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The Matrix And Reality And How It Applies To Us

by Douglas Grummons

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With the premiering of the new Matrix movie, we have lots of questions. If you are wondering who is a red pill and who is a blue pill and what is the matrix according to our lives? So many questions to be answered so grab a drink and sit back and discover the world of the real.

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Transcript

Hello,

And welcome to a discussion of the matrix,

The desert of the real.

So you ask yourself,

What is the matrix?

And who are the blue pills and who are the red pills?

What is the difference between the two?

And can machines actually be self conscious?

And what about humanity?

Unless we are just nothing more than bio computers like Skinner and Pavlov might have thought about.

What if we're more than just that?

Like Buddha or Christ would have implied.

Because the people that have studied man,

They studied just normal men.

They did not study a Buddha or Christ.

So they don't know what is more than just the bio computer,

As you could call us or say that we are.

So the past three movies,

The geology of the matrix,

Never discusses man's spirituality.

It wasn't about spirituality,

It was about reality.

But we've taken it to mean something more in the real world because basically,

The blue pills,

You could call them the people that would have chosen the blue pill or to stay in the matrix or either consciously or unconsciously want to stay in the matrix.

They don't care about awareness.

They don't care about reality or what reality might really be.

So even in the movie,

Cypher states that ignorance is bliss.

And maybe that's so for certain people.

Maybe people are happy living in complete ignorance and not functioning from an aware center.

Or actually,

You could say functioning from the mind center.

And it's not really total ignorance,

It's just it has no sense of awareness,

No self awareness.

I know Buddha said that the self doesn't exist.

But in no way has Buddha ever denied the essence of the soul,

The essence of our spirits.

In fact,

He knows better because he's become reunited with the spirit.

So we could probably say and think of it as Buddha was really one of the first red pills.

Even though I think enlightenment existed for at least 10,

000 years before Buddha ever came along.

There were other Buddhas,

But Guatamada Buddha made such a contribution because he was the greatest scientist of the of the inner world of the of our esoteric essence.

So in essence,

What I'm saying is that the people in the world,

And this real reality of what we might call the matrix in the real world,

The red pills are those people who want to know and function from a different center,

From an awareness center from a consciousness center.

So if you wish to be a blue pill,

I suggest maybe you don't listen to the rest of this recording,

Because the rest of this recording is going to be about how to be a red pill,

How to see and go beyond the matrix.

Because the matrix is everywhere around you.

Everything you see,

Everything you perceive is actually a little different than what reality really is.

So you are being blinded by your own mind.

Yes,

It's your mind that is basically stopping you from realizing what reality really is,

What really is going on around you.

And your mind is not to blame,

It's just a servant.

But it shouldn't be the master.

You're supposed to be the master and your consciousness should be the master.

And your mind should just be a servant,

Not the other way around.

And these are exciting times,

Very exciting times,

Because you have somebody coming to you who has experienced life outside of this matrix,

Outside of this subdued reality that exists around you.

So you're quite unique.

And also it's really great that they've actually come out with Matrix Resurrections.

And within a week or two,

Maybe after this recording gets published,

It'll probably be only a week or so before it's released in America.

And I think it's going to be interesting what Lana Wachowski has come up with.

I keep watching advertisements and theories as to what's going to go on in this movie and everything.

And I think it's just going to be a journey of Lana's,

You know,

With the struggles that she has endured over the last 20 years.

And like I said,

She's also expressing part of what her life was about in this movie.

So it'd be quite interesting to see how it all turns out.

And I think it's going to be great.

I'm really looking forward to it.

And I hope you guys are too.

Especially all my red pill friends.

So anyway,

Back to being a red pill.

The way to take this red pill without actually physically taking a pill that wakes you up,

Because I don't think one really exists that can do that.

I mean you can take drugs like LSD or DMT or all these other things and you'll get a subtle waking for a few minutes.

But then you fall back asleep.

And then you're back into the matrix.

But because of that drug,

You became aware that there's something more.

You could actually see what's closer to the truth than what you're being blinded by.

So it's an escape from the mind,

But it's a dangerous escape with many pitfalls and side effects and just negative things that can happen to you.

I don't know if,

Except for Ram Dass and Alan Watts basically are the only two red pills that really dove into taking psychedelic drugs and have actually gone on to become Buddhas themselves.

So it's very few.

Two out of a couple billion people is a very,

Very small minute chance that if you try to repeat their process that you could come up with the same results.

So I don't think I would advise taking psychedelic drugs when actually there's a safer way to do it and it's easier and it's faster.

I mean you can become a Buddha in one hour.

In one whole hour if you can do one thing.

And that one thing is to be conscious and aware of every breath you take in and the gap you create inside of you between that breath and the outward breath.

So there's a gap there.

And then there's a gap also that happens outside so that the outward breath goes back to the inward breath.

There's two gaps.

So if you just follow the breath and follow those gaps and be aware of the gap for a few seconds before you breathe it out.

And be aware as the breath goes out.

And this new gap that you create inside of yourself,

It creates a center.

A center of awareness.

When you become aware of that gap,

Basically you're feeding awareness to all the cells in your body.

Being consciously aware of it,

You're feeding awareness and compassion and love inside your body and it will slowly wake you up.

And if you can do it for a complete hour,

This one whole hour of just nothing but breath without taking your mind off the breath one time for a whole hour,

You will become a Buddha.

That's a bold statement but it's actually a very hard thing to do.

I can go into meditation and follow the breath until I basically disappear.

And when I come out of my meditation,

When I come out of that disappearance,

I'm right back into watching again and watching whatever level I'm at.

There are many levels in meditation.

I've discussed them in other videos.

But anyway,

If you can create this new center in you,

This center of awareness between the gaps of breath,

Then a miracle will happen.

You'll realize what the matrix is and you'll start to see the real.

So yeah,

That's pretty interesting.

Give it a shot sometime.

If you think you can do it,

That's wonderful.

There are many other methods.

Some gurus have mentioned that in sex you can find this center too.

But that's very dangerous in sex because it can pull you off the path.

That's as easy as it can guide you along the path.

But anyway,

That's for another subject and another day.

So yeah,

This movie The Matrix is coming out.

It's interesting because I think that machines could never be self-conscious.

They can be a lot of things but computers only know what's been fed into them.

They can only repeat what they know.

They're great at math,

They're great at science,

They're great at.

.

.

They can do many miraculous things a lot faster than the human mind can.

But they can never be self-aware.

At least I don't think they ever could be self-aware.

And if a machine ever became self-aware,

It would never put man.

.

.

Because if it became self-aware and conscious of itself,

Then you would understand that man has a consciousness too.

And you could never put man in the place of a pod and make him a battery because there's this consciousness that could come about and it could throw a whole wrench in the machine.

But also,

Think about what if there's such thing as all the ghosts of all these millions of people that have been used as batteries.

They feel like maybe they've been living in this fake reality,

Whereas back in 1999 still,

And just throwing a loop in it somehow.

But I don't know.

It's just interesting.

I love the concept of how it's laid out in our lives over the last 20 years and the impact that's made on so many people.

It just wows me.

I'm sure it wowed Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss.

But I just think that man is something more than a bio-computer.

There's something more to man.

I can say that I've experienced this something more.

And I don't want you to try to believe me or just listen to what I say and become an astute follower.

What I want you to do is actually try these methods.

So experiment in life.

Be adventuresome.

Be bold and be brave,

Because God does favor the brave.

I know that's a bold statement,

But it's true in every sense that the brave people in the world—I'm not saying I never really thought of myself as brave,

But jumping out of planes and skydiving a couple of thousands of times—you become a little bit brave.

Surfing in the ocean amongst all the sharks and all the other crazy sea life out there that could really do you harm makes you a little brave too.

But I said if you experiment with yourselves and try these things and give yourself the benefit of the doubt,

Take that red pill,

Dive into it.

There's a new awareness,

A new life waiting for you on the other side.

Right now you're living in a life of unawareness.

You're a blue pill basically until you take the red pill.

So it's your choice.

You can stay in the matrix and see where it leads you,

And maybe you'll have to live another life and another life and another life in the matrix before you ever become aware.

But that's your choice.

That's freedom of free will,

I guess you could call it.

Some people are arguing nowadays that free will is just a myth,

But in reality you do have the choice.

You can live in unawareness.

You can live with blinders on your whole life,

Or you can take them off and experience what life is about,

Really about,

And all the beauty that it entails.

And let me tell you,

It sure is beautiful on the other side.

It's not like in the movie where it's a grim reality where you're living in caves and eating soup for dinner every night.

But with that in mind,

I have to give you a warning,

Or help and give you a warning,

That basically once you start going down the path of the red pill,

Once you're starting to bring awareness into your life,

It is very addictive,

It's very alluring.

Things start happening.

Synchronicity with life,

With existence,

Things will start happening.

Numbers will seem sequential,

And you'll notice 1111,

Or 444,

Or 555,

Or 333.

You'll notice all these things that when you start becoming more aware that you fall in line with what existence is actually all about,

What is waiting for you to discover.

So it becomes an incredible journey.

It can be painful though.

It definitely can be painful because,

Like I said,

Ignorance is bliss.

And when you leave ignorance behind,

When you become more aware,

You become more responsible at the same time.

It's a double-edged sword.

You can't be more aware and not be more responsible and be more sensitive.

So you'll start to be more of a caring person and living closer to the heart center.

The real center is not the heart center.

It's actually a little bit lower.

But your real center functions from awareness.

And you're going to push those breaths down into your gut every time you concentrate and go into meditation.

Or if you're just sitting there doing nothing,

Just close your eyes and watch that breath and feel that awareness and feel it light up your soul from the inside.

And eventually you'll become enlightened because that's just what happens to the red pills when they've swallowed the whole pill.

But it is,

Like I said,

Free will.

And you've been warned.

So either stay in the matrix or discover the real.

All right guys,

Thanks for listening.

I really appreciate your time and I hope you enjoyed this talk.

Let's see how the movie turns out.

Leave me a comment.

Maybe even after you saw the movie,

Let's send back a comment on this thread here,

On this track and we'll discuss it even more when they give us some fuel to talk about.

Anyway,

Thank you for your time.

You guys take care of yourselves.

Namaste and aloha to all my surfing friends.

Adios and goodbye.

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Douglas GrummonsGalveston, TX, USA

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Elycia

December 24, 2022

Well explained on red versus blue pill 💊. I’m a red pill taker and it’s lit 🔥.

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