The matrixes outside the matrix

This article is inspired by my recent lifetime ban from the Grow Report forums. Like any self respecting psychonaut, I thought I'd try to 'find the others', so at least I wouldn't feel like I was in a minority of one. I really hoped these new found 'others' would be 'my tribe'. I'm now kicking myself for being so naïve. I've already learned that lesson, so why did I forget? Well I needed reminding again.

The problem is that when you get any group of humans together, the overwhelming instinct to develop a pack animal/herd mentality does tend to undo all the rhetoric about how enlightened or evolved that said bunch of people are. A great disappointment in this reality is the fact that upon realising that you are free (to some degree) of consensus reality, and unplug from the matrix into this bewildering outer level, you will meet a lot of people who will say "Welcome to the real world". But upon further observation you may discover, especially if you are a truly independent thinker, that their world is no more real than consensus reality, and that they tend to congregate in separatist isolationist fiefdoms with the same pecking orders and systems of control that they apparently escaped still firmly intact.

In Aeolus Kephas's last ever podcast (click here) he goes into great detail about how the alternative perception community have ended up in a matrix outside the matrix, swimming in an overwhelming torrent of knowledge without context. Upon first hearing it, I imagined that he would be seen as a heretic by the die hards of the psychedelic, conspiracy, UFO and new age communities, but my reaction was that he was speaking his own truth and keeping himself free from the limitations of packs and herds. Within days of hearing that podcast I ended up in a nasty argument on a public forum with one of the psychedelic communities self styled 'thought police', which lead to official threats from forum moderators, a three day ban, and then a lifetime ban.

In the aftermath, with time to calm down and get centred again, I realised that I had committed the same 'crime' as a politician who disregard the 'party line' for the greater truth, or the member of the church who blasphemes because he feels his truth is closer to Jesus than what the priest is saying. I remembered one of Gandhi's bumper stickers: "Even if you're in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth".

Now, who better than David Icke to sum this up? A lot of people are instincively phobic of Icke, and that's because he is very challenging of consensus reality. But is that not what we need?

Here is an excerpt from his book "Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster" where he sums up the levels of freedom and enslavement of the human mind very well, using the metaphor of a camp site:

Tent Pitching
When we arrive in this five-sense "world" we begin to walk our jouney of experience. I have likened it to carrying a tent in a backpack, walking down the road and looking for somewhere to pitch it, settle down, and find our comfort zone. Where we choose to stop decides the way we see the world because this is the point, the perspective, from which we observe people and events. Here are some of the "camp-sites".

• Base Camp: Most people don't choose to walk very far. A few strides and out come the pegs at a point where they believe what the media tells them and accept that they are ordinary and powerless or that they know all they need to know (same thing). They are hapy to drift though life guided by accepted "norms" and conditioned "thought". They include the athiests and the fanatical religious believers, those who think this world is all that exists and those whothink if they do whattever their religion tells them they might get a ticket to the afterlife in paradise. I will call these the "Base-Campers" and they represent by far the greatest number of humankind.

• Radical Camp: Others walk a bit further until they find an acceptable spot. These are the "Radical-Campers", and they have begun to see that there is more to know than we are told. They might be "greens" and "environmentalists" or campaigners against the arms trade, "third world" debt, globalisation and other five-sense injustices. The Base -Campers who pitched their tents back down the road see these Radical-Campers as extreme and "loony" because we judge everything and everyone from our own point of observation - where our tent is pitched. What is perfectly sensible to one person or group will be extreme or crazy to another. In the same way, our conditioning, background and accumulated "knowledge" lead us to see the same event from very different perspectives. If a guy came out of the sea with a crab clinging to his bum someone might shout, "Hey, there's a crab's claw stuck to you bum." But a fellow crab might say, "Hey, you've got a man's bum stuck to your claw." Depends on your point of observation.

• Conspiracy Camp: Those who are still not satisfied with the perspectives and beliefs of the Radical camp decide to walk some more before they pitch the tent. These "Conspiracy-Campers" realise that the injustices the Radical-Campers acknowledge ar not random, but part of a coldly calculated global injustice, the Illuminati conspiracy. they will see the connections and the game plan within the five-sense reality - the names, dates, coordination and so on. The Radical-Campers see these Conspiracy-Campers as extreme in the same way that Base Campers see them. The Radical-Campers may, and indeed many do, condemn the Conspiracy-Campers as "racist" or "Nazis". Did you know that a global fascist state is unfolding all around you? What? You're an Nazi - condemn him, ban his meetings, ban his books. You think I'm joking? If only I was. Back down the road in the tent city of the Base Camp, they see the Conspiracy-Campers as crazy, loony, "conspiracy theorists" akin to members of the Flat Earth Society.
  

• Infininty Camp: There are others, the "Infinity-Campers" I will call them, who continue to walk on past the point where the five-sense conspiracy researchers are banging in their pegs. They have no desire to pitch a tent and they don't even carry one because there is never enough time to put it down before something draws them further down the road of inner and outer discovery. By now the road is quiet with not may people about, but those who venture this far start to realise that the world we see, hear, touch, smell and taste, is an illusion and only a very tiny frequency range that those senses can perceive. Beyond its vibrational walls is infinity, where all possibility exists. They see that the five-sense "human bodies" of the Illuminati leaders are only a physical vehicle for entities operating beyond the five senses to control the "physical" world and turn humanity into a giant battery, an energy source. To conventional five-sense conspiracy researchers, Infinity-Campers are extreme and doing great harm to their efforts to persuade people through names, dates, places, etc., that the conspiracy is real. To the Radical-Campers they are lunatics, but dangerous ones if "naïve" people believe what they say. To the Base-Campers they should be locked away in a psychiatric institution because they are clearly mentally ill. In short: anyone who moves beyond the point where you have pitched your tent is seen as extreme and the further they wander down the road the more extreme you perceive them to be. Their points of observation ar so different, and this puts them, literally, on different "wavelengths".

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So, back to finding the others. Not all of them will be as 'other' as they say. The academic dogmatists will be remodelling their old rigid ways to fit them into a mould that works with the more misguided members of alternative perception communities who can be brought to their bidding. Being as they have taken their old habits with them, they will attack like packs of dogs, and/or follow like herds of sheep. Alienation from these people is a blessing, or you will find yourselves bound by more systems of control. If they ban you or ostracize you, then you are free.

In the aftermath you can look back from that perspective at how they keep going round and round the same old stuff. Any awakened observers who witness you standing your ground alone against such viscious pack mentality will come with you as you command respect because of your integrity. This in turn will create a level playing field in a socially egalitarian environment.

It seems to me now that the journey to the 'others' is very difficult indeed. Full of dissenters, debunkers and zealots. It is our challenge to use these situations as a big obstacle course, and return to inner peace as often as possible.