Mind over Matrix

A parallel to my personal awakening.

The Matrix movies offer me, in a very allegorical and virtual visual way, a vision of my own awakening. In my increasing dedication to teach A Course in Miracles I am very thrilled about the closing episode of the Matrix trilogy, called the Matrix Revolutions. I thought the first Matrix was great and that there would be no possibility that any sequel would add anything essential to the first one. I still think the first episode is whole in itself, but in this capacity lends itself to be developed in three parts. Within the first episode, as well as within the entire sequence of the three episodes, I started to recognize a very strong parallel to the stages in my personal awakening.

In the first part in my own awakening process were moments, visions, and communications that I received all through my early life here on Earth.  I had glimpses of reality that showed me the dreamlike nature of this world. Sometimes not more than a feeling, now and then I could clearly envision it, and at other times it became totally reasonable to me that I wasn’t from here. The real reason for my being here couldn’t be dictated to me by this world.

Morpheus in their first conversation says to Neo:

"I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees, because he is expecting to wake up." (Matrix 1)

The Course tells me:

"You are like one still hallucinating but lacking the belief in what you see."