PHILOSOPHY & THE MATRIX (Return to the Source)

"Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake up from that dream, Neo? How would you know [discern] the difference between the dream world [lie] and the real world [truth]?" –Morpheus

For some, The Matrix is just another sci-fi movie, a slick production from Hollywood's dream factory. But for those who appreciate the philosophy of The Matrix, it is a wake-up call. The movie challenges our understanding of perspective, reality and illusion, and many other intriguing concepts. Here in these videos you will analyze, in brief, the most brilliant and greatest philosophic ideas, as well as the most fascinating spiritual messages encoded in the film.


A group of human succeeds to learn the secret of the Matrix. They form an underground and live aboard a ship, loosely communicating with a halcyon city called  Zion , the last bastion of resistance. In one of the scenes Cypher (Lucifer?) one of the rebels defects. Over a glass of (illusory) rubicund wine and (spectral) juicy steak, he poses the main dilemma of the movie:

"Is it better to live ‘happily’ in a perfectly detailed delusion, or to survive ‘unhappily’ but free of its hold?”

Philosophical ideas:
Socrates and Plato (The Cave allegory )
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)
Friedrich Nietzsche (Zarathustra - Superman)
Jean Baudrillard (Simulacra & Simulation)
Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State and Utopia – The Examined life)
Rene Descartes (Evil Genius Deceiver- Meditations of first philosophy)
George Berkeley (New Theory of Vision)
Pierre-Simon Laplace (Exposition of the World’s System)
David Hume (A Treatise of Human nature)
Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation)















DREAM SKEPTICISM
(By Christopher Grau)
Neo has woken up from a hell of a dream — the dream that was his life. How was he to know? The cliché is that if you are dreaming and you pinch yourself, you will wake up. Unfortunately, things aren't quite that simple. It is the nature of most dreams that we take them for reality — while dreaming we are unaware that we are in fact in a dreamworld. Of course, we eventually wake up, and when we do we realize that our experience was all in our mind. Neo's predicament makes one wonder, though: how can any of us be sure that we have ever genuinely woken up? Perhaps, like Neo prior to his downing the red pill, our dreams thus far have in fact been dreams within a dream.

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Spiritual knowledge:
Christian Gnosticism (The Messiah, Pleroma)
Buddhism (Nirvana, Awakening)
Hinduism (karma, Dharma, Reincarnation)
Taoism (Yin Yang)
Judaism (Kabala)

GNOSTICISM & BUDHISM IN THE MATRIX

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THE MATRIX TRIBUTE (10th Anniversary)

“What’s the Matrix? The Matrix is a computer [consciousness] generated dream world [illusion], built to keep us under control [asleep], in order to change the human being into this [slave]” – Morpheus, to Neo

10 years have passed now from the release of the first Matrix movie. And even I recently went to watch a replay at a local cinema for the 10th anniversary. Yeah! The Matrix still has many of us. For some, the case is the movie, however, for the great majority it’s the “real Matrix”, that is to say, the collective unconscious dream sustained by a web of lies (aka. mainstream media) in which most people are deeply submerged. Therefore, here we’ll analyze some of the most interesting facts, videos and songs steaming from this philosophical masterpiece.






“Did you know that the first ‘Matrix’ was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. Nobody would accept the program.” -Agent Smith, to Morpheus

“Exactly, what kind of world would we have if there wouldn’t be self induced ignorance, fear, man created diseases and disasters, like designed warfare, false flag terror and biological attacks such the all new NAFTA avian flu, and many others illuminati calamities? Indeed, it’d be really boring and none really would learn a damn lesson as the way we do in our present collective illusion, no matter how insane or how much we suffer and hate each others to a degree of global destruction.”









"I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." -Morpheus

Thanks to directors Larry and Andy Wachowski and the ‘Illuminati-Masonic’ deliberate occult symbolisms encoded through out this trilogy as in most of the Hollywood movies. Let’s review, analyze and enjoy, for those not familiarized with it, some of the most awesome and revealing videos and facts steaming from the Matrix.

10 INTERESTING MATRIX FACTS

1. Some personal information can be seen on Thomas Anderson's "criminal record" that Agent Smith glances at when he interrogates Neo: Seconds later a photocopy of his passport can be seen. There the place of his birth is Capital City USA, his date of birth is the 13th of September 1971, the passport was issued on the 12th of September 1991 and will expire on the “11th of SEPTEMBE 2001.”

2. When the traitor meets with agent "Smith," we learn that his name is Reagan. He says he wants to be someone important, maybe an actor, and that he wants to "remember nothing"! Sounds familiar? Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan was once an actor and he suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

3. Check out the room numbers for Trinity and Neo. When the cops bust in on Trinity in the opening scene the number is 303 ("trinity" 3) and since Neo is The One the number of his apartment is 101.

4. Neo's room number is 101. Room 101 was the place in George Orwell's book "1984" where people were sent to be tortured and would end up believing something that wasn't true.

5. The book Neo hides his computer discs in is called "Simulacra and Simulation". The chapter where they're hidden called Nihilism. Nihilism often involves a sense of despair coupled with the belief that life is devoid of meaning (unconsciousness).








6. The song that Neo wakes up to at the start of the film is "Dissolving Child" by Massive Attack

7. Inside the Nebuchadnezzar there is a brief shot of a plaque with the ship's name, above which it says "Mark 3 no. 11." The Biblical verse Mark 3:11 is, "And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out saying, 'You are the Son of God.'"

8. When Neo gets in the car with Trinity for the first time, Switch refers to him as "coppertop". Coppertop is a slang for the Duracell Battery, which is the battery Morpheus shows to Neo as he explains how the human race became an energy sources.

9. When Neo is meeting with the Oracle, the music playing in the background in her apartment is Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light," a reference to Neo's continued awakening.

10. The Oracle tells Neo that he wasn’t the “one”, perhaps in other life, which became true because it was after the dead of Neo that the “one” emerged to kick the agent Smith's digital butt off along with the Matrix.








The Matrix Indigo Revelation (Collective Soul)

THE MATRIX HUMOR