Matrix Resurrections Spiritual Awakening Review 5 Stars
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he newly released The Matrix Resurrections is a spectacular Spiritual Awakening Movie. And in some ways it is even more compelling than the first three movies in terms of what it delivers for Spiritual Awakening. It is a powerful reminder that it is necessary to be decisive in saying no to the ego. In this blog post and in the video above we outline the key reasons this movie is so powerful for Spiritual Awakening. This blog offers a Spiritual Psychotherapy perspective on transcending personal identity.
There are two videos. Watch the video above before the movie and part 2 (below) after the movie.
Some critics may feel this movie is not as cinematically powerful as the first three movies. However, the message in this movie for Spiritual Awakening should not be missed:
The four movies together serve as a profound metaphor for the evolution of consciousness from fragmented ego orientation (subconscious desire for the experience of the Matrix) to transcending the Matrix (unification of Consciousness and Spiritual Awakening).
This is full release of all desires for pain and suffering hidden in the subconscious mind. For a brief video overview of the mis-creation of fragmented consciousness, click here.
The Matrix Resurrections storyline begins 60 years after Matrix Revolutions (Matrix III) ends. Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is living a mundane life. In this iteration (of Matrix) he is an expert (and unhappy) game developer who is having difficulty determining what is real and unreal. He asks his therapist whether he is crazy.
His gaming design specialty is making computer games about the Matrix. He wonders where these design ideas are coming from. Are they arising out of memories or dreams? Strange signs and symbols keep showing up, bidding him to look more deeply.
It seems as though there are more blue pills present than ever. So the question comes again, does he want to know what the truth is about the Matrix? Will he take the red pill (the symbol of wanting to know the truth)?
The truth is that many of those on the Spiritual Awakening Journey question whether they are going insane! It is helpful to realize that in order for the ego to exist it must make the natural state of being (sustained happiness) seem difficult to attain, alien and fearful. This is why it is helpful to join with others devoted to truth to see through the illusion.
(Watch part two of the commentary below. Note: This is an even more in depth review with spoilers.)
The Matrix movies, including Matrix Resurrections, continue to be among the best Movies for Spiritual Awakening.
It is wonderful to find that Matrix Resurrections is no exception!
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The original Matrix trilogy is one of the most deeply contemplated series of Movies for Spiritual Awakening ever created. The red pill-blue pill choice scenario is a great analogy for the decision to know the truth (take the red pill) or choosing to deny the truth (take the blue pill and keep “dreaming in the Matrix”). In ultimately Reality there is no choice, as Morpheus says, “choice is an illusion.” There is no choice to be Light.
Yet in the delusion (the ego is the choice to be deluded about reality), choosing the red pill is a symbol of the willingness to see the truth and thus no longer invest in delusion. The choice to refuse to be deluded is essential for Spiritual Awakening. The Matrix movies are clearly among the best Movies for Spiritual Awakening and Resurrections continues the tradition.
In Spiritual Awakening it is necessary to choose to admit the truth (of Spiritual Identity) and thus cease to deny it (symbolically take the red pill). This dual choice scenario also demonstrates that there is also a decision/choice to stay in the illusion of the Matrix (symbolized by a blue pill). Thus the illusional “choice” of the red pill is actually a movement into the falling away of concept of choice!
Matrix Resurrections is a powerful demonstration of how much consciousness prefers dreaming over waking up.
We can’t see it. But we’re all trapped inside these strange repeating loops.
~ Morpheus, Matrix Resurrections.
The Matrix represents the dream of separation, pain and suffering. The red pill-blue pill choice is identical to what Adam and Eve experienced in the garden of Eden. The decision to bite the apple is the same as the decision in the Matrix to keep eating blue pills to deny the truth. When the choice is made to bite the apple (take blue pill), it is a direct path to dreamland of suffering in the Matrix.
Adam and Eve took the blue pill (bit the apple) to experience something other than “Eden”. This is the desire for a “dream” of being cast out of heaven into the Matrix world of pain and suffering. This is the desire for the experience of false perception that “the devil made me do it.” And then “God punished me.”
As soon as there is a devil there are two—duality. Biting the apple/take the blue pill is the desire for the experience of duality. This is the birth of death experience through desire; the hidden desire for the experience of “good and evil”.
It is the genesis of the subconscious addiction to guilt and shame. Genesis happens over and over every time the red pill (truth) is denied. It is the choice to keep the desires for the experience of the Matrix buried deep in the subconscious mind. This is the source of all pain, suffering, and illness.
Why is Matrix Resurrection a powerful spiritual awakening movie?
Didn’t Neo completely awaken in Matrix Revolutions? Neo found the truth about who is responsible for the Matrix, didn’t he?
The answer is no. Neo had a tremendous amount of practice saying “no to the ego” by refusing to give the ego (the Matrix) power over him in the first three (3) movies. He also recognized that the Matrix was not real. Yet, when carefully reviewed, the end of Matrix 3 seems almost anti-climatic.
Something is missing. Neo’s body died before fully admitting the truth about the source of the Matrix. The timing of his death is a great symbol that demonstrates exactly how the ego operates. The ego would rather die (hide truth from awareness and keep dreaming more) than fully see the truth. The truth is that the Matrix (Consciousness) is made up and does not exist at all. The ego’s only plan is death with the promise that peace and safety can be found after death of a body. This is a desire hidden below the level of awareness to keep the illusion going.
Even when the red pill is chosen there can seem to be tremendous disorientation and upheaval. As soon as Neo (the spiritual seeker) starts looking for the truth (looking at denials of truth in the subconscious mind) it appears that hell is breaking loose.
The key to awakening is to be determined to see the truth (to looking to see where Light is denied in the subconscious mind), no matter what the ego dishes out, and this movie powerfully demonstrates the many delays and pullbacks in the spiritual journey. Yet we can choose again for truth.
It also demonstrates that it is impossible to “do it alone”. Help, support and encouragement is needed, and in this movie it comes in spades by many willing to step into truth together. This is the power of joining with the purpose to see the truth.
The difference in this movie from prior movies is that both Neo and Trinity more fully commit to truth at a whole new level. Commitment to truth (do whatever it takes to see the truth) is everything in a path to Enlightenment, since the ego is commitment to self-delusion.
The key to Spiritual Awakening is to see (and admit) who is responsible for the Matrix. This is why Buddha laughed, because he saw who was responsible for the Matrix. When it is fully seen and admitted, it IS funny. Before that point, the experience of the Matrix and transcending the Matrix does not seem funny at all.
The Matrix trilogy uses the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland as the symbol for following the Light within to find truth. This wisdom of the inner Light/Holy Spirit/Jesus provides guidance for quickly transcending the illusion time and space.
The new character “Bugs”(short for Bugs Bunny) is well worth watching. She is a great symbol of commitment and purpose to know the truth. Bugs is the most consistent character throughout the movie in the desire to know truth because she makes no compromises. She consistently follows inner Light without exception and without concern for “consequences.” The ego’s threat is always that there will be consequences for following inner Light (the white rabbit). This ego threat arises from the illusion that there is sacrifice in awakening to truth.
The matrix (consciousness) arises from the choice to experience it. There is only One, thus there is no one “outside” who creates the Matrix. Yet Neo has not yet admitted that there is no one “out there” responsible for the Matrix of self delusion. And until Neo (and any spiritual seeker) admits who is responsible for the Matrix, he/she is affiliated with the dream of duality.
Matrix Resurrections Spiritual Awakening Review (continued)
This is a spectacular Spiritual Awakening quote from Matrix Resurrections.
You and her. Quietly yearning for what you don’t have while dreading loosing what you do. For 99.9% of your race, that is your definition of reality. Desire and fear, baby. Just give the people what they want, right?
~ Matrix Resurrections.
Matrix Resurrections is full of these priceless gems for those devoted to truth.
Consciousness is the Matrix, a looping matrix of pictures, thoughts, feelings and emotions that seem real. The ego is the desire for the experience that something is happening to a “me that is beyond my control”. Thus consciousness makes images and experiences (the Matrix) seem real.
This is the same as the desire for the experience that “something outside of myself is causing the matrix experience and “I am helpless” to what is occurring “outside of myself” in the Matrix. The Matrix appears because it is an an expression of looping subconscious desires–the wish for something other than truth.
The trick of the ego is wishing and wanting the experience that “something is out there”. The self delusion is to hide these desires deep in the caverns of the subconscious mind. This is the desire to forget the truth!
This results in endless looping of trying to find salvation within the loop (illusion). This trick must be seen through in order to fully transcend the Matrix. Specifically, it must be seen and admitted that there is no one or no thing “outside” that causes anything else.
There is no one to blame. The idea that there is someone to blame is a trick of the mind. It is an immediate experience of duality because it is the desire for the experience of two. Through the release of subconscious desires for the experience of the Matrix it can be seen that the experience of the Matrix arises out of the choice to experience the Matrix (choosing to eat blue pills)!
The state of Choiceless Awareness is complete transcendence of the ego thought system. In A Course in Miracles this is called the Happy Dream. Everything else, without exception, is some form of denial of Ultimate Reality.
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Oneness can easily be recognized as reality (awakening experience). However, it can not be experienced fully as a consistent state of peace and joy (abiding Spiritual Awakening) until all concepts (desires) that make it seem there is an “other outside creating the Matrix” are released from the subconscious mind. In A Course in Miracles the release of hidden desires that deny Spiritual Awakening is called a miracle.
Matrix Resurrections is a powerful demonstration that, no matter how “awake” the spiritual seeker (the seeker of truth) is (even Neo and Trinity), there is a strong addiction to (desire for) the experience of dreaming (consciousness). The Matrix (Ego) is designed to be cunning and perceived to be almost impossible to transcend. Thus, for the spiritual seeker there is the need for “vigilance for God and His Kingdom” as described in A Course in Miracles.
What is the meaning of Resurrections in Matrix Resurrections?
Neo seems to resurrect as a body, but resurrection is not of the body. Resurrection is of the mind. It is transcendence of an idea that the body is real to see that death is unreal. Since the addiction to the Matrix experience (consciousness) is strong (the desire for dreaming) Neo discovers that although he chose the red pill once before, he must choose it again. This demonstrates that it is essential to keep saying “no” to the ego by saying yes to truth in order to fully transcend personal identity.
It is possible to take the “red pill” (to say yes to know the truth) in the moment. Yet the red pill may need to be taken many times. All deeply hidden desires (desires for blue pill experiences) to keep the Matrix (fragmented consciousness) must be released, in order for the experience of the concept of a Matrix to completely collapse.
The power of choosing the red pill is clear. Neo accepts his assignment to see the truth more fully than ever before. He needed to overcome his concepts about what it means to be “the One” and release desires to re-experience the Matrix. Trinity steps into function and is no longer “dependent on Neo”, rather, she fully accepts that she must choose the red pill–choose for truth–and that it is her function to find the truth within herself. This is accepting that her true power does not depend on Neo or another (a savior outside).
Once Trinity accepts her power to choose she and Neo join together fully in purpose to see the truth. Thus Trinity and Neo demonstrate the true power comes from Joining to see what is true (and release the desire to keep what is false). Together they demonstrate that Joining is the perfect means to transcend the Matrix.
If abiding awakening is the goal, the seeker ultimately has the responsibility to continually choose the red pill (the truth) and refuse the blue pill (the ego). This responsibility means looking deeply in the subconscious mind to release hidden desires for the blue pill experience. The ego secretly relishes blue pill experiences.
Further, it is essential to choose the red pill by following guidance (following the white rabbit, just as Neo does), which is choosing only red pill experiences that will lead quickly to spiritual awakening. The ego will always claim that there will be some sort of sacrifice in seeking truth. The ego is a machine of distraction from admitting the truth. It will generate all kinds of forms and figures in the world that will distract from focusing on spiritual awakening. This is demonstrated perfectly by Trinity in the movie when she choses truth over dream figures and the idea of loss and sacrifice.
Matrix Resurrections continues the matrix metaphor for the Spiritual Awakening Journey.
Matrix Resurrections is an excellent metaphor for what occurs on the spiritual awakening path. In A Course in Miracles Jesus says you cannot tell your advances from your retreats.
Even when you think that you have transcended the ego (awakened), there may be a lot more hidden denials of truth that must be revealed (released to Light), as is the case for Neo and Trinity in Matrix Resurrections. There may be many “Spiritual Awakening experiences” (recognition of the One that is beyond the Matrix).
However, if one unhealed hidden desire to deny reality (deny the truth) hidden in the subconscious mind (desire for the blue pill), the experience of the Matrix (consciousness/pain/suffering) will not be fully transcended. This is perfectly depicted in Matrix Resurrections.
