With the bio pod scene where Neo gets flushed, Neo has finally exited the Matrix…or has he? Is he now in base reality? Or has he just moved up one level in a nested simulation a la Thirteenth Floor or Inception? We’ll come back to this idea later, but strange things are afoot at the Circle K □ Morpheus’s description of the Matrix □…”it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you to the truth”. I’ve literally felt this way my whole life. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind.” □ You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. “You are here because you know something. The most entertaining would be to assume it’s a single player game, and PLAY! When the cracks in the illusion appear, and you realize it’s all false…yep, exactly this.īecause I don’t like the idea that I’m not in control of my own life.”įree will is probably an illusion, but nobody wants to accept that…and frankly, that feels like a boring way to operate. Ironically this is not far from the truth.” □ “You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. The illusion is cracked, and there’s no putting Humpty Dumpty back together again even if you want to…so be careful where you start poking around. “I imagine that right now you feel a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole.” This is what it feels like, deep in your gut, when you finally awaken *within* the dream. His role is that of a guide, someone who has awoken, and helps others to do the same. Quite a fitting name for his role in this movie. In Greek mythology, he was the son of the god of sleep, and was responsible for sending human shapes to dreamers within dreams. You know exactly where it ends, and I know that’s not where you want to be.” Fuckin A. To “the system”, we’re all just batteries to be used and discarded. But what is a battery? A store of energy, made to be used by something or someone. “Listen to me copper top” □ Switch just called Neo a battery, lol. Who he chooses to be…or at least who he wants to be. Neo is actually his true, authentic self. I see Thomas Anderson as the inauthentic character, the role the Matrix shoehorned him into, but not who he sees himself as. “One of these lives has a future, and the other does not.” We seem to be deeply wired to ask/seek this, but shy of enlightenment, all you’ll find are more questions.Īgent Smith talks to Neo about his 2 lives. What is real? What is true? What is the nature of reality? = What is The Matrix? “It’s the question that drives us Neo…What is The Matrix?” “If you meet the buddha on the road, kill him” and all that. The song in the club, Dragula by Rob Zombie…one of the lines is “Dead I am the one” □ Appropriate on multiple levels, and one hell of a lantern for the end of the movie.īut more than that if Zen is accurate, “you” have to “die” in order to truly wake up to your oneness. That Neo saw it, changed his mind, and followed it though…may we all do as much. Many people swear these exist in our “reality”, and I’ve experienced a few things that seemed as such myself (though they could just be false patterns, attentional bias, confirmation bias, etc.). When Neo spots the white rabbit tattoo on Dujour □, this is what some call a synchronicity. Thing is, we can ALL unplug from “The Matrix” by disattaching and living in the now, by going through the awakening process. When Choi says, “It just sounds to me like you need to unplug man” □ The word choice in this movie is □ The line, “You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?”, makes me think of Chuang Tzu: Keanu actually read this book in prep for his role as Neo (a gift from the Wachowski’s I believe). The chapter he opens to is, ironically, On Nihilism □ Nihilism is fascinating, but radically misunderstood…maybe I’ll do a post on that someday. The book Neo has his stash in is Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard (a Sim Hyp type book). Alice in Wonderland is a wonderful philosophical story as well.Īs strange as this may sound, I’ve often wondered if Alice in Wonderland was based on someone’s awakening experience in the same way Moby Dick was… “Follow the white rabbit” is again literal and metaphorical.
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