Hi All,

Oliver, I see that with family/friends on Facebook. Now, before anyone has a cow that I am on Facebook, I was almost forced to join to be included in the current family photo sharing (which I wanted to see) but I rarely log on .. Just check in to catch up.. Having said all that I see people 'go along' with whatever current meme that is playing this week. The 'pour water over your head' challenge, the 'put a rainbow flag over your photo' meme and don't get me talking about the 'support your sports team' constant spiel. It's bread and circus 24/7.

People are 'programmed' from a very young age to go along to get along. Thou must be part of the herd to be excepted. People learn (especially on Facebook) how 'politically incorrect' it is to shun their tribe, their church, their political party and more..

An entire generation of children have given up their power of i magi nation to create their own reality and live it. They let this months Meme's, cartoons, movies, rappers or crappers create FOR them and live THAT dream instead of their own making.

Susoni

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What is The Matrix?
Sub-structure...
by Jon Rappoport
July 8, 2017

Basically, the mechanical structure of the Matrix is derived from the concept that:

Everything is connected to everything.

This notion is increasingly hailed as a positive marvel. For example, in quantum entanglement, pared particles, even at great distances from each other, both react to an impact on either particle.

"Everything/connected" produces a sensation of Weave&All Inclusiveness.

It's ultimately designed for long-term rental. The occupant is there, and there he will stay.

Feeling this Oneness is Matrix religion, and it is meant to instill a sense of the sacred. Holy, holy. The mind completes the equation: sacred=forever. It's a ruse. "Sacred" is no more forever than listening to a Bach concerto is forever. It's one thing to bathe in a majestic feeling. It's quite another thing to infer it means eternal occupancy.

There are many people ready to shake your hand and embrace you and welcome you into the labyrinth, the weave, the connection of everything to everything.

People aspire to be wired into the "everything/connected" apparatus as their highest ambition---which is their primary substitute for imagination.

That they don't realize this doesn't make it any less true.

"I'm one atom in an infinity of atoms all connected throughout the universe, and this is what I want to feel. This is illumination and enlightenment. This is the grand essence, the final stop on the train ride."

Well, let me put it to you in this way. Let's say you're an actor. You work in a repertory theater that stages 100000000000000000 plays. In each play, you have a role, a different role. You're "connected" to each one of those roles. BUT YOU'RE AN ACTOR. That means you can inhabit a role and then take it off like a coat. It doesn't mean you're forever chained up to every role you play.

However, this distinction is lost on most people.

The idea of everything/connected is quite old. You can find it enunciated in ancient Egypt and China, and traces of it exist in Aristotle. It's often arranged as a hierarchy. The "great chain of being."

So are we talking about an architecture of the universe or a notion in the mind?

Both.

Think of everything/connected as a style of building among various possible styles.

And religion is its goal-the inducement of religious awe. That is the stage play.

People join the "everything/connected" church of the universe. They want to be in that congregation singing a song, melting down into butter.

Oh, look. There at the altar is a priest. He's delivering a sermon. Let's listen in:

"If you know that everything is connected to everything, could you possibly kill a whale? Of course not."

Remember two things, though. One, you don't need to embrace everything-is-everything to know you don't want to kill a whale.

And two, the priest, as he's delivering his sermon, is thinking to himself: "If I want to kill a whale, I damn well will."

You see, when you really unpack the "everything is everything" wow, it's not as sensational as it first seemed.. Any more than, say, the fact that every national newscast covers the same stories from the same point of view.

"I can't believe it. ABC just did a piece on the Supreme Court, and now CBS is highlighting it, too. Let's light a candle and kneel."

"Everything/connected" is supposed to signal that the universe is conscious, and to boil the argument down, since universe is also so much larger than a human being walking around on a street in a city on planet Earth, he is obligated to defer to universe.

He is programmed from a young age to defer. He learns how politically incorrect it is to reject this church...

Matrix.

You have a choice. You can go along for the ride in Matrix, or you can imagine imagination and embark on the journey of journeys.

Artists create worlds and universes. Therefore, the idea that "The Universe" is somehow our greatest guide and mentor and gift-giver is a joke of the highest magnitude.

Most people are not up to contemplating the idea of consciously creating, much less spontaneously improvising, which involves a kind of merging with what they would create.

But for those who can grasp such an idea, the world and the universe aren't any longer arbiters and rule makers and guides. They are inventions that are already here.

Ensuing years of research resulted in my three recent Matrix collections, of which Exit From The Matrix is most focused on practical techniques of imagination - to make your deepest desires fact in the world.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.

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