»My theory on 'There is no spoon'«

When the kid was bending spoons, he told Neo that the truth of the matter was that 'there is no spoon'. That 'Do not try to bend the spoon, thats impossible, you can only bend yourself'.

So through my research into 'reality' and what this scene meant to me, was that reality is only a perception, your own perception of what you 'experience'. For example, you cannot see in someone, ANYTHING, that is not already part of yourself, such as a child cannot see anything 'wrong' with adults, because they haven't experienced this themselves yet, most experience love, because love is shown to them by their parents, and they return that experience by loving back...

So back to the point, Neo could only bend the spoon, because he had to 'bend' his way of thinking of what the spoon meant to him. By altering his own perception, he was literally altering 'reality', and thus the outcome was a bent spoon.... but thats all he was bending, the reality of the spoon..not the actuality of the spoon.

Another example... What do patriotic americans feel when they see the American flag? Now, is this the same feeling an Al-qaeda operative gets when they see the american flag? No..because their belief systems are different, their own 'reality' of what they see when the american flag is shown is based on their own experiences. So in 'actuality' what is the American Flag...literally? Its an material with patterns and colors... it means nothing, until its associated to something, and thus reality is formed.... a programmed reality, but reality none the less.

Anyone agree/disagree with the 'there is no spoon' theory?

You've got it right on

I agree.

On the flag example : would you agree that the objective reality is that the flag is just a colored cloth ? I think i would. Then, from that we can only talk about what it MEANS to this or that person. What value they atribute to it. The reality is it has no value by itself, yes ?

That was my point yes.... The fact that a flag, witc represents a nation, means nearly exactly the same thing 'inside' that nation, and nations associated with that nation, but totally different to nations opposing them....

And the fact that its a cloth, and colors, is also a 'reality' that is percevied...not a reality programmed into you, because, yes it is a cloth..and it is pretty with colors...but in actuality...a cloth is really material, and the colours are reflections off the light. AND digging even further, in actuality, its not material either, its made of molecules...which are made of atoms... which is the basis of ALL physical 'reality'. Atoms i believe are the 'code' that Neo can see and alter, because when you can alter sub-atomic levels, you can alter not only the reality, but the actuality of things, thus infact the ultimate manipulation.

But why bother to alter the actuality, too much energy to do so...,too much energy to alter the 'sender' of information, when you can alter the reality, or the receiver of information.... Put a blindfold on someone, and they no longer see colours of the flag. But why blindfold someone, that is a 'visible' dictatorship, they KNOW they are blind. Instead, why not try and manipulate the way they see the flag, or the spoon?. CONTROL the way they 'bend' the spoon, thus control their reality? Nations are manipulated to see things the controllers way, the leaders of those nations....

This is already in place. Mind-Altering drugs, hallucinagens, Cocaine, Marijuana, Ecstacy... blue pills...(to go back into the matrix, to believe whatever you want to believe).. of course research shows that the drug trade is one of the biggest incomes for the wests' economy....why is that? to continue the manipulation of the mind

Or even worse.... prescription medication, Anti-psychotics (Psychotics have a distortion to reality...are they really crazy? or do they see the matrix for what it really is), anti-depressants such as prozac....

These drugs, if you do research, manipulate the way your mind functions, obviously. To make you 'normal'...normal to whom? To society? To the Matrix? AHUH! Manipulation of the mind, is to control those who are trying to escape the matrix... Thus Programming of the mind is 'actuality', I think this was a message by the wachowski's.... as they made a 'programming' company called 'metacortex' which as i've written in a previous post that MetaCortex refers to the Mammalian brain... the emotional brain.. the advanced brain...in actual fact, programming of the mind!

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This is already in place. Mind-Altering drugs, hallucinagens, Cocaine, Marijuana, Ecstacy... blue pills...(to go back into the matrix, to believe whatever you want to believe).. of course research shows that the drug trade is one of the biggest incomes for the wests' economy....why is that? to continue the manipulation of the mind Or even worse.... prescription medication, Anti-psychotics (Psychotics have a distortion to reality...are they really crazy? or do they see the matrix for what it really is), anti-depressants such as prozac....

These are of course some methods. But they are more on the biochemestry side. There are more subtle ways. Like TV, the Media, ads, etc, that brainwash and stupidify the masses. (ok, thats biochemical too in its core, but you know what i mean).

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These drugs, if you do research, manipulate the way your mind functions, obviously. To make you 'normal'...normal to whom? To society? To the Matrix? AHUH! Manipulation of the mind, is to control those who are trying to escape the matrix... Thus Programming of the mind is 'actuality', I think this was a message by the wachowski's.... as they made a 'programming' company called 'metacortex' which as i've written in a previous post that MetaCortex refers to the Mammalian brain... the emotional brain.. the advanced brain...in actual fact, programming of the mind!

I think MetaCortex probably did have to do with the mind and the mamalian brain,...but i dont know if they meant the effects of drugs etc. More like the bullshiting and brainwashing of the system, to keep people asleep to what is happening in banks, the white house, large corporations etc. Or perhpas it was a perception of reality thing in general.

The last paragraph when I referred to programming of the mind, I wasn't just pointing to drugs, you are right....especially things like the media, organisations etc...

I have read an article on 'shumans cavity'. It is the cavity that exists in the ionosphere where Nicola Tesla (who invented AC, Microwave, Radio) built a system where energy could be transferred around the whole world and anyone could tap into it, calling it free energy. I also read that it was in the range of 6 to 8 hertz.... I did some further research and I found that 6 to 8 hertz is the frequency the brain operates.... I then found a quote that Nicola Tesla was the man who invented 'Mind-Control'. So digging further, I found the distance at which Shumans Cavity is....is one of the most 'infiltrated' places of Satelites by the USA and Europe. One thing led to the next, and I found that the 6 to 8 hertz is classified as ELF, (extremely low frequency)...so I researched ELF and 'Brain' and well....you guessed it. I found that ELF is used in the manipulation of the mind. The Satelites 'hack' into the matrix (mind) by broadcasting to towers strategically placed around the globe which re-transmit to populated areas....mostly during the hours of 2 to 3am in the morning. I then found that a lot of people who are controlled in this fassion, are the ones who say they dream of god, aliens, end of the world etc... So in effect, the ELF manipulates the dream state, giving a visual representation of the 'hack' or mind-control component that is going on within them. What do we have when these people dream this way? The believe God talked to them, They believe Aliens abducted them, and that they prophesised the end of the world!

So in effect, unless you leave planet earth, you really cannot escape the influences of 'The matrix'.

Hmm...intrersting...got any links please ?

It spells Nikola Tesla.