The Matrix - Are we living in a Simulation?

There is much thought these days about whether we are living in a simulation, so let’s look at how likely this is.

Perception and Conditioned Belief

The first point to consider is how much our perception is controlled by conditioned belief. There is the famous story of the Magellan ships. The natives on the island could not see the ships, as they had no concept of a ship. Only the shaman could see them, as he was used to seeing beyond normal perception. He gradually taught the others to see the ships by pointing out small familiar components, such as a piece of cloth, which was the flag, a wooden pole etc.

It is estimated that our temporal lobes filter off about 50% of all sensory input, so we only see or hear what we are conditioned to see. Right now there could be things around you that you do not see because they don’t fit in with your conditioning. So to some extent we are living in a world that has been shaped and manipulated for us, rather than in the real world. It takes special training to see reality.

So the idea that we are in a matrix-like reality created by machines or in some kind of machine-controlled simulation is highly unlikely simply because it would take such a huge effort to do something that can be achieved in much easier ways. Take the recent lockdowns as an example. By isolating people so they don’t discuss experiences among themselves, people are entirely fed their truths by media, television, censored internet etc, so all the information which shapes our conditioning and therefore our experience of the world is being controlled by the same group of people.

They start by telling us what’s real and what isn’t from a very early age, and if our experience starts to differ later on, it can be controlled by drugs. This is all geared to keep us in a fixed experience that is approved by the leaders. When you look at how much goes into such conditioning, you can imagine that we are in a very small box, with huge amounts of reality being kept out. The conditioning gets so ingrained that when we die we hold on to much of this limitation, and although we shed some of it, once we are born again the same conditioning is heaped upon us. This is how we get trapped in the endless cycle of rebirth into the illusion.

The Illusory Nature of the World

Somewhere inside ourselves we know we are trapped in an illusion. This is why it is so easy to come up with ideas of various forms of simulation, often believed to be created by technology, but the ability of our minds to shape our experience is way beyond technology. Let’s take this idea a bit further: Mystics have long taught that this world is illusion, and science is confirming this more and more. It has long been known that matter isn’t really solid: it consists of atoms, with tiny nuclei with electrons orbiting relatively far from the nucleus so that the atom is mostly space. If you were to collapse all the electrons into the nuclei of all the atoms in the world, i.e. into neutronium, the world would be about 1cm wide. As if that isn’t small enough, it was found that the nucleus isn’t solid either. It consists of protons and neutrons, with more space in between. They in turn consist of quarks, with more space in between, and quarks consist of neutrinos, with space between. Then it was discovered that the space between also consisted of neutrinos, but vibrating at a different rate. The only difference between something and nothing is a change in the frequency of energy.

Bohr’s wave/particle duality model shows us that particles are only there when they are observed. First there are only waves. Waves are not fixed in space, they are non-local. Observation localises the energy. This is what a particle is; localised energy.

As scientists studied neutrinos to find out why they would become an electron one moment, a positron the next moment, and nothing the next moment, they found that they always become what you expect them to become. So this whole physical universe is really just energy, that we make physical and shape with observation and expectation. It is the inner memory of this that causes us to want to grow beyond the illusion and seek what’s real. It also causes us to imagine different ways in which we might be trapped in the illusion.

Oneness and Embracing the Feminine

So how do we get out of this simulation so we can see reality? It starts by being more right-brained. The left brain sees things in terms of separation, fixed space etc, whereas the right brain perceives the oneness with all. Making everything rational while denying the mystical, intuition and the value of imagination is how we got trapped. Becoming more right brained is also about embracing the feminine. Since patriarchy took over and the goddess has been denied, it has been easy to trap everyone in the illusion that is mostly controlled by the same few people.

All the myths of patriarchal religion keep us away from the feminine, as it is full of male figures, and the Goddess is no longer there. The goddess religions always had magick, and this is the key to why they were suppressed: when we see beyond the fixed illusion that others have fed us, we begin to see that our own imaginations, expectation and observation create our reality. Therefore the leaders are no longer in total control of us; we create our own reality.

The journey starts by stepping out of patriarchy and coming back to the Goddess. We can work with ancient myths to reclaim our magick. In the Christian mythology, humans were clay born. i.e. they are entirely of the earth. They don’t even have an immortal soul, so they have no chance until they totally accept the limitations of the church and put themselves under Christ. The children of Lilith, on the other hand, are the serpent-born. They have magick. You can make a simple ritual where you remove yourself from the book of the clay-born and put yourself in the book of the serpent-born, under Lilith. Then your magick can awaken. Then remember, this world is illusion, the consciousness that shapes it is real.

I will be discussing this topic further on my free Q&A call on Saturday, 2 December at 10am UK time – please bring your questions.