I can’t help what you believe. However, I can believe in nothing, which opens me to everything believed and not believed by you and everyone else. Mystery lives on without any particular emphasis (belief) that anything real came from a belief in it—just pure surprise.
What you believe is a low and restrictive form of living that clouds “what is” with delusion and fantasy and prevents you from embracing the all-inclusive spectacle that lies before you now. In other words, until you see “what is” right now, you will never see anything real, and your mind will always take over with something “other” to replace it. Believe it or not.
Bozebits
Your greatest act, the most significant and grand thing you have ever done or will ever do, is what you do right now. That’s right! Even in your imagination, you cannot top the spectacle, mystery, and sheer exhilaration of “what is” right now.
Embrace it, love it, and lose yourself entirely to it. Wonders surround you NOW.
Bozebits
Of what value is anything we know when we encounter mystery? The predicate of mystery is that in its presence, we know nothing, but out of nothing wonders emerge. Little we know serves any purpose in the unfoldment of life. What we don’t know, however, is loaded with adventure.
The Matrix and Such Things
I have a site on Facebook titled “Spiritual Intuition” where I post a daily comment both in the morning and later in the evening. I have also been invited to share the posts on a few other sites that are looking for spiritual or inspirational content, as well. Occasionally I get comments or feedback and on some occasions I even get a question or request to expound further, which in most cases, I do right there in the comments to the post.
On one such occasion I was asked a question that I feel would be more appropriate in a blog post. I’ve hesitated to respond to this particular question because my answer is of such a nature that it might be thought offensive or flippant and I really don’t want that to be how it is seen nor do I ever want to offend someone who is asking questions in a most sincere way. I’ve decided to proceed anyway but with the disclaimer that this is not intended to be a put down in any way.
First the post I put on Facebook and then the question that followed (http://fb.me/vWecbJXx).
My post: “Nothing, no one is orchestrating your experience. Stop tying yourself to reasons that have no reason.
The best excuse for living is that you already are. Get in to it! Awesome day! Carl”
Now the question: “Throw light on the matrix theory, some day, Carl. And also, how do you see it….in the light of the above quotation. My best wishes.”
Dear friend,
For me and in the simplest terms, I have no experience with the “matrix theory” and so in that sense it does not exist for me. Having said that, I don’t think about it at all other than in the context of something I call “junk food for the brain.” It is fascinating to listen to others speculate and expound on the complexities of such things and, of course, the movie “The Matrix” is a creative wonder that captivated the minds of millions of people including me. Still, I honestly don’t think about it nor do I find any discussion of it germane to my experience as a human being.
If “it” (the Matrix) is, then for me, “it” simply is and I am good with it. I often tell people to overcome and put aside their unique and, or their specific beliefs about things, as these are what binds us to an experience that is limited and often frustrating. In other words, I believe everything or nothing which is ultimately the same thing. It simplifies the experience of life by taking all the worry and concern out of it and leaves “it,” as I see it, pretty open to “all that is” which is, well, “all that is.”
My space alien friends and conspiracy theory friends and so many others who dwell on these things seem so wrapped up in the dangers and seedy underbelly of forces that are out to control us and take away our freedoms and life experience as we now know it and I still can’t get myself to alter any focus on anything other than this incredible experience I am constantly embraced by. I do love a good mystery and I am in constant aw and wonder at the creative ways the human mind can conjure all these things and yet at the same time who’s to say that any of it is untrue? Certainly not me. All I can offer is that I have no experience of it and you might already have heard me say that “nothing exists without our experience of it.” “Does a tree falling in the forest make a sound?” Not if I didn’t hear it. End of story…for me anyway!
As of yet, my post, which spawned your question, still holds, e.g., “nothing, no one is orchestrating your experience.” My experience has included the absolute awareness, and I often say, “it” is the one and only thing I know for sure” that “I am not this body.” I don’t know, believe or subscribe to anything else except this. I am not this body and this includes the mind, heart, feelings, consciousness and anything else we ascribe to human form. We experience “it” but we’re not “it.” We are something else that transcends human form and for me I couldn’t begin to describe it in terms the human mind could comprehend. So I don’t. I just accept that “something” is having this incredible human experience and what “it” is loves it completely without question or judgment.
Some may see this as incredibly simplistic and it is but oh my…what liberation! I don’t worry at all about the masters of the matrix or what the illuminati is doing to the world, or whether the crazy gods whoever they may be are doing to the world I create and experience. They, whoever they are, haven’t taken over any part of my experience yet so I’m living the dream. I take that back; the dream is living me!
I think I’ve answered the second part of your question. It doesn’t have any effect on my experience other than to provide a little mysterious fun (junk food) to my already wild imagination and as for what I get to be aware of in this experience, the matrix, the boogeyman de jour or the latest conspiracy theory, could not come close to imagining or affecting. My excuse for living, is, simply living. I love it all!
Thanks again for asking the question and bearing with my response. This has been fun for me and hopefully for you as well. All my best and please never hesitate to comment further, share your thoughts of this and many other subjects, or rebut my remarks. Life for me is pretty non-complex. I actually see it as a vacation; that is, a vacation of the Gods from the other things Gods do (this also means I think you’re God). Vacations are for relaxing, recharging, having fun and most of all not taking anything too seriously. I’m pretty good at it! All my love,
Carl