Reflections on the Matrix

[LanceFreeman]

A Commentary by Lance Freeman:

The abhorrent actions of the United States on the world stage today can be traced back to one simple condition: our country is in deep spiritual trouble. America’s excessive focus on materiality and hedonism is only one symptom of this spiritual malaise. After several years of watching our country slide, I have come to the conclusion that the one outstanding reason for this backward state is we no longer worship, or honor, the Creator-God in our churches and homes. We have swept this universal Creator-God from our houses of worship and replaced him with the ‘Matrix God’. The false priests of Moloch and Baal have assumed power and taken over the leadership of the Christian West. For one thing, we are no longer simply ‘Christians’ anymore. We are now ‘Judeo-Christians’, whatever that means. The fact that the chasm between Christianity and Judaism (in terms of belief and practice) is vast seems to have no bearing on this contradiction or its incessant promotion. Americans are so confused by this priestly distortion that one lady on Pat Robertson’s ‘700 Club’ show called to ask whether she should question anything the Jews did, either within America or in the Middle East, for fear of offending ‘God’ by so doing. Scary stuff. The effort to ‘dumb-down’ America is two-pronged: one is via government propaganda directed at the masses through the controlled media, and the other is through religious programming and instruction.

Theologian, scholar, and rebel Minister Dr. Matthew Fox, in his book titled ‘A New Reformation: Creation spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity’ states:

“Churches and Christians around the world need a re-awakening for several reasons. Just one is the deep corruption in the Vatican and the hierarchy of the Roman Church at this point in history; corruption symbolized by the hypocrisy and horror of priestly pedophilia, the elevation to the papacy of a fascist admirer of Hitler, and other scandals. The call to reformation is a call to Protestants as well. While not suffering from the same public display of corruption, the Protestant tradition has lost its juice as a protesting and prophetic body. It has fallen into comfort and, in its worst instances, has entered in a cabal with imperial powers, as in the case with the kind of fundamentalism in America that gives legitimization to government entities.

“Present-day Protestantism suffers from what our ancestors called acedia–a kind of spiritual sloth. Among the terms I use to describe it are anemic, boring, un-mystical, pre-occupied with trivia, one-dimensional, and burned-out. Protestantism has lost the vibrant, compassionate spirituality that grew out of its original and courageous break with orthodoxy. Today, our churches are sleeping giants mowed over by anti-intellectual fundamentalism. Both Protestantism and Catholicism need radical wake-up calls to move from religion to spirituality, and that is the basis of my 95 Theses or Articles of Faith for a Christianity of the Third Millennium.”

For those of you who are serious about escaping the illusional cocoon that holds our citizens in an insidious form of bondage—I refer to that never-ending cycle of fear, war, death, economic pressure, and division—it is important to understand that this elite-created ‘Matrix’ has been in the making for a couple of thousand years, and stands on a tripod, the three legs of which are politics, economics, and religion. Several of us on the public forums have addressed the political and economic aspects of this tripod at length, I believe, but I have purposely avoided the subject of religion because people tend to be emotionally attached to their religions. That may well be; however, I must warn you that this emotional attachment to religion is a trap that serves your Controllers well. I have done my share of traveling about the world, and everywhere I have gone, people suffer from the same syndrome. The syndrome goes something like this: ‘I am prepared to look at everybody’s religion with a critical eye, except mine own’.

Hard experience has taught me that, unless an individual is prepared to detach and look at his own religion objectively, his chances of escaping the ‘Matrix’ as an Independent are slim. Politics, economics, and religion are closely enter-twined, and unless all three are addressed equally, and with the same critical eye—well, you get my drift.

What I am saying is: this calls for a new understanding of religions and their role in the ‘dumbing down’ of human beings over the centuries. Priests have held sway over peoples’ beliefs since recorded memory. A cursory investigation into this murky area will quickly reveal that humanity is about 2000 years behind where it should be spiritually, and that dogmas, doctrines, rituals, and belief constructs have changed little in 2500 years. Granted that we’ve had great spiritual teachers in our history; individuals who bequeathed timeless principles and direction to a confused humanity, but who initiated the construction of religions around these personalities, and created a priestly class to oversee the entrapment of human beings into these constructs? For example, Christians still adhere to dogmas and doctrines that were cobbled together by priests during the Dark Ages, many of which do not sit well with humanity’s advancing state of consciousness. How many Christians know that the ‘Cross’ did not appear in the Gospels until the Fifth Century? Oh, Yeah? No foolin’? So---what is the true story of Jesus and the Cross? Well, this is a mystery you must now unravel, and to do this successfully, you must undertake a journey and uncover that point where the Matrix interjected itself into the teachings. Remember that it is always about control---and the Matrix is never far away from that ‘tri-pod’ I mentioned. Hint: the historical Jesus and the mythical Christ are two different entities.

Further, my observations have shown that the so-called separation of Church and State is also an illusion. At the highest levels of the Matrix pyramid, the ruling elite and the priests share a common agenda and a common curriculum for the masses. This curriculum embraces, among other things, the elements of control, manipulation, and profit, and its content seldom changes over time. Why else would Pope Benedict be promoting the Orwellian New World Order, as he did in his 2005 Christmas message; an enslavement program which has its origins with, and was spawned by, illuminized Freemasonry? How many Catholics listening to the Pope questioned where he was taking them? Not many, I’ll wager. Why? Because of attachment, loyalty, and tradition—all of which your Controllers value highly. How many Jews question where the Zionist leadership is taking them? Precious few. Now, I’ve got some of you thinking, haven’t I? At least those of you who are capable of independent thought, and are not already headed for the exits. It takes one brave Soul to sit through this type of radical discourse. For those intrepid ‘cliffhangers’ among you, I will again repeat: the ‘Matrix’ is a virtual reality world that has been created for you by your priests and your elite; it’s not real. Once you grasp this concept, you will begin to understand how the world really works, and will begin making the necessary changes, on a personal level, that will eventually transform the planet into the kind of place our Creator intended for us. [Continued---] [Continued---]

 

[LanceFreeman]

From my detached platform at 1500 feet above the forest canopy—FAA regulations prohibit flying below this altitude over populated areas—I have observed that most religions worship the same ‘Matrix God’. It has taken 2500 years to create this Matrix entity, starting with the Levite priests in Babylon during the first exile. It was there in Babylon that the Judaic religion, with its stultifying ‘do’s and don’ts’ that govern the daily lives of practicing Jews, was first put together. The true history of how the Old Testament was put together, like other histories which contain enlightened information, has been suppressed, in favor of disinformation, fable, and, for lack of a better word, bullshit. A similar type of stultifying regimen was created for the adherents of Islam, herding them into one massive sheep pen, from which only the bravest dare contemplate an escape. [Sorry, folks; there is simply no other way to break this to you. As always, my words are directed at the more intelligent among you; those who are not afraid to challenge the status quo, and to ask questions. As for those who will surely fight my contentions, I say that the Matrix has you by the ‘yin-yang’]. So ask yourselves: Who created this ‘God’, and why has nobody in a position of authority questioned his legitimacy? Is it PC, cowardice, ignorance, or fear that holds billions of people inside a rigid ‘mind prison’, and allows a relative handful of clever individuals to herd and manipulate them like cattle?

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Brahmin priests of the Indian sub-continent were introducing the horrible caste system to the locals there; a crippling system designed to keep the people divided, segmented, and at odds with one another. Heaven forbid that people anywhere should be united about anything. And you will never guess who sat at the top of the caste pyramid—yup, you guessed it—the Brahmin priests themselves—who else? To top off that clever number with a good dose of fear, they corrupted the principle of reincarnation by introducing the false concept of ‘trans-migration’. Essentially, this cockamamy concept threatened that if the people went against priestly directives, they would come back as a lower form of life in the next go-round. One simply has to admire the ‘balls’ of these ‘men of the cloth’.

Folks, I am not going to go into all the priestly fictions and fabrications contained in the Old Testament, New Testament, or Koran, the so-called Abrahamic religions. I could produce pages to shock and entertain you; however, that is not the object of this exercise. Suffice it to say that eschatological tradition has choked and blinded objective thought when it comes to these ‘holy’ books. This is not to denigrate Jews, Christians, Muslims, or anyone else. All of those religions embrace decent, spiritually-inclined individuals, who want nothing more than to establish their link with a higher power, and to live in peace with their fellow man. A few find true spirituality within these religions, but this is only because of their state of consciousness, and not because their religion is spiritually advanced. Saint Teresa was experiencing ecstatic states of consciousness within her cloistered Convent, even as her religion was busy condemning ‘heretics’ and burning innocent people at the stake. What we are addressing here is a ‘Matrix of Control’ which holds the bulk of humanity captive within an illusional Gulag.

Seriously, folks, what are we to make of people who consciously promote war, chaos, and death to advance a selfish agenda? What kind of ‘God’ do these people worship? Who exactly are their leaders, and why do their Ministers and Rabbis support such un-godly actions? What is so disturbing about carrying out mass executions of foreign citizens (via aerial bombing) in the name of ‘freedom’ and the ‘Prince of Peace’? What motivates people to become active ‘agents of chaos’, habitual liars, dissemblers, and con-artists in a drive to separate themselves from other human beings? Is this what our Creator-God desires for its children? Or, is it what the Matrix God desires? It is amazingly easy to lose your moral bearings when you worship a false ‘God’. And the false priests are there to make sure you stay on the straight and narrow.

Many programs within the ‘Matrix’ utilize the ‘Carrot and Donkey’ formula, you being the donkey, of course. The program is rigged so that you live perpetually in hope; i.e. in hope that the promised ‘Messiah’ will come to lead the Jews to their version of Valhalla on earth; in hope that the ‘Imam Mahdi’ will come to convert the world into an Islamic Paradise; in hope that the New Age Savior ‘Maitreya’ will finally emerge from his hiding place in the London slums to guide the nations back to righteous living (as per Benjamin Creme), etc. But you will go to your grave without ever capturing the carrot. After you die, your children will replace you on that same treadmill. And so it goes.

Man is indeed a ‘lost Soul’ within the Matrix. He is entrapped by endless divisions and distractions that keep his focus diverted from his true mission, and blinded to his spiritual legacy. Consider this example: George W. Bush made decisions that slaughtered over one million Iraqi and Afghan civilians, and caused the deaths of over 4000 American soldiers, yet millions of Christians voted for him in 2004 because he was ‘pro-life’. He triggered chaos and violence around the world, and curtailed basic American liberties, but half the U.S. population voted for him as the best man to protect their freedoms. He was a womanizing, coke-snorting liar responsible for the suffering of millions, yet Americans voted for him to protect marriage and American morality. This is how distorted their vision has become, and it is no small thanks to the Matrix priests.

The Matrix does not care who we fight, or why we fight, so long as we fight. It has given us a thousand reasons as to why we must fight (religion, race, class, contending political systems, contending economic systems, Chosen People versus the dregs, etc.). When the ‘Matrix God’ told the Israelites that they were his ‘Chosen People’, what happened? Well, any rocket scientist will tell you that it immediately set them at odds with their neighbors, because those others are ‘not chosen’. See what I mean? Yahweh set the stage here for a conflict of generations; a conflict of ‘us’ versus ‘them’. This conflict of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ eats away at the spiritual life of the Jewish people to this very day, and has brought them untold misery, to say nothing of the misery they have inflicted upon others. Since the Jews have been on the receiving end more often than nought over the centuries, they haven’t been able to figure out why Yahweh keeps punishing them. Consequently, they spend half their lives at the ‘Wailing Wall’ wailing, and waiting for the promised ‘Moshiach’ to appear and make things better. What would an intelligent alien observer from another planet make of the people of earth? Folks, sometimes I feel like I am that alien observer, perched on my platform at 1500 feet.

From my observation post, I can offer a small hint to those who have stayed with me so far: if it stinks of hypocrisy and manipulation, it is not of the true Creator-God. It is of the Matrix. So be careful what you worship. All of the priests I have run across in my time serve the Matrix God, and enforce the illusion that this ‘God’ is all there is. Essentially, they are the guardians of the Matrix ‘mind prison’ called religion. The spiritual person is independent of the Matrix, marches to the beat of his own drum, and seeks his own answers to the questions of life. He does not run with the herd, nor does he require priests to tell him what to think or how to think.

I hope that this essay, which I wrote with some trepidation, because of its controversial content, opens your eyes to how the ‘Matrix’ operates, and helps you to get back to your spiritual roots. And it matters not what religion you belong to, so long as you understand what religions were set up for. Religion has always been one thing, and spirituality something else. Ultimately, consciousness must move on; it cannot stay asleep forever. That is because we are all here on a spiritual mission, and that mission is to grow in awareness and understanding of who we really are. In time, we shall all graduate out of the ‘Matrix’, some sooner than others. A miracle is nothing more than a changed consciousness. Once your viewpoint shifts, real changes will begin to manifest in our country, and those elements of the tripod which bind it to the ‘purgatory’ I call the ‘Matrix’ will begin to loosen their grip. Give those ideas I have presented some serious thought.

 

[Jen]

A Commentary by Lance Freeman:

The abhorrent actions of the United States on the world stage today can be traced back to one simple condition: our country is in deep spiritual trouble. America’s excessive focus on materiality and hedonism is only one symptom of this spiritual malaise. After several years of watching our country slide, I have come to the conclusion that the one outstanding reason for this backward state is we no longer worship, or honor, the Creator-God in our churches and homes. We have swept this universal Creator-God from our houses of worship and replaced him with the ‘Matrix God’. The false priests of Moloch and Baal have assumed power and taken over the leadership of the Christian West. For one thing, we are no longer simply ‘Christians’ anymore. We are now ‘Judeo-Christians’, whatever that means. The fact that the chasm between Christianity and Judaism (in terms of belief and practice) is vast seems to have no bearing on this contradiction or its incessant promotion. Americans are so confused by this priestly distortion that one lady on Pat Robertson’s ‘700 Club’ show called to ask whether she should question anything the Jews did, either within America or in the Middle East, for fear of offending ‘God’ by so doing. Scary stuff. The effort to ‘dumb-down’ America is two-pronged: one is via government propaganda directed at the masses through the controlled media, and the other is through religious programming and instruction.

Theologian, scholar, and rebel Minister Dr. Matthew Fox, in his book titled ‘A New Reformation: Creation spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity’ states:

“Churches and Christians around the world need a re-awakening for several reasons. Just one is the deep corruption in the Vatican and the hierarchy of the Roman Church at this point in history; corruption symbolized by the hypocrisy and horror of priestly pedophilia, the elevation to the papacy of a fascist admirer of Hitler, and other scandals. The call to reformation is a call to Protestants as well. While not suffering from the same public display of corruption, the Protestant tradition has lost its juice as a protesting and prophetic body. It has fallen into comfort and, in its worst instances, has entered in a cabal with imperial powers, as in the case with the kind of fundamentalism in America that gives legitimization to government entities.

“Present-day Protestantism suffers from what our ancestors called acedia–a kind of spiritual sloth. Among the terms I use to describe it are anemic, boring, un-mystical, pre-occupied with trivia, one-dimensional, and burned-out. Protestantism has lost the vibrant, compassionate spirituality that grew out of its original and courageous break with orthodoxy. Today, our churches are sleeping giants mowed over by anti-intellectual fundamentalism. Both Protestantism and Catholicism need radical wake-up calls to move from religion to spirituality, and that is the basis of my 95 Theses or Articles of Faith for a Christianity of the Third Millennium.”

For those of you who are serious about escaping the illusional cocoon that holds our citizens in an insidious form of bondage—I refer to that never-ending cycle of fear, war, death, economic pressure, and division—it is important to understand that this elite-created ‘Matrix’ has been in the making for a couple of thousand years, and stands on a tripod, the three legs of which are politics, economics, and religion. Several of us on the public forums have addressed the political and economic aspects of this tripod at length, I believe, but I have purposely avoided the subject of religion because people tend to be emotionally attached to their religions. That may well be; however, I must warn you that this emotional attachment to religion is a trap that serves your Controllers well. I have done my share of traveling about the world, and everywhere I have gone, people suffer from the same syndrome. The syndrome goes something like this: ‘I am prepared to look at everybody’s religion with a critical eye, except mine own’.

Hard experience has taught me that, unless an individual is prepared to detach and look at his own religion objectively, his chances of escaping the ‘Matrix’ as an Independent are slim. Politics, economics, and religion are closely enter-twined, and unless all three are addressed equally, and with the same critical eye—well, you get my drift.

What I am saying is: this calls for a new understanding of religions and their role in the ‘dumbing down’ of human beings over the centuries. Priests have held sway over peoples’ beliefs since recorded memory. A cursory investigation into this murky area will quickly reveal that humanity is about 2000 years behind where it should be spiritually, and that dogmas, doctrines, rituals, and belief constructs have changed little in 2500 years. Granted that we’ve had great spiritual teachers in our history; individuals who bequeathed timeless principles and direction to a confused humanity, but who initiated the construction of religions around these personalities, and created a priestly class to oversee the entrapment of human beings into these constructs? For example, Christians still adhere to dogmas and doctrines that were cobbled together by priests during the Dark Ages, many of which do not sit well with humanity’s advancing state of consciousness. How many Christians know that the ‘Cross’ did not appear in the Gospels until the Fifth Century? Oh, Yeah? No foolin’? So---what is the true story of Jesus and the Cross? Well, this is a mystery you must now unravel, and to do this successfully, you must undertake a journey and uncover that point where the Matrix interjected itself into the teachings. Remember that it is always about control---and the Matrix is never far away from that ‘tri-pod’ I mentioned. Hint: the historical Jesus and the mythical Christ are two different entities.

Further, my observations have shown that the so-called separation of Church and State is also an illusion. At the highest levels of the Matrix pyramid, the ruling elite and the priests share a common agenda and a common curriculum for the masses. This curriculum embraces, among other things, the elements of control, manipulation, and profit, and its content seldom changes over time. Why else would Pope Benedict be promoting the Orwellian New World Order, as he did in his 2005 Christmas message; an enslavement program which has its origins with, and was spawned by, illuminized Freemasonry? How many Catholics listening to the Pope questioned where he was taking them? Not many, I’ll wager. Why? Because of attachment, loyalty, and tradition—all of which your Controllers value highly. How many Jews question where the Zionist leadership is taking them? Precious few. Now, I’ve got some of you thinking, haven’t I? At least those of you who are capable of independent thought, and are not already headed for the exits. It takes one brave Soul to sit through this type of radical discourse. For those intrepid ‘cliffhangers’ among you, I will again repeat: the ‘Matrix’ is a virtual reality world that has been created for you by your priests and your elite; it’s not real. Once you grasp this concept, you will begin to understand how the world really works, and will begin making the necessary changes, on a personal level, that will eventually transform the planet into the kind of place our Creator intended for us. [Continued---] [Continued---]

I agree with much of what you have written here. The parts I don't agree with are in limbo until I have more information........I may agree at that point. Or I may not. That remains to be seen. I do agree that all of us in this world are ruled by religion, politics and economics. I also agree that while I accepted this Pope as benign at first, as I do any Pope, some of the things he is saying and doing are somewhat disturbing. Since I have separated myself from organized religion, and was never a Catholic, I simply watch at this time.

Back in the 1980's I attended a series of lectures by a man who spoke of the Bible's book of Revelation and gave some insight as to what he thought it might mean. One thing I remembered was that he said that there would be one Pope who was beloved and followed lovingly by the masses. The next Pope would be short-lived. But the one who followed the short-termed Pope would be evil and lead the world into the chaos it was already on the path to.

As I said, I am watching. I am on the right path but I only know one step at a time. It's pretty dark these days.

 

[Jen]

From my detached platform at 1500 feet above the forest canopy—FAA regulations prohibit flying below this altitude over populated areas—I have observed that most religions worship the same ‘Matrix God’. It has taken 2500 years to create this Matrix entity, starting with the Levite priests in Babylon during the first exile. It was there in Babylon that the Judaic religion, with its stultifying ‘do’s and don’ts’ that govern the daily lives of practicing Jews, was first put together. The true history of how the Old Testament was put together, like other histories which contain enlightened information, has been suppressed, in favor of disinformation, fable, and, for lack of a better word, bullshit. A similar type of stultifying regimen was created for the adherents of Islam, herding them into one massive sheep pen, from which only the bravest dare contemplate an escape. [Sorry, folks; there is simply no other way to break this to you. As always, my words are directed at the more intelligent among you; those who are not afraid to challenge the status quo, and to ask questions. As for those who will surely fight my contentions, I say that the Matrix has you by the ‘yin-yang’]. So ask yourselves: Who created this ‘God’, and why has nobody in a position of authority questioned his legitimacy? Is it PC, cowardice, ignorance, or fear that holds billions of people inside a rigid ‘mind prison’, and allows a relative handful of clever individuals to herd and manipulate them like cattle?

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Brahmin priests of the Indian sub-continent were introducing the horrible caste system to the locals there; a crippling system designed to keep the people divided, segmented, and at odds with one another. Heaven forbid that people anywhere should be united about anything. And you will never guess who sat at the top of the caste pyramid—yup, you guessed it—the Brahmin priests themselves—who else? To top off that clever number with a good dose of fear, they corrupted the principle of reincarnation by introducing the false concept of ‘trans-migration’. Essentially, this cockamamy concept threatened that if the people went against priestly directives, they would come back as a lower form of life in the next go-round. One simply has to admire the ‘balls’ of these ‘men of the cloth’.

Folks, I am not going to go into all the priestly fictions and fabrications contained in the Old Testament, New Testament, or Koran, the so-called Abrahamic religions. I could produce pages to shock and entertain you; however, that is not the object of this exercise. Suffice it to say that eschatological tradition has choked and blinded objective thought when it comes to these ‘holy’ books. This is not to denigrate Jews, Christians, Muslims, or anyone else. All of those religions embrace decent, spiritually-inclined individuals, who want nothing more than to establish their link with a higher power, and to live in peace with their fellow man. A few find true spirituality within these religions, but this is only because of their state of consciousness, and not because their religion is spiritually advanced. Saint Teresa was experiencing ecstatic states of consciousness within her cloistered Convent, even as her religion was busy condemning ‘heretics’ and burning innocent people at the stake. What we are addressing here is a ‘Matrix of Control’ which holds the bulk of humanity captive within an illusional Gulag.

Seriously, folks, what are we to make of people who consciously promote war, chaos, and death to advance a selfish agenda? What kind of ‘God’ do these people worship? Who exactly are their leaders, and why do their Ministers and Rabbis support such un-godly actions? What is so disturbing about carrying out mass executions of foreign citizens (via aerial bombing) in the name of ‘freedom’ and the ‘Prince of Peace’? What motivates people to become active ‘agents of chaos’, habitual liars, dissemblers, and con-artists in a drive to separate themselves from other human beings? Is this what our Creator-God desires for its children? Or, is it what the Matrix God desires? It is amazingly easy to lose your moral bearings when you worship a false ‘God’. And the false priests are there to make sure you stay on the straight and narrow.

Many programs within the ‘Matrix’ utilize the ‘Carrot and Donkey’ formula, you being the donkey, of course. The program is rigged so that you live perpetually in hope; i.e. in hope that the promised ‘Messiah’ will come to lead the Jews to their version of Valhalla on earth; in hope that the ‘Imam Mahdi’ will come to convert the world into an Islamic Paradise; in hope that the New Age Savior ‘Maitreya’ will finally emerge from his hiding place in the London slums to guide the nations back to righteous living (as per Benjamin Creme), etc. But you will go to your grave without ever capturing the carrot. After you die, your children will replace you on that same treadmill. And so it goes.

Man is indeed a ‘lost Soul’ within the Matrix. He is entrapped by endless divisions and distractions that keep his focus diverted from his true mission, and blinded to his spiritual legacy. Consider this example: George W. Bush made decisions that slaughtered over one million Iraqi and Afghan civilians, and caused the deaths of over 4000 American soldiers, yet millions of Christians voted for him in 2004 because he was ‘pro-life’. He triggered chaos and violence around the world, and curtailed basic American liberties, but half the U.S. population voted for him as the best man to protect their freedoms. He was a womanizing, coke-snorting liar responsible for the suffering of millions, yet Americans voted for him to protect marriage and American morality. This is how distorted their vision has become, and it is no small thanks to the Matrix priests.

The Matrix does not care who we fight, or why we fight, so long as we fight. It has given us a thousand reasons as to why we must fight (religion, race, class, contending political systems, contending economic systems, Chosen People versus the dregs, etc.). When the ‘Matrix God’ told the Israelites that they were his ‘Chosen People’, what happened? Well, any rocket scientist will tell you that it immediately set them at odds with their neighbors, because those others are ‘not chosen’. See what I mean? Yahweh set the stage here for a conflict of generations; a conflict of ‘us’ versus ‘them’. This conflict of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ eats away at the spiritual life of the Jewish people to this very day, and has brought them untold misery, to say nothing of the misery they have inflicted upon others. Since the Jews have been on the receiving end more often than nought over the centuries, they haven’t been able to figure out why Yahweh keeps punishing them. Consequently, they spend half their lives at the ‘Wailing Wall’ wailing, and waiting for the promised ‘Moshiach’ to appear and make things better. What would an intelligent alien observer from another planet make of the people of earth? Folks, sometimes I feel like I am that alien observer, perched on my platform at 1500 feet.

From my observation post, I can offer a small hint to those who have stayed with me so far: if it stinks of hypocrisy and manipulation, it is not of the true Creator-God. It is of the Matrix. So be careful what you worship. All of the priests I have run across in my time serve the Matrix God, and enforce the illusion that this ‘God’ is all there is. Essentially, they are the guardians of the Matrix ‘mind prison’ called religion. The spiritual person is independent of the Matrix, marches to the beat of his own drum, and seeks his own answers to the questions of life. He does not run with the herd, nor does he require priests to tell him what to think or how to think.

I hope that this essay, which I wrote with some trepidation, because of its controversial content, opens your eyes to how the ‘Matrix’ operates, and helps you to get back to your spiritual roots. And it matters not what religion you belong to, so long as you understand what religions were set up for. Religion has always been one thing, and spirituality something else. Ultimately, consciousness must move on; it cannot stay asleep forever. That is because we are all here on a spiritual mission, and that mission is to grow in awareness and understanding of who we really are. In time, we shall all graduate out of the ‘Matrix’, some sooner than others. A miracle is nothing more than a changed consciousness. Once your viewpoint shifts, real changes will begin to manifest in our country, and those elements of the tripod which bind it to the ‘purgatory’ I call the ‘Matrix’ will begin to loosen their grip. Give those ideas I have presented some serious thought.

At the end of the day, the following illustration is what I believe (yes, it's a bit cryptic but I think you will understand what I mean more than some would).
Excellent piece, Lance.
It's worth a second read which I will do now.

 

[LanceFreeman]

I agree with much of what you have written here. The parts I don't agree with are in limbo until I have more information........I may agree at that point. Or I may not. That remains to be seen. I do agree that all of us in this world are ruled by religion, politics and economics. I also agree that while I accepted this Pope as benign at first, as I do any Pope, some of the things he is saying and doing are somewhat disturbing. Since I have separated myself from organized religion, and was never a Catholic, I simply watch at this time.
Back in the 1980's I attended a series of lectures by a man who spoke of the Bible's book of Revelation and gave some insight as to what he thought it might mean. One thing I remembered was that he said that there would be one Pope who was beloved and followed lovingly by the masses. The next Pope would be short-lived. But the one who followed the short-termed Pope would be evil and lead the world into the chaos it was already on the path to. As I said, I am watching. I am on the right path but I only know one step at a time. It's pretty dark these days.

The fact that billions of people, in the 21st Century, continue to follow Dark Age paths such as Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam, after all our technological advancement to date, the hard work of modern scholars, and availability of scholarly information, boggles my mind. And speaks to, not only the ignorance, but the laziness, of the average person in the West. Those who live in Third World countries can be forgiven for their ignorance, because the majority of them are like children, who look up to Westerners for direction, but can we forgive those in the West, who are supposed to be more aware and more educated?

This laziness also applies to the political sphere. Our citizens, for example, do absolutely no research on those candidates for office they vote for, except for what TV dispenses for their consumption. Considering the fact that our regular channels of information, such as TV and radio, are under the control of our ruling elites, how easy does it become now to manipulate the public into doing whatever the elites want? Like support an expanded war in West Asia that we can hardly afford, in either blood or treasure? Or support a bill in Congress that will give more power to the state, while reducing their personal freedoms? Is it any wonder that nothing changes in this country? The elites count on the 'herd mentality' of their subjects, whether it cleaves to the left, or to the right, for both paths lead to the same Matrix prison.

I believe that you are becoming more aware of what is going on in the world, Jen. I've seen a difference in you since we first met on these forums. I also note that you are not as sacarastic as you used to be, nor are you as quick now to follow the herd, as you used to be. Congratulations.

 

[Jen]

The fact that billions of people, in the 21st Century, continue to follow Dark Age paths such as Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam, after all our technological advancement to date, the hard work of modern scholars, and availability of scholarly information, boggles my mind. And speaks to, not only the ignorance, but the laziness, of the average person in the West. Those who live in Third World countries can be forgiven for their ignorance, because the majority of them are like children, who look up to Westerners for direction, but can we forgive those in the West, who are supposed to be more aware and more educated?

This laziness also applies to the political sphere. Our citizens, for example, do absolutely no research on those candidates for office they vote for, except for what TV dispenses for their consumption. Considering the fact that our regular channels of information, such as TV and radio, are under the control of our ruling elites, how easy does it become now to manipulate the public into doing whatever the elites want? Like support an expanded war in West Asia that we can hardly afford, in either blood or treasure? Or support a bill in Congress that will give more power to the state, while reducing their personal freedoms? Is it any wonder that nothing changes in this country? The elites count on the 'herd mentality' of their subjects, whether it cleaves to the left, or to the right, for both paths lead to the same Matrix prison.

I believe that you are becoming more aware of what is going on in the world, Jen. I've seen a difference in you since we first met on these forums. I also note that you are not as sacarastic as you used to be, nor are you as quick now to follow the herd, as you used to be. Congratulations.

Thanks, Lance, but sometimes sarcasm shows up due to frustration. I'm sure you know that. I try to edit it out......doesn't always work.

Cutting things to the bone, though, this is how I see it. Today. Everything evolves and I learn something every day. But this is what I know today:

The world's people are of millions... billions of different places in their understanding. If nobody allowed themselves to be controlled by either government, economics or religion, we would have utter chaos. That shows in the places and times where people rise up against those three things. We have wars.

Yes. There are people at the tops of those three areas that are corrupt and self-serving. Do those top people even understand what is going on? Somehow I am inclined to believe that many of them don't have any idea. But that doesn't matter. For all their corruption and misunderstanding, they are needed to put some sort of order to all of those in the world who are utterly clueless.

I follow my own sense of morality and personal integrity. It doesn't depend on waiting for someone to tell me what is true and what I should believe. Something inside me does that. Most people in this world are not attuned to themselves, do not have any self-discipline and aren't even seeking to know. They look to someone else to tell them what they think and what they should do next.

Because of that dynamic - most people being followers - those who understand just enough to lead do so with ease. That is the way it is and, for all its awfulness, I believe that is the way it's supposed to be. A horrible, beautiful mess. The alternative - total chaos - is much worse. I'm sure of that.

My position at the moment is to watch. I'm not a controller and don't want to be. I'm not a follower - can't be that. I'm just one who watches and learns..... and occasionally comments.....

 

[LanceFreeman]

Thanks, Lance, but sometimes sarcasm shows up due to frustration. I'm sure you know that. I try to edit it out......doesn't always work.
Cutting things to the bone, though, this is how I see it. Today. Everything evolves and I learn something every day. But this is what I know today:
The world's people are of millions... billions of different places in their understanding. If nobody allowed themselves to be controlled by either government, economics or religion, we would have utter chaos. That shows in the places and times where people rise up against those three things. We have wars.
Yes. There are people at the tops of those three areas that are corrupt and self-serving. Do those top people even understand what is going on? Somehow I am inclined to believe that many of them don't have any idea. But that doesn't matter. For all their corruption and misunderstanding, they are needed to put some sort of order to all of those in the world who are utterly clueless.
I follow my own sense of morality and personal integrity. It doesn't depend on waiting for someone to tell me what is true and what I should believe. Something inside me does that. Most people in this world are not attuned to themselves, do not have any self-discipline and aren't even seeking to know. They look to someone else to tell them what they think and what they should do next.
Because of that dynamic - most people being followers - those who understand just enough to lead do so with ease. That is the way it is and, for all its awfulness, I believe that is the way it's supposed to be. A horrible, beautiful mess. The alternative - total chaos - is much worse. I'm sure of that.
My position at the moment is to watch. I'm not a controller and don't want to be. I'm not a follower - can't be that. I'm just one who watches and learns..... and occasionally comments.....

Thanks for your comments, Jen. It is true that most people are followers. It is also true that the leadership any nation possesses is a reflection of the state of consciousness of the people who voted those leaders into office, or who actively support those leaders who may have taken power by force. We know that this consciousness, in general, is not very high, whether in the U.S. or outside of it, because of the holy messes those leaders have produced, and are producing. Just because that's the way it is at the present moment does not mean that's the way it is supposed to be. The situation requires only an upliftment of consciousness to improve itself. There are forces in this world who want the consciousness to remain where it is, because that kind of situation is not only very profitable for them, but facilitates their power and control over the masses. It is difficult to control a person who is aware.

At any given time on this planet, there are a number of people who are done with their current consciousness and are ready to move forward. They await only some signal, some direction given by someone who has gone before, and is holding up a candle for them to follow. That's what the great teachers do. That's what Jesus and Buddha tried to do. That is why the spiritual hierarchy sends them here on a regular basis--to uplift those who are ready. People like you and I try to help as best we can. We do our little bit, so to speak. We get clobbered a lot, but that's just the encrusted consciousness fighting to retain its comfortable position. It does not wish to be de-throned.

If people like ourselves (and there are many such individuals doing this kind of work) manage to raise the consciousness of just 3 or 4 percent of the people across the planet, it will make a difference. It will make a difference in the quality of leadership we get, and the way people do things. Moving the consciousness upward for more individuals will add to the upward pressure to advance. You've heard of the 'Hundredth Monkey Principle'. That is why we cannot just sit back and say: That's the way it's supposed to be. Mankind is constantly evolving; this process never stops.

Hope this helps.

 

[Jen]

Thanks for your comments, Jen. It is true that most people are followers. It is also true that the leadership any nation possesses is a reflection of the state of consciousness of the people who voted those leaders into office, or who actively support those leaders who may have taken power by force. We know that this consciousness, in general, is not very high, whether in the U.S. or outside of it, because of the holy messes those leaders have produced, and are producing. Just because that's the way it is at the present moment does not mean that's the way it is supposed to be. The situation requires only an upliftment of consciousness to improve itself. There are forces in this world who want the consciousness to remain where it is, because that kind of situation is not only very profitable for them, but facilitates their power and control over the masses. It is difficult to control a person who is aware.

At any given time on this planet, there are a number of people who are done with their current consciousness and are ready to move forward. They await only some signal, some direction given by someone who has gone before, and is holding up a candle for them to follow. That's what the great teachers do. That's what Jesus and Buddha tried to do. That is why the spiritual hierarchy sends them here on a regular basis--to uplift those who are ready. People like you and I try to help as best we can. We do our little bit, so to speak. We get clobbered a lot, but that's just the encrusted consciousness fighting to retain its comfortable position. It does not wish to be de-throned.

If people like ourselves (and there are many such individuals doing this kind of work) manage to raise the consciousness of just 3 or 4 percent of the people across the planet, it will make a difference. It will make a difference in the quality of leadership we get, and the way people do things. Moving the consciousness upward for more individuals will add to the upward pressure to advance. You've heard of the 'Hundredth Monkey Principle'. That is why we cannot just sit back and say: That's the way it's supposed to be. Mankind is constantly evolving; this process never stops.

Hope this helps.

It does help. I know I am no leader. But I have shown the candle to a great many people and................ most just aren't ready to see it. I'm dumbfounded. Where are the "ready" people out there?

Things aren't the way they're supposed to be but they are ......... what they are. And I don't know how to do any more than I am doing. So I play the political game knowing that's not really it, but hoping to get a glimpse of someone who has their eyes open. And there have been a precious few.

I'm barely able to understand anything but at least I'm trying. I am definitely done with my current consciousness and eager to move forward, but I don't see the next step yet. I do read your posts in case I might find it there.

 

[LanceFreeman]

It does help. I know I am no leader. But I have shown the candle to a great many people and................ most just aren't ready to see it. I'm dumbfounded. Where are the "ready" people out there?
Things aren't the way they're supposed to be but they are ......... what they are. And I don't know how to do any more than I am doing. So I play the political game knowing that's not really it, but hoping to get a glimpse of someone who has their eyes open. And there have been a precious few.
I'm barely able to understand anything but at least I'm trying. I am definitely done with my current consciousness and eager to move forward, but I don't see the next step yet. I do read your posts in case I might find it there.

Don't be too hard on yourself, Jen. You will get your 'signal' when the time is right. Meantime, keep looking. This may sound corny, but if you hear of a 'New Age Expo' in your area, make a point to attend. You never know what you might find there. It's important that you become a 'finder'; more a finder than a seeker.

It might help you to join a 'Course in Miracles' class for a while, if you can find one in your area. Try Googling 'Course in Miracles' in your city and see what you get. I took such a course in my early days, and found it helpful. But it is just a stepping stone to something else, not an end. Find more books that appeal to you and read them. Talking about books, I ran across a couple that you may want to read:
"What Jesus Taught in Secret' by Max Freedom Long
"Jesus" by Tricia McCannon

Also, in time, you will be able to 'see' those who are ready to hear what you have to say; i.e. you'll be able to tell. This comes with practice. So, don't worry.

 

[Jen]

Don't be too hard on yourself, Jen. You will get your 'signal' when the time is right. Meantime, keep looking. This may sound corny, but if you hear of a 'New Age Expo' in your area, make a point to attend. You never know what you might find there. It's important that you become a 'finder'; more a finder than a seeker.

It might help you to join a 'Course in Miracles' class for a while, if you can find one in your area. Try Googling 'Course in Miracles' in your city and see what you get. I took such a course in my early days, and found it helpful. But it is just a stepping stone to something else, not an end. Find more books that appeal to you and read them. Talking about books, I ran across a couple that you may want to read:
"What Jesus Taught in Secret' by Max Freedom Long
"Jesus" by Tricia McCannon

Also, in time, you will be able to 'see' those who are ready to hear what you have to say; i.e. you'll be able to tell. This comes with practice. So, don't worry.

Thanks I'll check out what you've mentioned here.
I'm not worried........just impatient.

 

[LanceFreeman]

Thanks I'll check out what you've mentioned here. I'm not worried........just impatient.

I do like this picture of you in a red dress, doing ballet. What a knockout!!

 

[Jen]

I do like this picture of you in a red dress, doing ballet. What a knockout!!

I like pretending that's me too.
But I"m blonde.

 

[LanceFreeman]

I like pretending that's me too.
But I"m blonde.

Jen: the blonde bombshell. I hear they're not bad lookin' either. I can see you in a Scottish kilt, socks, and cap, doing the Highlsnd Fling. Or, are you more comfortable dressed in a cowboy hat and boots, riding a mechanical bull?

Btw, do you have any idea what happened to Boltlady? Haven't heard from her in quite a while.

 

[Jen]

Jen: the blonde bombshell. I hear they're not bad lookin' either. I can see you in a Scottish kilt, socks, and cap, doing the Highlsnd Fling. Or, are you more comfortable dressed in a cowboy hat and boots, riding a mechanical bull?

Btw, do you have any idea what happened to Boltlady? Haven't heard from her in quite a while.

I'm not a cowboy boots type..... more of a jeans/tee shirt/sneakers type. No mechanical bull for me. I would fly off first thing and not in an attractive way.
And now that you mention it, I haven't seen Boltlady in quite a while and I don't have a way to contact her. I hope she's okay.