Secret_History

62 The Secret History of the World
controls of this Matrix, so I can say that in terms of experiment, it produces
replicable results. However, as Morpheus explained to Neo in the movie:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside,
you look around; what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The
very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are
still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand;
most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so
inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
Were you listening to me Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
They will fight to protect it...
We could just as well re-write this to say: When you are inside the Matrix, you
look around and see Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, Zoroastrians, Wiccans,
Magicians... most of these people are not ready to be unplugged... they are so
hopelessly inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to
protect it. Were you listening to me, or were you listening to that ZionistBaptist
Evangelist, or purveyor of Magick and mumbo jumbo?
It was also pointed out by Morpheus that any human being who was plugged
into the system could be used as an “agent” by something similar to a downloaded
program that was designed to activate them in a certain way. A similar state of
affairs seems to be the actual case in our reality, with the Controllers acting from
some hyperdimensional space of which we have but limited awareness, and even
less access.
The option that does seem, realistically, to be open to us is to choose our
alignment and prepare ourselves for the emanations that are traveling “downward”
to be better received. This is the essential point of Castaneda’s Don Juan when he
said:
One of the greatest accomplishments of the seers of the Conquest was a construct
he called the three-phase progression. By understanding the nature of man, they
were able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if seers can hold their own in
facing [human] petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity,
and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.
“The average man’s reaction is to think that the order of that statement should be
reversed,” he went on. “A seer who can hold his own in the face of the unknown
can certainly face petty tyrants. But that’s not so. What destroyed the superb seers
of ancient times was that assumption. We know better now. We know that nothing
can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with
impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors
acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.” 32
32 Casteneda, Carlos, The Fire From Within, (New York: Pocket Books 1985) p. 19.