mentality, and you can test this with anything in your life. The news are nothing but fear-mongering, your bills, the laws, work, social media, debt, education, pandemics, even human interaction is filled with fear at any level, with insecurities, prejudices, judgement, xenophobia, racism, dogma differences, social stratification, you name it.
Segregation is the name of the game, the more you separate people from one another, the harder it is to even fathom the idea that we are part of a collective organism, let alone our relationship with the environment and Gaia, and that’s the purpose of the Matrix, to contain you from becoming a better person, satisfied and full of joy. Harmony is not the end goal.
As with everything I post here, I don’t have a solution for you, and I firmly believe that nobody has it more than you. The challenge is not external, but internal. You are your best guide and teacher, what becomes hard to accept and begin to work on are the limitations that the System has created in you and that the Matrix happily maintains you in.
If you are used to the idea, like I was for all my life, that you always have to look for an outside solution and somebody will provide you with the answers you need, and here I am not talking about support and guidance, because we need each other more than we can imagine, but I’m referring to the notion that the answer to our questions lies somewhere out of reach from you. No, the answers are within you.
Even if we are here to play the game, to live in this System within its Matrix, there are ways to minimize or even avoid completely the negative effects it wants to bury you in. You need to open your consciousness to understand that this is a structure we chose to participate in, but has no real control over you, and that its power is only as strong as you decide it to be in your life.
By raising your vibe you naturally start seeing that none of this actually matters in the grand scheme of things, life has much more to offer and the more you divorce yourself from this awful System’s way of living, the better and brighter your life will be.
If I have seen a pattern in people’s reactions to being less affected by the Matrix, is that they are more in line with what they are, and they live without paying much attention to the Matrix, because they already have an internal influence to live by and for.
We have natural tendencies, particular ideas, unique creativity, preferences, and so much more. Our inner child has a big part in rediscovering that side of us, and that’s where most people should probably start.