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What would happen if I disconnected from the matrix?

Posted on by philipdodson

The collective mind comes to us via many different forms such as other people, the media both mainstream and social, the internet, and other forms of collective communication. It is a matrix of thoughts, all based on fear that is magnified from the individual minds to become one giant collective fear. 

This fear-based flow of thoughts, opinions, demands and hatred is totally invasive and leads to a complete overwhelm for most of us. However, because we are individually part of this matrix with our own mind feeding this collective and running on unconscious fear-based agendas, we actually need this collective mind. We are overwhelmed and exhausted by it, yet at the same time addicted to it.

What if we switched it off? Disconnected from it? What if we stopped watching the news and TV? Switched our phones off? Stopped reading the newspaper? Stopped listening to the radio news? Stepped away from the drama of others and their fears? What if we choose to disconnect from the collective mind? What if we left the matrix?

Well, from my experience and that of talking to others who have done that to a greater or lesser extent, the answer is you are happier, more joyful, more conscious, you are no longer overwhelmed or fearful, and you spend more time doing and just being.

Has the world ended? No. Did you miss anything that was important? No. When you do occasionally reconnect, is it the same shit just a different date? Yes.

Overwhelm and suffering within are self-inflicted by our choice to connect and stay connected to the collective mind and all its fears.

The loop of life

Posted on by philipdodson

For a long time now, life for many has followed a predictable pattern and the industrialised system has sold us the ‘journey’ and in reward for going along, we get trinkets for our services, which we then spend back into the system to buy the lifestyle they system sold us.

It’s a ‘loop of life’ from birth to death and if we have children, they start another loop of the same journey and so on. It ‘s self-perpetuating.

We can, of course, be ‘happy’ following this loop, well, often what we believe is happiness. It is more likely to be on surface as we are fearful of not fitting in, so we pretend we are happy.

We are conditioned for this ‘loop’ from birth, into early years by our parents, who have already been fully conditioned, then by school and then work and wider society. We follow the path fearful of stepping out of the loop.

The conditioning leads us into a loop that is dominated by unconsciousness, deep in thought within our minds, driven by fear, and as the conditioning is very ego driven, it leads to a great deal of comparison, judgement, criticism and suffering internally and externally.

The loop is there, we are all aware of it, and yet we happily enrol on the journey, fearing there is no choice and, of course, it ‘gets better’ as everyone tells you.

It takes bravery and consciousness to step out of the loop, to break free and to unlearn our conditioning. We have to be prepared to be vulnerable and to enter the wilderness, to be on the edge, to be alone. Yet when we do this, when become who we truly are, instead of pretending and following the loop, we experience true joy rather than the shallowness that a new car, or a bar of chocolate or more trinkets will bring us on the loop. We free ourselves from suffering of the mind and the ego and we then step out on a journey where we can be what our soul wants to be…our true-self.