The Riddle
There are signs all around us that tell us the story, but like a riddle whose answer is obvious once revealed, yet the solution eludes. Examples include recent movies which are more or less revisions of ancient concepts. For example, the film, the Matrix, contains this sequence:
Morpheus: I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
Forms of the Riddle
Simply replace the name, Neo, in the above passage with your own and you may begin to see more clearly. Each of us has certain attributes that come with us at birth, and then others that are picked up along the way. If it is true that this world is an incubator, then questions arise as to who or what is doing the incubation.
If wrapped in traditional religion, a similar message can be found:
The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison. 7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists. 8 The angel said to him, “Fasten your belt and put on your sandals.” He did so. Then he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” 9 Peter[a] went out and followed him; he did not realize that what was happening with the angel’s help was real; he thought he was seeing a vision. 10 After they had passed the first and the second guard, they came before the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went outside and walked along a lane, when suddenly the angel left him. 11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hands of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
There are numerous other examples where the same message has been conveyed since antiquity. A few of those are listed out:
Written Works
Films
- The Republic by Socrates
- The Matrix
- Existenz
- Inception
- The Truman Show
Songs
Makeshift Kingdom by Sweatshop Union
Perhaps with this backdrop reality could, on some levels, be compared to an elaborate video game. There is video game player providing input to a character interacting in a game world. The game world would have rules that govern its operation. Carry the video game concept one step further and consider that the character interacting in the game world has a some level of awareness of consciousness.
The Foundational Laws
- The Law of Three
- The Law of Seven
- The Law of Return
Mindsets and Belief
- Failures in the Scientific Method as they related to Goedel's Proof
- Signs and Seasons
"The more I learned about [reality] later on, as a physicist, the more struck I was that, when you get deep down into how nature works, down into looking at all of you as a bunch of quarks and electrons […] if you look at how these quarks move around, the rules are entirely mathematical, as far as we can say,"