The Matrix: A Culture of Lies and Illusions

We can't wake up to the idea of escape, if we don't even realize we're in prison, and most of us on the planet now don't have a clue. We think we live in the free-est country in the world -- America -- land of the free and home of the brave. Hogwash, Alice!

Most of us are enslaved by materialism, debt and the need to survive in a world full of psycopaths. The American public has been so thoroughly hypnotized by the electronic media, which is now controlled by corporate elitists and the government, that we have lost the power to think, let alone the ability to see the forest for the trees.

I said in my description of this blog that we live in a world dominated completely by Evil Magicians. This concept was introduced by G. I. Gurdjieff, an early 20th century Gnostic philosopher, to teach his students about what we would call the Matrix Control System. P. D. Ouspensky, a student of Gurdjieff, offers Gurdjieff's parable in his book, In Search of the Miraculous, which uses the metaphor of a rich magician and his sheep:

"First of all it must be realized that the sleep in which man exists is not normal, but hypnotic sleep. Man is hypnotized and this hypnotic state is continually maintained and strengthened in him. One would think that there are forces for whom it is useful and profitable to keep man in a hypnotic state and prevent him from seeing the truth and understanding his position.

"There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines, and so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh and skins and this they did not like.

"At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.

"And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins.

"This tale is a very good illustration of man's position." (p. 219; author's italics)

Indeed.

Now, let's see what else Gurdjieff and Ouspensky have to say about being in prison. Again, from In Search of the Miraculous, here's first a quote from Gurdjieff, then Ouspensky's remarks:

"You do not realize your own situation. You are in prison. All you can wish for, if you are a sensible man, is to escape. But how escape? It is necessary to tunnel under a wall. One man can do nothing. But let us suppose there are ten or twenty men -- if they work in turn and if one covers another they can complete the tunnel and escape.

"Furthermore, no one can escape from prison without the help of those who have escaped before. Only they can say in what way escape is possible or can send tools, files, or whatever may be necessary. But one prisoner alone cannot find these people or get into touch with them. An organization is necessary. Nothing can be achieved without an organization."

G. often returned afterwards to this example of "prison" and "escape from prison" in this talks. Sometimes he began with it, and then his favorite statement was that, if a man in prison was at any time to have a chance to escape, then he must first of all realize that he is in prison. So long as he fails to realize this, so long as he thinks he is free, he has no chance whatever. No one can help or liberate him by force, against his will, in opposition to his wishes. If liberation is possible, it is possible only as a result of great labor and great efforts, and, above all, of conscious efforts, towards a definite aim. (p. 30; author's italics)

So, there you have it. Evil Magicians, the Architects of the Matrix, have been controlling this planet for a very long, long time, always hiding their true intentions. When you look at the history of our planet, it is quite clear that Machiavellian ideas have reigned supreme for eons, long before Niccola Machiavelli thought to write them down in The Prince, and they are no less prevalent today.

Gurdjieff offers the only means of escape -- a group, an organization. Until groups of us band together in like-minded determination to escape, we are lost. And to form groups of like-minded people means that a critical mass must first awaken to the fact that we are in prison, we are not free, we are merely sheeple.

"Neo, wake up. Wake up. Follow the rabbit..."