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4 Ways to Bend and Break Free of the Matrix

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4 Ways to Bend and Break Free of the Matrix

“Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.” ~  Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well

One of the many insights I’ve had throughout my life is that we’re living in a computer programme. This has been through a series of dreams that I vividly remember where I went from flying down rainbows and over mountains to gradually getting dragged back down to earth around the age of four or five.

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I then went through a series of labyrinth-like dreams when I was seven where I would open doors to rooms and attempt to ‘complete’ the task of the room, which was always next to impossible before I could carry on. This may sound like a reflection of the nineties TV shows I might have been watching at the time, but they always seemed very significant… not to mention devastating.

The moments in my life where I have achieved higher states of consciousness compliment this idea. After meditating for weeks at a time in a communal setting – or in neutral places where the matrix is less influential such as retreats and mountain tops – I have ‘exited’ the matrix by turning the tables on and questioning those very thoughts that most would call the ego.

What if the ego was not a result of our fear-based experiences when we were children (or at least, not exclusively a result) but a culmination of all the inserted beliefs we have been fed – knowingly or unknowingly to us throughout our lives?

Say we have a distressing experience as a child and the adults around us were kind to us and we didn’t consume any media. There would still be ‘hooks’ or memes floating around in the air around us that we could either chose to consume, or not.

Of course the purer our environment and the more we are protected from this programme of modern life, the less likely it was that we would be sucked into the programme.

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Here are 4 ways to bend and break free of the matrix

Control your Thoughts

The idea of reality as we continue to play with it can be a catalyst for spiritual ascension. If we agree with ourselves that every time we invest in time or the thoughts that are parading through our minds and allow ourselves to become ‘hooked’ into a wormhole of consciousness (or a dead end) that we are being fed on in some way, then we automatically trigger a rebellion against this cycle.

This can lead to the ascension of and from thought, and if you try it for yourself; if you experience this rebellion – which let’s face it is what we do in meditation – then we can begin to break free of the matrix.

Say you come across a thought while chopping vegetables as you make your dinner. Having becoming adept at observing those thoughts, you become aware that there are kind, encouraging ones (possibly inserted by positive caregivers), there are critical self effacing ones that may be a result of experiences that induced a strong emotional reaction, and there may also be bizarre and disturbing ones that seemingly come out of and from nowhere.

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The latter are the ones you want to start with. By taking control over the traffic that runs through your mind and each time you get a thought that definitely doesn’t belong there, pulling your ‘lens’ out and shining your spotlight on it for all its ridiculousness, you will see that it is not part of YOU, and the thought will scarper.

This sort of thought or hook is specifically designed to be associated with by the being it is attempting to host. And the more you associate with these negative parasites, the more you lower your frequency and become vulnerable to bigger parasites that will literally try to suck you dry.

Be Aware of what you Consume

This is why people who experience emotional abuse can slip into coma-like states and suffer from ME and other illnesses where they are alive, but only just about. This is also why you have to be vigilant about what you ‘consume’; food, air, media, entertainment, friends, words, thoughts… in order not to get sucked in deeper to the programme.

Places are also significant in that they have a specific programme independent of the people in them. In fact, because of the strength of the spatial programme, the people that reside there actually BECOME the programme. This is especially true of cities but can apply to any place.

This is why when you travel, you become more aware of the matrix… and guess what, that makes you a threat! If you start paying attention (with an attitude of love and humour so you don’t go mad) you will notice that absolutely everything about our modern world is designed to keep you in the matrix.

Transcend your own Personal Ego

Playing out the rest of your programme is one significant part of rebelling against the matrix and can also be a way to transcend your own personal ‘ego’ they have designed for you.

There will be parts of the programme that you will need to continue to play out until you reach their conclusion or become energetically free of them. This includes the upper levels of the third dimensional matrix of the desire to be famous or rich.

If you consider that the matrix is there to trap us, but that it can also be utilized to help us break free. Like Neo bending the matrix to dodge bullets or download a programme into his consciousness in order to learn martial arts, we can look at the threads we are playing out and use them to our advantage.

This is also why spiritual teachers tell us to just enjoy what we are experiencing and gives new meaning to the Buddhist teaching that there is suffering. You must accept your hooks before you can pull them out.

If you desire something in the matrix, then go directly into that energy and allow it to peak. Do what scares you (those doubting thoughts may have been inserted there to stop you from realizing the root of them, because the programme knows that the moment you do, you will exit and hack it).

So get so rich you don’t know what to do with the money, or get a gorgeous model girlfriend and experience that energy. As soon as you do, you will probably understand that it doesn’t make you feel good and is simply an illusion.

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Align With Yourself

Being present and aligned with your authentic self is the way to bend and break free of the matrix, because then we are taking control of the full extent of our power and telling any mind control techniques that are being thrown at us that this is our turf and our property.

The more self sufficient and empowered we are, the harder those mind control techniques become; pelting us with hooks, some invisible so that we might be tricked into following them and getting lost in a dead end. We must stay vigilant against these mirages and rejoice when we hack them.

When we break free of one then we are one step closer to personal integrity and the enjoyment of 100% of our energetic fields and become like children before we got sucked down the rabbit hole. I realize I’m reversing this metaphor. Surely the sunlit field is where we want to reside?

The thing to recognize is that we have free will. We have the choice whether to live at our full potential or let some entity we have little awareness of get fat on our human brilliance. What will you decide to do?

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Striking a Balance Between Spiritual Growth and Worldly Responsibility

Sarah Hirsch
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Striking a Balance Between Spiritual Growth and Worldly Responsibility

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Tailhard de Chardin

The spiritual path is a twisty one, full of spirals and zig-zags that lead, bit by bit, toward closer communion with God. I was set on my own path, at least consciously, about three years ago, and in that time I’ve seen many amazing things, experienced true magic, and felt deep, ecstatic union with Divinity.

It’s been a wild ride, and one that often hasn’t been met with approval, much less understanding, by many people in my life.

Family and Faith

“We move in eternal regions, yet worry about property here.” ~ Rumi

Balance Art By Michael Grab 06For most of my life, I got the message that the way to happiness was through excelling at school, getting a great degree, beating other people out for that perfect job, then finding a husband and settling down. On the spiritual path, I’ve found the opposite message to be the one that gets the loudest airplay.

“Follow your bliss,” as the indomitable Jospeh Campbell says.

Except, what happens when you get to a point in your life — say, after you’ve got kids and a mortgage and a devoted partner — and discover your relationship with God? What if following your bliss means leaving all that? After all, countless spiritual leaders left behind loved ones (usually wives, curiously) and children, businesses and social structures, in order to pursue their path.

Siddhartha, who became the Buddha, walked out on his wife and child in the middle of the night, without so much as a goodbye. Srila Prabhupada, the man who brought the Hindu vaishnava tradition to the West, also left behind a wife and multiple children.

There are certainly cases where Spirit asks an individual to sacrifice literally everything they’ve known to pursue their calling. I’d wager to say, however, that this approach doesn’t hold water for a lot of people heading down the road Home.

Divinity in the details

“Do you speak to me like you speak to God? All the love and understanding between the Father and the Son.” ~ Nahko & Medicine For The People

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That might leave a whole lot of us — myself included — wondering how to move forward in this society, in our current family dynamics, while maintaining a dedication to spiritual growth. Well, there’s no one-size-fits-all, step-by-step answer.

To some degree or another things will inevitably change. Some relationships will deepen, some fall away altogether. That might mean spouses and work environments, but it doesn’t have to; that’s something only the individual can decide.

What can be applied across the board, however, is the approach we take to our relationships, whether with other people or with work. Even our relationships with cleaning, or taking the dog for a walk, or the dog itself.

Anything we approach with a sense of obligation or entitlement will be inevitably tainted by the ego’s need for separation. The detail that’s important here is this: Am I approaching this activity/relationship as I would approach God? That is, am I approaching it with love, understanding, and respect?

Balance vs Integration

“There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do and thus through you into this world…The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm…If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

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I would posit that the key is not to find a balance between your spiritual life and your workaday life, but to integrate the two. In this way, the hours you spend at work can be infused with life, that great energy that makes this mind-boggling universe work as splendidly as it does.

If you find yourself in a position, as Eckhart Tolle says, where you cannot at the bare minimum accept what you are doing, it is likely time to take a good hard look at that activity or relationship.

The energy that we put into each moment is the energy that will be transmitted to the end product. If that energy comes from a place of frustration or anger, no matter how beneficial or positive you envision the end product being, it will be tainted with that energy.

For example, if you are making a breakfast to feed hundreds of homeless people, but you resent the fact that you have to clean all these pots and pans, the food that you serve will be infused with that negativity. The body will still be fed, but the soul will continue to hunger.

However, if you can find acceptance, even enjoyment or enthusiasm in your work, keeping that kind of focus on what you’re doing immediately transforms it into a spiritual act. In this way, you are channeling love and life energy into even the most mundane of tasks.

Imagine, if filing your taxes could be elevated into an act of worship and expansion. As Aristotle said, “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” Change your mindset, and you can change the world.

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Four Theories About the Independent Consciousness of Thought

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Four Theories About the Independent Consciousness of Thought

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

We all know that thinking good thoughts is a wise idea. We especially know that good thoughts, perhaps through universal laws we intuitively sense are there, can bring about immense positive change and be mechanisms for progression and peace. But how much do we really know about our thoughts?

Perhaps they’re not the impersonal, intangible creations we think they are. Perhaps we don’t even create them but are ‘caught’ and riffled through, selected out of thin air becoming part of us forming some sort of parasitic relationship with us, their host.

Some even believe that thought forms are negative memes that have been generated by fear-spreading media or the matrix itself and are floating around above our heads just waiting to infect somebody. Is reality truthfully absent of thought and projection the adoption of thought or is thought essential for us to create our reality in the first place?

Here are four theories to explore the nature (and independence) of thought:

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” ~ Buddha

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244d1df0f38c19afcec93e367f312397Richard Dawkins coined this neologism to describe the independence of a collection of thoughts which can be measured by unit; that is of the ‘Meme.’ The concept of a meme has been obscured somewhat since its first appearance. It now feeds viral marketing and mindless distractions on social media, but the original implications of the meme are quite extraordinary.

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Expanding Your World Through Restraint: Practicing Yamas, the First Limb of Yoga

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Expanding Your World Through Restraint: Practicing Yamas, the First Limb of Yoga

“Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga.” ~ Dharma Mittra

Yama, in Sanskrit, translates to restraint; these are practices that an individual can use to restrain bodily desires and mental processes in order to become more fully present, and reduce suffering in oneself and the world.

Many religions throughout the world use a set of rules in order to bring about this kind of restraint, which are often based in good intentions. However, a human being living their life by a set of someone else’s rules will often fall into the trap of imitation.

For example, trying to be a ‘good’ person by the standards set forth by this particular church means that the individual is not following their own inner guide in order to move toward happiness and peace.

The Yamas are not rules, but are shifts in how we perceive the world and interact with it. They require awareness and the willingness to fall, because inevitably, we will. The goal is to recognize that a fall only becomes the end when we stay on the ground.

These are the five yamas listed by Patanjali in Yogasutra 2.30:

Ahimsa: Non-Violence

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“At the center on non-violence stands the principle of love.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ahimsa is the practice of non-harm; which includes no harm to others, to oneself, and to the world. However, it’s not just physical harm that one should abstain from inflicting, but mental and emotional harm as well.

When you look closer at the concept, it starts opening up to touch every single aspect of living a human life. Angry, aggressive words are a form of harm, just as much as kicking someone in the shin. Allowing self-denigrating thoughts to populate and run rampant in your mind is just as harmful as tearing someone else down with those same words.

Satya: Non-Lying

“Telling someone the truth is a loving act.” ~ Mal Pancoast

satya yamasThe true expression of satya is founded in ahimsa, as are all the yamas and niyamas that follow. If we practice truthfulness in our words, but our thoughts are still clouded by anger or greed, then it isn’t really truthfulness we are practicing.

Instead, it becomes merely a shadow of truthfulness, tainted by negativity.

Holding on to the truth when it should be shared, creating an illusion by propagating a lie, and convincing yourself that things are one way when in reality they are another, makes the world a scary and hostile place to exist in.

Even if the results of those lies may bring some temporary pleasure, or relief from the pain of the truth.

Asteya: Non-Stealing

“When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life’s abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third Yama, asteya.” ~ Donna Farhi

We are taught from a very young age that stealing is bad. However, as we grow up, more and more often it becomes clear that everyone steals, or so it seems. However, every act of theft — large or small — serves to dull the mind just a little bit.

We know we are doing something that is unethical, and our minds will quickly whip up all sorts of rationalizations for the act. This is a way of denying reality, turning away from the truth, and harming others.

The Yoga Sutra 2.37 states, “When non-stealing (asteya) is established, all jewels, or treasures present themselves, or are available to the Yogi.” By not taking what is not ours, the flow of energy in the Universe remains clear, bringing forth abundance.

Brahmacharya: Self Control

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The practice of brahmacharya is often conflated with the practice of celibacy. Again, we are looking at the difference between a shift in perspective, and a rule. Celibacy is a rule, whereas brahamacharya is asking the practitioner to maintain a focus and awareness of God, of the Higher Taste.

To indulge in pleasure for the sake of pleasure — whether sexual or otherwise — we spend our energy on the temporal and lose sight of the eternal.

That’s not to say that someone who practices brahmacharya should never have sex, as that would be a repression and a denial of a beautiful element of ourselves that was imbued in us by Divinity. Instead, it’s a matter of using that sexual energy in an ethical, aware, and focused way, which, in many cases, means the sexual energy won’t be used on sex.

Celibacy that arises as a natural progression from a focus on God is one thing; celibacy that is enforced as a prescription for spirituality often ends in that very energy manifesting as violence, subterfuge, and lies.

Aparigraha: Non-Grasping

“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. It is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The final Yama is non-grasping. In other terms, this is the art of letting go, or never holding on in the first place. The ego naturally wants to avoid pain and hold on to pleasure. Since everything in this world works as a cycle, however, neither of those practices can work for any sustained period of time. Pain will inevitably come, and pleasure will inevitably go.

When we avoid, or when we grasp, we are actively working against the flow of nature. This, in turn, breeds resentment, anger, and even violence. Residing in the truth of change, and the knowledge that pleasure and pain are both crucial aspects of this human experience, we can begin to open our fists and release the need to control that experience.

Utilizing the Yamas as tools of change

The first step to incorporating the Yamas into your life is through meditation. Sit with the Yamas and let them settle into your mind, then into your heart. Every day, choose one Yama to practice with as much fullness as you can, bringing your thoughts back to your chosen Yama as often as possible.

You’ll begin to see them arising naturally in your life, with time and focus. Always be kind to yourself, and forgiving. After all the first Yama, upon which all of Yoga is built, is Ahimsa.
Ahimsa starts with you.

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The Soul Mate in Everyone: Attracting the One

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The Soul Mate in Everyone: Attracting the One

“the one who will jolt awake all the unwritten the unsung and the unlived in me. i am waiting for him.” ~ Sanober Khan

A deep and respectful love of the human race most certainly perpetuates (and compliments) our desire as individual souls to go out there on the frontier of this incarnation with the attitude that we’re going to learn some lessons together. We’re all in it together and the joy of experience is one we share.

However, I’m not sure we need to go in for stories of split souls or the perfect match being out there for us. Because, when we do, we often find we have played in to the illusion of time and reality and taken it too seriously.

As Teal Swan points out in this video, everything in existence at the highest level has the potential to be your twin flame or soul mate.

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Here are three ways in which we can remember that there’s potentially a soul mate out there for us in everyone:

Your mate directly reflects your self worth at that moment in time

The best way to attract a ‘soul mate’ could be to come as much into alignment with yourself as you possibly can and then forget about the whole shebang entirely. Living your truth means doing what you love, money aside, and following your bliss.

This would be the best way to attract someone, because when they do eventually come along, then they’ll be the energetic match to your higher self, or at least the best version of yourself.
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We all know that when you are attracting others, or forcing a relationship when you aren’t healed from the many others before it, it’s going to end in tears.

If you have found yourself in a pattern of abusive relationships or ones that didn’t quite hit the spot and honour what you’re really all about then it’s time to be single until you can figure out what makes you tick.

Living your truth and following your bliss are also excellent self healing tools and being happy rather than moping around and waiting for someone to knock on your door is, let’s face it, a much better attitude to have. Enjoying being single and exercising gratitude for your solitude are also ways to shift the focus from lack on to love.

So, if there are levels to attraction, you’re going to attract the best match for you and they’re more likely to be who you really want, the more you are stating to the universe (by being at your best) that you are ready for them. Like a spiral of ascension, why not go for gold rather than wallowing around in the storm?

When you have them, stay detached

964775c629bcf8ede0ac4a9bd6e3b594This doesn’t mean become emotionally numb or taking them for granted. It means recognise, that much like being at your best or living in your truth when you’re wanting to attract a mate, that the more you put in the more you get out.

Are you being present and honest with this person?

Are you allowing them to shine and be the best version of themselves? If you can have several relationships with the same person, then that means that – as long as you’re both willing to grow and transform together – that you can rise and fall in frequency with that same partner.

Agree on certain goals or vows. Say you both agree to aid each other in your spiritual paths or to allow each other to grow. Then if either of you decide the vows don’t suit you anymore or that you’re bored of the relationship you can openly talk about it or decide to say goodbye.

Perhaps if we decide that person is your soul mate then they are. Perhaps this decision puts too much pressure on one of you. Surely the most exciting thing would be never to decide, or know. One thing that’s certainly clear, is that the level of maturity required to keep a loving relationship going is to stay respectful and never take them for granted.

The physical and material aspects of course tie you together, often in ways you don’t want to be tied down… ways in which all too often kill desire and make it a relationship of requirements.

We also often see the relationship more from the outside, thinking that we’ll be letting family members down or will have failed in some way if we cut loose. But if we remember that relationships are just more in-depth mirrors in the illusion of reality than most, then we remain detached from them.

Where did this pressure to find your soul mate come from anyway? Oh yes, Hollywood movies and TV series, the anchors of entertainment that bog down the matrix with unrealistic desires us humans are meant to constantly pursue. Relationships can be another way to consume and keep us on the treadmill of the rat race. So beware.

Instinctively we know that, while a long term relationship where each other grows and learns a great deal from the partnership could be one of your main lessons in this lifetime, it doesn’t have to be. Often the greatest lesson, especially on the higher planes of the third dimension and moving up into the fourth, is how we sustain a good relationship with ourselves.

A spiritual soul mate relationship really is up there on the highest levels of detachment and honour for another person… or aspect of ourselves.

Just the decision is enough

thQGQWTSECCertainly, just making the decision that you would like to be in a spiritual soul mate relationship can be enough. If you’re ready, you’ll know it. Whether you’re already in a relationship or not.

Do you want this lifetime to be about your experiences with your (current or expected) ‘soul mate’? Then do it. If you ask, you will receive, so it’s really all in the eye of the beholder (or perceiver).

Having said all this, there is an inextricable connection that many of us experience with one other person. And this person triggers in us both the feelings of home and the feelings of adventure simultaneously.

Do they appear because we are ready for them, is it pre-destined? Perhaps our choice to experience a soul mate comes when we are ready and someone simply lines up for that experience too. Or perhaps it CAN only be that one specific person and no other will do. That’s certainly what it feels like anyway.

So the jury’s out. We’ll never know for sure. But then that’s what the mystery of love is all about. What we do know is that those shared moments with another are what we’ll remember and carry on into the next life. And who knows, maybe we will meet that particular soul in the next life too. It certainly is a romantic notion.

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