SPIRITUALITY
There is No Spoon — Nothing is Real in a Simulation
If you’re struggling with manifesting your dreams, it may be that you don’t understand the nature of reality.
While meditating today, I was reminded of the scene from the movie Matrix. Neo goes to see the Oracle and meets this little kid who is bending a metal spoon with his mind. He struggles to understand how that is possible and fails to bend it himself. The kid then explains to Neo something along the lines of:
Do not try to bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth…there is no spoon. Then, you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends. It is only yourself.
Like most others, I didn’t fully grasp the whole meaning of that scene when I first saw the movie. Today, I find it an excellent illustration of the conflict between seeing this world as a material reality and a simulation.
If we live in a simulation, perhaps like the Matrix or something else entirely, then there is no material reality. Nothing you see, hear, taste, and feel is real. Not in a material, separate from us, sense. Nothing. No exceptions. There can be no mixing of the two ideas.
If, however, we live in a material reality, as we have perceived it our whole lives, separate from us, then we have no power over it at all. We cannot influence it using our minds. We cannot envision a better future and then manifest it. We cannot change what is fixed, solid, material.
Whichever you choose to believe, the two do not mix!
If you’re struggling with manifesting change in your lives, there are two most likely scenarios:
Wrong understanding
You don’t fully understand and accept the nature of perceived reality, which is that it is not real. It’s an illusion, a mental projection, a simulation. Maybe you do on the surface (you think you do), but somewhere deep within, you do not believe it to be true. You still cling to the idea that you’re a real boy or a girl (body) and that everything around you is real and separate from you.
As the two ideas conflict, this prevents you from manifesting your desires and mental imaginings.
How can you just see something in your mind, and it will manifest itself in your reality when this is, in fact, a material reality separate from you? If this is true, your mind has no power over it. It’s just a brain within a body that serves its purpose but can’t influence anything outside the body.
You dream up fantastic scenarios, make dream boards, and affirm your positive statements like a crazy person, to no avail. Nothing changes because you don’t really believe they will — the two ideas conflict. You cannot sit on both chairs.
Either your mind creates and manipulates perceived reality, which necessarily includes everything and everyone, or it has no power whatsoever outside your body and your choices. Pick one and go all in! Otherwise, you’re just wasting time.
It takes perfect faith, knowing, and understanding to make true progress in the form of mental manifestations. The only reason your mind could ever influence anything is if everything is an illusion, a simulation, a mental projection. Otherwise, it would have no power. You’re just a pawn in a cruel world, and hard work, suffering, and sacrifice will be the only tools to get you anywhere, as that is what most of us believe initially.
I believe this is where the Law of Attraction fails most of us. It’s a half-truth. It still represents this reality as just that, a material reality, but one we can influence by our beliefs, emotions, and vibrations by attracting corresponding things, situations, and people. Like attracts like, in short. Not create, but attract. There is a distinction. Does it work, then?
Yes. For those who can completely commit to the idea. Who have faith beyond any doubt and are persistent in their self-brainwashing. It works best for those who already believe in a force greater than them. A force, such as God that, has this superior, almost magical power to influence, create, and manipulate what they perceive as reality.
They then delegate that power to this greater force. Their success in manifesting their desires lies proportionally to the faith of this deity creating it for them. The more they are able to let go and trust that God/universe/life will take care of everything for them, the more they are successful. This is true for all people of faith who prey to their deity.
This belief is useful, but I believe it is misguided.
It is not some force outside you that is the creator and manipulator of your reality. It’s your mind. Your essence. The real you, beyond this body. The mind that is eternal, and that is all. You, then, are the God of this reality. The one and the all. God playing games.
If God or the universe is all, everything, eternal, and perfect — that includes you, dear friend, and everything and everyone in your life. Yes, even that jerk, terrorist, murderer, rapist, politician! An idea that most people struggle with. Some even find it blasphemous.
But what if you do live in a simulation, the Eden, a Paradise, a Heaven or Hell, depending on your mind? What if all those ancient religious texts have been telling you this all along? Then you are indeed the God, creator, manifestation of this reality. But that then indicates one more necessary truth. One that most people will never accept.
Everything is your fault!
You have created everything and everyone as far as they pertain to you. You can never be the victim in such a world. Or rather, you can, but you’re the victim of your mind, yourself, your ignorance of the truth. I know it’s not a pleasant thing to accept. So most don’t, and they return to playing the victim in this game of life — a simulation where we make the rules, choose our roles, and subconsciously dictate laws, situations, relationships, luck, and, well… everything.
Here’s the simple truth as I see it. You will never be able to control your reality unless you believe you can. Unless you accept the illusionary nature of this life, then the belief in material solidity and independence of everyone and everything from you will prevent you from creating the reality you desire. The two ideas are incompatible.
- Either everything is a miracle, or nothing is!
- Either everything is the mind’s projection, or nothing is!
- Either you and your mind are the source of everything and everyone, or nothing and no one!
- Either God is perfect, and God is all (or universe…), omnipotent and has power over all, or he/she/it doesn’t exist and has no power.
There is no middle ground! One cancels the other.
As long as you cannot choose either one or the other, you will get nowhere, apart from an occasional magical manifestation that resulted from you actually believing it will happen, for whatever reason, in whatever way, by pure luck and chance. That’s why we have no problems manifesting our desires that are well within the scope of our expectations.
The things we don’t resist emotionally, either by contrarian beliefs or by thinking them impossible, manifest effortlessly, easily, and naturally for us all. Venture away from these ideas, and we hit a brick wall!
Internal resistance and inability to change your mind
We all have such limitations. For some, it’s health issues. For others, relationships. For most, it’s money. We’re convinced we deserve and can have some of that, but most of us don’t believe that about everything. We also may believe that some of these are within our power, but most can’t accept that they all are.
Were you believe you have no power or harbor some incompatible beliefs, you will struggle in your life. And you will struggle until the day you somehow change your mind about them. Then, they will resolve themselves all by themselves, naturally and effortlessly, and you won’t even notice that your internal change caused the almost miraculous improvement.
But it was. It always is. All cause is mental. No exceptions. None! No, not even that! Zero exceptions. There can be no exceptions. It’s either all in your power and you are the cause of everything, or nothing is. There is no middle ground! Do not fool yourself. You’re just wasting time.
If you want to make significant progress and changes in your life, you will have to accept full responsibility for everything, including and especially the things you don’t like, that hurt, that cause you suffering. It’s not them or they — it’s always YOU!
Dreams vs. reality
One way to help you understand this point is to imagine this waking reality as nothing more than a dream. In a dream, your mind, and therefore you, causes everything. You make up the scene in your mind and then relive it as if it’s real.
When you’re dreaming, you don’t know you’re dreaming. You perceive, experience, and believe everything as your reality at that moment. Only when you wake up do you realize it was all just a dream, and you often feel relief.
If you dream of monsters, human or otherwise, you create them. You caused them. You wrote the script where they chase and attack you. No one and nothing outside you had anything to do with it.
In your dreams, you are the God, the creator, all actors, situations, and emotions. Everything is just a mental play, playing out as reality. You think it’s real, and it is factually indistinguishable from reality. Is it not?
Do you agree that dreams seem real but are just the product of your mind?
- How would you know that you’re not dreaming right now?
- That this whole life you perceive as reality, is nothing more than a dream?
You can’t. Not while asleep. Only after waking up do you realize you were living a vivid, long, and convincing dream. Are you sure you’re awake?
Is the spoon in your dream real? Do the laws of physics bind the spoon in your mental world? Can you close your eyes and imagine a spoon that is dancing? Go ahead. Try it.
WHAT IF this life, this reality, and everything, and everyone in it, is nothing more than a DREAM?
Wasn’t the Matrix essentially just a dream, albeit a digital one? Isn’t a mental simulation nothing more than a dream? Is it not possible that we’re all sharing a complex multiplayer dream where we all create our own worlds full of people and stories? Is it not possible, then, that we create our own heaven or hell right here, right now?
You cannot bend the spoon. That is impossible. You have to realize there is no spoon. You can only change yourself.
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