The Matrix: Part 2: The Prison of Your Social Conditioning

In the movie, The Matrix, a portion of mankind is living a simulated reality created by conscious reasoning machines. This virtual activity can only take place by stealing the bioelectric power of humans, with its sole purpose being to subdue mankind into passivity and suppression in order to feed itself.

If this seems familiar, it’s because social conditioning has made your life like that Matrix; you spend your days feeding your life force into the machine, giving it your energy. You dump it all into the machine of social conditioning. This is like the cave, the ‘social condition’ created in Plato's theory.

The mind, like the science fiction Matrix, has a tendency to use whatever it can for its own agenda, so if your emotions are fragile, for example, your mind will ‘protect’ itself by shutting down to anything that might hurt you emotionally. If you’ve been embarrassed by a failure, your mind will prevent you from engaging in anything that resembles that experience. But once again, these are all illusions.

We are constantly decorating our prisons…

…improving the masks we wear, putting up fronts, and trying to survive within the parameters set up by the social conditioning Matrix. However, regardless of how you’ve been conditioned to hide yourself, to fit in, true nature does not change. You are not the mask you wear. That true nature is what you must strive to rediscover by getting rid of your existing illusions.

There are endless levels of mind.

Human consciousness is a continuum, timeless, the Imminent Self, simply I Am or anata - no self. Here is where you are able to see outside your conditioning and recognize the illusions for what they are. There is a constant, intelligent inner energy or prana in you which, when it finds samadhi, or the awakening from your mask, is freed from societal conditional patterns and becomes available to be directed by the soul, your true nature.

It’s in this way that you can manifest the illusion that suits you best. You will have literally changed your prana, your energy; now the illusion is observer created, with you being the observer, not the victim of your social conditioning reflected as thoughts that emanate from both the unconscious and subconscious portion of your mind, thoughts which are replayed over and over again because this is what was familiar, even though it may have been counterproductive.

And just like in The Matrix, once you’re aware of how the machine works, you will be able to shape it to your desire; you’ll be reawakened with the capacity to perceive and command the matrix, and you will be shown a universe in which anything is possible.