>
>
> This is why the movie was so far reaching in scope. The question itself
> of the various matrixes we exist under. I think a synonym to matrix would
> be 'illusions'. So the question might be better simplified and understood
> as a question, 'What illusions do we exist under today'? And there would
> be many; perhaps all of it.
>
> Of course, the first to come to mind would be the Christ illusion as C3
> correctly alludes to I think. But what about the very enculturated values
> we are born into? I mean, why "IS" murder wrong for instance? Why
> 'should' we wear clothes? The question of marriage has become such a
> tender issue these days, but why "any' marriage at all? On and on, we
> find the illusive qualities of a kind of 'cyber-space' reality we exist
> under, not of computer machines, but of the organic computer atop our
> heads that has succinctly ascribed to imprinted worlds based upon our
> experience with it over time.
>
> The more we move our existence under the visage of science, the more we
> withdraw from our 'matrix' worlds that have evolved through simple
> experience, and we take on more and more the characterization of the
>
machine...cold, logical, rational, barren...much like the barren wasteland
> where Zion existed in the movie.
>
> There is no easy answer as to 'should' we take the blue pill or the red
> pill. Most rationalists would look upon old world traditions as ignorant
> backwardness...much as the awakened citizens of Zion would have seen the
> still asleep members of the matrix as fodder for the stronger scourge of
> the machines [or whatever mesmerizing evil domain that might exist].
>
> I might be said [by those rationalists], that anything that keeps us away
> from reality is a tyranny that should be resisted: Knowledge and
> enlightenment at all costs. Yet, life when it comes right down to it
> remains just a 'subjective experience' no matter what matrix we might
> happen to exist under, even that of the scientific machine. So, perhaps
> even that we might have a choice between the blue or red pill, could be
> just another illusion...just another box within a bigger box...just
> another matrix to resolve consciousness upon.
>
> If so, then it may be the deeper understanding, the more keen
> intelligence, the wiser mode of operation...to be able to not try and
> escape our matrixes, but only to CHOOSE within which one to exist.
>
> This is why I have personally chosen Christianity BTW. I feel it offers
> the greatest hope, the richer experiences, and the greater rewards for the
> short time we are conscious. I base this upon the aspect of this thing we
> call love...something the movie also understood as a fulcrum upon which
> choices are ultimately made. But beware the charelton snake oil charmers.
> Every single matrix has them.
>
>
If you are into Christianity, have you looked into Szekely's work on
translating old Aramaic scrolls from the 4th century embedded in the
vatican?
http://www.thenazareneway.com/index_essene_gospels_of_peace.htm
It was in 1928 that Edmond Bordeaux Szekely (pronounced Say-Kay) first
published his translation of The Essene Gospel of Peace, an ancient
manuscript discovered in the Secret Archives of the Vatican as the result of
limitless patience, faultless scholarship, and unerring intuition.
The English version first appeared in 1937 representing yet another fragment
of the complete manuscript which exists in Aramaic in the Secret Archives of
the Vatican and in old Slavonic in the Royal Library of the Habsburgs (now
the property of the Austrian government). The poetic style of the translator
brings to vivid reality the exquisitely beautiful words of Jesus and the
Elders of the Essene Brotherhood. Liberated from the secret archives of the
Vatican, these sacred scrolls are testaments to the eternal and living truth
of the Way.
"In the beginning was the Sound, and the Sound was with God, and the Sound
was God."
[ much editing has been done by men who no longer knew what Jesus [ and
others] was speaking about originally .... all quite twisted far from the
Truth of matters, imho.]
and
And Jesus answered: "Seek not the law in your scriptures, for the law is
life, whereas the scripture is dead. I tell you truly, Moses recieved not
his laws from God in writing, but through the living word. [ ie Sound - not
the spoken words or written words ] The law is living word of living God to
living prophets for living men. In everything that is life is the law
written. You find it in the grass, in the tree, in the river, in the
mountain, in the birds of heaven, in the fishes of the sea; but seek it
chiefly in yourselves."
and
"You have learned that the laws of the Son of man are seven, of the angels
three, and of God, one. Now you shall *know* of the three laws of the
angels, the mystery of the three Holy Streams and the ancient way to
traverse them; so shall you bathe in the light of heaven and at last behold
the revelation of the mystery of mysteries; the law of God, which is One. "
