6 Steps to Free Yourself from The Matrix

The virtual reality introduced in the Matrix films is generated by a computer, and the people live in this artificially created reality. 

If you spend some time and pay attention to the reality of your everyday life, you will find a stunning discovery. Because our everyday reality shows a great deal of resemblance to movie’s virtual reality. 

Our virtual reality may not be generated by a computer, but by our mind, our constantly flowing thoughts and emotions. And so we are living in the imprisonment of our thoughts and feelings’ matrix. Let’s see what features this matrix has and how to get rid of them.

1. Step. The World of Permanent Change

We chase our desires and unfulfilled dreams. We are attracted by money, power, prestige, a wholesome, happy life. All this lies there hidden behind the powerful iron gate that is towering in front of us. Spurred by our ambitions, we pursue various goals all through our lives. We aspire for something all the time, we always want to achieve something. This restless rush is instigated by our fear that we are still not what we want to be. We are never satisfied, we always want something else, we would like to be better, more beautiful, richer than we are at present.

That is how we pursue our goals until death, when we realize how meaningless the whole thing has been. But why are these goals meaningless, we begin to protest immediately. The protest is caused by the vary nature of the forms and shapes, as in their world every form and shape is subject to permanent change, birth and death. Whatever we attract to us, we are going to lose it, as everybody departs from this world empty-handed, all those who pursue their goals, live in the spell of past and future.

2. Step. The Spiritual Seeking

We, however, wish to find the security of permanence in our life. We would like to find what is beyond the world of constant change. In order to do so, we become spiritual seekers. 

As a first step of spiritual seeking we start to look for enlightenment, Self-recognition in the world of shapes and forms (that is, outside ourselves) in the hope of thus reaching the state of permanent happiness. We intend to find a dogma, a great Master, an elevating spiritual experience that expands our Consciousness. If it is not found here on Earth, we will be looking for it in the other world, in the heaven of a religion.

We use the mind as a mean of spiritual search. It is through the mind that theEgo intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

The mental images are born through the comprehensive process of the mind. For comprehension, we also require information, so we shall gather bits of information like a busy ant. From books on religion and spirituality, lectures heard and conversations attended, we are attempting to screen information, ideas, opinions and experience necessary for them. The same takes place with spiritual experience. We assume that if we gather a sufficient amount of experience, as a result we will reach a certain point, we will increase their spirituality.

These mental images motivate us to make efforts at implementing the mental images at the level of daily life, to make these images the cornerstones of our life. Achieving spiritual objectives, however, affords only momentary satisfaction for us, so after achieving one specific goal, relentlessness returns, urging us to start working for new objectives. The mind produces new mental images, and seeking starts all over again.

3. Step. The Stop

We then go on seeking, until we eventually become tired of the process, and finally recognize its true nature.We stop and abandon spiritual seeking. We recognize that all the objectives we have so far been looking for outside ourselves, are only found within ourselves.

We will stop when we recognize the activities of the mind and refuse to follow it any longer. We realize that with the help of the mind we will not be able to surpass the mind. We will experience that stopping is the inactive moment of the mind, the silence between thoughts. In that silence, we will experience the Consciousness without forms, and recognize that we are in fact the Presence without thoughts. We then leave behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience.

4. Step. The Inner Journey

This is the beginning of an inner journey which takes us out from the matrix, beyond the mind. Once we have started our journey, we leave the world behind and abandon everything that has hampered us in our progress. We give up unimportant things in order to be able to concentrate our attention exclusively on the important ones. That is possible by means of a major mental clean-up.

When  we begin doing that clean-up in earnest, we will soon face the vast multitude of our thoughts, opinions, ideas and the emotions attached to all these. After a period of time, we realize that we need to abandon all the unimportant things and trivialities, since these things will be found false in the light of our inner journey. Then we find ourselves all alone, and realize, that we still have not finished. We are still to shed the shadow that we believed to be ourself.

 5. Step. The Awakening: Coming Home

The awaking is the awakening of the Consciousness to its own existence through the form and shape that we formerly identified with ourselves. After the great clean up nothing remains but the empty space.

But if we examine that space closer, we find that it is full of Consciousness, which is the inner peace, quiet and tranquility. We then realize that we are at home. Whatever now happens in that internal space, we must experience that. We must experience whatever life has to offer, there and then in that specific moment. The next moment does not need to bear the burden of the experience of the previous moment.

The question then arises: have we already got rid of the matrix? The emptiness is perfect, but we still must take the last step in order to be completely free.

6. Step. Comeback

That step will take us to the point where our entire journey began. We return to the Matrix, to the world of daily life. We, however, return in a state different from the one in which we departed, since we have undergone considerable changes during our journey. The Mind, the Ego and, together with it, selfishness vanished from ourselves. The emptiness, pulsating with life, and the Consciousness, awakened to its own existence, continue to stay with us.

In this way the world will be entirely different for us. We no longer feel en urge to run away from it, and we do not submerge in the swamp of identifying with the world. We are now free from all that, and the world is now a new adventure for us. We abandon ourselves into the streams of Life, and we merge with the Universe. In the meanwhile, we help others in awakening and we share the joy of existence and sympathy with everyone we encounter during our spiritual journey.

~From the book: Frank M. Wanderer: Wake Up Consciousness: A Guide for Spiritual Seekers

(This book is an anthology, a collection from his most interesting writings.)

    CONTENTS

I. THE AWAKENING

Are you Awake?

The Signs of Spiritual Awakening

The Suffering as Wake-Up Call

3 Turning Points During Awakening

3 Gift of the Mindfulness

Be Mindful and Conscious!

The Age of Spiritual Awakening Has Really Begun – New Research Confirms

II. THE SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Who am I Beyond my Personal History?

You are an Immortal Being, Who is Lost in a Separate World

The Secrets of the Spiritual Journey

The Last Chapter of our Personal History

The First Step of the Journey

Are You a Mature Soul?

4 Levels of the Spiritual Growth

The Three Birth of the Human Spirit

Take this Simple Step to Know Your True Self

The Magical Power of the Real Self-Knowledge

Negative Thoughts as a Teacher

The Shadow of Spiritual Growth: the Guilt

Bad Karma–Obstacle or Challenge on the Spiritual Path?

Transform Your Life with the Power of Acceptance

5 Powerful Steps to Emotional Healing

III. THE MIND

Forgotten Purpose of the Mind

The Power of the Conditioned Mind

The Deepest Unconscious Condtionings of the Mind

The Secret of the Constructive Energy

4 Potent Ways of Accessing the Most Creative Forces of Your Mind

Meditation - an Effective Remedy for the Overburdened Mind

Jump into Unknown!

IV. THE EGO

The Ego – Friend or Obstacle?

The Rise and Fall of the Ego

The Tricks of the Spiritual Ego

Is the Ego the World's Biggest Illusion?

Listen to the Message Beyond All Fear and Anger

Tear off Your Mask

The Secrets of The Embrace

V. THE MATRIX

The Spiritual Seeking – Only a Program in the Matrix?

Does Positive Thinking Free Us From the Matrix?

How to Exit the Matrix in 6 Simple Steps?

The Law of Attraction vs. The Law of Oneness

VI.THE CONSCIOUSNESS

The Revolution of Consciousness

How to Live in the Flow of Life

How the Higher Levels of Consciousness may Appear in our Life?

Where is Your Soul on the Path of Consciousness Evolution?

The Power of Solitude

The Lover of the Silence

Magical Power of the Real Meditation

The Secret to Enlightenment: Be Yourself!

(C) Frank M. Wanderer, 2013-2018.

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Frank is also the author of the following books:

• 3 Stages in the Evolution of the Human Spirit EGO – ALERTNESS – CONSCIOUSNESS
• The Revolution of Consciousness: Deconditioning the Programmed Mind 
• The Flames of Alertness: Discover the Power of Consciousness!
•  The Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment: How to Escape from the Prison of Mind Games?
• and several other books on consciousness and enlightenment.

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• The Mind Unleashed,
• Wake Up World,
• Waking Times,
• Expandede Consciousnes
• The Mind Journal
• Truth Theory
• The Open Mind
• Awakening People,
• My Empowered World,
• Enlightened Consciousness
• ChangeYour Thoughts,
•  Body, Mind, Soul, Spirit.